Waiter. Yes, sir? I'll have some sardines and coleslaw, I think. Some sliced tomatoes with French dressing. And a cold bottle of Papst Blue Ribbon. Yes, sir. Finest beer served. Anywhere. From Hollywood, Papst Blue Ribbon. Finest beer served. Anywhere. Proudly presents... Production, The Big Clock. Director, John Ferrell. Stars, Ray Maland, Marie... Hollywood's green directors present an adventure in time. The Big Clock, starring Ray Maland and Maureen O'Sullivan. And introduced by the director of the film, Mr. John Ferrell. When a taste for high adventure is combined with a brilliant intellect, the result is likely to be the stuff that screen directors are made of. In the person of our guest director tonight, we find a sailor, a soldier of fortune, a world-renowned biographer, and the creator of such thrilling films as Two Years Before the Mast, California, and tonight's story, The Big Clock. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Ferrell. Thank you. One of the most engaging forms of fiction is that nail-biting exercise known as the thriller. And of course, the very heart of every thriller is the chase. I wanted to make The Big Clock because it revolves around the most bizarre chase I've ever encountered. Now, I think you should discover it for yourselves. The Big Clock, starring Ray Maland and Moreno Sullivan in the roles they originated. George and Georgette Stroud. But first of all, listen to the other star. The clock itself. The Big Clock. Endless, remorseless, without boundaries. It never stops, it never dies. Perhaps that's why Earl Janneth permitted his mania for clocks. Only time was greater than Janneth, the feudal baron of Janneth's publications. The dictator of a magazine empire. Powerful, brilliant, ruthless, and in love with time. That was Earl Janneth. And I was his servant, George Stroud, editor of Crime Ways Magazine. There were many magazines and many servants in the Janneth building. And while they seldom saw Janneth, they always saw his clock in the lobby. The Big Clock. My monument to time, George. Time more precious than gems, more intractable than mountains. Remember that when you see the Big Clock. The clock tower works the machinery of time, and time is working for me. Time is working for Janneth. Now see Steve Hagan, he wants to talk to you. Steve Hagan. Steve was Janneth's teeth and claws. His prime minister, his trigger man. From some journalistic gutter, Janneth had raised him to chief editor. He displayed quite an unusual talent, George. I mean your tactics in tracking down three killers in the last month. Thanks. We just think our system's a good one. Hasn't failed yet, George. Well, I just want you to know that Janneth publications values our relationship. I hope the feeling is mutual. Yeah, yeah. I'm just crazy about the company. One more thing, George.  Any special plans? Yep. My wife and I going down to West Virginia on a delayed vacation. It's only taken seven years. I see. That'll be all, George. But now... Mr. Stroud's office? Yes, just a moment. It's your wife. Oh, thanks, Miss Adams. Hello, Georgeette. Hello, darling. I have the tickets. The train leaves at 7.20. Right. Meet you at the station. George, you're sure you won't let anything happen. Now what could happen? Oh, I'm afraid of Janneth. We've made plans so many times before. And every time he's made you stay. Please, not this time. Not a chance. Who's more important? My wife or my boss? Who is, George? You, Dopey. I say goodbye. I'll meet you at 7.20. Goodbye, darling. Bye. George, yes, Steve. Sorry, George. I just talked to Mr. Janneth. He wants you to stick with the magazine for the next month. The next month? What about my vacation? Postpon it. Not a chance. Don't you like your job, George? Well, if you want to know, I don't. I'm fed up. But you won't quit. You're part of Janneth now. You like his money. You like the prestige. You'll stay. Not this time, Steve. This time, Janneth's wrong. Dead wrong. I am never wrong, George. Mr. Janneth. George, I have two matters to take up with you. One, a crimeways cover proof indicates that you ordered a green banner instead of a red one that I requested. The printer said red didn't fit the color pattern. Steve, would you please dismiss the chief printer on crimeways? All right. Now, Mr. Straut, point number two, despite the fact that you are a most excellent crime editor and a most amazing finder of missing persons, you have exactly three minutes to decide. Either you will give up your vacation temporarily or get out. I don't need three minutes. I don't need three seconds. I quit, Janneth. I quit. When I left the building, the big clock said 5.20. I had two hours before I met George at the train. I went over to the Van Barth bar for a celebration drink. And the first time in years, I felt free and clean and happy. I was through with Janneth and Steve and the whole cruel concentration camp of Janneth publications. But time was having its joke. It began with a girl at the bar, and only time knew where it would end. You're George Straut, aren't you? She was blonde, beautiful, and expensive-looking. I'm Pauline York. Bye, midrink. Why? On the strength of losing your job. I didn't lose my job. I quit. I was in Janneth's office when it happened. Hagen's intercom was turned on. Oh, so you know my deepest secrets. We have something in common now. Like what? We both hate Earl Janneth. Oh, he's been good enough. Money and apartment. But I hate him. Bartender, a drink for the lady just like mine. Yes. Do you always drink green drinks? It reminds me of green ink, and today I love green ink. Janneth hates green. He loves clocks, and he hates green. Wonder how he'd feel about a green clock. George. George, you have reason to dislike Janneth. Between us, we know a great deal about him. Enough to write his biography, George. You and I. But who'd buy it? Janneth. Uh-uh. Sorry, that's out of my line. Pardon me. Here's your drink, Miss. Fine. Just sit here. Oh! Oh, all over my dress. Yeah, use my handkerchief. Oh, I'm awfully sorry. Glass just slipped. Oh, it'll be all right. George, I'm afraid your handkerchief is soaked. I'll put it in my bag. Hey, you better take this. It fell out of your purse. You wouldn't want to lose a nice check like... It is nice, isn't it? Yeah. $2,000. Signed Steve Hagen. It's Janneth's. Steve signs all his checks. It's a lovely gift. You should buy him something in return. What would you suggest? Well, I suggest a green clock. You'd really appreciate a green clock, and I'm just the guy to get it for him. Come on! Mister, this is only a second-hand store. We ain't got no green clocks. Oh, it's a shame. You have failed us both. Go hide in the corner. Sorry, Mac. George, there, that brass sundial. If we had a green ribbon... A stroke of genius. My man, have you any green ribbon? Yeah, I guess so. Tie the ribbon around the brass sundial and presto. A green clock. So, we had fun and bought the green clock. And suddenly it was 7.30. 7.30 in the train for West Virginia that left 10 minutes ago. Georgette had forgotten. I phoned her apartment. The maid answered. She called just before the train left, Mr. Stroud. Said to tell you she was leaving. On schedule, without you. Oh, that's too bad, George. Well, now we might as well spend the evening together. How about my apartment? My maid's on vacation. We'll be alone. I went with Pauline. I was hurt and disappointed and sore, and I wanted to talk. It was after midnight when the phone rang. George, you'll have to leave. Why? That was Janeth. He's coming right off. It's late anyway. 12.30. Oh, please, George, hurry. Well, we wouldn't want to make Janeth unhappy, would we? Please, hurry. Here, take the sundial. Keep it from me to you. All right, all right, but hurry. Wait until you hear the elevator. Then use the stairs. I waited on the stairs, watching the elevator door. Janeth stood under the whole light looking around, and then in my direction, screwing up his eyes to see into the darkness. He saw me, but it was too dark to recognize me. He has another one. Another man for me. That's all I saw. I walked down the stairs and went home to bed. Steve Hagen, George, we've got a great story for you. I'm sorry, Steve, but I quit. I'm through.  Hello, George. George, I want you to find someone for me. The trail is still fresh. But I quit, remember? Forget that, forget that. This man was in the city last night with a blonde. We know two places they visited. The Van Barth bar and an identified second-hand shop. We have reason to believe the man's name is Mr. Green. And, uh, oh yes, he was carrying a brass sundial with a green ribbon around it. Mr. Green. I was Mr. Green. Me, George Stroud. And Janeth is out to find the guy who's playing around with this girl. And when he found him, he'd wreck his life. There was only one person who could cover up my trail. Pauline York. There wasn't any answer. I tried the door. It was open. Pauline was there. At first I thought she was wearing a red bathing cap. But she wasn't. Something had happened to her head. And she was dead. I was shocked, but I wasn't scared. I wasn't scared until I glanced at her clock, which had fallen to the floor. It was smashed. Stopped at 12.15. 15 minutes before I'd left her apartment. I did some more looking around. Three things were missing. The sundial, the check that had been in her purse, and my handkerchief. I tried to think. Like I only think of one thing. Janeth. He was afraid. He was afraid because he'd murdered Pauline York. And because he knew someone had seen him at her apartment. Pauline must have told him the man's name was Green. Her last joke. Now Janeth was tracking him down. And when he found him, he'd pin a murder on me. Time. I needed time to think. I had to stall Janeth. Stole him long enough to prove that he'd killed Pauline. And the only way I could do that was by working at his side by helping to frame myself for the murder of Pauline York. You are listening to Screen Directors Playhouse production of The Big Clock, starring Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan. And introduced by the director of the film, Mr. John Farrell. You are in San Francisco. The cable cars are crowded.  What a climb. Finally you make it. Tired. Hot. Ringing with perspiration. You enter the bar. A little blue sign catches your eye. Oh, brother, perhaps blue ribbon. Finest beer served. Anywhere. Yes, during these hot July days, you're just one of millions of men all over America to whom that perhaps blue ribbon sign means welcome relief. Or perhaps blue ribbon does something more than quench your thirst. It gives you taste. Blue ribbon taste. The kind of taste you can't get anywhere else in the world except in that perhaps blue ribbon bottle. Unfortunately, you can get that blue ribbon bottle all over the world. Yes, you hear it everywhere. In San Francisco and St. Augustine, Seattle and San Antonio. Perhaps blue ribbon. Finest beer served. Anywhere. Your taste will tell you why. Now back to our screen director's production of The Big Clock starring Ray Maland and Maureen O'Sullivan. The Big Clock said 10.30 a.m. when I reached the Janeth building. Janeth was revolting against his master at time. He'd made time stop for Pauline York. If he could, he'd make it stop for his only witness, for Mr. Green, me, George Stroud. And I needed time, time to think. But Janeth wouldn't give it to me. He told me to start the search immediately and I had to do it. Time. The Big Clock spitting out the seconds. Time. The wheels turning. The wheels that locate missing men. Time if I only had time to make Janeth crack. But how? And then the information started coming in. We're on our way, George, on our way. The Van Barth Hatchett girl remembers a guy in a gorgeous blonde and that guy fits our description of Green. The bartender won't be in for another hour. Time. I needed time. Where was Pauline's check? Mr. Stroud, our witness saw a man answering Green's description about 10.30 last night with a blonde four blocks from the Van Barth. The man was carrying a brass sundial tied with a green ribbon. Time. It was moving faster. The sundial. Where was the sundial? The bartender remembers the guy, George. Says the drink was spilled on the girl. She used Green's handkerchief. Soak it up. Time if I had to find my handkerchief. They've traced the sundial to a secondhand dealer on Third Avenue, a man named Cole. Time. Time. It was running out. The secondhand dealer's on his way over, George. Time. Time. Time. Well, George, when do you think we'll have him? It's only a matter of time, Mr. Janeth. Only a matter of time. Only a matter of time. And every second made Janeth safer, covering his trail and cutting off my retreat. Now, then, you almost every move Green had made. Green and the blonde, they were linked together tight. Like a lid of a cotton. Mr. Cole is here, George. Who? The secondhand dealer. Where is he? He's at room B, third floor. Alone? Yeah. I knew you'd want to talk to him. Thanks. Don't make a sound, Mr. Cole. You. You're the man they're looking for. You don't frighten me.  And dragged him into a broom closet. He'd get out soon. Just a matter of time. Now, think fast, George. Think fast. Now is the time to hit and hit hard. But how? I went to Janeth's office. Where is this man, George? Where is he? I don't know, Janeth. But a powder room attendant at the van bath has identified the girl. And her name? It's Pauline York, Steve. Did you talk with her, George? No, I couldn't. She's dead. I see. You don't seem surprised. George, why do you think we've been conducting this search? We know about her death. We haven't informed the police because we feel we can be of public service and at the same time secure an excellent story for crimeways. How'd you find out about it? I...her maid. Her maid found her. We'll be alone. Her maid? Yes, she phoned Steve. Why Steve? Miss York was a protégé of his. Wasn't she Steve? Yes. Yes, that's right. I see. Then Green didn't necessarily kill her. Why it could have been Steve here. That's absurd. I phoned him at his home last night about 12.30. He was in a few minutes of the murder. How do you know, Steve? A clock broken the struggle. Oh.  Of course not. The maid reported it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the maid. Yes. So Steve was in on it. He'd been in her apartment. He was protecting Janeth. Time. I needed time and the big clock was turning. I went back to my office. Mr. Stroud, your wife was here. I sent her to Steve Hagan's office. He isn't using it. We're off to visit here. And that's the story, darling. Every bit of it. But George, why haven't you called the police? Face a murder charge. Janeth will have all kinds of alibis. George, Janeth must have taken a cab when he left her place. Have you checked the cab drivers? Cab drivers. George, yet you're wonderful. Janeth might have slipped up just this once. I downloaded a amount of cigarettes. Do you have any? Right here. Or never mind. I'll take another Steve's box. George, Janeth must have taken a cab. What's wrong? There. In the cigarette box. It's a handkerchief. My handkerchief. The one that was in Pauline York's purse. George. Oh, here you are. Hello, Steve. The second hand dealer says he was assaulted by Green right here in the building. We have him trapped. Oh, George. Special police are guarding all the exits. The second hand dealer, the bartender, the hat check girl is scrutinizing everyone. Well, I guess we've got him. And George, Janeth has ordered the guards to shoot the kill. Darling, listen closely. Yes, George. You'll have to check the cab stands. Find out if a driver picked up Janeth after 12.30 last night. Where will you be? In the clock tower. In Janeth's big clock. All right. Time. Passing the seconds around me.  And only the sound of the electric generator that makes the clock go around. Nice blue sparks. Power. Power enough to kill. And the seconds go by. Time. The sundial. Where was the sundial? Time. The sundial. The clock. The clock. Here. That's it.  Oh, you found it. There's blood stains on it. This sundial killed Pauline York. Oh, George. Look out. Get away from that generator. It's dangerous. All right. I checked the fare records of the taxi cab company. Janeth was driven to 612 Sutton Place. Steve. That's Steve's address. George said it fits. When Janeth asked Pauline about the man she'd been with, she taunted him to an egotistical rage. He killed her and then ran to Steve. Steve came back to the apartment, set back the clock, tore up the check, and took the handkerchief and the sundial. And Janeth was just crazy enough to take the sundial from Steve and hide it here.  George, find Steve and Janeth and bring them here and hurry. All right. See here, George. What are you doing in the clock? Mr. Janeth. Steve. Our search is over. We have our murderer. You found him? Where? Right here, Mr. Janeth. Steve Hagen. Me? Boy, that's preposterous. Is it, Steve? No, you're not Mr. Green, but you did murder Pauline York. Your motive was blackmail. Her bank will verify the fact that she deposited a check signed by you. The man's handkerchief she used at the van bathroom has been found in your cigarette box. The cab company is a record of driving the murderer to your address. That's it, Steve. Yes. Steve, I... I'm sorry to hear this, but, uh, I want you to know, Steve, that I won't let you down. We'll fight this through for you, no matter how much it costs. Are you insufferably Gomaniac? You think I'll continue to shield you now? George, Janeth killed Pauline York. He's... Get off! Step back. You're through, Janeth. I'll run. I'll get away. I'll run. The chair he tripped. George, the generator! Well, he's dead. Electrocuted. I guess you better call the police. We waited for the police in the lobby, George, Ed, and I. And I wondered... I wondered if perhaps Janeth hadn't defeated his master. Time. The big clock had stopped. Janeth had stopped it with his body. Stopped it at midnight. The end of a day. In the beginning of a new one. You have just heard the last act of the big clock. In a moment, our stars, Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan, and our screen director, John Farrell, will return to the microphone. Hollywood has changed in the past 15 or 20 years. Today, you'll find that many of the movie stars live in simple, modest homes, tend their own gardens, even in many cases, cook their own meals. When they entertain, like as not, they'll sit around in their backyards just like you and me, with good friends, good conversation, and good cold bottles of perhaps blue ribbon. Everything in perfect taste. Blue ribbon taste. And it's that blue ribbon taste that makes this internationally famous beer so popular, not only here in Hollywood, but all over America. Yes, you hear it everywhere. In New York's famous restaurants. In Wisconsin's beautiful summer resorts. In Colorado's cool vacation spots. Perhaps blue ribbon. Finest beer served anywhere. Your taste will tell you why. Now, here again are our stars, Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan, and screen director, John Farrell. Now, Maureen, how did you like renewing acquaintances with the big clock? Oh, fine, Ray, except that my part always reminds me of a donut. I'm in there around the edges of the story, but in the middle, nothing. Well, Maureen, John Farrell's the director of the picture. Why not complain to him?  She can't. Why not? Well, we might have an argument that Maureen might get angry, and if she gets angry, she might leave the studio and go home. And do you know what she'll find at home? What? John Farrell. I'm married to him. So what's the use of complaining? John, I haven't a complaint in the world. Working under your direction has been an exciting privilege and very much an education. So thanks, Johnny, and good night. And good night, Maureen. Good night, everyone. Good night. And good night to you, Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, and John Farrell. Remember, tomorrow begins another weekend. Two wonderful days to picnic on the beach, swim in the lake, or just relax on your own back porch. Be sure you have plenty of papsed blue ribbon cooling in your refrigerator. Enjoy your holiday with friends and neighbors and papsed blue ribbon. Finest beer served anywhere. Your taste will tell you why. Next week on Screen Directors Playhouse, papsed blue ribbon presents Yellow Sky, starring Gregory Peck. 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Look what I got My ordering finally arrived. I literally just got in the mail Five minutes ago So I'm gonna do my and how to open it gonna do my first reactions to the ordering that I've been waiting for For about ten months now, which is um kind of crazy So I'll give you that little overview as I open these up. Yeah, I ordered mine first week of December This is for the gen 2 or a ring As I've been a long time user of the gene 1 ring which I don't have at the moment I've actually lent it to a friend of mine to track some sleep So yeah, what did this ten months ago and it's been a very long wait I know a few people who have got theirs there were various delays with shipping and production and to be honest I don't know what the main reason was behind all the delays But yeah, the customs issues clearance issues, God knows all these issues, but um ten months later I finally they'll finally arrived. At least that's what I think it is. It says it's from a warring Yeah, and this tour them my wife's one and mine so um Yeah, it's good that I finally got mine and if you have been waiting because I know a lot of people have Hopefully yours isn't far away if you unless you've already got it in which case lucky you so Anyway, let's let's get these open and we'll do our first impressions. So pretty cool box For those of you that read my review on the first ring the gene 1 ring Which you can see over alexfegers.com It was quite a detailed comprehensive review. You would have seen how I think I made a comment that like if Apple would have make a wearable a ring wearable. This is what it looked like and was quite impressed with the packaging and Yeah, the unboxing and all that sort of jazz so They have set themselves a high standard to follow. I'm so far so good. So two boxes Just a cube Okay, we've got the size in and that on the bottom here. So this one's mine. They're heritage stealth size fitting And this is my wife's Belon silver size a truck. Let's have a look how they go All right, so let's open a my one first There it is It's pretty cool. It's very light Very very light. So I got the matte black. They're heritage one Yeah, I mean it's cool. It's it's very delicate. I mean cat feels delicate and light, but um, I know it's very strong And I have played with these if you see my other YouTube videos You would have seen me Have some hands-on experiences with the rings when I was in Helsinki like last year so I had I am familiar with the weight of the ring and Have played around with a few prototypes and whatnot. So Yeah, it's not my first time does the first time seen this this color there the matte heritage Sorry the stealth color because I'll see if I can get this on the camera here because I never had that when I was over there Okay, guys sort of come into focus. So yeah, I unfortunately I don't have the gen one ring to compare it But if you've seen the gen one ring, it's very bulky. It's very heavy I had the glossy the standard one. This is like You can't even compare it to it's ridiculous. This is like a normal ring Very very light Nothing, you know, it's it's just a lot of people wouldn't even notice you wearing this ring Whereas the other one people used to always stop me and say hey, what's that? So yeah, very cool. So what else we got in here? We've got this must be the charging Doc, I'll see if I can get a better Focus going on here Charging Show me that's the yeah charging Doc Which again is is very cool. I've seen this before Lot better than the gen one It's smaller. I can't really get focus going on here. What else do we have in here? cable and It's very Apple-esque in terms of The the box and everything. All right, so plug it in charge it wait until Okay, so There's a light on the front. It'll blink when it's charging and I'm assuming that means it's static when it's fully charged Download the Apple store go to Apple store download the app boom boom boom to see that. It's quite easy And I'm guessing this is just your warranty info. So yeah, that's it our USB See I think that's what they call it plug Charging and it just sits on there. There's no connection as such you know, there's no connectors like I'm sure I'm always what are they called? Yeah connections no contacts on there. It's contactless. It's just wireless charging sits on there Somehow That way like so Very cool. All right, so that's mine. Let's go open Because I'm sure she won't mind me opening this So this is it the silver one. Well, it's very shiny and Yeah, this is the other design. What was it called the balance so you can see here. It's got If I can get this focused It's gonna focus Anyway, oh, yeah, there we go. So there's a very small Okay, this is my very small lip up here Whereas my one has a the flatter top. Do you see the difference? So, yeah, it's it's what quite reflective quite shiny. I've got my wedding band here, which is just stainless steel So um, that's stainless steel couple months old That's a brand new O-ring I could almost fit it on there size eight for comparison and where's the size 13? So let's try the 13 on If it's perfect Maybe a little bit too loose, but my other gin one ring was was way too way too tight So, um, there we go side-by-side comparison We have the size 13 Heritage stealth Matt black one and then the size eight where they called balance solar So, yeah, very light very very light I Really know what else to say if you got any questions leave them below. I'll happily answer them. Yeah, unfortunately I don't have the gin one ring I'll see if I can get it back and I can do a side-by-side comparison, but either way I will put this I Will put this I Will do a comprehensive review over at Alex first calm just like I did with gin one But I need a few weeks at least to field test these so I can um You know so I can take it Take it through the through the trenches and Train with it and swim with it and do all that fun stuff And just to see how it's gonna pull up because I'm curious to see if this scratches I mean right now. It's shiny. It's new. It looks awesome and the mat You know, you might not notice scratches on here. You know, let's just let's just do this Sorry, I was just thinking something. We'll just get a knife here.  So um There's there's some faint lines on there Do you see that? Let's see if I can sort of rub that off. It's still very very faint But there is a minus scratch there. I'm not gonna do it with Rebecca. She'll she'll hate me for it, but It happens if I go deeper Well, there we go. I just scratched this brand-new I've been waiting too much for There is a scratch there. Do you see that and um? Yeah, that that's permanent Maybe I could write my initials in here. Yeah, there's a letter a so that is going to scratch off which then I Mean, obviously, that's a knife. That's an extreme example. Do you see that a on there? That's an extreme sort of Use a case and I don't mind doing this because I'm sure you guys will want to know what happens so I can be the guinea pig But yeah, I mean if that happens with that like Because my gin wondering never never scratched or anything and I thrashed it like I you know And paliff did lifted where they did lifted here each and ups fishing all sorts of stuff Whereas this I mean if that happens with a knife you'd have to assume that you know just every day We're using metal tools and dishes and stuff probably is going to scratch up. We're just slightly concerning I mean, it depends how bad it is. I mean, again, if you look at my wedding ring, which you just stainless steel That was very shiny when I first got it like Rebecca's ordering here But already it's scratched up and it sort of lost that gloss and I'm sure I can Buff it back up, but it doesn't really bother me, but it may bother other people So we'll be interesting to see what this comes out like I'm not again. I'm not gonna scratch that Cuz we're ready me, but yeah anyway that's That's the new worry and if you have got yours already have had yours for a while lucky you Sorry the camera is a bit loose Please let me know in the comments below I'm not very good at the cameras here. That's my phone guy Let me know in the comments below if yours is scratching how you find in it and be sure to hit over to elxfugues.com Subscribe to my newsletter because when I do have my review ready. I'll be sharing this with you all If you want to buy one discount code Fugues if you are gus should save you a few dollars. I gotta go


Today we're out here partnering with the Ukrainian soldiers to clear an extra training area. So there's a couple different ways we can do that. How we're doing it today is we're marking off grids and following grid lines on our north and south limit. And then we have the Ukrainian soldiers spread out in between. It'll be five Ukrainian soldiers to each EOD tech and each EOD tech will be following behind them. It is vital to the safety. We're clearing the area of explosive ordnance and any explosive hazards. This way it's free enough training area making it a safer environment to train. The Ukrainian soldiers are doing excellent. We started off, we gave them a couple UXO identification classes and UXO safety classes. And then they picked up on that really well. It's vital to the safety and making this a valid training area so they can continue to train.


Well, welcome everybody. Thanks for coming to this very quick presentation. It's going to take the form of some slideware and drilling down into a demonstration that if the gods are with me will go well. So I'm Simon Briggs from SUSEA, you probably tell. My French isn't tremendous, so I'm speaking English and I'm from the UK. Part of my job is to help talk to people about what we do with open source and how we make it powerful in the industry. So essentially, the premise we have is that by using open source within your, at least understanding it within your architectural decisions on your cloud builds, you will hopefully keep your mind open when you're working forward. Certainly within the open source community, we do like to work together. This is also a call out to my slide where I use a dog and a cat because apparently that will make you a nicer audience dealing with me in the future. So the obligatory nice slides come along. Now, I'm sure you guys have all got up to the neck about cloud this, cloud that. There's a reason why we do have cloud and we think the future's cloud, particularly SUSEA, is looking forward. Part of the reason is you guys are all here in Paris today, but the things that drive you to come here essentially are the power of what cloud can promise us. So cloud promises a break from the traditional. It promises a capability to stop being defined by the infrastructure that we previously had to use and try and work in a different model. All the buzzwords there, using elasticity, using multi-tenancy environments coming in on web services, et cetera, but ultimately it allows us flexibility. That flexibility, we would argue, is lost if you don't remain working within an open source organisation. So, as I said, I'm from SUSEA. SUSEA have a long and proud history working with open source as a solution and we have moved into working on the cloud in several different ways. So this is your hands up opportunity. How many people already understand what we're talking about when we say I-A-A-S? Come on guys, help me out. I don't want to have to explain all these things. Okay, so essentially that's a brief view of where we sit in certain environments on the cloud. So, we sit very much in the infrastructure as a service in this environment. So, where we go to hypervisor. We also have a definition of public and private clouds. So, makes can wave? No, you're not with me. Who knows what a public and a private cloud might be? Yay, I don't have to explain these things. So, it'll be quicker. So, on the public cloud, SUSEA do exist. We're all over the public cloud available to you and essentially we work as the OS in the platform that's being built out and delivered to you. And yeah, we're with all the big vendors, but I seem to have noticed quite a lot of square red boxes when I've been walking around here. So, I might get across that and start talking about some more interesting things to you. So, why is open source so important to organisations when they're making architectural decisions about cloud? Essentially, it's the same reasons why you might have made those decisions 10 years ago, 15 years ago, to start looking at Linux. So, the opportunities that are bound within the open source community allow a completely different price structure, cost model, they give you the flexibility to use all different standards and it really does genuinely avoid vendor lock-in. I'm here talking to you with a vendor's logo on here, but it's the power of all open source that allows organisations to make choices which can move and be dynamic over time. Probably quite important in a cloud environment. Obviously, portability, flexibility comes along and that is delivered in this particular scenario that we're talking about now is where SUSEA works strongly with the open stack community and that's why we're here today to talk to you guys. So, on the right-hand side, we've worked for years now working with the open source community to take away some of those concerns. If you were around at the time 10 years ago, people talking about using Linux in their data centres, they got a bit scared. They had to be convinced that it was enterprise-ready. We did that and we're now doing it on the open stack platform for the community. Essentially, we drive it through a product that I'm going to talk to called SUSEA Cloud. So, it's running as an infrastructure as a service platform for your architecture and I've still left this slide in here, but actually you can read the slide but the example of why we work in open stack is exactly that out there. The fact that so many people are here today in this community working hard to be able to understand the opportunities the open source, open stack capability will give them and moving forward how it can be enhanced to make even greater value for organisations. Up until now, typical use cases that have been driven by organisations have tended to err on the side of caution. So, up until now, the obvious elastic workload that everyone understands to exist is the web farm over a holiday period, a sporting event happens at a particular time, the grade final, everyone wants information about it. So, we need elastic delivery of that capability for a short period and it then shrinks back in that time. So, that's what open stack is able to deliver and then on top of it, we have the value that SUSEA and other vendors in this market that you're talking to today are able to deliver. So, SUSEA's got that track record we talked about earlier and all the independent hardware vendors, independent software vendors support that make sure that the applications that reside on that open stack cloud are fully powerful business ready. So, part of what we do is industrialise what is the open stack platform and essentially this is a picture that I've not been able to refresh because it's actually kind of gone out of print but the old spaghetti picture of what the different environments in open stack are are the complication and the thing that makes open stack quite a tricky customer to deliver to your customers yourself or in your own environments and essentially if I just walk through this picture there's many moving parts open stack's allowing you to simplify and push out solutions in an abstracted way to your customer base but actually inside with you managing it as an administrator of the cloud it is quite complicated the orange services run and they need all the elements around it. Well SUSEA has worked very hard particularly combining crowbar as a build capability to be able to take all those different parameters take the amount of components that need to be driven and we've changed what used to be something that could be done only with a lot of concentration over a lot of hours and we've reduced it right down now to deliver a fully operational enterprise ready cloud in a couple of hours. By doing that we've actually moved to use our infrastructure to be able to install on the left hand side of the screen as you will see. We've also added some other elements so recently we brought out SUSEA Cloud 4 we're trying to keep up with the open source community on this so that's based on Icehouse and we've released SEF support on the infrastructure with only 20 minutes I haven't got enough time to show you the tool and talk deeply about SEF but at least we brought it up there to tell you what it is and this slide is particularly interesting down at the bottom it's a different way of thinking about using storage within your distributed architecture that is running very interesting project and we think it's a very powerful way to go so essentially we've added the SEF parts to this story we've also worked hard around high availability who's seen this analogy before? Good guys, keep with me so we've got a concept in cloud computing that we run cattle so we run work loads that are really not that important to us we don't feel a personal sense of ownership like we would for pets your pet you stroke it you give it a name you feed it water and food and it gets taken to the vet when it's ill in the scenario we're talking about here cattle they get ill you get rid of it and you buy another cow that's how it works we actually argue that this is an old traditional way of looking at a brand new scenario infrastructure as a service we want you to move to a scenario where you want to put your pets in your cloud you want to move away from being locked in this traditional view that it's only for the very low risk environment and because of that we've put a lot of effort working with HA in the environment that we deliver today and we've been able to bring that forward by using the HA capabilities SUSE is already renowned for within its SLEZ HA modules we are a Linux leader in this space we use a lot of the open source technology and it transfers brilliantly on top of the scenarios that we're talking about here so right now we haven't quite sorry I'm just running forward very quickly here we haven't quite solved the problem of keeping highly available virtual machines in your images running but right now we're able to deliver all the good value do the build across all these services in your open stack environment and that's a demonstration I'm going to show you in a second okay so we work across the infrastructure if you know SUSE at all we're very much best to breed we don't try and sell a lock-in back to that message at the start open source it keeps you free our idea is we do what we do best and then we allow others who are best to breed to work with us so we're very strong about partnering we partner with some of the largest and some of the most specialised organisations in the industry and certainly we have partnership on our hypervisor levels so SUSE at Cloud is the only enterprise-ready open stack production that is able to deliver hypervisors not just on Zen and KVM but is able to deliver out on Hyper-V and VMware as well so that's a very strong point of our partnership and we have several other partners many of whom are going to work with us on our booth over the next few days to present to you guys the value add that they bring to our solution here's just a quick picture of some of those people always got to put logos up in a quick presentation so SUSE at Cloud 4 we're going to bring out five reasonably soon because we're trying to follow the community by two months so there's always a very strong drive to keep up and keep producing more code but right now we really have a very powerful solution and I'm going to give you a quick demonstration of the HA capability I've built on this desktop now demo time my colleague Adam if you saw him earlier actually sacrificed a chicken at this point he didn't bring in a live chicken it was paper for anyone who's concerned so let me just give you a very quick example here of an environment you can't see give me a second there we go so what you're looking at here is actually the crowbar interface to SUSE at Cloud crowbar is the build engine I was talking about earlier that we use and he's got the ability to drive out very rapidly as I discussed the services on the tool I'm not here to walk you through it in detail because I just haven't got enough time suffice to say just past four o'clock today there's a very detailed workshop on building this thing from scratch being able to deliver HA that's a 90 minute workshop if you do want to get involved in that please go to the SUSE booth there's some files to collect and some infrastructure to build on your laptop there must be at least 8 gig of RAM available so if you've got that kind of kit drive there but just to show here I'm actually logged in over here looking at the cluster of the two control nodes so as you can see there we've got the two nodes that we've got listed here in our HAWK interface to describe the cluster that I've automatically built by a plugin using the Chef capabilities if I now go across and show you there's also a HAWK interface on the second server because obviously if I kill one of my controllers and I can only see the HAWK interface on one we might be in a little bit of trouble if I pick the wrong one so I'll just start that up to be sure and just to prove so you can see in the background this is actually a presentation of what services are running on which one of my nodes so this is a controller one and it's running the open stack board there out on this website up above and just to prove it's running I'm using a virtual box hypervisor that's in that environment right now so if I go across to my environment and forget to put it on your screen which probably isn't a very good idea ok which one shall I choose it's a HA environment obviously I'm going to shoot one of them ok I know it's prettier if I kill number one so let's go with that so should we just pause or should we just completely kill it let's just kill it and see what happens now if the gods are with me as I was talking about earlier you should see some things problematic it takes a few seconds because in the background the actual clustering technology is working very hard but obviously there's a 10 second refresh rate on a website so it does demo itself very not as quickly as it possibly can in the background but you can see there it's true and killed the infrastructure and he's starting to rebuild the services across on the second node so the first node was doing the majority of the work in this cluster I killed it, killed it dead and we're in a recovery scenario here now obviously I've only got two minutes 44 left I do want to take your questions I haven't got much time to go into much more detail I will be over on the stand if you want to talk in more detail about anything we talked about here more than happy to I do advise you if you do get time go along to Adam Spires and the development team go along to their session around about 4.15 I think because they'll be able to work through this in detail with you because I'm sure this has already opened a myriad of different questions in your mind okay so that's the end of my presentation just to say in Suza's mind we're now setting up clouds that are on open stack infrastructure as a service that we believe should be enterprise ready and fully resilient for your organisation while allowing you the flexibility of the open source choices to decide how best to do things so is there any questions from the floor I've still got a minute and 41 seconds to play with okay my demo went quite well I normally have to do a little bit of fiddling somewhere so demo's always go wrong okay then guys thank you very much it's lovely to see you thanks for all your help and we're over at the booth cheers