Welcome to this CUBE conversation. I'm Lisa Martin. Today we're going to be talking about cyber protection and recovery solutions for unstructured data. I have two guests joining me. Andrew McKay is here, the president of Superna and Parasar Koditi, senior consultant, ISG product marketing at Dell Technologies. Guys, great to have you on the program, talking about cybersecurity, cyber resiliency, something that we've heard a lot in the news in the last 18 months or so. Parasar, let's go ahead and start with you. Talk to us about what you're seeing from a cybersecurity perspective, some of the challenges in the last 18 months or so. And then tell us what Dell is doing specifically to really infuse its storage solutions to enable customers to have that cyber resiliency that they need. Sure, Lisa. So today there's no question that cyber attacks have become a serious threat for business operations, for organizations of all sizes across all industries. And if you look at the consequences, there is a huge financial impact, of course, through the, like 70% of the cyber attacks when they are financially motivated. Look at the ransom part, which is a big financial impact in itself, but look at the lost revenue from disrupted operations, legal expenses, and sometimes regulatory fines and so on, add up to the financial impact. And if you look at the data theft or data loss that is involved, data being such a critical asset for organizations, think about losing customer data or losing access to customer data or critical applications that depend on customer data. Similarly, data related to your business operations data that is source of your competitive advantage data that could be very confidential information as well. So, and when it comes to government organization institutions, there is also the issue of national security and the need to protect critical infrastructure that depend on these IT systems as well. So, absolutely, it is becoming an imperative for IT organizations to improve the cyber resiliency, to boost the cyber resiliency of the organization. Adult technologies for the storage products that we offer, we have integrated solutions to protect the data in terms of detecting patterns of data access to detect the cyber attacks in advance, to kind of put the IT a step ahead of of these attackers and also have the tools and technologies to recover from a cyber attack rapidly so that the business can continue to run. That recovery is absolutely critical. It's one thing to have all this data, customer data, PII, competitive advantage data, but you have to be able to recover it because as you said, we've seen this now become a matter of national security infrastructure being threatened. The ransomware rise we saw have seen in the last 18 months has been unprecedented. I want to talk now, Andrew, about Superna. Talk to us about what you guys do and how you're a partner with Dell Technologies and helping customers recover and really be cyber resilient. Yeah, we've been working with Dell for years. In fact, our products are built in targeting the ISLON PowerScale platform. So we're a very closely tightly integrated solution that focuses on solving one problem and solving it really well. Talk to me a little bit about what you guys are doing specifically with the Dell Technology Storage Solutions to help customers in any industry be able to recover as we know now ransomware is not a, if it happens to us, it's a when. Give us a little bit more of a dissection of those solutions. So when we look at this problem, it's associated with files, right? But today there's files and objects, another type of unstructured data. So we've built a solution that addresses both file and object, but one of the areas that we think is important for customers to consider is the framework that they choose, right? They shouldn't just jump in and start looking for products. They should step back and take a look at what frameworks exist, for instance, the NIST framework that guides them in how they build and tick off all the key boxes and how to build a cyber resilient solution. So for companies that are using traditional legacy tools backup and restore, how is what Supurna enables? How is it different? So the buzzword these days is zero trust. So I'm going to use the buzzword. So we use a zero trust model, but really that comes down to being proactive. And I consider a backup restore a bit of a legacy approach. That's just restore the data after you've been attacked. So we think you should get in front of the problem and don't trust any of the access to the storage and try to take care of the problem at the source, which means detection patterns, locking users out of the file system, reacting in real time to real time IO that's being processed by a storage device. Got it. Parasar, let's talk now about unstructured data specifically and why does it need protection against the attacks? Traditionally structured data or the enterprise databases have been the more critical data to protect, but more and more unstructured data is also becoming a source of competitive differentiation for customers, think about artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things, a lot of edge computing. And a lot of this data is actually being stored on highly scalable NAS platforms like Dell EMC PowerScale. And this is where, given the volume of the data involved, we actually have a unique solution for unstructured data to protect it from cyber attacks and also having the recovery mechanisms in place. So most of the audience might have already heard about the power protect cyber recovery solution, but for unstructured data, we have something unique in the industry in terms of rapid recovery of large amount of data within a few hours for a business to be up and running in the event of a cyber attack. So when it comes to the data protection technologies on the PowerScale platform, we have starting from the operating system, the OneFS already has a great foundation in terms of access control, separate access zones that can be protected. And these things work across multiple protocols, which is really a key thing about how these technology works in terms of access control. But thanks to the great technology that Andrew and his team is building, the ransomware defender, real-time access auditing, these products form the core kind of cyber resiliency framework when it comes to unstructured data on PowerScale platforms. Got it. Andrew, let's talk about that NIST framework. As we've talked about in the last few minutes, cybersecurity has really become quite a business, unfortunately in the last 18 months, we've seen huge X-fold increases in ransomware attacks of any type of company. Talk to me about how, where are those conversations? Are you having conversations at the board level, at the C level in terms of the right cyber resiliency framework that organizations need to put in place? Yeah, we talk with customers almost daily. It's a daily conversation we have with customers about the requirements. The frameworks offer, and the NIST one especially offers all the key requirements from detection to prevention to recovery. And if you look at all of those requirements, you may end up with multiple products. And so we've built a solution that can address all of the key requirements in a single product. So for example, I mentioned detection and mitigation and recovery. Well, that's our protective data at the source strategy, but the number one recommendation these days is to have an offline copy of your data. And that requires a cyber vault solution where you're now going to take a copy of your data, place it in an offline storage device, and you're going to manage that through some sort of automation. We've married those two requirements into a single product. So we actually look at the whole framework and can comply with all aspects of that, including the offline component. And that's one of the sort of secret sauce part of our solution is that we can both protect the source and maintain and monitor the offline copy of the data as well at the same time. So the offline copy, interesting. Talk to me about how frequently is that updated so that if a business has to go back and restore and recover, they can, what's that timeframe of how frequently that's updated? So generally we recommend about 24 hours because in reality, it's going to take time to uncover that there's something seriously wrong with your production data. In the case of our solution, the hope and intent is that really the problem is addressed right at the source, meaning we've detected ransomware on the source data and we can protect it and stop it before it actually ends up in your cyber vault. That's really the key to our solution. But if you have that day recovery with the Iceland power scale snapshotting features, you can revert petabytes of data and bring it online in a worst case scenario. And we tell customers, you need to work backwards from what is the worst case. And if you do that, you're going to realize that what you need is petabyte scale data recovery with your offline data. And that's a very hard problem to solve that we think we've solved really well with the power scale. And just taking with you for a second, in the last year and a half, since things have been so turbulent, have you seen any industries in particular that have come to you saying, we really need to get ahead of this challenging situation as we've seen attacks across infrastructure? I mean, you name it, we've seen it. Yeah, the number one vertical for sure is healthcare. Healthcare has been the target. In fact, it was last October, I think the FBI made announcement to all healthcare organizations to improve their cybersecurity. That's probably our largest vertical, but there really isn't a vertical that doesn't feel the need to do something more than they are today. Finance, of course, manufacturing, retail. Basically, there's no target that isn't a target these days. But I would say for sure it's going to be healthcare because they have a willingness and a need to have their data online all the time. Right. And it's absolutely such critical information. Parisa, back to you. I'm curious to understand maybe any joint customers that you guys are working together with and how they have, what are some of the recovery time and the recovery point objectives that you're able to help them achieve? Sure, Lisa. So with ransomware defender, for example, there are more than 1,000 customers, almost 1,000, we are very close. I think the exact number is there on 970 or something, but have adopted the set of tools to boost their cyber resiliency in terms of being able to detect these attack patterns or any indications of a compromise through the way data is being accessed or the kinds of users that are accessing the data and so on. But also when it comes to isolation of the data, that has also been a lot of interest for customers to be able to have this cyber ward, which is a gap from your primary infrastructure. And of course, which is regulated with a lot of intelligence in terms of looking for any flags to close the connection and continue to replicate data or to terminate the connection and keep the cyber ward secure. So absolutely. Andrew, how do you guys help? Is it, first of all, is it possible for companies to be able to stay ahead of the attackers? The attackers are also taking advantage of the emerging technologies that businesses are, but how do you, if the answer is yes, how do you help companies stay ahead of those attackers? I think a prime example of that is if you look at ransomware today and there's publicized versions or variants or names of it and they all attack files, but the bad actors are looking for the weak link. They're always looking for the weak link to go after the corporate data. And so the new frontier is object storage because these types of systems are compliance data. It's frequently used to store backup data and that is a prime target for attackers. And so the security tools and maturity of the technology to protect object data is nowhere near what's in place for file data. So we've announced and released the ability to protect object data in real time, the same way we've already done it for years for file data, because we understand that that's just the next target. And so we're offering that type of solution in a unified single product. And the last question, Parisa, for you, where can folks go to learn more about this joint solution and how can they get started with it? Sure, Lisa, deltechnologies.com slash PowerScale. That's the unstructured data platform for the scale-out NAS platform from Dell Technologies. And we have great content there to educate customers about the nature of these cyber attacks and what kind of data is at risk and what is the kind of steps they can take to the point that Andrew mentioned, to build a cyber resiliency strategy as well as how to use these tools effectively to protect against attacks and also be very agile when it comes to recovery. Right, that agility with respect to recovery is critical because as we know, the trends are that we're only gonna see cyber security and risks and attacks increase. And so businesses in every industry are vulnerable and really need to put in place the right types of strategies and solutions to be able to recover when something happens. Guys, thank you so much for joining me. This is such an interesting topic. Great to hear about the partnership with Superna and Dell Technologies. And I'm sure your joint customers are very appreciative of the work that you're doing together. Thank you, Lisa. Great, thank you. For my guests, I'm Lisa Martin and you're watching a CUBE conversation.


Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday, so 2016 seems destined to be remembered as the year of the dumpster fire, but I don't really think that's fair because, like anything, 2016 is vast and it contains multitudes. Like, really, 2016 wasn't even one year, it was 7.4 billion different years to 7.4 billion different people. Anyway, Rosyonna recently asked her viewers to share their best of 2016, and I found it so encouraging to hear about all the wonderful experiences people had this year, so I thought today I would share my four favorite memories of 2016. First, I got to attend the 100th running of the Indy 500 with my mom and dad and lots of our friends. Now I know that the Indy 500 is technically just 800 left turns, half of which you can't see because the track is so huge, but it is also the largest non-religious gathering of human beings on Earth. And while I'm not usually a crowds person, it is truly wondrous to see so many different people come together, and then I left the Indy 500, drove to the airport, and boarded a plane to go to London. Where I got to see Nerdfighteria sponsored AFC Wimbledon play at Wembley for a spot in the third tier of English football, a game which they won, and then sleepless and delirious, I returned to Wimbledon's home stadium to party with my dad and friends and strangers and AFC Wimbledon players, and it was just magical. Now again, one could easily say, how can you get so excited about the 82nd best football team in England? And to those people, I would say, at the moment, AFC Wimbledon are actually the 55th best football team in England. Second great memory of 2016, Sarah's cousin getting married in Portland, Oregon now. So when Sarah and I were in our 20s, we sometimes went to seven or eight weddings a year, and frankly, I came to dread them. Because, you know, I just like formal wear and banquet food and making small talk with strangers and overly long toasts, and most of all dancing, but now that we've reached an age where weddings are few and far between, I've really come around to them, and this one in particular had me both laughing and crying. I'd known the groom since he was in high school, the couple were lovely and generous to each other, and to their guests. It was so fun to watch my kids watch a wedding because they were just like, Dad, what is happening? And best of all, after the wedding, we got to go to a Portland Timbers game. Third great memory of 2016, meeting baby Orin in Montana. Hank, I don't want to taunt you by bragging about experiences that you can't have, but there is nothing like the pride and happiness of seeing your baby brother be such a committed and loving father. Hank, in your life, you've been good at many things, but when I was visiting with you and Catherine and Orin in Montana, I thought he's found the thing that he's best at. Okay, enough sentimentality. So far, all my favorite memories of 2016 involve leaving Indianapolis, and that's not a good sign. And while I do dearly love our airport named Best Airport in America four years running, I think my favorite memory of this year was being home. In both 2014 and 2015, I spent more than a hundred days away from home. This year, I was home nine nights out of ten. That meant more time for writing and more time with my family, and while I think quality time with your kids is incredibly important, there's also something to be said for quantity time. And this was an awesome year to be a dad. Henry learned how to ride a bike. Alice learned her ABCs. They both learned every single word to Moana. And I was home for most of it, which was the best thing to happen to me this year, other than AFC Wimbledon's promotion. Nerdfighters, if you'd like to share your best of 2016, please do so in comments or make a video and link to it in comments. Hank, when you see me next, it will be 2017, meaning that the Vlogbrothers channel will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. Thank you for doing this with me for a decade. What a long, strange trip it has been. I will see you on Tuesday. Friday. Dang it! So bad at days! When are you gonna learn that, Green? When are you gonna get your days down? Ah... I've reached that age where my son has suddenly surpassed me in ability to tell what day of the week it is.


ought it was very i thought it was excellent yeah i'm not a hundred percent sure about the actual show story and i think yeah i think there's kind of like bits of it as in whoever rewrote the movie into um into a musical you know sometimes you just feel like they're just sticking songs in and there's a couple of areas where you're kind of like well they could have shaved 20 minutes off this now just because some of the songs are kind of feel a bit that's not the society's thought that's the people that wrote the actual thing in the beginning with these things yeah it's kind of the script but they did an amazing job of it now and as i said if it was worth it alone just to see all these people going around uh in fantastic high-heel booths and come in did you see it mike i did i was there right beside i conquer whatever thing fenula said the lead actor is fantastic the choreography is fantastic there's a couple of songs that kind of really stayed with me i think was that that second one you know the guy with the guitar yeah i thought that was an excellent and the the final song the final song the you know finish off each other's thoughts and sentences yeah it's a little bit scary just to be honest it's a little bit scary um i also the lady who came in here and she sang and that was what i think the term is showstopper because it was brilliant she is the energy the you know her voice when you're with someone like that there right and and the actual energy just to push it out at that volume and at that quality and then to have dancing and running and dancing and everything like i yeah i don't think i well i i wonder would i be fit for it like it's astonishing the stamina and energy i mean you've touched on this already um i mean to do that night after night after night i think most of us would like even those with the two standard plays after a couple of nights you know the energy starts to sag they're on all week yeah and they're giving dialing it up to 101 percent every night right okay good stuff uh full marks then so and i think a really fair assessment too fenula don't have to sugarcoat it either the show was brilliant the production was brilliant the actors were brilliant but whomever uh adapted it for stage maybe could be trimmed a little bit maybe it wouldn't be as in as a show it wouldn't be the the best show that i've ever seen in the sense of the the story but what they did with it was phenomenal and they actually which i didn't think was possible took their ability and skill level up another night and i think the fact that it was sold out and everything yeah people need to be more aware of these things when they're coming because they they they could have done another night as you know there is a thing people should be just booking it up yeah oh yeah i think we are seeing a thing and i don't know what the reason is why and i know times are difficult for an awful lot of people but things are being are very well attended football matches yeah soccer matches shows like this uh that young group of uh young fellas the name will come to me apologies sold out three or four nights non-green on and a couple of nights elsewhere do you know what i mean the ballerina all that yes like if you put on the right show people know that we touched on this previously right um i can't believe actually that is only one week to st patrick's day and hopefully there's loads of things organized right throughout the county in the region and by the way if you want us to give it a mention next week you know to give your thing a plug get in touch with us now oh seven four nine one twenty five thousand it doesn't matter where you are uh i'm sure there's great things organized uh uh from bali shalom bundor in donogaltown matt charles uh right up as far as uh malin and far out as far as done low and then of course the beautiful twin tans and all upper east coast and then into the north as well wherever you are if you're behind the organization of any events or something to do with st patrick's day a community event that it would be helpful if i mentioned it that such and such a parade starts at such and such a time uh message us in i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand and we'll collect them and read some of them out uh next week of course um fenula letter county is one of the biggest if not the biggest in the region maybe behind darry yeah but i can't believe right i don't want to old man this because it feels like i'm doing it right i can't believe it's a week to st patrick's day like where is this year going and i mean that absolutely genuinely i don't know where it's going tonight's and lovely and bright now mornings are bright and we're just a week away from our national holiday yeah i know i'm the same i'm the same i'm the same phone yeah yeah it doesn't seem it's me particularly as i leave my estate this morning and there's still snow and ice a little bit on the ground now i know we haven't had that for a few weeks but it still feels like it's a win the touch of the winter here yeah so um so whoever was organizing all these events and you talk to us a little bit about what's happening in letter county it's come at them really really quickly as well i'm sure yeah oh god it's totally come around really fast for us is it as most people may or may not be aware it's the chamber that runs the same patrick's day parade here in uh in letter county and uh we have a great team from the board that does it i mean really uh do you want to lenard uh what's it has done i would say 75 percent if not before you move on i saw lennard trying to interview you and all i want to say to lenard is is it's not as easy as i make it look oh i think if he is listening he'll know exactly what he'll know exactly what i'm talking about you should have seen him you should see the blue you should see the blooper reel that went between the two i think that's actually what i'm referring to what what you ended up with was quite polished yes it took us quite a few tries to get there so focused on organizing this gone but he's doing a brilliant job that's what it is all his focus is on organizing this he's done a great job he's chairing the committee this year and it's just been fantastic in himself and uh our own jimmy staffer has been doing a lot of stuff with the music so there's going to be if anybody was that last year's it was one of the uh biggest parades that we've had in a long time i think people are really ready for um all the tall you know after two years of it not being there they're really ready to bring their kids out and that kind of thing and it was just amazing the crowd that we got so this year we're trying to make it as big um as it was last year and actually it's going to be a little bit bigger we've got a lot of music on the street we have um clive and his photo booth is going to be there it's all on friday isn't it yeah it's all on friday and it's all it's all going to be on friday it's all along the main street as we've as we've had in previous years and there's going to be performers um in different spots i know outside gallehor's hotel and there's going to be um some other performers further up the town there's going to be photo booths there so people can get their picture taken when they're all done up because most people kind of have the hats and the scarves and stuff like that with it and the parade starts at three p.m from tescos but the actual music and entertainment and everything starts at two so feel free to come along early and uh get you know get experience of the atmosphere and sort of you know meet up with traffic restrictions i presume will apply but obviously there'll also be accommodation made for people with mobility issues that's the interference in life no absolutely we totally have all that and we're just calling out again to say if there is anybody that have been thinking about doing it and meant to contact us to become involved be it that they're music if you are in a band or music or anything like that if you can march that's fantastic if you need to be on the back of a lorry as we say float and that's no problem we can accommodate that as well as long as we have enough notice in order to do that we can get a float ready for you and we have different bands and music in it but there is spaces obviously available for anybody that wants to get involved and if they do they can just contact the chamber office or any of the chamber board members that they might know and we can do and all of the extra work that might be needed you know we can do the bits like i said get a float ready get the truck and all that kind of stuff if that's what they need provide power for people when they're on the float and then for the community groups more the merrier but just for safety health and safety we just need to know in advance so we kind of people just showing up on the day and i appreciate health i appreciate health and safety but i really do feel sorry for children nowadays because because of the way this world has gone it's gone mental with health and safety like they'll never get the joy going to a st patrick's day event where they'll get hardballed sweet to the face or refresh your bar to the back of the head or a lollipop stick to the eye socket do you know what i mean they just would never have that joy that we had as as younger people i know i don't hang it off the back of a lorry without any any barricade nothing has gone nothing between you and the tarmac do you know how much taste your hardballed sweet is after you pick it out of your face oh i know which ever be or remember being back at back on the floats with the youth clubs and different things like that with no barricades around you and your friends going saved your life saved your life as the float is moving yeah they were they are missing out in those amazing experiences 25 kids hanging out of a link out of a link box i mean the world's gone mad why can't we do that and why do people think that's dangerous but look it can still be fun for the kids right okay we can still have fun then we can still have fun they just need to come and and and you look at for a lot of kids just to experience it some people have never even seen when it's like it's lovely when you think what covid has done like we've got kids of four and five after the gap we were at a couple of things last year and we're in Carragart as well and it was just lovely to be around with other people the simple things in life that and i'm not going to allow myself now to take it for granted anymore do you know what i mean it's just to be around and all the people walking up down the street how i i vote you well what's the crack that's it and that's what it does wherever wherever they're being organised right across the region do you know what i mean it's just getting out and mixing and having absolutely because that's really what it's about i mean the whole idea of even having a st patrick's day is kind of crazy but it really what it's about it's about people in their community i just say right now you're you're you're quotable now i didn't mean to answer i know but before you got the chain before you got the chain right you say what i've got now you're actually quotable i should be careful well i'm nothing against st patrick's in the day but you know what i mean the fact that we all dress up and get green and where they go it's like really what is it about only just kind of getting together with your neighbors and the people around you and having a good time cultural celebrations yeah they're exactly they're all of it cracked but it's it's about meeting the community and getting out into the community and that's the main thing so two o'clock for the entertainment three o'clock for the parade come one come all and if you want to march we are only delighted to have you and if i presume the world exists outside letter kenny if you it does a hundred percent if i'm only joking it's it's an old joke i say all jokes aside though if you're organizing a community event like that or whatever and you want us to give us a plot over the course of the next week on this program as you do we do every year get in touch with us and we'll do that uh do you go out onto the streets and patrick's day yeah different that's something kind of something everyone's different isn't that's what he's so socially weird i doubt that kind of came into the question in the way that i gave him a number of outs well without taking it away well last year i didn't partake because i was on stage that night and we were building the stage and we were working from early in the morning fenula and greg so just so you know that's perfect and um so you like to strip and festival is all in the drama and all that sort of stuff yeah during the day different years yes if i'm a question if you're looking for i'm not doing that in this year so i'll be asking about you uh no on stage i mean okay and who's leading the parade do we know in ladder can he sit down like that in in the town it is but now you've just no no that's fine we'll get to that no let's pretend it's a surprise yes it's a surprise so you don't disclose it you know we have the army involved we have uh lots of different civic groups and that kind of thing that are going to be involved in this but uh and oh i should throw it out there because we were having a conversation the other day pierce brosnan is apparently in the county if he would like to come and be uh you know the head brand marshal of the st patrick's he's he's he's popping up everywhere he's popping up all over the place i'm not even sure what the move do you know what the movie is that they're making i know there's i know that i know there's so many movies in donny gauntlet everywhere he was you know outside uppercuts where uh linda's uppercuts down in donny gold time where the boy's hair used to be cut like that's pierce brosnan stunning out right uppercuts with linda okay and then he's up in bars in downings and then he's across in don lowe and he's getting there is he filming in all these places he's up here filming but there is another film yeah he's no way not he is but he's not filming is he touring as well at the same time oh he probably has days i mean yeah he probably has downtime i presume yeah he's down time down time i just work just a quick series thing for those of you out on the road just to be careful because as things fall we might think that everything's safe but there are a number of cars off in the back road from drum keen down into letter kenny at ron please avoid using that road it's not a road i'm a massive fan of at any time but just be careful on it and also new town to thank johnson toroski or lyford treacherous this morning they say the road was untreated that came in a little under an hour ago so i'm not sure if it's improved or not but anyway look at uh if you're out and about be extra careful right kevin's been on to us i feel like it's a three-hander now sometimes with kevin forgot to add this week just after you had president finula on um bow one one final time did i hear you had eric robertson afterwards yeah eric is the influencer isn't he yeah he was on although across all social media so i'm kicking his ass but anyway i uh i lost coverage after i was thinking how did you get star of blackbird on and julia's big brother different eric uh as it was michael finula's fave film of 2022 yes right up there oh by the way saw michael's film recommendation i thought the cocaine bear hilarious horror slapstick film don't feed bears he says in a long awaited last film of ray leotto okay and i'm glad he went out in the high yes sometimes from the critique yeah agreed yeah um he also became plus he was in the tv show blackbird remember that was that was his other last that's that is exactly that's the connection in this yeah uh he almost became ton of soprano after good fellas and a donna go connection as his good fellas character henry hill shared a cell with an x cob and only found this uh later to that he had an irish mother but was given up for adoption that's kevin coming in from uh done low kevin never misses unlike finula who who left us high and dry there for a few weeks i i'm okay i'm not bitter very posh people to hang around i'm not bitter all right so okay listen you you're texting in your number today thank you very much indeed i'll wait six sixty twenty five thousand keep them coming into us oh seven four nine one uh twenty five thousand so far i think it's nice actually to look forward to something real that we can all get out to next friday if or if people are well enough to do so and can and and what have you no it looks like it's gonna be dry anyways which is great good i'll come here no dry is all you need you can handle next friday you can i i i know they've got long range weather forecasts i'm only telling you what my phone 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to your current account okay you welcome back to the nine till noon show and we now have a bit of conversation and some live music because the london very musical society are putting on nine to five the musical it's in the millennium forum from wednesday the 29th of march to saturday the first of april uh judith oh hair is the chair of the lms and joins us in studio now amongst others good morning to you judith morning greg thanks very much for having us on i'm delighted to call down very pleased the roads are so good coming up i yes i know because i was a wee bit worried but anyway i'm glad that he's made it safe thank you so why nine to five the musical because he's put on a lot of different stuff we have yes we've we've been on the go for 60 years so we've done most of the most of the traditional shows uh the last two were sounding music and calamity jane so we wanted a bit of a change and it was actually peter suggested it we'd go modernize ourselves the music director who's sitting to your right okay he's going to be playing the keyboard for us so we've we've it's a great show i mean we didn't realize that it's really dolly parton is really some lady the music is terrific and it i mean everybody knows the big song nine to five but the rest of the show is just full of lovely lovely music it's actually very tricky from well from the chorus point of view because we're more like backing singers but we've delighted we've such great leads um and we'll meet them now in a minute but we've also got michael pool is our director he's a drama coordinator in the tech and he's he's really good director and peter's been with us now for i think seven years um and then we have an s a chap and our choreographer so we were we've a great team and we've been working now from january and we hope that uh we put on a show is really just full of everything it's a great story the the great comedy turn the the great three girls work in an office they become unlikely they're unlikely violets dolly and judy that's right violets judy's the newcomer and she's very in a sense she hasn't worked before and the boss franklin heart is absolutely dreadful he wouldn't he wouldn't he would be wouldn't allow to have been in office nowadays but uh suppose on those in the seventies when this is set there may have been people like him around but he's absolutely dreadful but the girls really get their own back on him at the end it's it's really good fun the three you mentioned the three characters are played by lorraine roddy sophie doran and cora early who are all with us today um lorraine what is this show like to be a part of that's great to be a part of um it's great fun we have such a laugh um i'm playing violet so she's kind of like the senior supervisor in the office and she's kind of very straight and believes that women shouldn't be soft and can kind of do whatever they want and who's playing the new girl cool is it me yeah what's your part like enjoying it yeah rehearsals because we haven't really oh yeah as the rehearsals are they're tough like but they're amazing and they're great they're great fun um my character is funny she's got that kind of awkward kind of comedy about her and her songs are brilliant and that's what i love about it love it and um sophie how difficult is it when you're acting right you know you then you have to have your stage position and all that kind of stuff your movement and then the singing yeah it's a lot of balls keep in the air isn't it yeah um it's it really is i mean musicals are intricate i mean you do you have those three things that's three things that you're you're focusing on at all times really um but as jareth was saying we have michael behind us a fantastic director he couldn't be better and then you have peter sure jesus works just like a dog but he's he's on real all right i'm glad you've i'm glad you've booked the ordea to you and Vanessa i mean they keep us in line so yeah but peter listen from a musical perspective a lot to get your teeth into you as be honest with you jealously with you so if you don't you'd be worried about anything it's he doesn't do anything right all right he's turned away though i've got the fact that jesus has blamed me i've put in vertigramas for selecting the musical i mean that's i mean talk about uh covered in your back oh come here anyway listen seriously no it's a great musical there's so much in it and anybody that knows dolly pardon will be really surprised of the kind of the number of genres and styles she's my favorite song of hers is actually i'm not sure if it's in the show or not and it doesn't really matter is i will always love you her version of that song i think it's far and away better not to de-elevate anyone else that's to elevate dolly it's just beautifully done she did a version of that with uh what's her name miley cyrus and i was worth checking out youtube it's absolutely stunning um and the deference miley showed she just went through the roof in my estimations anyway i'm going to use the first song to work out how many nights are between wednesday the 29th of march and saturday the first of april is it five is it four shows four shows not doing a mathnik so uh wednesday night thursday night friday night saturday night it's a beautiful venue to play in uh the yes it's i've only recently been there and i can just imagine the audience is just you know brilliant view from every seat now yeah that's a beautiful area so if you want to do it somewhere might as well do it now just hard to fill is nearly a thousand seats so it's a challenge for an amateur group to get four four thousand people out that's why you know there's a that's why you're putting so much effort into it you know if you build it hopefully they shall uh come right okay so we're going to get two tracks we're going to get one first what shall this be who's going to set this one up for us is it one of the six so this is i just might this comes mad mad show the first act um and that just focuses on the three girls and maybe the struggles are going to go ahead all right lorraine sophie and kora take it away whenever you're ready you're the one that keeps me strong you're the shoulder i lean on hard to swallow when truth ends up and just keep on keep it all complex that one isn't it with all the harmonies it sounds great a lot of rehearsing just in the vocal element of it you can see that and it's paying off big time uh junith um tickets available for wednesday thursday friday and saturday night i think it's a great night out for people from right across the region uh and we as we say it is in the millennium forum the tickets available at the box office uh yes the if you can go online um millenniumforum.co.uk and there's a number for the box office seven one two six double four double five we have some offers to opening out all seats are 15 pounds that's the wednesday and then there are family tickets and group rates available if you get a crowd if you can get 10 to go you get a ticket free so if you get a busload be even better yeah brilliant stuff and supported too i think it's important too that people support societies like yours for everything that it does uh you know for people involved in stuff that whole community side of it you know of the community it's for the community yes indeed and this year uh we hope to do um all of our next year and uh let's get this year out of the way first over the come back in next over the years to sell out over the years we get in uh we start off with stubborn several children shows and then as they develop i think sophie actually was in uh one of some of our children shows maybe and annie and the king and i and annie so uh and lorraine has had her two daughters have have been in a school so it's it's great to nurture the talent and then now we've we've got mature artists now but we're always uh welcome for any new talent that wants to come along it's courage has joined us this year she's from uh first act group in stroban and we're delighted to have her and a brilliant vocalist as well as sophie and lorraine of course nine to five written actually this music and lyrics are all dollies they're all dollies yeah most people may be aware but anyway if they are not okay uh just to remind everyone listening that the opening night offer a 15 euro for for all seats that's on wednesday the 29th and the subsequent nights uh ticket thursday through saturday 18 2020 250 and it's at the millennium forum and it's the full show and i think people are going to have a great night out um if you're looking to buy something for someone to treat something someone to something i think that's a good idea right okay let's uh hear once more from lorraine sophie and cora who's going to set this one what's this one peter this one's shiny like the sun and it's quite significant in the sense that not that long ago it was international women's day just the other day and what we have is a sorority of just fantastic chanteuses i mean they're just gonna knock your socks off so if you come along to see this show you're guaranteed a hit because it's not only is it funny it's hugely entertaining so you'll have a great night this one's called shine like the sun they say we always get what we deserve whether good bad or indifferent that's what i've always heard no good deed goes unpunished but the bad deeds you have done stretched out i'm sure that they would reach from here to kingdom come we think it's time you get what you deserve you've got no true compassion but you've really got some nerve and you've heard every one of us in different kinds of ways what goes around comes around and each dog has its day not that you'd ever kiss but get this there's a heart under this don't give up everyone that was uh fantastic and between boobs and blasts for me so if you're going to get me put off the air i don't know what is going on it's it's all you it's just well a bit the boobs was in the sun you can do nothing about that okay but come here listen thanks all three of you absolutely outstanding Lorraine Roddy Sophie Doran and Cora early those are the ladies that you heard singing Peter Daherty the musical director playing the keyboard and you've been listening all to also to Judith O'Hare chair of the london dairy musical society that show nine to five the musical is on from wednesday the 29th to uh of march to saturday the first of april get on to millennium forum box office to get your tickets and it's 15 euro for all seats on the opening night that's the wednesday night all of you thanks so much for making the journey down we do appreciate it uh we'll be back with more on the program after we take the break the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages from 40 000 to 600 000 euro with no hidden fees or transaction charges letter kenny credit union 9102127 starting a new chapter can be the most thrilling thing in the 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worldwide ireland west airport don't just take off take it easy okay the weather forecast now we are going to have a cold and dry day with sunny spells there'll be isolated showers of rain and sleet along the northwest coast or northern coasts in the afternoon and evening daytime temperatures four to six degrees michael and fenoula tough act to follow that isn't it um seats hello we're literally michael on a radio show on the radio and you're talking and looking at your phone we're technically doing that well we're it's entertainment based we are communicating to each other i know i'm communicating to each other in about entertainment we are right now i might give the impression right that this is all just seat of your pants stuff that nothing is rehearsed that i'm just do you're having a bit of crash never a professional radio show on a proper radio station in in my phone book that's after your name i have brackets professional so is it a capital p yeah no i wouldn't go that far no listen we we we used to talk about kinky boots um singing its praises three amazing vocalists oh my god and that is and that's a great show nine to five is a really good show as well okay uh right um okay so that's a great great show to work on this though you get to see amazing things we yes never by the way uh we had our amazing four acts and i keep saying amazing and i you know i feel like i come across like i'm just saying it right and then i feel like i have to clarify and then we're in this loop but our finalists for irish music month brilliant acts already making names for themselves boy i'm five colonny midnight preachers um boy no um charles james and the rise all brilliant you can listen to their live performances now and you're hard to discern between their live and the recorded performances and then vote go on to our website highland radio dot com you've got to sunday night till vote okay then your votes the listeners votes will be combined with an external panel of judges votes and then we'll announce a winner on wednesday that winner goes on to represent us at the region to a huge national uh competition so as i say it's been a great week between seeing four amazing acts then we've got the crew from nine to five in singing live you know i mean local talent is absolutely amazing just about paying me to be here to do it it's amazing so that's so everyone tells me when they hear you on here they say oh poor greg you've got to give more money he's broke apparently i just start laughing and walk away as i do to you see this is the thing we see you know he does it for love that's the problem so obviously doing it for love the one thing you can't say that we aren't real it's not essentially exactly the truth that's what but anyway come here management star just laugh and walk away come here yeah yes it works so we stick with the theater king we are king yeah we would see king we have a sort of a theater thing yeah right between what we've been talking about and we'll probably run out of stuff to say in the hook up back to the people yeah yeah go on we went down up you were the last return of king which one do you want to talk about king okay go ahead because we were there on uh sarah tonight uh pat kenevan his latest show uh a one man show um i was really looking forward to this i think was the last thing we said last week and i was absolutely mesmerized this is a performer who is absolutely at the pinnacle of his craft it was uh a story of a guy who is uh too afraid to live his apartment and it was a powerful emotional story that was to one person engage in audience i know an hour and a half it's yeah an hour and a half because i haven't seen it yeah or haven't seen a one-act show so how does an individual different entertain yeah hold a crowd oh i know different people have different performers have different ways of doing it but i think pat kenevan is unique i mean he was so physical he was doing tangos the whole thing was kind of there was like it was like a stream of consciousness i mean there was a thread there was a story which went from a to b to c to d but at the same time the physicality i mean he was telling us the story then he was playing a character from the character's past then he was lying on his back kicking his legs in the air rolling around and technically doing the tango while doing the tango but you know what i mean and he just did it as if it was like it was so smooth i don't enjoy it finula as much because i i have to say like i i think i'd have to work a bit harder to entertain you i think i'd have to have three or four people with me to do it do you know what i mean yeah oh i look at i mean the level of bravery some of these um performers do is just amazing because i mean i could say to stand out in front of people all alone and think i've got to fill this hour and a half it's phenomenal he was unbelievable now i found it was very busy there was a lot of stuff happening there was a lot of different threads to it i thought maybe there was a little bit too many threads i could have done without one or two of them because it kind of got a little bit confusing for me and you know i hate to be confused yeah we all we all take your hand out of your body we all do it it happens to be way too often but uh you could in no way fault uh the performer to watch him on stage was just thought he came on and like curled up into a ball and suddenly he just started to express himself kind of threw dance with the music while there was a voice he had like a voiceover done about what you know what the tango meant and all this kind of thing he introduced it in a different way he played different characters within his life you know instead of just saying well my mother said he'd be kind of pretending he was the mother as he was saying it you know that kind of and it just came the whole way through the whole way through very much if everybody if you've ever seen um he was another guy who's awesome at it which is uh michael murphy which is the guy that lives down in golly um but he's been up here loads of times he is the the man in the women's shoes and the sequel to that which i can never remember the name of it but both are amazing and i think just it's it's not a thing that everybody can do the only thing i'd say about this oh god bless you apparently you can't sneeze live on the radio i've done it here we go another box ticked the only thing that i would say but this was the pity this was really there wasn't enough people at it because people missed out big time and i know i think with my tone of questioning right because of my personal ignorance right maybe you know you have to work a bit harder to sell a one-man act is that it i don't know because it's not on reputation or definitely on on portfolio because this guy's you probably are right that the general public don't you know what i mean that the general public think oh god i'm going to have one guy standing up there kind of talking at me and i just think look at that you know in some areas that the theater is packed like if something like kinky boots you know i'm sure that nine to five will do equally as good and the the thing is sold out but people are really missing out and stuff people should give things a try like we went to the opera and i'd never been to it and it was amazing is it possible though that you know you success of something is not judged by how many people are there in other words if you maximize the potential audience that that might be a third or a half or two thirds of a theater then that is the success you know between not every seat being full unnecessarily is the gauge of success depending on the show do you know that sort of yeah no like if i did something there and half full i think i'd be very very happy you know i i i did i mean he was happy with the crowd and it was i don't mean it from his point of view i meant for me i meant to more from an audience point of view because i think it's more like he was there he gave it 110 percent and he would seem to be we were actually met him afterwards when he came down yeah i love the guy and he seemed very happy with the with the way it's only a new show that they've kind of started their fifth their fifth name was letterkin a n i think he said yeah hopefully he's going to come around again and he's you know that it might the word of mouth will have exactly that they might swing round and have it back again i wasn't yeah i hope you don't think i was misinterpreting your words i got to get exactly what you're saying yeah you're a hundred percent like tv ratings i mean it just necessarily the show doesn't have to be number one or top 10 or a top 20 hit to be considered a success and in america you actually you're targeting to be number one in the demographic demos is a big thing yeah yeah listen okay that's fantastic keep your eyes out for it both enjoyed king which was in the theater uh kinky boots uh nothing available for that now but both loved that we had the nine to five crew in uh singing live for us and uh we're not a lot of good stuff coming they've released their new the green and have their their kind of spring program brochure the program out into to the summer and people should check it out you can check it out online all the different stuff that's coming a lot of different stuff they've from all different kind of genres music booking is actually more opera we're going back to more opera because we love we love the barber okay uh we're not here next friday we're here thursday caroline yep thursday uh not just before st patrick's day so it's all going to be very exciting isn't it and we have a long weekend feel sorry for the people who work in hospitality it's going to be a nightmare we can't do them but anyway uh michael lelly writer and blogger thank you so very much indeed el presidente uh finula rabbit thank you so very much indeed and thank you to caroline who researched and produced the show all week and arnie who worked on it earlier in the week as well we're back with you monday morning at nine stay tuned john brazins around the northwest next there's something exciting


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