Absolutely right on time and this is the last segment of today's show but first things first, let's interact on our social media and that includes Facebook, Instagram and on Twitter as well at www.y2for4channel.com on the ground and you can find me personally, Brian, some call 101. The hashtag is why in the morning as well but I ensure that you also find our TikTok channel which is www.y2for4channel.com. We've done some tests, we're definitely you're likely to see some good and amazing stuff right there but on this last segment of today's show it's about money and I love the fact that tomorrow is the time we also talk about you know how do you attract money, how do you retain money and how do you multiply it you know we talk about we talk of you know I want to save I want to house I want to have one million but then how how is it possible for you to have one million yes it is possible I'm not saying it's not even right now somebody can bless you you should be the luckiest person if somebody sends you a million Bob right now but then if you give a million how do you retain it out you know we say we're going to inverse somebody's self go and type but then my biggest point is how do I multiply from this one million to two million but then now let's move away from that a little bit when it comes to know your day to day life just as a normal money you know getting getting a strong financial support system is really a blessing especially if you are a student you're in campus you're in college and you know the way colleges and university you know life can take you through so many bad and crazy waves so the topic is financial discipline how do you for example if you don't sense your five thousand book every month maybe he expects you to maybe use it till halfway the month and then he can back it up I'll leave it towards the end of the month so how do you channel that money that five thousand up to a point where you're able to save something and still maybe when that sends you something again you still have something remaining for yourself and you know through those bad days that just come unexpected you're able to survive and thrive through so that is the conversation of the day and joining us live in studio are two powerful gentlemen one of them you've like you've you've seen him here a lot on our show he's Devin Marjali still a media student at the University of Nairobi including Danny's hire or Danny's archage or definitely those are his two names two last name he's he's gonna tell us he's a chairman University of Nairobi students with disability association is also acting chair Kenya students with disability association first of all good morning to you guys good morning yeah I'm gonna start off with you uh Dennis probably if you can introduce yourself a little bit and tell us you know what you're all about at campus you know campus life is really amazing and sometimes you can get really crazy so tell us a little bit about you know what you're all about before we get to the topic a very good morning to you my good name is hire Dennis I happen to catch our catch is is my name although I will use it when I become a professor sounds hey we are not ready we are not ready yeah so I'm a low student at the University of Nairobi and I happen to be a student leader for the students with disability association within Nairobi and also as acting chair for the Kenya students with disability disability association so that is what I love doing I love service to the people and competency in doing that service so that is what makes me going in campus as much as I'm doing low which is my best which is the best cause I've ever met on the world and I will not have done it in any other university except the University of Nairobi again so life in campus is there and there is the factory that changes boys to men and girls to ladies and later on women of of making good citizens of the country and therefore I'm in the process of being manufactured to a functional man who will be responsible and worthy and viable citizen of this great society that we are going to make in making thank you all right I love your party being manufactured still on that you mentioned responsible man when you're given money by your guardian of course at some point it does those who are lucky they have somebody who's supporting them through school but I believe school is especially campus or college or any other higher learning institution that's where basically you're being formed you're being nurtured to be like responsible like you mentioned a responsible man who's able to be accountable for his actions his choices and decisions but now let's talk about let's bring in the topic about money money stationary I've spoken to a lot of financial experts here on the show and one thing they say is that you know you know money how to multiply it you just can be given 50 000 and you hide it under the bad no you must find a way of investing and also invest and have out or returns but now it comes to expenditure as a student most of the two of you a lot of fact that you're in the same campus of course there are days your mom sends you something or your guardian let's forget mom or dad your guardian sends you some cash and they're expecting you they're expecting you to actually be accountable for that money if they're sending you like 10 000 this week maybe this this month has already begun they're not expecting you to give them a call on 15th of these some months asking for more money so how do you culture yourself to a way that you're spending accountably and you're able to actually give a whole narration of how you're spending your money without you know spending unnecessarily or gala especially in in campus and definitely like to hear you like how do you spend your pocket money you thank you for the question you've mentioned two things i would in law school we say your question we will submit it in two limbs so the first limb is getting money or being sent to or being given money another limb is spending the money you've been given the ha and with that we'll attach it with accounting for it sending money or being sent to money is the best feeling i think it is the most romantic message is the emperse okay even if you are not in love but you will feel the romance you could be having a bad day but i'm emperse confirmed boom you're ready to laugh here you will leave it a smile and jiggle a little bit right so it is a it is a good feeling and once someone has a good feeling then they plan how can you retain the good feeling because it is natural law that good feeling do not last every now and then so meaning at the end the money might say you're likely to cry you're likely to cry getting the money is a good feeling okay and the expenditure will come and when it gets depleted then you are likely not to laugh again you're distressed you're distressed right and you are in the miasma on how am i going to get another right so that is the sending of money now i've received the money and how did you spend it i'm interested in now we are going to spend it right so basically myself you asked me specifically how i spend money yeah compass in compass yes honestly compass do not have a lot of expenditure it depends with an individual or it depends with an individual okay because for example if you receive a thousand you you myself if i receive a thousand with my life in compass right now i might take two days with it okay yeah uh so where will it go mostly mostly i'm trying to where i spend my money being a leader i'm there's something called goodwill okay majority of people perceive you that you might be having more resources than them right so therefore if an individual who who you are leading or tends to see you as a leader lacks lacks fair for returning back home or even coming to school lunch at the hostel they will simply call you and ask me higher i really need to come to school i'm lacking a hundred so mostly where my money go to okay is sending to my good friends who might have not been lucky to have any coin that very day okay and two taking all right sorry uh let me engage devin and then i'm going to come back to you sorry to interrupt uh devin uh how is good spending or bad spending how does it where does it come in you've been given five thousand by your mother or your your father or generally your guardian and uh they're not expecting you to call them for example make pay a week they're not expecting you by next week or pick a ten they'd be like ah but devin to make to me a two five k a week what could possibly have gone wrong so would you call that as bad spending or maybe you had a situation and is this situation understandable and what is eating your money sure so when it comes to spending you know right now they all talk is about money in the kenyan i mean in the current situation right now if you don't have many dens like you are valueless i mean when we are considering everything that's happening in the current world right now everything talks about money and that one now brings us to the table and they talk about money on how you are going to utilize your funds your resources your income and money and everything so basically me as a person and at this level as a student if i'm given a small amount of money of of any kind maybe by a parent or guardian or anybody i mean generally an income to me as a youth okay most likely well if i'm brave enough i'll try as much as possible to use it in our way that it's quite you know fruitful you know rather than just spending it anyhow and doing anything that you know i'm not sure if it's really going to help me okay so i'll so how do you budget for yours uh maybe perhaps if you can tell us uh how much does your guardian send you for example monthly because uh if apart from let's say help uh i don't know if you're on help you're on help yeah i'm on help though i've never received a single penny since i opted okay that's a conversation for another day but now let's focus on a guardian sustaining you okay so monthly maybe how much do you receive i'm averagely on a monthly basis i okay i'm not sure but a rough estimate should be around 10 000 or something right so that is enough to take it throughout the whole month without you calling in like quarter way the month yeah and now you have to mind that if i'm to spend it in a way that i won't be accountable enough the next time i'll suffer because they'll be like last time we send you money and you just misused it and now you want to call for more and so i have to be conscious on how i spend it right so so how do you budget in terms of like daily expenditure yeah i do have a plan and this something i'm also advising everybody first thing have a plan a rough estimate on how you are going to spend your money like a budget or something i spread it so that you have a column of this what i want and this is what i need the needs and the needs and the wants so for you when you receive that 10 000 for example in a week where does mostly your money go to in a week yeah food we are food because i just want somebody on kbsingli serve you say most kenyans spend a lot of their salaries on food and that is a sign of poverty actually yeah is one of the financial exports up i took you on gas side before in gear because if you spend half of your money on food you are poor whether you have a hundred thousand salary i was like wow but kenyans are foodies anyways sure so food must be there because it's a need so i do it on food i also allocate someone clothing then social media must be there internet or in terms of internet band yeah bundles or even if it's a wi-fi subscription or something and this means you stay at the hostel right because i'm not hard story i rent up i don't stay in university hostels you stay at a rental apartment no yeah sure but it's not like i do pay myself like i don't stay alone or you say like a group of friends yeah yeah yeah okay i said it i know i've been through campus i know there's things so but generally rent must must be there for a student like me and so that 10k has rent in it no that 10k has no rent in it that's something like a nap keep okay okay but rent you can't do rent you can't oh no you must be lucky you must be like hold it on that point let me come back to you uh denny's now when it comes to expenditure uh i don't know also how much you receive uh i don't know how much you receive uh from your guardian uh if they're there maybe you can closely tell us like if you receive that 30 40 or even less how do you channel it not your expenditure and what consumes your finances the most all right uh i partially stay in australian partially and stay at home okay i live with my brother at don't home okay so roughly in a month i receive like 13 to 14 000 that's some good amount some good amount and mostly i budget on it on transport to town because almost every day i come to town so that you bring that to the main campus being that i go to parklands or campers in parkland not this center one yes okay and again you know as a as a student leader who is focused you learn to find connections here and there today you have appointment in this office so most of it is transport food is of course and and and data and maybe clothing because you also have to dress so nice yeah to please whoever are you going to present yourself to so basically those were my money runs and at when i have some few coins i also help my few friends when you want to come and come again so that expenditure is as small as that yes there's no savings in it so what consumes your money the most whenever you receive it the large percentage in and i'm gonna need someone okay what consumes my money the most is transport and food good faith not not not not a good thing it seems you really have this honest heart of i do helping her helping philanthropic man yeah so good faith okay yeah but which i don't regret yeah but transport mostly because you have to go to the office like for example we are on long holiday and i was i was at dawn home yesterday and someone called me that i should be at kbc that is transport right you know figure up you know put a jam you take an bolt which is triple the money you came with absolutely yeah so that is what actually consumes my money most right help coming in yeah your good faith they are helping one two friends because we have to grow right you know still on that growing note you know uh in compass many times there's always a certain pressure especially for for those that went through the media side is that hey you meet people who who come from good good backgrounds you know because media is really intense there's always a certain pressure to dress in a certain way to have a certain sense of function you have to maintain that personality and and you realize you have to you have to either have a constant cash flow or there's somebody backing you up or you have a business or many other streams of revenue so how do you guys manage to keep this pressure of you know i have to look in a certain you mentioned clothes you have to have the latest trends in fashion if it's a funny how you want to have iphone type and the rest which is super expensive for a student less your guardian echo you know well affluent to sustain it how do you balance that you know as a student despite i'm looking at your 13 000 and budgeting it to have all these two things and still look okay how do you budget it i happen to look good in mtumba no i love it mtumba guys so i'm not having a lot of pressure on the trending clothes whenever i go to let's say you come or or or here at mudurua i have a good taste of clothes yes so whenever whichever i choose it will look good in me yeah and uh if you compare me with the guy on fashion you will admire my mtumba which have ironed very well watch clean there and sideway indeed so and nobody will notice it's a muturua no one will notice like you cannot notice i'm i'm i'm on all mtumba because it's not even written it doesn't even have a label like in your ruin your gikomba never point right so i i happen to be i don't have early maturity okay that do not allow me to to get into the unnecessary pressure okay i know who i am i have my target because i know my situation now is not really permanent right when i was a head boy in high school i told my principal one time that the fact that we are students will not be students forever and if it happens that we are poor might not be poor forever so i don't think i have a necessary pressure or someone has done that of course you will admire but that pressure do not hits you unnecessarily and you have to fake life here and they and give you pressure by me they show how to look like you know yeah yes right good response uh devine uh it can be pressure to be a journalist especially if you're a person that comes on camera very often you almost have a certain sense of fashion and maintain it as a personality but then from a student also students mindset there's a lot of things that come in the group of friends that you keep around you the people you look up to or you admire as role models sometimes you get into the pressure of wanting to be like him or her but then you're not there yet you you're forgetting you're still in your baby making years you know how do you keep a stable carbon also mentally stay okay understanding that yes i received 10 000 from my dad and i have to stay within my mains and not go off-curve okay sure so it's true that from people we do interact with them on our daily activities and people we do meet and maybe people we do encounter they have a great impact on our perception on what life really is so if i meet you today and you're driving when maybe i'm riding or maybe i'm just a pedestrian i'll be like i'm missing up on something i really also should be right i mean driving at this point when maybe it's not the case so the first thing is to be quite civilized don't just be swayed away by the current trends and i can say having a financial i mean understanding your financial status quo is the best thing to have in the first place so that you understand what's my income what do i gain on a certain period maybe if it's a month or on weekly basis or even daily what do i you know attract in on my accounts and everything and how am i going to spend it so that you track your you track your expenditures and you are sure if i am i'm allocating this on this then this was going to happen and that the end i won't regret but if you are somebody you can just be so easily by anybody for example right now as you're speaking now from a youth perspective people will be like i want to be like my friends i want to put on the current trends when it comes to shoes or something maybe today i have an adidas shoe and tomorrow i meet somebody with an air force or something i'm like i should be having that one too so that's quite improper planning do you feel like social media contributes a lot to the pressure especially now that we have a lot of young guys doing tiktok they're always doing it in different outfits so you can share on a layer your transition and a ruka and a kudya koguchi and then and a kodio and then and as you cover sachi many outfits is in a normal sano do you feel like social media has contributed to that kind of a pressure where young people are going out of the way including washwash i don't know somebody say washwash is a legit business but i don't know uh do you think has been a big catalyst to that yeah sure social media i think if it's not the most or the best when it comes to having impact on you know people's way of life but it has a place like among those who really do influence on how people do you know behave around and how they spend and everything because if i am on my phone right now and i see somebody with a with a great or an embracing you know dressing code or something or even hairstyles to the ladies you know also consider the enders okay you will get influenced too and you will try as much as possible to try look for money to you know to have that kind of dressing or fashion or style or anything that you you saw in social media so basically social media contributes okay a lot great all right but i'm also looking at it let me come to you uh denny's i'm also looking at it like somebody who comes from a very humble it's crazy all of my co-host here said that you know uh zekelem tour said if you're 30 you still claim you come from a humble background and poor then you're the one who's a problem but anyway let's switch switch sides you come from a very humble family you never had all these lavish things that you're meeting people in campus who come from let's say well stable families well they're getting all these good things that you admire or you dream about but them for them it's easy to have and and how comes it will be easier for you to get off your moral compass and fall into the pressure of spending the money that you don't have to a point they are now getting into other crazy things so that you find that money to spend and get those attractive things that you never had so i think what you're talking about is culture shock and did you experience it in campus okay i happened to have gone to high school meeting with people a little bit big high school so it's something that i started being used to okay because i happened to go to in my closet i did in a private school okay academy and i happened to go to the school for the rich okay so being that my sister was a teacher there i could easily sneak in through that privilege yeah they got that interaction i get used to okay at first point at first i thought that i'm in a wrong place but as time goes by now in the campus i get through so in campus it didn't hit me much because it's something that i had interacted with and i had a privilege of my elder sisters and brothers who had already been in campus and in tertiary education and then i could get stories when they would be on long holiday or whichever break and they will tell me oh this is what happens in campus some people have such and such yes so then i more of experience of also gained in in campus okay so but then i've built that strong personality and and i i also don't tend to look very poor okay yeah i also sustain that broad face smiley and of course being i'm just looking sharp generally just looking sharp okay what my biology teacher told me i happened to be a good student of biology the teacher loved me he told me that if you are studying with a rich a son of a rich person then if that person you cannot defeat him in class you will never meet him but if you can defeat him in class at least you can meet him so at least i've met people who are son of the rich in law school okay so my assignment therefore as i understood best is then to assign them in class not then i teach after campus we will be the same right if he happens to say in ronda i've been privileged for loving to on god and that's what god keeps me going right and because i'm also a student leader i have some supremacy or privilege that they might not have till they leave campus so in one way or the other they only have the privilege or money bit of it but in terms of a lot of exposure here and there so we are with them all right yes and the consultants right good good point good point but still on the money point like what are some of the bond financial decisions that a lot of young people make especially since you guys are still in campus okay i made a very regrettable financial decision when i get to it first year you know i mean from my school and i get through campus the cute good ladies here and uh i happen to i've not dated one i have that pressure also or you had never dated before in high school okay no i've dated but not at a level of ladies who me oh my came across in campus i happen to in first year was because i was still being pampered okay part of the bank and i do me a self-life treatment yeah but my help was already coming in i didn't apply okay so my great ambition was can i get one and at least enjoy life with so when you saw when you first saw how it happened as in did you meet her at the campus corridor did she say hi hi did she fall aliyangusha kitu kakota you know that's that's how people try to okay mean how did you us happen no i attract attention intellectually myself i i am so good we are sorry we apologize in advance yeah so so you find that those ladies they have seen your capability in class all right and these assignments coming in is cut they naturally stream towards you so i use that privilege but it is not free again so hope they are not watching i hope so but so that is one of the regrettable decisions i made in i've made in campus that i not maybe repeat but you've not told us how how regrettable is it because i spent that money okay i did not buy anything meaningful even took chicken chips sodas and then why why i so when when i got into second semester yeah at least i opened my mind for you or for myself oh so at least i could keep for myself i could send my my brother my siblings there some money yeah i'll take care of myself a little bit without asking from your dad yes so that is and i will not another bad financial decision okay what about you devin what do you think is the worst financial mistake that a lot of young men and women mech in campus especially students in other words sure like you know how you're managing your funds really should be something to mind to be mindful and be cautious and you know try as much as possible to utilize your funds and do something that you won't regret at the end in campus most people will go for you know entertainment party party stuffs you know yeah i'm actually drinking and all over you know just having fun which is not bad at the same time though if you are careless enough i mean careless enough then we'll end up in a hot soup so i'll advise that if at this age for example you were having a stereo flow of income might be not be that great i mean that much but at least it's something that if you try and plan yourself and at the end maybe you do something great or maybe even campus i've had cases of people who do say from campus and when they come out you won't see them you know when others are talking looking for jobs you know right now there are no jobs okay there are but chances of getting like you really have to struggle it's not it's not a sure barrier to when you live campus then you get a job or a placement or something so at that moment when you're still waiting on a location or maybe getting a position in your field of study of course somebody who saved while you're still in campus at least should be doing something meaningful at the moment and engagement or business or something people are saving out there you here i saved from high i mean from campus and i manage with you this you know even if it's a semi-permanent house it might not be a a mansion or something but something meaningful through campus savings i managed to you know come up with this business and right now it's you know taking care of my needs because they'll come at a time when personally okay your parents are parents and they'll always be there for you but you feel guilt yourself like there is a moment at a certain age i cannot ask you know just call regardlessly and ask for money from my parents what age is that? what age is that because my co-host would disagree we were disagreeing on actually the conversation was being party and i was like that is is is an age where there's pressure like as a man as a woman they're not expecting you to make those calls and say hey i need 10,000 i'm stuck i need fair because they'll be like you're 30 at this age you should be having two three kids settled in marriage with a job but at this point you you have even no friend you're lonely so so as much as we are spending right now at this age we have no more responsibilities than maybe at time when it will come we'll have more you know responsibilities to take care of you know family and everything they are bills to pay right now i don't think we are we have more you know load on our on our shoulders that we really have to take off years in our chair for something so the little amount i get i can easily utilize it and do something that is quite meaningful okay comparatively with a way that somebody may just go and party and have fun it's good though it's not like we are running away from it completely but at least in a way try to minimize do you plan your party somehow somehow but you do not much you don't all right that makes me ask this question do you feel like as parents they have failed i don't want to use the word fail let me let me redirect it they need to have conversations about money as early as possible especially when you're younger and for us in africa you know african you know set up we try to credit a lot of kikuis who are more attached to money more than other communities in terms of also business managing businesses and in any do you think it's a necessary conversation that we should start having as early as class one no as a kid if you give her 50 bob when i'm on the uh 25 bob nia kosev then 25 bob nia koswiti do you think that in the day we live and maybe a lot of people do not have financial literacy especially those in school setups i think it is a conversation that should start as early as conception and then it should mean that your parent is also saving because mostly we copy what our parents do before i go through that conversation we have one minute so okay fine so but what has been there is that uh when you happen to come from a humble background like most of the students including myself the parent tend to that that lesson of having a poor background tends to teach the parents tends to assume that there is a lesson already existing that should allow you to save but sometimes it's not the case that some a lot of it a lot of most of them is not the case because you find a student from kinangop come to university of Nairobi has never party and find party is only 2000 then you will look for that 2000 only 12 that experience but if this is a conversation that can start as early as we are young that we are taught that uh if you've been given a single penny at least you should save it uh my father used to do something good for us he used to make some teens metallic with kashimo for saving some coins the lezonator piggy banks piggy banks yeah so at least so before you know it you already have like a thousand or even more or even more and that was that is that was that is a good habit that uh that i think any person who want to develop should have saving is what what the world what runs a stable economy and even a developing one yes uh devin how early should we start having financial conversations in 40 seconds because we are out as early as possible right as early as possible because with time we will have to be you know accountable on your spending and everything if you have a base a spending plan what we call a budget or something in other terms yeah when you have a saving culture when you are very cautious on your spending and everything let's not just spend money impulsively like being swayed away by the current trends and everything but at least be quite civilized because right now when it comes to money there should be no jokes the economy is really bad especially now yeah but as as we go is it possible for somebody to be sent 50 000 leo and by friday akoseku anakit you are asking for the possibility yeah it is obvious very obvious and it is something that we see it's happening it is happening okay yes so it's something that i've witnessed myself friends leave me on a friday and on sunday i go on a some good amount of money on sunday there the full is a limit is zero and all that so okay but again i think um yeah we are we are out of time bro but then we can we can we can put a comma on that note of full stop so that we can have a part too and social media very first uh social media my social media is higher than is all of them twitter instagram and it's linked in and facebook higher than it's a high art on tiktok and i've been giving you an instagram embrace on youtube all right all right time really flies so really fast and thank you guys for coming through denny's hire he's a chairman of university of net roby students with disability association acting chair as well as kenya students with disability association sounds the same thing though uh david majala media student has been here very often thank you guys hopefully have a part two as well yeah all right and that's what we put our close to it thank you so much and brian soko 101 at point two four four underscore channel on the gram hashtag is still on the morning see you tomorrow for health tuesday as well as entrepreneurship tuesday as well have a fantastic monday see you tomorrow


Okay, we're back. This is Dave Vellante. I'm back. I was just meeting with Joe Tucci and Mike Capellis in an analyst breakout, and I got some good information I'll share with you in a moment. This is SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of EMC World, and we're live here in Las Vegas. We have a good friend, Dave Cahill, from SolidFire on. We met SolidFire a year ago at EMC World. The CEO, Dave Wright, popped out of Rackspace, conceived and founded SolidFire to be exclusively focused on the cloud service provider market. It's an all-flash array focused on the cloud service provider market like no other company. Most companies sell flash arrays, all-flash arrays, sort of broad set of use cases. SolidFire is uniquely focusing on the cloud service provider space, and we're going to get into that with David Cahill. David, welcome to theCUBE. Good to be back. Good to be here. Yeah, so you moved to Colorado. A lot of interesting personal stuff going on, and it's great to see you doing so well personally, and it seems like SolidFire is really making some progress. You guys are, as I said before, uniquely positioned in the cloud service provider space, but so, why don't we get into it? Maybe give us the bumper sticker, because you can maybe add some color to what I just said, and then give us an update on where we're at. Yeah, sure. So guys that are building large-scale, multi-tenant clouds, it's a unique customer set, and the last year has done nothing but validate that for us. We've been in early access with a handful of partners and our cloud service providers in that regard, and continue to expand out that program now, and it's as evident now as it was then that this customer set has unique challenges around scale, around automation, around performance, and around efficiency that you don't traditionally see in the enterprise, and so we continue to be laser-focused on that customer set. Large-scale, multi-tenant clouds, and there's plenty of them being built. Yeah, so where are you at?   We are heads down, charging towards full GA later in the year, but the purpose of the early access program really is to get some select cloud service providers to beat the crap out of the system, and let them continue to evolve the services that they're going to offer based on the solid-fire system, and make it a better offering, GA both from a infrastructure standpoint, but also from a services standpoint, because these guys are advancing the way that we think about the cloud. Cloud 1.0 was, let's move your data to the cloud. Cloud 2.0 is, let's move your apps to the cloud, and so that's a mindset shift which requires evangelism on the part of the cloud service provider to the end customer, in addition to the infrastructure, right? If you crack the code on the economics of high performance in the cloud, you open it up to a much broader application set. Yeah, so, so actually Dave, I want to see if we can call an audible here. So are you hanging out here? Are you got something to do after this? So we are, I'm around. So Sanjay Murshandzani who's the CIO of EMC, we're going to lose them if we don't bring them on. I realize now, look at the schedule.  Would that be okay? All right, so listen, keep it right there. We're going to come right back with Sanjay Murshandzani, CIO of EMC, we're right back. The cube is this conceptual box, if you will, and we bring people inside of the cube, and then we share ideas. The cube is a comfortable place. It's a place where people feel happy, and are happy to share their knowledge with the world. And we're happy to be ambassadors of that knowledge transfer. Okay, we're back. And this is the segment with Sanjay Murshandzani, CIO of EMC. Now Sanjay's been on the cube a couple of times, and really has been leading EMC's transformation efforts internally, so the company's not just talking about transformation, it's actually transforming. I was at the CIO event in October, EMC-CIO event. Sanjay really keynoted that event, and was the sort of highlight at that show, working with a number of EMC-CIOs to help them understand how EMC was transforming. Sanjay was a really, first of all, welcome to the cube. Thank you, good to be here. And so that was a great event. It was EMC's first real effort to bring together CIOs, and EMC used you as a showcase, which is smart. You guys are doing some internal transformations, but there was a lot of interest around what you were doing. Obviously, a lot of talk about infrastructure transformation, but also new metrics and things like that. What did you take away from that event? Well, you know, the whole thing is that people want proof points. The whole thing today is about proof points, and we've been on this journey first in virtualization, then we moved that to cloud, and we've now incorporated obviously big data into that, but nobody builds infrastructure for the sake of infrastructure. You want to drive value out of it, and we translated value for the business, for EMC as a customer internally, around agility, speed, time to market. And there's been a shift in the way our internal customers think about things, because it's all about, hey, give it to us faster. It doesn't have to be perfect out of the gate, but give it to us quicker so we can work together and get it right. So we've built out our cloud, and now we're working through the layers on top of that cloud, if you would. So things like platform as a service, true business intelligence as a service, connectivity between our infrastructure and our legacy applications, or if I have the liberty of building our new applications, how do you do that? And then on top of all of that, these devices, we're adding thousands of these devices a month into the network. How do you bring a true user experience and give our users productivity outside of email on this device? So that's what we took away, that customers were interested in these layers. So when I hear something like BI as a service, I think I get excited, as a business person, I say, can I get access to a self-service BI portal? And actually begin to interact with data without having to call up an army of IT people. Is that the vision? Is that you actually doing that? Right, right, and right. So. Talk about that a little bit. Yes, we should. It's actually very exciting because it's the first layer of value that we're adding directly on top of our cloud infrastructure, right? So the number one area where you have rogue IT or shadow IT, whatever you like to call it, is some form of business reporting. So users will say, IT can't provide me my reports fast enough, or IT can't provide me the reports the way I want them, or in the format that I want them, or as frequently as I want them. So it's usually shadow IT, usually, a big percentage of it, is around some kind of reporting system. So, what we decided to do was, we built the cloud infrastructure, we've got the capabilities, we've got Green Plum in place. So what we're doing is we're creating as much of this data that our internal customers want access to, give them one version of the truth. So you take away the noise about where is the data, and instead spend time on two things. Helping our internal customers build the skills to do the analytics the way they want it, and give them data scientists as a service, as a human service, to really enable them, because we see the data left to right, nobody else does. All elements of data within the company. So we give them data scientists as a service, and we'll give them skills around tool sets that they want to use a Microsoft reporting tool or SaaS or something else on top of the Green Plum platform. We're enabling the platform, we're enabling some competency around the tools, and we're enabling data scientists with subject matter expertise in the data. And then our internal customers can go off and have a nice day with that information any way they want it. So how do you deal with the issue of credentials? Like who gets to see you, which data? Well, obviously we put business rules behind all that. So our security office is involved, and we are now tiering the data based on access, based on profiles, et cetera. So all of that has to come together. So it's not an all or nothing formula. We're bringing best practices into play and making sure we're there. Those are things that you understand how to do in a traditional world, right? And if it's rogue IT or shadow IT, that now comes into the picture, so you have better control over that stuff. Yeah, so we actually just, you mentioned shadow IT, we just did a survey on IT transformation. One of the questions we asked is, what percent of your IT budget or organization's IT budget is managed by a centralized organization, and only about, I say only, about 38% said 100%. So more than half had some kind of shadow IT and about 20%, had a 25% of the spend or more going to shadow IT. It's a real, I mean, and let's be honest here. With cloud computing, stuff that was in the arsenal of IT for years is out in the open. You can get access to the credit card to the same amount of infrastructure in a drop of a hat that my IT guys need. So it's just shadow IT's gone out of the dark corners of the organization, right into the open, into the cloud. It's okay. And so it's a whack-a-mole syndrome. So we were saying you got to either embrace it or get out of the way. And so the pitch that my leadership team and I are making to our organization is we have to be the brokers of value. It's not about authorship. It's not about where it was built or where it was written. It's about how soon can we add value to the business? And we have to be the brokers of value, all right? And it's not all about, hey, if it wasn't written here, it isn't good enough for this company. You've always been very forward thinking about that. I mean, shadow IT freaks out some people. Oh, we got to pull it in, but you're like, okay, fine. Now, I want to tie it into the messaging that we're hearing at EMC world. So it's IT transformation, transform IT, or sorry, it's transformation, transform IT, business, and then yourself. We've said, okay, IT transformation, that's about the cloud, new cloud infrastructure, cloud business as well. The business transformation is about data. Unlocking data, finding data value. And then self, obviously, we make cloud architect, maybe design. That's a big piece of what I'm going to talk about tomorrow. So is that a reasonable way to look at what the messaging is and how that maps from a practitioner's perspective? And I'm trying to squint through, okay, how much of that is marketing and how much is actually implementable? So you've talked about the cloud transformation internally at EMC, IT as a service. How about the data piece? You're talking about BI, self-service BI, but how about even going beyond that? Are you actually getting into that point where you're leveraging that, are you able to monetize that value? Great question, by the way. And there's lots of nuances to that question because when you chunk something down to saying, IT is about, transforming IT is about infrastructure. Well, transforming IT is about infrastructure, self-service, automation, cataloging, and creating the capability to present IT as a service. If that makes sense. My goal is to break down the big black box of IT into little black boxes of IT so customers internally can pick and choose what they want, at the price points they want, and at the service level they want. And I present that up in as much of an automated service catalog as I can. Now, that is transforming IT. There's a lot of process transformation alongside technology transformation and the you is human transformation, which I'll get to in a minute. Once I've built that, what do our internal customers want? They want big data. We talked about big data. They want anytime, anywhere computing capability. So if you've got that sleek little MacBook Air in front of you or the latest Android device that has showed up at your door or an iOS device, they want to be able to compute anywhere they like on any form factor, any screen, anywhere. We have to render that. So for us today, mobile is an opt out strategy. So you have to tell me explicitly that you don't want mobile when I give you a solution. It's automatically opt in. Two years ago, it was the other way around. Well, I mean. Okay. Now, how do you do that? You do that based on the fact that I've got a cloud infrastructure and I'm building mobile capabilities on top of that cloud infrastructure to expose elements of that data, manage those devices, create that user experience on top of that infrastructure. Security apps, the whole line yards. Logging, monitoring, authentication, you know, so on and so forth. And so how do you do that? So that's really transforming the business. How they use it, how they consume it, what they want to do with it, et cetera. Set differently. So transform IT, transform the business is, transform IT was building the factory floor, building the production line. It was all about IT. Transform the business is all about the business. This is where you're building the widgets you want off that factory floor. Transform you is what gets the least attention, but it's probably the most pivotal thing in all of this is the bits are going to be just really cool bits on the data center floor unless somebody knows what to do with them and really dry value with it. And so for me, the focus of my leadership team and myself is not so much just about the architectural roadmap, but it's bringing the thousands of people that are involved with IT, whether it be our own people or partners that help us, along with us in this journey, in a way that they're showing us the way. I mean, I could come up with this best roadmaps, somebody's got to make them happen. Yeah, and I think you're hitting on a really important point that, you know, the people piece, we always sort of ignore that. We talk about the technology, but you know, well, when you look at the spending that goes on in this industry, the vast majority of us are people, which, you know, on the one hand says, okay, that's important, we're investing in our people, but we're in a labor intensive IT economy and that's stifling innovation. You've talked frequently, as have your colleagues, about the 70-30 mix, 70% goes to running the business, 30% goes to innovation, but decades of infrastructure, investment and silos have really stifled that innovation. And so you got to attack the process and the people problem, or else that's not going to change. Which leads to that. I mean, trust me, that's what it is. Yeah, and so in order for us to move the industry forward, you know, Paul Meritz talks about getting deeper into the business integration. You can't get there if you're stuck in all this IT infrastructure, right? You sort of bring the first five minutes of my presentation to my keynote. But that's exactly true. You know, we say 70% is lights on 30%, 25%, 30% is innovation. It's not even innovation, it's just new stuff compared to old stuff. Yeah, it's not maintenance. I mean, yeah, that's the binary call. You need to get beyond that into true innovation and that takes a lot of effort. And people are so stuck in, I got to get this done. I got to get this out. I got to do this work around, I got to triage this problem that the technology and the processes are so institutionally complex. The business has gone this way, IT has continued to run this way because we haven't had time to move this way. I think today, and I say today, I mean, the period of the technology that we're in is the technology lends itself to agility. The business is open to how it needs, and open and welcoming to how it wants to consume the technology, good enough, iterate, agile, and it's up to IT to adapt at this point to say I'm willing to bring those two things together and really change how I do things for the business. Does that make sense? Yeah, and it does, especially when the context of the IT services discussion we had earlier, and we talk about, you said binary, it's either you're maintaining or you're doing something else. I think when organizations, if you can present IT as a service, can start to really align with their objectives of their, and treat it like a portfolio. Run the business, grow the business, transform the business, and maybe align it to business unit and really start to make IT a much more fundamental part of the strategic plan and the operating plan, and that's what excites me. Listen, I had one more question for you, and I've been hearing a lot about Propel. I heard first, a couple months ago, we heard more about it last week at SAP Sapphire. You did? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, Joe was just talking about Joe Tucci, so, you know, I know- You was talking about Propel? Yeah, he didn't use that word, but he talked about- I asked him about SAP, and he said, hey, it's going live soon. I heard it's going live this summer. July 5th. July 5th, okay, great. So, what's that all about? Okay, so, you know, as, here's how I like, I like to think about it. For a few years, we were building out infrastructure, and it was a drive for efficiency in the business.  And the muscle we were trying to build back was our cloud infrastructure, and applications that took us into the future, right? The business wasn't slowing down their plans because I couldn't keep up with them. They were going just as fast as they had to go, driving shareholder value, creating new markets, new products, getting and doing the things they had to do. We were working with 10, 12 year old legacy systems, like every other company in our class, grow fast, grow globally, acquire companies. You're just trying to tread water sometimes and just stay afloat. We made a conscious call two and a half years ago to revamp our core systems, our line of business systems. No different than a retail bank pulling out their core retail banking systems and backend systems and putting in new ones. The ones they've used on a main frame for 20 years. Very trivial. But we didn't just stop at the app layer. We're completely building out this line, a new line of business solutions on what is essentially an EMC VMware RSA and partner friendly technology. So it's SAP on the top at the app layer, Vblock architecture, we've used in the spring frameworks, Gemfire, all of the other products, the middleware products that allow us to move into the cloud from VMware all built on a V, run on everything V. So the only thing that we're bringing over over 12 years is data, that we're spending a lot of time transforming. So they're ready for big data and the database physically. Everything else is brand spanking new. So at every layer of that stack, we are transforming IT, the business and ourselves. I mean, if you want to encapsulate the theme for this event, we're living it. July 5th, my team's been working for the last couple of years, the last couple of months have been torture, as you would imagine anything of the scale. You know, we close the quarter, we turn on the lights the next morning and we're in a new system and we got to take our users through it. So, you know, the team's done a stellar job but we still have a little bit ahead of us. July 5th, you'll be on the beach, but Sanjay's team, as IT, always pulls the shorts off. We don't get a long weekend, we don't get a probably a very long month actually. Sanjay Merchandani, one of the best CIOs in the business. We had Oliver Busman on last week, another real innovator, so I really appreciate your perspective. Hey, thanks, good to be here, as always. All right, keep it right there, and we'll be right back.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that solve for y and the equation given is y is equal to log of square root of 125 to the base 5. We know that the relationship between logarithmic and exponential form is given by y is equal to log of x to the base b and this is equivalent to b raised to the power y is equal to x where this is the logarithmic form of the equation and this is the exponential form of the equation. With this key idea let us proceed to the solution. Here we have y is equal to log of square root of 125 to the base 5. From the key idea we know that the logarithmic form of the equation can also be written in the exponential form of the equation and vice versa. This is the logarithmic form of the equation and using this key idea we can transform this logarithmic form of the equation into exponential form and it can be written as 5 raised to the power y is equal to square root of 125. We can also write this equation as 5 raised to the power y is equal to 125 raised to the power 1 upon 2. Now writing 125 in parts of 5 we get 5 raised to the power y is equal to 5 raised to the power 3 whole raised to the power 1 upon 2. Now simplifying this exponent we get 5 raised to the power y is equal to 5 raised to the power 3 into 1 by 2 that is 3 by 2. Since base is same so we can equate the parts. Here we can see that we have same base 5 so we can equate the parts and we get y is equal to 3 by 2. Hence we get the value of y as 3 by 2 which is the required answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockhound. Today I'm once again here with Tim and we're once again out at the Levan Black Agate. So I was searching earlier today down there and didn't find much, but today probably my last time out here at the Levan Black Agate, at least for a long time. So we've found the Black Agate on the hill, we found the Ragged Agate down here, and we found the guy's old larger pit, and then we found some Black Agate going over the hill. Today the last thing we want to do is get that Black Agate going up and over the hill down into the valley before it disappears again. We've basically traced the unit till it disappears here and we've traced it now. We're going to trace it to where it disappears there and that'll be it. We'll have searched the entire length of it. We're hoping to find some good pieces of Black Agate up there and on the way see if we find any good pieces of the Red Agate too. On our way to the Black here's the Red Agate area and down low found this one. It's got a little orange on the outside. It's mostly colorless though. Still it's the first find. Found a better piece with the orange, so nice. Mostly been finding little pieces of the Red. Nothing good sized yet. So Tim just found this piece. He's got a nice piece of the Red inside the calcite which is how it forms. Good find there. Now I just found this nice orange piece right here. Look at that. That looks nice doesn't it? And next to it, oh it's kind of a black with red. That's nice. See that? Not too bad. There's a little piece of the Red the other side broke. That side's nice. Looks like I found another one right here. It's more of an orange. Looks nice though. Another small piece. But yeah you can see the little ones here and there. I think I found a good one here kind of in the shade. That's pretty good. Oh it's got a little bit of the botched riddle on it. Yeah that's a decent piece. Tim spotted this. Let's see if it's any good. It's thin but it's a piece of orange. I think I found somewhere that stuff that's on the edge that's like the pocket. Hey Tim can you get that a spray off? Yeah. All right. Looks like it's just the edge of the pocket like usual. Yeah it's just the edge of the pocket edge. Still nice. It's still a keeper. But we do want to find better. That beautiful thing. Tim just found, oh look at that one he just found. That'll probably go through quite a bit. That'll be a good one to cut. It's a good find there. Here's this one cut open. Oh look at that. So the other side didn't actually break. Tim kept it and I forgot to film it before he kept it. That's okay. The other side looks very similar. But I like how clear it is there going through the middle. Very cool. Found this one above Tim's. It's got some in it. But it's not much. Just a little bit. Something. May have found a nice piece here. Maybe a few other little things. Let me spray these off and see if there's anything good on them. Spray them all off and this was the only good one. It's a little nice. It's decent. It's not great.  Here's one that had weathered out. That's decent. Yeah we'll take that one. Tim found some calcite. Got a nice single crystal right there. You got one, two. Yeah that one in the back's the best though. Yeah. So we're finally up on the top here. The pit's back that way. The vein goes this way. Found my first piece. You can see it's got the nice black on the outside and white in the middle. And then Tim said he found one. Let's got the nice botched riddle. Have it. Take a look. Yep. Nice. Those are always so cool when they have that shape to them. Yeah. Another piece. Oh that one's nice. Oh it's just a solid chunk. Let me spray that really quick. Oh that is a nice piece. There are some nice ones up here. A little bit of white in the middle. Kind of a hint of red in some places. Overall a very nice piece. Yeah I like that side the best. There's this one cut open. This was I think the nicest piece I saw up on the top. Oh look at that. That is beautiful. I like that one. Very nice. See something that might be a piece. Oh it's a thin layer on the surface. Okay it looks like it is a vein going through it and it's actually decently thick. So we'll take that home and wash it all off and get a better look at it. It's looking promising though. Just found that piece.  Oh that looks nice. I'll cut that one. That should look nice after I cut it. Got another piece right there. It is thin piece but it's a piece.  Oh it's very dark. It's got circles in there but oh it's dark. Hard to see. Ah we should add more contrast. Still nice. Right next to those other two. I just found that one. That's cool. There's another one. Oh here's a few little ones right here and one hiding the weeds. Oh that looks bigger. Yeah that's a little bigger. It's not good. It's little veins but let's have a little bit of botched riddle right there. I believe I see one right there. It's a thin piece but it's nice. I walked over this area and missed that one. I'd already walked over this and didn't even see that. Just pulled that one out. It's got the nice botched riddle inside. Just to show you how hard these can be to see. Look at that. Normal rock but look at that vein on the bottom of it. They can be so hard. Here's this one cut open. Oh nice. I like how translucent it is. You can see things in it. Cool. Look at that from the top. Doesn't look like much but there you go. Side. There it is. Nice banding in that one. So Tim was over here and he found a nice piece he said. Oh look at that. Oh that's that is a great piece.  This is one of the nicer pieces of black I get that Tim found. Look at that. Lovely pattern in there. Beautiful. Tim found another good piece up there. Yeah that's decent. That'll be good. Cut that one. So we're going to head down now. We've really searched the area. We went up and over followed as far as we could until it disappeared. So now I've finally done the full extent and definitely the better spots were right here right next to where their old pit was. The red agate down there and the black agate discover we found the next hill over there. And let's see if we find anything on the way back on the way down. Found this one. Look at that yellow. That is the first time we've found yellow like that up here. That's crazy. Hey now there's yellow agate up here. So just below where I found that yellow one Tim found this thing. So there's that little spot right there. Oh this is looking good. Oh snap. What a piece. So it has your your man yellowish orange in it. That's crazy. Okay let's keep looking around here a little bit. Here's this one. The other side broke a bit but the pieces that it get that we got are pretty nice. Let's look at that one. And we'll get this one and then here's the other side. Very nice. Here's this one cut open. This one looks very nice on the outside and it looks very nice on the inside. Look at that. Cool. That's a good agate right there. Tim just found this one with kind of a vein in it. We'll have to take that home and clean it off some more and maybe cut it. Just up from Matt found that one. That's nice. Look at that. Look you can get the light coming through it a little bit. It's so cool. Wow that's cool. There's yellow. Now we've found yellow agate out here. Here's this one cut open. Just a little bit right there. Still pretty cool. Tim just got another one he said. Oh yes look at that. Dang this is some of the prettiest agate out here I've seen. It's mostly rocks that just have a bunch of thin ones going through it but this one was nice. Here's this one cut open. Nice. It's got a little bit of yellow in there. That's what we're trying to get is that yellow. Here's this one cut open. Okay I like this section right here. It's got some yellow in there. There's not much but that's cool right there. Here's this other side broke but we got that little spot right there that looks nice. Just found this one also has a little yellow in it. Here's this piece had a nice vein going across the top and that's all it is is that vein on the top. Nice though. Look at that just saw that one. That's even on the surface too. I know. That's got red and white in it. What's on the back side? It's not that great this is the better looking side. Still found this big one. I don't know how much is on the inside. Looks like it's mostly just a little. It might be worth trying to cut though. Maybe I'll keep it. Here's this big thick one cut open and a little bit like right around here. It's hard to tell but yeah it's it's got some veins through it. Just found that one. We'll have to cut into that. So this has got a little bit on that that edge right there and it's got some red in it. So nice. Here's this you could see some nice yellow on the outside. We've got a little bit on the inside. Nice. Tim just found some things over there. I actually have green in mind. I legitimately have green. So we got some a little bit going through there. Look at that on that side. That's nice that green. A teeny bit of green there. Looks like it's some of the volcanics that are part of the border of it which might really add the color when you cut it. Yep. And he found something apparently good sized. Okay let's wash this off. Here's this one cut open. Oh there's some nice veins in there. The rock looks cool too. I like it. So you got a vein on the top and then you got a vein diving in right there. Yep. So we won't know for sure until we wash it off more and probably cut it. Here's this one cut open and fractured. I'll try and hold it. There you go. Nice black agate there.  Tim said he just found a good one with real yellow. Orange circles. Oh look at that. Look at those circles in there. Those are those little botteradal forms from the side. Look at the yellow. That is the best yellow I think we've seen so far. Just found this. Look at the botteradal on that and who knows what else. It's really covered. Really coated. So I won't know until I get this thing washed off but I'm excited. Excited to clean this thing off. Here's this big one cut open. Nice. Right here. That's a nice little vein going there. The whole rock looks really cool actually too. That's a nice one. I may have just made a discovery. Look at this thing. I see some of it there. I don't know how thick it is. I don't know how much there is on it. Oh gosh. Can you get that out Tim?  What? That's on the surface. That's botteradal all over the surface. How much is in it though? I don't see any in it. Oh no I see there. There's probably multiple veins that are fairly thin but you won't know until you wash it off for sure. I know. I don't know how much the rock is but that side with that botteradal right there is beautiful. Dang it Tim. I have to carry this down now. Yeah I know. So here's that huge one all washed off. So the best part was actually this bottom with all the cool botteradal calcidine that's kind of a yellowish color. That was really cool but the rest of the rock didn't seem to hold very much. You can see there's a few little veins here and there. Stuff gone through it but mostly it was that which looked really cool. Here's this one cut open. Oh look at that. That vein on the top is beautiful. That is a nice agate right there. That is nice. And we made it back. What a discovery right Tim? We found a new discovery. We came out here. This is going to be my last time coming out to the Levan Black agate. Maybe not. I was going to maybe pick up a little bit of red on the way.  Finish searching and then hopefully just come back to some nice black pieces. Maybe if you read. Didn't think we'd discover a new spot. Very small area where it's yellow. Yellow with the black. Black and yellow agate and some red in some of it. So black and yellow and red. Never seen that color combination out here. That's the only place I've seen it. It's probably extremely rare to find it out here like that. And we found it. That was a good day. It was an amazing day. Remember guys there is treasure everywhere. There is.


Item Number – SCP-145 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures – SCP-145 is to remain inside its room at all times, in a 0.5 meter by 0.5 meter by 0.5 meter plexiglass container, unless being studied. Room is to be thoroughly soundproofed and securely locked when studies of SCP-145 are not in progress. Under no circumstances shall any personnel come into physical contact with SCP-145 without being accompanied and constantly observed by one or more other personnel, unless conducting testing with proper authorization. Any personnel showing signs of intense psychological trauma must be immediately escorted out of the containment area. Depending on the level of trauma of affected personnel, they may be required to submit to consultation with an approved psychiatrist for no less than two weeks. Description – SCP-145 appears to be a standard 2002 model cordless telephone handset of Alcatel brand on its standard-issue charging base. The charging base appears defaced. All jack inputs are sealed with resin glue and the power input to the device has been gouged out with an unknown sharp tool. The phone rings constantly, whether it is on the base or not, regardless of the lack of power source. Tests have shown that the battery is removable and disassembly of the base has not shown any effect on the hand unit. The hand unit itself has had all of the seams sealed, preventing conventional disassembly. When answered, a female voice speaks on the phone in a voice that shows high levels of stress. This voice varies from conversation to conversation, but in all cases, the voice expresses extreme panic and proceeds to plead with the listener for assistance, as she describes instances of torture conducted on unknown victims. In the background, the listener will hear sounds of violence and expressions of pain and anguish. No analysis has so far indicated several individual voices over disparate calls. The methods of torture implied thus far, judging from the phrases and reactions of those speaking at the time of contact, have included branding, electrocution, laceration, sexual assault, data expunged, and dismemberment. The callers appear to be non-automated and entirely sentient. Attempts to trace the call or track down the location of the tortured callers have proven unsuccessful thus far. Attempts to block the signal of the phone with the use of a Faraday cage have also been unsuccessful. Research is conducted in teams of at least three, one Class D staff, one Class 2 slash 145 audio technician, and one Class 3 security staff, with only Class D staff permitted to have direct auditory contact with SCP-145's transmissions. Everything is shown that in 100% of cases, a subject answering SCP-145 without live supervision will vanish without any indications of transportation methods. Video recording devices do not show the method of transport. The subject will be present in one frame and absent in the next. In case of disappearance, the phone will simply fall to the floor. The phone does not appear to have sustained damage from any of these falls thus far. No communication with the object has revealed that vanished subjects join the group of torture victims. Testing Log Testing procedure. All tests will be conducted with D-Class personnel. Any issued equipment for the test must be recorded in the log. The D-Class personnel will then be ordered to pick up the phone. After disappearance of initial test subject, the above standard research team will answer the phone and record any observations. Date undisclosed Subject D-1453749 issued one GPS locator device, testing to attempt to ascertain the location described at the other end of the line. Result GPS rendered non-functional after disappearance of D-Class personnel. On following interaction with SCP-145, audio technician identifies voice of D-1453749 has joined other victims. Test-145B Date undisclosed Subject D-145-4751 issued one GPS locator device, one six-inch standard-issue military combat knife. Second attempt to ascertain the location described at the other end of the line, self-defense option provided to subject. Result GPS rendered non-functional after disappearance of D-Class personnel. On following interaction with SCP-145, female voice indicates continued stress and states, oh god he's cutting him. He's cutting off data expunged. Audio technician then identifies voice of D-145-4751 has joined other victims. Test-145C Date undisclosed Subject D-145-539 issued one 9mm semi-automatic pistol, one Kevlar vest. Subject compelled to pick up phone. Attempt to determine interactivity of location, determine if any self-defense method is possible. Result On following interaction with SCP-145, gunshots are heard. Then data expunged. Female voice resumes, states data expunged and additional gunshots are heard. Audio technician identifies D-145-539 exclamations of pain after each gunshot. Test-145D Date undisclosed Subject D-145-684-2 issued one kilogram of C-4 explosive, concealed in supply kit. Explosive attached to remote trigger with 30 second delay, triggered before interaction with SCP-145. Subject to determine any possible level of interaction or destruction of location. Result Data expunged, resulted in several members of Foundation personnel missing, including Dr. Ruff. And all researchers associated with data expunged, breaches of SCP security at site, further testing of this nature suspended at this time. I don't know who thought this might be a good idea. I know sometimes we let sympathy get the better of us, but this attempt to bring relief to SCP-145's victims just cost the Foundation a lot of money and resources. Dr. Ruff Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-144, Tibetan Rope to Heaven, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Hey, I'm Andrew Connell. What you're about to watch is the overview lesson to one of the chapters in my MS-600 exam prep guide course. This course is available for purchase on my site, Voitanos.io. I'll include a link to it in the description below the video. This overview video, which is the first lesson of the chapter that you selected, gives you an idea of what the chapter is gonna cover. You can learn more by checking out the description below the video about this chapter. If you've got any questions about the chapter or the course, just drop a comment below the video and I'll be sure to get back to you. So with that, let me get out of the way. Enjoy the overview lesson from this chapter. Welcome to my prep course for the building applications and solutions with Microsoft 365 core services exam, also known as the MS-600 exam. I wanna start by first welcoming you to the course and then I wanna explain what this course is, what it isn't, and explain how you can get the most value from this prep course. This course is all about taking and passing the MS-600 exam. And this is the only exam that you need to take and pass in order to become a Microsoft 365 certified teams application developer associate. This course is focused on preparing you for the exam. Now, if you've never worked with Microsoft 365, you most likely don't have the experience that you need to pass the exam. Let me be clear, this course is not going to teach you everything that you need to know to pass the exam. Rather, this is a guide so that you'll know everything that you'll be tested on. If you don't know something, no problem, I provide the resources where you can learn more about that topic. This course is for those of you who have a good foundation in Microsoft 365 development and who want to be in the best position to pass the exam. And there may be some things that I cover in this course that you're not familiar with. But like I said, I'm gonna give you all the resources where you can go learn all of those things on your own time. Now, before I jump into this, let me first introduce myself. I'm Andrew Connell, and I'm the course author and the founder of Voitanos. I'm also a Microsoft MVP for office development. And I've been a Microsoft 365 developer for a very long time, ever since it was been around and was first introduced as Office 365. My development experience is rooted in web and cloud stacks and I have been a SharePoint developer going all the way back to 2003. I also write a lot about Microsoft 365 and Azure development on the Voitanos blog and published videos for web developers on the Voitanos YouTube channel. You can find a lot of my work on the Microsoft learning site as Microsoft frequently hires me to write learning modules and labs related to Microsoft 365 development tasks.  Now, before we get too far into the course, you probably are wondering why you should trust me. I'm a longtime Microsoft 365 developer and as I said, I go way back to well before there was even a cloud. I remember the days back when Office 365 was first introduced, even back further than that to all the products that we're gonna talk about about this exam. Things like SharePoint and Azure Active Directory and Extending Office as well, even so far back that some of those products didn't even exist, which means I've learned them just like you have straight from the beginning. Now, I've passed the MS600 exam and acquired the Microsoft 365 Teams Application Developer Associate Certification. Well, I was certified. I actually let it expire intentionally and I intentionally didn't renew it. Why? Well, because once you pass the exam, you can't retake it and I wanted to make sure that I could keep taking the exam once they published updates so that I could see what changed for myself and make sure that this course contained the latest information. So, I guess you can say that I've not only passed the MS600 exam, but I've also failed it. But hey, it works out in your favor, so we're good, as long as we're on the same page. Now, I alluded to this earlier, but I was also part of the team that worked with Microsoft to help develop the exam and the associated certification. Now, explain what I mean by that as we get on further in this overview chapter, but for now, I'm just gonna say that I was part of the team and I have insights that benefit you in this course. Now, it's worth repeating that Microsoft also hires me on a consistent basis and has for multiple years to help create a lot of the self-paced learning resources. In fact, I'm still under contract with Microsoft and I work with them on a quarterly basis to refresh and ensure that all the content that I've written in their modules and all their hands-on labs are current and they're updated so that they make sure that as they update their platform so that they can make sure that when you run through these labs and modules, they're always current and working. Now, you might wonder, why did this guy create this course or what's the point of this whole thing or what's his motivation behind this? Well, I initially worked with Microsoft in 2019 while they prepared the MS600 exam and the associated certification. And when they launched the exam and certification as someone with a history in creating online courses, I kind of thought to myself, I would be in a great position to create an exam prep guide. So I looked at all the other courses that were available on the market and I realized that there really isn't a good guided exam prep option. And the ones that are out there, they're really expensive. And I didn't find anyone offering a self-paced learning option. Most of those other courses, they tried to teach you all the things that you needed to know and would be tested on in the MS600 exam. Now, there were some instructor-led options, but those required you to either sit in a classroom or join and watch them virtually. In both of these options, they require you to dedicate four, five days minimum at your time and also spend a thousand dollars or thousands of dollars to take them. I felt like there was a much better option. So I decided to create an affordable, self-paced option that leveraged existing resources that are also freely available. And that's what this course is. So what's the goal of my course? Well, my goal for this course is to act as a guide to help you learn what you need to know and to avoid spending time on the stuff that you don't need to know in order to pass the exam and get certified. Now, let me explain a little bit about what this first chapter is about. And then we're gonna start diving into some of the more individualized lessons. This first chapter contains a few lessons. And what I wanna do after I wrap up this initial introductory lesson is to talk about the exam and the certification so that you can understand what they are and what were Microsoft's motivations in creating them. Then we're gonna talk about what you need in order to get prepared so that you can be ready to take the exam in order to get certified as a Microsoft 365 Teams application developer. Then I'm gonna talk a little bit about how Microsoft creates a certification because I find that this provides some useful insight in preparing for the exam. It helps you understand and get a picture of what to expect when you walk into the testing center. And then I'm gonna talk about the MS600 exam itself. This includes how to prepare for the exam. And then finally, I'll give you an introduction to this course and what you can expect from each of the individual chapters. In the next lesson, I'm gonna dive into what this certification is all about. So I'll see you in the next lesson.


Here's the best job that I had in medical school. Now medical school is very expensive and I had been used to having some kind of job all the way from the age of 16 where my first job was a Chuck E. Cheese and I knew in medical school that I wanted to have a very cool job. But by far my favorite was being an anatomy TA during my fourth year of medical school. This job paid really well anywhere from $25 to $30 an hour, which was definitely a lot for me as a full-time med student. But then the money really came doing one-on-one tutoring sessions with students before a quiz or test. Easily I can make $40 an hour and stack five to six tutoring groups in a Saturday and a Sunday and I walked away easily within one semester making $5,000 just doing anatomy tutoring. Now if you guys want to see all the different ways that I made money in medical school hit that link down below to get the full video and if you want more content like this hit that like, subscribe and follow it and I'll see you guys in the next one.


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