CHAPTER 10 MORE CAMPFIRE STORIES And still they watched the flickering of the blaze and talked together of the good old days. Bravo, bravissima! Splendid, Polly! exclaimed the boys.  Couldn't have done better myself, give you my word! cried Jack, bowing profoundly to Belle and Polly in turn, and presenting them with bouquets of faded leaves hastily gathered from the ground. Polly, you covered yourself with glory, said the doctor. I am very proud of your part in it, too, my little daughter. I have some knowledge of Poncho's capabilities as an aerator, and I think the story of Valerio owes a good deal to you. Now, who comes next? Marjorie? No, please, said Marjorie. For I have another story. Take one of the boys and let's have more facts. Yes, something historic and profound out of the encyclopedia from Jack, said Polly saucily. Thanks, Miss Oliver. With you, for an audience, any man might be inspired, but... But not a boy. Mother dear, remove that child from my sight, or I shall certainly shake her. Phil, go on, just to keep Polly quiet. Very well. Being the oldest Californian present, I... What about Dr. Paul? Asked the irrepressible Polly. He wasn't born here. Responded Philip dryly. And I was. I think that's a quibble. Interrupted Bell. Papa was here twenty years before you were. It's not my fault that he came first. Answered Philip. Marjorie and I are not only the oldest Californians present, but the only ones. Isn't that so, sir? Quite correct. Oh, if you mean that way, I suppose you are. But still, Papa helped frame the constitution, and was here on the first admission day, and was one of the vigilantes. And I think that makes him more of a real Californian than you. You've just grown up with the country. Bless my soul, what else could I do? I would have been glad to frame the constitution, admit the state, and serve on the vigilance committee, if they had only waited for me. But they went straight ahead with the business. And when I was born, there was nothing to do, but stand round and criticize what they had done. Or, as you express it, grow up with the country. Well, as I was saying when I was interrupted. Thank pardon. Don't mention it. Uncle Doc has asked me to tell Mrs. Howard and Elsie how they carried on the rodeos ten or fifteen years ago. Of course, I was only a little chap. Very little, murmured his sister. But never too small to stick on a horse, and my father used often to take me along. The rodeos nowadays are neither as great occasions, nor as exciting ones as they used to be. But this is the way a rodeo is managed. When the spring rains are mostly over, and the grass is fine, say in April, the ranchero of a certain ranch sends word to all his neighbors that he will hold a rodeo on a certain day or days. Of course, the cattle used to stray all over the country, and get badly mixed, as there were no fences, so the rodeo was held for the purpose of separating the cattle and branding the calves that had never been marked. The owners of the various ranches assembled the night before, bringing their raqueros with them. They start out very early in the morning, having had a cup of coffee, and ride to the rodeo ground, which is any flat convenient place where canyons converge. Many of the cattle on the hills round about know the place, having been there before, and the vaqueros start after them and drive them to the spot. How many vaqueros would that be? Ask Delcy. Oh, nine or ten perhaps, and often from one thousand to three thousand cattle. It depends on the number of ranches in cattle represented. Some of the vaqueros form a circle round the cattle that they have driven to the rodeo ground, and hold them there while others go back to the ranch for breakfast and fresh horses. Fresh horses so soon? said Mrs. Howard. I thought the Mustangs were tough, hearty little beasts that would go all day without dropping. Yes, so they are. But you always have to begin to part out the cattle with the freshest and best trained horses you have. The owners and their best vaqueros now go into the immense band of cattle, and try to get the cows and the unbranded calves separated from the rest. You can imagine what skillful engineering this takes, even though you never saw it. Two work together. They start a certain cow and calf, and work them through the band of cattle until they near the outside, and then rush them to a place three or four hundred yards beyond, where other vaqueros are stationed to receive and hold them. Of course the cattle don't want to leave the band, and of course they don't want to stay in the spot to which they are driven. I don't blame them. Cried Belle impetuously. Probably the cows remember the time when they were branded themselves, and they don't want to hear their little bosses put through the same operation. Very likely. Then more cows and calves are started in the same way, the greatest difficulty being had with the first lot, for the cattle always stay more contentedly together as the group grows larger. Occasionally one breaks and runs off on the hills, and a vaquero starts after him, throws the riata and lassoes him, or lassoes him as the California boys say. There must be frightful accidents. Said Mrs. Winship. Yes, but not so many as you would suppose, for the horsemanship in its particular way is something wonderful, when an ugly steer is lassoed and he feels the riata or lariat round his neck. He sometimes turns and makes for the horse, and unless the vaquero is particularly skillful, he will be gored in his horse too, but he gives a dexterous turn to the lariat. The animal steps over it, gets tingled and thrown. Frequently an animal breaks a horn or a leg. Sometimes one fall is not enough. The steer jumps up and pursues the horse.  There is another danger too. Added Dr. Winship. The vaquero winds the riata very tightly round the pommel of his saddle to hold the steer, and he is likely to have his finger cut in the hair-robe and cut off. Yes, I forgot that. Two or three of the famous old vaqueros about Santa Barbara, Jose Maria, Jose Antonio, and old Clemente have each lost a finger, while the vaqueros at length form in a circle round the band of selected cattle. The ranch owner who gives the rodeo takes his own cattle that he has found, the ones bearing his brand, you know, and drives them in with the ones to be branded, leaving in the rodeo ground the cattle bearing the brands of all the other rancheros. There has been much drinking of aguardiente, brandy, and everybody by this time is pretty reckless. Then they drive this selected band to the home corral, the vaqueros yelling, the cattle calling, and the riata's whizzing and whistling through the air. If any unfortunate tries to escape his fate, he is pursued, last and brought back. By this time the cattle are pretty well heated and angry, and when they get into the crowded corral, they horn each other and try to gore the horses, a fire is then built in one corner of the corral, and the branding irons are heated. Oh, hold my hand, Polly, if the branding is going to begin.  I won't say much about it, but it's no worse than a thousand things that people have to bear every year of their lives. Animals never have to have teeth filled, for instance, nor limbs amputated. Oh, just think of a calf with a wooden leg, or a cow with false teeth. Wouldn't it be funny? Laught about. They don't have a thousand ills that human flesh is heir to, so they must be thankful they get off so easy. Well, the branding irons are heated, as I say, each cattle owner having his special brand, which is properly recorded, and which may be any device not previously used. Two men now catch the calves, one lassoing them by the head, the other by the legs. A third man takes the iron from the fire and brands the chosen letter or hieroglyphic on the animal's hind quarter. Sometimes on the forequarter, don't you? Ask Bell. I've seen brands there. Your horse has two, and Erko has one also. Yes, a brand on the forequarter shows that the animal has been sold, but it always has the original brand on the hind quarter. When a sale is affected, the new brand is put anywhere in front of the fifth rib, and this constitutes what they call a venta, or sale. If you notice some of the little plugs written by Santa Barbara boys, you'll see that they bear half a dozen brands. By the way, if the rodeo has been a very large one, they are several days branding the cattle, so they are turned out to pastorear a little while each day. The brand was absolute sign of ownership, you know, girls, said Dr. Winship. And though there was the greatest care exercised in choosing and recording the brands, there was plenty of opportunity for cheating. For instance, a man would often see unbranded cattle when riding about, and there was nothing to prevent his dismounting, building a fire, heating his iron, and putting his own brand on them. Then at the next rodeo, they were simply turned over to him, for as I say, the brand was absolute ownership. When error I take my rides abroad, how many calves I see, and as I brand them properly, they all belong to me. Sad Bell. How I should like to see a rodeo. Side LC. I can't imagine how the voceros can fling the reata while they're riding at full speed. It isn't so very wonderful. Said Polly nonchalantly. The most ordinary people can learn it. Why, your brother Jack can lasso almost as well as a Mexican. And I can lasse any stationary object myself. Cried Bell. A hitching-post, or even a doorknob. I can do it two or three times out of ten. That shows immense skill. Answer Jack. But, as a thing you want to last, never does stay still, and as it is absolutely necessary to catch it more than three times out of ten, you probably wouldn't make a name and fortune as a vocero. Juan Capistrano, by the way, used to be famous with the lariat. I had heard of his adventure with the bull on the island of Santa Rosa, and I asked him about it today, but he had so exhausted himself telling stories to Bell that he had very few words for me. You see there was a bull on Santa Rosa Island, so wild that they wanted to kill him, but nobody could do it, though he was a terror to anyone who ventured on the island. They called him Antiguelo because of his long horns and long tail. He was such a terrible fighter that all the voceros were afraid to last him, for he always broke away with the lariat. You see, a horse throws bull by skill and not by strength, of course. You can choke almost any bull, but this one was too smart. He would crouch on his haunches and pull back until the rope nearly choked him, and then suddenly make for the horse. Juan Capistrano had a splendid horse. You see, as much depends on the horse as the man in such a case, and he came upon Antiguelo on the Cerro Negro and last him. Well, did he fight? I asked. Si, señor. Well, what happened? Yo lo mate.   Objected, Val. You must tell us more. What do you want to hear? I am up on all the animal and vegetable life of Southern California, full of interesting information concerning its old customs, can give you Spanish names for all the things that come up in ordinary conversation, and I'm the only man present who can make a raha'i reata. Said Jack modestly. Go on and tell us how, oh great and wise reatero. Said Bal. I'll tell you that myself, said Elsie. For I've seen him do it dozens of times when he should have been studying his little lessons. He takes a big piece of raw hide, cuts a circle right out of the middle, and then cuts round and round this until he has a long continuous string half an inch wide. He then stretches it and scrapes the hair off with a knife or a piece of glass, gets it into four strands, and braids it round. Perhaps you think braiding round is easy to do. Retorted Jack in an injured tone. But I know it took me six months to learn to do it well. I fail to see, said his mother, how a knowledge of braiding round and lassoing of wild cattle is going to serve you in your university life and future career. Oh yes, it will. I shall be the buckle of Bill of Harvard, and I shall give charming little entertainments in my rooms, or in some little garden plot suitable to the purpose. Shall you make a point of keeping up with your class? Asked Mrs. Winship. Oh yes, unless they go too fast. My sports won't take any more time than rowing or baseball. They'll be a little more expensive because I'll have to keep some wild cattle constantly on hand, and perhaps of a carol or two. But of a carol won't cost any more than a valet. I didn't intend furnishing you with a valet, remarked his mother. But I shall be self-supporting, mother dear. I shall give exhibitions on the campus, and the gate money will keep me in luxury. This is all very interesting, said Polly, cuttingly. But what is it to do with California I'd like to know?  Can't you see that when I am the fashion in Cambridge, it will be noise about that I gained my marvelous skill in California? This will increase emigration. I don't pretend to say it will swell the population like the discovery of Golden 48, but it will have a perceptible effect. You are more modest than a whole mussy bank of violets. Lapped Dr. Paul. Now, Marjorie. Will you give us your legend? Mine is the story of Juan de Dios. Literally, Juan of God. And I'm sorry to say that it has a horse in it, like Polly's. Only hers was a snow-white mare and mine is a cold black charger. But they wouldn't tell us any romantic love stories. They were all about horses. Story of Juan de Dios. In early days when Americans were coming into Santa Barbara, there were many cattle buyers among them.  No one could understand how the robbers got such accurate information of the movements of the travelers unless they had a spy somewhere near the mission, where they often stopped for rest and refreshment. Now, there was a certain young Indian Vaquero in the employ of the Padres at La Mission de la Purisima. He was a wonderful horseman and greatly looked up to by his brother Vaqueros because he was so strong, alert and handsome and because he was always dressed elegantly in rich old Spanish embroideries and velvets, given to him, he said, by men for whom he had done great services. One day, a certain traveler, a Spanish official of high degree, came from Monterey to wet his sweetheart, the daughter of the richest cattle owner in all the country round. His boys in bed and bridle were a solid silver. His hakema, halter, was made of a hair-robe whose strands had been dyed in brilliant colors. His tabaderos, francias, were made of silver. His tabaderos, front of the stirrups, mochilas, large leather saddle flaps and sudaderos, thin bits of leather to protect the legs from sweat, were all beautifully stamped in the fashion used by the Mexicans. His saddle blankets and his housings were all superb, honey for a broad sombrero encircled with the silver snake and trimmed with silver lace. The traveler stayed at La Purisima all night and set out early in the morning to ride the last 40 miles and waited him from his bride. But one and two other robbers were lying in wait for him behind a great rock that stood at the entrance of the lonely canyon. They appeared on horseback, one behind the unfortunate man and two in the front so that he could escape neither way.  Juan taking his clothes and trappings and the other two dividing the contents of his purse. They could not have buried their victim as successfully as usual or else they were surprised and had to escape for the body was found. And Juan, whom the Padres had begun to view with suspicion, was nowhere to be found about the mission. Troops were sent out in pursuit of him for this particular traveler was a high official and it was necessary that his death should be avenged. They had last heard that Juan had been seen going towards Santa Inés mission and pursuing him thither they came upon him as he was driving a band of horses into a coral.  The men surrounded the coral and ordered him to surrender. He begged them to wait until he had settled Azebache and then they might shoot them both down together. They asked permission to call three times, pegar tres gritos and after the third call they were to shoot. His last wish was granted. He saddled and mounted his splendid horse called once, twice, thrice. But when the last shout faded in the air and the troops raised their muskets to fire Behold! There was no one in use to be seen. They had been surrounding the coral so that no one could have written out. They looked among the horses but Azebache was nowhere to be found. Just then a joyous shout was heard so ringing and trumpet that every man turned in the direction from which it came. There galloping up the hillside nearly half a mile distant was Juan de Dios mounted on his coal black Azebache. But it was no common sunshine that deepened the gorgeous colors of his trappings and danced upon his silver spurs till they glistened like two great stars. It was a broad, glittering stream of light such as no mortal has ever seen before and which almost blinded the eyes and over this radiant path of golden sunbeams galloped Juan de Dios until he disappeared over the crest of the mountain. Then the light faded. The Padres crossed themselves in silence and went home to their mission and Juan de Dios never was heard of more. Modest little Marjorie was hailed with such cheers that you could not have seen her cheeks for the blushes and just as the party began to think of forsaking the fascinating campfire for bed Belle jumped up impetuously and cried. Here, Philip, give me the castanets, please. Polly and Jack, you play las Palomas for me and I'll sing and show you the dance of that pretty Mexican girl whom I saw at the bowl given under the big grapevine. Wait till I take off my hair ribbon. Lend me your scarf, Mama. Now begin. Las Palomas, the dogs. Four little white dogs began to coo to coo to their mates so fair and each to the other dose that your coo with mine cannot compare. It is barely possible but not likely that anything prettier than Belle's Mexican Danza was to be seen under the light of the September stars that night although they were doubtless shining down upon a thousand lovely things with all the brightness of her loosened hair rising and falling with a motion of her swaying figure. With her twinkling feet, her crimson cheeks and parted lips, she looked the very spirit of dance and her enraptured audience only allowed her to stop her sweetly breathless.  Was there ever such a dear, dear canyon with such dear people in it? If it only wouldn't rain and we could live here forever. Rain, rain, stay away. Come again another day. Little Elsie wants to play. recited Polly and then everybody went to their straw beds. End of Chapter 10 Chapter 11 of A Summer in a Canyon A California Story by Kate Douglas-Wigan This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter 11 Breaking Camp The thirsty earth soaks up the rain and drinks and gapes for drink again.  But it did rain and it didn't wait until they were out of the canyon either. It began long before the proper time and it by no means confined itself to a shower, but opened the winter season fully a month before there was any need of it and behaved altogether in a most heartless and inconsiderate manner like a very spoilsport of a rain. It began after dark so as to be just as disagreeable as possible and under the two slight cover of their tents the campers could hear the rush and the roar of it like the tramping of myriad feet on the leaves. Poncho and the two Chinaman huddled under the broad sycamores in their rubber blankets and were dry and comfortable, but all the waterproof tents leaked, save Elsie's. But when it was dawn, the sun, having heard nothing apparently of any projected change in the weather at all time in the most resplendent fashion. Brighter, rosier, and more gloriously if you will believe me, then he had risen that whole long sun-shiny summer and he really must have felt paid for getting up at such an unearthly hour in the morning, when, after he had clamored over the grey mountain peaks, he looked down upon Los Flores canyon, bathed in the light of his own golden beams. If he knew anything about ancient history and biblical geography, and if he didn't I don't know who should, in as much as he had been present from the beginning of time, he must have thought it as fair as the Garden of Eden, for nature's face simply shone with cleanliness, like that of a smiling child just fresh from its bath, and every leaf of every tree glistened as he beamed upon it, and shook off its crystal drops that he might turn them into diamonds. It was only a shower, said Dr. Winship, as he seated himself on a damp board and partook of a moist breakfast. And with this sun the tents will be dry before night. Elsie has caught no cold, the dust will be laid, and we can stay another week with safety. Everybody was hilarious over this decision, save the men of all work, who longed unspeakably for a less poetic existence. Hop yet particularly, who thought camping out not much eager. Dickie was more pleased than anybody perhaps, as every day in the canyon was one day less in school, not that he had ever been to school, but he knew in advance instinctively that it wouldn't suit him. Accordingly he sought the wettest possible places, and played all day with superhuman energy. He finally found Hop yet's box of bluing under a tree in a very moist and attractive state of fluidity, and just before dinner improved the last shining hour by painting himself a brilliant hue and appearing at dinner in such a fiendish guise that he frightened the family into fits. Now Dr. Winship was one of the most weatherwise men in California, and his predictions were always quite safe and sensible, but somehow or other it did rain again in two or three days, and it poured harder than ever too. To be sure it cleared promptly, but the doctor was afraid to trust so fickle a person as the clerk of the weather had become, and marching orders were issued. The boys tramped over all their favorite bits of country, and the girls visited all their best beloved haunts, every one of them dear from a thousand charming associations. They looked for the last time in mirror pool, and saw the reflection of their faces. Rather grave faces just thin over the leaf taking. The water mirror might have been glad to keep the picture forever on its surface. Marjorie with her sleek braids and serene forehead, with Polly saucy nose and misch of a size laughing at you like a Mary water sprite, Belle with her brilliant cheeks glowing like two roses just fallen in the brook, and Gold Elsie who, if you had put a frame of green leaves about her delicate face and yellow locks, would have looked up at you like a water lily. They waffed it a farewell to Pico Negro, and having got rid of the boys, privately embraced a certain whispering tree under whose singing branches they had been want to lie, and listened to all the murmuring that went on in the forest. Then they clamored into the great, thorough brace wagon where they all sat in gloomy silence for ten minutes, while Dickie's tan terrier was bound for the fourth time that morning and the long train with its baggage carts, its saddle horses and its dogged little pack mules moved down the rocky steeps that led to civilization. The gate that shut them in from the county road and the outer world was opened for the last time and shut with a clang and it was all over, their summer in a canyon. End of Chapter 11 End of a summer in a canyon, a California story by Kate Douglas-Wiggin


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Dell Technologies World 2018. Brought to you by Dell EMC and its ecosystem partners. And welcome back, we are live here in Las Vegas, we're in the sands right now, day two of Dell Technologies World 2018. I'm John Walls, along with Stu Miniman, and it's a pleasure now to welcome Ashley Goruck-Perwala, who is the President and GM of Server and Infrastructure Systems at Dell EMC. Ashley, good afternoon to you. Thank you, great pronunciation, my last name. Well, thank you very much. Not an easy thing to do. I worked hard on that, how about that? Stu and I were just talking briefly with you, what a cool exhibit for, right? I mean, there's just a lot of interest. What have you seen out there that's kind of caught your eye so far? Oh, we have, we brought in a lot of customers this time to show their outcomes. So, I'm a car guy, so you know how it's straight to the player. My son would love the F1 setup with the gaming, virtual reality. Topgolf is a great DX rail customer. We have a goal control, try to beat the AI and see if you can score a goal. I mean, there's some very cool demos back there. Yeah, and so, and then overall, just I'm curious about your thoughts about the show then, because that's a part of it. That's part of it. There's a lot of client relations you're doing here, business relations. Yeah, the, we're only about halfway through, so. But so far, very, very positive energy, I get. I don't know if you caught or already talked to Michael after the keynote, but certainly, certainly Michael's on fire at the keynote and I really, really enjoyed the discussion with Dr. Chip later about, and Jeffrey Wright about, you know, how technology connects to helping people. A lot of times engineers stuck in a lab, looking at R&D, trying to figure out a problem, lose sight of what they're doing. Great opportunity for the team to see that and kind of expand and understand, you know, where their technology's going, what it's doing for the world, what the impact is that they're having. So, Ashley, your team's been real busy leading up to this, seeing some of the new products in the announcement. Before we get into this, though, your role expanded a little bit since the last time we talked about, talked to Tom Burns yesterday as there was the, the group formerly known as VCE that turned into CPSD, you know, was split into some pieces and HCI is now under your domain. That's right. In addition to our server businesses, which are kind of the mainstream power edge business, our extreme scale business, our OEM business, we had a reorganization to really kind of unlock the potential that we have in a great product set, product set before my organization was already number one. It's a position of strength. What we're trying to do is accelerate from that. So, if you think about the HCI marketplace, I think you have to be in the server business to win in the HCI business. I don't envy anyone trying to do this from a position of weakness or trying to adopt other people's technology. Our supply chain, our reach, our global services and support, and then the underlying ability to invest in the server technology and beyond and differentiate and innovate on top of that is what it's going to take to win. And maybe not tomorrow, but in the future as HCI takes off. We wanted to really accelerate that by shortening the decision-making loop, making it one mission for the team. And so that came in. In addition, maybe a quick call out to the storage and data protection platform engineering team who also came into my group to again really put our best hardware and platform and systems engineers together from servers and from data protection storage and kind of create a powerhouse of R&D. Yeah, actually, it's not surprising to us. From our research side at Wikibon, we actually called it ServerSan because it was really taking the functionality in what customers wanted as a business outcome from the sand and was pulling it closer to the server. But at its core, it's really about software. One of the things that has struck me in the last two years, comparing this to EMC worlds in the past, and now Dell is what I used to see at Dell World, which was Dell as a platform that lots of things live on. So there's lots of software storage partners that live on inside of Dell. There's HCI partners. Of course, you've got a broad portfolio all from the Dell families and then OEMs and other partners that fit there. So it gets your team, it makes sense that HCI comes in there because you've got that platform at the server and it grows from there. Yeah, if you circle back to just a Dell legacy world perhaps, much more platform oriented, infrastructure at our heart, bringing that value and prop to our customers. And I've said it before, I think if you give any segment or capability time, I think a standard kind of open infrastructure hardware platform wins. It may not be a server, but it's going to look something like a server going forward. And the specialization and the value move into the IP stack and into the software. So you better be a company that can do the scale of a standards-based platform. You better have the IP, the specialized stacks as we do in our VMware stacks, in our IP stacks around data protection, storage, networking. You can see where Michael's kind of putting those two together. It's not a tomorrow thing, but five, 10 years from now. We've seen it in the carrier space. We've seen it in storage. Everywhere you go, the commoditization curve takes us to standards infrastructure and IP in the software. Yeah, you made an interesting point there, say it might not necessarily be a server. Give us kind of, if you could step back for a second, state of compute, it's compute in the cloud, there's compute at the edge, there's compute all over the place. A few years ago, it was like, ah, it's all going white box and undifferentiated. And in the public cloud, I say there's probably more skews of compute in the public cloud than if I went to Dell and picked that up there. Whether that's a good or a bad thing, you could probably have some insight on. But give us your view on kind of the state of compute in the industry today. Sure. So if I think back 10 years when we started our business with the hyperscalers, building those infrastructures of service, multi-tenant public clouds, there really wasn't any other choice. You either did it in a legacy mode with your IT, maybe slightly modernizing, but you were still probably siloed.  And it was such a different experience. Since then, what customers have said consistently is, why am I having to make that choice? I either go to this rent version, which is very expensive as I scale up, or I own it or I have to own it and it's different. So multi-cloud, hyper-cloud, private cloud, however you want to instantiate it, and something like hyper-converged infrastructure just didn't exist. They didn't have a choice. Now, with a push of a few buttons, you can scale up your infrastructure perhaps on-prem or in a hosted environment. That is fairly seamless with that, and now you have that portability. Yeah, and I'm sorry, actually, I wasn't trying to poke at the cloud piece. It's compute at edge use cases. It's a little bit different than traditional servers, what's happening with the blade market. Definitely need to talk about the new power edges, but there's the Mx we're going to cover too, but it was just kind of, if you say you're form factors of servers. You bring up a good point. It's maybe emerging, so there's probably a little bit more hype than there is reality behind it, but there are going to be billions of sensors, trillions of sensors, or things that create data outside of data center environments. That's where all the data's going to be produced, and that's where decisions are going to be made. Today, the theory is it has to go back somewhere, although I don't think any of us are getting an autonomous car if it has to talk back to a data center and decide what to do. So there's already examples of what I would call edge compute, but what if your data center has to live at a base of a cell tower, at the end of a 30 mile dirt road where someone only visits 45 days apart and they're not an IT individual. How do you extend that infrastructure, that management domain, that security domain? How do you bring it all the way out there? How do you ruggedize it? Well, you're probably going to start with a company that's been doing fresh air cooling with like 13, 14 billion server hours now at operating in fresh air environments. We understand how to bring that environment the way we've been working on that remote management, lights out management style, our security. I'll give you another emerging trend that's going to come out of that. Just at the time where we're going to extend our environments out of the safety of the data center, we're also going to go back to a stateful compute where a persistent memory, non-volatile memory, storage class memories, and security paradigms are already shifting. We're getting ahead of that with our customers of what if it wasn't just a hard drive yet to protect, but almost everything in that edge device. So the form factors will change, the connectivity will change, but what we know is you're likely gather as much data as you can. You'll throw some of it away because it won't be useful. Right now, there's a sensor telling this building that these lights are on. Until they go off, it's not useful data. But in a car, it's very useful data. Some of that data will go back. It'll get trained because humans won't be able to take in all this data. You'll need a machine. You can't write the algorithm ahead of time. You have to learn something. That goes that IP into the edge and then decisions will be made at that stage. Before we head off, we've talked about some new products. You've alluded a little bit. So you've had a launch this week. Just run us through that if you would real quick. We had a few things. It's nice to have a new baby to talk about. Sure, it's pretty exciting. And it really does stem from what we just talked about. So if I start on the power edge side, if you have a strategy that is to help your customers with that digital transformation from cloud to data center and core all the way to edge, you can start to see why we're launching certain products and why they have certain technologies in them and innovations. So starting with the 940XA, Extreme Acceleration, might have to rename it if you watch the keynote. Jeff called Extreme Performance. He is the boss, so I think it's XP now. We'll keep it at Extreme Acceleration for now. That really is about large data sets training very quickly in database environments. So you want host to GPGPU to be a one-to-one ratio. You want large data sets to be local. So you need massive storage, 32 drives, for instance, in it. And you need the capability to, again, make sure it brings the tenants of security, manageability, the ecosystem with it. So very excited about that one. I think there's some use cases we're just not even ready for. We've already had the technology today to put eight FPGAs in that system, Direct Connect. And there's very few workloads or even talent in the customer set to be able to enable that. But you got to get there first with the technology to allow that innovation to happen and we want to stoke that. Then on the R840, this really was about once you get the data in, you're going to have to make decisions. You need still that processing power. Maybe you don't need 20,000 cores in the box, like a 940XA, maybe you need a little bit less. But you do need massive storage, localized NBME Direct Connect. There's more Direct Connect than any server, I think, period, in the industry. And it's really about streaming those analytics, making those real-time choices. So it really fits into the strategy that we're undertaking. All right. Actually, last thing I wanted to cover, it's a bit of a preview that you showed at the show, the PowerEdge MX. Modular infrastructure, no mid-plane, should be able to upgrade it a lot more. So are we beyond where blade servers have gone? Do you consider this to fit into some called a composable infrastructure? How would you position this kind of compared to some of the other ones? Yeah, it's just a sneak peek. But I tell you how we think about it. Is it a blade server or not? I'm not sure the question is something we've considered yet. It's a form factor that we think for the future is really necessary, which is we want to get to a stage and we're putting our research into a stage of a journey where we want to get to the point where you can utilize the resources that you bring into your environment, whether they be your environment or someone else's. Today, it's so much astranded connected to a CPU. It's just the architecture that we have today, whether it's memory, storage class memory, persistent memory, GPGPUs, heterogeneous compute, FPGAs, ASICs, memory semantics, IO semantics, have to leave the box. Then we can get to things like pulled up resources that can be utilized, unbound, put together, then compose if you want to use your word, or really just aligned around a workload then retired and put back in. APIs and software, we're starting to build that out. It's starting to emerge from certain management orchestration layers we have today, but we're gonna need that fabric. And so as you know, we're showing actually here today a Gen Z demo, we're starting to build that fabric that has the latency, almost memory-like latencies from load to store and usage, all the way out to, it has the memory semantics that go all the way through from CPU, all the way out to memory, so that all of a sudden the node no longer traps and strands the resources. How do you do that? You better have an architecture that treats everything in the box, not just the compute part as a first-class citizen for power, for thermals, for management. Second thing, if you have a midplane, you have a point of failure, but you also are not upgradeable to these fabrics that are coming and these capabilities that are on the horizon, some of which are not even in silicon or in a lab just yet. So when you build infrastructure, let me call it infrastructure for a second, people want it as an investment. I think that's the part we've talked about. There's a lot more to come, so team's excited to get it out there. I tried to hold them back a little bit, but we cheated a little bit and showed it. Little demo goes a long way. Ashley, thanks for being with us. Thanks for telling this story. We appreciate the time. Look forward to seeing you down the road. I appreciate it. You bet. Thanks guys. Back with more, we are live here in Las Vegas Dell Technologies World 2018.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jazby's casebase.com. We just sold out another World Cup promo break Which is jazby's eight box quick hit hockey mixer two round teams each number one so This is a World Cup promo break So at the end we'll randomize all the names and of course number one gets a World Cup promo spot And of course we were given away a free spot So we took out a spot if you bought one of the last three spots you get a chance to win an extra free spot So with the dice really here, we're gonna randomize these three customer names Mike towers and Terry and Then of course number one gets a free spot We'll paste your name there, and then that'll make a full 15, then we'll paste in your names over here For the giveaway then we're gonna double up your names And then match you up there with a team now. We had a combo team that was cracking ducks yachts and All karchiv guys here we go To dice roll we got a two and a six eight times. Good luck. Here we go eight times one two three four five six seven eight and Stays on my tower Two and three shot six into two eight times boom my tower. Congratulations, buddy an extra free spot for you Give you a little plus sign there now. We're gonna Take all the list of customer names And we're only gonna use these 15 names for later when we do the giveaway But now what we're gonna do here is we're gonna double up your names because it's a two-round on teams break so Do that and of course that is six two and a six eight times. Good luck one two three four five six seven eight two six eight eight Terry down in Kevin Wilson Let's go eight times eight eight one two three four five six seven eight eight times Detroit Reddowings down to the St. Louis Blues eight times eight times So eight times eight times boom Terry Detroit Redwings Collin Canadians Chris Bruins lightning Collin with the sharks Chris with the Oilers Adam Coverham with the senator as well as my Kings Chris Maxson with the Flyers Mike Tower with the Wild Adam with the Jets Collin with the black black blue jacket. Sorry I don't cover with the Islanders Chris with the Hurricanes Chris with the flames Mike Tower with the Sabres Collin the Knights Kevin Wilson with the Devils and Avalanche Mike Tower with the Canucks Manor with the Penguins Chris with the Capitals and Rangers Kevin Wilson with the Ducks Kraken Yokes Mike Tower with the Panthers and Hawks Terry with the Preds Manor with the Leafs Mike Tower with the Dallas Stars and then Kevin with the St. Louis Blues So if anybody wants to make any trades now those autograph hockey pucks could literally be any team legit I don't know if there's a specific checklist out there But usually when they create those autograph hockey pucks all 30 teams 32 teams are represented But obviously some teams might have more than others Let me see if I can get a little like See if they have this available still to buy on their website Yeah, it looks like this might be it. So looks like there's a chance at Matthew Sydney Crosby looks like That's a lot of names actually So take a look at some of the legends Hall of Famer see that buried in point Chris cellos coke Hallfield Dominic Haschick, Marion Hosa, Pavel Dotsy, Peter Forsberg, Ray Bork, Tim Thomas, and Joe Sakiq now, of course If there's no logo on the puck so some pucks act just be a normal NHL logo puck There's no team on there. Then it'll go basically college rules were active Goes to the team they're currently on if retired or not in the NHL teams. They play for the longest All right, then sure when I close them. Let's do this done guys All right, there's everybody there guys. So again, we got a eight box mixer, right? So we had a box of ultimates Which is right here. We'll save that there We have a box of SPX and a box of artifacts We'll do these three products first and then we'll go to the hip rig autograph hockey books Next up to that that's potentially right there Also, too. I was ripping a lot of the upper deck a series one on YouTube not too much, but I mean on Instagram not too much But that and I did up did the marvel or not marvel star Spider-man marvel sorry and The packs are so much easier to rip now. So thank you UD for making it a little bit easier This one's still like previous years. They were kind of really rough to rip Andre Sveshnikov to 249 We got Sebastian Aho NHL remnants man more for the fellow in hurricanes there Chris Maxwell that We got Mort Sider To 999 You got a green Joel Faraby to 99 and Braden points and we got a Bernard docker to 299 Alex new hook and then we got Braden John Cullinberg to 65 so this one actually had all three relics. So I believe in artifacts. It could be relics Be orams. They could be autos. Unfortunately, we didn't get any autos in this one, but At least we did get all three hits So that's why I started off with that one. That was a little bit a Little bit of a tougher box sometimes We can jump if you help sell it out The remaining teams we're already doing sterling tonight. So that's great. Oh, was there four relics? Oh I Guess there was four relics Even better Whoa, how about an Alexis LaFernier? 47 out of 49 in a little mixer. How about that for the Rangers going to Chris Maxwell? Well, the cards a little chipped up, but No, Pizzle this year in artifacts that they don't guarantee autos It's either three hits or three relics three autos or three, you know insert whatever But usually there's never three inserts, but And how about a Pavel? He did pretty well for the For the Colorado avalanche when needed to 299 Avalanche that's going to Kevin Wilson. I think that Laffy is a rookie, right? This is his rookie. Isn't it? Yeah, 2021 We got a little shadow box Ty Smith rookies and young A compound that's the Ducks combo going to Kevin Wilson And let's end it off with a little bit of ultimate Glenn Hall to 35 for the Blackhawks and Shout out to all those goalies back in the day that we're playing with like little to no protection especially in the Netherlands We got a Matisse to 299 Keegan Colesar another Matisse this time a relic 649 and then we have a signature material laureates numbered in 99 How about a little Carter Hart for the Flyers? Also going to Chris Maxwell Philly Good goalie there for the Flyers So Dunzo with the main hits from products Now we're gonna go to five autograph pucks And here we go guys. Good luck So again, if there's a team logo on the puff, it's gonna go to that team automatically If it's just like NHL logo Then it goes to the team that they're currently on teams they play for the longest Some of these are kind of harder to tell so no who am I for this one? And how about for the Red Wings Terry last Bob Mojo? That's a nice one a little Tyler Bertuzzi.  Let's go to the next one Hardest NHL slap shot for the capitals number 33 Al Lafrette Me must be a little older capital. Maybe I don't remember this guy But hard as NHL slap shot. Maybe did he guys? I don't know older older NHL fans Let's see what year this guy played. Maybe he was playing when I was a kid. Oh, yeah, this guy played in the 80s Yeah, it's got played from 1984 to 1998 so that's probably why I don't really know him too much Play for the Leafs the Capitals the Bruins and the Sharks fourth overall pick in 1984 and Yes American perhaps most famous for his extremely hard slap shot He set a record for velocity during the NHL skills competition in 1993 Which stood for 16 years at a hundred and five point two miles per hour, right? Of course the record was broken by Zodano Chara Boston Bruins when he hit one oh five point four So I guess he did have the hardest slap shot in the NHL That's cool. That's gonna go to the capitals, which is gonna Chris Maxwell Well, yeah, you're pretty close. I mean it's like one oh five point something so that's still a pretty darn Hardest shot though And for Buffalo Recognize the signature, but let's see who that is. Oh stage Thompson. Nice.  I remember he was a blue as a rookie. Was he part of like the three-way trade? There's something our next one and we have four of the looks like the mighty ducks Wow Timo Salani, that's pretty cool Old school mighty ducks logo as well Timo Salani. That's going to the combo team Kevin Wilson with the ducks cracking and yolks That's a pretty sweet puck right there The finished flash All right, and the last one here folks. Good luck And for the Ottawa Senators Tomas Shabbat And Ottawa that's going to Adam Kuperman. That's a nice little mix right there, right? Timo Salani was cool. Well, there you go guys. That was the quick hit hockey mixer Now again, this was a promo break. So everybody has a chance to win a World Cup promo spot Let me switch scenes right there. This one is gonna be Jasper's eight bucks quick hit Hockey mixer to RT number one. I don't know if we'll have a second. I have to tell Nick, but Here we go guys. So again, we're only gonna use the original 15 list Let's roll it You got ourselves a three and a two for five times. Good luck. Here we go one two three four five and Colin congratulations, you just won a World Cup promo spot after five times. There you go, man. Congrats So another one of the books guys coming up next is National Treasures FIFA road to the World Cup Pikachu number 26, then we're ended off a little pack filler to sell up Bowman Sterling and then Possibly maybe good night. We'll see Jasper's case breaks.com