Welcome back to another vlog. New nail color. What do we think? This vlog's just gonna be a couple days in my life because last week I was planning on vlogging and getting a whole bunch of stuff done and then I was literally just in bed fighting off something the entire week. It was really rough. I never actually ended up getting sick. I just felt so exhausted and my glands were super, super swollen. I just had no energy and literally all I could do was just lay in bed and drink a bunch of fluids. I don't know what it was, but my body won. Thank the Lord. And I'm feeling a lot better now, but it just kinda sucks because I have a lot of stuff coming up this next month and I have a lot of work that I wanted to get caught up on and things around the apartment and it sucks because I feel like I had an entire week that kinda went to waste but we're gonna make up for it this week. My friend Julia is coming to visit Friday night. She's staying with me for the weekend. I am so excited and then I'm gonna be going home for a few weeks to visit my family and to celebrate my 30th birthday and then I think the week after I get back here my parents are coming down and visiting me for a week. So it's gonna be a lot of go, go, go. I'm seeing a lot of people which I'm really excited about but I'm not gonna have a lot of time to myself to get work done. So I want to prerecord some videos, make sure my apartment is nice and clean and just all of my to-dos are taken care of. As far as what we have on the agenda for today I am meeting up with my friend Haley later this afternoon. She asked if I could touch up her highlights so we're gonna be doing her hair. And we're also gonna do a little bit of shopping. Maybe I'll get a birthday outfit. But before we get started with our day I wanna say thank you to Babbel for sponsoring this portion of the vlog. 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With summer travel coming up it's perfect because Babbel offers short 10 minute on the go sessions. I've been trying to spend as much time as possible outside so I love that I can just bring my phone with me do a quick Babbel lesson whether I'm sitting by the pool at the beach or just like out on my balcony. Manger bra. Manger bebe. And especially like I said I have all these plans coming up and I'm gonna be doing a lot of traveling and being all over the place.  So if you wanna try out Babbel for yourself check the description box and click my link to get 65% off of your subscription to Babbel. Thank you so much Babbel for sponsoring this portion of the vlog. I actually already did my little 10 minute lesson this morning while I had my coffee on the balcony. So let's go get ready and get our day started. Okay, actually before I get ready I'm gonna have some breakfast. I made a little egg, tomato and cheese scramble with some turkey pepperoni on the side for some extra protein. And then I roasted up some potatoes in the air fryer and I just seasoned them with a bunch of stuff. Salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder. Zellicious. Here's my little OOTD. I have this midi body con cotton dress on. Actually the entire outfit literally head to toe is H&M. Funny enough. Sweatshirt, I just tied it up and kinda tucked it in a little bit so it would fit more cropped and combat boots. Like I said, everything from H&M. It has felt like straight up summer for weeks now. It's been reaching up to 90 degrees. It's been humid, sunny, so nice. And I don't know, yesterday the temperature just dropped out of nowhere and now the high I think is supposed to be like 70. Still not terrible, but definitely a little bit on the chillier side compared to what I'm becoming used to now and what we've had recently. I'm just gonna grab some supplies to do Haley's hair with. We're gonna go to the beauty supply store to actually get the product that we need because I don't have the right toner and all of that.  Cause I'm pretty sure she wants to trim her bangs, whisk, color bottle, and color bowl of course. I think that's everything I am bringing Benny because her dog Xena is his absolute best friend in the whole world, his girlfriend, love of his life. So we're gonna let them have a little play date and hang out while we spend the day together. And I think she said she wants to do some shopping too. She actually has a bachelorette party coming up later this week. So I think there's a couple more things that she wants to look for. All right, let's head out. Obviously I wanna show you the stuff that I got while we were out today. Actually you were in the fitting room while I was trying everything on, but beautiful is this hot pink dress. I got it from Express and it was in the clearance section. It was marked down and then it was an extra 50% off on top of that. So I got this for 40 bucks. So I think this might be my birthday dress. And then I also got these dress pants from Express. These were also in the clearance section. I think they're just gonna look so cute. I'm imagining wearing them with a little crop top or maybe like a little sports bra kind of situation with a jacket. I love having dressier pieces like this and then dressing them down with more casual pieces. And then, oh my God, these shoes. I was really on the fence about them because I was like, where the hell am I gonna wear these first of all? Especially because like the heel is so high they're actually really comfortable to walk in and like easy to walk in. But I know after an hour, my feet are gonna absolutely be killing me. So I kind of would need to wear these somewhere where I'm gonna be sitting most of the night but they are just too stunning to turn down. Like look at all of the details. I love the chain on the side and they just look so good on.  But yeah, they're by Steve Madden and the style name is Veronica, Veronica Clear. And I had to size up a little bit because they kind of run small. They fit a little bit tight.  Is it worth it? I don't know if this like how often am I actually gonna wear it? But I just felt like if I left the store right now without these, I definitely would be thinking about them and I would wanna go back for them. And I think I would regret not getting them. So I figured I'll get them. I'll try them on some more at home and like sleep on it and then see and I can always take them back. It's 30 days to return them as long as I don't wear them out anywhere. And then we also went to Ulta. That was actually the first place we went to. This is just a regular NYX lip pencil in the shade natural. It looks very close to my natural lip shade, which I really like the look of on like a no makeup day or really light natural makeup day. And then I saw this NYX, this is juice gloss, electrolyte infused color. It has like the tiniest little bit of tint to it, but it just looks so juicy and super, super glossy. So I thought again, on like a no makeup day, light makeup day, I could overline ever so slightly with the slip liner and then put this gloss on top and I just thought they would look so good. And then I've kind of been in the mood to get a new blush. I didn't really need this, but this is the NYX Sweet Cheeks Matte Blush in the shade daydream. It's a creamy powder blush. And I don't know, it just looked really pretty. That's what it looks like. It's just a really nice peachy blush, which right now I don't have, I have like a really light pink shade. And then I have like a more hot pink color, but I really like the peachy tones, especially in the summer with a tan. And then I got the ELF Camo Powder Foundation because I've been seeing Taylor Wynn rave about this a lot lately. She said that it's really, really blurring and it makes her skin look very airbrushed. And she uses this on top of liquid foundation, just kind of like presses it in to set her makeup. And she said it completely blurs all of her pores and any texture. Ooh. Okay, hold on. My hand, some texture on it. You can tell. Oh my God, in person, it's like, oh my God. But I don't know if you can really tell on the camera, like where I put the powder here. Oh my God, it just made it look so smooth. And it like, all with a little texture, just like filled it right in. Ooh, okay, that is nice, I'm gonna like that. I got it in the shade Light 240 W. Tomorrow, Hailey and I are going out again. We didn't end up having enough time to get to all the shopping that we wanted to. Cause by the time I met up with her, it was already like around one o'clock. And then we needed to get back so I could do her hair, which by the way, I know I didn't really get many clips of that. By the time we started it, I was starting to feel kind of tired and I just was like, I just wanna get this over with. I wasn't worried about like pulling out the camera and getting a bunch of clips, so sorry about that. But I'll show you tomorrow what it looks like cause we're gonna hang out again tomorrow once it's dry. So you can see the color. We didn't really do anything different though. I basically just brought her highlights up a little bit higher, but still like kept her dark root and everything the same. Just brightened it up a little bit more like around her face.  But yeah, we wanted to get back so that I would have time to do her hair cause her hair's so thick, she's so much, it's so long. So it always takes like at least three hours start to finish between bleaching, toning, cutting, everything. So yeah, we didn't end up having enough time to get to all of the stores that we wanted to.  And I will probably do a little bit of some light makeup just so I can try out these new products. So we can try everything out together in the morning. I'm gonna go put this stuff away though and get ready for bed because it's already almost 10 30, I'm quite tired. So I'll see you guys in the morning. Good morning. I'm gonna get ready and try the new products that I got yesterday for my base. I'm gonna mix the Super Goop Glow Screen sunscreen with the Fenty Beauty Pro Filter Hydrating Long Wear Foundation. Just to give a little bit of coverage, but I still just want it to look like my skin. Then I'm gonna put some of the Tarte CC under a correcting concealer under my eyes. And then just for a little more coverage, I'm just gonna put a couple dots of the NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer. And then I'm gonna set my T-zone area with that new ELF powder. Then I'm doing a little bit of Physician's Formula Butter Bronzer. And then we're gonna do the new Nix Sweet Cheeks Blush Pigmented Benefit Gimmie Brow. Just running a little bit of that. And then for lips, my new lip liner. This is Nix in the shade Natural. I'm gonna put a little bit of this Juicy Gloss on top. Oh, so pretty. So there's how my makeup looks. I like it. It's nice and light. Really like this lip combo a lot. I will link all the products that I just used in the description. I'm gonna make a nice coffee. We're gonna do some Vanilla Medium Roast Starbucks. And I just do plain half and half. That coffee already is a little bit sweet, so I don't like to overdo it. Let me see what the weather's supposed to be like today. Oh, pretty much the same as yesterday. The high's supposed to be 72. I think I'm going to wear those new pants that I got yesterday. And I don't know what shirt I wanna do. Some kind of crop top. Thinking maybe this blue one. This little top from American Eagle. Here's the outfit I'm gonna wear. So those new pants that I showed you from Express, how freaking cute. I just love the fit of them. How the legs kind of like flare out a little bit. I feel like they're just so flattering.  Oh my God. This is your sign.  If you don't already have some, you need them. Crop top like I showed you is from American Eagle. And I threw on this snake chain necklace from Vibe Season Adidas baseball hats. And then I think I'm just gonna wear these Adidas sneakers. Okay, that makeup didn't really hold up so well. I'm looking a little crusty busty. Yeah. I mean, from a distance it still looks pretty good, but whatever, it's fine. I still really loved that lip combo though. But home for the day, wanna show you a little haul again of more stuff that I got. It was such a good day though. And I'm glad that we were able to hang out because I don't know when's the next time I'm gonna see her because like I said, she's going away for a trip. And then by the time she gets back, I'm gonna be leaving shortly thereafter and I'm gonna be gone for like at least two weeks. So yeah, it's gonna be a while.  So we went to H&M and I got these heels. How cute, I love the strappy look and the heel is like the perfect height. Little block heel, not too high so they should be pretty comfortable. And I feel like something like this is a staple and a good basic to have. And then I got a couple things from Target. I had just a few things I needed to restock on, some liquid IV. This Nivia cream is amazing, staple, love this stuff.  I put it on my body, I just love it. It is so thick and nourishing. Oh, look at that stuff. Holy grail product. And then I got a body scrub and then I needed more deodorant. So I decided to try getting a men's deodorant. I've been obsessed with watching Taylor Wynn's videos and she uses Old Spice deodorant. Thought I would try it out. And this one's aluminum free. It's the wilderness with lavender scent and it smells nothing like lavender but it does smell really good. And then I got this bra that I didn't need but how freaking cute is it? And I was thinking this with a button up top, a little bit unbuttoned so that you can see the bra sticking out a little bit.  It's from the Auden brand at Target. So yeah, that's my little haul. I'm gonna go put this stuff away. This is how I was envisioning the bra. Obviously, the shirt will be buttoned up a little bit like up to here and then with jeans, so cute. You can kind of see your nipple through it a little bit because it is pretty sheer but so pretty. And look how cute the shoes look. They're so cute and they're super comfortable. They're like the perfect height. I love the square toe. Something about it I just think is like really flattering. Love, you need these. Get them immediately. I'll put a link in the description. Oh my God, I'm very happy that I got these. Well, I just hit record and I feel like in the viewfinder it looks like I've been crying. My allergies are just kind of acting up. I just sneezed like six times in a row. I'm fine, I'm not crying, I promise. I have been sitting here editing this vlog and it's actually a lot longer than I realized it was. So I am just going to wash my face and get ready for bed. It's already 9 p.m. So this day is over for me and I'm gonna wrap up this vlog here. Like I said, my friend Julia is coming to visit in a couple of days. She's staying for the weekend. So I'm definitely going to vlog while she's here and I'm very, very excited. So stay tuned for another vlog very soon. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will see you in the next one. Bye.


this is the reading rush day five. i went to bed late again because i got my vlog out but i still slept more than i have the past few nights but i wanted to give you an update so i started the prince in the dressmaker last night and i'm liking it so far. i'm almost halfway through and i just wanted to go to bed so i didn't finish it but i'm really liking it so far. i really like the art and honestly the concept is just really interesting. i love that i love the dressmaker and how open and nice she is and how i love how when she was like quitting her other job which is in like the first bit when she's quitting her other job her boss was like no stay like we appreciate you because she got a better offer and then she's like no i quit bye and like went to do this random thing when she's making dresses for the prince. they both have to hide the fact that she's making dresses for him and i it's good. today's instagram challenge is more of like a food related one so you have to take a photo of a book and have food or like drinks around it and stuff like that so i haven't done that yet and it's still early it's only 9 30. the video challenge today is like more of a bookish art creativity thing so you could do like a drawing a painting you know makeup you could do whatever you want so that was hosted by christine amary who i love i'm really excited for this one appointment this morning and then i want to go to my known-ness house because i have been in like you guys have seen through the vlogs that have gone out and stuff but i really want a day where i could just go out and just forget about some stuff for a bit and like get away from like i just need a break from the some of the readathon stress i am going to be taking little clips while in there and stuff like that but i was debating going or not i was not gonna go because i thought i had to stay home and do the reading rush stuff but you know i'm almost done my seven books i really don't have to and yeah i don't need stress because this readathon is about having fun which is something i think i usually forget every year sometimes i forget that and i'm like gotta get all the vlogs up gotta read all the books today gotta do all the challenges and yeah so today is gonna be kind of just like a breather day for me i'm gonna finish the graphic novel maybe start something else we'll see but i'm gonna take it easy today because i've read six books and over a thousand pages so far so i'm doing fine for the readathon so we good so it so it is currently nine o'clock i have an updated you all day spending time with family the entire day which i do not regret at all i'm so so happy i did that but i feel extremely guilty that i did not blog or that i did not i don't have footage for day five i only have the prince and the dressmaker to finish and then i'm also gonna read a volume of black butler and then watch an episode of the anime to do that challenge and then i'm good so extremely stress and mental health wise i'm just like no break from the internet like i just need yeah i've been no so i just got to the bath and it's been about an hour maybe but i end up finishing the prince and the dressmaker by jen wang super great read i think this is i'm so happy this is why it is well and i just think yeah i really enjoyed it i'm thinking i'm getting a solid four i really liked the art style and i really liked the representation that it wasn't like super labeling like it wasn't like oh he's wearing dresses because he's this or because he's that it was just like he wants to wear dresses so he wears dresses and that's fine i thought that was really beautiful and well done and it just made me really happy the art was beautiful the dresses were beautiful i think a lot of people a lot of people have read this already but i think a lot of people are gonna really enjoy this one so yeah i really really enjoyed this and i hope you guys pick it up this lighting is really orange but spanish black butler volume one this was a reread for me i have read this before and the first time i read it i think i gave it around like a three point something and i still kind of agree with that i have read the first six or so and like they were all like good but like i didn't fall in love with the series i love i love the art style i love how these characters look they look amazing and like i i like i already love these characters and i love like the comedic moments with all the other characters too and how badass sebastian is and cl and yeah i love the characters but the first volume is really jumpy in my opinion and it's also very info dumpy which is kind of expected with the first volume but there is i think better ways of you know distributing that information and like telling you all of that information than what it was in here beginning there's just like huge text boxes full of like just information and it's not too text heavy but it's just to be noted i guess i think they could have read that out a bit better in my opinion but yeah so i think i'm still gonna go at a three point something i do like this though and i'm probably gonna reread the other ones at some point too so then i can get back into this series just because i do like the overall the overall concept of it so yeah


Okay, it's 340. So let's get started. So can everybody hear me at the back? Okay, awesome. I was not expecting these many people. So I'm nervous. Okay So just let's get started My name is Adnan. I run the global strategy for open networking out of the networking BU at Dell Wanted to take this opportunity to tell you guys about what Dell is doing as far as opening up the networking space and then how it enables different orchestration tools and and and and serves as a platform The other thing that I'm looking for in this session is is actually some feedback because this is something very new as you'll see that that a major networking vendor has taken on and and I mean Feedback on are we on the right path?  I mean it's it's a so As much as I'm here to tell what Dell is doing and how it's all awesome I want to hear you know the other side as well, and then it's a pretty good forum. So so this should be fun. So Let's get started So it's just topics. I mean what where is Dell going? I think a lot of people in this session at Dell have covered these things about how we are looking at software defined enterprise I'm not going to spend too much time and then what is open networking and and why did we do this and what did We do actually and then and then how does it fit into the enterprise space and how you guys can benefit from it? So so so with that if you look at what what the challenge is I mean right now every every CIO or everybody is talking about how do you how do you make your? Infrastructure abstracted from from the workloads and and how can you use your infrastructure in the most efficient manner? Possible so that that actually is one of the problems that exists and and everybody has different kinds of solution everybody talks about software defined enterprise and and I Personally fundamentally believe that Dell's approach is a pretty unique approach as far as as this is concerned and it'll be interesting to see what you guys think and But that's that's the thing that we are going after how do we provide the necessary tools and the infrastructure that you guys Can go and define and build infrastructure is the way you want to because one size does not fit all and and we don't want to Impose our philosophy on on how you do things. So so that's that's how we are thinking about this. So if you look at it, I mean The fundamental thing about software defined enterprise it is should give you a choice of picking the best of breed solutions from the industry And actually enable you to go deploy those solutions Rather than locking you into a vertically integrated stack across the board and that is that is that is something which we believe is is Absolutely a key to to that to software defined enterprise and I mean, let's keep going and because I want to spend Time on some interesting things. So This is our vision of The enterprise I think everybody here has heard a lot about software defined enterprise But if you look at the data center component of the software defined enterprise We believe that you know, this the the STN On the server side with with virtualization, you know, this the software defined server thing happened I mean a lot of people here are using virtual servers. I mean, I'm assuming most of the room is But but networking has been a closed black box and and we believe that one of the things that has been Prohibiting the adoption of various STN solutions out in the market has been the fact that networking vendors have had very close solutions And then we'll talk about that in a second So open networking initiative from Dell is not SDN It just enables SDN Then the and the reason why I say that is because I want everybody to understand that Dell is at Dell We are looking at building the platforms that will give you the choice to go Deploy various solutions on top be it open stack be it Any any other orchestration tool that that you want to go and build on top. So that's that's the that's the Fundamental thing that I want everybody to sort of take away from from this slide And the second thing is SDN or software defined networking is the second most abused word I think in the industry after cloud and It's it's the the only thing that I tell we are looking at is we are we're trying to solve the first Letter in that whole story, which is yes, which is software How do we provide a platform in the networking portion of our enterprise strategy that lets you run? Any kind of software on your network so you can actually truly have a software defined data center Which is part of your bigger enterprise study. So did that make sense so far with me, okay? So what did we do?  I? Will go and give you closed hardware. I will then put my operating system on it I will give you a choice of protocols that you can run on it some industry standard protocols BGP OSPF whatever and then I will have my own proprietary protocols and then I will you will actually have to buy the whole red box with support from me and Then that's it and I think over the last three to five years People have been looking at different ways to do SDN and a lot of pressure came on the industry and The open flow was the second way that people could actually talk to the switch outside the traditional protocols Can how many people here know what open flow is just? Okay, everybody. Okay, so our belief is that Well, two things needed to happen first of all a lot of people had to get together and agree on a standard and Then the customers had to wait for vendors to go implement those standards So so that those two things within by definition did Hamper the innovation on that side We never looked at opening up the operating system as a platform And if you look at it the application ecosystem on the switch did really did not thrive You were either you could talk to my switch using open flow or traditional protocols Or if I was nice enough in the last few years I gave you API access on the things that I wanted you to give go touch so that is that is that was the fundamental problem at Dell networking that we were looking at and and and We we didn't have to go far. We we actually went back and looked at what we did with servers a Decade ago or 12 years ago. It was before my time in the industry. So I don't remember the exact year, but what we did was we we You have this vertically integrated mainframe model either from our friends at IBM or or or son and and Dell came in and we basically gave if you look at the picture on the right. We standardized on x86 hardware We gave a choice of the operating system to our customers and What happened is the application ecosystem on the compute infrastructure thrived People started building applications that ran on the compute infrastructure and today Look at the application choice that you have that you can deploy in your enterprise We're the server and the operating system on the server serves as a platform So we took the same learning and and we brought it back to networking and we decided to take this bold step To go break the model So from now onwards Dell networking is going to give customers a choice of what operating system They want to run on their switch So you guys can and we will support it you still Can can run our own operating system if you want you can run cumulus Which is the first partnership be announced how many people here are familiar with cumulus? Okay, fair enough and the reason why we did cumulus was Cumulus is a full Linux based operating system. You get a Linux prompt. You can deploy any Linux app on it It's a essentially making switch closer and closer to the server and they abstract the front end ports of the switch As as as local ethernet ports other than that. It's just Linux So you can take any application and you can run it on the switch So we looked at operating systems out there and we said we are going to bring a choice of OSS to the industry Which are going to be serving as platforms for the networking infrastructure Structure hence if you step back. This is how SDN is supposed to be that you go enable the software component on the switch We announced that in January. We've had incredible amount of traction still then and that's where we are going and Right now. It's available on two platforms one 48 port 10 gig one Tried in two 32 port 40 gig but we are looking at accelerating that and bringing more and more platforms with that choice And eventually the second thing we did was you know what same thing as servers One throaty choke if you have a problem you pick up the phone And you call Dell as we serve a broad amount of enterprise customers We can we can we can go and support this again same thing we did with servers But just the mindset of going in breaking the model was it was a pretty big leap and I mean in this bigger forum I can't share the kind of discussions we had internally so what's What's the what's where is this going? Why cumulus? The network needs to mimic the servers how many people here run different tool set to manage their network infrastructure and server infrastructure Wouldn't be nice to have one that was the reason why we looked at cumulus and and and we brought them on as a partner Second thing is their hardware agnostic same thing as the server model Have a very fast pace of adopting different kind of hardware platforms So you break the hardware innovation with the software innovation same thing as servers If you look at it today, you don't have to upgrade your OS Just because the faster CPU came from Intel or bigger SSD came you can write the hardware innovation wave Independent of upgrading your software so in network. It wasn't the case by the way You had to buy a vertically integrated stack. So here we are giving our customers a choice as to whatever pace They want to move on Second thing third thing is networking operating system that can serve as a platform You can deploy any Linux app on it The interesting thing is do not deploy oracle server on it because network in networking switches Don't have the same compute horsepower that the servers have so so if that but there are applications out there That run on servers traditionally because they just could not run on the switch And it would be a lot more efficient to run those applications on the switch How anybody here familiar with software based load balancing? Right you run it on a server today. Wouldn't it be nice if it was running on the switch? That is where it's supposed to be but You know, we sort of got away with it as networking companies for 15 years. So That's that's the other thing. So it's native Linux It's not for the traditional network admins quite honestly because you get a Linux Prompt you don't get a CLI like the traditional operating system So it's a little bit of a leap but for several guys. It's pretty good You can leverage the ecosystem that exists today from a Linux tools at standpoint to manage your network provision as as as you would and your server ecosystem so Hence the reason for bringing cumulus up hence the partnership and With Dell you pick up the phone you call us and and we give we basically stand behind it and we ship it What do you need so let me touch on one thing in a second? How many people here are wondering if how are we different than the ODMs? Anybody, okay Why white box or bare metal switch? See if you if you the reason why we got into this was because we believe that we have a Significant amount of value to bring to our customers that the white box switches cannot bring and here is the reason if today You want to go and do this with the white box vendor. You have to go buy the chip You have to build your own supply chain You have to get your operating system running on it. You have to put the sparing and everything in place so you can actually Replace and rma the box so you actually get a vertically integrated lock Because you made all those investments and there is a certain amount of volume commitment that sometimes is required to get The kind of pricing that is needed from the white white box vendor with Dell you don't have to make those investments We are going to continue to innovate on the hardware side On our software as well and on the partner software ecosystem So you can actually ride the wave as far as the best silicon is concerned and also the best operating system features that are concerned So that's that's how we believe you are a little different. So if you look at them I mean basically we are unlocking the hardware portion first so Second is we are basically going to give more and more vertical options up the networking stack starting from the top of rack To the core to high density platform. So you are you have the same flexibility You have a choice of our own operating system Then you have the cumulus cumulus Linux as an option which can be managed by the rich ecosystem of linux Linux management tools That are out there. So how many people here use chef puppet this integrates right in So you don't have to go and do use a different Cacti on ideas if you do that that's final work But you don't have to go develop a separate ecosystem for your networking tool and then it has integrated up the stack with the different Overlay providers as well and then the beauty is if you look at it your applications are can also run on the switch we are looking at different Overlay technologies and and virtual overlay functions as we as we bring and that's some of the feedback that I would like from from the room as to What kind of application ecosystem you would like to see come on the switch honestly? I mean, we've you know, we've got so customer interaction. We get some good ideas But that's the that's how the stack works and how it is different from the networking today You can't you could not do this six months ago. You had to go buy the not from a tier one networking vendor So that's the So if you if you look at how your infrastructure will look like based on on your workload needs and What where the right place of for an application is you can dynamically move your applications within your infrastructure? Obviously, I would not be running very compute intensive applications or Disconsentive applications on my switch, but there are applications out there where they actually could move Within the rack from one place to the other depending on what the right place for them is to go service the workload So you're not tired to Just the whole the whole the whole rack or your whole compute infrastructure and the connectivity becomes this big compute block That your workload and your applications can move around and obviously we're giving you incredible amount of power Where do you have the capability to go shoot yourself in the foot as well? But but you know with great power comes great responsibility. So I mean it's it's it's but that's what we are unlocking And as del we have done a great job with this when we started as a company 30 years ago We did this with the With the desktops the laptops then the servers Different by the network and I think storage software defined story There was a talk earlier about software defined storage that is where this was all why is it that I will decide where your application runs I just give you a big compute block with interconnectivity and your workloads can move around as you see fit if Assuming people in this room are the kind of people that want to have that kind of a granular control So that's why we are different again. I keep emphasizing because that's something I keep hearing from customers that You can actually use third-party Open tool set to manage your infrastructure Versus going and getting a lock in with a vendor What I would caution you is how many people here are using layer 2 in their infrastructure Layer 3 it's not a layer 2 solution We believe that infrastructure is moving to layer 3 from the top of rack and above and With del we are giving you the transition path to run del operating system Which has all the L2 functionality and move to an L3 based infrastructure because we believe there's a lot more resiliency in L3 based environment than it is On the L2 environment so for L2 It's not a they doesn't have the all the required features to go run a big L2 environment, but for L3 It's a good fit. So I just wanted to make sure I caution people before before we get in trouble. So Cumulate the beauty of being in this business for my from my standpoint is I actually actually disaggregate the hardware and software So I actually can go and kick their butt to go develop more features so they are actually going to show a demo tomorrow on On On the Dell switch running their neutron plug-in on s6000 which is our 32 port 40 gig box So I wanted to show this slide I think everybody who has to work with open stack has to have an implementation of this So in the open stack workload, they also have a plug-in which which Let's you run open the orchestration tool side. So Where are we going beyond this and I want to use a lot of time sometime for debate and then feedback Because I hope people give me good feedback, but you know where we are going as networking is We'll give you a choice. We'll keep adding choices. We will certify I will put this behind and for the extremely brave customers out there We will even give you a choice of not running an operating system and putting your own OS on top And from a tier one standpoint in networking industry. I can promise you this has never been done before so That's that's the high-level overview of Dell networking Where we are going how we think we are different and how we are enabling software adoption on the Networking layer in the data center and now we are working with different partners out there to to see what kind of applications or plug-ins we can bring to the switch to actually Enable scenarios that have been locked before so so ideas feedback Flame mail potatoes anything is most welcome. So so that's that's all I had I wanted to use this opportunity. So what do you guys think? See Dell net? Are you do work for aster? Okay, I Have a byst opinion about it We are investing very heavily in our own operating system But just just from a high-level standpoint Dell networking OS comes from the 4 stand acquisition So I don't know how many people here at no 4 stand and 4 stand has been around for a decade and a half Which was based on the net BST base the Arista's version of EOS is is a Linux based OS, but it is not a open Implementation you have to actually have a different implementation of the Linux apps that you do want to run and they they they allow you to run there They're gateway into their OS is scripting and API's and things like that They don't just let allow you to run any application on the switch from what I know And if anybody works for rest eyes in the room can correct me if I'm wrong I Dell we are also moving in the same direction. That's all I can say From this standpoint, but again that the the question becomes That innovation Can only happen if you if you don't wait for one another in certain ways See I if I if it's going at Dell if it's going to take me three months Right or to get to where cumulus is today or if it's going to take cumulus four months to get to where I am today as Customers you should have the choice to benefit and again. It's coming back to the same thing which is in our DNA which is open standards Go disrupt Build more the most efficient supply chain in the world And you know what also keep investing in your own intellectual property and may the best man when because one side does not fit all I I look at the market is changing today. I think enterprise and cloud are going in two different directions I don't know how many people here agree with me or not enterprises are going consolidated more virtualization a lot of traffic Cloud is just exploding right and left. I mean, you know enterprises going from hundred servers to virtualized servers But fist 50 physical servers, but the Amazons and the azures of the world are going to 200,000 plus servers. How do I build a platform one platform that solves both problems? I Can't and I'll be very open about it Anybody who runs a networking company and is thinking one size can fit all is On Mars needs needs to come back on earth, but I have to give them the choice Right if I want to play in both markets, I want to give them the choice So sorry it was a little long answer, but that's that's how we're different any other Feedback. Yes. Do you work for HP? Okay? I always ask that question because I want to say something You see HP is doing How is this different than what HP is doing HP is not doing this I mean, they are going down the same old traditional model and in I have to be careful about what I comment on as far as my Opinion about competitors are concerned because big guys are sitting on the left side of the room It's I Mean they're still stuck to the vertically integrated model Intel on the on the merchant silicon side Sorry, I can Not on the software side The beauty is the differentiation that we have by the way the merchant silicon transition from Dell happened three years ago We all went to Broadcom and Melanox and Intel to get the merchant silicon We've that that's that wave is is done the second wave is providing the software as as a platform or a choice of software That unless it has changed in the last 35 minutes. Nobody else is doing it. So that's the differentiation Yes, so you So the two things I mean we Are you asking for for low-level access to the to the ASIC APIs, right? Yes, so I mean you see everything is exposed to Linux constructs, right? So so you have access if you want deeper access to if you if you know the way the switch works Basically, whatever chipset you're using there's an SDK that comes with that chipset. For example, if it's a Broadcom Tried into platform then it has the Broadcom SDK Which is what we hook into as vendors to basically everybody uses that so so for certain customers or for the right scenarios We do expose the low-level programming tables as well as needed for people that need that kind of a programming power but other than that it's a You know you have just like a server you can install any application And you can access all the APIs and the constructs on Linux that you can right? I mean that's and and the in the front-end ports are actually exposed as Ethernet ports I think there's a talk tomorrow by cumulus. I don't know if you I don't know what time it is But I highly encourage folks that are interested to to actually go and attend that talk I think their CTO is coming in to give that talk Questions. Oh No, I'm not that's why I made a caution saying that Yeah, yeah, I absolutely you brought up three different points. So I think converged infrastructure is happening and And and and I know how familiar you are but but del By everybody everybody has a strategy and converging infrastructure, and so do we and we think ours is the best What we are not what we are not saying is That you can you should now start running applications on the switch What we are saying is that we are giving you the choice to Actually use the networking switch as a platform and we will see how the market evolves and how the ecosystem evolves You know what 15 years ago? Nobody knew that somebody would could come up with an application like Microsoft link on That would run on Windows servers, and we'll actually not be using PBX form So that's we are going as far as to say that we are providing the customers a choice of the platform We will see how the ecosystem evolves. It'll be a learning process and But but at least we are giving that platform Nobody's saying that you should start moving workloads and that I think you're absolutely right that With the orchestration tools that exist like open stack with the compute power the way it is on the servers Switch is supposed to be a really fast highway But but what if somebody came up with a more efficient way to route traffic on a converge Infrastructure, which is other than either layer 2 protocols or layer 3 that exists today That needs to be unless you have a switching platform that gives you that flexibility You will never be able to move into that direction So that's the we're just going as far as saying that we are now moving into that direction And we'll see how the ecosystem evolves and the adoption happens Fair enough Sorry, which partner we talking about? Yeah, and I I'm yeah, I hope next year when hopefully I'm still with Dell They still keep me and I'm back here at open stack. We have a more integrated solution that actually has Runs workloads more efficiently Today I'm here saying that I've gone to the point where we have enabled a platform tomorrow We're the if I'm if I'm standing here next year with the same slight thing that I'm still giving you a choice And I have not innovated beyond it Then I think we have failed as as as as vendors. So that's a fair Hi, hello, my name is Charles game. I'm from Arista Linux OS we are using as the same the Linux maybe yet to be honest We are using the federal core. So nothing different. I think anyway I have one question about the bare metal or high box solutions Actually, the as I know the currently the one one are you fixed the switch towards which are available? But do you have any plan to make the modular chassis? Even if I had 20 beers in me, I would not answer that question here and especially to you but But Actually, we are using the leaf spine 2t on that one I'm very familiar with what you're doing And and I think you've done a phenomenal job at creating platforms and solving certain problems in the cloud space with del 3 and leaves mine architecture Let me just say that we at Dell we're not gonna stop at this and and and my hope is is is is is to come in and and honestly, you know Being polite to to you guys did a phenomenal job. You were the first ones that came with the US based to us, but Well, you'll see some more things coming from Dell So one more question actually, I love that after us actually that I support the port stand the switches Several years ago. So is there any reason just to gave up the FT OS the move to the No, that's that's that's a very valid question We when the difference between I believe my personal opinion the difference between Arista and For Stan is that you guys have presence in two segments of the market HFT Very significant based on hardware accelerated follow-crum chipset on the other side cloud customers, right and and named cloud customers in the world We have a huge legacy that we carried the customer legacy that we carried for a decade, right? We are not abandoning FT OS I want to be very sure we are Continuing to invest on it But we just have a difference of opinion as far as strategy is concerned because we believe that by giving customers a choice We will actually write the best of innovation waves. So you mean you will maintain We will maintain you will see more features you see next generation opening system as well. That's what I want. Yeah, okay Thank you. I Never I actually should be given a price. I never thought I'll get a question from Arista This should be recorded anybody else Interesting good bad Sorry, only yes, so I Think I mean I was at OCP and I gave a talk at OCP last week We are looking at at Contributing and participating very actively in OCP. I Think it's a matter of what are the next requirements from an OCP standpoint, but but with this fundamental shift in strategy I mean I we are open open about it So so but I think OCP is is also I mean there I mean right now they have platforms in there But really they're not very efficient And then we are in conversations with OCP to see what is the the right thing for the community? So but but open networking switches actually run on only board I think there was a public statement. We made regarding supporting only and OCP release last week as well Okay Thank you, and this was very interesting for your time


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I'm not surprised. What's up, my name is Giggs. So, V here. Welcome to another video, guys. So, into this video, we are going to talk about two companies that we profiled here on the channel. When I told you guys that Bitcoin was making some crazy moves, and I said, hey, if you don't want to buy Bitcoin because you worry about the volatility of Bitcoin, you can buy these other stocks that can definitely give you an exposure to Bitcoin without necessarily owning Bitcoin. I did get some pushback as I said, oh, Bitcoin is too expensive. And people say, oh, you can buy fractions of Bitcoin. Yeah, you can buy fractions of Bitcoin. But the purpose of that video was to tell you that if you don't want to invest in cryptocurrency, there are other stocks that you can invest in that are tied to cryptocurrency, but not technically cryptocurrency. That was the purpose of that video. So today, I want to give you guys some update on those two stocks that we covered, which is Riot and M-A-R-A. So I wanted to take a look at where they are today compared to when we first covered them and they look at some price projections moving forward. But before we get started, guys, we are new to the channel to cover how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So if that's something that interests you, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content. So, again, guys, when we profiled Riot here, Riot Blockchain, and we profiled Marathon Patent Group here on the channel, I told you guys that, hey, you know, if you're looking to get into crypto and you don't want to buy actual crypto, Bitcoin in particular, here are two plays that you can definitely jump into. And ever since we did those videos, this tax juice went crazy and Bitcoin has been on a tear. So let me bring it up here so you guys can actually see what I'm saying here because this is insane. The movement for Bitcoin has just gone crazy. So let's take a look here. This is Bitcoin currently trading at $40,500. And it's actually went as hard as somewhere around $41,000. It tested $41,000. So let's take a look here and just see what's been going on here. So if you see here, the high up there, $41,000, which is insane. So again, the question is, should you buy these two stocks, again, Riot and MARA? When we did that video, I told you guys, like, hey, get yourself into it. If you anticipate Bitcoin moving up, get into and put a stop-loss on the stocks if you don't want to hold them long-term. But again, we've seen that Bitcoin is making these crazy moves and I've seen people that are projecting that Bitcoin is going to hit up to $150,000. And people are like, whoa, that's not going to happen. Remember when people said Bitcoin is going to be $10,000? Everybody pushed back. It got up to $10,000. When they said Bitcoin wasn't going to get to $20,000, people pushed back. It got up to $20,000. Now, Bitcoin, they said it's not going to get to $30,000. It just went past $30,000 like it was nothing, like it was just jogging. It wasn't even running. And then now it's a $40,000. And I know at some point it's going to be some correction, but people are still projecting that Bitcoin might go all the way to $150,000. So how do these two stocks come into play? That's what I want to show you guys. Because if you look at these stocks, they're really related to Bitcoin. Why? Because these stocks are mining companies. They mine Bitcoins. And when they say mine Bitcoins, a lot of people are like, you know, how do you mine Bitcoins? So when you take the blockchain, when you do transactions on the blockchain, those transactions have to be executed by supercomputers. So people that have money by the supercomputers and put them in a big warehouse and spend the money investing them and then use those to do those transactions. And when they do those transactions, they get paid per transaction. So if you use Bitcoin in any shape or form, you know that when you do a transaction, there's a fee associated with that transaction. So those fees is what these guys are actually making. So when there's more transaction going up, the revenue goes up like crazy because they are making money for per transaction. So that's what a blockchain in Mara comes into play. So again, I'm sure you guys this because if you look at this stock, when we profiled it, it was at $11. Mara was at $10 and Raya was at $11. And fast forward to date, they are, Raya is at $26 and Mara is at $26 as well, which is insane. So Bitcoin continues to ramp up. You're going to see these two stocks continue to go up. So again, guys, keep an eye, close eye on Bitcoin if you want to get into these positions. Pick up a little bit and then see what happens. If Bitcoin continues to go up, you can increase your position size. Again, with a tight stop loss on this one, because to me, this is not a stock that I'm going to hold long term. I'm just going with the right. So right now what I've done in my position is as the price goes up, I'm moving my stop loss and securing that profit so that if anything would happen in the price pullback, I'm just, I'm out, you know, right up, get out and then wait for another entry point. This is not stuff that I'm going to hold. Just say, hey, I'm just going to ride the waves. Nope. If it goes, if it hits my stop loss, that's fine. I'll take my profit and calmly work away happily. I'm not a greedy savage and that's always been my strategy. Those people are trying to be greedy. If the price goes down and you didn't take profit, that's up to you. And if the price goes down and I sell, I can always buy it back in. And at this point, I'm going to be buying more because I made profit. Whereas if you just sit there and ride the wave up and down and up and down, you're not going to be able to buy it back in because you didn't make any profit. So that's again my take on this. Participate in that. If Bitcoin gets up to 50,000, watch out for a matter to get to 35, between 35 and 40 bucks. Likewise, Riot will get to between 35 and 40 bucks. So definitely go check it out. I want to give a huge shout out to one of my friends, Ryan. He actually bought Riot at under a dollar when he first saw it. He bought this stock at under a dollar. So just this one stock alone has made him a ton of money because he bought, I don't know, it's like 500, I think a thousand shares. So this one stock alone has made him a ton of money. I bought it at $2. So again, I'm still holding it in to see what's going to happen with that stop loss to protect the profits that I have. Let me know in the comment section what you think. Do you think that is, again, these stocks are here to stay or you think, oh, it's just a wave? I personally think that you're riding the wave of Bitcoin and Bitcoin pulls back. They're going to pull back hard to be smart and make sure that you use the tools available to you. Stop loss or trailing stop. Those are very important tools for you to use. So that's it for this video, guys. If you are new to the channel, we talk about how to end money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So if that's something that interests you, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell too. You don't miss out on new content. Also, if you're looking to get started with investing, Weibo still has the promotion. It ends January 14th.  And as always, guys, do your homework. Don't be a credit savage and stay motivated.