Okay, it's 605 we're going to start the meeting. You are here for the Rosemont, Shaw Clark and worth heights led replacement and infrastructure improvement meeting. Everyone will be muted during the presentation. We're going to be doing this in English and Spanish. If you already have questions, please post them in the chat. You can see the the little balloon down there in the right hand corner of the screen. When the presentation is over, we'll answer those chat questions first, then we'll unmute call and users one at a time and take their questions as well. If you are not speaking, please mute yourself so we don't have a lot of background noise. And I think we're ready to go. I'm going to hand this off to Pratima Pujol. She is our project manager and Hilda Zaniga will be doing the translation. Thank you Sally. Good, good evening everybody. This is the agenda for today's meeting. I'm going to introduce our project team. I'll provide you project overview project area. Why we are doing this project and provide you information about the late service line and the construction timeline. Good afternoon everybody. This is the agenda for today's meeting. We're going to start with the presentations. We're going to give you some generalities of the project, the area of the affected project, the reasons why we are doing this project, the line of service made by Plomo, more information about that and also the programming of the construction. His number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and email is Pratima.powder at Phototexas.gov. John Crowley is with the Transportation and Public Works Department with the city and he is the city inspector for this project. His number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and the email is johnny.crowley at Phototexas.com. Gratix Utilities is the contractor for this project and Carver LLC is the engineering design firm and representative from both Gratix and Carver are also present in this meeting. The work team for this project includes the project manager who you are listening to the presentation, Pratima.powder. She is an engineer, you can communicate with her at<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can send an email to patrina.powder at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. You can also communicate with the project manager, John Crowley, who works with the Transportation and Public Works Department. His number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and the email is johnny.crowley at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. The contractor for this project is Gratix Utilities and the engineering design firm is Carver. This is the water and sewer line replacement project on the various streets. And the general location is the west of David Street, west of Union Pacific Railroad right away north of West Anthony Street and east of Wayside Avenue. And I'm going to provide you street by street information in the subsequent slides. In addition to that, all city on connecting late services will be removed and replaced in this project. This project is in City Council District 9. On the map, you can see the black lines here. Those are the streets where we are going to replace the water and sewer lines. This one is here, Drew Street. We are going to replace the water line on Drew Street from 6th Avenue. In Malta and Flint Street, we are going to replace water line and the limit is from College Avenue to United Pacific Railroad right away. On Travis Avenue, we are going to replace sewer line and the limit is from Anthony Street to Flint Street. The areas directly affected by the project are shown with the black lines on the map. The areas directly affected by the project are shown with the black lines on the map. From West Drew Street to 6th Avenue, we are going to replace the water lines. Then we have West Malta Avenue from College Avenue to United Pacific Railroad right away. The next one would be Flint Street from College Avenue to United Pacific Railroad right away. Then we have the sanitary drainage pipes that would be on Travis Avenue from Flint Street to West Anthony Street. In Townsend Drive, we are going to replace water line from West Divya Street to West Divya Street. In West Side Avenue, we are going to replace water line from Butcher Street to Dixon Street. In West Side Avenue, we are going to replace the pipe from West Butler Street to West Dickson Street. In Woodland Street, we are going to replace water line from South Henderson Street to College Avenue. In Fifth Avenue, we are going to replace water line from West Butler Street to West Dickson Street. In Woodland Street, we are going to replace water line from College Avenue to South Henderson Street. In West Butler Street, we are going to replace the pipe from West Dickson Street to West Dickson Street. Why we are doing this project? We are mainly doing this project to replace city on late service lines. There are about 85 late service lines identified in this project area. In addition to that, Fort Worth Water Department prioritizes water and sewer line replacement based on various available data, which includes water main break history, leak history, CCTV inspection data for the sewer line, ease of the line, line material, and whether there are late service lines or not. We are going to replace only 85 of them in this area. The Fort Worth water department prioritizes water and sewer line replacement based on available data that includes the repair of the broken parts, the leak that has been given to the pipe, the information about the infections with the television cameras, the age of the pipe, the material of which it's done, and the presence of port plomo service line, You may be wondering if your water will be turned off, your water will be turned off for 15 to 30 minutes when the contractor transfers the water service from the existing line to the temporary service line and it will be again turned off when the water will be transferred from temporary service line to the new water line. And if a sewer line will be disrupted, the sewer line will not be disrupted, sewer cleanouts will be installed at the property line, the cleanout provides cruise easy access if there is a backup or blockage. The second question would be if the sanitary drainage service is going to be interrupted, the drainage service is not going to be interrupted, but the drainage records will be installed at the property line, that is, to the point where it enters its property. The record offers easy access to the pipe in case of an obstruction or a flood. I'm going to provide a little more information about the late service. In this project, there are about 85 identified late service lines that we are going to replace customers affected by the late service lines were notified by later in February of 2020 and again in December of 2020. What part of the line is late? The city side of the service line starts at the bottom right. What part of the line is late? The city side of the service line starts at the water meter in the middle of the street and goes to the customer meter, the city side of the service line will be replaced in the middle of the street. In this project, the customer side of the service goes from the meter to the house and includes all the plumbing inside the house. Other plumbing material type solders, brass fitting fixtures in the house may contain late. Owners may need to hire a plumber to determine if there are late plumbing materials in the house. In this project, the city side of the service line begins at the bottom right of the water meter in the middle of the street and continues to the water meter. The part of the line of service that belongs to the customer meter goes from the meter to the house and includes all the plumbing inside the house. parte de la plumería residencial, por ejemplo los tubos o las soldaduras, también tengan plomo. Los propietarios de la propiedad pudieran necesitar contratar a un plomero para determinar qué partes de la tubería doméstica pudieran ser de plomo. Great activities is the contractor for this project and they are going to begin the construction in February 8th of 2021. The first two streets, the first district scheduled is Townsend Drive and the second one is Woodland Avenue. The projected end date for this project is April of 2022. Before the construction, the contractor will notify you, they will put the door hangers on your front door seven days and one day prior to the construction and if you have any circumstances or any questions about the construction, please call the number<PHONE_NUMBER>. The way you are going to know when the construction is going to start is that just before the contractor starts, he will inform you seven days and then one day before the construction starts, placing a information card on your door. If you have any questions about the construction, please call the number<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you have received a letter in February of 2020 or December of 2020 saying that you have a late service line and if you are interested to check the lead level in your water, then City of Fort Worth Water Department offers a free test to determine the lead levels in your drinking water. You can call the number<PHONE_NUMBER>. For additional information about the lead in drinking water, you can go to the link, first link over here, and if you want to have more information about this project, there is a second link where you can go and view this presentation again and we'll have a map and the question answers in this, discussed in this meeting, posted in this link as well. I would like to tell you that the Fort Worth Water Department offers free water samples to identify the lead levels in the water that is in the house. If you wish to do this again, you can call the number<PHONE_NUMBER>. For additional information online, you can go to the website of the city, which is www.warthexas.gov and it looks for us like the Water Department. There you will also find another link in line where you will find other links, even the video, this video that is being recorded now, where you will find more information, a summary of the meeting and also the project maps. Again, my name is Pratik Orgel and I am a project for this project. My number is<PHONE_NUMBER> e-pratima.co.uk, Texas.gov. John Crowley is the city's inspector for this project. His number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and email is johnny.crowley at photo Texas.gov. If you have any emergencies, you can call the number<PHONE_NUMBER>. It is a 24-hour service. For any non-emergency issues, you can call the number<PHONE_NUMBER> from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. 6149 or al correo electrónico patrina.co.uk at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. Igualmente pueden llamarle al inspector John Crowley y al<PHONE_NUMBER> o al correo electrónico johnny.crowley at Fort Worth, Texas.gov. Si usted tiene cualquier emergencia relacionada con el agua, puede llamarnos los 7 días de la semana, los 24 horas del día, al<PHONE_NUMBER> y presionar la opción número uno. Si no tiene ninguna emergencia, pero alguna pregunta sobre el agua, puede llamarnos de lunes a viernes, de 7 de la mañana a 7 de la tarde, al mismo número,<PHONE_NUMBER>. With that, this presentation is complete. Now, we are going to take the questions that came up in chat. Okay, we have several questions from Susan Barker, who is representing the Las Familias de Rosemont Neighborhood Association. For first one, will we be able to access the street and our driveway during the construction? You will be able to access street and driveway during the construction. We will probably close one lane and another lane should be open and you should have access to your driveway. La pregunta se relaciona con el hecho de que si van a tener acceso a los estacionamientos de su casa y la respuesta es que si ustedes van a tener acceso en cuestión de que sucede a otra cosa y no se puede igualmente el contratista les va a informar, pero hasta ahorita es si habrá acceso. Okay, second question is what will it be like and look like during construction? That's a little bit, but there will be at the initial, they are going to replace the water line and sewer line. So it will be open trench, there will be traffic control, open trench, a lot of equipment. Our city inspector and the contractor will be coordinating with the property owners. So it will be quite a bit of activities during construction. So if there is especially things he wants to know, then I can answer that.  El reemplazo de la tubería se va a ser en base de zanjas abiertas, entonces a lo largo de la construcción el público va a poder ver zanjas abiertas grandes en medio de la calle. As sin embargo, cuando no están trabajando los trabajadores en una área específica se van a poner a placas metales sobre esa zanja y va a haber el fácil acceso del tráfico. Existe también un plan de tráfico que les va a permitir a ustedes entrar a sus estacionamientos. Si ustedes de repente se encuentran con una cuestión donde no tienen acceso o problemas con las actividades de la construcción, pueden llamarle desde luego al inspector o a la gente del proyecto. Okay, next question is what are the hours of construction and on what days will be, will the construction crews be on scene? Construction will be in weekdays and hours of construction. John, can you help me out then on the hours of construction? Yes, typically the crews will start out at about eight o'clock in the morning and they will usually work until about five or six in the evenings. On occasion, as they may be working on the Saturdays as well, prior to any work beginning on your street, they will give you a door hanger that will notify you work is about to commence and probably give you a notice of the hours of operation at the same time. The question is about what days of the week the construction will be, generally the construction takes place in three weeks, from Monday to Friday, from eight in the morning to five or six approximately in the afternoon. Occasionally the crews work on the Saturdays. However, remember that just before starting the construction work, they will notify you through a card that will be left in your house, in the door of your house. Generally, that card includes the working hours. Okay, the next question we did say that we're going to start, we gave the first two streets that we're going to start on. Susan is asking how long will each section take and when is each section going to be under construction? Um, and we have a schedule, planned schedule for each street and right now, British has schedules for Townsend Drive to be on Townsend Drive from February 8th to July on Woodland Avenue from May to July, West Side Avenue from June to August, Fifth Avenue from July to August, Flint and Travis from August to January of 2022, Drew Street from May to January of 2022 and Mazda Avenue from August to January of 2022. And this is a planned project. I'll subject to field conditions and weather conditions and there may be some changes to it. Okay, let's see if I can remember everything. So, la pregunta la pregunta es relacionada de cuánto va a durar, cuáles sería la duración en cada sección? Lo poco que me acuerdo disculpenme sería que van a empezar el 8 de febrero en Townsend Drive de febrero a julio en la avenida Woodland van a estar de mayo a julio en la avenida cinco van a estar de julio a agosto en Travis Avenue van a estar de agosto a febrero del próximo año y me disculpan, pero nosotros ya no me acuerdo. Okay, we have another one from Susan Pratima on slide 10. We talked about the sewer clean out. She wants to know what we said about the sewer clean out line, if you can explain that. So, when we replace the sewer line we are going to install the sewer clean out. The sewer clean out will allow the sewer crew, if there is any blockage or anything, blockage occurs. So, the clean out will access the crew to clear the blockage. La pregunta se relaciona con qué habíamos comentado sobre los registros del drenaje sanitario. Se van a instalar registros del drenaje sanitario en esta área y lo que facilitan, más bien, estos registros facilitan el fácil acceso de las cuadrillas de trabajadores en caso de que se dieran problemas con el reflux o de ramas del drenaje sanitario, entonces las cuadrillas pueden bajar a través de estos registros y hacer las reparaciones con las actividades necesarias para volver todo a la normalidad. Okay, the last question we have is, how will each homeowner be charged for replacement pipes? Like, how are we funding the project? It is water department funding. There will be no charge directly to the residents. It is funded through a water department budget. Okay, that is all the chat questions. Do we have any calling users who have a question? If so, go ahead and unmute yourself. In este momento, si usted está llamando por favor presente sus preguntas si tiene alguna, solamente es cuestión de presentar su pregunta ahora. Anybody else have any questions? I think there is one, Shaly. I saw it popping, but it went away. Okay. In the chat or from a user? Okay. Brian Zaniga, I'm going to try to un... Or is that you, Hilda? No, not me. Okay, Brian, I'm going to unmute you if you have a question. Any of our... Go ahead. Selena, do you have a question? No, ma'am. I'm good. Okay. We have three calling users. I don't know who you are, but you are un-muted. This is Nielsen and Nancy Wright, and I have a question. As far as if any pipes need to be replaced from the meter to the house, I'm guessing that would be totally up to the owner's expense. And determination if indeed the pipes need to be replaced? Yes, ma'am. From meter to any... It's a private side of the plumbing, and that's the owner's expense and expense to replace or test if it is led service or... La pregunta es se relaciona con la cuestión si existe alguna tubería del renaje sanitario que va del medidor a la casa, se pudiera incluir en este proyecto. Y la respuesta es no. Cualquier plomería del medidor hacia su casa es la responsabilidad del dueño de la casa. Okay, Jesus, as far as I'm going to unmute you if you have a question. No, I don't have questions, but from a thank you very much. Okay. Have we missed anybody? Let me check the chat one more time. It looks like we got everybody. We will have the link to this video posted on that website page. This is Monday. It should be up there by Wednesday. The maps are already on that page. Any information that we may not have answered tonight will also be included in a summary, frequently asked questions that will also post on that page. And if you're part of a neighborhood associate, the board members of a neighborhood association, I'll also send those to you as well. Se les recuerda que si ustedes desean más información sobre este proyecto existe la página de internet donde encontrarán los mapas y el video que se acaba de grabar en estos momentos y los números de contacto a las personas que ustedes pudieran llamar para recibir más información sobre el proyecto. Okay, well thank you everyone for joining us. If you have any questions, you have Christina's phone number and John Crowley's phone number and both of their emails. Have a great evening. Thank you. Good night.


Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sosman. Happy Friday alongside Jim Sonos of Fandor here to talk about the last round pick of your season long fantasy football drafts. What's up Jim? I'm all good, Greg It's gonna be a very interesting couple of days here with roster cut-downs They've already seen some movement today with Adrian Peterson and Dario Gumbawale being caught So there's gonna be some changes across the fantasy football landscape But I think that these guys were discussing today Our players are who we're in positions where when we're talking two weeks from today They may have made very much different value than what they have right now So I'm interested in these guys as as players whose value could fluctuate a lot in the next couple of weeks Yeah, that's not gonna go up for some of these guys and potentially down depending on what happens on cut day You know, it was just a couple of days ago that we as fantasy owners We're nervous about the chief signing Leonard Fournette to back up Clyde Edwards-Hallaire It didn't happen which left just what we knew in Kansas City as well what we know So everyone talked all draft season about DeAndre Washington backing up Clyde Edwards-Hallaire and maybe that's true But he's not exactly a big back He's a passing down back if Clyde Edwards-Hallaire ever goes down It's probably gonna be Daryl Williams that steps up in his plate. Daryl Williams cost you nothing in drafts right now Going at 207.7 essentially the last pick. Why is it important for you Jim to go out and grab Daryl Williams? Yeah, I think for me Greg I want to try to find ways to get late exposure to really good offense and all three players We're talking about today fit that mold Daryl Williams is in an ambiguous situation because I was on on board with DeAndre Washington for the entirety of the summer, you know, I thought he was a very interesting guy But it seems like the beat reporters are saying that Kansas City likes Daryl Williams a lot Not to use him above Clyde Edwards-Hallaire But to have him as that number two back and that number two back in Kansas City is valuable for multiple reasons because even last year when Damian Williams was fully healthy and playing really well His snap frame would be around 30% or 70% So there were still about 30% snaps for a second running back to go to get some targets get some carries That's probably going to be the case this year as well in order to conserve Clyde Edwards-Hallaire We also don't know what Clyde Edwards-Hallaire's role is going to be I would expect to be very a good role It's why I'm comfortable taking him in the first round, but there is still some unknown there We should account for some unknown and potentially be open to using other players who may get themselves on the field It sounds like again Kansas City likes Daryl Williams And like you said there is that upside is something where to happen to Clyde Edwards-Hallaire Daryl Williams can have a really big role in offense led by Patrick freaking Mahomes So give me that for the last pick every single time we don't know what Williams role will be But again, like you said if it's not that good who cares move on and go elsewhere So Daryl Williams seems like he may be the number two back in Kansas City And that is well worth more than the last pick in your draft. So if he's still there, I'm absolutely taking him Last year the apple of everyone's eye in Kansas City wasn't Damian Williams It was Daryl Williams because he thought he had an opportunity to break out and if things don't go right for Clyde Edwards-Hallaire Well, maybe this year will be that opportunity for Williams to break out And if he doesn't well, you get rid of him because the cost is nothing It's 207.7 Williams drafted with the last pick or don't but then you'll regret it maybe Let's go over to Baltimore where again It's as you mentioned you want cheap pieces to the best offices in the NFL a few weeks back We talked about Christian Kirk for that reason it didn't cost you much to get a small piece in the Arizona Cardinals offense That's exactly what we're doing here with Baltimore and Myles Boykin Sure, everybody's gonna want Mark Ingram Everyone's in on Hollywood Brown and Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews But Myles Boykin is going to have a role here as he gets more accustomed to what they're doing with the Ravens I think Boykin role is going to expand and now's where we can get them for nothing Yeah, Myles Boykin checks a lot of boxes outside of just being a guy who gets his exposure to this Baltimore offense He is also athletic and he had a decent profile coming out of college So there were some reasons to believe that Myles Boykin could be a successful NFL player from Jump Street That obviously did not happen last year They preferred to go with some of the veterans at wide receiver But Boykin now heading into year number two has been getting some positive buzz in camp And we can reasonably expect him to be running with this first team offense So he is athletic He is young, moving to a bigger role on a really good offense You could push back on this by saying, well, Baltimore is a run-heavy offense And that's very true and they will be run-heavy again this year However, it's hard to see them being as run-heavy as they were last year You're not gonna dust everyone 54 to nothing over the course of an entire season If we get that regression within the scoring differential for Baltimore It means they're gonna pass more often When they do pass more often It's going to allow other guys outside of Marquis Brown and Mark Andrews to be relevant within this offense I would think that Myles Boykin outside of the running backs would be next up on that list So it's getting me a guy who fits well in this offense because of the speed He has an interesting profile and he gets me exposure to this Ravens offense And Lamar Jackson's right arm and I will take that every single time So once again, Myles Boykin just checks a lot of boxes And I think it's someone we should target and kind of see what his role is early on this year J.K. Downs is gonna cost you way more as that handcuff, of course, to Mark Ingram and another popular rookie But Myles Boykin is talented Myles Boykin gives you the exposure and he's intriguing We liked him last year and he costs less now Let's take a shot on Myles Boykin, especially with the cost being so low In Los Angeles, specifically with the Rams The one rookie everybody's talking about is Cam Anchors Trying to figure out where he fits with Malcolm Brown and with Arnold Henderson But nobody's really talking about Van Jefferson at all And I understand that, you have Robert Woods ahead of him You have Cooper Cupp and you have other players that are in that mix as well But Van Jefferson may be the most talented of these group Certainly more talented than Josh Reynolds, we've waited and waited and waited on Every time he has an opportunity to step up, he doesn't So maybe Van Jefferson will Cooper Cupp didn't go in the right direction in the second half of last year as Tyler Hagry stepped up So maybe Van Jefferson will get an opportunity in a high power of Sean McVeough Offense, it's possible, right Jim? Absolutely, and I think the reason that I want to get exposure to this offense is like we talked about Jared Goff Where they're probably gonna be a fast paced team as always And they're gonna have to score a lot of points because that defense really could struggle Given all the pieces they have lost there since the end of last year So I think the Rams have to score points, but if I want to get exposure to this team outside of Jared Goff There aren't a lot of ways to do so in the later rounds Van Jefferson is one of those guys, and again based on the beat reporting we've seen so far this year It seems like there is a decent chance that Van Jefferson opens the year as the number three wide receiver within this offense And it also makes sense because the scouting report of Van Jefferson coming out was that he was a route technician He comes from a family that has coached wide receivers, so he's been living this position for his entire life He was also an older prospect which could allow you to think maybe he'll pick up the offense more quickly Become more acclimated to the NFL in rapid fashion We talked about camp acres a lot because the Rams invested a lot of draft stock in that guy But they did the exact same thing in Van Jefferson He was also a second round pick for this team, so he has draft capital He is tied to an offense we expect to score a lot of points The beat reports have been good and he seems like a guy who should have an easier transition to the NFL Given his pedigree and given his age I think that is really intriguing. Like if we get Van Jefferson starting within this offense in week one He is going to be a high priority waiver ad So what you do is you just add Van Jefferson now via your draft And so you're not fighting everyone else on the waivers to get Van Jefferson later on I think there's a decent chance he winds up having a fantasy viable role within this offense And I'd love to get out in front of that. He checks a lot of boxes He was kind of a concerning prospect because he didn't run at the combine Didn't have great market shares of Florida And he was older But some of those things do play into his favor for year one in the NFL So I want to take advantage and get him on my teams now Rather than trying to get him against everyone else later on And I think that's super sound advice Rather than having to spend all of your fab on a guy like a Van Jefferson We can predict it now. We can see it now where the role could be In a high powered we hope offense with the Rams Led by a potential MVP, Jared Goff That's what you want when you get Van Jefferson at the last pick of your draft There you have it Those are all of the late round flyers Last pick flyers that we want to make sure you are grabbing Jim, next week it's time to start looking at the schedule, man The NFL is here. We got a ton of DFS to get to A ton of season long as well. It is going to be fun We're there, man The next time we talk, Greg, there will already be one game in the NFL season in the books Like that's wild to me. So I'm looking forward to that I hope you have a fantastic Labor Day weekend and then we are all in on week one It's going to be a fun ride You mean the last time we talk in front of people, Jim? Because it's important that I talk to you before the last draft that I have So the last time we talk in front of people is right now Until after next Thursday, opening night Or we will talk on Friday and give you some more stacks for the weekend So for Jim Sannis, I am Greg Salsman Good luck in his final weekend of your drafts Let us know if you need help. Get in us at Twitter And we'll see you back here next week for more Fans will hurry up


These entanglements of space and time are one characteristic of universities and another one is that the national and the international also constitute a complex interrelationship network and this is especially true when it comes to teaching and I think that the national is not simply kind of inside and the international and not merely outside. Internationalization will not be a separate way for approaching universities in the near future. From this new European way of having universities or designing or shaping universities, just reflecting on the transformative way which includes innovative technologies and new highly motivational learning experiences for our students. They have changed their personal profiles in this period of pandemic situation and we should adapt our experiences as Karin was telling us to rethink teaching, adapt it to what's happening in these moments through flexibility, embedded diverse abilities. What is our future role when it comes to connecting the country and the rest of the world and also maybe how do we make sure that connecting is to Europe is also not leaving out the rest of the world. If we look at the Bologna process in the future and everything connected to teaching and learning, we must always do that before the background of how the international research landscape will change in the future years and then we can maybe adopt the Bologna process also to issues you raised, Jan, about how to shape it in a way that helps all the regions in Europe the best way. In internationalization what we need to make sure is that it is as inclusive as possible.


Welcome to today's session of theCUBE's presentation of the AWS Startup Showcase, the next big thing in AI, security and life sciences. Today we're joined by Abacus Insights for the Life Sciences Track. I'm your host, Natalie Erlich. Now we're going to be speaking about creating an innovation enabling data environment to accelerate your healthcare analytics journey. And we're now joined by our guests, Krishna Kottapoli, Chief Commercial Officer, as well as Sumanth Rao, Chief Product Officer, both working at Abacus Insights. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you for having us. Well, let's kick off with our theme, Krishna. How can we create innovation enabling data environments in order to facilitate the healthcare analytics? Yeah, so I think if you sort of think about this, there is a lot of data proliferating inside the healthcare system, and whether it's through the internal sources, external sources, devices, patient monitoring platforms and so on. And all of these essentially carry, have useful data and intelligence, right? And essentially the users are looking to get insights out of it to solve problems. And we're also seeing that the journey that our clients are going through is actually a transformation journey. So they are thinking about how do we seamlessly interact with our stakeholders, with their stakeholders being members and providers so that they don't get frustrated and feel like they're interacting with multiple parts of the health plan, right? Typically when you call into a health plan, you feel like you're calling five different departments. So they want to have a seamless experience. And finally, I think the whole, the data being in the ecosystem between the patients, payers and providers, being able to operate and interact has intelligence. So what we think about this is, how do we take all of this and help our clients digitize their path forward and create a way to deliver, enable them to do meaningful analytics? Well, Sumat, when you think about your customers, what are the key benefits that advocates is providing? So that's a good question. So primarily speaking, we approach this as a framework that drives innovation that enables data and analytics. I mean, that's really what we're trying to do here. What advocates does though is, this is slightly different is how we think about this. So we firmly believe that data and analytics is not a linear journey.  That's not how it works. So for us, the way advocates approaches this is, we focus really heavily on the data foundation part of it first. But along the way in the process, a big part of our value statement is, we engage and make sure we're driving business value throughout this piece. So general message is, make sure innovation for the sake of innovation data is not how you're approaching this, but think about your business users, get them engaged, have it small, milestone-driven progress that you make along the way. So generally speaking, we're not trying to be just a platform who moves bits and bytes of information. The way we think about this is, we'll help you along this journey. There's steps that happen that take you there. And because of veg, the message to most of our customers is you focus on your core confidence. You know your business, you have nuances in the data. You have nuances on needs that your customers need. You focus on that. The scale that Abacus brings, because this is what we do day in, day out, is more a long area of reusability. So if within our customers, they've got data assets, how do we reuse some of that? How does Abacus reuse the fact that because of what we do, we actually have data assets that we can bring data to life quickly. So general guidelines, right? So first is don't innovate for the sake of innovating.  Respect the process that this is not a linear path. There's always value that's happening throughout the process. And that's, you know, Abacus will work closely with you to make sure you recognize that value. The second part is within your organization, you have assets. There's like major data assets, there's IP, there's things that can leverage that Abacus will do. And because we are a platform, what we focus on is configurability. We've done this for, I mean, a lot of us on the Abacus team come from healthcare space. We have got big bear DNA. We get this. And what we also know is data rules change. I mean, you know, it's really hard when you build a system that's tightly built and you cannot change and you cannot adapt as data rules change. So we've made that part of it easier. We have, we understand data governance. So we work closely with our peers, data governance teams to make sure that part of it happens. And I think the last part of this, which is really important in the context of this conversation is all of this is good stuff. I mean, you've got massive data foundation. You've got healthcare expertise flowing in. You've got partnerships with data governance. All that is great. If you don't have best in class infrastructure supporting all of that, then you will really have issues scaling. I mean, that's just the way it works. And this is why, you know, we're built on the AWS stack which kind of helps us and also helps our clients along with their cloud journey. So it's kind of an interesting set of events in terms of, you know, again, I'm going to repeat this because it's important that don't innovate for the sake of innovating, reuse your assets, leverage your existing IP, make things configurable, data changes and then leverage best in class infrastructure. So Avicus tries to address this across those four dimensions. I mean, that's an excellent point about healthcare data being really nuanced.  So the biggest opportunities are, you know, there are two, we think about it in two dimensions, right? One is really around sort of the analytics use cases. And second is around the operational use cases, right? So if you think about a pair, they're trying to solve both and we see because of rather, you know, our, the way we think about data which is close to near real time, we are able to essentially serve up our clients with, you know, helping them solve both the use cases.  To be able to take a test. If all of these are known to your pair, care management team, if you will, in close to near real time, they know, right? Where you've been, what you can do, how to be able to sort of intervene and so on and so forth. So from a next best action and operational use cases, we see a lot of them emerging, you know, thanks to the cloud as well as thanks to infrastructure which can do sort of near real time. So that's our own sort of operational use cases, if you will. In, when you think about the analytics, right? So, you know, every, all pairs struggle with this, which is you have limited dollars to be able to intervene with, you know, a large set of population, right? So every piece of data that you know about your patient, about the specific provider, so on and so forth, is able to actually, you know, give you analytics to be able to intervene or engage, if you will, with the patient in a very one to one manner. And what we find is at the end of the day, if the patient is not engaged in this, that the member or the patient is not engaged, you know, in the healthcare, you know, value chain, if you will, then your dollars go to the waste. And we feel that essentially both of these type of use cases can be sort of really well with the unified data platform, as well as with upstack analytics.  How do you see the competitive landscape? How do you make sure that your product is the best out there? So I think a lot of that is we think about ourselves across three vectors. Talk about it as core platform, which is at a very minimal level of description, it's really moving bits and bytes from point A to point B. That's one part of it, right? And I think there's a, it's a pretty crowded space.  We do that too. We do that at scale. Where you'd start differentiating and pulling away from the pack is the second vector, which is enrichment. Now, this is where, again, it's you have to understand healthcare data to build a level of respect for how messy it can get. And you have to understand it and build it in a way where it's easy to keep up with the changes. We spend a lot of time, you know, building out our platform to do that so that we can implement data quickly. I mean, you know, for advocates to bring a data source to life in less than 45 days is pretty straightforward. And it's, you were talking on an average six to 12 months across the rest, because we get this, we've got a library of rules, we understand how to bring this piece. So we start pulling away from the competitors, if you may, more along the enrichment vector, because that's where we think getting high quality rules, getting these reused, all of this is part of it. But then we bring another level of enrichment where we have, you know, we use public data sets. We use reference data sets. We tie this, we fill in the blanks in the data. All of this is the end state. Let's make the data shall be ready for analytics. So we do all of that along the way. So now applying our expertise, cleansing data, making sure it's the gaps are all filled out and getting this ready. And then comes the next part where we tie this data out, because it's one thing to bring in multiple sources quickly at scale, high speed and all that good stuff, which is hard work, but you know, it's expected now. At the same time, how do you put all that together in a meaningful manner with which we can actually, you know, land it and keep it ready. So that's two parts. So first is the platform, the nuts and bolts, the pipes, all that is good stuff. The second is the enrichment. The third side, which is really where we start differentiating this distribution. We have a philosophy that, you know, the mission of the whole company was to get data available to solve use cases like the one Krishna just talked about. So rather than make this a massive change management program that takes five years to implement and really scares your end users away, our philosophy is like, let's have incremental use case all along the way, but let's talk to the users. Let them interact with the data as easy as they can. So we built our partnerships on our distribution hub, which makes us easy. So an example is if you have someone in the marketing team who really wants to analyze a particular population to reach out to them, and all they know is Tableau, this is great. It should be as simple as saying, look, what's this liver of data you need to get your job done? How do you interact? So we've, our distribution hub is really the part where users come in, interact with the data with, you know, we will meet you where you are, is the underlying principle. And that's how it operates. So, so I think on the first level on platform, yeah, crowded space, everyone's fighting for that piece. The second part of it is enrichment where we really start pulling away using expertise. And then at the end of it, you've got the distribution part where, you know, we just want to make it available to users. And a lot of work's gone and getting this done, but that's how we work. And if I could add a couple more things, so the other thing is security, right? So the reason that healthcare, healthcare players have not gone to the cloud until about three, four years back is the whole concern about security. So we have invested a ton of resources and money to make sure that a platform is running the most secure manner and giving confidence to our clients. And it's an expensive process, right? Even though you're on AWS, you have to have your own certification that. So that gives us a huge, you know, differentiator. And the last but not least is how we actually approach the whole data management deployment process, which is our clients think about as in two dimensions, total cost of ownership, but typically 50 to 60% of what it would cost internally and secondly, time to value. That you can't have an infinitely long deployment cycle. So we think about those two and actually put our skin in the game and tie our success to total cost of ownership and time to value. Well, just really quick and one to two sentences would love to get your insight on Abix's defining contribution to the future of cloud scale. Go next one. So as I see it, I think, so part of it is we've got some of our clients who appears and we've got them along their cloud journey, trusting one of their key assets, which is data and letting us drive it. And this is really driven by domain expertise, a good understanding of data governance and a great understanding of security. I mean, combining all of this, we've actually got our clients sitting and operating on, you know, pretty significant cloud infrastructure successfully day in, day out. So I think we've done our part as far as, you know, helping folks along that journey. Yeah, and just to close it out, I would say it is a speed, right? It is speed to deployment. You don't have to wait. We have set up the infrastructure, set up the cloud and the ability to get things up and running is literally we think about it in weeks and not months. Terrific. Well, thank you both very much for insights. Fantastic to have you on the show. Really fascinating to hear about how Abicus is leveraging healthcare data expertise on its platform to drive robust analytics. And of course here we were joined by Abicus Insights Krishna Kotapalli, the Chief Commercial Officer, as well as Sumant Rao, the Chief Product Officer. Thank you again very much for your insights on this program and this session of the AWS Startup Showcase.


The President's remarks on the riverfront in Memphis, Tennessee, October the 24th, 1964. Mr. Chairman, Governor Clement, it's good to see so many old and true friends here in Memphis today. I'm deeply touched by that most eloquent introduction, by that man who has been such a faithful Democrat. You're a great governor and my old time friend, Frank Clement. I just want to come to Tennessee because I get to see one of my most reliable allies. And you're able to form a governor, my beloved friend, Buford Ellington. My good friend with whom I served in the Congress and who was once your distinguished mayor gave me a good welcome today, my old friend, Walter Chandler. And throughout the years, your congressman and his loved and most capable wife have been some of the best friends Lady Bird and I have, Cliff and Kerry Davis. And it's good to be here on the platform with a man who takes such good care of the 8th district up there, Congressman Robert Everett. I'm sorry that Bill Ingram is ill today and I join all of you in wishing him a speedy recovery. But I'll tell you, he had the best representative he could select to come out and welcome me, that beautiful wife of his. I'm happy that my old friend and a great Tennessee patriot came here to be with me and give me comfort your great Senator Hubwaters. And it's good to see my other friends, Paul Ramdixon, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Congressman E.C. Tuck-Gatherings from Arkansas, and my friend Douglas Wann from Mississippi. Now it's not every election that the people of the state have a chance to send two good men to the United States Senate at the same time. Tennessee has an enviable reputation of electing truly outstanding men to the United States Senate, men who represent not only their own state, but who represent the interests of all America. Such a man is your most able and distinguished public servant, my longtime friend and co-worker in the House and Senate, Albert Gore.  I know that you want to keep Tennessee with a good working team in the Senate and I don't think there's any doubt with what you're going to elect, that great progressive member of Congress, the new member of the team, the Democratic nominee, Ross Bask. And you here in Memphis are going to have a highly effective team in Washington when you send that great Democrat, George Crider, to the Congress. The Tennessee team is dependent upon the reelection of the House of Representatives, Robert A. Everett from Union City, Dick Foden from Nashville, Tom Murray, my old colleague in the House from Jackson, my great friend Joe Evans from Smithville who's been doing such a splendid job in managing this unified campaign. And today I'd like to say happy birthday, Joe Evans. We hope that you enjoy today as much as we're going to enjoy November the 3rd. I know that you're going to keep that sixth district in sound Democratic hands when you elect Captain Bill Anderson. I think in these days when a steady hand and a cool head are so important. It is highly appropriate that you people here in Tennessee will be sending two former submarine commanders to Washington, Captain Anderson and George Crider. The people all over Tennessee are concerned this year about keeping their national government in responsible hands. I would not be surprised to see the folks in East Tennessee send three men to Congress this year. Bob Summit from Chattanooga, William Yarber from the 2nd District, and Arthur Bright up in the 1st District. This will be a team that will reflect credit on Tennessee. This will be a team that your President can work with, and I can assure you this will be a team that will work with and for you. One week from Tuesday the American people will go to the polls. For the 45th time in our history, the people will choose their national leadership and decide their national directions. There will be two names at the top of the ballot, but there will be only one choice and only one decision that matters to the future. History will not count Democratic votes or Republican votes. History will not count Southern votes or Northern votes. History will not count white votes or Negro votes. All that really counts is whether or not Americans are willing to stand up and be counted for responsibility. Responsibility was the issue when this campaign began. Irresponsibility campaigning cannot change that issue.  The decision of this decade and the outcome of this century is going to be resting in your hands. For 155 years or more, men and women in Memphis and the Great Mid-South have been building this mighty city and have been developing this great growing region. There have been many trials and tests that we've gone through together. 100 years ago, this region was the richest in the nation. Nine out of the nation's 13 wealthy states were in those days in the South. But when war came and when death and devastation came, this region, our own beloved region, the South, was left as the nation's poorest region. But today the nation sees a new day dawning in this Mid-South and in all of our beloved Dixie. These are the stakes in this election for you and for all Americans. Now let me be more specific. We live no more in the age of the cavalry charge. If nuclear war should ever come, the casualties of the first exchange would leave dead in the United States and Russia. 400 times more men, women, and children than the entire population of Memphis today. So if peace is to be preserved, American voters, like American leaders, must be right the first time, no second time. We must be responsible to the peace of all mankind. We must also be responsible to the progress of all Americans. Before another 35 years have passed, the population of America will have grown the equal of about 300 new cities the size of Memphis. So all through this land, we just must be prepared for that new tomorrow. And my friends, this is no time to be thinking or talking of selling the TVA. You must realize that you have a great obligation and a great duty to do, and this is just no time to be thinking or talking of turning out the lights of the REA. This is just no time to be thinking and talking of making Social Security voluntary and getting rid of it as we know it. Those of you that have worked so faithfully and dreamed so dramatically through the years fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers pioneered ahead of you, don't be coming back and talking and saying if I had just known what would happen after November the 3rd. Now is the time to think and talk and work and do something about it. If you want to maintain your Social Security system and strengthen it and make it sound to serve each of you in the day you need it, you can't do it by making it voluntary. If you want to improve your REA and electrify every farm home in the land and reduce your rates, you can't do it by a philosophy that doesn't believe in it. If you want to preserve the TVA as an example of all the nation and all the foreign nations to look at with pride, you can't do it by even starting off to sell in its fertilizer plants. If you in Memphis, the hub city, the center of the capital of the Mid-South and Arkansas and Mississippi, if you want the agricultural to blossom and bloom, if you want to keep the boys on the farm, if you want to encourage the tiller of the soil, you can't go back to the days of 1932 when cotton was selling for five cents a pound. When we were burning our corn, when our cattle would bring us nothing, when the produce from our agriculture lands was rotting in the fields, we just must not abandon the programs of agriculture and we are not going to under a democratic administration. Settled issues of the 1930s are not the issues of the 1960s and that's really the choice you have to make. Do you want to go back to the 30s or do you want to go forward with the 60s? The American people are not sick in their soul or in their spirit. Most of the Americans that I have seen and they have very few crowds, if any that I've ever seen, that go down in this direction more than 100 yards, that dot the hills, or go back as far as they can go with that building, that dot the hills, go all the way here and back of us. Those people are proud. Those people are confident. Those people are unafraid. And if you just look out there with a rare exception now and then that come here to advertise themselves, I don't see any of them here today but just nearly everybody, even people that are not happy, they like to be in a good crowd with good people once in a while. I am so indebted to you for coming to this meeting confident and unafraid with hope and with faith and with love and happy and ready to go out and meet the challenges that face us all tomorrow. If I take my compass or my ruler and take a direct line down the center of this crowd and divide you, we can do little, but united as we are, there's little that we cannot do. And you know one of the things that I think we ought to do, and I say this as a man that spent all of his life and cast his every vote in Texas and as the grandson of two Confederate veterans, I think one of the things that we are going to have to do is wipe away the Mason-Dixon line across our politics. And because we are good people and because we are fair people and because we are just people and because we believe in the good book, we are going to have to follow the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. And when we do that, we are going to wipe away the color line across our opportunity. The mandate of this election is going to be a mandate to unite this nation. It is going to be a mandate to bind up our wounds and to heal our history and to make this nation whole as one nation, as one people, indivisible under God. Let me remind you that you are the mightiest, most advanced nation in the world. Here in Tennessee, you developed the awesome and mighty power that makes us the undisputed, strongest nation in all the world. Let me remind you that by two men exercising their bad judgment and putting their thumb on the button that you can in a matter of moments wipe out the lives of 300 millions of people as a result of your mighty discoveries at Oak Ridge. Let me remind you on this election day, November the 3rd, less than two weeks from now, all the world of 120 nations and 3 billion people of which we are just 115, they are going to be watching you as Americans and watching your vote. The election returns will be read in the capitals of the world, the free world and the communist world. I want the mandate of this election to be written loud and strong and clear so that none anywhere will mistake the meaning. We have Chancellor Earhart in Germany. We have a new British Labour government that just selected this week. We have General De Gaulle in France. We have Mr. Shastra in India that succeeded Mr. Neyru. We have the new rulers in the Kremlin. And I want them and all the world to know what campaigns of hate and campaigns of fear and campaigns of smear I want them to know that we Americans are proud that we have faith and hope. We have love in our hearts and a campaign of smear cannot succeed among the American people. I want them to know that when they deal with Americans they deal on the basis of reason and judgment and not on the basis of hate or emotion. I want those who wish us well to know that America stands strong and stands steady and stands firm using its great power with great restraint all aggressors but all rich for an honorable peace. I want them to know that the mightiest nation in the world supported by the strongest most patriotic loving people to protect themselves but always have their hand out to find a workable peace.  And I want any I want any who may wish us ill to take notice this morning to understand that our beloved America cannot be divided by region by religion or by race or by country to know and the world to know that we are going to preserve law and order in the streets of America and we are going to preserve reason and responsibility in the policies of the government of America. In our land and around the world America is going to stand proudly and confidently for the pursuit of peace and progress. Freedom and justice for all mankind is your duty. That is your obligation. That is the price you must pay for the privilege of being American. Don't wait until the bell rings. Don't wait until the bulletins flash over your television set. Don't wait until you hear the news boys screaming the emergency headlines. Act now. Work now. Exercise your citizenship now because it's your boys. It's your lives. It's your families that you must have led and you must select the leader for them November the 3rd. That will be the mandate and that will be the need of this election. Now I'm going along. I'm going to Chattanooga and I'm going to Baltimore and I'm going back into Washington tonight and into Florida and Georgia and tomorrow and all across this land all next week. I'm not going to talk hate. I'm not going to preach doubt to the best that's in us all because I think men regardless of their religion or their politics or their race or their region or their party I believe they want to do what's best for America and going to ask any American to do 11 months ago on a tragic day a moment that I will never forget. Without notice or warning my constitutional responsibilities required me to assume the awesome responsibility of being your leader and to try to affect a transition between a dear both leader who had fallen and to demonstrate to the world that was watching that it was our system that would function that we were a nation of laws not just a nation of men. So that night when I walked in the White House Governor Clements said to you I said to the American people with God's help with your prayers do the best I can under our democratic system less than one year from that day you must decide I should step aside and whether I should move over and whether you should have another leader that is your right and that is your privilege and that is your duty to decide all I can say to you is this whatever your decision is I want it to be based on no emotion and no flattery and no religion and no race and no region of the country I want it to be based on qualifications and experience and merit but really what it all adds up to I want it to be based on your conscience what your heart tells you is right you don't develop character and integrity leadership by bragging about it and pointing to it you don't develop and do what's right by saying so on a billboard said one time in a great public speech that men don't talk about their integrity or women don't talk about their virtue if they have it in this hour of what is best for a free man what is best for Americans what is best for Memphis and Tennessee and Mississippi and Arkansas and then ask yourself what is really best for me on the two only things that are really important survival and prosperity peace in the world and peace at home ask yourself that question free men Americans Tennesseans and then yourselves in that order and whether you're Democrats or Republicans you go in that polling booth and do what you know what is right in your heart


All right. It's a packed house. Anybody want to see a demo of Nebula? Come on. Get over here. Hey, guys, you know Vance. I think they double-booked this. You guys got to come over, check it out, check it out. It wasn't advertised. So the people who are here to get to see this are people that happen to be hanging out here and not going to sessions. So you're in the wrong place. Leave, go to sessions. Just kidding. All right. So what I wanted to share with you guys today was something that we just announced last week, the Nebula One system. I'm going to take you kind of through what we've built. And then I'm going to actually do a live demo of the system real quickly. And I just tweeted a little bit. So I don't have everybody in the exhibit hall here, because I'm not sure if the demo is going to work. I'm just kidding. So first of all, I want to kind of introduce the Nebula One system. Obviously, we're all here building on OpenStack because we believe in what's on this slide. Everybody wants an environment that they can like spin up stuff, spin down stuff. They're dealing with big data. They're dealing with all sorts of stuff. And they don't have any money to do it. So this is a challenge that most enterprises, most service providers, hell, I have this challenge at my house all the data that I'm collecting every day from sensors and other things my wife doesn't approve of. So what do I have? I can go upload stuff into Amazon, saturate my internet connection. I've got various companies here that will build a custom cloud. And some of them are really good at what they do.  Call some of the folks here that are experts in taking OpenStack. Half a million people have downloaded it. If you need to tweak things, if you need to build a cloud, there's lots of great options here. And then for the enterprises out there, there's a lot of companies selling cloud that are really just putting cloud on a bunch of products that have been around in the market for a decade. And so Nebula is a little bit different. What we've done is we've taken a systems approach to building a cloud. And if you look at Amazon Web Services, if you look at a lot of the big clouds out there, including Rackspace, and you look at what they're talking about, they're talking about their entire infrastructure as a system, and they're involved in projects like the Facebook Open Compute Project in the corner here. They're looking at the designs of the servers, the networks, the storage, and they're trying to figure out how we build the most efficient, reliable system. The question is, how do we go do that in an enterprise? How do we go and take that kind of thinking into an environment where you've got a team of storage people, a team of compute people, a team of network people, a team of security people, a bunch of people with opinions about how Morantis should implement it? It's really challenging to bring a custom solution into an environment where people don't have that expertise of operating an Amazon scale or Google scale infrastructure because you get a lot of opinions influencing the implementation that may or may not be correct. So what we've done is we've built a turnkey system that provides full infrastructure services, a turnkey installation, rock solid stability, high availability, and everything from the ground up. So everything in this system is actually built from the ground up to provide this intuitive self-service experience. We're gonna see a demo of this in just a second, but what you get as an end user is EC2 APIs, OpenStack APIs, you get object store, block store, elastic networking, elastic compute in a system that you can deploy in an enterprise data center in an hour. You can plug this box into a rack full of Dell, HP, or IBM servers, power it up, and it literally boots that entire rack into a cloud. And then if you add another rack and another rack and another rack, each of those racks becomes part of a distributed system where the cloud gets more reliable and faster. And it's really cool. So what we've got here now is a transition from a custom cloud where every single OpenStack deployment, all half a million of them that are out there, are running on different hardware, different storage options, different network options, everything's different. And even if you follow a reference architecture, you know, even if Red Hat says this is the reference architecture on IBM, you know as well as I do that the security guys at a big financial services company or a pharmaceutical company are gonna use their monitoring software on those boxes. They're gonna use their CMDB tools on those boxes. And every piece of software that you put and hardware that you put into that environment creates a variable. The BIOS versions, the driver versions, the kernel versions, everything matters in an operational environment where you've gotta make the thing something that a small number of people can manage. You can't have variability in every component in every implementation. So what we've done is we've built the building blocks of a cloud. One thing you're not gonna see nebula cell servers. We believe that large enterprises are already getting a great deal from IBM, Dell, HP, and other vendors for their servers. The things that wrap spinning hard disks, solid state hard disks, CPUs, memory, and that whole global infrastructure to support servers is something we're never gonna win, right? Not something that we wanna do. But by taking the nebula cloud controller and plugging a rack full of industry standard servers into that device, as long as those servers are, they meet a specification that we provided, we know exactly what's in that cloud. So everything that we're able to do is driven by a systems approach. So whether you pick an IBM server, an X-series, the Dell R720XD, the DL380 from HP, they all have the exact same number of hard disks, the exact same number of memory sockets, the exact same number of CPU sockets. The ratios of all these things are exactly the same. So it really doesn't matter whether you've got racks of IBM servers or racks of Dell servers connected to this device. You can use the nebula system with whatever servers you bring to the table. At that point, it all fits together and you can literally use one of our controllers to power a rack of these industry standard servers and then scale out from there. Plugging in additional servers is a few minutes, they boot up into the cloud. The operating system based on an open stack is called Cosmos. Cosmos is running across every single piece of hardware in this environment. And what you end up with is a single computer. Every single element of this system is part of a single logical computer that just gets bigger the more hardware you throw at it. It's kind of like disks in a storage array. You know, every single disk that you plug in just makes the array bigger in a storage array. Every server you plug in gives you more networking, more compute, and more storage in this cloud. And the moment you plug it in, every bit of compute and storage and memory resource in every single one of the servers becomes part of the shared resource pool. So you've got everything. So what you have when you deploy this is one system with one thing you can count on. And that's the control plane, the APIs. So as your application needs more resources, you can count on the availability of the APIs. I need more compute, I need a network, I need a block file system, I need the cloud to do things. That's what Nebula worries about. What you worry about is capacity. And how you worry about that is by using the showback tools, the self-service provisioning tools that I'm about to show you, so that you can scale out the size of this thing so that your end users have the resources that they need. But everything else is turnkey. So you've got the OpenStack APIs, the Amazon APIs, you can use the same command line tools or rich user interface that I'm about to show you. Ops, code, Chef, Puppet, any number of platform services run out of the box on this system. So you don't have to worry about anything below infrastructure as a service, you don't worry about. So essentially what you're doing is you're taking raw servers, physical, and converting it to, you're converting infrastructure and infrastructure as a service as a device. So just to give you a sense of what you see plugged into these systems, Dell, HP, and another vendor, ZT Systems, all have great servers that you can plug into this system, different price points. As you start to think about your cloud, you start to think about how important is it that I have someone else come in here and replace things as they fail? Or can I just allow servers to be failed and replace them many servers at a time? So you're now in control of what kind of an SLA you need from that infrastructure. Nebula is of course one of the founding platinum members of the OpenStack Foundation. Bunch of the folks at Nebula actually wrote Nova, which was the compute core. We have been and will continue to be very involved in every OpenStack release. So we've been in the top several contributors of each release. In the Grizzly release, which just shipped, we had the top number of lines contributed to the core OpenStack projects of any company. I think it was a number of 157,000 lines of code. We were the top, I think number four in terms of actual chain sets committed and bugs patched, but Nebula is very involved in every piece of the core OpenStack technology. We're leading various sessions on the compute Nova project, the dashboard, salometer, security. We've worked with the NSA guys on a lot of the security patches that went into the Grizzly release. And what I wanna do now is actually show you the system because we've been talking for two years as a company. We've been contributing code to OpenStack for two years as a company. And last week, we shipped a product. And I'm really proud of the product. If you wanna really compressed version of what I just talked about, go to nebula.com. There's a video which we created that has our customers actually talking about how this thing works. We had Patrick narrated it for us, and he's the voice of Nebula now. So we've got here, let me just find a browser window here. There we go. Sign out. When you first see Nebula, if you're not signed in and you haven't been signed in, see sign in page. But I'm not gonna start there. I'm actually gonna request an account because a true cloud is something that you should be able to allow people to discover and sign up for on their own. So I'm gonna just go in here and create a new user called OpenStack. And so at this point, I'm actually not granted access to the cloud. But if I go in and I log in as an administrator, I can see that there was a request that came in for a new account. So what you're actually able to do as an administrator is as people hear about this cloud, you're able to see all these requests come in and approve them. Or they can be in a pre-approved list. But just by clicking this approve button, that end user gets an email. Here, welcome to Nebula.  So at this point, I have a very simple experience in front of me. I see block storage, compute, object storage, support. And this is basically what a basic infrastructure cloud does today. It provides these foundational services. I wanna be able to start running stuff. I wanna be able to store stuff, either an object store or block store. When I click on compute, I can see that I've got a bunch of options here. I've got pre-loaded images. I can run Fedora, I can scale the size of this. You can see my quota here is being adjusted dynamically. And then I can name the instance. I'm just gonna call it OpenStack. And then I'm gonna click launch. And within a few seconds, with just a few mouse clicks, I'm now running an instance of this cloud. So what we've really done is we've simplified the idea of cloud to the point where it's actually easier than running something in parallels or in VMware workstation for an end user. So the average consumer experience with virtualization technology is now more complicated than spinning something up in a cloud with this experience. And this experience is just the web GUI. You now also can do exactly what I did with OpenStack APIs, with Amazon EC2 APIs, with command line tools, or with third party software or services that can spin up resources in a cloud. With all the richness of the OpenStack API support. I can see my instance is now running. It's been up for a few seconds. I can also do the same thing with everything else. So if I wanted to go in and allocate a floating IP address, boom, there it is. I can go back to my instance and I can associate that floating IP address to that instance. And all of this is based on the quotas that have been pre-established. And in fact, what you didn't see happen here was I was created a sandbox. So I had a project that was created that has a certain amount of resources and storage and compute and instances. Everything just kind of was created for me with a self-service provisioning experience that just makes the cloud accessible to end users. Same thing's true of everything else. So I've got object store here, I've got block store, I can go in and I can create a 10 gigabyte volume which uses up a portion of my terabyte quota here. I click create, I'm gonna call it OpenStackVol. And now I've got a volume. And scroll down, have a volume. I can then go back and attach that volume to that instance, right? And so what this is really doing, because it's so easy to just click through here and do this stuff, I'm allowing someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with cloud to familiarize themselves with the principles of cloud, right, that a network addresses something I can just ask for and it comes out of a pool. An instance is just something that I can ask for and it uses some quota. And then when I release it, it goes back to the pool. And I'm not gonna go in and show creating projects, but you can have different projects. And as an end user, you can have resources, resource pools across all sorts of different projects. So when I get a job at a biotech company or financial services company, they're gonna hand me a laptop. It might have a terabyte hard disk or a couple terabytes of hard disk storage. It might have eight gigs or 16 gigs of memory, maybe 32 gigs if you're really lucky. And that's the computer that you're expected to do your job with in the age of big data. And so what you can use a Nebula system for is to augment the knowledge workers' resources that they have at their disposal, their computational resources. So you get a laptop with eight gigs of memory and an account on Nebula that has a terabyte of memory and 100 terabytes of storage. And now I've got a sandbox. I've got a workspace I can use personally and my team might even have more storage. I might have a petabyte of storage for my team. And what you end up with is you end up with a whole new kind of computer at your disposal. You've got your laptop or your tablet and then you've got your cloud computer that's out in the cloud where you've got all this capacity and all this performance. I haven't talked about the performance characteristics of this thing, but just suffice it to say if you've got the fastest connection you can get into Amazon, which is about 10 gigs and they charge you dearly for that. More than our product costs every month.  So running out of time. So what I wanna do is just wrap up with one quick thing and then we gotta cut this off here. And if you guys wanna have a longer demo we've got a booth right behind you and I'm happy to do that. I'm just gonna just quickly cruise in here and show you what the back end of this thing looks like and then I'm happy to finish this up at our booth. I can see the entire health of this cloud. Every single open stack service, how it's running, every single note I can click on. I can see the performance characteristics as it's running, information, notification, system log, BIOS information on every single device, load balancer stats, proxy stats and every time you plug in more infrastructure it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And you do absolutely nothing. So the punchline here is let's all start using clouds and stop talking about building clouds. Let's check that box that says build a private cloud right now. You buy a Nebula system, it's up and running in an hour.