The Anglo-Saxons had a massive impact on the language and genetics of what we call England today, but when and why did these Germanic peoples settle in ancient England? Shortly after the Roman withdrawal in 410 AD, groups of Angles and Saxons from places such as ancient Denmark and ancient Germany started migrating into modern England. England at that point was made up by a variety of peoples and cultures, including the Celtic Britons and the influence from the Roman period. The first thing to note is that the Anglo-Saxons were initially invited by the Britons to defend them against groups such as the Picts and the Scoti. Bede, an ancient English monk, wrote in the 8th century AD on the ecclesiastical history of the English people that Anglo-Saxons were initially invited by Vortigueran, a king of the Britons, to fight his enemies and they were given land in the east of modern England. Bede writes that after initially coming over in three warships, word quickly spread of the fertile lands in Britain and more Angles and Saxons sailed over. They came from three powerful Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutty, according to Bede, and they were led by two brothers, Hengist and Hossa. After initially being invited to fight on behalf of the Britons, the Anglo-Saxons turned on their hosts as the number of foreigners began to increase to such an extent that they became a source of terror to the natives that had invited them in, in the words of Bede. Then, suddenly, they made a temporary treaty with the Picts that they had already driven far away and began to turn their weapons against their allies. Bede adds, large numbers of Germanic peoples took places in southern and eastern England, such as Kent, Sussex, Essex and East Anglia. The conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and the Britons forced many native Britons to flee west, to places such as Wales and Cornwall. Others fled across the water to a region that was known as Armorica, or Brittany today, and they took their common brothonic Celtic language with them. That is why large parts of Brittany still speak one of the six remaining Celtic languages, called Breton. The Anglo-Saxon period in England is often referred to as the Heptarchy, a Greek word meaning rule by seven. This is because there were seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in ancient England. These seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were eventually merged into four larger kingdoms, Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex and East Anglia. The various dialects that these Germanic peoples spoke eventually evolved into Old English. In fact, another word for Old English is Anglo-Saxon, and English itself is a West Germanic language, closest related to low-Saxon and Frisian languages. However, English takes a large amount of vocabulary from French, Latin and Old Norse. Although Fris, I am consistently referring to these people as Anglo-Saxon, this identity itself was formed in Britain in the decades and centuries after the first Germanic peoples settled in ancient England. We know that the Anglo-Saxons made a lasting impression on the genetics of England. The people of the British Isles study, found at large parts of eastern and central and southern England, form a single genetic group with between 10 and 40% Anglo-Saxon ancestry. However, these people also retained DNA from earlier settlers of Britain. Another study published in Nature, estimated at an average, the contemporary East English population derives 38% of its ancestry from Anglo-Saxon migrations. The Anglo-Saxon period is often considered to have stretched from the end of the Roman occupation to the normal invasion of 1066, with England itself unified during this period under King Ethelstan in 927 AD, whose previous title was King of the Anglo-Saxons and whom himself was the grandson of Alfred the Great. Thanks for watching, if you would like to support this work through Patreon, buy me a coffee dot com or make a donation through PayPal, please do so via the links in the description below. Please remember to subscribe and hit the bell and I'll speak to you soon.


IonMPI brought to you by DigiKey and AidaFruit. This week it is NXP. Lady Aida, what is this week's IonMPI? Well it is M7 week here at AidaFruit with just a coincidence, maybe it was on purpose. We're releasing our new IMX RT 1011 M7 Metro which uses a chip in the same family as this week's IonMPI which is the IMX RT 1040 series. This is a new chip in the illustrious IMX RT 1011, 1010, 1020, 1040, 1050 and 1060. I think there's even 1160 now, a wide range of chips and this one is right in the middle. This is part of what they call the crossover MCU series. So a lot of people here watching or listening they've used microcontrollers such as 8-bit picks or Atmels or maybe they've used even 32-bit Cortex M0s. If you want more M's you can go from M0 to M4 and then from there on to M7s. The M7s are very fast processors. This one they can the whole family they can be clocked up to 1 GHz. This particular chip the 1040 is a 500 or 600 megahertz processor. There's also some that have a separate sub processor Cortex M4 at 400 megahertz. They have a ton of SRAM that can be tightly coupled. They can have external RAM. They have built-in DC-DC converters so you don't need a separate PMIC graphics external Q-SPY or Octel-SPY flash memory for storing code and files and then NXP security as well. So this is the Metro M7 which is our first board that we've made with this series and I learned a lot getting this board together. So the IMX RT-1011 is kind of the entry-level version of this family. It's you know like a microcontroller but it runs really really fast and it has this M7 core. We've paired it here with an ESP32 for Wi-Fi and possibly Bluetooth add-on. Some things that are neat that you can see here is this is a two-layer board. These chips are designed to be used as low-cost upgrades from say M4 or M3 chips. You don't need a separate PMIC manager for all the cores. You just need you see on the top left there's inductor capacitors passives. On the right there's inexpensive Q-SPY memory. We use the WinBond W25Q JV series.  It's got even built-in USB. To program these chips what's recommended is using the MCUXpresso IDE from NXP. It's kind of all-in-one IDE setup. I will say that I personally haven't used MCUXpresso instead. I just use AVR, sorry ARMGCC, ARMGCC and the NXP SDK work really well and I just use it on the command line. This particular series, the IMEX RT-1040, like I said, it's kind of in the middle. I'll show you the whole series of what's available in this family as you expect is a Cortex-M7 with of course floating point support. It runs at 600 megahertz. If you want it for I think the full temperature range you drive it down at 500 megahertz. But of course you can pick what frequency you want with the PLL. It's got the built-in DC-DC converter. So you see an inductor and you have some capacitors and some passives to run that. Inside is 512k of SRAM, which you can use as tightly coupled memory. Why you need that? Because there is no built-in flash memory. Instead you have to wire up an external, in my case I've wired up QSPY NOR flash. You can of course also use parallel NOR flash or EMCC or NAND as shown here. QSPY is kind of the cheapest and easiest and uses the fewest pins. But then if you want to get instructions off of the firmware that's running on the chip, you're bound by how fast you can get the firmware code off of that QSPY NOR flash. And so by dividing up some of that tightly coupled memory, maybe 128k, you can cache instructions. So if you're running in a loop, you're large enough loop, you can cache the whole thing in the tightly coupled memory and you'll get the benefits of that 600 megahertz processor without being slowed down by your whatever 100 megahertz maybe at the most speed of your flash memory. One thing that the 1040 kind of adds above the 1011, 1010, 1020 series is it does have the graphics support and the LCD controller so you can use a dock clock style TFT, not just your standard SPI TFT. And it comes in two packages which I'll show you. They're both the same pinout 169BGAs. One is 0.65 and one is 0.8 millimeter pitch. So it's designed for easy routing. Lots of peripherals. I'm not going to go through all of them because there's a ton, you know, SDIO, 8 URs, 4 I-squared Cs, 3 SPIs, FlexIO, which is quite interesting. It's kind of, if you've used PIO on the RP2040, FlexIO is kind of similar. It's sort of this all-in-one. You want to kind of do other protocols that might not be supported. Natively, you can mimic them with FlexIO, lots of I2S. This, the 1011 series doesn't have CAN or Ethernet, but these do. It does have one USB high speed, which can be either peripheral or controller. However, it doesn't have two. Some of the 1050 and above have two USBs. All memory stuff, like I said, in the middle, there's that parallel LCD. You've gotten a GPIO. You can control those 24-bit displays where you have 24-bits RGB, V-sync, H-sync, dot-clock, et cetera. And ADC, no DAC, but there is I2S output and lots of PWMs and timers. If you want to use the USB core for this chip series, we do have support for the NXP-IMX-RT and TINI USB TAC, one of our developers that's supported by Adafruit. Just done an excellent job adding support for the NXP series. NXP, the LPC series actually was one of the first chips supported by TINI USB, but we definitely have support for the IMX series as well. It's open source and a great way to start structuring your project. Again, if you're using ARM GCC, which is what TINI USB builds in. We also have a TINI UF2 bootloader. So there is a built-in bootloader, a ROM bootloader, and it's very fast and it works quite well. But if you would like to have a user-friendly bootloader, we have a second stage bootloader built on TINI USB called TINI UF2. And it's a drag and drop. You create these UF2 files that you might be familiar from, our SAMG processor chips and RP2040 chips, use that format for drag and drop programming. But again, there's this ROM bootloader that you don't have to worry about and you need to program it with command line tool that's available on any operating system. So if you want to debug it, you'll need a J-Link, but you don't need one to program it, built-in programmer. As we mentioned, these are available in 0.65 and 0.8mm ball pitch BGA. They are designed to be routed onto a two-layer board, and they do have dev boards that are two-layer. Just to prove it, you don't need a four-layer or six-layer. I mean, you'll, of course, benefit. You'll have a bigger ground plane. Maybe you'll be able to fit your parts tighter because you don't have to route around them. But it's designed to do a fan-out on an expensive two-layer board. So just check the application hints. They do give you suggestion on how to do the fan-out in the layout. And this is just from the NXP fan-out recommendation. They will give you, hey, here's how we suggest you do the spacing and DRC rules to make sure that your IMX processor succeeds in your BGA design. Because if you look at the Metro, it's the TQFP. And here's the rules for the 0.65, just here for your reference. So this is, again, part of the series of IMX RT chips, starting from the bottom. Again, the number is a little confusing. The RT-1010, there's only the 1011 in existence. The 1040, it's actually the 1042. So that last digit is sort of like a series of parts. So you can see kind of, you start with the RT-1011, which doesn't have Ethernet or Canvas and only has one USB and doesn't have a graphics. And you kind of move up from the bottom, 1020, doubles the amount of RAM to 256K. And then the 1040 doubles it again to 512. But it's also the first one where you move from a QFP or QFN to a BGA. Still, it's 0.8 millimeters. So I really think even though prototyping might be a challenge, any pick-and-place house should be able to handle that processor. And it has the graphic acceleration, lots of I2S and SPDIF, again, lots of peripherals. And it's not mentioned here, but it has two FlexIO peripherals, whereas I think the 1050 only has one. So they've kind of bumped up some of the peripherals. The full table isn't here, but you can check it out on the NXP website. And then as you work on the 1040, if you're like, oh man, I really want camera interface, or maybe I want USB host as well as USB peripheral, I want two USB ports, you bump yourself up to the 1050, keep going to the 1060 all the way to the 1180, which is quite a beast with built-in one or two megabytes of SRAM. The FlexIO is kind of the most interesting thing here. Again, you can emulate, there's a lot of peripheral buses, but maybe your pins are being used by that parallel CFT, or maybe you need another three UARTs. You can use FlexIO to mimic a lot of these, not that it says for the 1010, but it's for the entire IMX series, they all have the FlexIO and the 1040 has two of them. For the display, again, there's no camera, but there is a display, I don't know if that's a screen camera. I guess you can mimic the camera again with FlexIO. For display, note that you do have to have a frame buffer, so you will have to wire up external DRAM. I can show you on the available board, it looks like there is DRAM on there already, so you can follow their layout. You're going to use a bunch of pins for that, and then you'll use a lot of pins for the 24-bit parallel RGB LCD, but again, it's pretty rare to find an inexpensive processor that can drive a full TFT display that doesn't have a massive number of pins, I mean, this does have massive number of pins, but it's easy to route. The only other chips that basically have those displays which are specialty displays, where they get very, very expensive, whereas this one's pretty affordable, considering it can drive up to, I think, it's like 1,000 by 700 pixels, so a fairly large 10-inch diagonal display. And if you want to get started, I mean, the 1040 just came out, but you could expect that we'll probably add it to the list. We do have Circuit Python, so you want to use that as a core for your development. It's available, and we're adding more support, especially since we're releasing this first Metro M7 into the shop finally, so check it out if you also want to use Circuit Python, which is MIT licensed, as a building block for your design, but we'll probably end up adding flexible support, the parallel TFT support and USB host support for this series of chips through Circuit Python. And when I wrote the test code for the Metro, which I wrote in ARMGCC using the NXPSDK, I definitely cribbed from the Circuit Python code. I was like, well, how do you do the analog reads, or how do you set the pull-ups? Oh, hey, we have some example code ready to go. And I also recommend getting the eval board, which was not too expensive and has everything, so you can see kind of in the middle left there, there is a micro-E socket, and there's also Arduino socket, an XP chip in the center, and then there's like a microphone and like headphone out, and there's also a, on the top left, there's an M2 socket where you can plug in Wi-Fi. So this is like a quite a beast. We tend to target, when we develop Circuit Python, we target the eval boards, because they're pretty plentiful and they kind of have everything on them. I'll show this one on the overhead. It's quite big. Yeah, and it's available on Digi-Key. Yes, it's in stock. Sock. About 10 bucks a piece, which is a really good deal considering, you know, you get the SRAM built in, you only need, like I said, passives, crystal, small inductor, and Q-Spy Flash, maybe add like another dollar to your bomb. This is very affordable when you compare to other M7 boards, like the STM series, which you can't get anyways. This could be a very nice upgrade. It has a lot of the same features that you would expect from other well-known M7s. So let me, hold on, I'm going to back up my, this board is so chunky. Back up my overhead. Okay, so this is, and this is a little triplet that came with it. So this is the EVK, which I picked up again, a huge chip in the center. Looks like this is the DRAM, MicroSD, Micro-E socket, to use Micro-E boards. Arduino-esque header socket. M2 for Wi-Fi, it looks like there's audio. Oh, this is like a Kodak, hold on, this is a, oh, this is a WM8960, our favorite microphone and audio output, I2S Kodak. Some audio outputs, Ethernet again, this has built-in Ethernet. It does have, you will need a PHY, and this is probably the PHY for it, and then there's probably inductors, the transformers are inside here. This is that one inductor that you need for the DC-DC converter built in, and then there's the crystals, there's 32 kilohertz, and 24 megahertz. And then this is the programming and debugging interface, this is probably running some, you know, an XP debugger interface code, or maybe it's J-Link or something compatible. So it's a lot, there's a lot going on here, buttons, DC input, and then this is USB for the debugging, I think, maybe I don't know, USB for native, oh no, here it is, here's the USB native. So this you can have on the go, so if you want to have this be host, you would get a USB host adapter, and then on the bottom, we're not done yet. On the bottom, you can see the parallel TFT 40 pin connector, and this is a six pin connector, which has a pinout for capacitive touch, almost certainly this looks like it's the, goes together, so you'd have a capacitive touch interface of where I squared C here, and parallel TFT over there, and then don't forget, you know, for that, you need to buffer the display, you'll have to pop on some extra RAM, which is probably what this chip is, and then I want it to show real fast the chips themselves, now we've got to go really small, because these are very small chips. Okay, so this is, this is again the same chip, right, but one of them is 0.65 millimeter ball pitch, and this one is 0.8, so I'll flip it over, so you can see the comparison, which one do you choose? Well, you know, 0.8 is easier to route, but it's bigger, and 0.65 is nice and compact, you can still do with a two layer board, but you're going to have, you know, a very good process for your PCB manufacturer, so pick which one, same, you know, same material on the inside, just a different package on the outside. So that's the IMX RT 1040 series, so check that out, and then don't forget to pick up a Metro M7 if you want to get started with the Crossover MCU series. What's that, MPI?


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Hey, wikibon.org, and this is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's production of VMworld 2013. We've been here, this is day three. This is our fourth VMworld show. I'm here with Stu Miniman, my co-host, and we've got a segment with Williams and Fudge. Phillip Reynolds is here, and Phillip's is in the IT organization. Practitioner, Phillip, welcome to theCUBE. Hey, great to be here. So tell us a little bit about Williams and Fudge. We are an accounts receivable management firm, so we work for about 1,300 colleges, universities, and private financial institutions. We have about 400 employees, and around 320, 330 of those are actually in our call center. Okay, so focused on that vertical. Obviously got a lot of expertise there. Tell us a little bit about your, well, before we get into the IT environment, what's driving your business? What kind of changes, what kind of pressures is management and the line of business putting on you? So as the environment's changing in our industry, we're having to work the business harder and work our staff harder, and work then IT harder to be able to make the same return that we were a few years ago. So as our business is growing, we're also having to do everything that we've been doing a little bit more economical. Okay, so talk a little bit about your environment. Obviously your VMware customer, right? We are, yeah. Is this your 10th VMworld? No, this is VMworld number four, I believe, so we actually are located in a 150-year-old cotton factory in South Carolina, and so that presents some challenges in and of itself with the disaster recovery aspect and the risks there. So our data center is there in that building and we've got a VMware cluster for our servers. We've got about 60 servers, and then we've got a VMware cluster for our view desktops, and that's all backed by an EMC VNX array with Cisco UCS as the compute platform. Okay, so what was the driver? Were you there when you guys moved to the virtualization? I was, yeah. Four years ago, we woke up one day and said, hey, we have no disaster recovery, but at the same time, we also have 12 physical boxes in the corner of the server room. So what are we going to do to do this economically and consolidate, really? So that's when virtualization really stuck out, and we adopted a disaster recovery plan out of that as well by putting some, the same equipment at a DR facility. Saw that with a lot of customers, right? I mean, they had no DR and then VMware enabled DR, and so I presume you're, you continue to push that capability further and further, but before we go there, so you predominantly virtualize now, is that right? Yeah, every mission critical application that we have, and actually that's every server now, is actually virtualized, except for our phone system. Everything's completely virtualized. Okay. Yeah, Phillip, you said that you're doing desktop virtualization when you're doing the server virtualization, can you tell us, you know, what did you learn, server virtualization, desktop virtualization, how did that roll out happen, what did you learn? Well, we saw a lot of the aspects of server virtualization could carry over into the desktop space as we saw desktops being, you know, have the need for retirement. So I've talked about four years ago, is when we started this transition, and so we had 160 employees at the time, now we've got 400, and so by virtualizing our desktops, it allowed us to grow at a higher rate than I think it would without virtualizing our desktops, and we also didn't add any IT staff. Okay, so I know you said you have a call center, is part of it, is only the call center virtualized or are all your desktops virtualized? We're currently on the path to virtualize all of our desktops, but right now our sales force and client support area is virtualized, and about 60% of the call center is virtualized as well. Okay, so now talk a little bit about, when you talked about your DR plan, I wonder if we could dig into that a little bit. So I think you guys are using RecoverPoint as part of that. How do you use RecoverPoint, is it, that's how you determine what the RPO is going to be and you get data off site. Talk about from a business standpoint, let's start with the business impact analysis, the RPO and the RTO. Did you go through an analysis of that? How did you set sort of the RPO and RTO? Just sort of got feel it, did you talk to the business? Yeah, I mean it was really one of those things where the owner of the company sat me down with management and said, I had a dream last night that the building burned down. I'm not kidding, that's how this started.  That's what he wanted and he was willing to spend the money to do that and to make it happen. And so we did. We've accomplished a RPO of about 15 to 30 minutes and an RTO of less than really five by utilizing Site Recovery Manager and RecoverPoint. You click a button and things happen. Yeah, so those conversations are always interesting. It's struck with like how much data are you willing to lose and the business person uses what? None, well it's, you know. Then you figure out how expensive that's going to be. Right. Okay, so have you had to do a recovery? I have not had to do a recovery. Thankfully we've not had a disaster but I have been able to use the RecoverPoint technology to actually move VMs from the Colo facility to the primary facility. So we used to have a split sort of data center and we had some live in one place and the rest live in primary. So I actually used RecoverPoint one Friday afternoon and moved six servers over 15 minutes later. It was all done and I could go home. So Phillip, my understanding is also you've really deployed a private cloud now. Can you walk us through your move from just generally being virtualized on the server and desktop to private cloud and what those differences are in the management that you use for it? Sure, I mean I think the management is the real key there because we've not added that IT staff. So there's no extra burden on me or our service providers to provide this high uptime availability of the system. So the next things that we're looking at is hybrid service, you know, or some cloud based DR plan is that what's going to be next in our future and maybe. But we really also don't need that automation because we're a small medium business and maybe spend one or two VMs up a year but it's not really something we're taking advantage of. What tools are you using from the management side? Yeah, definitely using vSphere and I'm using the EMC plugins for vSphere and that's huge. Okay, not vCloud director or any of the pieces. Are you looking at things like vCloud hybrid services from VMware? You know, I think once those services become compliant we have to abide by the PCI compliance and we're looking at federal government compliance. You know, once those pieces are compliant then sure, that makes sense to use that and at least explore it. You asked what services we're using and I'm also looking heavily based on the conversations that I've had in some sessions here at VMworld looking at the compliance suite that VMworld's been working on the operations management suite that seems to have some real value for our business. So you guys are growing pretty fast. We are. You know, that's always a challenge. So how about things like Flash? Where does it, we talk about all the time in theCUBE how Flash is totally disrupting the traditional spinning disk business. What's your experience been with Flash and how are you using it? Are you using any kind of data migration, EMC's fast or any kind of similar tools? Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, so we decided to do the Flash-first technology with EMC. So we have about 27 terabytes of data which is, you know, small but compared to some other companies but it's still a significant amount of data. So we are using the fast technology with the tiers of storage.  We don't have any latency on SQL or SharePoint or email. It's just, it just flies and it screams. And but for view desktops for the replicas we're using just a set of solid state drives. So we may have about 10 Flash drives out of the 28 terabytes which is about six racks of drives. Okay, so it's not overwhelming but it's not insignificant either. Okay, so you eliminated your boot storms for your VDI. And when you said it screams, you know, you're happy with the performance. Can you quantify that a little bit or talk about how do you, you know, compare that? You compare it to what it was before, how do you measure it? So the nature of our business, it is a, I lost the word, we work in collections. So whatever the agent is able to do, that's what's going to directly. You break it up basically, no. Yeah, no, no, no. So that's what they're going to bring home. So if someone can't work, then they're not going to be able to bring home their commission, right? Commission is the word I was looking for. Yeah, yeah, okay. So, it is key. So, you know, we were always under the, strategy to not replace desktops every three years. We didn't really see it as something that we were going to do is to keep our commissions higher, right? And attract a higher caliber of employee. So, we started ripping out old desktops and putting in virtual desktops. And when someone gets a brand new desktop every day and they're ready to go in a minute, compared to 15 minutes a day before with maybe a three or four year old regular PC or even some that are less old than that, it makes the employee really happy. A happy employee that can get on the phone and make money is happy for me. So you're able to replicate the laptop or desktop experience now with your virtual desktop, is that right? Right, and we have to be fully compliant too. So, our sales people that are traveling are accessing their virtual desktop in the data center through their iPad with the RSA two-factor authentication all integrated into one. So, we're solving the compliance problem too. So, that day has come where you can replicate that experience. There's not, you're not getting complaints. It used to be like the graphics weren't as good. Right. Performance wasn't as good.  You know, there was some conveniences, but it wasn't the same experience. No, we've even got our marketing person on the virtual desktop as well. So, the users don't even really know. No. Other than the good things, the benefits that they got. They know the benefits. So, what were the benefits to the organization?  Right, I mean, I think it's made our business more agile. We're looking at some new markets to grow into as any business does, and we don't really even have to question our compute infrastructure or our data center infrastructure because we know if it's desktop or server expansion, we don't really need to worry about it. So, I can help business focus on the operational goals for the new market strategies instead of having to worry about what, how many desktops and provisioning and all that kind of thing. How do you, I mean, I imagine a lot of IT practitioners, you get pulled in on many different directions. You got to keep costs down, right? You got to make sure you don't lose data. You know, you got your DR initiative and other just high availability requirements. So, don't spend money, but make sure we never go down and oh, by the way, we need to, we're growing really fast and we need to be agile in offering new services and our sales guys need to get their commissions and they need access to their data. So, speed is key. Those are sometimes conflicting objectives, but they're your objectives. That's how you get measured. How do you manage those conflicting objectives? I think always doing your research is super key. So, I'm out always looking for the new solution that's going to solve multiple problems at once. That's why we don't really have a compliance, you know, management suite right now because I'm still looking for what's going to be the best option for us out there. So, constantly doing research and allowing the technology to work so I don't have to worry about the day-to-day technology has really been what's helped me to help the business grow. How do you do that research?  Yeah, I mean, I think as an IT staff person, it's really key to go to conferences, talk to other people, go to the user groups. They're in almost every major metropolitan area and just talk and see what other people are doing and of course, don't forget about social media. I learn a lot just by following people and keeping up with the community in general and social media. You know, when I look at the architecture that you have, you've got a lot of the pieces that would put together from EMC, you know, the converged infrastructure like the V block or more of the more reference architecture. Did you look at those? And especially if you look at something like VDI, you know, how was it to put together the pieces and how did you reach the solution which wasn't a converged solution on your side? Right, I mean, I think by looking with the EMC solution with VMware, you see a lot of integration and that's something that you don't necessarily see with other vendors. At least when we were doing this two years ago, things have definitely changed since then but it's really the best solution that solves lots of our problems. So I can mix VDI with disaster recovery and it's just all kind of one tight knit solution. Yeah, okay, so it sounds like maybe you might have fit in like a V specs but that didn't exist two years ago. Right, okay, right. Phillip, I was just checking out your LinkedIn profile. I see you're on there with Pat Gelsinger and tell Pat who's also a CUBE alum now. You see your CUBE alum, you're in the club. Oh, nice. You're in the inner circle. Nice. So talk about your relationship with EMC.  Why? What makes EMC so great? EMC has never really failed us from a service of support or new product delivery options. So if there's something that I need that's gone wrong with the system, then EMC is normally proactively telling me that there's a problem before I even know it. I've got someone replacing it and their support has never failed us and I can't say that about all of the tech vendors that we've had to deal with before. But EMC has also got a wide array of solutions for any business size and I think that that's really what's helped us work with EMC is we've found exactly what we needed. So it's the service and support, the high touch capability. Right. I mean EMC is renowned for that. Thinking about how many vendors do you manage? Dozens? We've got about 25, 35 vendors. Where would you put EMC in the spectrum of quality? I mean, they're definitely right at the top. Yeah. The best? I would say so. You would say they're the best? I would say they're the best from the service support tech offerings. They're really probably the best vendor we use. So maybe this, okay, but so I always ask this, what's on there to do this? What could they do? I mean, even though they're up toward the top, what could they do to make your life better? How about I'll put a free network engineer in the office to do some stuff I don't want to do. That'd be great. Send me a bag of money. That's right.  Awesome. So Phillip, a quick question. We're talking about vendors. There's some discussion out there, kind of the relationships of Cisco with VMware and EMC. Does that hit your radar? Is that something you look at? You know, it's something to talk about. It's gossip, so to speak. But really, what it comes down to is who's providing the right solutions and who's working with each other. So whoever's providing that, then that's all that matters to me. All right, Phillip, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It was a pleasure meeting you. Good luck with everything, and congratulations on your success. Keep truckin' and balancing. All right, keep it right there. Thanks, Stu, for sitting in. We'll be right back with our next guest. This is Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman. We're live from VMworld 2013. We'll be right back.


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and Brian Hulk asked judge what the recent power surge could be attributed to. Aaron, five home runs for you during this winning streak. How are you feeling about the way you're swinging the bat right now? You know, we're still trying to get there, you know, trying to grind it out. You know, I'm really focused on trying to get on base for the guys behind me, man.  So my job's simple to try to touch first base and let the other guys do their thing. This team has hit 18 home runs during this winning streak. Is that the kind of Yankee baseball that you expected coming into the year? I expected good at bats. You know, I expected, you know, we got a lot of professionals in this room that have done it for a long time and know what they're doing.  So I'll just continue to have quality at best, man. We do that, you know, the things you're going to have. You said you're trying to work through things. What's missing for you right now? Just the consistency, staying consistent, you know, swinging out some pitches out of the zone, just not trusting it. And, you know, just got to try to just trust it and it'll be where we need to be. Has there been any difference in why you've had more power the last week? No, I got nothing for you. How impressed do you continue to be by what Nestor Cortez has done in this rotation? Man, he's a pitcher, man. He knows what he's doing out there. I'm really working that cutter well. It's like an indelible pitch right now, man. For righties and lefties, he just continues to go out there. And I think the biggest thing is pounding the zone. You know, when you get the first pitch strike, you get ahead of guys.  So him just going out there and doing that. And I know he's not flashing the 99-98s, but, man, he knows how to pitch, man. It's fun to play behind. Is this what you expect as the offense to be kind of everybody, kind of contributing power? Yeah, definitely. I think just up and down the lineup, we got guys that, you know, can spread the ball around the field. We got the guys in the middle that are going to hit homers and then DJ at the top of the lineup or Hixey, you know, can get on base, drive it out of the park or even, it's impressive. I think that's what makes this team, you know, different from other years is, you know, just having that diversity throughout the lineup.