How are you doing?  I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. And today we are with the Jimmy Cage channel, which includes Jimmy Cage, and Dennis the Buddymeister, I believe, is what you are lovingly referred to as, correct? I love it, yes. And this is our third time with him. If you haven't checked out their channel, go check them out. I'll link their channel in the description below. They do Indian, and I think you do Indian, Hollywood, and just everything, right? German, I think. Yes, sometimes European cinema as well, whatever I like, whatever is coming to theater in Vienna. Yeah, absolutely. So if you haven't checked them out, I'll link their channel in the description below. We've done two other reviews with them. Padosen was the first one, then we did Tadapathy with Rajnikanth, and now we have watched Safrosh, the 1999 Hindi action drama starring Amir Khan and Nassaruddin Shah and Sonnali Ben-Bendri, I think. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing that. And then directed by John Matthew, I wanted to say Manhattan, Mathen, and also produced by him as well. If you haven't seen this film, go watch it, because this is going to be 100 Spence for All Over the View because it came out in 1999, so I'm assuming most of you have seen it already. So let's start with you, Jimmy. Please, what were your initial thoughts of the film? I would say mixed. I kind of enjoyed it. I think it's a decent action movie. I think you have to keep in mind that it's already over 20 years old, and I don't think it aged that well in some regards, especially when it comes to the action. I enjoyed it fine. I think I enjoyed parts of it more than the movie as a whole. For example, I really enjoyed the performance by Nassaruddin Shah. I think he was probably the highlight for me in the movie. I think the music is great, the songs are great, even though I don't think they are really integrated that well into the whole narrative. But overall, I had an okay time with it, but a little bit underwhelmed after all the praise. Dennis? Yeah, I could say the same. It's an okay movie, it's alright. I liked a few things, but I think I didn't like a lot of things. I think it's alright, it's too long, but I think it's a bit silly at times, and I also agree that it didn't age that well. You can see the structure, this Bollywood mass-entertaining structure. You can see it every minute of this movie. It's a bit distracting how the movie is structured. Love, action, love, then we get a song. I was not really in the movie, but it's alright.  But you have to be in the mood for this kind of 90s Bollywood action entertainer. Rick? I'm going to be accused of an Amir Khan bias picture, because I went from liking it. I went from liking it, and I agree. It's long, but if you know that going in, if you know this is going to be a long movie, it's like when you go into Lagann, you know you're going to be here a long time. But I went from liking it to the last act of it I really liked. So this is actually some of the classics we've seen. This is when I actually like a lot more than some of the other ones. Yeah, I'm probably in between a lot of you. There were parts that I just didn't understand even why. I didn't think they were actually needed. But my favorite part was actually the last scene, which with Nasseridin Shah and Amir Khan, that whole standoff thing. I thought Nasseridin really shined in that scene. He showed why he's such a legendary actor in that scene. And I loved his whole character throughout Nasseridin's character. And I actually enjoyed, if they would have stuck to mostly the cop stuff, I think I would have praised it more. I didn't actually understand why the love interest was even there. Well, I know why it was there. It was 90s Bollywood. I know why it was there. It didn't further the story for me though. The whole love interest, it could have not been in there. And I think it would have been actually an even better film. Even though I enjoyed the songs, we've reacted to I think three of the songs in this film. And they're all really nice songs. But the whole love interest, I didn't care about it. I thought it was kind of in there just because they needed it for the 90s Bollywood. But I liked the rest of the cop stuff. I thought even though the action was a little cheesy, but for the 90s, I thought they were pushing some boundaries sometimes. Maybe a little Indiana Jones-esque with some of the kills that I really enjoyed like when the guy got pushed into the back, into the spikes. I enjoyed that. So yeah, I would overall say I definitely enjoyed the film. But there was stuff that I think if it was made today, I don't think they would have either they would have done it better or they would have not included it just because you needed it for the time. But let's talk about the acting. I want to talk about Nasseridin Shah. Because I think we all can agree he was fantastic in this, right? Yeah. Okay, good. I wanted to make sure I didn't have to kick somebody off here. Nasseridin Shah. This is I think the first villain role Rick and I have seen him in. And even though he's not playing like a stereotypical villain, but I love that. I love that he had a lot of nuances to this character. And you kind of find out, I don't know, maybe an hour in that he is the one that's kind of controlling everything and he's the mastermind behind it all. I thought he played it very subtly. And that last scene was just so powerful with him. And him just, you know, trying to not get caught. But then when he figures out that he is caught, trying not to die by the other person's hand. And then I thought it was absolute brilliant. So I don't know what you thought, Jimmy. Yeah, I would agree. I think it was maybe until halfway in that we finally get to know that he's the villain.  So I was spoiled. But the scene in which it is revealed is actually quite nice. It's the one with the little lamb, with the little animal. And it's quite shocking what he's doing, because if someone isn't doing his job right, then there will be a punishment. And even with the little lamb, there's some punishment. And you can feel the tension when the lamb is coming in and he's just performing his music. And then there's this loud noises. And you are afraid for the lamb. And then when it's revealed what he has done to it, I was really kind of shocked. I have to say I was also the beginning of the movie. I really liked the montage in the beginning, where we see the gun trafficking. And then of course the terrorist attack. I was really positively surprised how violent the movie was. I mean, I'm always a fan if there are some... I think it's called squibs when there are these gunshots. I'm always in for that. But Nazir Rudensha, for me the highlight of the movie, I think he has such a great presence on the stage when we first see him, when he's performing his music. And then I like that they have this kind of duel between Amika and Nazir Rudensha. But it's not like a big action shootout duel. But there are two guys who are on different sides of the law, but only find out later. And now they have to deal with it. And I like that a lot. It's cool that he's such a restrained villain, who is very calm and quiet. And of course also that they kind of build up this friendship, this friendship with the music and all. So that we really want a showdown between the two of them. It's really nice that it's so subtle. And I gotta say, he has never looked better and he almost made me want to grow a beard. That was one sexy looking beard and haircut, man. He looked so good and he does never... He's one of the actors in Indian cinema that just never gives a bad performance. And talk about Amir Khan, Rick? Yeah, I love Amir's emotional availability. And we talk about a lot of the actors. And there's obviously a very special place in my heart because when we started to watch Indian cinema, he was the first star that we really got to know and watch and appreciate. And I thought, it says a lot about him, that he held his own completely up against truly one of the great actors in cinema. In that last scene between the two of them, when they're going back and forth, I thought was, to me, the best part of the film for me was watching those two and the script that was given to them for those lines. I just felt like that was really, really strong. Dennis and Jim, if you guys want to talk about... Amir or any other actors as well? Just go ahead. Yeah, well, I'm sorry. I also always liked when they are both on screen, but I have to give a shout out to Makrant Despan, who plays Shiva, he's the right hand. He's the one who gets pushed into the spikes. We also know him from Satya. I think when Satya, he kind of played the same role. He's the henchman. And I like him very much. This movie reminded me a bit of Satya. If you really had pulled all this love stuff out, like you said, Corbin, it would have been a little bit like Satya. Not as good as Satya, but it had this vibe. And it also speaks for Makrant Despan's character that he gets such a cool death scene. It's always kind of an honor for a character if he has to go in a cool way. And I liked him very much. So he had this threatening feel to him when he's on a motorcycle and riding over Amir Khan's leg or stabbing the other guy through the neck in the car on the street. It's also a very, very cool scene. Amir Khan's unindurable leg. That thing got either ran over or shattered multiple times. And the next scene, he would just walk it off like a champ. It's also great that the doctor in the hospital says that he lost so much blood. They can be happy that he lived. And I was asking myself, where are you from? It was this mixture of kind of gritty and I mean, there's a very serious topic with the tensions between India and Pakistan. And it has shades of being kind of a realistic movie. But then there's so much genre, action, maybe even schlock in there. And some of it I enjoyed, but some of it I was just baffled by. And I was constantly on board and then it was too ridiculous for me. And I think a lot of the action, there's this action scene in the middle of the movie that I think was actually nice. It was the one where the motorcycle is running over his leg in the end. I think that scene was all right. But some of the action felt kind of unintentionally funny to me.  There are so many sound effects that are really over the top. And when people are falling down, there's this flat sound. And at the very end, when Nazir Rahim Shah's character commits suicide, it's a tragic scene, but then he falls to the ground and it's... And I don't know it. It took me out of the movie several times. But on the other hand, some of it I enjoyed when Amir Khan in the hospital is kind of, no, you don't tell me what to do and he's just jumping up and tries to fight the guy even though he is in a guest. Yeah. I love the standard Foley sound for feet. It doesn't matter if they're on sand, wood, brass. It's that standard. They didn't even do Foley work. They just took recorded Foley sounds of feet. Yeah. You always get the screeching tires of the cars. Yeah. Yeah, that's one of the places in the film that definitely I think showed the date of the film is the Foley work was very evident. And either the screams, the punching sounds for everything, the kind of pew-pew sounds for the guns, and the walking, like you guys said. I think that was the part of the film that definitely showed its date the most. And I agree there were some times that I was just like, oh my word. In this film, I don't know if you would call it a Masala, but it definitely had a bunch of different genres in it. I think if Amir was making this film now, he wouldn't do that. Because I know this is kind of like the film that kind of catapulted him into what he likes to do now. Like one film at a time, usually stuff that has like a message. And I think, I don't know if it was this one or Earth, that he only did sync sound after. So I can't remember if this is before or after Earth. But I think if it was done now, it might have been a little different. I don't know how you guys felt. Jimmy and Dennis, how did you feel about the songs and the love interest, Rick? Well, first of all, Sonali I think is beautiful and adorable. And just I believed in the chemistry that they had. I like the songs. It's what I anticipated from this time in Indian cinema. So if I was measuring it by today's standards, it would seem a little bit odd to me. It would be like, why did you even put that in there? But I agree with you that you could remove it and still have an intact story. I don't think that their love story was a required element. But I liked their love story being in it. Yeah, for me it was a little bit like watching two movies and they didn't always blend together. But it was also, of course, completely reasonable because of the time and commercial requirements. But she's also the one that brings a lot of comedy into the movie because otherwise I don't think there is much comedy. But whenever she's there, there is some funny dialogue. And I really... When she's finding out that he's actually a police officer and I think we lost... Yeah, hold on, we lost Rick. Welcome back. I'm taking everything back after the movie. We didn't talk about... You were saying something, Jimmy, go ahead.  It was really, really funny. Her character also helps in the way that we see Amerkan doing the hard-boiled cop but also the lovable guy. So it shows his two sides so he can be charming and nice. But also this... And this film did, obviously, especially for the time, almost an important message to the mainstream of, one, the India-Pakistan but also the Muslims in India and how they're viewed. And I know that was like... This film was big for that reason as well. It was kind of almost... That subject matter wasn't touched upon a lot, at least in a mainstream film. That's what I was told. Also, did you enjoy our cameo from our Dost? Sure did. No. Nawaz. Nawaz and Tadiki. It took me a second but then I made a screenshot and it's directly to Jimmy telling him, hey, that's his first role. His first role also... Apparently, Amer didn't know it was Nawaz. When he apparently met Nawaz on Tailash and I think Nawaz was like, thank you so much for hiring me again. What? And apparently I read that he was... Yeah, you probably read it Jimmy, say it. I read that he was only in the movie because the other guy who was supposed to play the role didn't show up and so it was his chance. Yeah. Well, I did see that scene was actually added, a couple other scenes, that scene and like two others because apparently when audiences first saw this, the test screenings, they were like, I thought it was a cop movie and they didn't... They were like, where's... where are all the cops? And Amer's like, what are you talking about? There's like... The cops are throughout this entire film and so apparently they didn't... To the audiences at that time, they didn't pick up on that these were cops somehow. I have no idea how. But yeah, but I did... Jimmy, any other thoughts on the film before we... I think we should also mention Mukesh Harishi. He's playing Inspector Salim. I think up until that point, he was only playing villain roles. I read on MDB and I actually like this kind of... It wasn't really a body cop movie, but there were hints of that in there because he was, in the past, he was the superior to Amer Khan's character, I think. And now because he got his partners killed when he was going after Sultan, which was really, really clumsy in my opinion. And he thinks, of course, because he's a Muslim, that he got off the case. And I think it's a little bit heavy-handed, his reaction to the whole thing, but I like the... Maybe I like the idea more than the execution in the movie. Yeah. But he grew on me, the character grew on me. Yeah, absolutely. Dennis, anything else that you wanna... Well, I think... I kind of liked how the city of Mumbai or the streets were also incorporated in the movie. There are a lot of chase sequences in the streets and through the houses. And you see the... Sometimes you see the camera up from a ceiling, looking down into the streets. I liked the way the city was integrated. We don't see that much, but it's kind of cool. It gives this movie this gritty feel. Again, it felt like Satya in a way. The whole movie reminded me of Satya mixed with a Mani Ratnam movie. We also had all those movies that thematically were about Pakistan and India. And it always reminded me of this mixing of the two. But yeah, I liked how the city was integrated. Yeah. Rick? Yeah, some of my favorite takeaways from it. You had mentioned this earlier, Corbin. I appreciated and wasn't expecting the gruesomeness of the violence that was involved. It was pretty brutal for the day for a Bollywood kind of film. And I really liked the message that was at the end, which again is an Amir Khan thing that I adore. There's always this moral to the story. And one of the big takeaways at the end was, among the many reasons for partition, the British wanted to weaken that region of the world when they left and make sure that they couldn't compete. And I loved that conversation they had about, we shouldn't be doing this to each other. I think that's probably my favorite thing about the film is that message that it had within it. And again, as much as the Foley work was bad on some of the stuff, I appreciated, there were some good stairfalls by the stunt team. I mean, there were some pretty cheesy sound effects, but there was some pretty good stunt work by the stunt team. So all in all, I probably liked it the most of everybody, but I've got it undeniable. Well, we've probably seen a good 12 Amir Khan films. How many of you guys seen? Good question, but maybe also in the region. About 12. Over 10 for sure. Yeah. They are 300s, PK, Lagann. What would be your favorite Amir Khan and where would this rank?  For me, unfortunately, it's pretty low, I think, because I don't remember having seen a bad Amir Khan movie. I think my favorite is probably PK, because I really thought that the approach to religion in that movie was really bold and interesting. And it was really funny. The songs were fantastic. This whole idea with the alien coming to Earth and finding out about the different religions, I really enjoyed that. So I think PK is my favorite. And I have to think if I've seen any Amir Khan movie that I didn't like, not sure. Dennis? I think if I remember correctly, I liked Tare Zamin Par very much. He's the teacher and he teaches this kid about following your dreams. It's a bit cheesy at times, but I remember that I liked it very much and I liked him in that role, because everything that he stands for, he puts into this character that he plays in this role. And I liked that very much, yeah. Rick? Yeah, you know me, Corbin. It's still and may always be PK. I love PK. I'm with you, Jimmy. I have yet to see an Amir Khan film that I don't like. Yeah. Mine is probably either Lagann or Rang de Basanti. One, I like the difference of Rang de Basanti for Amir Khan. I liked that twist on the normal. Even though his performance in Dongle was great. I loved his performance in Dongle. But yeah, it's probably one of those two. Lagann is a film. I obviously just really, really enjoy it. But I think my favorite performance is probably... Yeah, it's probably Rang de Basanti, just because of how different it was in comparison to everything else. Because I think PK, three idiots, and there's like one other, are very, very similar, but those are the first ones we've seen. But I love those films. Those films are absolutely fantastic. So it speaks to the fact that we've all seen like 12 and none of them are bad. Even this one, if you didn't like it, I don't think you can call it a bad film. Definitely not. But it's, even if it's lower, it's just, they're all good films.  So I haven't seen those. I don't know how those are. Oh no, I know he's done the... Dugs of Hindustan. I haven't seen that one. We neither. We had the opportunity to watch it in the theater, but we didn't go. I have not heard good things about that film. So let us know what the next Amir Khan film we should watch is, and the next film that we should all review together is. 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Hello everybody, Andrew Maeski here with Dental L. So I did a video a couple weeks ago talking about the convention and how I was so excited to order pretty much everything. But it's so easy to want everything, right? So I kind of had to pick a couple things so I don't spend a million dollars. And I will be highlighting some of my most exciting convention items that I would not have known about unless I went to the convention. And the nice thing is, is if you go to the convention usually at these different areas, they will give you like a promo code. So this guy, I'm so excited. I have been wanting one of these since I saw it in an office where I used to work at in Woodstock. Kids love these things, you guys. Kids love them. How cute is this? They're super expensive. They're over a hundred dollars. But at the convention at SmileMakersCanada.com, they were offering a 20% off coupon code plus free shipping. So that's huge. So I'm super excited. As you guys know, I am a mobile dental hygienist. So I see kids too. And this just makes it so much easier for me to kind of show them how to brush their teeth inside, outside, because there's nothing worse than you trying to explain to the mom, dad, or kids. The kids are running down the hall and you're trying to tell your parent there, well, they had more plaque down here. Well, they're not here right now. So let me show you down here. You don't want to show them inside your own mouth. So use this guy. You can even show parents. It doesn't matter. But it's just so much easier to say to them, hey, they had more plaque here.  So make sure to get back there. You know, it's just so much easier. Apparently, it does squirt out some water because it comes with this. But I don't know why I would want to squirt out water. But maybe I'll try that. But isn't he so cute? I still need to come up with a name for him. I've been hearing some amazing names so far. I just haven't haven't picked one yet. But how cute is he? So so cute. Okay, you guys. So another thing that I found was gift certificates. This is a great idea because I was just printing my own.  Because why not?  It makes them excited. It makes the mom excited, the dad excited people love that. I was just printing my own. But that takes time. This is so much nicer. From the same company from smile makers Canada dot com, or just smile makers dot com. So they are awesome. I was quite happy to get those. Another thing that I got is Mr. Thirsty. So who here has tried these? So this is a great like isolation, I guess technique. Now for me, since I don't have an assistant when I travel, doing things like sealants, doing things like silver diamine, doing things like temporary fillings. It's so helpful to have this because this helps to retract the cheek, the tongue so you can work in a quadrant at a time, upper or lower pretty much. So you can't do both sides, obviously, but just the one side. So I had got the trial package because it comes with the medium size around the large and the small size. So blue is large. And obviously, the purple is small. I kind of think I'll use the small size a lot more because I do see a lot more child patients where I need the extra isolation. But I had ordered the trial size because you can also get some of the larger ones. But it's so helpful because it does hook up to your slow speed suction or maybe the high speed so I can I think the slow speed. And then as I said, it just helps you keep the cheeks back the tongue back everything very, very helpful without an assistant. And it does help to suction at the same time. This has saved my life, just saying because lately I've been doing a lot of the silver diamine and a Fuji over top of that because I am a restorative hygienist. Sorry, guys, let me just take some water for a second. So I am a restorative hygienist, meaning I can also add that to it. So as a restorative hygienist, I can't prep the tooth, but I can add things to it. I can't add composite amalgam unless I am working in a dental office with a dentist. But on my own, I can add Fuji. So that's what I'm allowed to do. So this has saved my life. I didn't know there was such a thing. Honestly, I didn't know. So this Oh my God, I'm so happy with it. Another thing. I'm talking about like kids again, sorry, I just I have no room. So I just kind of let all my stuff over here. But I had ordered these cute little dental bag because nobody wants to see the same dental bags over and over and over again, you know, the the ones they send you with the like toothpaste like packages, how cute are these from the same company you guys smile makers.com or smile makers canada.com. I'm just put that down for a second. Um, and then I got stickers from Maxill. Kids love stickers. Who knew if you order stickers from Amazon, they're like three times the price. I got like 100 stickers for $4. You can't beat that price but kids loves love stickers. I see a lot of kids. So that's why that helps me. I'm a toothpaste from oral science. So I didn't know this existed either. Um, this is for kids because kids will, you know, probably swallow the toothpaste. This stuff is safe for kids. So check this out because it has xylitol in it. That's the main ingredient xylitol safe for kids. So if you see kids who always get two cavities or more, you know, every single time they need a different toothpaste to help them because clearly the toothpaste they're using isn't working. So this is from oral science. A couple things here. Okay, have you guys heard of gum chucks? I had not heard of them before. Have you guys heard of these? So these help to get in between the teeth for those who obviously have trouble flossing. So I just sent an email to the company said, Hey, I saw about your lovely product at the convention. Can you send me some and they and they did. So I didn't even have to pay for them. How nice is that you guys? So I didn't even have to pay for them. And the best part is, did I show you guys that that it can work under ortho and that lingual retainer. So I have special ortho ones that just help to fit underneath. And then just normal ones.  So you would keep the handle that is reusable and the attachments that comes off. So you would buy the refills and they do sell them on Amazon. They're awesome. You have got to try these. What I should do is I should leave a link for you guys on the bottom to see the video. Okay, so have a look because I'm probably not explaining it perfectly without actually showing you guys how to use them. So have a look at that. Okay, guys, something else. I bought a topical anesthetic. So as I've said, I am a mobile dental hygienist. So I do not see like 10 patients every single day. But I have patients that are sensitive, you know, that the gums are sensitive. I don't like using or kicks because I don't typically use a whole cartridge per person. So I feel like if I only use a little bit, well, that's a waste of a cartridge, that's expensive. The nice thing with this is it is a spray so that I can attach the little nozzle. And I can spray it in like a vapid dish or something, use a q tip and then just put it on where I need it. It was about $70 some Canadian. So how awesome is that? I just noticed it's kind of like half full. So I'm going to ask if that's normal. I haven't used it yet, but I'm going to actually email them now and just see if that's normal because yeah, helpful. Anyways, but I'm really excited to use it you guys super, super excited. So that is awesome. That will save me a lot of money. Another thing that I got from oral science, of course, is the silver diamine fluoride. Sorry guys, so silver diamine sorry, it's kind of blurry, right? So this is a bottle form, they do sell it in a single dose form too. But it's cheaper you guys to get the bottle because with the single dose, it is only 30 of them like per package, but it costs more to do that. Get this and and you use a drop at the most for several teeth. So it's more cost effective, you guys. This was about $240 Canadian expensive. Yes, but this stuff's amazing because this is the stuff where if you see a child with a tiny cavity, they don't want a needle. They're nervous to go to the dentist. Maybe you can actually apply this and that will stop their cavity from getting larger. So what I do is I use wherever that went Mr. Thirsty to help to isolate. I will apply a drop of this it does stay in the teeth black.  It's kind of like a, a Fuji glass ionomer like over top of it because I can do that.  So that's what I do in my practice. It is amazing parents love it because they don't need a needle. They do not need to actually drill into the tooth. It just stops the cavity from getting larger. So this was an amazing, amazing purchase. I am so happy. I did buy an amalgamator from the convention to because it was on sale because I did need one for my Fuji capsules, but that's downstairs story because it's I didn't even think to bring it up, but it's just an amalgamator. What else did I buy? I want to show you guys this. Okay, so this is from Maxel. It just helps to keep me organized. So it's kind of like a organizing trait, I guess they sell like tubs to and something like this with a lid to put your instruments into this sort of like keep them protected. But I did not buy that because I just went to the dollar store. I bought like a big like Tupperware container with a lid. I think I think it's used for like muffins. But that was four dollars. So I bought that instead. But I got the idea from Maxel. But I did buy this. So this is about $20 Canadian. But this will just make my life so much easier to keep things organized on my tray, especially when I am doing this silver diamine and the capsules, like I can put my gauze here, I can put like the bottle, you know, here, I can just put Mr. Thirsty here. So it just helps to keep things organized for me. I like to be organized. Because when I'm with with without an assistant, I don't want to be searching on my tray for what I need. So this just helps me keep everything organized. So I was super excited. You can't find this anywhere else. I tried to look for it at the dollar store. I just couldn't find it because I kind of wanted like smaller compartments like longer one like medium one. So I'm really excited about this too. And I just kind of keep it in here to like keep it nice. Because I do a lot of traveling. But yeah, you So that was those were the main things I did buy a ton of stuff to be honest. But those are the main things that I just kind of felt that you guys would want to see. Let me know if you have any questions, and I'll put some links on the bottom of the video for you so you can kind of see what everything's all about. But if I forget a link, let me know. And thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one.


Live from San Francisco, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE covering Nimble Storage, the power of predictive analytics. Now, your host, Stu Miniman. Welcome back to theCUBE, a special presentation here from downtown San Francisco at the Nimble Storage Predictive Flash Launch. I'm Stu Miniman, happy to have as my co-host on this segment, David Fleuer, who's the co-founder and CTO of Wikibon and happy to have the co-founder and VP of Engineering, Varun Mehta with Nimble Storage. Varun, thank you so much for joining us again. Happy to be here.  I had one of the analysts on today said that, you know, a couple of the sub-bullets could have made a whole announcement for most companies, and so you've got a lot packed into this event. Can you give us just a little bit of the behind the scenes, you know, how long did this, you know, project take? How many people you had on it?  Great, great, great questions. So, the project actually started over two years ago, and initially, you know, we had built the product with inline compression in mind, and for an all flash array, you know, the hard, the thing that is required is inline deduplication as well. Now, there are many mainstream applications actually are just fine with compression, you know, databases and so on, but there are some applications that are dedu, you know, hogs. They love dedu, VDI is a big one, some parts of virtual infrastructure. So, the question was, if we're going to do dedu, put in dedupe into our system, how do we make it the most efficient, the best dedu possible? So, that's what we started thinking about more than two years ago. So, the team started with just a handful of people as these projects always do, and then it swelled to over 50 engineers. And, we were amazed at that, because we didn't think that, you know, the full engineering size at Nimble is about 300 engineers. So, it took up a very substantial amount of people to work on this single feature, and it is one of the big changes that we've made to the Nimble storage system. So, dedupe was a big feature that we put in, and it was a two-year project. And, at the end of it, we were very happy, because we ended up with this really efficient dedupe. We're very proud of the fact that we have a very small memory footprint per terabyte of data that we can support on the system. And, of course, it is in line. So, we were very, very happy with the end results. Well, congratulations on the whole announcement and the whole product. One of the things that really interested me that is you're one of the first people into the 3D NAND, and you've taken it, obviously, from Samsung, which are with the leaders in there. So, why did you choose that? Why do you think it's going to take you? What did you have to do special to take advantage of this? It's really, really interesting. So, one of the reasons we chose 3D NAND is you have to use a cliched phrase, skate to where the puck is going. And, really, where NAND is going is increasing density and potentially decreasing endurance. So, you really need a file system that can deal with low endurance and very high densities. And so, we know that 3D NAND today is four terabytes. Probably, within the year, it'll go to eight terabytes. Next year, it might double again. And so, that's where the memory efficiency was very important. We wanted to make sure that the system could support expanding RAM. Now, it's really interesting. If you look at the way Flash works, there's very high grades of Flash, which are very expensive. Everybody starts with the same die, and then the manufacturers will give you different ranges of performance, basically based on over-provisioning. So, looking at one manufacturer, and I'm not going to pick Samsung in particular, there are multiple of them, but this same manufacturer could start with a four terabyte system, but only give you 1.6 terabytes because the rest is over-provisioned to give you high-right performance. So, you end up with a system that is seriously over-provisioned to give you very high-right performance and decent endurance with that right performance. Actually, very good endurance. But then, you can decrease the amount of over-provisioning all the way down to you have zero over-provisioning, and so you get for four terabytes or NAND, you get four terabytes that is usable, but you have to pay a big price for that.  But there's one thing that does not decrease as you go from this serious over-provisioning and high-cost to zero over-provisioning and low-cost, and that is your random-read performance stays the same, and interestingly, your sequential-right performance stays the same, which is interesting because that fits with our castle technology. We do all our right sequentially, and so it's interesting that these high-right performance high-capacity, low-endurance, low-cost SSDs, actually, in some ways, are very characteristic of disks. Don't do random writes on them because that's for performance. Do sequential writes and do random reads, which is exactly how we use the system. So that was what went into our thinking behind how to architect the system. So Farun, what one of the, Suresh said one of the challenges also was you didn't just create, in all flash arrays, a standalone device, you have it so that it can work with the hybrid adaptive flash solutions. Can you talk about, can I just move data back and forth between those two types? Are there any limitations or what kind of gotchas do we need to make sure that users are aware of when mixing and matching, if you will? Right, right. So actually, that was one of the other things that we spent a lot of time on. We have put a lot of data management into our hybrid arrays. So for example, we had scale out, we had replication, we had deep integration with InfoSight, we wanted to carry all that over to the all flash array. So our hybrid array, and that's what we spent a lot of time on, and it works. The APIs are exactly the same. So the hybrid arrays and the all flash arrays can be part of the same cluster. And this is really useful because it matches how application life cycles work. So for example, you start out with test and dev and you may need a variable amount of infrastructure. For example, you want to spin up 100 test instances. You can do that very economically with a hybrid array because you have a lot of disk and the system will automatically move things to flash as you need it. Now once you've done with your test and dev and you want consistently low latency, high performance, you can seamlessly move that workload to the all flash array, assuming they're part of the same cluster. And this is great because there are no changes required on the host at all. So no changes to the host, you just move the one click, the volume moves over to all flash, and now you've got consistent guaranteed low latency performance. But again, to match the application life cycle, over time you say, okay, I'm going to retire this version of the app because now I've got a new one in development, I want to archive this. So you move it from all flash back to hybrid. So we know that applications go through this cycle of test, dev, production, archiving and the hybrid and all flash combination in a single system allows you to work in that regard. Yeah, so can you talk a little bit more about the scaling you've got, which is in my opinion, very important in this industry because obviously it's CPUs are at a premium when you're doing as much work on all of this data as you have underneath it. So can you talk a little bit more about how you share the metadata across the clusters? How do you manage it as a cluster? I presume it's a little more than just four places with a screen sharing between them. No, no. So in fact, one of the things that we're very proud of is the work we did for our cluster. So you can actually choose multiple nodes in the way we cluster. So one is where a volume lives exclusively on a specific array in the node and that's one way of doing it. So now you get all the benefits of integrated management and you get isolation. And that's probably the preferred thing to do when you have a hybrid array and an all flash array in the same cluster. On the other hand, suppose you had, you wanted as much performance as you could get, then you would take similar arrays, say two all flash arrays, and now you could stripe a volume across the two and now you would have data which is striped. Now there are issues with this because you don't necessarily want a lot of traffic going between the nodes. There are some architectures that require that, but then you have to invest in low latency switching bandwidth between the two nodes. So for example, ExtremeIO does this. They require infinite band so that they can have a lot of traffic between the nodes. We chose an architecture where there's very little sharing going on between the nodes. And that required putting some intelligence on the server that is talking to our storage. So the server has a little map on it which says, hey, if I want data block A, I go to this array. If I want data block B, I go to that array. And we were able to condense this into a very small map that we keep there. And that allows the system to work with very little bandwidth between the nodes, which makes it really cost effective. And so we have this low sharing situation. Now sometimes we will transfer a fair amount of data between the nodes, but those happen, for example, when you bring a new node on the street or you add a new shelf to an existing node, then there's some amount of data rebalancing. But those are things that'll happen once a year and they can be controlled. So in normal operation, there's very little traffic between the nodes. So that's a very good explanation indeed. So where are you going from here? Where do you see that you can take this flash array, this architecture, obviously I presume you're looking to increase the density of the 3D NAND, and are you looking to scale more to higher levels of things? And what about the IOP side? What do you see yourself going in the next few years? Great question. So it's almost a given in the storage business. You know, people say it's a treadmill and it is to some extent. Every year, you want to be bigger and faster. So you want to support more capacity and you want to have higher performance. And we will absolutely be on that conveyor belt. The nice thing for us is we have very, very CPU sort of bound. So we depend on Intel to get us faster CPUs and whenever they do, we get an automatic boost in performance. So that is wonderful. You know, some of the performance gains are absolutely taken care of us. To improve memory, again, we're in a good situation because at two petabytes effective, we are far and away ahead of everybody else, but we want to keep that lead. So we're going to keep increasing the capacity that we can address. The sort of things that you'll see us look at in the future are things that make us even more interesting to enterprises. So for example, on the roadmap, we have synchronous replication. We're not announcing when we will deliver that, but it is something that is of interest to our enterprise customers because you want now to be completely resilient. We already have almost six nines availability, but there are customers who say, I want two copies of everything completely up to date. And so that's what we'll deliver to them. And then further down the road, there are other protocols. So we have iSCSI, we have FiberChannel, and an all-flash array, FiberChannel is by far the most important protocol. I've heard that for vendors who offer a choice, 80% use FiberChannel, 20% use iSCSI. So the rumors of the death of FiberChannel have been greatly exaggerated. It lives on. But over time, we will add the NAS protocols as well. Well, Varun, really appreciate you joining us. Fascinating look at the architecture. We're excited to see where you take it in the future. And we'll be back with a wrap up here from the Nimble Storage Predictive Flash event. This is theCUBE. I'm Stu Miniman with David and Flayer. Thanks so much for watching.