Good evening, friend. This is your house to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Another gamble of ghoulish going on. Come in, come in. We're celebrating an anniversary here tonight. Our pet vampires, Oscar and Bertha, have been dead just a hundred years. There's such a devoted couple, with them it was love at first sight. In all their years of unholy wedlock, they've argued only once. Over the training of their backward son, Abner. Oscar blames the little vampire's shyness on Bertha. She kept insisting that Abner was much too young to be taught these facts and tales. There you should see the new home that Oscar just dug for his family. Complete with hot and cold running victims. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Tonight's inner sanctum mystery, Beautiful Voyage, was written by Ed Adamson and Robert Sloan. And stars Arnold Moss in the role of Steve, with Elspeth Eric as Rita. All right, folks. Set for another saga in the Sanguinary. But make yourself comfortable, sit right next to me in this coffin. And don't worry about the price of the seat. There's no cover, Charles. Now let's get to the story as it's told to us by Steve. The fishing boat fondles on the reef. It's wooden sides crying out against the punishment of the lashing waves. And there on the deck of the dying ship, the lone fisherman faces the relentless fury of the element. Doesn't have to be this way. He stands on that rock and looks down at me. She wants me to be a dead man. He was weaned on tackle and he could smell out a school of fish a hundred miles away. He's in good shape, Steve. All right, Johnny. Carlos, how about the supplies? Or start below, Steve. This time I bring extra bottle of wine. Come from Elizabeth. Oh, we're going up the coast of Goldwater before we head out to the banks. See, we'll lose six or seven hours. We'll make it up, Johnny. I'm dropping Reid off at Goldwater. She's going to stay with her sister while we're out. Oh, Steve, you're not doing that. What are you talking about? A woman on boat. It is bad luck. Yeah, but Reid is my wife. Make no difference. It's bad things, Steve, to bring a woman on fishing boat. This I know. You bring much bad luck. Listen to him, will you, Johnny? That's an old fishing superstar. Please, Steve, you hear what I say. Please. It's true. Sure, sure, sure. Like breaking a mirror seven years later. Oh, you make fun, but it is true. Come on, come on. I'm not drinking, Johnny, yet. You can wipe on boats? Sure, I will. You don't think I fall? Then Carlos does not go. Carlos wasn't kidding. Carlos was too good a hand of loose. I quieted him to the cold. I was down in the cabin when Reid came onto us. Never young, alive. That's why I tried so hard to hold on to her. What are you looking at? Just you, Reid. What wrong was it? Wrong, but perfect. Well, I'm just going to take my bag. Come on, the boat to Goldwater.  He says it's bad luck to have a woman aboard. Now, I know it sounds foolish, but Reid, it isn't that. I don't want you. Why are you alone with that promising business? Well, Reid, it's only because I love you so much. I just want to get you out of this town while I'm away. I know you're young. I know it's no fun waiting weeks while I'm away. I don't blame you for going to those dances. You don't blame me? That's nice of you, real man. What did you expect me to do, sit home and knit? Well, it's just that I don't want you to meet someone else who might go away. Look, Dee, that's how I told you something. I did meet someone. I know, Reid. That's why I asked you to go to your sister's. Don't do any good. I wasn't going to stay in Goldwater anyway. I won't be around when you get back to me. Don't, Reid, you've got to wait for me.  No, no, no. I'm grabbing my stuff. I promise you I'll give up fishing. This will be my last trip. I promise. Only you've got to wait. Wait! I wouldn't wait another two minutes. I always hated you. The first time you put those hands of yours on me. I only married you because I needed somebody to take care of me. Oh, no, no. What are you... You're yawing at me. Talking that way. So I hit her to the floor. I stood over her. I touched her and I spoke to her. But she was... Rita was dead. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. I loved her, but... What could I tell them? They wouldn't believe me. Then I heard the whistling. She does not come with us, Steve. No, Carlos. It's better that way. Good case over there. That's Rita's, isn't it? She forgot it, maybe. I bring her to her right now. Oh, no, no, no. What are you talking about? Wait, wait, wait. She's coming over for me. But she brought some stuff down for me. Some things I forgot. Get the motor started, Johnny. Okay, Skapper. I made my cabin. I didn't sleep. I just sat there for hours. My eyes fixed on a chest. I wanted to open it and look at her again. But I got 10 hours. But things began to happen. The radio shot, Steve. Well, fix it, Johnny. I can't. Power supplies burn out. It's funny thing about that. Just put a new condenser in there before yesterday. A brand new one. It's funny, for no reason. It should burn out. There's never a superstitious man, but the cue is of things like that. And that was only the first. Hey, who's coming? Johnny said I should show it to you. Why? Well, look at it. We are headed north. But the needle points this way. Oh, no. Now, you see? Steve, what are you doing? You break this wire. Get out of here. There was something Carlos didn't know.  She's dead. Rita's body was in that chest. Why? Is it any of your business? Are you only asking, Steve? Well, it's, uh, got some of my old clothes. Gonna dump them overboard. Let me see what you have in the bag, Steve. I told you, I only got...  You remember? No, you don't let me see. I told you there's nothing in here for you. Nothing that's any good. Now, do you get that? It comes from that bag. Carlos went up to the deck house where Johnny was at the whip. Well, why? There's someone in the water. What? They're going out in the lifeboat together. Her? Yes, Steve. It's a woman. Well, get Carlos. Call him back. But the thing like that... I said we're getting out of here. No, no, no, Steve. She isn't. Come on over to the side. You can see her swimming out there in the water. Ah, it's only the moonlight. It's just the way things look in the moonlight. There's tricks on your eyes, Johnny. Steve, I saw her. She's alive. It ends to my ears to shut out the terrible sound. But it's struck through my fingers like a... You get sick, Mr. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a woman. Ah, she's here. What that means, Carlos? You told me yourself it's bad luck. I know, but this... We've got a third. We've got to let the woman down. John, I know you're dead. Well, can Johnny save me? Well, you don't look the same, but that's a trick to fool them. I... I'm playing classroom to the ocean. Because they don't know. You can trick them. Steve, you're sick. I know why you come back from the dead. You want to see me destroyed.  I went up on deck.  The black cloud above the mass spread itself out into a giant blanket, snuffing out the light of the moon and its stars. Cold wind gave me hope. It was too late. I went forward to the deck house. Well, I understand, Steve. What did you try to say? That woman, Carlos, she's cursing this boat.  Hey, yes, Steve. Big storm coming. Well, she's doing it. It's because she's on this boat. We'll all be killed. Nothing we can do, Steve. That woman. That woman, she's not who you think. I'm bored before we left court. I killed her. It's a trick. The dead will return. There's one sure thing I know about her. That dress she's wearing. I gave it to her. I gave the woman that dress. Why? She was wet. I looked in your closet in cavern for something for her to wear. I find the dress and read the suitcase. Why? In the suitcase you say, Rita, bring your things. I see the blood fall on death from that dress. You never said anything. She was bad woman, Steve. No good. She's coming. No, Steve. Don't want to die. This bad thing to kill. I can't do nothing. The woman. Either to loosen. I must sever it. She's hurt, too. I must get her in the lifeboat. Here's something for all of you folks with troubles and spouses. A wanted-down theme song composed by the free broadcasting system.


Live from the FIIA Barcelona Grand Via Compensator in Barcelona, Spain, it's The Cube at HP Discover Barcelona 2014. Brought to you by headline sponsor HP. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're bright eyed and ready to go for kind of the second half of day, too, here in The Cube at HP Barcelona. This is The Cube. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Dave Vellante, where we're here to extract the synth from the noise HP Barcelona in Spain, HP Discover 2014. Our next guest is Cube Vellante, always favorite to have on David Scott, SVP General Manager of HP Storage. And David, welcome back again and just want to say, you know, thanks to all your support with The Cube. This is our fifth year. You got you sponsored by us originally and we've been part of The Cube legacy and we really appreciate it. It's become a cult here at HP and people love to get on and thanks to you and your team. So I appreciate that. But here at the event, let's get back, get it right into it. So storage is again featured on stage, real bright spot in HP.  But last night, you know, you can just see the community of storage and with converge systems. Storage, that culture is starting to radiate out. You're starting to hear people say, innovation, that startup mindset is kind of breeding in the groups. So give us a state of the state of the state of HP storage. How's it spreading? How's the converge stuff? You were doing the remote interview from from stage. What's going on? Give us the quick update of here at HP Discover 2014 in Europe. Yeah, sure, John. I think first of all, a lot of private has to go to Meg personally because she's really focused on innovation and actually investing in R&D to make innovation reality. And there's nothing worse than acquiring a company and then not actually investing in that company to make the most of it. And that's not a mistake that HP has made over the last few years. Certainly, you know, in our entire HP converge storage portfolio, there has been a lot of additional R&D investment. And we've seen the fruits of that coming out this week at Discover in our announcements around converge flash arrays, you know, innovative flat backup schemes to make it really simple to back up your storage devices in our moves in software defined storage and hyper converged appliances to kind of fend off the challenges of the new tannixes and simplivities of the world. And that investment is not just in storage. It's also in converge systems. And we're seeing a really integrated approach that is making the whole idea of converged infrastructure solutions a reality for the new So where do you see the performance and simplicity equation intersect? Because you know, there's all kinds of under the hood stuff that we can get into. I'm sure Dave's going to ask some pointed questions on, but I want to get more to the high level message, which is, you know, converge sounds like a great story, simplify things and create this new DevOps like environment in companies, whether it's enterprise or large scale. But how do you take something complex and make it simpler and still drive performance? Because at the end of the day, the environments are changing out there in the enterprise. Well, I think there are fundamentally two strategies that have been put forward in the industry today. One strategy is to say the software defined data center, all you have to do is introduce a control plane. And that control plane can handle the underlying complexity of different types of storage architecture, etc. And that's, you know, the philosophy of a lot of the major vendors in the industry. It sounds easy. It sounds really easy, right? But we don't believe that hiding complexity is the same as delivering simplicity. And we also believe that the only way to deliver a consistent and coherent data center architecture that's incredibly efficient is to not just have a software managed layer as a control plane, but also create simplicity underneath the covers, eliminate these fragmented silos. And that's why we've built HP Converged Storage on this concept of polymorphic storage architectures, you know, a single architecture for primary systems based storage, a single architecture for software defined storage, a single architecture for data protection services that span across both. And if you deliver simplicity at the bottom layer of the foundation, you get the data center efficiencies that people are looking for in the new style of IT. So does that basically sounds like an operating system? You always want to decouple and make highly cohesive subsystems. Is that what you're essentially saying with that? Yeah, architecturally, at least. I think one of the, I think you're right. I think one of the reasons why people can be resistant to the philosophy we put forward is that they say that isn't it impossible to have a single architecture that can do so many things well? And the answer is it's not impossible to do it if you have the right design approach in the beginning. So people often say to me, look, David, you can't really claim to have Freepar as a flash optimized architecture because it was designed at a time when hard disk drives, you know, were prevalent and flash didn't even exist. That's a true statement at least. And it's a true statement. But what it doesn't recognize is that we didn't buy, build an architecture at Freepar for hard disk drives. We built a storage I O processing engine where we were looking at all of the issues that are associated with I O processing. How do you make sure you paralyze as much as you can? How do you avoid the front end contention from the back end contention that is the bane of most storage systems designs? How do you deliver efficiency without compromising performance? And if you build a storage I O architecture that achieves all of those objectives, fundamentally, it doesn't matter what the backing store capacity is, and that's why we've been able to move from hard disk drives to flash and flash optimized solutions and will be able to move to non-volatile architecture. It's got a bunch of server guys built it. But that's exactly the reason. If storage guys built it, they never would have come up with a storage. The storage guys would have built a hard disk drive based array and we bought a storage I O engine. And by the way, those techniques, I'm pleased to say, also similar techniques that happened through our store virtual software defined storage because it was another innovative company, Left Hand Networks that turned around and designed that architecture and they pioneered software defined storage back in 2007. They had the first virtual storage appliance in the market for VMware, what is now six, seven years ago, with the foresight and the vision of how software defined storage would evolve over time to leverage industry standard servers and be hypervisor agnostic and offer a different model, the ability to run compute applications as well as storage on the same platform. And so now we have a second polymorphic architecture, but in the software defined storage space that again has unique capability to use. You can understand why people were skeptical. You didn't go out and buy an all flash array company. Like some of you competitors that EMC did, IBM did, you did not. But you didn't have the money to buy at the time. Meg said, we're not doing big acquisitions or any acquisitions really until we pay down the debt. So you sort of were forced to do that. So people, I was a skeptic.  So they were using the marketing judo move against you. Yes. You just smiled and said, okay, stay tuned. And now then you come up with a product and even still there are skeptics. I'm still watching. But today we got a proof point. Leaphead low came on from Sony. You interviewed him yesterday, took your all flash array, popped out a symmetric VMAX. VMAX, yes. Didn't go with Extreme IO or other, not an all HP shop. So that's a proof point. Obviously want to see more, but maybe you could talk about that a little bit. You got to be pleased. Well, ever since we announced 7450 or flash array, particularly with the new FinD duplication software, our sales have absolutely gone through the roof with that technology because we solved three problems that stopped all flash optimized arrays getting into the mainstream. One was the cost point. The second was enterprise scalability and the third was enterprise resilience. That's that. One resilience. And we were able to bring all of that together as an alternative to traditional hybrid storage arrays like EMC VMAX. And now we're making it incredibly easy for people rather than moving from VMAX to VMAX 3, going through being the last people to move to the legacy architectures for traditional data centers. They have an easier move to a three part converge flash array using our online import technology for minimally disruptive data migration. And they can position themselves well for the new style of IT. The interesting thing that we learned from our discussion in June was you used a term called escape velocity. And I'm always fascinated by these waves and the virtualization wave. We saw some great exits. Some guys obviously participated in that along with many others. Compellent and Isilon, data domain in a sense. And you said that you didn't think that the all flash array, the pure place would be able to achieve escape velocity. Yes. Because yourselves and your major competitors all have solutions. Do you still feel that way? Do you feel like your competitors solutions will eventually or are there or will get there? And that'll make it tough for these pure place? You know, my contention was if you're a startup you really need a four year kind of period to reach escape velocity where you have a significant architectural advantage. And for most of these flash array startup companies two years was it. And I say was it. It's passed. We have now caught up, exceeded in critical segment areas the all flash startups with three past all served converge flash arrays and all flash optimized solutions. And once you catch up architecturally with a pure place startup they have nowhere to go. They'll continue to have momentum. They'll have an aggressive sales force who's focused on living or dying putting food on the tables based on whether they can sell. But for the mainstream use cases and for the big market opportunities I think three part now is probably positioned better than any other company. Sorry HP with three part is now positioned better than any other company in the industry to winning the all flash optimized market. With the amount of money that's been this is something you know a lot about with the amount of money that's been raised which dwarfs what you had to do which at the time you said was a massive amount of money and memories. I remember now considering myself cheap at $183 million versus $500 million. Yet the investor, the board and the investors were far south of that. You said guys forget it, it won't work. I'm not interested unless you really are committed to this thing. Now the valuations dwarf what you saw. So the only option is public markets. So we're going to see that presumably it's going to happen soon but you know what that's like. As a small pure play it's very very challenging. Life changes when you go public. It's going to be interesting because you have examples out there of kind of pure play startups that have just gone public, like Nimble as an example. And one of the challenges we're going to see whether they can execute it effectively is big investment that they're putting forward to try and grow the top line as fast as they can. But the bottom line continues to drop dramatically and making that corner turn as a public company is going to be very very painful. And it's going to be interesting to see if newly complete companies like Nimble can do it. Yeah well I mean again you saw this in three part when you were public completely any free cash flow had to go back into building out the channel and building international sales and so forth. And then if a company buys one of your pure play competitors all of a sudden your distribution advantage just went oof because HP's got a massive or IBM or EMC or whomever. So it's going to be really interesting to see so what is the state of the storage business? I mean is it just the rich are going to keep getting richer? Or is there, no I think the dynamic if you remember two years ago at Discover we introduced the three part 7000 series. This mid-range platform but with kind of tier one mission critical availability and resilience. But priced at a point that anybody could afford. And when we introduced it one of the things that we put forward was we thought it would have a significant impact on the high end storage market. If you now look back from two years forward at what has happened over the last couple of years you've seen the high end storage market collapse. You see it in the data that IDC is constantly putting forward. And I think the fact that three part 7000 series came out from HP has really been a major contributor to the collapse of the high end market into the mid-range. And that change is I think going to continue to go on for some time. And it benefits HP because out of all of the major vendors in the last three reported quarters we are the only major vendor to grow our market share in the external disc market. And particularly in the combination of the mid-range and high end segments. And that's because we started this disruption of the high end market and it plays right into the strength of HP's three part product. And Calvin Zito wrote an interesting piece of that. We were at Dell World and he was squinting through the numbers. So he put it that way and it was quite telling. Okay so, but that's interesting what you're saying because everybody always thought me included that the all flash arrays would eat into that tier one. You're pointing to a different now when HP acquired you and Dell wanted to acquire you. One of the areas of interest was that architecture could go from span, a lot of price ranges and that's what's happened, driven that down. That's right. And we think that there's an opportunity to continue to do that over time and continue to expand the converged flash array phenomenon bring it to new customer opportunities, open up new kind of market segments. Well, as you build these personas in for walk and file and object into three part that starts to get interesting and you know NetApp obviously has had a lot of success with its single platform, but even in its limits. They've taken on the EMC strategy, if you think about it. They have seven mode, they have cluster mode, they have ingenio, they've got a new Mars operating system. They're becoming as much of a fragmented complexity kind of storage architecture as EMC has. And they used to be the single architecture guys. It's all about time expansion, right? And you have to have sympathy for your brother. We took a different strategy though. Our time expansion is the introduction of file personas on the three part architecture, single architecture, but accessing a new $4.5 billion mid-range NAS tag. Well, this is kind of what I want to get to, is that NetApp kind of had it right until they ran out of market, right? And then hit the ceiling. Do you think that three part could become that, you know, to use a term over this term, that unified array that can actually expand price bands? What does that do to other parts of your portfolio? You know, at the end of the day, as long as we have a single architecture that can meet more and more customers' needs and deliver the business outcomes that they're looking for, if that allows us to continue to simplify our product offering, it's better for our customers, easier training, manageability, interoperability, replication for them. It's easier for our channel partners because they have less storage architectures to have to learn. And it's easier for HP because we can focus all of our R&D and innovation and investment in a single architecture rather than lots of different architectures. And that's the reason why we're so focused on in each separate domain of storage, having a single architecture that is our primary kind of go-forward architecture, for instance, for the new style of IT. So for a systems-based primary architecture, it's three-part store-serve. The software-defined, it's store-virtual. For data protection, it's store-once. And that's really what our strategy is. Yeah, well, the store-virtual piece of interest is a lot of money flowing into that whole space. We call it service-and. We've quantified that. You guys had a big lead there. A lot of people coming into that space now. Where do you think that can go? You know, I think once again, we are incredibly well-positioned in software-defined because there's a tight linkage between software-defined storage and hyper-converged appliances. What we are interested in doing is allowing people who want to build out an industry-standard server-based architecture where they can run compute and applications side by side with their storage services to be able to do that and scale either in a fixed manner with fixed compute and storage scaling building blocks on a flexible manner where they can grow either compute separately or storage separately. Because one of the big problems about conversion infrastructure solutions and particularly hyper-conversion appliances is not all workloads scale exactly in the building blocks of compute and storage ratios that come. Normally, what happens is you end up with too much compute or too much storage and the efficiency of the data center breaks down. So having a single architecture that can span from a hyper-converged appliance like our CS200-HC Store Virtual through to a VSA-based approach which can run on anybody's hardware, you know, Lenovo, Cisco, Dell, HP, anybody's hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, KVM, or scale out with our Store Virtual 4,000 appliances or be integrated into Helion OpenStack as our Store Virtual software is. But have the same data services. You can build a complete data center architecture, consistent, coherent, elegant, very effectively managed under environments like OpenStack and OneView. And that is something that is not available. If you buy new tactics, you've just had a new silo. It's a hyper-converged appliance silo. You have no flexible scaling mechanism to do it. And that, I think, is the big advantage we will offer something to try to store. We've got to get going. I want to ask one final question that we've got into the keynotes. You know, Dave mentioned, you mentioned four years of escape velocity. On the startup, we watch the startup community as kind of a barometer for the industry. What's your take on that?  You've been there, done that. We're seeing different versions of a dot-com bubble kind of popping going on. What's different though, these are people actually making money. So you're seeing a different climate. I'm not saying it would be a bubble burst, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but unlike the dot-com bubble, there are actually violent companies out there. But is there enough room in the market for all these startups and all these valuations? Do you see that kind of getting a little bit more frothy or less frothy? What do you see in the startup world? I think we're quite honestly on some of the extreme edge of valuations and the amount of money that's been raised in the private world. To kind of raise in the storage environment over half a billion dollars and have kind of three billion dollar private valuations for a storage infrastructure company, that's slightly frothy to me. And I think the trouble will be if companies who have that kind of private valuations want to go into the public market where people are starting to look at them and evaluate their valuations based on kind of normal public market metrics, it's going to be a very, very difficult transition. I'll say it, it'll be a bloodbath. I think it will be a difficult transition. And quite frankly, there simply aren't enough acquirers left for all of these private companies to find private, you know, public company homes. So that's the big problem. When the music stops, if you're not sitting in a chair, then it's going to be difficult for a startup. That's exactly. Unless they have a revenue venture. So what's your advice to those startups? Start looking for a buyer now or generate revenue? We're hiring. Okay, we got a break from the keynote. It's David Scott here inside the queue. Always great to chat with you. Again, great, great support here in the queue. More importantly, impressive performance on HB stores, congratulations. We'll be right back after this short break. This is theCUBE live in Barcelona. We'll be right back.


Hey, welcome back everyone to theCUBE's coverage of AWS ReInvent 2021. It's our third day, wall-to-wall coverage. I'm John Furrier, my co-host, Dave Vellante. We're getting all the action, two sets in person. It's also a virtual hybrid event. So there's a lot of great content online, bringing you all the fresh voices, all the knowledge, all the news, and all the action. We've got a great guest here. Tune in to your render. Managing director of AWS, Europe, Middle East and Africa, also known as EMEA. Welcome to theCUBE. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. Great to be here. Lovely to be here. Europe is really hot. Middle East, Africa, great growth. The VC culture in Europe, particularly has been booming this year. A lot of great action. We've done many Cube gigs out there, talking to folks, entrepreneurship, cloud-native growth, and then for just global. It's awesome. So first question I got to ask you is, you're new to AWS. What brought you here? Yeah, John, thank you so much. I've been here about three and a half months now, actually. So what brought me here? I have been in and around the tech world since I was a baby. My father was an entrepreneur. I sold fax machines and microfilm equipment in my early days. And then my career has spanned technology in some form or the other. I was at EMC when we bought VMware. I was at Colt when we did a fintech startup, joined Schneider in my background, which is industrial tech. So I guess I'm a bit of a tech nerd, although I'm not an engineer, that's for sure. The other thing is I've spent a huge part of my career advising clients. So while I was at McKinsey on business transformation, and cloud keeps coming up, especially post-pandemic, huge, huge, huge enabler ride of transformation. So when I got the call from AWS, I thought here's my opportunity to finally take what companies are wrestling with, bring together a pioneer in cloud with our enterprise and startup and SMB clients, connect those dots between business and technology and make things happen, so real magic. So that's what brought me here. And I guess the only other thing to say is I'd heard a lot about the culture, customer obsession and leadership principles. So that's why I'm here. It's been a great success. I got to ask you too, now that you're new, Austin McKinsey, you've been seeing in the front lines all the transformation, the pandemic has really forced everybody globally to move faster. Things like Kinect were popular. And EMEA, how is that going out there? Is it the same kind of global pressure on the digital transformation with cloud? What are you seeing out there? I mean, I've been traveling since I joined around 10 of the countries already. So I've been in planes, trains, automobiles. And what you definitely see is massive acceleration. And I think it's around reinvention of the business. So people are adopting cloud because it's obviously there's cost reasons. There's MNA reasons. There's really increasingly more about innovating. How do I innovate my business? How do I reinvent my business? So you see that constantly. And whether you're an enterprise company or you're a startup, they're all adopting cloud in different, different ways.  And Adam mentioned this on his keynote. Five to 15% only of workloads have moved to the cloud. So there's this tremendous runway ahead of us. And the three big things on people's minds helped me become a tech company. So it doesn't matter who you are, your retail, whether you're life sciences or healthcare, you probably heard about the Roche work that we're doing with Roche around accelerating R&D with data. Or if you're shoes, Adidas, how do you accelerate again your personalized experiences? So it doesn't matter who you are, help me become a tech company. Give me skills, digital skills, and then help me become a more sustainable company.  So a couple of things to unpack there. So think about IT transformation. We still have a long way to go to your point, 10, 15%, depending on which numbers you look at. We've been talking a lot on theCUBE about the next decade around business transformation, deeper business integration, and the force march to digital, and it woke us up to that and accelerated that, as you say. So as you travel around to customers in EMEA, what are you hearing with regard to that? I mean, many customers maybe didn't have time to plan. Now they can sit back and take what they've learned. What are you hearing from customers? Yeah, and it's a little bit different in different places, right? So I mean, if you start, if you look at our businesses, for example, in France, or if you look at our businesses in Iberia or Italy, a lot of them are now starting, they're on the, at least on the enterprise front, they are now starting to adopt cloud. So they're stepping back and thinking about their overall strategy, right? And then the way that they're doing it is actually they're using data as the first trigger point. And I think that makes it easier to migrate, because if you look at large enterprises, and if you think of the big processes that they've got, and all the mainframes and everything that they need to do, if you look at it as one big block, it's too difficult. But when you think about data, you can actually start to aggregate all of your data into one area, and then start to analyze and unpack that. So I think what I'm seeing for sure is, in those countries, data is the first trigger. If you go out to Israel, well, there you've got all, it's really startup nation, as you know, right? And there we've got more of the digital natives, and they want to absorb all of the innovation that we're throwing at them. And you've heard a lot here at Reinvent on some of the things, whether it's digital twins, or robotics, or frankly, even using 5G private network we've just announced, but they are adopting innovation and really taking that in. So it really does differ. But I think the one big message I would leave you with is bringing industry solutions to business is critical. So rather than just talking IT and technology, we've got to be able to bring some of what we've done. So for example, the Goldman Sachs financial cloud, bring that to the rest of financial services companies in the MIA, or if you take the work we're doing on industrials and IoT. So it's really about connecting what industry use cases with our technology. What's interesting about the Goldman, Dave and I were commenting, we coined the term, the story we wrote on Thursday last week and then Sunday, super clouds. Because you look at the rise of snowflake and data bricks and Goldman Sachs, you're going to start to see people building on AWS and building these super clouds because they're taking unique platform features of AWS and then satisfying it for their needs and then offering that as a service. So there's kind of a whole other tier developing in the natural evolution of clouds. So the partners are on fire right now because the creativity, the market opportunities are there to be captured. So you're seeing this opportunity recognition, opportunity capture vibe going on. And it's interesting. I'd love to get your thoughts on how you see that because certainly the VCs are here in force. Dave and I saw all the top Silicon Valley VCs here and some European VCs are all here. They're all seeing this. Yeah, so pick up on two things you mentioned that I think are absolutely spot on. We're absolutely seeing with our partners this integration on our platform is so important.  You create that power of three and you take it to our customers. And it doesn't matter which industry. Our partner ecosystem is so rich. The other mention we have 100,000 partners around the world. And then you integrate that with Marketplace. And AWS Marketplace just opens the world. We have about 325,000 active customers on Marketplace. So, certification, integration with our platform, bringing in the GSIs and the NSIs. I think that's the real power to coming back to your point on transformation. On the second one, the unicorns. You know, it's interesting. So, UK, France, Israel, Mia, I spent a lot of time recently in Dubai and you can see it happening there. Africa, Nigeria, South Africa. I mean, all across those countries, you're seeing a huge amount of VC funding going in towards developers, towards startups, towards scaleups. More and more of our startup clients, by the way, are actually going IPO. Initially, it used to be a lot of M&A and strategic acquisitions, but they have actually bigger aspirations and they're going IPO. And we've seen them through from when they were seed or pre-seed, all the way to now that they are unicorns, right? So, there's just a tremendous amount happening in Mia. And we're fueling that. You know, born in the cloud is easy, right? In terms of what AWS brings to the table. Well, I've been saying for years, I always thought to A&E Jesse about this because he's a big sports nut. When you bring like these stadiums to certain cities, it rejuvenates and Amazon regions are bringing local rejuvenation around the digital economies. And what you're seeing with the startup culture is the ecosystems around it. And Silicon Valley thrives because you have all the service providers, you have all the fear of failure goes away, there's support systems. You start to see now with AWS's ecosystem, that same ecosystem support, the robustness of it. So, it's classic rising tide floats all boats kind of vibe. So, I mean, we don't really have our narrative get down on this but we're seeing this ecosystem kind of play going on. Yeah, and actually, it's a real virtuous circle or we call flywheel, right, within AWS. Because a startup wants to connect to an enterprise. An enterprise wants to connect to a startup, right? A lot of our ISV partners, by the way, were startups and now they've graduated and they're like very large. So, what we, I see our role, and by the way, this is one of the other reasons I came here is I see our role to be able to be real facilitators of these ecosystems, right?  And we launched at a web summit and the idea is to bring startups into our space virtually and physically and help them build and help them make those connections. So, I think real, I really do think, and our enterprise clients are asking us all the time, right, who do I need to involve if I'm thinking IoT? Who do I need to involve if I want to do something with data? And that's what we do, super connectors. Well, John, you mentioned the Goldman deal and I think it was Adam and his keynote, was talking about, our customers are asking us to teach them how to essentially build a super cloud in our words. But so, with your McKinsey background, I would imagine there's real opportunities there, especially as I hear you talk about EMEA going around to see customers. There must be a lot of sort of non-digital businesses that are now transforming to digital. A lot of capital needs there, but maybe you could talk about sort of how you see that playing out over the next several years in your role, in AWS's role, in affecting that transformation. Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, you're right, actually. And maybe I will, from my past experience, pick up on something. You know, I was in the world of industry with Schneider, as an example.  And a lot of our channel was not digitized. You know, you had point of sale, electrical distributors, wholesalers, et cetera. I think all of those businesses during the pandemic realized that they had to go digital and online, right? And so they started from having one fax machine in a store, really, literally, I'm not kidding, nothing else, to actually having to go online and be able to do click and collect and various other things. And we were able, with AWS, you can spin up in minutes. That sort of service, right? I love the fact that you have a credit card, you can get onto our cloud, right? That's the whole thing. And it's about instances. Adam talked about instances, which I think is great. How do businesses transform? And again, I think it's about unpacking the problem. So what we do a lot is we sit down with our customers and we actually map a migration journey with them. We look across their core infrastructure. We look at their SAP systems, for example. We look at what's happening in the various businesses, their e-commerce systems, their customer lifecycle value management systems. I think you've got to go business by business by business, use case by use case by use case, and then help our technology enable that use case to actually digitize. And whether it's front office or back office, I think the advantages are pretty clear. It's more, I think the difficulty is not technology anymore. The difficulty is mindset, leadership commitment, the operating model, the organizational model, and skills. And so what we have to do as AWS is bring not only our technology, but our culture of innovation and our digital innovation teams to help our clients on that journey. And apply that technology. Well, we really appreciate you taking the time coming on theCUBE. We have a couple more minutes.  Tell us what your plans are. So three or four things, right? Three or four really big takeaways for me is, one, I came here to help make sure our customers could leverage the power of the cloud. So I will not feel like my job's been done if I haven't been able to do that. So you know that five to 15% we talked about? We've got to go 50, 60, 70%. That's the goal, right? And why not 100% at some point, right? So I think over the next few years, that's the acceleration. We need to help bring in AMIA. America's already started to get there, as you know, much more and we need to drive that into AMIA and then eventually our APJ colleagues are going to do the same. So that's one thing. The other is we talked about partners. I really want to accelerate and expand our partner ecosystem. We have actually a huge growth by the way and the number of partners signing up, the number of certifications they're taking. I really, really want to double down on our partners and actually do what they ask us for, which is join COSEL, join marketing, globalization. So that's two. I think the third big thing is what you mentioned, industry, industry, industry. We've got to bring real use cases and solutions to our customers and not only talk technology, got to connect those two dots. And we have lots of examples to bring, by the way. And then four, hiring develop the best. You know, we've got a new LP, as you know, to strive to be Earth's best employer. I want to do that in AMIA. I want to make sure we can actually do that. We attract, we retain, and we grow, and we develop our talent. And diversity has been a huge theme of this event. You know, it's front and center in virtually every company. I'm usually passionate about diversity. I'm proud actually that when I was a back at Schneider, I launched something called the Power Women Network. We're a network of 100 senior women and we meet every month. I've also got a podcast out there. So if anyone's listening, it's called Power Women Speak. Is it still going? It is, I've done 16 over the pandemic with CEOs of Power Women Speak. Power Women Speak, that's the podcast. On Apple and Spotify and everything else. We'll promote it, good stuff. And you know what I love about what we're doing is AWS on diversity. And you heard Adam on stage talk to this. We've got our restart program where we really help underemployed and unemployed to get a 12 week intensive course and get trained up on cloud skills. And the other thing is get IT. Helping young girls 12 to 15 get into STEM. So lots of different things on the whole, but we need to do a lot more, of course, on diversity. And I look forward to helping our clients through that as well. Well, we had the training VP on yesterday. It's all free. It's all free. The training's free. And John- Those freebies, yeah? You've got such a digital skills issue that I love that we've said 29 million people around the world free cloud training. Literally the gap there between earnings with cloud certification, you can be making six figures with cloud training. So I mean, it's really easy. It's free. It's such a great thing. Have you seen the YouTube video on Charlotte Wilkins? No, I have not seen that one. McDonald's fast food. She changed her mind. She wanted a tech career. She now has a tech career as a result of being part of Rista. It's a wonderful story. I really appreciate it. You got a lot of energy and love the podcast. I'm subscribing. I'm going to listen. Thank you. We love doing the podcast as well. So thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thank you so much for having me. Good luck on Anemia and your plans. Thank you. Okay, you're watching theCUBE, the leader in global tech coverage. We go to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier with Dave Allotta here at re-invent physical event in person. Hybrid event as well. Thanks for watching.


What is up, YouTube? It's the double agent you can trust, and you can call me Agent Zone. Nick Smith should be back in a couple more days, but until then, I'm gonna do a legends fantasy draft here.  Well, you can learn with me if this is your first time actually watching a fantasy draft in 2K16 to see how they draft, but more importantly, critique me, and let me know how well I did. I did one of these over at my channel, and I got the literally the worst pick you can get, and that's the pick right in the middle. So, we're doing a legends draft. So, it's gonna be a little bit different than the draft that I did, and I'm excited to get into it. So, user teams, draft combine, everything manual. Just gonna make sure all the settings are on point. Okay, everything's just manual. Nothing's automated. Awesome. So, we're using the Raptors, which means, you know, please don't give me a terrible pick. Oh my goodness. Okay, first of all, man, vintage Kobe got taken before Jordan. I happen to agree with that decision, Cleveland. I hate getting the pick in the middle. I think if you guys play fantasy sports or even if you just do fantasy draft in general on 2K, the middle pick is the worst pick you can possibly get. I want to get first or last. I don't like the middle, man. Oh, some vintage Paul Pierce would be amazing. I don't know if he was 94 back in his prime, but okay, okay. So, there's some stars. I'm very tempted to pick up Alan Iverson right now, but there's also Hakim. There's Malone. Oh my God. Okay, this is tough. I feel like just because I know Nick Smith want me to do this, I'm gonna go ahead and draft my boy Wade. That's that championship prime Wade right there. And check out how Shaquille O'Neal went right before us. Both of the Shaquilles, the 96 and the 93. Okay, so let's get forward. Iverson got taken. Nash, Steph Curry, Hakim, Kevin Durant. That's crazy how far a deep Kevin Durant went. Imagine seeing that. Sean Kemp, Yao Ming. Oh my God. Okay, so we now just looking at our team. Can we do that? A few draft picks. Awesome. We got a shooting guard. That's Wade. I feel like we need a big man at this point just to kind of balance out a little bit. But then again, I don't want to kind of rush. Chris Paul is there. I'm kind of debating between Chris Paul or Aldridge or maybe even Julius Irving. I don't know though. I don't know if we want to stack up on the wing and then lack any big man. Not that we would lack anyway. Look at all these guys.  You know what? Okay, yeah. I'm gonna roll with Chris Paul. I don't know if I can pass up with Chris Paul. He's the last 90 overall left too. Chris Paul is too good to pass up. So we got Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade. Our backcourt is looking incredible. I want you guys to let me know, rate my team once I'm complete this and let me know what you guys think and how I did. I haven't done a legends draft before. Well, I did one in 2K15 but not in 2K16. So this is different for me. Monkreef. Shout out to Monkreef on the Colts by the way. God damn, he's lighting it up for the Colts with Andrew Luck. But this is basketball and we need Mark Gasol or Kevin Love. I don't know. We can stretch the floor with Kevin Love. Maurice Cheeks. I think I'm gonna have to roll with Mark Gasol. I think, yeah. I don't know if I can pass up Mark Gasol. So we got Chris Paul, Wade and Mark Gasol. I'm gonna compare with some of the other teams and see who they drafted because you know, just to rate my team and my team along, would it make sense? You kind of have to compare my team to some of the other teams in the league to see how well I did. Vuchovic went in the fourth round. Man, that's saying something. Andrew Wiggins. You know what I would have went for. Every year I forget Wiggins. Every draft I do, I forget about Wiggins because he's not the high overall but he's that potential player. Damn it. I regret it every single time but I make the same mistake. So now if I want to draft somebody, Deandre Jordan seems like, but we literally just picked up Mark Gasol. Maybe we should have got Kevin Love last round. If we can pair Kevin Love up with Deandre Jordan. Is that Larry Hughes? Okay. He was not 85. On that Cleveland Cavalier team where they went to the finals, he was not 85 overall. People can't go around saying LeBron didn't have teammates. Then go around giving Larry Hughes an 85. He was an 80 at best, in my opinion. I didn't think LeBron had that great of a cast with him. At least not 85 overall worthy cast because compare 85 with the people this year. That's like Jimmy Butler level. That's like Kawhi Leonard level. That was not Larry Hughes. Talking about Jimmy Butler. He's right there. I feel like you'd round out our starting lineup. A small forward. We can use a small forward or a power forward. And there's no like standout. Oh, we might even get DeCambi. DeCambi with Tombo. I don't want to drop this low though. I don't want to drop this low. I see Jimmy Butler. He's great defensively and he has a lot of potential. I think this one makes sense here. I'm in a role with Jimmy. Jimmy. Let's go for it. And now I think the last position we need in our starting lineup is a power forward. So we just need that and we're good. Okay. DeAndre is still on. I am so tempted to pick up DeAndre. I don't know how I could pass up DeAndre sitting right there. Because DeAndre is at offense. He's at offense we can use. The offense we need. Just looking at a team though. We have offense. Chris Paul diamond it up. Wade. Most definitely offense right there. He looks odd in a raptor jersey. Doesn't he? Anyway, I think I might pass on DeAndre for now. See if there's any young guys. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I have an idea. I have an idea. Can we scroll all the way down here? And you know what? I don't think you go actually. I don't think you go. I was going to go for Carl Anthony Towns. Actually, unless he went already, we'll roll with DeAndre. I don't think Carl Anthony Towns went. Oh, is that him up there? Yeah, that is him. He got taken. Yo. I'm tripping up. I want some young guys on the team. I want a potential player on the team. Rudy Gobert. Okay. Tobias Harris. Okay. So now the draft is getting a little bit deeper. And we're going to have to start picking up some gems. We're going to have to find some gems in the drafts right now. Okay. Monte Ellis. I want to try and get a young guy. And we got our starting lineup on. So just taking a look at the starting lineup. And I guess we can play Marcazalla at Power Forward. None of these guys even have a secondary position. 6-11 and 7-1. We might just play one on the bench and then draft a Power Forward right now if we find one. But look, all of these guys are guards. Every single one of these guys. That's crazy. Otis Thorpe is really the only Power Forward. And I think Otis Thorpe is a good shot, right? Good shot. I'm tripping then. I'm tripping then. I'm lying. I had him on 2K15 and he had a good shot. I don't know what happened here, Otis Thorpe. But I will end up going with... I think I'll roll with... should we? Well, let's see if there's any other Power Forward. Let me just sort by Power Forward to make this a little bit easier for me. And yeah, there's some good people. I'm not tripping. We still have Tristan Thompson. Yeah, we can get him later. So I want to pick the players that I feel like are going to go this round just so I can have a productive draft. Wesley Matthews. Yes. Yes, the three-point shot. What am I thinking? Yeah, we're all with Wesley Matthews. We need some... I hope that was Wesley Matthews. I kind of just rushed that pick. Yeah, it was. Paul Pierce, the current Paul Pierce who went now. Sixth round. Okay, we're back on the clock. Awesome. Oh, I thought I said Mike Bibby. I was like, how is he a 79? I was going to snake him right there. And I see Kenneth Farid. It seems like the easy Power Forward option right here. And I roll with Kenneth Farid. I was thinking about picking up Tristan Thompson, but we'll get the hustle, rebounding, run the break kind of offense now, I guess. And if we tag him with Deandre Jordan, really, then we have a very up-tempo team. And I like that. So, damn, John Starks. The Vladi Divac. Some of these guys are low overall. Kyle Korver. We could have also chosen Korver if we wanted three-point shots. Joel Embiid. Okay, so some of the young guys are going. I figured, yo, now's the time to kind of cash in. Is like a D'Angelo Russell still available? Is a D'Angelo Russell still available at this moment? Because we can kind of play him behind Chris Paul. Have him develop. Is he this low in overall? Let me just sort my point guards. I think it'd be easier this way. D'Angelo Russell. I don't know why I'm kind of eyeing him, because there's probably other point guards I can get, but I'm assuming he went. Or I passed by him and I completely missed him. Jordan Clarkson is also there. I like Jordan. I like Jordan Clarkson. But I guess, I don't know, if we can't find him. I don't want to search all day for him. Damari Carroll. Wait, hold up. I don't want to go for, should we go for Drogik? I'll go for Drogik. I'll go for Drogik, why not? Our salad we got on our team is going to be crazy. Come to think of it. By the way, for those who don't know, we're just, this is a mock draft. So we're not going to continue these. We're kind of just doing the draft for the sake of the draft. I do mock drafts all the time. If you guys play fantasy basketball or football, it's a good way to prepare. If you guys are doing online leagues and you're doing fantasy drafts, it's a good way to prepare as well. Something about these drafts, I just love Doug Christie. Am I wearing my, I'm not wearing my Raptors hat, my OKC hat, but imagine Doug Christie. Damari Carroll is still there. I don't think I could pass him up anymore. Damari Carroll. And, okay, we got a starting lineup. And then on the bench we got Drogik, Wesley Matthews, Kenneth Freed. And then we can round up with, we'll roll with Damari Carroll for now. That was, hopefully, I'm tripping up. I need to start reading the names because you never know. Sometimes, you know, there's more than one rivers. There's more, there might be more than one green, you know, you can't trip up and accidentally draft the wrong person. And now we just need a center. And then we kind of have our starting and our bench. And then from that point on, you kind of just go all the way down and just search for, if you need three-point shoot, Bargnani got drafted. If you need three-point shooting, you go for that. If not, then you switch it up. Let's go to centers. We might even just draft a power forward and play in that center. But none of these, none of these guys are really that good. Let's go to center. Hibbert. I like Hibbert. A lot of people don't like Hibbert, but he's great defensively for some reason. For some reason I had to come and check because a sliver of hope was alive that for some reason Anthony Davis was still here. Although, you know, it went against everything that made sense. It's not. It's Antonio Davis, unfortunately. And we're going to roll with Larry Sanders, who if you guys remember when he played for the Bulls, he should have a 99 or a very high block, block rating. Whereas at Hustle's 80s, a 96. A block's only a 94, but I thought it'd be a little bit higher. He's a very defensive beast. He led the league in blocks a few years back before he just gave up on the NBA. So I figured, yo, we're getting a lot of defensive players. Don't worry, Carol. Might as well tag along. I was going to go for Grotab, but I need some defense. Some defense. It's not that, our backup center's not going to be scoring much anyway. So might as well have him do something important, like defend. Wow, I almost choked over myself there. What happened? Am I alive? I need some pure life. Oh my God. I need some Nestle right now. Some Nestle in my life. Charles Oakley. Man, some of the Raptors, some of the old school Raptors just representing right now. Okay, so I'm going to dig down now and just try and find some sort of gem. Eric Snow. I remember this guy. He played with LeBron too in the Cleveland Cavaliers. Shit. I know this because I used to face my brother all the time in like NBA Live 06 and I would just see Eric Snow, Larry Hughes, I joined us to LeGascus and the Booby Gibson. They would just keep lighting me up, man. Anyway, Jordan Clarkson, yes. Yes, please. I will roll with Clarkson. For those who didn't follow the Lakers last year, Clarkson was a gem. I picked him up in Fantasy as well. He performed incredible. I was kind of confused. They even picked up D'Angelo Russell because I felt like Jordan Clarkson had that position locked down. Maybe they could have went for a big man instead of trading for Roy Hibber. But anyway. Okay, so we got Jordan Clarkson. Now let's see if we can find any other gems down here. Some gems. Maybe these are just players I like. I don't know. Lance Stevenson all the way down here. That's crazy. Devin Harris. Shout out to Devin Harris. I met him in real life in an airport one time. Terrence Ross. Roger Bell. Man, I haven't heard his name in a while. Dion Waders. Austin Rivers. I'm going to find my gem, Javill McGee. In case we need to make any bone-headed moves. I feel like... I'm eyeing Norris Cole right now. Not that it makes a difference, but if this was like a draft for real life, you'd want somebody with... you'd want somebody that has like that championship background. You know? Oh, Steve Kerr. Yes, please. What's this? Oh my God. This isn't even a question. 95 shot. We found Steve Kerr all the way at the bottom. It's what you got to search at the bottom sometimes. I think we have our last pick or our second last pick coming up right now. Amir Johnson all the way up here. Oh, that's Avery Johnson. I'm tripping. I'm tripping Avery Johnson. I apologize. Del Curry as well? Yeah, we can just lace up on shooters. Oh, his three-pointer's not that good though. This is the Raptors Del Curry, I believe. Okay, let's scroll down. Kevin Garnett. Okay. I might have to mess with... I don't know though. If we're being like salary conscious right now, which I haven't been doing a good job of so far this draft, Kevin Garnett is literally the most awful person you could pick up because he has a crazy salary and he's not going to be getting much minute. So let me just scroll all the way down here. Some of the guys I haven't seen yet. Is that DeLan Wright? Oh, Dorell Wright. Nah, I was looking for some DeLan Wright. Derek Williams. Okay, there has to be some good people in here. Should I just... Oh my God, I don't know. I might have some Vince Carter on the squad. Steve Nash. Some of these guys might as well just retire. Steve Nash did retire actually. What I guess is nice to have him since he's a legend, right? All right, I figured we go up. I worked too low at that point. We're not finding gems. We're just finding pieces of trash. And I will roll with someone like Tim Hardaway. And then I guess next round we'll draft. I think this is the last round actually. I was going to go for another big man, but if we ever need to, we can just go on the free agency to do it. So let's exit draft and we'll check out some of the other teams and see how I did. I feel like I did pretty good. I like to balance my teams and defense and offense. I don't like to go all out on offense because then at that point, you're just like the Den Tony Lakers trying to find out how every single game you need to outscore the other team. So with the 10th pick, we got Wade first, sizing up with Chris Paul, Marcosol, Jimmy Butler, DeAndre, Drogic, Wesley Matthews. So we got a good balance of shooters and then defense on the wing. It's great. And what am I saying? Just defense. He could shoot too. What's his attributes at? Take that. It's 86-3 point shot. He could shoot as well and he has defense. Let's just sort by position to get a better look. We've got a lot of point guards. That's because some of these guys are just potential players. Steve Kerr is literally just there in case we need a three-point shot. We can play my shooting guard. It's not a big deal. And Drogic is a backup to Chris Paul. Jordan Clarkson is just... We'll stash him away. If you guys watch the MLB, you guys know how they do it. They just stash people away on their form teams. That's what we're going to do with Jordan Clarkson. We got Tim Hardaway. We'll stash him away in case he becomes anything. Wesley Matthews to Bench. Wade. And we got Jimmy Butler who can play small forward. And I guess these guys can all kind of switch positions. Jimmy Butler can play small forward if he wants to. Take a look at that though, man. Awesome. I'm loving it. I don't really know where Marc Gasol fits on the team. I feel like he's the only questionable pick. I just kind of picked him because he was the best talent out there. Because now that we got Marc Gasol, I feel like our team fits better with Deandre Jordan. We can end up really trading him away. Not that we're going to do that. It's literally just a draft, but I feel like if I had to take back a pick, I would have taken back that Marc Gasol pick and just went for like a sixth man immediately. But I guess Marc Gasol now is going to be our sixth man. And we ended up getting Deandre anyway. So we didn't have to go for Deandre early, which meant that we could get these two players here. And so we made some smart decisions as well. So let's check out some of these other teams. I'm assuming this was a second pick. I remember because this one came second. The Michael Jordan pick, they got Ben Wallace on here as well, Sean Merian, Tony Parker, Heinrich. But I feel like after Merian, it kind of falls off a little bit. And this is that Phoenix Merian, huh? Dennis Rodman. And so they do have a balance here as well. Let's go up. Let's see some of the teams for the next two picks. Can we check some of those out? Okay, this one right here seems like he got a low pick. David Robinson first pick, then Amare Stoddermeyer, Marc Price, Byron Scott. And man, some of these guys, maybe I'm just looking at overall too much, but I don't know. I feel like it falls off a lot. Like, because you know, overall is value in 2K. And so if you don't have a high overall, chances are you're going to be a difficult person to trade away. This team here, I feel like if good kick-kill Chris is on like the first screen, you don't have a good team at all. Julius, T-Mac. Okay, Jerry Lucas. I like the squad here. Okay. And wow, magic in this team. So I guess kind of looking at these teams here, this is the Irisan that I ended up passing up. Take a look at this team. Okay, they got Irisan as shooting guard.  He's too small. It'd be tough to defend Wade. But anyway, if they're going to play my shooting guard in Westbrook at point guard, I feel like that works. And then Lou Hudson. Oh man, that team is looking nice. Okay. Let me know what you guys think of this team and I'll just scroll some of these other teams just so you guys can pause if you want to take a look at these and see how they did the LeBron team. The LeBron team is really deep. Oh my God, yeah. They got a bunch of high flyers. Dwight, Blake, Jeff Teague for the explosiveness of LeBron. I really like this team. This might be my favorite team. Anyway, let me know what you guys think. Rate my team out of 10. If I had to rate this, I'd say eight. But don't be generous either. You can give me a two. You can give me a 10, depending on what you think. Don't need to be generous. You're not going to hurt my feelings. This is a draft. And, you know, you get better at these the more you do. So hope you guys enjoyed. If you did, make sure to leave a like. Subscribe if you guys are new. I absolutely love drafting. I'm probably going to do more of these over at my channel. Nick will be back in a couple of days, okay? And he said the first thing he's going to do, obviously, he's going to pick up 2K, come back and make some videos. So until then, I wish him some happiness, you know, just relax and have some fun over at Vietnam with his family for a couple more days. He's going to be back in on the grind. I'll catch you guys later, eventually, because we're going to be doing more collabs with Nick. It's been the Double Legend. You can trust. I'm out, y'all. Peace.


Hello Earth citizens! In this video I will do a 10-minute routine on emotional chakra release. So in this video we're going to be focusing on the solar plexus chakra, the third chakra right here. So it's located right under your ribcage kind of in that dip right underneath. And this chakra holds your self-confidence, your willpower, your decision-making power, and also stress and emotions. So if you're very stressed, if you, you know, need more self-confidence, more willpower, this chakra may be a little bit blocked. So in this video we're going to release it with a few simple exercises. All right let's begin. So first exercise, put your feet shoulder with apart and place your hands like this at your sides. And we're going to twist. Twist your lower body. Don't move your upper body, your head, nothing. Just your lower body, your lower half. We can start out a little bit slowly but for most people when they start twisting here they feel some sharp pains, sharp pains around the solar plexus area. So what you do is you breathe in deeply and exhale, exhale out the tension in your solar plexus. Imagine you're shaking out all the stress and tension here in this area.   Make sure you're not like this, relax your shoulders, drop them down and keep twisting. This is also good for your gut, for your organs to move them around, give them a little bit of energy, release any tension in your gut area as well. Take a deep breath in and exhale out. Keep twisting. We'll do this for one more minute. Keep breathing out, deep breath in and exhale, deep breath in and exhale and smile. Deep breath in and exhale. You could be feeling hot, you could be feeling a lot of heat right now. I'm feeling heat all over my body just from this simple twisting. I feel sweaty and hot just a little bit longer. Breathe in and exhale, breathe in and exhale, fight and stop. And rub this area clockwise, massage this area. Now massage your entire abdomen. All right now for the next exercise. Let's tap here. So find your solar plexus, it's in the dip under your rib cage. Even if you press, sometimes it could be a little painful. So tap. Make two small light fists and let's tap this area. Release the tension here. Don't tap too hard because you could feel a little winded if you tap too hard right here. Just tap gently with the intention of releasing tension in this chakra.   Now let's place our hands on our third chakra, our solar plexus chakra, and send healing, loving energy to this chakra. And as you're sending this energy, say to yourself, I am confident, I have willpower, I am strong, confident, I have willpower, I am strong, I'm stress-free, all right, now sweep down, sweep down. So how do you feel? Do you feel less stress and tension in this area? If you still feel some, I would recommend doing more of the twisting. Twist more, maybe do it 10 more minutes, 5 more minutes, however long you could do it for, but that really helps to open up this area and open up this chakra. So I hope you feel better, please write your comments and your experience in the comment section below. And if you'd like to experience a one-hour brain education-based class, please visit a local Body and Brain Yoga Studio near you.


So the NCR process is quite very helpful to us because it helped us to know what we are lacking in terms of legislation, procedural handling criminal cases. So the NCR somehow inform us that we should prepare also for something that is maybe happening, how we are going to handle it, how we are supposed to have rules, procedural rules relating on certain issues. So when the NCR process are taking place, we have feedback with the NCR teams. As I said before, we are able to know what we are supposed to do next in the near future. Because cybercrimes with their ongoing trends can happen anytime, anywhere. That's the point.