Live from the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California, it's the Q at Oracle Open World 2014 brought to you by headline sponsor Q-Logic with support from HGST, violin memory and MarkLogic. Now here is your host, Dave Vellante. We're back at Moscone South, we're here in the Q-Logic booth, in the back over by the Oracle demo area and so stop by and see us again Moscone South. This is the Cube, SiliconANGLE's live mobile studio, we drop into the events, we extract the signal from the noise. Year five for us inside the Q-Logic booth at Oracle Open World. It's my pleasure to have Mike Gustafson here as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the FLASH platform group at HGST Gus. Welcome to the Cube. Thanks Dave, great to be here. So I was watching your event, you know, remotely, I didn't get a chance to attend but it looked like a really great coming out party for you guys.  Really as we were talking about off camera, quite a number of moves on the chessboard that have really changed the game. Talk about that a little bit. Oh it's been outstanding. I mean so from the standpoint of HGST looking at playing a more aggressive and more of a shaping the industry role, the acquisitions that we made about a year ago, this was a big event for us a couple weeks ago actually announcing many of the products and solutions that come from those acquisitions. So combination of things we announced included some specifics around the FLASH platform group with more accelerated FLASH solutions on the product side. And then up the stack, a combination of hardware and software aspects where we actually announced things like a purpose-built kind of Oracle Rack solution which was outstanding. And then more traditional for our company around the HDD world, some of the work that we're doing on helium and driving capacity leadership there with an eight and ten terabyte offering of products and a vision around an active archive platform. We're all kind of the sweet spot of the announcements that we made a couple weeks ago. Yes I see that. You mentioned the high capacity stuff, sort of extending the base indefinitely, really. But then trying to capitalize on some of the new trends that we've certainly written about at Wikibon, we talked about server sand. But you've seen function for the last couple of decades move out of the host onto the sand for good reason, but now they're moving back. You've got in-memory, you've got prices coming down, capacity is going to the roof and then FLASH really is that big disruption. I wonder if you could comment on that shift and how you guys want to take advantage of that. Yeah, I think just to kind of add around the comments you made, I think there's that combination of the FLASH, there's the convergence aspect and then there's this intelligence needed around the FLASH and the media to actually get it to the point where we can start to deliver to the enterprise, both traditional and cloud enterprises, what the sand did a decade or so ago and that's the more efficient shared storage with the attributes of protection and management and scale, but in a medium which is FLASH oriented and that's what's completely different. How do you actually drive those capabilities up the stack and do so so that you're not compromising around the performance that you're paying for but still get all the protection and the management and the scale capabilities that the sand brought us and the way we look at that, we're actually trying to package that up as a concept around fabric FLASH or a FLASH fabric. Fabric FLASH with a lot of software, I mean to go back to the 80s, I mean network appliance sort of created the appliance model and then despite a lot of friction, it's another point of management, some people don't like the concept of appliances but it's work. You look all over the oracle floor, it's all appliances. Larry talked last night about appliances. The model you're putting forth is different. I see it as the next generation of you called it fabric but I wonder if you could talk about that vision of it. Yeah, and I think it's important as you say, we participate today in the world of the appliances or in the FLASH array, whether it's hybrid or all FLASH array. We do that with our component business or our devices where we'll make those available to our partners and they package those in, whether it's a purpose-built appliance or a sand extension. But to your point on what's that next turn of the crank, we actually see for performance applications where you want to be closest to the CPU as possible, you're going to be inside the server. And so we see that as an opportunity not just with the FLASH again but as you mentioned, the intelligent devices around that. So we have a concept around device affinity where we actually, whether it's endurance or performance benefits, this device affinity allows us to extend the life of the FLASH, it allows us to be more intelligent about the firmware that's wrapped around that controller. And then ultimately, and this is the big step I think for us, is we want to get up into that application. We want to be application down versus just the storage up. And by doing so, we get greater insights on its performance, how to actually tune and optimize, again, up at that server layer without compromise on performance. And you look what's happening with mobile, you talk about device affinity, you talk about applications, everything's going mobile. Talk about how mobile is changing the business in general and specifically how HGST wants to capitalize on it. Well, it's funny, I mean, just from a FLASH perspective, it got its start in the mobile world and the consumer side. So, you know, beyond that though, I think the interesting parts are consumers today are creating more data than frankly the traditional enterprise had ever before. And we have a concept we talk about where the world was accelerated by IT. And now really the, sorry, IT accelerated the world. And now really the world or the consumer data being created is actually accelerating IT. So we have no choice but to deal with this. And so one of the interesting things that we're seeing right now is this raw data creation. And then how do we actually take advantage of that? And the promise of being able to capture it in an active archive platform is one example. But then ultimately how do I put that into real-time decision-making and analytics? So that's another area that's a huge driver of FLASH adoption and the analytics to actually drive the correlations across that data.  I saw Kim Stevenson in the show floor earlier and she was up at the keynote this morning with Mark Hurd and she was saying, you know, we're kind of slow in IT and we need to keep moving.  Is this a permanent swing, do you think, in terms of the dynamic of the IT group really getting pushed? Are they remaking themselves? What are you seeing in the customer business? You know, I thought this morning was really, you know, spot on in terms of the not only the messaging around partnering with the business, you know, that theme is throughout everybody that presented this morning, including Kim. Also, I think this, the pace of change is one where I don't know if it's a pendulum swinging just in a binary A or B. I think we have a third dimension here and I think it's going to take a new shape. I think that dimension is going to be one that's more market driven, more business driven and trying to really understand what is the question that we're trying to solve for and then how do we look back at IT and infrastructure to help us solve that. And, you know, those that spoke this morning talked a lot about not just the desire but the clear priority that we must do this and I think the request from the industry to make sure that we come at them with more simplified solutions and everybody, I think, to a person mentioned this word solution. How do we package this up? Not just so it's simple on deployment but flexibility around whether on-prem or off-prem. So, all these things are causing the, you know, the IT industry and the infrastructure providers to really put themselves in the chair of the customer. I like the way you phrase that because a lot of people do think it's, oh, it's just cyclical, oh, cloud is just IT. I agree with you, it's different. This is a new dimension and I always say if you're an IT practitioner, you got to think about re-skilling it. It's not just sit back and wait for the world to blow up and then come back to you because it may not blow up this time. I think this is where you get the real innovators. I think this most exciting time we've had in IT because you've got now the, it's not just viewed as a cost center. It is, without question, an area where you can drive differentiation in the business where if you understand what the consumers are doing and how to drive your product or solution strategies, you can be a major, not only business partner, but an innovator and a value creator to your business. That's something that, frankly, IT industry, we've been wanting to get to this point for a long time. So, very exciting opportunities. Yeah, I think it was over a decade ago that Nick Carr wrote that book, This IT Matter, and although everybody in the CIO world, you know, they got angry, there was a backlash. In retrospect, he was wrong, but he was right in that the traditional IT world is changing. I don't think it's ever going to come back to you, right? I mean, it's permanently changed to one where technology's going to lead these transitions. And if you're not part of that leadership, you're going to be gone. Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. And I think, you know, you can see that. I think the words where I'm trying to remember exactly how Mark structured it this morning, but we're in a deconstruction. And I thought that was about as pure as I've heard it. We're all being deconstructed in terms of our businesses and business models and those that can actually reorient and come out of that with trying to take advantage of this new dimension you talked about, I think are going to be the winners going forward. So what about cloud? It was interesting to hear Larry yesterday say, we had a commitment to our customers 30 years ago. We had to do infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service. But the infrastructure as a service is obviously highly relevant to you. It's all relevant to you, because applications drive everything. But in terms of the distribution channel, how is cloud affecting your business? I mean, obviously you can't name names, but I would presume the big cloud service providers are all calling you saying, hey, we need help with this. We're trying to do custom things and sign the NDA. And yeah, yeah, so I won't, I won't name all this speak and all that stuff. But you're at the heart of all that. So what do you, what can you share with us in terms of the trends there? Yeah, it's outstanding from our perspective. I won't name specific names, a lot of them, but I'll name a few. And I think, you know, when you look at great example, this is with Netflix, the business models that are becoming more pervasive in the marketplace today in terms of not only acquiring and managing that data, but distributing that with a business advantage of their own content. Netflix is a big customer and one of the things they're always going to have pressure on is driving cost down. So we're a major partner to many of those cloud providers today in terms of our device business, whether that's on the HDD or the solid state storage space with driving better and better capacity and higher utilizations with different packaging solutions. And people like Netflix actually just launched in Europe. It was just there last week and it was amazing at the impact that they're having in Europe in terms of bringing that service to the consumer. So the other part of that I think there's two other key areas. One is an at scale challenge for us. And so when you think about how that drives our product development and choices that we make, it's driving the helium strategy for us. It's driving that very, very large capacity and low cost solution for us. And then the second one is you still have to be very, very intelligent about what you bring them because it's not just enough to drive cost down on the device. We actually look at that entire stack. So again, the combination of hardware, device affinity and unique and differentiated software on top of that so that we bring more to the party as a building block than we had before. And let's talk about the software a little bit. That's really where the differentiation is.  We were calling it server sand then, but I was asked to go speak to a strategic planning meeting, you know, these Woods meetings you go off and think, right? And it was, I won't name the company, but it was a large established whale and it had a big install base of product. And I came in and I put forth this notion of, you know, this distributed resource that's tied together with how are you going to protect it? You know, how are you going to manage it? How are we going to connect all these things that I didn't have the answer to it. I said, well, I don't know, but the industry has to figure that out. You have to figure that out. It was a lot of tension. It was very negative. And now you're seeing, maybe it's not having a meaningful impact on revenues, but you can see the architecture start to come forward in it, underlying that is software. You guys have made some software acquisitions there. So I wonder if you could talk about the role of software to HGST specifically and generally you're part of the industry going forward. Yeah, and I mean, the questions that you're hearing there and as opposed to reacting with a negative way, we love this because it really allows us to think about what we can bring to the party, more value, more differentiation from HGST than we've ever had before. And so it's a combination of complimenting our core device business, but on top of that, we're really driving to, I'd say our strategy is this, continue to lead with the best in class devices and the most broad portfolios of devices in the marketplace, whether that's HDD or solid state storage, and do that end to end, including the opportunity to actually start to package that in more of a subsystem approach. That's what we announced a couple of weeks ago. Secondly, we've got to drive this device affinity and that's all software. How do we drive more intelligence around that device to make it more effective, drive better utilization, et cetera, and that can be done in performance, that can be done in capacity, it can be done in endurance. And then this next major step is kind of more to your point here, Dave, which is how do I actually think about an infrastructure of shared and mixed workloads, not just in the highest levels of performance, but also across tiering and data movement and such. All the things that we optimized and built in the storage area networking world a decade or so ago, those need to be rebuilt. They need to be built in the model of today's flash. They need to be done at the absolute highest performance with the lowest latency and they need to be done across the tiers of storage too. So these are areas where we're investing aggressively, the acquisitions we made a year ago have now been completely integrated and we've got just one example, a major announcement a couple of weeks ago on a combination of an Oracle RAC initiative where we can actually take that device leadership, package that with affinity and with some specific HGST variant share where we can scale that out and provide a all-flash environment for Oracle RAC. Perfect example of bringing all those pieces together. We live in kind of a crazy world these days. We had VMworld a few weeks ago and you have Pat Gelsinger up there who's got partnerships with Cisco and then of course he's depositioning Cisco in the next statement saying we love their gear and the positioning was a gear company and of course Cisco's saying bring it on and so we have this world of co-operation. What is the conversation like with your customers? When you talk about these visions, these changes, the white space is shifting.  They can't sit still. You use terms like subsystem. Oh, that's my domain but the dividing lines are shifting and changing. What are those conversations like? Well, they start with a core competency of our company's always been partnering. So it starts with a very transparent open discussion with those partners and what's unique and I frankly, I was a little more nervous when I joined the company a year ago about this. It's very natural and the reason is the marketplace is driving this change. So you don't need to look beyond any of these large system companies whether storage or server or network and ask them are you fundamentally changing your business and your business model? The answer is yes. So for us, when we say we're doing the same how can we do that together? So our vision is pretty simple. You can call us a gear company, call us what you like, but we're a device leading, device affinity and software and solution centered businesses we grow with a pretty simple message and that's that we want to bring more value to the party. We want to create larger and more valuable building blocks. And in some cases we will sell those on a direct basis but in most cases we're taking all that back to our strength through the channels and the partners of choice to bring those to market. But it would be easy for a lot of your customers easy and deathly for a lot of your customers just to milk the base. And there's a desire I'm sure an intrinsic desire to do that. So but yet you're going to simplify a lot of what today or last decades they've charged many dollars and got huge margin for what should they be doing to move their business models forward? What are you seeing in your customer base? Yeah well I think first and foremost you have to, I mean again I'll go back to this more I thought they did a great job of asking the questions. You know what is really driving my business and my business model? What are the economic engines of my company? What are my consumers both current and future want? How is the, you know, how are those consumers and or business to business folks creating data that can become an advantage for me? And I think what's there today that wasn't before is you know we always used to talk about marketing and segmentation around this broad base whether it was Budweiser, Budlight, Miklo, don't know why that's on my mind, but you know and then the ultra drive, I know sub segments and such, but now you really do have the opportunity to start to understand what's going on with the individual and more smaller groups whether that's in personalized medicine or in segmentation of customers and this is where I think the magic's going to happen. How do you actually start to adjust and drive your business models? Either one with that information in mind to drive your product and solutions and then secondly how do you reach those folks in a new and unique way? The walls have come down in terms of what was there before and so I think that's why we're seeing such innovation. So that's interesting, so now you're touching on some of the, we talk about big data, but bringing that into some of the traditional storage world even.  Do you see that big data analytics as an opportunity for your customers, you know, generally? Yeah, without question, and I always was smart enough to be around smart people and have some passion for what I'm doing, so it's not, I've been lucky in that regard, but I think that- A little luck helps, but, you know, it does. You've got to have some chops too. Yeah, I think the big data in analytics world is one that we're really just beginning to scratch the surface around. There's no question there's going to be people continuing to innovate like the ones you mentioned, and what's unique I think for us is people are starting to think about whether it's data that's created in a structured way or in an unstructured way, whether it's older data or newer data, people are really starting to figure out that I really want all of that, if I can, and it makes sense, can I get all of that in a centralized place where I can start to do the magic around it? And again, kind of going back to the whole point of IT. If we take IT with the business people and we start to ask those smart questions, whether it's business driven at a function level or data scientists, we're going to find some incredible opportunities. And we're seeing those today with, you know, again, I just, you know, business models that are emerging around this, and I'll go back to Netflix as an example. LinkedIn's another one where, you know, just some of the things that they do, they're a great customer of ours today around analyzing and correlating, and then if you use it, you sign on, say you might be interested in, all that correlation in the what-if analysis comes from basically that big data and pulling all that stuff together, and it's real time. And that's a lot of fun. Well, see, again, you're in an interesting spot because you mentioned LinkedIn, you mentioned Netflix, there's a number of companies you can't mention that go right to you and say, hey, we're trying to solve this problem. And then as well, you're selling to a big base of traditional customers, but to me, you get a little visibility, a lot of visibility on what's coming out, we said, you want to know what's happening in the enterprise? Go look at what Amazon and Google are doing five years ago, six years ago, it's coming to the enterprise. So my question is, what happens to that stack that we know, some people love it, some people hate it, where you've got your devices, you've got storage protocols which are pretty chatty, you got a lot of, got a controller, you got software built up around that controller, you're getting hooks into applications, it's a pretty robust stack that's been built up over a decade plus, two decades, really. What happens to that stack? Does it get flattened like a pancake? Do parts of it exist for special purposes? Does it all get disrupted? What do you think? Well, I mean, you hit a good point, I want to reiterate there, we have a, it's a wonderful opportunity to be able to talk to and listen to those largest customers in the world, whether they're a traditional enterprise or whether they're cloud. And I think the answer is very a little bit, depending upon where you are. If you've got an existing business and you need to continue to run that business without disruption, your level of creativity, flexibility and the constraints are a little tighter than if you're a new business in a green field world with the opportunity to build a brand new application. But in both cases, we've got to simplify that stack. We have to look at it in all of its layers and ask ourselves, is there value there or not? It is that value worth the complexity and if not, get rid of it. And you know, on a very small level in the flash world, what we're doing in terms of NVMe as a protocol and a standard is one way to help in that regard and continue to look at on the open source and open stack world, you know, where can we actually contribute? How do we actually simplify? Because the change that's happening at the end user level needs to have the same pace and openness and flexibility inside the infrastructure providers. And so I think that's one thing. I think it's going to change dramatically. Well NVMe is interesting and you talked, you alluded to the application before and you think about the potential to totally transform applications, application performance. We talked about mobile a little bit. That's really where the dramatic value is going to, and Kim Stephenson talked about business productivity as opposed to cutting costs. I see flash as playing a fundamental component of that because it's the last mechanical movement now disappears, you know, that, I'm going to say disappears. It changes roles. It's like, tape changed role, but in a way bigger manner. And it's going to have a bigger impact on application performance. I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit. Yeah, and you know, we see kind of a one-two punch here. We see the continuing business around rotating media and hard disk drives. They're going to be there. They'll be probably more capacity oriented over time. And we see this flash world where you've got the highest possible performance and lowest latency, you know, which is really around the application. So, you know, what we see happening there is as number one, the performance benefit that we won't even talk about on the application is obvious. But the other one is we're reducing the amount of rotating media there. We're driving a better TCO. In a lot of ways, a flash solution can help reduce the amount of space that's required for those performance applications. You can really consolidate to a much smaller environment. You can drive better TCO through power and cooling capabilities. And then ultimately, if you can truly do more with less and it's an application that's screaming for IO or that throughput capability, you're going to reduce the amount of, you know, capacity that you might need on the rack and be able to consolidate. And all of those things are driving, you know, significant benefits, including some that have actually gone to, I'll say, a pervasive flash deployment. Yeah, because companies like HGST have had to do a lot of unnatural acts and spent a lot of money on doing unnatural acts to drive system performance where at Oracle Open World and the consumers of, you know, your products within Oracle's world, whether it's, you know, short stroking or spinning it faster or more heads or whatever technology is used. All great things to move the needle a little bit, but now that investment can go elsewhere and really toward the application is where it's going. Yeah, and you know, and I don't want to run past this point. I think the market still needs innovation on the capacity side. So whether that's helium or more density around that, that drives cost. And so we're actually in a great position as a company because we can do both. We can drive the performance aspect of the flash world. We can drive the capacity aspect and some of the higher performing HDD world as well. In both cases to your point, up at the application. So we really want to be, you know, device leading in both of these and then understand more and more of the stack on the application. So should we expect an innovation renaissance with that traditional business? I mean, it was clear that these unnatural acts making mechanics move faster and to try to deal with performance is sort of a, almost a negative ROI at some point in time. Now with flash, you don't have to worry so much. You don't really have to worry at all about that. Now you can say, okay, this is a bit bucket technology. Let's pour investment and innovation into that. Will we see a renaissance there? I think if you categorize it and look at just the performance side of very high end, let's say in-server flash, I think you're going to see an absolute rebuilding of an architecture and we view that as over time, over a long period of time, we think there's going to be the concept of a flash fabric where you can actually share at the highest level in all flash environment with, again, highest performance, lowest latency and assuming that you have the software capabilities to provide high availability, the mirroring aspects, the sharing capabilities that you expect for mixed workloads. And as soon as you start to say mixed workloads or data over time, you have to, as a partner in the industry, you have to bring both the performance aspect and the capacity aspect. I think that's one of the things that makes us unique. And there's a huge metadata opportunity there. We were talking about big data analytics before. Someday we'll have more metadata than data. Had to talk to the NSA, they probably already do. Gus, really great segment. Thanks so much for coming back in the queue. It was really fun to have you. Thank you very much for having me. All right, keep it right there, buddy. We'll be back. We're live from Oracle Open World 2014. This is theCUBE, right back.


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Also, this gets really fast that this is over two frames. Two, three frames really, really fast. But then there's a couple of things. It's suddenly fast. It's a weird style break of speed where I'm losing the sense of weight through that. And even if you would keep it that fast, then that recovery, she would tumble one more time or halfway or be up here and then hand down here. It just ought to see such a speed up. And then the stop is so quick as well. And after that, it's kind of slow again where it's also her getting up, feels a bit up and then forward versus forward because there's so much forward momentum that this feels more like a transitional. I got to get up and now this is new animation. So you have to kind of look at consistency in terms of, okay, what's the style? How zippy do you want to be? And then stay with that. Because then here, this feels kind of slowish, okay, but then this feels suddenly almost too fast. This feels like an actor on wires traveling too far. Given the amount of anticipation or almost lack thereof, there's almost no squash there anticipation for a massive jump. And that jump feels like it's going this way versus she would be, hold on, this hits and it's a moving camera, but it feels like if you're going like that, like her body would be out like this and she would be like that, you know, really leaning towards this versus I'm going to go and jump up this way, body wise line of action, but I'm actually traveling this way.  So I would really, really go down and then on this would be, this is where I would speed up again. This is almost too slow. So it would be from here, but then this would be full on stretch, arms up as well. Like everything goes from this massive from here to here arms up as well. I want to go really this one. I still feel it's odd because of we're getting there and then she has, I know it continues with her legs as we talked about. And I think leg wise, it feels good. This just feels weirdly stiff where again, we're traveling this way, but we're pointed this way. There's something where we'll keep her a bit lower this way. But you can always bring her arms up. It's almost like she wants to be like this, body wise and arms are here because the thing that I'm reacting to as well is that this feels very stiff and then she hits this and then it just kind of continues where almost I want to see a little bit of compression in the arms. Head goes forward and then she might go back into a stretch like this when she's at the end. I don't know if you can find some reference in there too. The other thing too is that this feels, this would almost have to be like when a mechanical thing where that move up is just always going to be what it is. It feels like if this swings, you know, and this is just some stick and some strings there and a sticker, but and someone's jumping and and heading to this and holding on to this is that that momentum of this going up will be interrupted and be slower. If that makes sense. This goes up at a certain amount of, you know, spacing and then bam, this is now a force that's a has weight, but also goes this way. So we're kind of slow down that spacing. Suddenly, I would say it just also feels a bit of a disconnect there. Again, it feels a bit slow.  Or again, this was all but even and slow. We want to go fast, hold fast, cool down and then this as well where he feels a bit stiff. Watch out, you gotta really bring those legs over that to hold on to it. It feels like you can almost hold on to and by now that leg, that arm would be lower. It's like feeling like the one nice straight line between his arm and her. So it doesn't have that stiff feel like this. But then this feels pretty okay. And then this feels like she suddenly launched and we're much faster in this spacing suddenly. This feels like this is a vacuum and she gets sucked through. It doesn't feel like this is the natural timing there. And then this just stops abruptly like this amount of speed would be if I play this 25% faster. Let me just see. Yeah, it's funny. It's like some parts are too slow or too fast, then kind of better. Slow, a bit better. Whoa, too fast, slow. So it's kind of you're a bit all over the place in terms of timing.  And if that's a pain with her like that, you can always put in just a sphere and then kind of look at the overall feel of what is the ball doing boom boom boom and all of that like all of those moments there. I hope that makes sense. I like the the evolution of this and this part I really like where we are following the character, the camera is traveling. All of that is cool. This would be fun if this would Super Mario style come together and stomp. This goes, this closes, then this closes. Anyway, but that is that. And then this would be rotating or something. I don't know. This is for later. But yeah, these are my general thoughts on the timing. All right, I hope that helps. Thanks. All right, there's an email you can sign up, you can start whenever you want, you can submit whatever you want, you get 16 submissions. Either way, a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you.


Hi everybody, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a great break here 2019 2020 upper deck the cup hockey Six-Box random team break number one. It's a full case right here. Very big. Thanks to everybody who bought spots straight up Thank you and congrats again to the winners. Thanks for taking a shot at those filler breaks. Thanks for taking the risk appreciate it So that's 31 spots total there all 31 teams are in and And let's roll it and randomize it six and a four ten times for names and teams a lot of great stuff here ladies and gentlemen So let's do it. Let's do the randomizer six and a four ten times one two three 10th and final time Shawn down to David Now let's match up with the team six and a four ten times one two and then four more times seven eight nine and 10th and final time After ten we got the Buffalo Sabres down to the Florida Panthers Sean O'Leary Buffalo Buffalo Sabres Sean Maddock with the Toronto Maple Leaf Steven with the Blackhawks Kevin with the Hurricanes PJ with the Devils Daniel with the Coyotes Sean Oh with the Flames PJ with the King Steve with the Sharks David with the Ducks Sean Oh with the Jets David with the Predators PJ with the Wild Fred with the Golden Knights Sean Oh with the Red Wings Graham with the Oilers Matthew Stubblefield Boston Bruins David Big boys Delos and with the Av Steven George Blues Jeremy with the Canadians Daniel Katz with the Lightning Sean Oh with the Dallas Stars with a spot that he won The Blue Jackets with a spot he bought straight up PJ with the Rangers and Penguins Graham with the Islander Steve Birch with the Caps Jeremy with the Canucks Clyde with the Ottawa Senators Daniel Katz with the Flyers and David Nadler with the Florida Panthers We're gonna sort by team name here alphabetically A through Z We're gonna pause the video when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break stick around BRB All right. Welcome back everybody No deals were done. That's all good here in a 2019-2020 upper deck the Cup Hockey six-box Ram team break number one on Tuesday the 20th 2021 The day in which the Milwaukee Bucks Beat the Suns to become world champions All right, there's the Cup Hockey right there 2019-2020 edition. Good luck everybody. There you go. Good luck Sean will be here tomorrow Jake. He was on Instagram over the weekend too. What if there's like no tin in here? It's just rocks. All right Lot of layers here, there's the box. There's the tin. There's the other box more shrink wrap And we'll use this blank card to slow play the hits a little bit And we're gonna start off with Conor McDavid I've heard of him 125 out of two four nine Edmonton that's gonna be four gram Yeah, the tins are nice this year or this particular year Add a little more a little more color on it. There's Ryan Kufner 210 out of 249 That's for Detroit That's gonna go to Sean. Oh with a spot that he won Joe Christian what's going on? No, Joe. I don't think Joe P. He's gonna be in the chat. It's probably Probably drowning in sorrow There's Adam Boquist 10 out of 24 bit of the Blackhawks logo there. That's gonna be for Stephen George in Chicago Things are going great Jake. I'm doing a lot of breaks Hopefully pull some monsters out of here 88 out of 99 Jake Wallman nice patch nice autograph For the blues Steven George with st. Louis We got a Ron Hextal brilliance gold autograph. That's pretty cool I like the logo back there the autograph over the logo That's Daniel Katz With uh with the Philadelphia Flyers it's with a spot that he won in the filler break It's pretty sharp and we got a plate Kapo Kako One of one for the Rangers He's pretty good, right? Eventually supposed to be pretty good. Is he good? PJ with the Rangers out of fives and under get the train whistle All aboard the big hit express Next one Here's a great one Wayne Gretzky 219 out of 249 Edmonton edition Going to Graham and the Oilers Nice patch nice autograph to 249 Joachim Blickfield San Jose Steve Birch won that spot got randomized the sharks gets this rookie auto patch 10 out of 36 Guillermis Brevois for Vancouver PJ looking for booklets in this Yeah, book will be pretty cool to find in here It's for Jeremy and the Canucks We got seven out of eight Sam Reinhart Buffalo Sean O'Leary with the Buffalo Sabres Gets the patch auto Got a brilliance autograph Morgan Frost another one for the Flyers another brilliant gold ink autograph for Daniel Katz and the last one here is a plate and autograph Adam Boquist Nice That's for Stephen George and the Chicago Blackhawks. He bought that spot straight up All aboard the big hit express Third box Good hustle Cody Belanger another one-of-one plate on the bottom. Let's see if that's autographed or not. All right. Good luck There's Nikita Kutra off to 249 for Tampa Bay Daniel Katz Cody Glass 93 out of 99 Nice two color patch and rookie Going to the Golden Knights It's Fred with Vegas 77 out of 99 Oliver Walsram Three color patch and autograph.  This is not this is actually not not as bad as it seems That's for the Islanders Graham I've got a bigger problem with like When like when wrappers are like kind of fall apart in my hands as I'm trying to rip those open This isn't so bad. Oh Victor Olafson, especially knowing what good hits inside are inside here It's definitely worth the squeeze Nice blue ink auto for Sean Oh and the Buffalo Sabres Buffalo Cup quads 12 out of 24. They're all sharks Logan could tour this thing and say all these names Logan could tour Thomas hurdle Timo Meyer and Eric Carlson. All right. Those names are kind of easy for me. Anyway, easier Steve Birch with the sharks and we've got a Veal Vilae Heinola and that is for Winnipeg and that'll go to Sean Oh and the Jets Sean All aboard the Big Head Express But wait, there's more we've got the other half here. Good luck out of 249 Nikita Kutcher off Tampa Bay Daniel Katz Andrew peak 235 out of 249 For Columbus, it'll be for Sean O'Leary bought that spot straight up Overshadow Patch and autograph. It's a neat design Tom Wilson one out of 25 blue ink autograph for the capitals Steve Birch caps Another brilliant autograph. That's Connor McDavid. I've heard of him Gold ink autograph for the Oilers Graham Foot Won that spot in one of our filler breaks got randomized the Edmonton Oilers and gets a Connor McDavid brilliance gold ink autograph right over that Oilers foil seal a couple more here quad relic Dylan Larkin 22 out of 49 from Detroit to me for Sean O'Leary you know with a With ESPN getting the getting the NHL back Broadcasting the angel again, that's gonna be I think that's gonna be hashtag good for the hobby And there's Eric Branstrom 12 out of 249 for Ottawa Clyde That's gonna help the profile of guys like Connor McDavid who are already pretty popular in the hobby You know now imagine when more casual hockey fans and sports card collectors Start to discover Connor McDavid nice hit It's gone there you go Chris Taylor Six five Dodgers or six five Giants, but they cut the lead Dodgers cut the lead the one six inning a lot of time left There's Graham. Congrats on that Connor McDavid. All right two boxes to go. Good luck everybody so far so good There's Jack Eichel 231 out of 249 Buffalo It's for Sean. Oh to Tonka to Tonka Cubs were down six one came back to win seven six so the Dodgers can do it. Yeah, you would think so Were the Cubs playing one of the best teams in baseball though? This is a little bit tougher. I think There's Carson Coolman two-color patch and autograph 13 out of 249 Boston Bruins tried to trade couldn't trade mojo for Matthew Stubblefield Matthew, I don't know if this guy is good or not, but hopefully you know endorsement relics and autograph Carter Hart 34 out of 50 Another flyer for Daniel Katz Fred what's going on? I was kind of surprised at what Cody glass RPAs are going for thanks for the hit. No worries Yeah, I want to say and again I'm not super knowledgeable about hockey, but every time I do it and I pull a Cody glass The person who has the Golden Knights always seem to be excited about it. So I'm glad that that you are happy There's Rasmus Sendeen 23 out of 75 for Toronto Sean M with the Maple Leafs We got two out of three cup series premium materials. They're all lightning Stomp goes Kutcher off point pallet headman and Vasilevsky champions nice one for Tampa Bay. That'll be for Daniel Katz The last one here is Nick Suzuki 10 out of 249. That's for Montreal Jeremy Merle with the Canadians Last box good luck. Nice Matt, baby. I single keep it going. It's all with two outs last box. Good luck David David is nervous Hopefully we can get at least something here big boys LL 7. All right. Good luck to everybody and Artemis panorin 136 out of 249 for the Rangers PJ with the Rangers max just got under it. There's e2 Lou Starr Lou Starran and Lou Starran and go with that 135 out of 249 For Carolina. That's Kevin with the Hurricanes Rock you like a hurricane No PJ You'll you'll you'll be able to tell the booklets No, no booklet in this You got to work on your your booklet I But usually be able to tell because you'll see like black borders beneath there And you'll obviously see the spine of the booklet back there as well We got rats. Yeah, Rasmus Sandin 12 out of 24 Make sure you're watching on 720p PJ sometimes YouTube will kick your video quality down for just no good reason I'm sure there is a reason but you can always up your quality ladies and gentlemen Tampa Bay Daniel Katz Next is Daniel Sadeen for the Canucks three out of 22 nice big bold color-coded blue ink autograph For Jeremy Merle and Vancouver. All right a couple more. These might just be relics Let's see. Yeah, this one's a Capococo relic 43 out of 99 Rookie foundations quad relic for the Rangers PJ with New York and the last one is gonna be oh When autograph we got a plate auto Buffalo Casey Middlestatt one-of-one plate and Autograph For Sean O'Leary who won that spot in a filler break got randomized the buffalo sabers and gets this one-of-one Auto all aboard the big hit express Thank you ladies and gentlemen what a really what a great break appreciate everybody watching 2019 The Cup Hockey full case break. I'm Joe for Jasper's case breaks calm. Thanks for watching Thanks for breaking with us, and I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


All right. Good afternoon, everyone, and it's good to see so many of you on this call. Thank you, ARDC for inviting me to talk a bit about AAF and ORCID and the things that do. So for those of you who don't know, my name is Melroy, work at the AAF. One of the things that I look after at the AAF is the Australian ORCID Consortium and some of the other things I'm working on is looking at linkages between persistent identifiers like ORCIDs, DOIs, some of the things that Natasha and Siobhan have mentioned in their presentation. So I'll get to that. But at the AAF, what AAF actually does is it enables seamless identity and access for the Australian research and education sector. So for those of you who at any point in time have access to various resources like publications or data sets or even research infrastructure services like CloudStore using your institutional username or password, effectively you're using federated identity or you're using it's possible because of the Australian access federation or the federation in general. Now, why would you want to use an identity federation? Why exactly is it needed? So researchers need access to data, they need access to infrastructure, they need access to funding. Organizations on the other hand want to ensure that they know what sort of resources researchers are accessing, are they accessing certain publications, are they accessing certain facilities and the idea behind that is that then they can get a much better idea about whether to invest more in keeping those facilities if enough use isn't being seen then could they move that investment onto something else that is seeing greater use. So what the identity federation needs does is that it enables a more interconnected, efficient and secure research and education system for Australia but also it helps researchers, teachers and students to collaborate with their peers so they can be national collaborations so between universities in Australia it could be international collaborations, universities or organizations abroad, industry partners and even the government. It also allows researchers to deliver world-class research outcomes because with the federation what it does is it provides researchers with access to world-class research infrastructures then there is access as in the trust and identity framework used by the federation allows them to meet their research needs they can use just one username and password and what they focus on mostly is working on their research not the IT side of things or the administrative side of things which is what is important to them. So and why do you need the identity federation because you want to provide your researchers with secure access to research if you think of data as the new oil user accounts get access to systems and system access provides access to the data but cyber criminals want access to user accounts now if you're using one username and password which is secure which is trusted your institution has given it to you after verifying your identity it means that it's highly assured and quite secure so what that means is you do then have secure access to research infrastructure. So and how does the Australian Federation help what it does is as I mentioned it allows researchers to use their institutional username and password and they can access shared resources and services nationally as well as internationally and they don't have to remember multiple usernames or multiple passwords right and the AEF also has over 100 organizations that are members of the AEF so this includes all the Australian universities CSIRO New South Wales Health we've got some medical research institutes as well as the Australian State of Marine Sciences and we also have 300 services that are part of the Federation which means and there's also global collaborations to over 270 plus international research services that that happens through EDGE again which is another service that the AEF provides so that brings me to ORCID as Natasha mentioned about persistent identifiers ORCID is a persistent identifier for researchers it's unique it's persistent it's community driven and it's a not-for-profit and ORCID stands for open researcher and contributor ID what that means is it allows for researchers to disambiguate themselves so name disambiguation in research is quite hard and was quite hard before ORCID because you could have a lot of John Smiths but you wouldn't know which John Smith to cite as part of your paper especially if you had three or four of them working in the same field what an ORCID ID does is because it would be unique for each John Smith you would then be able to attribute and cite their work correctly and ORCID's vision is that they think there should be a world where everyone who participates in research or any sort of scholarship activity they need to be connected to their contributions across time across discipline as well as borders so it doesn't mean it doesn't mean that just because you work at one university and then you decide to change organizations you lose apps you lose whatever you've done previously or because you decide you want to change your name doesn't mean that everything you've done under your former name you lose access to that or you no longer get attributed for it because research is an ongoing thing it's continuous development and you should be able to get you should be able to be recognized for all your contributions that you've made now about the Australian ORCID Consortium it is a national ORCID community it was launched in 2016 what you see over here is the timeline from when it was launched to about 2021 in 2016 at the end of 2016 52 percent of our members had integrated with ORCID at the end of 2020 it's now 83 percent of our members have integrated and the consortium started off with 40 members and in 2020 at the end of 2020 and even in 2021 we've got 42 members now who are Australian ORCID Consortium members right so since the launch of the consortium Australian ORCID IDs have been constantly increasing as you can see from this graph at this stage as of 1st January 2021 more than 152,000 ORCID IDs were registered to Australian email addresses but importantly also 83 percent of our consortium members have integrated with ORCID and it's quite quite varied in terms of the integration so about 18 of it have been custom or bespoke integrations 27 of them have gone with a vendor of some sort and we've got 35 members who've done an ORCID integration but there are 45 total integrations which means that some members have done multiple ORCID integrations so so how do you enable seamless authentication and track all this scholarly research and the contributions that researchers make you start off with you get researchers to sign in using their institutional credentials put in their username put in their password login they get access to that resource right but more importantly as an organization you need to do an ORCID integration you need to be able to collect authenticated ORCID IDs once you've done that what you'd want to do is advertise these collected and authenticated ORCID IDs as an attribute to the federation now within the federation what we have is we have an attribute that is specific to ORCID it's called edu person ORCID attribute and what that means is as Shivon was referencing earlier is that using the edu person ORCID attribute as an identifier when you are working on various projects it means that as a researcher if you move from one university to another university or one organization to another organization even though your username and password may change if access to that particular research resource is based on the edu person ORCID attribute it would just be seamless so even if you change organizations you'll still have access to it and then what we also need to do is we need to get services and infrastructure providers to use the ORCID attribute from the federation so it's not just organizations doing the ORCID integrations and exposing it to the federation but we also need to get services using this particular attribute now why would you want to do this right most importantly you want to do it for transparency you want to make sure that access to particular research resources is authenticated there is a high level of assurance associated with it and more importantly is you want to be able to disambiguate between researchers who are accessing those resources right you want to also look at it to see who is this access to what service so that you can then establish research provenance you can look at reproducibility and the confidence that then comes from this level of assurance means that researchers will get acknowledged for their contributions to the scholarly body of knowledge next thing is comprehensive this right there is a lot of information about researchers who've received grants who've used research facilities written publications and I employed by organizations all this information is present but might not necessarily be interconnected having seamless access and using the same username and password across all services across the board and using persistent identifiers like ORCIDs or DOIs what it does is it allows for interconnectivity between various entities like your research organizations between infrastructure providers as well as funding agencies and publishers then everybody's favorite is reporting right however to be able to confidently report on usage or on anything what you need to do is you need to be able to trust the data that you have and data that comes from sources of truth for example if it's an organization that employs a researcher having that affiliation information asserted by the organization is important you can be fairly confident that it is the right information right another things that you can another sort of things that you can report on is the proportion of research conducted by Australian researchers you can look at how much research has been conducted by international researchers there's also a possibility of looking at how much research that was done is rated at world class or above and how much of that actually use Australian research infrastructures and you can even look at collaborations between different organizations right now this over here what you see is an example of a collaboration network that I did with Amir on looking at the amount of collaborations that various countries and organizations did with regards to COVID-19 and what this shows is that we found out that by December 2020 40 around 47,000 organizations were collaborating with each other if we look when we looked at December 2009 it was 1500 and December 2019 that was about 3000 odd organizations that were collaborating so what you can see is that you can this was possible only because there were ORCID IDs there were DOIs associated with each other they were all linked together which then allowed us to infer collaborations between different organizations now any questions great thank you Melroy there were some questions there in the chat can you see the chat Melroy because yes I can see them now okay great do you want to go ahead sure we're starting from a research work done in a private Australian organization doing a research project that is registered with OZ industry can have access to AAF access IDs or get an ORCID ID or is it only for universities it is open for any it's open to any organization so at the AAF we've got subscribers that are part of the Australian research sector that are part of the government and even independent organizations so even commercial organizations so they don't have to be only related to they don't have to only be a university it could be any of those organizations and that shouldn't be a problem they should be able to use it what we get them to do is organizations that have a single username and password or use the institutional username and password if they want to access multiple services they can join the AAF and we can help facilitate


Hey everyone welcome to our recap for our trades for the month of May. Let's start with our income trades Not a great month had quite a few long Directional positions that kind of got smoked out in the downturn. In fact, let me bring up the platform I'll show you what I'm talking about. So this is the month of May basically, you know This is the Nasdaq so huge down moves and we got caught in you know Quite a few we had a one in square one in Facebook one in Google one in zoom By do that one was actually a winner. So we got smoked out of those So that that really is the essence of our our month right there where we got smoked out of those now keep in mind We also are carrying some short Delta positions in our portfolio So net net for the month of May our overall account our actual P&L on our portfolio was was down about just a couple hundred bucks But on the closed trades down over there, you know over 3400 So not a great trade there You can see we closed out a strangle in SMH for plus 2400 and then some other nice winners as well But those really that that block of long trades that we kind of got smoked out of is what killed us on the income trades on Our closed trades for the month of Actually, that should say May says April but change that to May and then on the day trades one of our best Trading months in quite some time over 16,000 in profits on our day trades. So we have a mighty 90s strategy We booked over $7,500 on those on 25 trades on our pairs trades We booked almost 2600 and then on our runner strategy. We booked over 6,500 so total profit for the month of May on our day trades a little over 16,000 so good stuff there if you want to follow us along on any page on our website You can just click on products and this will bring you to this page We have a couple different membership options one is day trading only so if you only want to do the day trading We're getting in and out of these trades. We're not holding any positions overnight You know we're in some positions for just a matter of minutes We stream live and call these trades out in real time. So that's the day trading It's just 59 bucks a month if you want to do our income trades And this includes all 12 of our master strategy courses for each strategy Including our proprietary Strategies like the iron duck and weekly double calendar and red and some of these others That's all included here as well as some of your core strategies like iron condors calendar spreads short strangles all those kind of core strategies and these are alerts delivered via text message and email and Then if you want to do both We have you can just pay annually and huge get huge savings there And that includes both the income with the alerts and the strategy courses as well as the day trading With access to the live stream room. So if you guys have any questions, let me know Otherwise we will see you in the community talk to you then


My name is Sergeant Dresden Robinson and this is Staff Sergeant Link. Two events that we did today was military horsemanship and military jumping. So military horsemanship is just a series of patterns that the judges would like to see. They like to see you control your horse and be able to maneuver your horse and finesse your horse and just show that you and your horse are in sync and that you guys are on the same page. So jumping is a jump course basically. So they set up some jumping poles and you have to still show that finesse and that capability of maneuvering your horse while jumping obstacles now. So it just takes it up a little bit more. I'm so proud of all the guys. They did a great today. It was just a good time to be out there. My name is Sergeant Vincent Aquino and this is Sergeant Major Tank. So today we did pistols, sabers, and combat horse movement. Pistols, we have about six standing targets whether they're onside or offside. And then we have a couple of jumps also in there. It's just around the arena controlled. Favors is very exciting. It's a bigger course to me. You've got more jumps. You've got on-sides, off-sides. You've got really challenges how you can steer your horse with one hand also while controlling. Kind of an odd weapon in the other hand. Combat horsemanship, it comes down to how precise you can make everything look, how professional you are in the military bearing.  And that just keeps the tradition alive, the historical value. It was a fair run for myself and Tank and we're both proud of how we ended the day.


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I was spending my order window closes Saturday night at 8 p.m. And I would be on the computer till midnight or 1 a.m. Calculating. We've had some chats that late. And that was normal for a year and a half. And then, yeah, it was really crazy. And so now it's gotten down to where it's about an hour of time with the system built. And I want to emphasize, when she talks about doing all this math, we're not talking about doing this for like 10 meals.


Hey guys, welcome to our panel session. Oh, 10 seconds. The minute was longer than I thought it was. Eight, seven, six, nine, eight. Hey everybody, welcome to our panel session. Today we are here to talk about OPI, the Open Programmable Infrastructure Project. On Tuesday of this week we launched this as part of the Linux Foundation. So it's the newest project within the Linux Foundation. But a bunch of us have been working on this for a while trying to get it to this point. So what is OPI? Just at a very brief high level, so in case anybody isn't aware. OPI is about creating a common set of frameworks and interfaces and software around IPUs and DPUs, right? In order to be able to grow this ecosystem, we really believe that some pieces of this need to be common and down in a more standard way. We have a bunch of different member companies who have joined. A lot of them are represented here, but there's even more. And then a whole bunch of technical contributors as well. So there are different ways to join the project. We'll talk about that later, but let's just start with who all is here. Yes, thanks. So I'm Jan Fischer, I'm with Red Hat and I've been with Red Hat for about 10 years. This is my first open source project that I'm participating in and kind of working on the formational phases. I lead a couple of work groups within the project. Governance and vision goals. So if you have any questions later on, feel free to reach out. Hi, I'm Venkat Pulera, Chief of Technology at Keysight. From Keysight, we are really excited about OPI because we want to contribute testing, validation, measurement solutions and frameworks for OPI and we can talk more details as we go. And Chris Murphy, I work for Red Hat. I'm in emerging tech in the CTO office. And yeah, I lead, do I lead any groups? Oh, I lead the orientation group at this point and participate in a lot of the high level organization stuff across the project. Hi, my name is Garth Frige, I'm with NVIDIA and I'm a DPU segment lead for the Americas. And man, we're excited about OPI. Basically because we're excited about DPUs. When we think about DPUs, we think about this opportunity for us to sort of revolutionize the data center architecture with these domain-specific processing elements. It started with the GPU, now it's the DPU, and it was the processor optimized for data movement. And if OPI can give us an opportunity to accelerate the adoption and deployment of DPUs in data center, we're all for it. Hi, I'm on to our distinguished engineer for Marvell, specifically the processor BU business unit focusing on DPU. And we want to help work in the ecosystem and build the provisioning life cycle of the infrastructure, the firmware, as well as the offloaded functionality that will run on the DPU. Okay, so this is not a formal session. We're not going to show any slides. So this is here just for the backdrop. This is our website, newly stood up. So I think we just want to open this for questions. We're here to help you understand more either on the technical or on the governance side of why we joined the Linux Foundation. Think about a question or two for us. And while you do so, I may put Chris in the hot seat because she was very modest about her role in the project. She's the brain trust behind the project. She is the one who started it. And I want her to maybe comment a little bit about what prompted you and how that all began. Okay, fine, yeah. I'm not the only brain trust, by the way. It wasn't just me, but it started with a small number of companies and just some thought leaders where we were looking at the amazing hardware in what the vendors were creating in this space. And we thought, wow, there's a lot of potential here. But it's very hard for a platform for an OS for a system OEM to think about having to do something for this space in five or six or seven different ways. That's really not sustainable. Some of the interfaces need to be common in order for the software ecosystem to really be able to handle all of these different solutions. But yet we still understand that each adapter vendor is going to have their own special sauce, their own different accelerators and hardware capabilities. So we really just wanted to create a couple of different layers. One of them being on the provisioning and life cycle management. A lot of that doesn't necessarily add value if we do it different ways. If we can be common, then it makes it easier for users. It makes it easier for the OS vendors. It makes it easier for the system OEMs to know how to integrate these adapters into their systems and into their existing processes. So that's one area where we really feel commonality will help us and be able to make it less confusing and difficult for users. And another layer is an API layer between the applications and the hardware. One reason we want that is because we don't want customers or application vendors to feel like if they invest in here they're only investing in one hardware solution and they're locked into that. We know things are going to change over time. We know a lot of customers aren't going to invest in something if they're locked in. They want options. So if we create a common set of APIs for the pieces that can be common, some pieces won't be, we understand that, but some will be. And if we can create that common, then the investment that is unique for each vendor's solution from the application side is less and allows more portability and also allows the vendors to focus on their special sauce. So that was really the vision at the beginning. We've obviously convinced a lot of others that this is a good vision and now we're at the point where we want to go and make it more real. But making it real doesn't mean reinventing everything. We truly believe that there's a lot of existing open source and other projects out there that we want to reuse. Because while a DPU is a separate subsystem, it has its own CPU, it has its own resources, it has a lot of the same needs that the whole system CPU and all that that we've been working on for years and years and years. So we do want to engage with other communities and other projects and then provide the glue of how they might work together for a DPU in a best practice scenario and be able to test them together and provide a platform where you can say, on this piece of hardware and this piece of hardware, we've tested these pieces together, we've added this layer that's the glue to glue them together and now you have a full solution that we can say this will work if you stand it up. As part of that, you know, we're evaluating different other projects that we're working with. And, yeah, I just wanted to ask, you know, what other communities are, you know, our panelists thinking of that, that we might interact with and we might look at trying to develop a relationship and or include into the project? If I can jump in on that. So do you have a question? Oh, sorry. Mike? Okay. All right. So I think you answered my question, in a dumb way, just to make sure we clarified the question or what's going to happen here. Is this a, an open source reference? Or is it a standards building exercise? We are not a standards body. We do not want to be IEEE. And we also realize that if we tried to do that, maybe in six years we might have something. So, when we say standard, we don't mean standards in the formal, we're creating a standard, but more in the sense of common, you know, and reference architecture point of view. So absolutely, that's a great question and great clarification. We're not trying to create a signed off standard, but more a common platform and way of doing things. And we also understand that one of the beauties of doing this in open source is if we provide a reference platform, we will be able to take our reference platform. And if there are pieces then you want to change and tweak, you can do that, right? It's just a common base to start with that'll allow the ecosystem to grow and then people can focus just on the piece that they want to differentiate on or, you know, switch out and make different. So if I can jump in on that. I am also the rep, the representative from Marvell for one of them, for ORAN, Open Radio Access Network Alliance, as well as the Spiffy Spire CNCF project for workload and node attestation. And I've been running between these organization meetings for the last two months or so. And I'm trying to push, for example, OPI should look at Spiffy and Spire for node and workload attestation. ORAN is already interested in OPI and the DPU in their radio unit, distributed unit and the whole security layer. And so, you know, we are trying to serve as the foundation but not necessarily a full SDO, if that helps. Yeah, so Anto actually brought up a good point here. I do, if I may, I want to do a little quick show of hands to just understand something brought you in into this room today. So we're trying to understand what you guys do and what you may be more interested in. So how many folks here work for vendors? Hardware? Software? Okay. How many folks here would consider themselves user customers of potentially of this project? Okay. A couple of folks. And how many people are associated with other open source projects on the Linux foundations or elsewhere? Okay. Quite a few folks.  Here's a question in the audience. Thanks, John. I wanted to ask how do you all envision end users participating in this community? I assume that that's an important goal. But if I'm someone who wants to use DPUs or a set of DPUs, what's in it for me to get involved with this? Great question. Jumping off SDK. We have an SDK that you can leverage. And I'm talking to my boss later today about possibly building layers on top of that to support some of the application. Because the SDK is more about system and firmware. And now if you're going up to layer 4 to layer 7 networking, for example, or even all the way to layer 7 where specifically inspired play, we can help with extensions or some form of. And I'll pass it to my colleague who can talk about Doka.  Because you want to invest in that application development and you want that application to be portable across DPU vendors. Some of our customers want that. Some of them don't. We have other tools for that. But for me, from an end user perspective, I mean that's the real value. And what we're doing is we're pushing in the lower level drivers where we're opening up the APIs associated with our SDK called Doka. And we're pushing these in to OPI. You can kind of create a common API shim layer so that you can develop those applications and interface in a common way across DPU vendors. And I think that's the real value of our perspective. A couple of more things. When you want to get involved, just looking at the title itself you could have seen, it's fairly broad. And then we're not expecting everyone to be a C programmer or whatever. C++, Python, whatever else to come in and contribute. You could have use cases. You could be an end customer. So we do encourage, we do want you to come in and just give us the problem and say, hey, solve this problem.  It could be at that high level. I just throw a problem. Or you could come down and say, I can help you look at multiple different ways of implementing a functionality. Each vendor does it differently. And I am an expert in APIs or interfaces and things like that. And how do we bridge the common interface that we want to use? Or you may be some expert in storage and you are really the guru in how to create that interface. So you could be coming and helping us with implementations. I think we have a broad set of requirement, a bunch of groups that are, it's not a monolithic thing. We have groups that meet and tackle different problems. So please come look at the website . To add to the doka and the common shim layer in Oran, we are looking at something called hardware abstraction manager with the accelerator abstraction layer which is essentially Oran shim. So we can work on that. End user are already engaged. They want to, you know, where Oran is going full forward. So the other application area is automotive. I have done some abstract submission for security on DPU inside the Zono gateway and the central gateway to the far edge. So there are many, many ways to get engaged. It depends on what your project is going to look like. We have a very excellent track record working with customer to make sure that your projects are successful. And we do specifically have a use cases subgroup already and we would love more customer input to that. We already have some that are engaged in saying these are the use cases where we want to start. So we have a lot of work to be focusing on and it's a huge ocean to boil. So having customers show up and say this is what we're most interested in as a starting point, that's a really, really important input for us. So definitely encourage customers to join us for that. This is probably a good segue also to talk about how you can engage with us and what you can do. We do have a GitHub setup. It does have representation of all of our working groups. You could explore that. You could see where you could contribute. There are names of the leaders of the groups. They are listed. The ways to contact them and short description of the work group that exists. This is absolutely not too late to join the project. We just went through the formation phase as Linux foundation calls it. We became a part of the Linux foundation. There are ways to get included and there are ways to influence this project. Whether you want to do that as a part of governance board and with a premium membership or whatever. I think today we definitely looking to see who can join our group and represent other categories of interested users like you heard today from various different verticals, automotive, edge networking, IOT, etc. I think we definitely looking to have the engagement across the board. Starting from the technical working group that you see in general or on the more of an outreach and origination of the project side. Making sure that the word of this project gets spread around. I think that's probably a good time to see if there's any other questions. Any questions online by chance? Okay. Well, speaking of the use case subgroup, there's a POC subgroup and just maybe to give you guys some ideas of this is all very nascent, but there's one right now on distributed next generation firewalls. So if you're interested in cybersecurity, how DPUs can help kind of enhance security of data center infrastructure, this is a great POC group to join. The goal is I believe to have some of the best practices in the world. So one other way, I mean you may be like some of you're already part of other Linux foundation projects and other open source projects out there. So one way you could help is also to kind of help us bridge with some of the existing work out there. You see something that overlaps that we could use. By no means we think that we could use that, right? And then each of us are also as representing our companies we are part of other groups, right? And we are actively trying to engage with them and bring them on board and interface with them and I can talk about a couple of them, right? So if you are in the sonic sci ecosystem, which again if you've seen Google, Facebook and a lot of others have joined it, right? And then there's a lot more work going on even at the sonic. Sonic has just moved to Linux foundation. That's going to make it even more appealing to a lot of us, right? And then one of the DPU projects under sonic that's happening is called Dash, which is disaggregated distributed API, too many acronyms, right? How do we take DPUs and use it in a specific use case, which is like an appliance form factor or might become a smart dog. So there's some good work going on there. Keysight is part of that, we are providing a testing framework there and some of that learning we want to bring it here. Like that you may be part of other groups, we want you to bring that and then we would like to use that to kind of get ahead, get fast, otherwise like you said Chris will take seven years to come up and we want it to be seven months, right? And there are other groups like PNA, because one of the things we're talking about is programmability. On the data plane side, on the switching side there is P4, EBPF, there's a lot of programmability work going on, so we're also engaging with the P4 as well as PNA, which is programmable NIC architecture. So there's a NIC subgroup under P4 we want to engage. We're already engaging, that's the kind of work that we want to bring in. One more work that is happening under OCP is more like a functional acceleration, there is an OCP NIC group I think it just got launched. I think I see good overlap which is good. At the same time I think if you see OPA has a little more programmability to it because DPUs are bringing this new functionality, statefulness, lots of flows and things like that. So there's some more work we can really work with them, they are looking at functional offloads, anything that happens here we would like to engage. If you're part of that group please talk to us otherwise, we are actively going engaging. There's one more I have seen, sorry I'm going off, so if stop me when you have a question. Because there's lots of groups, OPIE is covering a broad set of infrastructure, we would like it to be that way. While we'll focus on specific use cases, the more flexible ones. The last one and I'll stop after that is there's something called OpenSnappy I think they are looking at maybe I may be mischaracterizing so correct me if somebody knows more about it, it's more of how do you do workload placement? Because once you have this broad set of programmable functionality you'll have like a hybrid distributed abilities. So how do you kind of do it? So there are looking at some very good work happening there and that will be very useful for us and hopefully we'll engage with them this is more about work placement that suits the infrastructure. And it becomes more complicated because programmable it becomes what you want it to be it takes the problem to the next level. So we have some serious challenges and problems we need to solve. At the same time we can definitely learn and use some of these other groups. Just one more project I want to pitch for is OpenTelemetry. So far we have decided to settle on OpenTelemetry as our way to collect metrics and allow a consumer of those metrics to be able to get into the DPU data. So I want to pitch that because the OpenTelemetry people were very interested in doing this project on Monday when I mentioned the OPI was looking to adopt Hotel. So maybe this is a good segue to I don't know how closely you were watching the announcement or following the announcement. Maybe we just do a quick recap of who actually joined and who are interested parties that for a variety of reasons that has nothing to do with the DPU but they will be joining later. So the founding members are Morville, NVIDIA, Red Hat, Keysight, Intel, Dell, and Tencent. Tencent didn't make it through their PR and legal approval so they were not in the press release but they have since already committed to the Linux foundation. We also have definitively heard from AMD and in the making so I can comment when and how they will be joining. But if you go and look at the list of committees on the Github and look at the proceedings of our inaugural event that was basically a virtual event where we all got together and listened to why people would be interested in joining the project or why this project as they would need it, you could get there by going into about on the website and there is a video recording and you can see that we actually interacted and tried to pull the community in so we do have interest from Google to participate we have Verizon, Comcast actually joining various groups that we have we have representatives from Canonical SUSE and a couple of folks from VMware so this is if not immediately this is going to be a pretty good representative body of who is who in the industry from the vendor standpoint and we also certainly hope that customers will see through and definitely will jump on board and help us to make this a truly open community. And to add to that the launch on Tuesday if you're wondering conflicting schedule but Dell and F5 were there so they are founding members as well as heavily involved. That might be I forgot about F5 but they were one of the first people to actually join the project and they were working very closely. There was a couple of companies at the beginning that we were talking F5 was one of them. Distribute a firewall and DPU. Okay so the question is somebody said this is not FPGA FPGA so I'll answer and you can chime in but a while back we had servers we have hardware which is CPU OS and then you have applications and then some things people wanted to accelerate so they started putting things into the NICS called functional NICS and they became smart NICS where they started putting FPGIS so that you can program it and then you can change what you want to do the functionality but what we have evolved to is something called DPU based NICS and that's what we are talking about and maybe I should let the vendors really do to give talk more about it but as a user this is exciting because there's a new functionality that is coming into picture which is a lot of state you can track lots of flows and you could do things that we used to do as part of switches and routers that used to do like flow based either fire walling or load balancing WCCP if anyone is old enough to know and work on it so these kinds of things used to be part of the routers and switches and they went away because of the statefulness and the speeds and feeds so that level of functionality is coming back into the IPUs and DPUs and maybe I should maybe 20 years in Cisco sorry for that what is an FPGA this kind of gets into the semantics of what is a DPU how do you differentiate a DPU from a smartNIC and a smartNIC from a standardNIC and really we may even have differing opinions on that from our perspective we're talking about smartNICs introduce this idea of an accelerated data path so we're accelerating those packet processing sort of tasks that are super heavy on the CPU but the control path still remains on the x86 host so there's still the dependency to the host now with a DPU whether you're enabling it with ARM cores whether you're enabling it with an FPGA or whatever the idea is that you're able to accelerate the data path you're able to offload the control path create some independence from the tenant domain versus the infrastructure domain and by doing so you end up actually being able to air gap you're airgapping your tenant domain from your infrastructure domain and so you're bringing enhanced security so somebody's DPU could be based on an FPGA somebody's DPU can be based on ARM cores somebody's DPU can be based on whatever processing element they may use the idea is offload, accelerate, isolate and you can have this sort of independence from host that's our perspective and one of the early in the project and one of the first groups that we formed was the minimum requirements groups and that group was sole purpose of this group was to define what are we going to consider DPU and IPU and when we got to a point where enough folks were participating one thing emerged for sure and Garz highlighted it it's the independent processor that is separate airgapped or there's a trust line or the host machine and the actual DPU and IPU how that core is implemented to me it's just a technical detail it could be a soft core in FPGA it could be any particular vendor implementation any ISA that you want as long as it's programmable using the parts of the OPI project and we can address that through the APIs actually I was going to say something to this first is I was going to say the separation of concern and the off load of the certain control plane and data plane functions play very nicely into some of the Red Hat OpenShift WinRiver Cloud Platform VMware Telco and Cloud Automation because all of those services and customers have the concept of tenants versus core versus infrastructure so I think I'll let Chris I can come on to that in a second but back to the original question I think maybe they were getting at is this going to be code for programming FPGAs and the answer is no when you look at the title Open Programmable Infrastructure I can see how people might think this is a project for programming FPGAs and that is not what this is so to get back to there are absolutely other projects for that HUE is involved in no so if there are people who want HUE Brock from Red Hat could engage and tell you guys about that stuff as well but yes on the tenant versus infrastructure layer absolutely and the answer there for doing that and Red Hat is very much looking at cluster designs for DPUs where we have one cluster that is your tenant cluster and a separate cluster that your DPUs belong to that is your infrastructure cluster because then you can have where your admins for your infrastructure only have access to the DPU layer they don't have root level access to that tenant layer so for customers that yes even our system admins can't access stuff in there and potentially have root access to your data and vice versa if you have a tenant workload that goes rogue or somebody is able to penetrate a vulnerability somehow and get into your CPU layer they can't then broaden out to your entire cloud because they don't have access to that infrastructure layer that security air gap is so important right and we've seen so many things across the last five years where I think most of us who are in this business understand that being able to isolate in a way that even if there is a vulnerability and somebody gets in they can't get into everything is huge. So to amplify on that one of our focus internally is security especially in the area of Sbom, Gitbom and the open secure software foundation because we understand that in the past you log in, you download SDK and firmware but now it's not so much a single admin doing that or multiple admins now it's automated and it has to be verified, tested and all that so that's another area I want to bring in security and the other thing we forgot is that we have to include as the big semiconductor Intel. I mentioned Intel of course. Can I just add one and then we'll go back. It's good that we have so many names we're forgetting that I think you can see that option part of it. So going back this FPGA question I think things are going to get worse, bad news is it worse before they improve and we'll have soon chiplets where there's a bit of FPGA, a bit of, I mean it's what I hear, it's something called C of course, you put a bunch of course to do so when you say DPU, IPU there may be more terminology will come out and there could be a little more confusion. I think we are timely to really launch the OPI because no matter what you have we would like to have a common interface and it is programmable you expose your programmability and it's going to be tough. I think as an industry we'll really have a lot of difficulties at least especially when you want to develop applications on top. So it's going to get a little muddy before it gets clear. So a quick question. So I've come from, I used to work for VMware and now I work for Dell but I'm looking into Kubernetes and containers. So I see that every time there's a new abstraction layer right Kubernetes has abstraction CSI on storage side, there's of course other things and also on the networking side you have Istio, Service Smash. So how does the OPI kind of an address from that you're getting more and more abstraction you're getting pulling the storage and network functions more and more to each and every abstraction and does the OPI now you're kind of separating the whole compute infrastructure away from the whole network that's what I'm understanding you're abstracting that away. So how does that impact the overall Kubernetes ecosystem like the Service Smash, the CSI all the whole storage services things like that. I can give half of the answer and pass it to others who are experts because I was going around the exhibition hall and looking at what all is being discussed. So how does that impact the level of abstraction at the node level, somebody wants to do a cluster somebody wants to do a gateway somebody wants to do a Service Smash they're all they came into existence because they're solving some unique problem right out there. So I doubt if they will go away the layers and the sequence of layering of these solutions may not go away right and if you talk about multiple different programming infrastructure is supposed to be the solution but the layering to me adds value there's a uniquely why you need Service Smash as well as you need a gateway right so to that extent layers yes other how do we bring it together maybe others. To jump in for one of our sandboxes we have things like K3S instead of KAS and MULTUS and Calico C&I so there are things like that that we're looking to build for a customer and we're trying to figure out how we can extract some of that to contribute. So yeah I came from VMware and then before that Cisco right so this stuff is always in the back of my mind how to do. I would say that from a Kubernetes standpoint when we're talking about doing it as different clusters it's a whole server it's a whole subsystem to Kubernetes so a lot of those same things are going to exist exactly as they do up on your host CPU layer so we're not going to try to reinvent how you abstract that part we will reuse C&I we will reuse a lot of those things that exist already the abstraction part is more the how you talk between those things between a C&I or a networking storage layer and how to program the specific hardware accelerators and features within this new hardware category yeah right and so it's not recreating those wheels and reinventing those abstraction layers it's more hiding the unique hardware features where we can so that those things can interface in a consistent way across multiple vendors no I agree it's more about where the abstraction resides and how those services are presented to the tenants it's not about creating something new we have two minutes which is probably one minute okay so maybe one last question or I know Jan did pitch about how to interact with us as a community I just want to make sure that people understand yes your company can join as a paying founding member but for technical contributions there's no monetary contribution needed you know if you're a user if you're another company who is interested if you're involved with an open source community and you want to get engaged with us come we want you, we want to talk to you we have Slack, we have options if all else fails and you can't figure out how to get in contact with us hit me up on LinkedIn and I'll figure out how to get you guys well I am the orientation group so I will get you connected so we want you there there's no commitment to come and talk to us and start thinking about how we can engage so reach out we have a lot of time to have a huge influence on where we go so come and interact with us very well said and I want to thank everyone here and online for joining us thanks a lot, thanks to the panel as well


Women's History Month means a lot on a lot of different levels, academic, sports, military, things like that. It really just shows that we've always been there. There weren't just five amazing women doing things. We've been doing amazing things. The moms and the grandmas who, even if it was something little, you know, even if they were just telling their daughters, no, you can do that, that's important too. Or supporting, you know, what they do to raise the next generation to support their spouse. Like, that's invaluable. And I think that needs to be recognized as well. I was the first woman in my family to join the military and the first person in my family to join the Air Force. And now I'm starting to see the younger women in my family are now making a career path into the military. I think my mom wanted to join the military, but her family was like, no, absolutely not. You know, so I think she kind of internalized some of that and was like, you know, didn't really limit us in terms of things like that. So I think being a woman of today and paving the way, it doesn't have to be, I'm the first woman president. It could be, I'm the first woman to set new goals in my family. And I think that's going to change the world. And it'll change the world, at least for my family. So I'm pretty proud of that. Representation matters.  Because it sends you the message like, hey, I can do that. I can be there. You know, at the end of the day, it's about being someone worth looking up to.


Now, the next important point in network that we should look at is the breaches. As we talked previously that it is important to be aware. So we should be knowing that what are the kind of attacks that can happen on a network. So there are basically two types of attacks. We won't be going into the depth of each, but let's talk at the broad level. So the two types are active and passive attacks. So a passive attack is something which happens before an active attack usually. A passive attack, the objective of a passive attack is to come to know how the network looks like or what are the kind of systems that are available or say what is the operating system that you are operating right now on the systems. So from the information that is collected from a passive attack, they are able to determine on which systems they could do an active attack. What does an active attack mean? So now they can be sending some information, some scripts or certain codes to that particular system that can say, take advantage of a vulnerability and gain access to that system without proper authentication and authorization. And once you have access to that system, so once you are in the network, it becomes easier for you to penetrate into the other networks where you can take advantage of the network policy and the user policy. For example, if we were able to breach a network with the user policy of a network admin, you could access almost each and every part of company's network through that policy account. What are the type of countermeasures that can be put in place to take care of such breaches? So there are three types of countermeasures. One is called the defensive countermeasure.  Let's discuss these three types looking at a house.  But say someone has been able to open the gate or breach the gate and get into the house, then say you have put a security camera there. Now the camera is able to detect a person there and maybe send you an alert. So that is what we called a detective system. Now if you have another system which based on the detective system, the security camera here is able to say lock your doors and lock your windows. So that becomes a preventive system. So similarly in security what we have is we have defensive systems like firewalls that basically block ports that are not in use or certain type of information say certain applications like for example, in a lot of places you have certain applications that are not allowed to be used. Some social networking websites for example. So those are defensive measures that you have. Then we have detective systems. These systems do not block communication or do not but they keep watch on what kind of communication is happening and if they come to know that this communication has been tampered with or say somebody is trying to send some malicious code into the network, they can alert the network administrators about it. Now if there is a preventive system, that system can actually come in and say disconnect that communication from happening so that it can prevent certain things from going wrong on the network. Now some examples of preventing systems are intrusion prevention systems and these days intrusion prevention systems are also available as something called malware assessment systems. Now what these do is they check real time communications for signatures of malwares and viruses and if they feel that this particular communication or this particular network or say host is sending information which looks like a malware, they can block that host or say that network from communicating with our network.