Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partner. Welcome back to theCUBE. We are live at VMworld for our continuing coverage of the event, day two, exciting morning. I'm Lisa Martin with my co-host Stu Miniman and Stu and I. I'm very excited to be joined by a CUBE alumni, Chenemoi Mandel, Director of Storage Solutions, marketing at Dell EMC. Welcome back. Glad to be here. Yeah, we had you on the CUBE a couple of times at Dell EMC World in just a couple of months ago. So virtualization, still a mainstay of the data center, right? Some big announcements yesterday and today. Can you talk to us about some of the trends that you're seeing in the virtualization market today? Sure, so as many organizations are going through the ITRE transformation, data centers are becoming even larger, running thousands of applications, many thousands of VMs, right? So what we see is as many applications run, the underlying storage load becomes like hugely random. The platform needs to be able to deliver very high performance all the time, 24-7, 365. Also getting into the private cloud type environment, we see a lot of like VM cloning, VM deployment coming and happening in a rapid space. We also see the need of efficient copy management to prevent the VM sprawls in a very nice content efficient manner. And finally, as we are hearing at VMworld, giving access to applications and data from any device, any application, anytime, anywhere, that's becoming another aspect we are increasingly seeing across all of our customers. Yeah, you bring up a lot of really interesting points. You know, I think back, you know, the early days of virtualizations, like, oh, we're going to give this abstraction layer and it's going to make everything really easy. Come on, invisible infrastructure. I shouldn't have to even worry about storage, right? But the reality is there's a lot of work that goes into making sure that storage works well when we're talking virtualized environments, when we're talking cloud environments. What's that conversation you're having with customers? I think virtualization in cloud, who is it that brings up, hey, we got to make sure that storage meets our needs? You know, what are some of the biggest things that you're hearing from customers and how are you helping to solve them? So, as you look at the customers, right, maybe like five years ago, it used to be pretty storage admin or IT admin centric conversations. We are seeing a transition into CXO level solving our business challenges conversation. It's not that how much storage I need, how many copies do I need to create, but it's more along the lines of, I need to bring my cloud native application faster to market. It's taking six months of development cycle. How can it bring it back to like three months? How I can hit the corner cases before the customers actually run into those in my QA cycles? How I can run better analytics real time as opposed to having to wait for like 24 hours? So, these are the business challenges customers are asking us to help solve. And we are kind of like evaluating where they are in their IT transformation journey and how we can map those requirements into the underlying infrastructure that will help them get to that new era of virtualization, cloud native applications, all those things. One of the things that Michael Dell talked about this morning on stage with Pat Gelsinger was that the data conversation is, like you were saying, it's a CXO level conversation. It's on the CEO agenda. Can you talk to us about some of the things that Dell EMC is doing at that level of customer conversation where costs are concerned? We have this exploding growth of data volume. That's not changing. Centers of data, not data centers anymore. How is Dell EMC helping to position where you can work with customers on the storage element that will really help drive cost efficiencies across an entire business? So, I'll start with a solid example, right? I mean, I was working with a customer who is running like huge number of databases and to run his business, he needs to have copies for his DevOps operations. He needs to have copies for his backup environment, copies to run his analytics environment. And there were storage silos everywhere because he really was afraid of touching his production environment to meet his SLAs. Now, I'll give you an example of one of our portfolio products, Dell EMC ExtremeIO. In fact, we literally announced the general availability of X2 here at EMC World. Now, this is a purpose-built all-flash array that is designed to handle application-level problems. So, for example, it can not only provide very high performance with consistently low latency for DB workloads, but because of its intelligent in-memory content aware metadata architecture that's built for flash media, it can create copies without consuming any extra space instantly and the admins, whether it's a DBA or storage admin, they can actually consolidate production workloads with non-production workloads like DevOps environments analytics, thereby hugely reducing the storage TCO of it, but then there is an added benefit to it. Say, for example, the application admin needs to deploy a VM for his latest application he is developing, right? So instead of having to go to a DBA to a storage admin, he actually can self-service with the application-level plug-in saying like, hey, I want to clone 10 VMs. And you know what? The DBAs are happy, the storage admins are happy because they are out of that chain. They can monitor and make sure everything is running fine, but at the end of the day, the self-service is actually helping the developers bring the product to the market in a more timely and cost-efficient manner. To reduce TCO storage cost. I actually want you to kind of put a point on that because we'd actually looked into, you know, when Flash came into the marketplace, it was like, oh, great, we're going to improve performance, but the business outcomes, what happened to the business? And you know, one piece you talked about, the Dev and Test environment used to be, let's give them some old gear, they kind of work on whatever they could have, they can now increase their agility. Number one thing we hear in the keynote this morning, talk to all customers, how do I move faster? And giving them the tools in there, all of those copies, I'm putting them to use. I'm leveraging my data, I'm leveraging the, increasing the speed of my application development, and that's the number one thing that we hear from all customers is right, how can I not have the storage be a boat anchor, but help me move my business forward? So, you know, be a driver, not a cost. You know? They don't need to be in the business of like optimizing storage, it is like helping them transform the business application workflows, as opposed to how do I plan for this, how do I like keep monitoring, like what do I need to do for the next upgrade, et cetera. So from a customer's perspective, can you talk to us about, to Stu's point, maybe one of your favorite examples of a customer who dramatically improved business outcomes, you know, reducing cost of ownership, getting to market with products faster, launching new products. What are some of the big business outcomes that you've seen through a great customer example? So I actually have like a couple. I'll start with one in the healthcare space. Scripps Health is a big integrated non-profit health system down in San Diego area, and they are running their electronic health record systems which are pretty vital for all the clinicians to access their patient data very quickly. Now, they had multiple problems. One was how to keep up with the explosion of like all the images that were getting created, like copies for their EHR systems, et cetera. And at the same time, they had to back up their data, and they had to create many copies of their SQL server environments. In fact, like they could not keep up with that and their, I mean, the time it was taking was getting enormous. Once they moved to this extremizer platform, they actually like started to see pretty much like that time to create the copies reduced by like more than 80%, okay? And then they also saw the advantage of like data reduction. They are getting anywhere like 40s to one to 70s to one data reduction on the storage capacity. And like with the help of this integrated technology, now their doctors are able to see more patient in a day, pretty much like saving lots of like doctor hours, okay? Can you mention they can pull back large images, faster son-off flash, being able to get, you know, information to patients faster and make diagnoses, maybe improve their ability to do that as well? Yes, yes. And changing the spectrum completely. I mean, I'm from the Boston area, Red Sox is my favorite sports team down there, along with Pat's. Now, again, even with baseball, right? They need to run like lots of analytics. They want to have their spectators in the historic Fenway Park, the latest and greatest digital experience of the games that are going on, right? And they had to run all of their business applications as well as customer-facing systems on a platform that can keep up with the growth and give their latest experience. Now, again, like they moved to Xtreme, they're seeing great performance. They're seeing 70s to one data efficiency. And literally, like they say us, they are business processes and the customer experience have changed. They don't really like need to worry about how the backend is working. They can actually focus on the strategic outcomes of baseball operations and giving the viewers at Fenway the best possible IT experience through, you know, the mobile network, social networking, like all those things. So that's kind of like two of my favorite examples from completely different spectrums. Okay, so we're here at VMworld. Any specific use cases that, you know, you're especially seeing popular, you know, in this community kind of, as compared to the kind of the general storage market? So I would say one of the aspects we heard, I mean, in the keynotes, any device, any application, like OneCloud, for us, what we are seeing- There's actually any cloud now, right? Yeah, any cloud. So it's pretty much the same, right? I mean, it's any device, any application, anywhere, anytime access. So I want to say the end user computing like is becoming very important. It was always important, but there were like storage bottlenecks. But now with all these abstractions that are possible, the mobile device management that is coming in, we see a great uptick in terms of the desktop virtualization market. And again, bringing back to what we just announced, right? This Xtreme X2 platform is exceptional for VDI use cases. I mean, in our previous generation, we had 700 plus customers running 2.5 million plus virtual desktops. Now with this new platform, I mean, a single Xpreak, which is like a small two-controller 18 SSD, it can host up to 4,000 desktops. And I mean, we are seeing tremendous performance improvement, snappy desktop experience with huge data reductions. So that's one area like which we see keeping up with our customer base as they're going through that IT transformation through digital transformation. So one of the things, I love that you brought up the Red Sox. I'm a San Francisco Giants fan, but if they don't make it into the wild card, which is probably not going to happen, I may root for the Red Sox. But what I love that you talked about is, a baseball team is a technology company, a hospital, a university is a technology company, presumably with a lot of legacy infrastructure that needs to be updated to modernize IT. How is now Dell EMC with Xtreme IO helping these companies on this path to digitalization but on this legacy kind of upgrade process? What's unique about how Dell EMC can do that leveraging Xtreme IO? So for us at Dell EMC, modernizing IT infrastructure is essentially we think based on four pillars. Flash, one is flash, scale out architecture, cloud ready and software defined storage all backed by the world class data protection. Now I want to take it one step back. It's not just about like Xtreme IO or Xtreme IO X2. It's about the power of the portfolio that we have. So customers might have legacy infrastructure both from us or from like other vendors but we provide, we kind of like walk into their environments, what we call get modern assessments. We actually run various types of applications to see where their bottlenecks are, what performance do they need and then take a portfolio approach to provide the complete solution in terms of how we can non-disruptively transform all of their workloads into a newer platform. Be it based on Xtreme IO or VMAX or Scale IO any of those platforms, right? But the key is having the ability to non-disruptively move the legacy workloads into this modern infrastructure as well as enabling them to those cloud native applications digital transformation journey. Yeah, you've mentioned cloud native applications a few times, that modernization of the applications one of the toughest journeys that we're going on. We talked about virtualizing, we talked about cloud but the application's something that it's pretty tough to make a change there. How is the infrastructure enabling that and what are some of the, just kind of in general what are you hearing from customers? How are they doing along that journey? So in that space, right? We are seeing a great adoption of like the platforms that can provide 24-7, 365 like not only just uptime but great performance at a lower TCO. And we are seeing adoption in terms of converse and hyperconverse and software defined. So those are the elements that are helping the customers transform into that space. Meaning think of it in an automated self-service world where pretty much like I'm developing my applications and I click a couple of buttons and all the infrastructure get provisioned as I need and when I'm done I kind of like decommission it. So that's the ultimate nirvana of like self-service automation, orchestration that the end developers can use and IT become a strategic operations as opposed to kind of like keeping the lights on and making sure we are like in the business. Excellent. Well Chandomoy we thank you so much for coming back to theCUBE and sharing what's new at Dell EMC with the different technologies and some great use cases across different companies that are tech companies at heart. We hope you enjoy the rest of the show. It was a pleasure being on theCUBE. Thank you. Thank you. And we want to thank you for watching. I'm Lisa Martin with my co-host Stu Miniman again. We are live covering day two of VMworld 2017 from Las Vegas. Stick around, we will be right back.


Everyone's different here at the Canopy Workspace, different organisations, projects and specialisms. But here inside the Entopia building, there's also a common goal that brings us together. There's a collective desire to accelerate change, and sustainability is at the heart of it. The Canopy is all about collaboration, a community, sharing and learning from each other's experiences. And this is Canopy Connect, a podcast where you can get to know your fellow members at the Canopy. This time on the podcast. Hi, my name is Drishti Kholichin. I'm the founder and CEO of Textbot AI. So, let's connect. Textbot AI is a SaaS platform that helps companies and businesses implement diversity, equity and inclusion strategies using data. So, we help them collect data around their workforce, value chain workers and even board members. We perform analysis on the data and we help them with multiple reporting requirements that's impacting them mostly due to ESG and the UN Sustainability Development Goals. Prior to Textbot AI, I used to work in investment banks. So, I've been on trading floors for almost a decade. And you can imagine how male dominated the place was. So, for me, I perceive this as a problem to be fixed. I wanted to create more representation and inclusion in imbalanced workforces. It feels like I'm making an impact, like I'm not being a bystander and watching unfairness and being okay with it. So, it's just taking a stand to fix it in my own way, in my own capacity. That's how I feel. I feel liberated from being actually from a victim position to being someone who's fixing it. So, Textbot AI helps companies identify gaps in their workforces, value chain workers and board representation. So, those gaps would be mostly around composition, like gender composition or a racial ethnicity composition, even more extending to social economic background composition. So, we provide that form of intelligence throughout various seniority levels in the company, and we are able to quantify a lot of qualitative aspects in the workforce. So, one would be inclusion and engagement. It's really hard to measure those traits, but still we're able to kind of produce a metric out of it that helps them in also meeting their reporting requirements arising from ESG or impact metrics. So, that kind of completes the whole story while also giving the company a chance to fix what's wrong in their own organization. At the moment, my day is filled with activities such as talking to my customers, gathering more information around their needs, looking at the regulations and ensuring that our metrics are actually aligned with them. A large part of it goes into our fundraising efforts, trying to reach out to angel investors, VCs, getting conversations, and also that would entail looking at my team as well, developing more features on our product, testing them out. That's pretty much it. The textbook AI has been going on for two and a half years now, so pretty early stage, but in that period we've been able to show material change in the venture capital space. We've been able to help venture capital firms measure how much funding is going to underrepresented founders, to measure inclusion within their portfolios, and even put certain strategies and continuously measure that. So, that is a big improvement in that industry in itself, where we see only 2% of funding is going towards female founders, and there's potential for a lot more improvement on the EDI or diversity, equity and inclusion side of things. We are raising 750K as our pre-seed round. We would like to fill this with investors that can help us open doors to more customers and also partners such as ESG scoring agencies or reporting platforms where we can embed our metrics and help our customers deliver more value. We are also looking for potential customers that would be interested in improving diversity, equity and inclusion in their own organizations using data. We can embed our solutions in any systems as of now, so we would be very keen to try this with other partners. Success for us comes in two different strands. So, the first one is really about performance. We're looking to hit that one million annual recurring revenue, and on the other side it's really about how much social impact we are making.  We want to see how many more minority groups are being hired or feeling more included. So, things like that we keep measuring using our own analytics to help us meet our social impact targets. It's been two months since we've been working with Cy in this program. We found it very interesting because we're able to kind of align on sustainability goals. It's very important and it's also very relieving to see that organizations like BSI are taking the social sustainability part of ESG quite seriously. We feel very validated and valid in this whole exercise. We're able to work together with them, which is another great thing. BSI members, they talk to us all the time and we're able to have really fruitful discussions, and that brings us closer to putting together solutions that can help the wider economy and make bigger impact. So, this is the most enjoyable part of it, and also the fact that being in the canopy itself, it's living and breathing sustainability every day, so it just sets the mood right. We are very open to collaboration. We would like to talk to more businesses similar to BSI or even different. We think that there's a lot of fragmentation in the industry right now with respect to ESG or social sustainability. We're more than ready to show learnings, and even from a technical perspective, our application has its API infrastructure. We can embed platforms. We can do so many things together, so completely open to that. So, if you'd like to know more about Textbird AI, just head to our website, www.textbird.ai. And also connect with me on LinkedIn. We are going to be in the Entopia building every second week of every month. So, feel free to reach out to me and just schedule some time to have coffee. Thanks for checking out this episode of Canopy Connect. Log in to your Office R&D profile to connect with your canopy neighbours. Just head to the members page and find them. This is a canopy podcast made by New Allotment. The canopy is part of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Thank you for listening.


T F N N headline news update Welcome folks. We had the Dow industrials that finished up a 303 at the Nasdaq up 152 S&P's up a 48 and right at the close there. They skimmed the good 70 points off the Dow industrials so you can expect this volume in this volatility is going to continue out here Gold contract gold contract finished down three dollars and twenty cents at $1,514 we get over and take a look at it. It's been quite a ride out here gold Had a high out here today of 15 46 you had a low of 14 88 You've done 597,000 contracts bottom line golds in an ABC structure in the way up five 1575 is your price projection and what we did out here today as you did 15 46 We go take a look at the silver market silver as well Had the volatility inside this market We take the whole market had volatility silver got up to a $17 and 49 cents it closed out the day at 1693 did 176,000 contracts and Silver still does want to get up into this $18 area. In fact, let me just look at some so you get 175 I like it 176. Yes, so it's the wants higher price now notes and bonds folks are still giving us the most consistent Information and this is what it is The 10 year is down 17 ticks, but guess what you're still at highs it will not back off this high You've done 2.1 million contracts. You're going into 2.7 million that's saying it still wants higher price You go take a look at the 30 year and the 30 year just absolutely refuses to back off the 30 year did 484,000 contracts Didn't make a new high, but bottom line spiked The high of yesterday You closed out at 162 24 you done 484,000 contracts that is still monster contract volume pushing a swing high the swing high It's pushing is the high from last week at 163 31 That is saying that notes and bonds still want to go higher King dollar King dollar did get price going as well as volume today King dollar is gonna have a shot now to get over the 97 715 once again right now you're at 97 655 Stay right there folks to get some numbers coming out after the close Recap out here. We had the Dow the Nasdaq the S&P's all go up once the news came out or the tweet came out that The 10 additional 10% taps are not gonna go on until December 15 So all those companies gonna be able to get all these Christmas toys over here. We'll come right back


Hello, my name is Robbie, I'm the UX designer in the platform team. Today I'm just going to run you through an update that's already been doing some development work in the last sprint on the improvement for the multi-factor user setup. So on the left is how it currently is and on the right is how we have improved it. So I'm just going to share my screen and show you a little demo. Yeah, so this is how it currently is. The multi-factor authentication came in in the last update and so at the moment when you're in your user profile imagining that I'm a student, this is if I had to set up my authenticator as like the SMS or the app or the security key, this is sort of what I'm presented with. A little bit clunky, a little bit hard to use, so say basically I wanted to set up an app, I would click this button and then I would get faced with a bit of there's a bit of flow to it but it's it's it needed some improvement. So I'll show you what we have done. So here is the Figma prototype. So what we've done is obviously the initial landing page is a lot simpler and it's separated into these card designs which are just sectioning off the the more important parts making a lot more user friendly. I'll just run through the authenticator app process and I got a lot of help with this from Julia so shout out to her. So basically you would come and if you needed to set it up you click on the blue button that would take you through. We've tidied up the text, the copy and given a bit of a one two three sort of these are the steps you have to go through. So basically you would put in your device name and then you would scan this QR code with one of the authenticator apps. Most people would have a pretty good idea of so the Google Authenticator or Microsoft and other places that probably have to use it. So say you would scan the QR code this little screen emulates what would be showing up on your mobile and then you would just follow that through that would give you a code and then you would enter verification code and say so it's a pretty standard process which is pretty familiar and a lot of MFA but so it's nothing super new but we're just tidying up the process that was already there. Basically once you've done it it would say that it successfully set up and instead of saying set up down the bottom it would now say manage and it would say that it's active. So if you wanted to click on the manage it would bring you to this page and it would give you a couple of options. For various reasons of the way that the MFA set up it's pretty important that you replace your factor but there is instances when you can remove. So basically if you only had one factor set up and you removed it and logged out and then didn't set it up then you would lock yourself out. So at this case because there's multiple factors there we can have to remove but if there wasn't a multiple factors it would only say replace. So I'll just run it. So if you just click replace it would prompt you that you of what's gonna happen and you still yes I want to replace it. That would take you back to the beginning.  It kind of in the background it's sitting in sort of a bit of a waiting position until you've activated all of this process. It doesn't it doesn't replace until you click save and then now it says authenticate it you've got the new one and it's there. Whereas if you went to remove it would just say do you want to remove it yes remove it and then it takes you back to the beginning. So that's pretty much the updates there. There is other tweaks to the sort of the flow of the the other two factors but I'll leave those for now but it's basically the main thing was just the landing page of the user preferences. We just improve that sort of intuitiveness for everyone. So that's that's that.


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. The question says, the sides of a right-angled triangle containing the right angle are 3 x plus 1 cm and 2 x minus 1 cm. If the area of the triangle is 30 square cm, calculate the length of the sides of the triangle. This is the right triangle ABC and these are the two sides containing the right angle. We have to find the length of the sides of the triangle. Let us now begin with the solution. We know that area of triangle ABC is given by half base into height. Now here we are given that area of triangle is 30 square cm. This is 2 x minus 1 and height is 3 into x plus 1. This implies 60 is equal to 2 x minus 1 into 3 x plus 3. This implies 60 is equal to 6 x square plus 6 x minus 3 x minus 3. This implies 60 is equal to 6 x square plus 3 x minus 3. This implies 6 x square plus 3 x minus 3 minus 60 is equal to 0. This implies 6 x square plus 3 x minus 63 is equal to 0. This implies 2 x square plus x minus 21 is equal to 0. This implies 2 x square plus 7 x minus 6 x minus 21 is equal to 0. We have split at the middle top. This implies x into 2 x plus 7 minus 3 into 2 x plus 7 is equal to 0. This implies x minus 3 into 2 x plus 7 is equal to 0. This implies x minus 3 is equal to 0 or 2 x plus 7 is equal to 0. This implies x is equal to 3 or x is equal to minus 7 by 2. We know that length of the triangle cannot be negative. So x equals to minus 7 by 2 is not possible. This implies x is equal to 3. So a b is equal to 3 into x plus 1. That is 3 into 3 plus 1. That is 12 centimeters. b c is equal to 2 x minus 1. That is 2 into 3 minus 1. That is 5 centimeters. But Pythagoras theorem in right triangle a b c a c square is equal to a b square plus b c square. Now a b is equal to 12 centimeters. So this is equal to 12 square plus 5 square. This is equal to 144 plus 25 and this is equal to 169. So a c square is equal to 169 and this implies a c is equal to 13 centimeters. So length of the sides of a triangle are 13 centimeters, 12 centimeters and 5 centimeters. This is our required answer. So this concludes the session. Bye and take care.