Dear Beauty Professional, my name is Paul van Mechelen and as the general manager at Pronails, I want to thank you for joining us today at our digital event for successful nail professionals to celebrate the launch of our new autumn-winter collection. At Pronails we believe it's important to not only bring exciting new products every season but also to inspire you as a professional and to share our expertise so you can grow your business by offering an exceptional service to your salon customers. For the next 90 minutes, we will share some very valuable insights with you. First, you will discover five things you should unlearn. Next, we will introduce you to our first new collection, the Bare Essentials. Then we will give an overview of all our Academy workshops, both of them online. Next, we will share the secret on how to choose the perfect nude color for every customer. After this, it's time to present you the second collection about last night, followed by new nail art and a lot of inspiring trend looks. Finally, we will offer you some incredible deals that will be only available for you and only available during this first week of our collection launch. So you see investing your time in this event will in fact be a real great investment in yourself. Enjoy! Hi, I'm Sandrine, head educator at Pronails and I'm very happy to be here today with you. And today I would like to talk about the most common misconceptions that exist in our fabulous profession. This subject has never been as topical as it is now. In fact, the last few months we have all been shaken. We have had to question ourselves and get out of our comfort zone. We have had to unlearn the old ways of doing things in order to relearn new ones. For example, where we thought that learning was only possible by going to a training room and being assisted by a trainer, we realized that training also possible was without having to leave home thanks to the online training courses. These also offer an enormous flexibility when you have a busy professional agenda. Where we thought that our financial income depended solely on the treatments we provided, we realized how selling projects could become an equally important financial return. Previously, when we wanted to announce something to our customers, we sent text messages. Now we make a video on Instagram or TikTok. All this to tell you that life is a constant learning process, which requires us to learn, then unlearn by questioning oneself, daring to ask the question, is what I know still right, and to relearn by up-to-date training. You have to be able to forget what you think you know in order to be able to relearn what you need to know to evolve and succeed. Let's now unlearn and relearn together. I would like to share with you five common misconceptions that many experienced nail technicians believe. First misconception. It is best for the natural nail to prepare it with a nail file or buffer. You already know that the ideal grid for preparing natural nails for gel treatments is the 180 grit. But the tool you use for the 180 grit is essential for a good long-lasting result. You might think that using a file or a buffer is safer and that you cannot damage the natural nail. Well, no. The file is a tool that we love to use and that is ideal for filing nails into shapes. But when it comes to preparing the nail plate, it is really not the right tool to use. Why? First of all, a file, whatever type or shape, even if it is rounded like banana or half moon files, is too wide to allow you to work with precision on the nail and to get closer to the cuticle area without damaging and injuring your client's cuticles. Also, as it is a tool that you assume is harmless, you will not hesitate to file several times over the same places on critical areas for good adhesion, such as the sides and the cuticle area. And without realizing it, the nail will be excessively filed so it will become thinner, more flexible, and the product adhesion will be reduced. We must also avoid using a buffer. No matter how much we love to use it. Why? Because any grain placed on a form material has a finishing touch purpose and not a nail preparation purpose. The buffers will certainly mattify the nail plate, but they will also smoothen it, which will not allow a long lasting adhesion for gel nails. Preparing the natural nail with the sander is the best, the most efficient, the most precise, and the fastest way to prep the natural nail for gel nails. And the best tool to use is a rubber bit with a disposable fine white crates sander which has a 180 grit. This is a single use tool, so you will use a new sander for each client, which also guarantees a perfect hygiene for your clients. There we come to the second misconception. Using a primer with acid is always better for adhesion. We may think that the more aggressive the primer or bond that we use, the better the adhesion on the nails will be. No. To understand this, let me explain a little more about the primer. How do primers work? A primer works like a double sided adhesive tape. One end of the primer's molecular chain perfectly matches the nail plate and forms a perfect bond with the keratin in the nail. The other end of the primer's molecular chain perfectly matches the monomer and polymer chain of the gel. This is how we get a nice bond between both nail and gel. A greasy nail still contains a green residue on the nail plate which will need acid to be dissolved, so you will need an acid primer for this. If that grease is not removed, the primer cannot come into contact with the keratin in the nail and then a nice bond cannot be created, so you will not have a good adhesion. No. Why is it not recommended to use an acid based primer on any type of nail? Because acids are naturally aggressive and can cause sensitization in the long run. This could cause clients to develop acrylic allergies that could haven't been avoided with acid free primers. And you know that once someone has developed an acrylic allergy, wearing gel nails can sometimes be gone for good. They may even develop other allergies and may not even tolerate nail polish. Also, the keratin structure of a dry nail is also negatively affected by using an overly aggressive acid based primer. So, don't do this. Always choose the primer in function of the natural nail, the acid free primer for normal dry and sensitive nails. The universal primer which is acid based for greasy nails. This brings us to another misconception about primers. Adhesion is better when more primer is used. No. Absolutely not. Now you know why it is important to use the right primer for the right type of nail. Equally important is to use the right amount of primer because too much primer kills the grip. Have you ever seen your base gel retract? That's an important sign that you're using too much primer. If you are using an acid based primer on your clients with greasy nails, you may even see your base gel retract even before she puts her hand in the lamp. When you're using an acid free primer, you won't even notice anything until your client takes her hand out of the lamp. Here again, the base gel can retract. And even if you cannot see it with the naked eye, the adhesion has been compromised. Why does too much primer cause a poorer adhesion? Well, first of all, let's look at the ideal primer layer. The ideal quantity of primer is what we call a monolayer. It's a single layer of primer molecules that on one side bonds to the keratin of the nail and on the other side bonds to the gel, just like a double sided tape. If you use more primer than necessary, you get an oversaturated primer layer where the cohesion, which is the attraction between the same kind of molecules, so between the primer with itself, is greater than the adhesion, which is the attraction between different kinds of molecules, so between the primer and both the nail and the base gel. When you use too much primer, this may result in visible retraction of the base gel that you apply on top of the primer. If this is familiar to you, pay attention to how much primer you use. Let's continue with misconception number four. The more I cure my gel, the better it is. If you ever ask your client to put her hand two or three times more under the curing lamp, you've done this out of fear of under curing. If you are facing under curing issues, then the light of your lamp simply does not match with the formula of your gel. In other words, the wavelength of the light from your lamp is either too long or too short to trigger the photo initiator to start the curing process. In this case, just get the right lamp. Now, if you cure longer than the required curing time of the gel and proceed to excessive curing, it will result in accelerated gel wear and deterioration, which can cause yellowing, brittleness and breakage. The last one, misconception number five, the stress point is in the middle of the gel nail. Be careful. You might think that when applying a gel nail that the stress point is located right in the middle of the whole gel nail. But no, this is not the case. The stress point represents the nail area that will undergo all the shock waves and twist due to the client's activity. Regardless of the length of the nails, this area is always in the middle of the nail bed, so you will ignore the free edge. It is therefore this area that we must strengthen to avoid breakage and, of course, the longer the nail, the more product will be needed in this area. Afterwards, to keep a thing looking aesthetic, it will be important to gradually use less gel towards the end of the free edge. However, be careful when filing to not excessively file the laterals, otherwise you will immediately weaken your stress point protection. I hope you enjoyed this time together and I wish you the best for the future. Take care and see you soon. Hello everybody. Thank you for joining us today at this digital event that we are hosting to celebrate the launch of the new Pronails Collection for autumn, winter 21, which is available as from today in our online store for professional nail stylists on pronails.com, but also, of course, in your local Pronails distributor store. So be sure to go pay them a visit after this digital event so you can see all of these beautiful new nail colors and products in real life. Hi, Michael. You might already have seen me in one of our previous launch events and as creative director for Pronails, I will now gladly introduce you to the new first collection of the season. To kick off this new season, Pronails is launching a collection that will allow you and your customers to enjoy the pure perfection of natural and neutral nail shades, shades that will really enhance the natural beauty of your hands and nails. And in many ways, these six new collection colors really are the bare essentials for your nail salon, which is why, of course, we call this collection the bare essentials collection. Now, during the pandemic, we all had a lot of time to think about things and it allowed us to figure out what really matters to us, what we want in life. And today, people want to live a more balanced, a more healthy life, and especially they want to be fully in touch with their true self, which is why we crave for a fresh, clean and healthy look, whether it's our fashion or beauty or nails. And since we reinvented who we are, we want to feel and also look fresh and reborn, leaving room for nothing but the bare essentials. Now, this brings forward a new trend color palette and it's a neutral color palette that brings our natural beauty center stage. It holds as many different shades than there are skin tones in this world because the skin we're in, it's important to us. And making a daily skincare routine becomes a vital element of our beauty regime. Now, these warm and natural colors for nails, they really enhance our natural elegance and glow and they offer a no makeup look for nails. They're barely visible, but all the more stylish. And for the bare essentials, we selected six neutral colors, the ultimate neutral colors, in fact, that go from white to light pink to nude to more beige tones. And they're essential colors that will remain important throughout all the season. The biggest advantage of these cool colors is that they really suit everything and everyone. So everyone, every salon should have them. Of course, all six colors will be available in our three different professional nail color qualities, which is of course the Jella color gel, the soap polish semi permanent and the long wear nail polish. Now, with this collection, you will have the perfect neutral shade for every client that is looking for a natural look. And for every occasion also, they are far more than just a trend.  They're perfect for a subtle everyday look or for bridal nails. It's your way as a nail technician to offer every client the perfect natural color. With your expertise and with the wide choice of shades, you will be able to match her complexion perfectly. Now, let's go into detail and let's discover the six different colors. First, we have opening dance and it's a new nail color like the rich glow of a flowy white silk dress. Nails dressed in this shade, they will dance and sparkle with every move you make. It's a perfect shade for that one special day, but equally so to make every day special. It's a clean, fresh, white nail color with a milky undertone and a subtle pinkish silky shimmer. It will be of course available in soap polish, angelic and long wear, like all six bare essentials colors, like all new colors. And again, in this beautiful Limbs Edition Pro Nails 40 years ago. Next, we have holding hands and it's a bright natural shade, a white shade, but this time with a rosy undertone. And it's the perfect mix between white and a very, very light pink. In fact, all bare essentials are slightly transparent, which is especially nice with this holding hands pinkish white shade, where you can really play with this transparency depending on whether you apply it in two or one layer. Next, we have sweet gesture and this is a more pronounced light pink. It's soft and sweet at the same time. It's the perfect hue to ensure no small gesture will go unnoticed. And also when living more indoors during autumn and winter, also your feet deserve a sweet gesture like this color. Because of course it's not because it's winter that we need to neglect our feet. Next, we have bare necessity and as the name says it, this color is an absolute must have in your cell. If you need one color, this should be it. Why? Well, bare necessity is the ultimate nude color that everyone is looking for. The color, the right nude that you've been looking for all along because it holds both cold and warm elements. It's not too pink, not too peach, not too beige, not too yellow, not too light, not too dark. It's exactly right. Exactly how a nude shade should be. Very neutral, completely balanced. And it's there for a color that will suit almost every customer with both light and darker skin tone. The next shade is close contact and it's also a brownish nude, but this time it's a few shades darker than bare necessity. And without the pink subtone. Now this shade is the darkest nude shade of the bare essentials collection. Of course, bronials has even darker nude shades in our color range if you would be needing them for your customers. And finally, we have subtle move. Subtle move is a neutral shade that will make even the subtlest movement of your hands noticeable due to its contemporary elegance. Like coffee with milk, this color has a more beige, more yellow undertone than most of these other nudes. In fact, sandy beige tones are very present in fashion, which is why this color specifically will give a very contemporary nail look, even if it is slightly more difficult to wear for certain skin tones than the more accessible pinkish nudes. Now, even the bare essential colors are natural shades that are perfect for clean and neutral and simple, just colored nail look. They also offer the perfect base for delicate and minimalistic nail art that are so trendy today. And my colleague is going to show you later on during this launch some truly amazing and very inspiring trend looks and nail art ideas that you can all create with these new colors. So make sure to stay tuned for that. Now, all new Jellak and so Polish colors will again be available in the limited edition collection box for this season, containing all 12 seasonal colors, meaning of course, the six new bare essential colors plus six new colors that I still have to introduce and that will come up next. For the new seasonal collection boxes, we also made two new marketing tools that you will get totally for free in these boxes. It's one is a new and unique rose gold and metallic 40 years window sticker, making your customers ready to celebrate the holidays. And also, we have a new very practical, small double sided and standalone end card that you can place on your counter or anywhere in your cellar to communicate that these new colors have arrived and are available in your cellar. Besides that, there's another free gift in this box, amazing, a limited edition product, but that we will show you later. Now, to put focus on these new natural shades, we have made some new selling displays and display visuals. And this way, the bare essentials collection really gets center stage in your cellar. We also have two beautiful posters and a banner that will show your customers just how elegant and fresh these neutral nail shades can look. And also on social media, we will be sharing a lot more inspiration for you and your salon customers on how to wear these new colors and how to create beautiful looks with them. So be sure to check our pronouns HQ Instagram account and don't hesitate to repost on your own salon account. Inspire your own followers and customers, of course. Now next, after my presentation, Sandrine will give you an overview of the educational program of our pronouns Academy and what we have to offer both on and offline. Because now more than ever, it's important to keep on growing your expertise as a beauty professional. But first, let's discover the fresh, softly colored world of the bare essentials collection. Every day is an opportunity to learn. I love these sentences, which is not a simple sentence, but a way of thinking and living. And I'm sure that by touching on the topic of misconceptions in our profession, you have learned something new which further enriches your knowledge. And that's exactly what pronouns Academy training offers you. It enriches you at every level and I'll explain you how. Let's review the different training courses that the pronouns Academy offers you. You can either follow them face to face in one of our training centers or online where and when you want. Now let's look at what these trainings will bring you. Every expert was once a beginner. So if you are new here, passionate and new to the nail profession, then I wish you welcome and congratulate you for choosing a job that you love. If you are ready to take control of your career to become an accomplished nail professional, it will all start with the pronouns basic training, which takes place face to face only. And has a reputation for being the best training there is if you want to stand out from the crowd in your future career. At the pronouns Academy, you will learn directly from accomplished professionals. You will benefit from the personal assistance of an expert in one of our 200 training centers around the world. You will work with the best products, learn innovative techniques and benefit from the most complete training program. 48 hours of training that will teach you to achieve perfect hand care to apply the semi-permanent polish to perfection, to create flawless gel nails, to make extensions with paper forms, to master manual and electric filing, the application of colors and to design an elegant French manicure, classic or reverse. And you will also benefit from 18 additional hours of follow up courses to improve your skills for free. Want to get started or want more info, don't hesitate to contact us via the pronouns website. If you are already an experienced nail professional, it is important that you invest your energy in what will contribute to your growth. And the following trainings are perfect for that. First, pronouns offers a training to improve your technique. If, despite your experience, you are facing certain technical difficulties such as lifting problems, breakage or haven't learned how to do gel extensions on paper forms, or you haven't learned to work with a nail machine, or you want an update to be on top of your work, know that the perfection training is a very intensive training to improve all your techniques in order to improve and make your work more efficient. During this intensive two days training, we will work to solve your specific problems and help you perfect your technique. And we will pay particular attention to the precision of the use of the right tools as well as to the gel technique, so that you can apply perfect nails and very quickly. This training is only available face to face. Then, pronouns offers you two training courses to speed up your working time. Because time is money, follow the master training with the three-in-one master and one-construction gels, which have been specially developed to considerably reduce the working time without compromising the quality and the end result. There, you will discover not only these revolutionary gels, but also a very fast and unique application method. You can take this three-hour training face to face as well as online. If you are exhausted and discouraged by manual filing, whether you've either never used a nail machine or you use it but very little, then this electric filing training will be ideal for you. This course is very complete and will teach you through a detailed step-by-step approach how to achieve the perfect electrical filing technique. The application of these techniques will allow you to work faster and with more comfort to obtain perfect results for each client to avoid any lifting problems linked to excessive filing, to protect the health and that of your clients and to work in the safest way possible with the highest hygiene standards. This training is available online only. Proneus also offers four training courses to develop new services within your salon. If you dream of being able to offer your clients perfectly clean cuticles and being able to apply your color as close as possible to the cuticle, the baby manicure training is for you. You will learn how to perform an electric manicure quickly and without damaging the cuticles of your clients. This treatment is perfectly suited to complement basic hand care or semi-permanent polish application as well as for gel nails applications. And in addition to that, it is profitable because it will allow you to increase your price. You can take this three-hour training face-to-face as well as online. Growth, of course, means increasing your turnover. And once you have maximized your time efficiency, you still have the possibility of adding new treatments and expanding your range of services. Give your clients and let's not forget the gentlemen, a luxurious pedicure, effective thanks to professional products of exceptional quality and fast and pleasant thanks to the use of the nail machine. Providing extra service also means additional sales opportunities, because yes, our food-care range includes professional products as well as sales products for home use. So, don't hesitate and take the online electric pedicure training. If you still prefer to do the pedicure manually, then you can instead opt for the three-hour face-to-face cosmetic pedicure training. You may be think, manicure is a simple and basic procedure. Well, at pronials we think differently. A manicure is a luxury treatment, the ultimate moment to pamper your clients. Our hand-care range has been developed with powerful antioxidant ingredients that have a real anti-aging effect. If you are not using it yet, take the manicure training and discover all our tips and tricks to offer your clients a superior quality manicure. Here too, this training will provide you with additional sales opportunities. This three-hour training is available face-to-face. Last but not least, you cannot miss out on the soap polish training which is available both in a three-hour training face-to-face as well as online. With the soap polish semi-permanent nail polish, you will be sure to satisfy a clientele of a dynamic woman who do not have a lot of time to spend in the salon with beautiful polished and shiny nails like gel. And for you, what could be better than being able to do this much requested and super fast treatment of only 20 minutes of application? Yes, you can help three clients in just one hour. So, choose the version that suits you best online or face-to-face. And because you are an artist and having fun in the job is super important, Prunels also offers nail art trainings. The new nail art trends workshops are created each season so that you can let your artist's heart speak. Please, your clients who want to stay fashionable and above all, each look is designed to be applied easily and quickly. And for you, it allows you to create additional income because of course, doing nail art for free is madness. These trainings are available face-to-face or online. Choose one that suits you best. I will close by saying that today is a fantastic day to learn something new. So quickly contact your distribution center or go to our website and join us at the Prunels Academy. And if you can't wait to learn, let's have a check at our motivational Mondays webinar replays on our website. I wish you all a very nice day and hope to see you very soon. Hi, I'm Els, Product Developer at Prunels and today I will explain to you how to offer every customer the natural nail look she is looking for. With our bare essentials collection, you have the perfect set of new colors available in your salon. A natural nail look can enhance the natural beauty of your customer. But how do you know which color is the right one for them?  The beauty is in every client. Every customer is different and there's beauty in everyone with a different skin tone, individual style, different personality, age, hair and so on. As you know, a natural nail look should be adapted to every specific customer. Otherwise, you will have a dull or unflattering look instead of a fresh, clean and natural one. So, why nude colors? First of all, all natural nails and natural looking makeup are trending. People want to look their best in a way that brings their natural beauty out instead of covering it up. It is exactly the same with nails. They need to be subtle and impeccable. These colors will be important as a trend color but equally important as a timeless classic. It's a look that can be worn all year around with every possible outfit and for every occasion. Now, creating the perfect elegant natural nail look is like an art form. You need to create the perfect nail shape, naturally thin but yet strong, correct or cover up imperfections of the natural nail and above all, choose the perfect color for your customer. The wrong nail color will look unflattering and will reveal any imperfections and you don't want it. But how do you advise your customer on the right color when she decides to pick a nude one? Well, here are three important questions that you could ask. When your customer comes to the salon and she asks a natural nail, she usually has a pretty good idea what she wants the final effect to look like. So your first question should always be what end result are you looking for? Do you want your nails to be blend in or to stand out? Should the nail blend and match her skin tone or can stand out in contrast a little? For example, it could be slightly darker or lighter than skin. Does your client want a covering or a transparent color? So should her natural nails still be visible? You can help out every client with her bare essentials collection. They are semi-transparent when you apply them as a single nail. And by applying two layers, you achieve the fully covering look. The second and also most important question is, what is the natural skin color and undertone of your customer? The answer on this question will define the right color for her. The natural skin color is quite easy to determine. A customer's skin goes from really white and fair to dark and black and all shades in between. Each skin tone has its own specific natural beauty and this will define how dark or light your nude nail color should be, depending of course on if she wants it blended in or contrasting. Next to the natural skin color is the natural skin tone, which is a warmth of the skin tone. It's a little bit harder to see, but it's really key when it comes to choosing the most fledgling nail color for her. In general, there are two types of skin tones, colder ones and warmer ones. Skins with a colder undertone are like the women on the left. They usually have a more pinkish undertone, but it can also be more blue or even grayish. And the skin color on the right has a warm undertone. This tone is normally more yellow. In the picture, you can easily see the difference between the two. More pinkish one and a more yellow one. But I have to say it's not always easy to define the skin tone on a person's side. So let me give you some extra tips. Here you see how colors are traditionally divided in cold and warm colors. The colors on the left are considered as cold. As you can see, they are more pinkish, blueish and green. The colors on the right are more yellow and orange, which are considered as warm. You can use this as a guide for your skin tone decision. But keep in mind, when a client has a cold undertone, cold colors are more flattering and vice versa. It's important to know that both light and dark skin tones can have a cold or warm undertone, as you see on the picture. All the skin tones on the left go from really white with a pinkish undertone to very dark with a blueish undertone or cold. On the right, you can see possible variations of warm skin tones, which can be equally light or dark but always have this yellow undertone. Here are some extra tips. For cold skin tones, silver jewelry is the most flattering. For warm skin tones, gold is what you need, but be careful. Gold is very, very trending at the moment, so it's possible that your client is wearing gold because she is just following the trend. Another tip is to ask your customer what she would pick when she wants a bright nail. Would she rather wear hot pinks or pinkish reds like when in love, Dragonfruit Spacesuit or Scuba Pink? Or would she pick a more yellow shade like corals or orangy reds? The last ones are more pretty when you have a warm undertone. Here is my final tip. Do the paper trick.  You will immediately see if the skin is more pinkish-cold or more yellowish-warm. Now, the third and final question you should ask is the skin tanned, yes or no? A vacation or sunny days can temporarily change the color of the skin. It can be slightly warmer and darker by the time. That's why a color for a customer can be different during summer and winter time. So let me show you with this overview which are the right colors to use once you answer the three questions. Decide on the end result, the skin color and maybe the most important one, the undertone. This last element is the main driver in choosing the perfect color for your client. For example, when your client has a cold undertone more pale white and pinkish or a bluish hue then she is better with a white and pink nude shade like opening dance, sweet gesture or holding hands. When she has a more grayish olive undertone you will better pick a color that's not too pink or not too yellow. Bare necessity will be the perfect one for her. When you have a warmer undertone that is more yellow with green veins and skin with often freckles then she would be best with a brown or beige nude shade. The perfect colors for her are bare necessity, close contact or subtle mood. When you have a warm undertone that is more olive then you are better with a gold nude shade like subtle mood. So as you can see, our bare essential collection is the perfect selection for all your customers. It's going from very light to dark skin tones and from cold to warm undertones. Opening dance is our first color starting from the left side. It's the perfect white shade with a pinkish iridescent shimmer which is perfect for light cold skin tones or dark cold skin tones that likes a more contrasting look. Holding hands is a type of white with a pink undertone. It's the perfect color for a cold skin tone. Sweet gesture is a very light pink shade that is more flattering to colder skin tones. Close contact has white and brown inside with a more yellowish base. This is perfect for warm skin tones and it's even our darkest nude color in the collection. Bare necessity is a bit lighter and has a touch of coral pink in it. It has both warm and cold elements inside. This makes it the perfect nude color for a lot of skin types. From dark to light and from cold to warm. The final color on the collection is subtle mood. It's a mixture of brown, white and yellow. So a color that's ideal for warm yellowish skin type since it has the most yellow inside. To end, let me give you a final tip. Style always trumps color. If your customer really wants a very specific style and color please follow her lead and together you will come up with a stunning result. The most important part is that it will satisfy her. And also, a mistake is easily spotted. If you apply color and it looks dull or not fresh just remove it and go for another one. The more mature the skin is the more important it is to wear the right color. Usually this type of skin is grayer and duller and you don't want it to emphasize this. Usually the skin has a colder undertone so yellow nude colors are not well suited. And finally, you can add a shimmer to make a new tone colder or warmer by adding our silver or rose gold top coat. Remember, silver for gold and gold for warm. I hope these tips can help you understand how to identify the skin tone and undertone of every customer. The right color will bring out the natural beauty for everyone and that is what every customer wants. They will love you for it and they will look forward to coming. As usual, we also launched a second collection for the upcoming winter season. This time, however, our two collections could not be more different. In fact, they really are quite literally different as day and night. As are the two main important trends for this season. Because where the bare essentials are in fact totally seasonless colors that are perfect for everyday timeless elegance, the next collection is clearly a very dressed up, special occasion winter collection. Whose whole idea is to add once again a touch of extravagance and glamour to everyday life now that we can finally socialize and go out again. Let's find out what it's all about. This collection is in fact all about last night. Do you remember the time where we used to go out and have all night parties, usually followed by sharing crazy pictures on social media the next day using the hashtag about last night showing our glamorous outfits, spectacular party venues from the night before to inside some extra FOMO with those who didn't come? Well, today those times are finally here again. Now, even if COVID is still lurking behind the corner, now that many of us are fully vaccinated, we're finally getting back to normal and are given back the freedom to go out and get together again and party. And Trent Watchers have been saying this for a while now. After this pandemic, we will enter a modern day version of the Roaring 20s, the famous Art Deco period of the last century. A new exuberant period of freedom, partying, glamorous makeup and luxurious outfits. Remember the iconic party scene from the movie The Great Gatsby? Well, that's what the Roaring 20s is all about and it's no coincidence that this typical Roaring 20s glamorous Art Deco style is inspiring modern day fashion trends. So, are you ready to in fact roar and to unleash your inner party animal once again? Because the time has finally come. And also, we are all in desperate need for a touch of extravagance again in our lives. After spending more than a year in nothing but sweatpants and t-shirts, especially all those who were working from home, well, people now want to celebrate their regained freedom by adding a touch of extravagance and by making a deliberate effort once again on their looks, their hair, their nails, their makeup, outfits and accessories. And in this false runway fashion, we see a clear return to evening wear as a main trend, which is celebrated with the necessary glamour and glitter, of course. Your Valentino, Paco Rabanne, more recently Dolce & Gabbana, only last week in Venice, they all came out with glamorous evening gowns with feathers, pearls, gems, sequins. This season, next to the strong trend of natural beauty, it will also be your glamorous party outfits that will be calling the shots in your dressing room. So we need a collection of professional nail colors to match, because long-lasting immaculate salon nails will definitely be a total must-have this season. Only with perfect salon nails, you're ready to go out for a night out and say yes to that last-minute invitation. So expect to be fully booked this season in your salon, because hair, nails, skin, legs, all have to be salon-perfect again once more. And people are happy they finally can make an effort again in looking good and are willing to pay for it. So this new About Last Night collection reflects the spirit of these times perfectly. It's a glamorous color palette of six new Art Deco-inspired professional nail shades and rich with shimmering nail art items for that extravagant finishing touch. So let's dive into the colors one by one. First we have Majestic Magenta, a grand Fuchsia color. It's a hot pink with a sensual wink to the Art Deco atmosphere of the 20s. It's intense and striking on the nails, especially in combination with a dark outfit. In fact, it's the most powerful nail color of this collection and it really exudes richness and strong feminine glamour. Next we have Ride My Car Mine. Just like in Tamara de Lempica's iconic work of art that really captured the style of the Art Deco era, it's a free-spirited color that puts you in the driving seat or that puts the wearer of it in the driving seat. As a color, it's an imperial red, a carmine red, meaning it's deep red with a slightly purple-blueish undertone. For sure, not an ordinary red this one. Furthermore, we have Foxie Brown. This color will let the red hot spark in you ignite when the party fever hits you. It's a color that can also be beautifully glam-fied with red-golden glitter effects on top. For that, we are launching some fabulous new glitter topcoats in gel and suppolish that my colleague will present you later on. Now, as a nail color, Foxie Brown is a warm chestnut reddish brown, a real autumnal shade, but instead of pumpkin spice boring, this one is Foxie and fierce. Next, we have Stay on Taupe. Now, the gray color trend is reaching its peak this year and especially in autumn. So, stay on top of the trends with this beautiful warm and glamorous new taupe shade for nails. Stay on Taupe. The warm red undertone gives this taupe gray a real understated elegance feeling for nails. That makes it very contemporary and at the same time timeless and even seasonless. It's a warm, dark, neutral look for nails that makes your nails look classy and put together and perfect for any type of occasion. Next, Garden of Delights. A naturally green khaki color, really a trend color for fall. Now, do you see every party as an exciting garden full of secrets? Well, with this color, having fun will definitely be your second nature. It's a beautifully khaki green, which was definitely actually missing from the pronals color range and now we have it and especially for autumn, for winter, this color is in high demand. Last but not least, we have Hot Mesh. It's a dark, untracid gray and perfect for a rebel party look sexy and messy at the same time. It's a second gray color of the collection but quite dark and with a cold blueish undertone so more of an untracid. It's perfect for a night out and perfect also as a base for sparkly embellishments with a new silver shimmer top coat. Now, like I mentioned, we will relaunch the new collection boxes with all the new 12 collection colors in Chalak or Supolish. So this means the six about last night colors and the six bare essential colors that I presented before. This way you get a collection box of 12 seasonal colors for your customers to choose from. Six colors for a very natural everyday look and six colors for a more dressed up evening look. And with each box you get a free window sticker with time to celebrate on it and a tent card to promote the 12 colors and an amazing free limited edition product that my colleague will finally reveal right after my presentation. So stay tuned. Now, to bring the about last night glamorous or deco feeling in your salon you can choose from one of our new salon displays and display visuals. And we also have two striking new posters and two almost painting like banners to let the roaring 20s vibe come to life in your salon. As mentioned before, we will also inspire you with a lot more looks and ideas via our Pronell's Facebook and Instagram pages. So be sure to keep an eye on that. And talking about social media are you next to a nail professional and business entrepreneur also a social media fanatic and do you love sharing your work and expertise online to inspire both customers and other beauty professionals? Well, then we can help you bring your online presence to the next level. By becoming a Pronell's digital ambassadors we will help you to become a strong digital voice and expert in your business. So we will help you grow and we will collaborate with you to launch new products and create original nail looks. If you think you have what it takes just send us a direct message on Instagram at Pronell's HQ and tell us why you should be our next Pronell's ambassador. Now, to dress up nails that are always ready for a glamorous night out you can of course use these new about last night collection colors in a very decorative way and embellish them with all kinds of glitter effects and nail art designs. In fact, we want you to because this collection is all about adding that extra touch and extravagance and make nail look refined and extraordinary.  Now, before my colleague is going to show you some fabulous new nail art items and amazing design trends let's get this party started and dressed up for a night to remember. Hello everyone and welcome to the new nail art trends of this autumn and winter collection. Because time is important to all of us we are focused on fast easy but ever so elegant nail art options which will bring extra joy to your clients and extra income to you. We've worked together with two lovely and talented pronials nail stylist Agniska and Patricia who will show you which nail art is perfect for which new autumn color. To make it easy we have filmed all of these looks step by step and as an overview of everything you need the entire look. We have included all of these videos into our autumn and winter nail art e-learning on which more later. So today I'm already showing you a small part to give you an idea of what you can expect from our e-learning. Are you ready? Ok, let's see what I have for you. The flash diamonds effect kit with this flash diamonds effect kit you can create really sparkling diamonds in the dark. The sparkles will dance in the light as if mini diamonds were scattered all over your nails so much more than just the glitter gel. Your customers will have a hard time choosing between these three brilliant gels of the flash diamonds effect kits.  The amber diamond is a beautiful copper glitter with gold and red glitters that perfectly matches our color foxy fury. The orchid diamond is a beautiful lavender colored glitter with a silver undertone that perfectly matches our new stay on top color. Here's a nice tip. These glitter effect gels can be combined with both gel and so polish as they are soakable and can be filed. You can apply them with two layers as a color or just apply one layer as a color for a special effect. With this matte top coat you can complete any nail art look quickly with literally one coat of nail art. No need for a gloss afterwards as it's already included with its black dots in different sizes. The winter feeling is just around the corner. This timeless nail look is really beautiful in combination with a new nude collection. Unlike many other top coats this one will never lose its matte effect or shines when you scratch something with your nails. A must have. Tip for after the winter with this matte top coat and the new nude colors you can also create a beautiful trend during Easter. With our silver shimmer top coats this silver glitter top coat is ideal for all those who want to make their manicure extra shiny. Beautiful in combination with the dark colors for a more festive effect. Finish with only one coat of the silver shimmer glitter and you're done. Just like that. No gloss needed after this glitter. That's one step less and how is that for time saving. This silver shimmer top coat is available in both a sapphire gloss and Sopolis shine versions and also replaces the well-known Sopolis shimmer gloss because it contains more glitter and shines even brighter. Even better so. The new pink shimmer top coats Again we have limited edition collection boxes for our fourth anniversary but this time we are giving you something exclusive for free because this rose shimmer gloss is only available in the collection boxes not available separately so where you're hesitating to buy a collection box then this limited rose shimmer gloss will convince you now. This top coat has a rose gold effect and is available in the quality of both our sapphire gloss and our Sopolis shine. As we mentioned to all colors and a wonderful warm glass they look to the nude colors in the winter. We have new stickers the painted poppies. These ultra fine nail stickers with poppies are quick and easy nail art they look like acrylic painted flowers and are so sophisticated and thin that they stick on the nail like a second skin. Combine them in bright autumn colors or beautiful with a nude collection. This creates a more glamorous winter look. Our wonderful nail stylist Agnizka Koraz from Poland and Patricia Lima from Portugal have prepared some seasonal looks based on the nude colors and these easy to use nail art products. They have again made beautiful creations for us and explained them step by step in a video. You will find the complete videos the explanation and the product list in our autumn and winter e-learning. Let's take a look at how they created these looks. The first one is the milky swirls. The swirls are really in since this summer and this trend will continue in the winter. Agnizka shows here also a soft swirl with baby pink colors. Our nude sweet chester with a limited sapphire rose shimmer and she finishes this swirl with a gel paint white canvas. Then we also have the dark swirls. Our nude colors are perfect for this trend. Combined with the darker shade that Patricia shows you here use the brush number 7 for their easy swirls. A new glitter ombre technique is born. Use our effect kits that contain super glitter and make an ombre with our master pale whites. It's quick and easy because the master pale whites is also a gloss. So you don't need a top coat anymore. You can then give them the look extra sensibility by making mandala drawings with a gel paint white canvas.  Our white cream opening dance with rose shimmer gloss combined with the new matte dots on top coat creates a soft nude nail art with a winter touch. The different sizes of dots make it playful and sensual. The matte finish softens the colors into a velvet picture. Draw some extra leaves with the gel paint quite a bit black and the look is complete. You are so artico. You can't hide in the dark with our effect kits. Use abstract darlings with a stay on top and the hot mesh colors combined with the black diamond color from our flash diamonds effect kit and go into the dark. Very fascinating is that when you shine a flashlight in the dark on your nails, the sparkles appear like magic. Our nudes combined with the painted poppy stickers create a very feminine result. Just a little bit more to a classy nude color. Here we use the light pink shade holding hands and then the dark brown pink shade close contact for contrast. Add some sparkles with the gold chrome flakes and outline the dark close contact areas with our matte dots on top for a winter touch. Then line the areas with our black spider gel or black shell paint. Create a new marble look with the glitter effect kit. First apply a beautiful sand colored subtle move as a color but do not cure the second layer yet. Make your marble with the subtle move the foxy fury white and black and then add the sparkles of the amber diamond. It is very important to use brush number 13 and if you want to know the ultimate tip so that the colors flow nicely then you should definitely subscribe for our ear learning because I will explain it step by step. Back to the nature. We love leaves and the vein gives structure to our nails. First apply a natural layer with our capital move color and �ance Overall shape with the color of the light mister make this look minute.  Use our gel paint Calligraphic Black to draw and follow all the next steps in our learning. An autumn bouquet. Use our nail brushes to draw a perfect ombre flower without having to practice for hours. Apply the new color right my carmine as a base and create an ombre with the Calligraphic Black gel paint. Then apply our new Dots on top matte gloss over it and learn in our e-learning how to make the flowers with the right brush. The seashell is back. Create a beautiful ombre with the new color Majestic Magenta and the Calligraphic Black gel paint. And draw your seashell with our limited edition sapphire rose for the pearly effect. This glitter stocko has a rose gold shine and makes the sea come alive again. Back and wide by Patricia, our new silver shimmer in both sapphire glass and the polish shine version is also very beautiful with the extreme matte top coat over it for a soft result. On the new color hot mesh, the gray tone comes out very strongly with the glitter. You can create both a bold and sensual look with our flash diamonds effect kit. Here Patricia uses our new color Bare Necessity as a base combined with almost all the new autumn colors. If you have the collection box, you might as well use it, right? Then she draws with the glitters from the effect kits. This way she gives more dynamics to the colors. Now you are recharged with creative ideas and get to work. If you want to go through everything step by step at your own pace and in your own time then our nail art e-learning is perfect for you. You now get it for free when you buy a medium or large package. My colleague will give you more information. And don't forget to tag us at Proneels underscore HQ in your creations. We will be happy to share them. I am looking forward to it and good luck to you all. And so we have come to the end of this online launch event. It's going to be a great season with the very latest trends, high quality classics and craftsmanship that you can perfect at any point in your career. In gel nails, they are trendier than ever, but you as a beauty expert and your clients have become much more discerning today. Gel nails today need to look as natural as possible, so the thickness, shape, length and color are extremely important. Thanks to the latest techniques and products, we perfectly succeed in fulfilling the desire of our customers, natural looking strong nails. This season, the master and the new new colors, of which there is an ideal match for every skin type, this become your successful recipe. And the innovative Proneels master gel continues to be the favorite of many this season. Thanks to the one drop technique and its ultra strong formula, you save 30 minutes on a gel treatment, you don't have to file anymore and you deliver the thinnest and strongest nails, so the master gel remains the most wanted gel this season. Have you not tried the master gel yet? Then I have good news, because this season you can test it completely for free. It is included in the large promotion package that I will present shortly. And you don't have to do the testing alone because you can attend a free three hour master workshop in one of our training centers, or you can follow the extensive e-learning that is also included in the large package for free. Gel nails are on the rise, but we notice in the market that there is also more and more talk of allergies and that has everything to do with the quality of your gel and your curing lamp. Allergies are caused by gels that are not properly cured, coming into contact with the skin. For that reason, it is important to choose quality gels and the most qualitative, compatible, curing lamp. And if I may give you a tip, stick to one qualitative brand. This is the only way to avoid such problems. At Pro Nails, all gels are extensively tested under the Pro Nails lamps, and you will find on every gel jar bar bottle the correct curing times under the Pro Nails lamps. Now, in addition to gel treatments, semi-permanent treatments also remain extremely popular. Customers who aren't ready yet for gels, customers who have their nails treated sporadically, or customers who want to be able to take it off themselves, are bound to come to your salon. So make sure you serve these different clients with the right technique. At Pro Nails, there is something for everyone, and you can help your client find on a custom basis. There is the Sopolis Structure Base, an innovative base for the most difficult nails. This semi-permanent base gel gives structure to these nails, strengthens them, and evens out all imperfections. This gel stays on the nails for up to three weeks, and you can even make extensions up to two millimeters. You can also safely file off this gel to remove it if you do not want to soak it off without damaging the natural nail. And then there is the Sopolis Easy Peel, the second one. The Sopolis Easy Peel is perfect for customers who want to be able to remove their Sopolis nails after two weeks without damaging the natural nails themselves. And then, of course, we have the classic Sopolis Easy Soak, which is suitable for both hands and feet. The Easy Soak can be removed in just five minutes, applies very easily with a very handy brush, and has a wear time up to two weeks. Now clients who opt for a semi-permanent treatment will have bare nails between treatments. So it's up to you to advise them to take good care of their nails, and in the best case, to strengthen their nails with a caring nail hardener. Also, customers who stop using gel nails or customers with natural nails who want to strengthen their nails will benefit from this product. And good news, because of this bestseller, you get four for free in the large promo pack. And that's not the only retail product you'll be getting from us, because if the pandemic has started anything, it is that you, as a beauty professional, can sell and earn more without having to do more treatments. So that's why we are giving you 506 euros in pure profit. You'll get our bestsellers completely for free, so you will earn that 506 euros as pure profit. So let's take a quick look at the different promotional packs of this launch. This season we have no less than three packs for you this season. We have a small, a medium, and a large pack. The bigger the pack, the better the deal, so be sure to keep watching for the biggest, the large deal. Let's start with the small packs. There are three small deals. One for the gel lovers, one for the semi-permanence of polish lovers, and of course, one for the long-wear nail polish lovers. Now, what's in it? In the gel pack, of course, the 12 new trend colors of the season packed in a 40 years collector's item box. And what do you get for free? You get the sapphire gloss in rosé shimmer. And this one is not for sale, it's for sale, so it is exclusively available in this box. In addition, you get a discount on the 12 colors, and you also get a window sticker and a 10 cards as a gift. The polish pack is the same, but then with the 12 polish colors, and here you get the exclusive not for sale, so polish top coat in rosé shimmer as a gift. In the third small pack, you buy the 12 new long-wear nail polish colors, as well as the base and the top coat. And then you will get a complete display pack for free, with a wooden stand, two display cards, nail tips and matching name stickers. And then we go up a step, so a step more interesting. We go to the two medium deals, one for gel and one for the polish users. But watch out, these are only valid during the coming two weeks. The gel medium deal includes, of course, the small pack with all its free items, plus you buy all the nail art. What do you get extra for free? Well, the ear learning with all the trend looks of the season worth 95 euros. The polish pack is the same, but with the polish colors. And then we come to the last deal, the most interesting one, because this deal actually costs you nothing. And I'll explain you why. What do you buy? You buy the 12 new gel-like, so polish and long-wear nail polish colors. You also buy the basic products of each system. You buy the nail art and you buy the three liquids. But what do you get? You get the exclusive sapphire gloss in rosé shimmer, the exclusive polish top coat in rosé shimmer. You get the stickers and the tent cards. You get also a reduction on the new gel-like and so polish colors. You get the full long-wear display pack. You get the trend looks ear learning worth 95 euros. And as promised, you also get the master ear learning also worth 95 euros. And as promised, you also get the master clear, so you can test it for free. But that's not all, because you also get some of our top selling products completely for free. You get, as promised, four times the nail hardener. You also get four times the Vitamina cuticle oil in the limited edition with the white ginger profil. You also get four times the 3P set of hand creams. And you get a free display to showcase all of these best sellers.  So these last products you are going to sell in your salon with pure profit. Because you get these products completely for free. This means that your pure profit is 506 euro and 40 cents. Add to that all the other products you get for free here and you arrive at the purchase price of this deal. So this deal is completely for free. This deal starts now and is only valid for two weeks and while supplies last. So don't wait too long and go after it. And with this fun news, we close the launch event. We wish you a successful season and we hope to see you back very, very, very soon. See you soon.


Welcome back MechanicalEI. Did you know that a Taylor series is a representation of a function as an infinite sum of terms that are calculated from the values of the function's derivatives at a single point and that a Lorentz series of a complex function f of z is a representation of that function as a power series which includes terms of negative degree? This makes us wonder, what are Taylor's and Lorentz series? Before we jump in, check out the previous part of this series to learn about what properties of line integral are. Now, the Taylor series of a real or complex valued function f of x that is infinitely differentiable at a real or complex number a is the power series which can be written in the more compact sigma notation as summation of f power n of a upon n factorial into x minus a the whole raised to n from n equals to 0 to infinity. Here, f power n of a denotes the nth derivative of f evaluated at a. The Lorentz series of a complex function f of z is a representation of that function as a power series which includes terms of negative degree. It may be used to express complex functions in cases where a Taylor series expansion cannot be applied. The Lorentz series for a complex function f of z about a point c is given by f of z equals to summation of a n into z minus c raised to n from n equals to minus infinity to infinity where a n and c are constants defined by a line integral which is a generalization of Cauchy's integral formula. Hence, we first saw what Taylor's series is and then went on to see what Lorentz series is. So like, subscribe and comment with your feedback to help us make better videos. Thanks for watching. Also, thanks a lot for those constructive comments. You helped the channel grow. So here are the top mechanical EIs of our last videos. In the next episode of Mechanical EI, find out what residue theorem is.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and it's ecosystem partner. Hey, welcome back everyone. Live here in Las Vegas, this is VMworld 2017, exclusive CUBE coverage. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. My co-host Dave Vellott, their next guest, Brian Biles, who's the CEO and founder of Datrium, former entrepreneur, founder of Data Domain, entrepreneur, great to have you. Great to be here, great to see you guys.  The crest of which wave? The wave of cloud, data, cell waves. So many waves. What's the, okay, question, what's the biggest wave that you're riding right now? Within, so there are two big ones. One is, enterprises are shifting some of their deployment to public clouds. So, you know, we're helping navigate some of that. The other is within private clouds, they're moving to converged infrastructure. So our business starts with that but is starting to have dimensions on public cloud. And what does that mean for the customers? People out there right now coming to VMworld this year, they go, okay, I know what cloud is. It's a true private cloud on premise operating model with bursting to, with Amazon now, I got clear picture. Everything else I'll fill in the blank from there. Yeah, there's, let me start sort of the other order. Within convergence, there's a, I don't know, some like 10%, 20% of infrastructure has kind of moved to that model and it's growing. So traditional sort of specialized appliances are declining in favor of that. Most of our business is in that world. And as we're able to combine compute primary and secondary storage in one scalable infrastructure. And that's never been done our way before. So we have a lot of great things to talk about there. Within migration to cloud, the sort of first thing that happened, if you're not moving like wholesale, a bunch of applications there, if you, if you're doing a hybrid thing, the first thing that moves is like backup because it's a simple thing to move and you know, it's a low cost store. So we are showing at this show, migration of snapshots in a pre-compressed, pre-duplicated encrypted way to S3 for restore to your on-prem site. So as an entrepreneur, we're sitting around kind of like on the beach playing golf. And I want to just do a start. What was the motivation for you to do Datrium? For Datrium.  I was a founder of Data Domain and Data Domain got bought by EMC. Frank Slutman who was running ServiceNow used to say as our CEO that after that acquisition, it's sort of like being eaten by a Python every day.  So, you know, we all sort of decided to move to a different thing. And so the CTO group and I left about the same time, decided to do something different. We met two guys who were principal engineers at VMware, had been there for, you know, 10 years and knew everything about the hypervisor world. We got together and Datrium came out of that set of discussions. And it turned out that was in 2012, hyperconvergence was just starting to emerge. So we were looking for the next thing after that. And then cloud was becoming big. You know, how do we branch onto that? So all of these discussions were relevant to kind of early thinking even then. And now it's just become more clear. But Brian, this notion of bringing compute, primary storage and secondary storage together. Where did that come from? Nobody really does that. No, and it's partly because of our background as people. Data Domain was a backup centric product. When I went to EMC, I ended up, you know, doing product strategy for the network and Avamar products as well. And we'd been in the backup world for 10 years. So we knew that space pretty well. Doing a storage system that was good for that on either disk or flash was something we knew how to do. But the people that were purely doing that couldn't figure out how to get it to work for primary storage. We took our understanding of that and with the help of our founders from VMware who knew how VMs expected primary IO to work put together a different kind of framework. So we use hosts with flash as a primary store and a secondary set of chassis with spinning rust for persistence of data. So it's like a peer on every host writing to kind of a rubric for persistence. So if you actually had hyperconverged and a scale out backup system, you'd have too much of everything. You'd have like too many motherboards, too many persistence drives. You'd like have duplicates of all kinds of hardware. By doing it together, we stripped it down. So it's way more cost efficient and it turns out way more scalable. So you have to share those resources and then still solve those unique problems. Right, efficiently. That's right. So we can be as competitive as any data protection architecture as well as being faster than the fastest all flash array. So there's a lot of debates going on, mostly on the all flash data center side. People say all flash, it's here to stay. Flash is cheaper than spinning disk. There are a few people who say, that's not true and I think, you're one of them. Well if you look at an actual implementation of an all flash array, it's never alone. You're always doing backup to something else. And the something else is probably disk. We all the time see some all flash array partnering with some disk based backup thing and that's the composite solution. Well, you're not getting rid of spinning disk in that case. You're only doing it for the primary IO, but the secondary IO is going to disk. Or it might be going to, there are risk management cases where you might be going to Amazon with that backup data, you might be going to tape. But you're not getting rid of something low cost. And if you look at just the sort of list prices of an all flash array versus the list prices of a scale out backup array, it can be a quarter of the price. Because even if both have D-dupe and compression, you're paying for insurance in the backup side. You don't want it to be super expensive. Yeah, so okay. And so you see that gap staying indefinitely. You want to protect your data and you want it to be low cost. We've just engineered it together. So if we up level it beyond the media, Datrium data is obviously fundamental to your name. Everybody talks about digital transformation. We see digital businesses as defined by the way in which you use your data. So how does Datrium fit into helping companies better leverage their data? Well, you can sort of go through the life cycle of the data. At the end of the day, we're kind of a data management company that also lets you go fast. So in data management, you mostly want to work at a small granularity, like VM or container level, at an application level, not at a sort of storage artifact level, like a LUN. You want to deal with apps. You want to deal with, and so the convenient approximation of that is VMs or containers. That lets you deal with it easily. So when we have policies in our product for data protection, we don't do volume level snapshots. We let you do container level snapshots, persistent volumes or VM level snapshots. Replicate them across any number of sites, including AWS. Keep more than a million of these granular snapshots in a single system of shared data. So if you snapshot a VM on one host, it's immediately cloneable on another one in the rack, or the same with a container. And otherwise, you can't really do that with a normal storage system. And this just makes it much more flexible, as it turns out, a lot faster, because the read IO never leaves the host. It's always on local flash. And we first had you on theCUBE at VMworld, I think two years ago. But you're moving beyond your VMware roots. Quite a bit. Into Linux and other areas. Maybe talk about that a little bit. Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. This year we've had a lot of announcements. We changed the product considerably, the company. So not only can we do all this data management stuff, we can simultaneously support VMware hosts, Red Hat virtualization on just Linux hosts, as well as Docker on bare metal. So that multi-hypervisor, multi-container ability in the same shared storage space is very unique. Even hyper-converged vendors don't do that. So yeah, that's opened up a lot of doors for us. What's the impact of customers? That's a unique opportunity for you guys. Why go that way and what's the impact to customers? Ultimately, people want to consolidate to converged infrastructure. But different application environments are optimized differently. If you want to consolidate, you have to support all the ones that matter. And that's why we're doing this. So here's the update on where you guys are right now as a company. We are an employee headcount. What's the vision? What's the next couple of milestones for your success? We're about 140 people. We have sales in the U.S. predominantly, a little bit in some other locations, but mostly U.S. We'll be expanding that. We've just, over the course of this year, done quite a lot. So we've gone from, you know, we've expanded our capacity and performance by more than an order of magnitude. We've expanded our just number of snapshots and so on and at the same rate. M by N replication across sites, including Amazon. So that's a lot. A lot of product work. A lot of product tech getting done. Yes, digestion of that and selling of that. We've moved to everything from sort of commercial mid-range, hyper-converged or array sales to sort of telco service provider class, rack scale infrastructure opportunities. There's a lot. A lot of where we're investing is data management across multiple clouds. So we're showing Amazon replication today. We'll get to other clouds over time and as well do more things than just store backup data. We'll be doing, you know, more migration and disaster recovery and a lot of things in the future with clouds. Well, it's the most exciting thing happening that gets you excited right now in the industry. In the industry, as you guys look at your opportunity, because you're the founder, CEO, you get the 20 miles there. You kind of do a lot of product work. Product CEO, you get to see the vision. As you guys have got that trajectory going as a starter, you're forging new ground. What's getting you excited out there? In a sort of physical infrastructure sense, it's really interesting to see where NVME over fabric is going and how to leverage that because it's, first of all, going to be a different way to compose host instances. It has some problems. It's not a sand. It doesn't let you do shared data. You can't do vMotion using it because it's not a shared facility and it requires hosts to do the erasure coding for the off-host storage. And that's not a normal model. It turns out it's what we do, so it's interesting. And that could be an opportunity or a challenge. Yeah. It's also really interesting to see where customers are going with their interface of data management across multiple clouds. It's very much an emerging territory. Similarly, with containers. Containers have always been this sort of lightweight, stateless, it comes up, it goes away kind of thing. It's within a host. You don't really think about, you know, orchestrating container management across hosts in a data management sense. But because we can do it, you can snapshot a container persistent volume on a host with us and then clone it immediately in the same namespace on another host. For rapid development, no one's ever thought that through and now we can offer that. So we're in a bunch of emerging dialogues on that stuff that no one's really had to offer. It's interesting, bringing us a little adult supervision to stateless apps. Yeah, because containers are super fun, you know, useful as a development paradigm. It's lightweight, it's small, it allows migration in these really interesting ways. But persistent, so people are trying to apply it to persistent data as well as stateless data. And that's giving a bunch of interesting new energy to the whole policy approach. Brian, great to have you on the queue. Great to see you, congratulations on the venture. It's going great. And you had to launch recently on big announcements. Keep on innovating your pioneer and looking forward to our next chat. Great to have you on the queue, appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thanks for the time. More live coverage, three days wall to wall, covers day one, coming to an end. And here at VMworld 2017's theCUBE, we'll be right back with more coverage after this short break.


YouTube was going on so today we're back to revisit Persking the Beast Productions channel. It's been a long time since we've seen his videos and I kind of miss his Sotr Fallout series. So today we're gonna watch the Brandon Beyblast. I know you guys are probably like, dude you watched it before, but this is the epic version. He dropped an epic version, which I guess is, um, here we made episode one, but he just made it more epic. That makes any sense. Oh, yeah, and also quick question. He did drop these two classic original movies, which are parts one through six and seven of twelve. If you guys want me to react to those also, let me know in the comments down below. So let's go ahead and begin with the Brandon Beyblast epic version. Oh, okay. I can see the epicness already. Oh, James. That's gotta hurt. Oh no, not Toby. Gordon. That's gotta be one of the status deaths for Toby, man. Doug? Oh no, the duck. He was about to get killed by the beast. Alright, so that was a pretty epic intro, recreated by Percy and the Beast Productions. To whoever reads this, my name is Charlie Sand. It's July 4th, 2022. It's been 49 years since that horrible event, but forever changed over... 49 years? Thankfully, I'm not 49. I have tried my hardest to forget those sad days. I can still hear their screams as I relimp their deaths over and over again in my mind. I am 84 years old. My time is almost up. I just need to tell this story one last time to get it off my chest. Okay, so he's actually telling the story. That's pretty cool. It's a cool take. I'm living lonely in the city of Liverpool, England. My wife Rachel passed many years ago, and I never really got a chance to say goodbye. I'm suffering from Alzheimer's disease and with my memory rapidly declining, I need to write down my story as soon as possible. I had my journals in a lock safe, but time has not been so kind to them, so I have no choice but to write it all down based off my memory, and a little help from my journals from the pages that I can still read because you all need to know the truth about what happened all those years ago. Alright, the truth would be unveiled. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1973. The month was March, March 5th, to be exact. It was a beautiful day, in my opinion. The grass was green and vibrant. The sky was a bright blue without a cloud in sight, and Edward's paintwork sparkled in the sunlight. I've had this journal for a long time, and at first, when my wife got it, it became more of a paperweight than anything else, but I decided to bring it out now since there seems to be something going on here. Recently, Sir Topham Hatt, who runs the railway, signed an agreement for this new nuclear power plant to be built alongside the branch line leading to Brendham. Of all the places they could have put it, they had to put it near the most beautiful line, in my opinion. That's going to majorly affect tourism around here, and that's probably why the big man signed that contract to take nuclear waste soon from the mainland. He's got to regain that money somehow. Anyway, besides that, nothing's changed. You got jammers up there? Deasels have also been coming more and more often to vicarstown while steam engines rarely take the trains. It's a downshame that those engines didn't have a place like Soda to stay. Okay, so I'm not sure if all this is due... Edward's doing fine, and he's got a similar opinion to me about the power plant. It's going to be an eyesore, but he does like the idea of doing more work. I'm writing this while we wait for the all-clear Wellesworth, so I'll keep this book in the cab if we spot anything else going on. Well, as I said, if something strange happened, I'd write about it, and it seems like I was right. While I was talking to Leonard about how his son's birthday went, we could hear the sirens blowing in the distance. At first we were terrified, but lucky for us. Edward needed to go light engine back to Napa to pick up his next train. And so it begins. We drew Edward's throttle and we puffed down the line, seeing multiple firefighters speed past us when the line met the road side by side. Apparently the sirens were coming from the power plant. Jesus, I hope that plant is torn down as soon as possible. When I got home this evening, I turned on the telly and found out that it was a drill, in case there was a containment breach. Got to say, if they needed to do a drill where they had that many fire trucks, I don't think that plant's a safe thing to have on this island.  God damn it, I knew this would happen. We were waiting patiently at Wellesworth for the rest of our passengers to board the train. Meanwhile, unknown to me or Sidney, things were going wrong at the power plant. Jacob. What's the matter? Dennis just arrived and is ready to take the goods train. Is his train shunted? Yes, Duck shunted it about an hour ago. He's long gone by now. Cool. Also, what time is it? Oh, it's 2.33. Thanks, I can't wait to get out of this dump. That's a lot of that going on. Hang on, what's going on? No time to explain. Sound the alarm. I'm on it. Oh, and a shatting explosion boomed in the distance. The sky went dark and this huge cloud was visible in the distance. Me and Sidney were scared beyond belief. We couldn't comprehend what was going on. I helped him climb out of the cab window onto the roof to see what was going on, what he saw that was terrifying. Sidney scumpered back down as the passengers cleared the platform faster than I've ever seen before. We knew the shockwave would be coming fast. The guard blew his whistle. He used the brakes, hit the regulator and pulled the whistle for dear life. Hoping to God that Cedric was still in the signal box. We sped out at the station at speed we'd never gone before. I'm boy zooming. Thank God he was because without him we would have been killed. He switched the points and shortly after we heard the honking of a horn in the distance. Is that 30? 30 crashes way through the level crossing and sped alongside us determined to escape. But it was soon cut short by the sounds of tires screeching and metal crashing. Edward tore down the line as his wheels pounded the rails fiercely. We soon saw Donald going the opposite way pulling slow goods. Edward whistled and yelled for him to rev us, but it was too late. We found out later that he didn't make it out alive. Neither did William or Colin in his cabin. Rip. We proceeded to push the old engine as far as we could. Steam erupting from his valves and gauges. We prepared for the worst as we rocketed through Crossley. The shock wave finally hit us and Jesus, it was strong. It caused the glass and the coaches to shatter and rocked them side to side. Edward's pungent remarks had derailed because of some jamming points, but those things didn't stop us. We soon arrived at a carriage shed down the line and we decided to give ourselves a chance to calm down, rest and think for a moment while also checking over Edward and the passengers to see if any were injured. Luckily, no one was. We'll leave here in a few hours. Alright, good job, Edward. Keeping everybody safe. Safe and sound. This is a purple heart, man. Just staying at the carriage shed for about three hours, we made it safely to Knapford and huddled everyone into the station buildings and offices. We heard on the radio that the entirety of Brendan was hit by an explosion and the death toll was unknown. I hope that Leonard got out of there alive, but that's a slim chance. Good evening. I'm Dr. Stuart Bailey. I've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority. I've worked for the AEE for ten years, three of which I spent at AEE Winfreyf near Dawson. I'm joined by my colleagues, Dr. Middleton and Dr. Dolby, both of which are my juniors. Where's my boy? At about 2.30 this afternoon, that delightful the power station at Lower Brendan suffered a widespread system failure. Of four reactors online, only one is currently operating. The plant is currently running on backup power, with staff attempting to remedy problems. So it's like they already got affected by the radiation? The amount of radiation invented, or radiation invented at all, is currently unknown. Looks like cheese pizza. Teams from the Atomic Energy Authority have been dispatched by one of Brendan to take radiation reading. Sadly, earlier this afternoon, Dennis was dispatched to the plant to collect a goods train headed to the port. From the information we know, Dennis is presumed to be dead on his hope for other notice. That's gotta hurt. He's sad. Everybody's sad, man. I'm even sad. Did not deserve it, man. Oh, that's it.  It was like... It was crazy. It was a lot of stuff going on. Well, there we have it. The Brendan Beyblast. Dude, that thing was epic, as it was an epic remastered vision. I'm not sure if he's gonna do like the rest of the episodes. I'm not too clear on that. Maybe he just wanted a remastered vision. I'm not sure if he's gonna do like the rest of the episodes. I'm not too clear on that. Maybe he just wanted a remastered first episode, which was the whole beginning of this whole sort of fallout. I'm not too sure as to whether this epic version of these episodes are going, but it would be cool if he did like the rest of the episodes up to 12. That would be sick. Alright, well, I'll leave the original link down in the description, so you guys can check it out, and then check out Percy's channel. Shout out to him one more time. And if you guys want to see more videos like these, make sure to click the notification bell out, and hit all notifications, and subscribe if you're new to the channel. Peace.


Next one, a little bit trickier, we're going to do the structure of an ion, a covalent ion. So the carbonate ion, although it's an ion and it participates in ionic bonding, within the ion itself the carbon and the oxygen atoms are joined to each other by covalent bonds. So we're going to draw this structure and we follow exactly the same set of procedures that we did for the neutral molecules, there's just one extra thing that you need to know and it comes in the first step. So first we total up our valence electrons as normal. We have one carbon which has four valence electrons and we have three oxygens and each of those oxygens has six valence electrons because it's in group six, which gives us a total of 18. Alright now here's the bit which is slightly different. This is an anion, a negative ion as opposed to a neutral molecule, which means that it's carrying a couple of extra electrons. Now its charge is 2 minus so it's actually carrying two extra electrons. So in addition to the valence electrons from the carbon and the oxygen we need to add two extra electrons that represent the ions charge. Okay from now on we continue as normal. So our total number of valence electrons is four plus 18 which is 22 plus another two which is 24 electrons. Next step is to look at the bonds. Carbon we know likes to form four bonds and oxygen likes to form two. So we're going to try and draw a skeleton for this ion. Because carbon is the one that forms the most bonds I'm going to try putting it in the middle and I only have three other atoms to join it to. So let's start by putting in single bonds. There we go, I've joined up the carbon with the three oxygens. But we know that the carbon likes to form four bonds and at the moment it's only got three. So I'm going to make one of these a double bond. So now my carbon is happy, it's got four bonds. The oxygen at the top is happy, it's got two bonds. The other two oxygens only have one. But as you'll see in a second we can solve this with non-bonding electrons and it's a situation that arises mostly when you're drawing ions. So let's go on and look at the full outer shell. So carbon has four bonds which means it has access to eight electrons so it's fine. The oxygen at the top has access to four bonding electrons because it's got two bonds. So it needs an extra four electrons so I'm going to give it two lone pairs. So it now has four bonding and four non-bonding electrons so it's happy. The other two electrons have only formed one bond each. So they only have access to two electrons. So I can't give them any more bonds. If I give them another bond it will be too many bonds for the carbon and we just can't do that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of make it up to them by giving them extra non-bonding electrons. So they've each got two. They need another six. So I'm going to give them three lone pairs like that. Now the oxygens are happy. All right, final step is I'm going to check that I've used the right number of electrons. I had 24 to start off with. So I used up two, four, six, eight, ten, 12, 14, 16 non-bonding electrons. And I've got four bonds. So that's eight bonding electrons, which is a total of 24, which is the right number. So this is a correct structure. Now there's one final thing we need to add to this. As we've drawn it, the Lewis structure looks like it's meant to be a neutral molecule. We have to add something that indicates that it's an ion. So what we do is we put the entire structure into square brackets and we put the charge on the outside like that, two minus, to show that it is in fact an ion. So there are actually three things that were different, not one, about drawing this Lewis structure of a polyatomic ion. First, you need to adjust the number of valence electrons to reflect the charge on the ion. If it's a negative ion, you'll have to add electrons. If it's a positive ion, you'll have to take electrons away. Second, often with oxygens in negative ions, you'll have to make do with oxygens that have only one bond, even though oxygens usually prefer to have two. This is okay as long as all of the atoms have a full outer shell and you have the correct number of electrons in your structure. And third, you need to put your final Lewis structure in brackets and indicate the charge on the ion.