Alright, and now I'd like to introduce Miss Amy Culpin to you, who's going to be giving our keynote today. Amy's a 30-year-old, necrotizing, fasciitis survivor in quadruple amputee. She serves on the board of directors for friends of disabled adults and children and tools for life, nonprofit organizations devoted to helping people with disabilities. She also acts as CEO of Amy Culpin Foundation, a 501c3 organization she launched in 2017. Amy's earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Georgia, a Master of Arts and Psychology from the University of West Georgia and a Master of Social Work from Veldastas State University. In addition to her work as a motivational speaker and author, she practices individual psychotherapy in Atlanta as a licensed Master of Social Work. Please help me welcome Amy Culpin. Good morning, WordCamp! How's everybody feeling this morning?  Thank you for welcoming me into the fold. Some of you might remember me from May of 2012 when I contracted flesh-eating bacteria. And some of you may have seen on the news how the community just really banded together to support me in my time of need and how faith led to my survival despite all the odds being against me. But for those of you who are like, who the heck is this girl and why is she here, I'm going to start at the beginning. So my story begins in May of 2012 when I was a student at the University of West Georgia studying psychology, a very unique field of psychology known as Ecosychology, which really looks at the connection between the human psyche and nature. And at that time, I was also working three jobs. So I was a graduate research assistant at the college, a bartender in our little downtown square. And I was also a morning waitress at the local breakfast restaurant called the Sunnyside Cafe. And it was actually one day after my shift at Sunnyside Cafe when my life changed forever. One of my fellow waitresses invited me to come hang out at the little river that ran behind her house in a neighboring city. And it was this beautiful spring day, May 1st, warm but breezy, kind of like the weather we've been having lately. So I couldn't say no. And so I joined her on her beautiful property that had a river in the very back. And it was just this beautiful idyllic spring day, you know, there were baby bunnies running around in a pen. There were little hatchlings and a bird's nest in the shed. All the seedlings in her garden were just popping up. And as we're wandering down the property, we start wading down this little river, the little Talapusa River.  And as we were wading through this river, it's getting wider and getting deeper. And that's when we stumble upon this old homemade zipline. And if any of you guys did see the news when my accident occurred, you would have thought I was like in the rainforest because they were showing stock footage from like Costa Rica. And that's not what this was. This was like a dog runner with handlebars. I don't know about y'all, but I was raised in the south. And if we see a rope swing or some boards going up a tree, we don't ask questions. We just jump off it. And so that's what we did. And there were two other girls, two fellow waitresses there with me. And so we each took a go across the river. And I mean, maybe it's five feet across the handlebars or where you reach up and you can grab them. And it was fine. It was no big deal. It was like five seconds of riding this thing across the river. So I thought maybe I'd try it again. Maybe I'd put a little bit more oomph into it. Well, I certainly put enough oomph into it because the next two sounds I heard were probably the most horrific sounds I've ever heard. And they are scarred onto my memory. I can still hear them to this day. And the first sound was the crack of the zip line snapping. And the second sound was the thud of my body hitting the very sharp rocks that lay directly below the zip line. And excretiating pain was emanating from my left outer calf. And I looked down and I saw how bad it was. The cut was, you know, maybe this far across, but it was curved. So it created like this flap effect. I saw parts of my body that should probably remain hidden. And the river was just turning red around my leg. And we knew it was bad. I mean, the girls I was with called 911. The ambulance came right down into the river bed. It took 22 surgical staples to close the gash. But what we didn't know is that that cut was harboring a stowaway. And that water was a bacteria. And over the course of the next three days, that bacteria would proliferate in my leg, becoming necrotizing fasciitis. And within 72 hours, this went undetected. During the course of that 72 hours, my entire left leg rotted to the hip. Waking up on the third day, blisters were running up my entire leg all the way to my thigh. I had no control over any bodily functions anymore. Bowel, bladder, walking, speaking. I didn't know what was happening. And the only words that I could manage to mutter were, I think I'm dying. And my boyfriend at the time threw me over his shoulder, took me to the emergency room. And as soon as I got there, they confirmed that I was right. I was dying. And the necrotizing fasciitis was quickly spreading throughout my body. And in fact, it was at that point in my bloodstream. I was immediately life-flighted to Doctors' Hospital in Augusta, where they do have a hyperbaric chamber that can help treat this insidious disease. So we'll just start back where we left off. Thanks, everybody, for jumping into the situation and helping where you were needed. So at that time, I was life-flighted out to Doctors' Hospital in Augusta, where all of my vital organs were failing. And in fact, just being moved from the stretcher to the bed, my heart stopped. And I had to be artificially resuscitated at that time. And the doctors knew that my left leg would need to be amputated and called my parents to get their consent. And if you can imagine being the parent of I was at that time 24 years old and learning that your child is in critical condition, you can imagine the speed at which my parents were driving down I-20 to get to Augusta. And at that time, they had one lane closed, so they were doing their very best to get there. And the doctors did call them and said, your daughter is a very sick girl. When she got here, we were trying to save her leg. At this point, we're trying to save her life. And in that moment, my parents consented to the amputation of my entire left leg. Also, a large part of the flesh from my torso did have to be removed. It's kind of like fighting a fire. You want to protect the area even further than the infection to make sure that it does not spread. So at that point, all my vital organs were failing, and I did have to be put on full life support just to keep me alive. And the doctors told my parents she's probably not going to make it through the night. And my parents devastated as any parent would be asked, what can we do? And the doctor said, well, there's two things. First thing is, she's going to need a whole lot of blood.  And the second thing is, you can pray. And that's what they did. My parents at that point, you know, dried their tears and started praying and started encouraging everybody to do the same. And my dad, he's a huge Gamecock fan, and he got on his Gamecock message board and started asking for prayers. And so Gamecock Nation was praying for me. Facebook was praying for me. And that night, my psychology department held an all-night prayer vigil in my honor. And the doctor sat by my bedside, twisting and turning the dials that kept me alive. And the next morning, they said, we don't believe this. Last night, her lactic acid levels, because her organs were working so hard to keep her alive, rose to 10 times the normal level, which is three times the survivable level. There is no reason that your daughter should be alive right now. The words they used to describe my recovery include mind-boggling, unbelievable, incredible. The doctors themselves were stunned. And that's when a good friend of mine, Ken Lewis, from my psychology department, started a website for me, a WordPress website to get the word out about what was happening with me. And so my dad at this point had just been blogging via Facebook. And he moved all of his blogs over to the WordPress site. And my dad is like, you know, he's pushing 60 right now. He doesn't know anything about web design. And Ken was able to show my dad how to blog on a WordPress site. So if you can get my dad, my 60-year-old father to do that, anybody can do it. And at that point, the story blew up. The reason that my story went to the national news media was because of that website that Ken Lewis had the foresight to create. And within the next few weeks, my story went viral. We attracted hundreds of thousands of people to listen to the story, to feel compassion with me. And that allowed people to join together to support me in my time of need. That site also had a PayPal donation button because at this point, my medical expenses were through the roof. Even with health insurance, my parents were incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical equipment. And through that WordPress site, over $100,000 was raised in the greater community to help contribute to my needs. The whole community banded together at this meeting spot that became amycopeland.com. And I have that to thank for why my story is out there, for why I met Mickey and Allie of Green Mellon in the first place, and why I'm here talking to you today. So, really, wow, WordPress brought me here to a WordPress conference. It all comes together in the end. Of course, while all this was happening, I was in a hospital bed in a pretty much drug-induced coma because I'm very stubborn. You know, it's kind of cool because now they call me determined, which is really just a euphemism for how stubborn I am. And so I would wake up in that hospital and be pulling tubes out of my throat. And so they kept me pretty sedated to keep my shenanigans at a minimum. But over the next four months, I would spend in hospitals. I got out of the ICU on July 3rd, so after two months in the ICU, I went over to Shepherd Center in Atlanta, which is a spinal cord injury hospital. And a lot of people ask me, you know, why Shepherd Center? You're clearly not paralyzed. But in retrospect, I'm really glad that's where I went. Just think about it. If I had been in an amputee hospital surrounded by people missing just one limb, I probably would have been feeling pretty sorry for myself. But here I am in a spinal cord injury hospital, and neither of my neighbors can move anything but their face. And that puts things in perspective real fast. In fact, one of my neighbors asked his physical therapist, could he have his limbs amputated so that he could use prostheses like I do? And of course the answer is no. But what that made me realize is, even here I was, having lost so much, and somebody else wished they were me. So this taught me a very valuable lesson that there is always further down. No matter who you are, if you live in the United States, if you have eaten this morning, if you have a bed to sleep in, you are better off than most. And how often in life do we let our petty issues make us lose perspective of the bigger picture? You know, it's like, there's traffic and I'm late, my battery died this morning, that's true, my battery died this morning. But you know, I'm alive, I am breathing. And so I do not lose sight of the little things anymore. And I try to make a point of it, like on Thanksgiving, to come up with the most insignificant detail to be grateful for. And the more insignificant, the more successful I think I am. And so this year it was like elbows. Y'all, elbows! I mean, can we just take a moment to appreciate our elbows?  I mean, how would we eat? How would we live? Like, let's give it up for elbows right now. Thank you, thank you guys. I would kiss them if I could. And also what this has helped me realize is helping other people is where it's at. Because when you help other people, it reminds you of this all the time, that no matter what my struggles are, there are other people struggling out there. And we all face our issues. You know, mine are on the outside. You can see my scars from a mile away rolling down the road at you full speed. But most of us have some kind of scars. Most of us have been through something in our lives. And so we all suffer, we all have pain. And if you're sitting here thinking, oh no, not me, my life is great, I've never suffered, just wait. It's coming. But together we can make a difference for each other. And to me, that's the purpose of suffering. And if we don't find a purpose in our suffering, then it's in vain. And I think that the purpose of that is to have empathy, to feel with one another, to experience that human connection that pain creates. We all feel pain the same. And we all want the same thing. After all. And so this has really launched me into getting involved with lots of nonprofit organizations and also to start my own nonprofit, the Amy Copeland Foundation, to help people of all abilities get outdoor recreation and mental health services.  But eventually I went home and my parents were working and there were no ladies and waiting and there was no call button. And I quickly realized the meaning of that old cliche where there's a will, there's a way. And I realized that, you know, the way part gets emphasized more than the will part because you can do anything you want. I could do anything I wanted if I really, truly wanted it. And that was always the determining factor. So when I got home, if you had asked me like, you know, can you do laundry? I'd be like, oh no, definitely can't do laundry. Cause I didn't want to. But the minute like my tablet went dead and nobody was home and it needed to be charged, like I would have that charger in my mouth, one leg against one wall, my forehead against the wall, I would spend two hours if that's what it took to get back on social media. And I've learned this lesson over and over and over again. And you know, when I first got out of the Shepherd Center I had very, very long hair. And the one thing I wanted to do cause it was August in Georgia was learn how to put my hair in a ponytail. And so I went to this occupational therapist and after I left Shepherd and I'm like, so how do I do this whole ponytail thing? And the OT just kind of shook his head sadly and said, well all the female upper extremity amputees I know just cut their hair short. And at that point I had just had all my limbs amputated. I was not going to amputate my hair also. Thank you very much. Granted, this OT was a man and bald. I'm not the ponytail expert I was looking for. But on that day I vowed that I would figure out how to put my hair in a ponytail not just for me but for all the other upper extremity amputees who have just been cutting their hair short this whole time. And I tried day in and day out and I failed day in and day out. I mean I bought every contraption on the internet that was going toward this market. I found a hair tie that was made for people with one arm and I thought this is the one. And I tried and I failed about a hundred times. And on the 101th try I just had this realization like tie a loop in the end of this contraption. I don't know it just came to me. And the next person that walked through my room I had tie a loop in the end of this device I was working with and on the next try I got my hair in a ponytail. And the moral of this story is that I really really wanted that ponytail. And the reason I know I really wanted it is because I didn't give up on try 47. If you give up on try 47, you didn't really want it. And so that I think goes for everybody in this room today. Whatever it is that you want whatever it is that your goal is you can get it if you're willing to fail like a hundred plus times. And if you're not willing to fail a hundred plus times then just accept the fact that you didn't want it bad enough and you are the only one getting in your way. And if you continue to try, you will succeed. And I've discovered this on so many levels. I love to whitewater kayak before my injury. And I constantly was looking for adaptive kayaking instructors and I probably Googled adaptive kayaking instructors a hundred times. And then one day I just find a whole database of adaptive kayaking instructors. And so now I kayak class three and four rapids. I do whitewater kayaking. I have a friend who makes hand paddles. They're all the rage in kayaking these days. They attach directly to your hands with strapping like a pair of Choco sandals. And he calls them the high fives. And so I went to him and said do you think you could make me some no fives? And he said absolutely. And so we have invented that. There's many other things that we've invented along the way because somebody said that doesn't exist and you can't. And I said you may have seen this before but you've never seen me before, I can. And so I do have a second leg prosthesis that I use to practice walking with. I have a tricycle. You might see me be bopping around the belt line if you spend any time there. I recently did indoor skydiving, which was pretty cool. I tried to do outdoor skydiving and they're like we don't know if the harness will hold you. And I said speak no more. I don't want it that bad. I will accept the fact that I do not want it that bad. So where there's a will, there's a way. Emphasis on will. And I had this nurse at the ICU at Doctor's Hospital in Augusta. And when I left there she gave me this beautiful handmade rag doll that had this wonderful message inscripted on the back of its head. And the message said Amy, please remember, nobody is perfect. This doll is handmade with imperfections because we're all made different. It's what we do with what we have that counts. And I love that message and I especially love that last line. It's not about what we have, it's about what we do with what we have. And I like to rephrase that and say life's not about what happens to us, it's about how we respond to what happens to us. And I thought I made that up and then I read it in a book later so I can no longer take credit for it. And you know I've had to learn this so frequently because it's like life has so many obstacles. There's always something happening. There's always some challenge to overcome and I've learned to appreciate those challenges because after all how do we grow? How do we change? How do we know if we have faith if it's never tested? And so I've gotten very used to these little tests unfolding and finding that appreciation. And it's really changed my perspective on life as a whole. You know it's like so often it seems like we group life into two categories, good and bad. And it's like keep all the bad away but give me all the good. And in doing so we really limit ourselves. We really limit our growth. We limit our ability to become the best versions of ourselves. So now when something obstacle happened it's like all right let's learn something today. And I've had many obstacles. You know as Mickey mentioned I do have two master's degrees and the first one was the one I was finishing up at the time of my injury. I finished that a year after my injury and then started my MSW down at Valdosta State University where I would drive three and a half hours, stay all day Friday, spend the night and have classes all day Saturday and this was one year post injury. So the first time I went down there I'm staying at the Lecinta Inn and I thought I'm gonna take a shower which to most of you does not sound very ambitious but for me at the time it was super ambitious. And so they bring me out the shower bench and it's like this pediatric shower bench and I'm looking at my own rear end and looking at the shower bench and I'm like I don't know how this is gonna work but let's just give it a whirl and I sit on the shower bench and I reach for the shampoo and sure enough I slip right off. And so I reached for like the accessible grab bar cause that's what that's for right? Wrong. My arm slips between the grab bar and the wall and so now my arm is twisted in the grab bar and I'm sitting on the floor of the Lecinta Inn shower. You know I'm a therapist so I'm all about expressing emotions. You know you bottle up anger and a year later you've got resentment. So at that moment I just started wailing. I mean I'm screaming, I'm crying, I'm whining and I do that for about 20 minutes and it's amazing what happened after my little temper tantrum. Nothing. I'm still sitting on the floor of the Lecinta Inn bathtub and my arm is still twisted in the grab bar so while emotional expression is totally necessary and a great thing to do at some point you gotta take action and at that point I use the ingenuity of the human mind to notice the conditioner sitting there, use it as a lubricant to get my arm out, finish taking a shower right there on the Lecinta Inn bathtub floor, get back in my wheelchair, get into bed and vow never to take a shower at the Lecinta Inn ever again. I don't want it that bad y'all. My classmates might have disagreed but that's another story. So emotional expression I think is totally important and I could not sit here and tell you guys that I've been happy smiley ever since all my limbs were amputated. That is not the case and of course that's what people see on the news and they think how do you stay so positive and it's like I stay so positive because I yell, scream and cry when the time is right and that lets me smile the rest of the time because if I had bottled that up y'all it would be coming out on the people that I love the most. That's how that works.  At some point you gotta just take action but first let yourself feel.  I've had a lot of other obstacles along the way, a lot of other testing of my faith if you will and it was about a year and a half ago, it was a Sunday and I was cooking one of my most favorite meals to cook. I love to cook, I'm an avid cook. Y'all have to check out my YouTube channel because I have lots of cooking videos on there if you'd like to see how I work that out. One of my most favorite things to cook is chicken pot pie and I was raised by a very long lineage of Southern cooks and so we don't use cream of chicken soup in our chicken pot pie, no sirree, we make our gravy from scratch and if you know anything about making gravy it starts with fat and flour. I like using bacon drippings and my long lineage of Southern cook swears by white lily flour so that's how it starts and first you make a roux and you kind of brown the flour and the fat and this is a very delicate process y'all, you can't step away, you have to keep stirring or you'll clump, you'll clump, you'll burn all sorts of awful things could happen to your pie. After that you add your liquid and you thin it out into gravy. Well, this is the process that I was doing on this Sunday morning when my very best friend walks through my front door and says, Amy, where is your van? Of course the meaning my fully outfitted wheelchair accessible van that Steve Raymond had donated to me on the Katie Couric show one year after my injury and as soon as he said that I knew because I live like a mile and a half away from here and sort of a rough neighborhood my van had been stolen but here I was making this gravy and I couldn't stop stirring, it would clump, it would clump, it would burn, awful things would happen and so I'm stirring the gravy and I'm like all right, grab my cell phone, we've had obstacles before, we can handle this, call my parents, yes I called my parents before, I called 911, before I called the insurance company but those calls came shortly after, we reported the incident and I continued making my gravy and at this point my boyfriend was over and he and my best friend are sort of standing in the corner of the kitchen like, is she okay? Like is she gonna snap at any moment? And I'm like guys, the van has already been stolen.  Ah, how often do we do that? We let one bad thing ruin our whole week, our whole day, our whole month, I've seen people let one bad thing ruin their whole life. I was not about to give the thieves the satisfaction of ruining my favorite dish. So I just kept stirring and that's kind of been my motto now, is like just keep stirring, it's like just keep swimming buy the chicken pot pie version, just keep stirring. And y'all, that chicken pot pie was impeccable and the Atlanta police department had a very nutritious meal that evening and it was the chicken pot pie but my vehicle was recovered within 12 hours. You tell me. Thank you. You know what I was worried about at that moment? I was now an intern at the Shepherd Center in the case management department. Remember the same hospital that I was in a hospital bed in a couple years prior and I had a meeting the next morning at 7.30 a.m. and I didn't know how I was gonna get there. So I looked up the Marta bus routes once the chicken pot pie was complete and it was gonna take me two buses and a train to get to Shepherd Center and y'all know Marta, that could take weeks. So I started exploring other options. I did a quick Google search and I Google mapped it and I saw that the Shepherd Center is exactly five miles from my house and I looked down at my wheelchair speedometer and I saw that I can go exactly five miles per hour. So I reasoned that if I just rolled the whole way I would get there in an hour and said that's what I did. I set out at 6.15 in the morning down Boulevard to North Avenue to Peachtree Street and there were people out for their morning jog and there were some people that looked like they hadn't slept the night before. Hello, neighbors. And I was 15 minutes early to my meeting the next morning. So while I never worried about the van being stolen, cause let's be honest y'all, I've lost a lot more than a van. Things I will never get back. What I was worried about was how I was gonna figure this out and that has become sort of the motto of my life, figure it out. Whatever happens, there's a way to figure it out and sometimes the way to figure it out is screaming and crying for 20 minutes just to feel better. Sometimes the way to figure it out is using the ingenuity of the human mind. Some way the only way you can figure it out is just to sit with it. Just to sit with it until the purpose, until you get some kind of insight about why this is happening. What am I supposed to learn? And that has been really, what this whole experience has taught me is my purpose and my calling. So you know, I was studying psychology long before my accident ever happened, but I didn't know who I wanted to work with, like troubled teens, alcoholics, I didn't know.   And so I'm getting the message now it only took 24 years and now I've got the message. And it has given me such great purpose in my life to be able to make sense of my experience, to be able to make meaning out of all of this and to be able to help other people. And I remember laying in a hospital bed thinking, eco-therapy, I wanted to be an eco-therapist. It didn't seem like five miles hikes in the woods were gonna happen for me anymore. But the longer I laid there watching daytime TV, seeing my neighbors lying in hospital beds watching daytime TV, the more I realized these were the people who were the most alienated from their natural environment. These were the people who needed eco-therapy the most. So that's why I launched the Amy Copeland Foundation one year ago. I am a social worker and I do practice psychotherapy three days a week in Inman Park. And every other waking second, I'm the director of the Amy Copeland Foundation where we create mental health opportunities and outdoor opportunities for people with disabilities. And when I started this foundation, the first thing I knew I needed was a website. And I knew I needed a WordPress website because I knew if my dad could blog on a WordPress website, maybe I could figure it out too. And I have and I've had great help from Green Mellon in designing my website and getting it so beautiful. And it was like such a fun process. Like I don't think I would be able to do that for a job. But I think y'all's jobs are really fun because it was great like looking at the different layouts and choosing the pictures and the images, so much fun. And so today I use that website to share information about my foundation with the world. And so if you go on my WordPress website, amycopelandfoundation.org, you can see everything that we're doing in the community. We're having our first pilot program this year where I'll be working with five people in wheelchairs out of the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell. And they're all gonna be receiving absolutely free, one day a week, individual therapy, group therapy, outdoor recreation, fitness, and nutrition instructions. So they're gonna be really being able to figure out how they can make their lives work, how they can find fulfillment just as I have. And we're also gonna be having a gala on August 25th to start spreading the word about this pilot program. And I'll be using the bug me bar on our website, which is one of my favorite features. So to get people to know as soon as they get there, come buy your tickets for the gala. So what's really impressed me about this site is how easy it's been for me, a completely tech illiterate. I'm in the humanities, okay y'all? This is not my field. And I can figure it out, that's pretty cool. So I really appreciated it in helping me get the word out. And so if my dream resonates with any of you, if you're interested in the outdoors, people with disabilities and you wanna get involved, we are always open to having new people come in. We love collaboration. Eventually our goal is to create a wheelchair accessible center for people of all abilities. So we don't wanna just stick with the people in wheelchairs because we, like I said before, we all struggle, we all suffer. So the idea is kinda like the theme for y'all's conference. It's all about diversity. It's all about getting people from all walks of life in one place so we can learn from each other. Groupthink doesn't teach us anything. By being with people who are just like us, we don't grow, we don't learn, we don't change. There is no conflict. And as I have mentioned, it's conflict in obstacles and which we learn things. So we wanna bring all sorts of different types of people together to all find fulfillment. I mean, after all, what is the point of life? If not to enjoy every moment and help others do the same. So thank you all for having me today. Even a great audience. Enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you. Thank you so much.


Those who support internet censorship lack psychological maturity. Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green for what the platform calls repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy, much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere. This follows the Twitter ban of Dr. Robert Malone on the same grounds a few days prior, which followed an unbroken pattern of continually escalating and expanding censorship protocols ever since the 2016 US election. In reality, nobody ever gets banned for COVID misinformation, that's just today's excuse. Before that it was the fallout from the Capitol riot, before that it was election security, before that it was Russian disinformation, foreign influence ops, fake news, etc. In reality, the real agenda behind the normalization of internet censorship is the normalization of internet censorship itself. That's the reason so many people get banned. I myself had already written many many articles warning about the increasingly widespread use of internet censorship via algorithm manipulation and de-platforming long before the first COVID misinformation ban started happening. Arguably the most significant political moment in the US since 9-11 in its aftermath was when liberal institutions decided that Trump's 2016 election was not a failure of status quo politics but a failure of information control, which just so happened to align perfectly with the agendas of the ruling power structure to control the dominant narratives about what's going on in the world. We saw this exemplified in 2017 when Google, Facebook, and Twitter were called before the Senate Judiciary Committee and instructed to come up with a strategy to prevent the fomenting of discord. We must all act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the divided states of America. The social media giants were told by think tanker and former FBI agent Clint Watts, who added, Since that time, the coordination between those tech platforms and the US government in determining whose voices should be silenced has gotten progressively more intimate. So now we have these giant platforms, which people have come to rely on to share ideas and information, censoring speech in complete alignment with the will of the most powerful government on earth. The danger of this is obvious to anyone who isn't a stunted emotional infant. The danger of government-tied monopolistic tech platforms controlling worldwide speech far outweighs the danger of whatever voice you might happen to dislike at any given moment. The only way for this not to be clear to you is if you are so psychologically maladjusted that you can't imagine anything bad coming from your personal preferences for human expression being imposed upon society by the most powerful institutions on earth. It really only takes the tiniest bit of personal growth to understand this. I, for example, hate QAnon-Hers.  They always used to make my job annoying because they saw my criticisms of the mass media and the oligarchic empire as aligning with their view that Donald Trump was leading a righteous crusade against the deep state, so they'd often clutter my comments section with foam-brained idiocy that perfectly served the very power structures I oppose. They saw me as on their side, when in reality we had virtually nothing in common and couldn't be more reposed. When QAnon accounts were purged from all mainstream social media platforms, following the capital riot, it made my work significantly less irritating. I no longer had to share social media spaces with people I despised, and if I were an immature person I would see this as an inherently good thing. But because I am a grown adult, I understand that the danger of giant monopolistic government-tied platforms controlling worldwide human speech to a greater and greater extent far outweighs the emotional ease I personally receive from their absence. I therefore would choose to allow QAnoners to voice their dopey nonsense freely on those platforms if it were up to me, because whatever damage they might do is vastly less destructive than allowing widespread communication to be regulated by powerful oligarchic institutions who amount to US government proxies. This should not be an uncommon perspective. It doesn't require a lot of maturity to get this, it just requires some basic self-preservation and enough psychological growth to understand that the world should not be forced to align with your personal will. It says bad things about the future that even this kindergarten level of understanding has become so rare in some circles.


Get up old man. We're a Bass Pro Got my five-minute power napping. I got you. I got you on the camera, Fluke. As long as I wasn't snoring. We're at Bass Pro. Fluke is taking a little power nap over there. That's how us old people get it done. After a long day of fishing. Grind, take a nap. First off, I'm by Bass Pro. Fluke's got to get a few things. We went fishing today. If you guys haven't checked out that video, I'll link it below. If you guys haven't checked out Fluke's channel, go subscribe to him. Yeah, you can catch him snoring. We're going to run into Bass Pro. I thought I'd just vlog this. You know, it's day in the life of Fluke master and kicking the Bass TV. I think that's kind of cool. You guys said you guys want like vlogs and day in the life. So that's what we're going to bring you. We're going to go in Bass Pro shops today. Maybe I'll buy something. Maybe I won't. But this guy, he's got the big bucks. I know he is. I'm getting split ring pliers. I'll buy it. Yeah. It's a good scale. So guys, I need to scale really bad. You can prove that he caught fish over a panel. Look at this guy just always straight up roasting. Go unsubscribe. Go. Fluke, you're fired, man. I already fired the last guy. You're fired too. So I am getting a scale. As you guys know, when I caught my 10 pounder, I did not have a scale with me, but I had to call up a buddy to bring one to me. So now we want to do that. I've got this Rapala digital scale right here. All right, Fluke. What you looking for, man? Split ring pliers. Split ring pliers. Look at this. Let's have just a weird frontal. Yeah. I don't like that. Got those right there. Those right there. Those are decent. These are the ones I look for. Yep. Guys, we turn around. We're looking like at five right here. Turn around. There's a whole wall of pliers. I'm going to show you guys something. Let me show you guys what I've learned about split ring pliers. These right here have got a little tooth that opens up the split ring. If it comes down and collapses on top of the bottom half of the pliers, they suck. If you get the ones that overlap like that, then you can have control over your split ring as you put them on, especially the small ones. So the most expensive ones aren't always the best. They're only three bucks. Yeah. Yeah, I've used them a long time. Throwing this right here. Yeah. Some juice. They don't have the flat days, do they? We kept it very simple on this Bass Purse Shopper on. We got literally nothing that would excite you guys. Nope. We got two pairs of split ring pliers. Two pairs of pliers. Two pairs of scissors. And also a scale. That's nice to go to Bass Pro and not have it like that. If you guys want to see an unboxing, you can, but there's not really much. We're going to go back to the house. He's got a live stream tonight. I just thought I would vlog. We're just having a good time. We just ate lunch. We got off the water. We're going to go catch you guys back at the house. We actually just got done filming a live video on his channel. If you guys want to go check that out, read the comments, read the questions that people posted. He went really well. He had a lot of viewers on there. A lot of awesome people. A lot of engaged people. Maybe Noah will start doing something. I'm going to be doing some live chats. I'm going to be doing a lot soon. So you guys stay tuned for that. I'll update you guys on the community tab on YouTube. But if you guys aren't already, be sure to subscribe and hit that little bell. But I'm going to catch you guys tomorrow and I'm going to document a little bit more. The next day. So everybody, it's actually the next day. I'm waiting on Fluke. I dropped him off at Proger because you need to go to an ATM. And their ATM was out of order. I dropped him off at a ride-aid or a CVS. Their ATM didn't work. And now I'm dropping him off at a Walmart so you can go to an ATM. And then we're going to go fishing. And then he actually has to pick some... We're going to go fishing. And then I have to go by my grandparents' house because there's a chair in the middle of their pool. So I have to figure out how to get that out. And then he's got to go pick up something. I'm going to help him by throwing it in the back of my truck. And then he's on his way. We're about to go palm fishing. I'm going to vlog a little bit. That's going to be a whole separate video. So I'll link that below. That whole deal. But we're going to go ahead and get this started. There's old Fluke Master in his natural habitat. Alright Fluke, I'm vlogging. Did you get it? I got the money. Alright Fluke Master, what are you doing? This is part of the vlog. This isn't the fishing business. I'm getting the camera ready to rock and roll. We're about to actually film a little pond video out here on this beautiful pond right now. A little farm pond. This is actually where I started fishing. I know you guys know this area because I come here a lot. I'm going to start off with this little whopper plopper right here and try to catch an old bass. And stay tuned for this challenge video. Also the one on his channel you guys can go check it out. I'm sure it's going to be out by the time I post this vlog. If not, you know what to do. Turn on post notifications on both of our channels. So it's a new post notification. Fluke Master and I actually just wrapped up our videos. We did a little pond speed challenge. It was pretty cool. Go check it out if it's already up. If it's not up then you need to turn on the post notifications for both of our channels. But we had a blast. I was throwing a Ned Rig. Fluke was throwing a Ned Rig. I was throwing a little speed curl. Man, it was fun. So if you guys want to go check out that video be sure to stay tuned for that. It's going to be a banger man. Let's get on with our day. The next day. Look how my mom has to get in the car. Yeah. Go on now. Oh my god. It's really not that bad. I'm short. I have short legs. What are you talking about? Another two. Uh-uh. So guys, I actually do read your comments. I promise you guys I do. I respond to almost every single one I've been trying to lately. I can tell you a lot of people are commenting about my bumper on my truck and saying it is hanging on this side. And it actually is. As you guys can tell it is hanging down. I'm going to have to get that bad boy fixed. But I am going to be taking this bad boy to the shop. We're going to be getting everything done too. I wish I could keep it how it is because I just love what it looks like right now. I love how it is. But I'm going to be getting the winch put in. All the lights, that whole deal. The truck cap. The truck of all. And then of course the wrap. And I am going to be getting my subs put in. I actually just got my sub box. So I'm going to be doing that whole deal. But thank you guys. I do read your comments. Well everyone this video is coming to an end. I hope you guys enjoyed it. The day in the life of Flukemaster. You're kicking their bass TV. It's kind of been like vlog clips. You know split up in like multiple days. It's been kind of crazy. I've been vlogging when Fluke is here. I've been vlogging the past couple of days. And then now today. And I would like to say thanks to everyone who sent me messages about my grandpa. Because I have been with him all day in the hospital. I really, really, really appreciate everyone sending me their messages.  I really appreciate that. And I cannot thank you guys enough. Thank you guys so much for the support in this video. I want to be posting a lot more content. Everything's going up. Guys the views are going up. Everything's going up. Subscribers are going up. It's like it's finally happening right now.  And I'm really thankful for that. I can't thank you guys enough. We're going to have more collab videos coming soon. I have another video of Flukemaster coming out. I have another video of Fishing with Norm coming out. Fishing with Norm is actually going to be coming out this week to film some content. I plan on doing some fishing live streams. So where I'm actually going to go fishing and live stream. You know while I'm out there on the water showing you guys what I'm doing. Pretty much showing you guys all the fish catches. How to work certain baits. I'm going to do that. I think that's going to be really neat. Something different. And of course more regular live chats and Q&A is that whole deal. But thank you guys so much for the support. I love you guys so much. Everything you guys do really means a lot. And I'll catch you guys in the next video. Bye.


from Las Vegas. It's theCUBE covering Dell EMC World 2017. Brought to you by Dell EMC. Hello everyone, welcome to our live coverage from SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE. It's our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the superman noise. We are here at Dell EMC World 2017 with Michael Dell, the chairman CEO of Dell Technologies, which is the company that owns Dell EMC. But this is the first year of the EMC World passing the baton formally to the Dell EMC World. There was an event in Austin, small event, one month after the close in September, eight months ago. Michael, great to see you. Thanks for spending the time out of your valuable schedule to come on theCUBE. Appreciate it. Always great to be with you, John. This is like the sports center of all the acts. So I got to go hard hitting question first.   I forget if that was how long in that was, but you're still in your dorm room. 33 years ago last week, and a trillion dollars in sales, really pretty amazing. Notice Mark Zuckerberg also commented on your, probably built Facebook on a Dell laptop. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you. It's been fun, it's been exciting, interesting, and thrill of a lifetime. But I actually think the next 33 years will be much, much more exciting. So I couldn't be more excited about the future. It's really good to see you kind of, we talked about it years ago when rumors would be going private. Certainly there's a spring in your step every year. You seem to get stronger with the private, you know, not being the public company. But I got to ask you from an entrepreneurial standpoint, you're the founder led CEO entrepreneur. You can't take the entrepreneur out of the kid. What's the management style? Because when I interview Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos, they have that founder led entrepreneurial culture, but it's transforming into a management practice now from folks who are through experience and observing what's in front of them have to take on the next 33 years. What is the key to success based on your experience and how are you executing the Dell technologies because you have that entrepreneurial spirit, you are executing, and you have to still grow off this base of a consolidating IT market, go. You know, we've been able to be bold and being private allows us to take on some risks and make some investments and certainly, you know, going private back in 2013 and then the combination with EMC and VMware and Pivotal and the whole Dell technologies family has created a different kind of company much stronger than Dell or EMC were by themselves. And customers have reacted very positively to that. So when I step back and look at the future of our industry and what's happening with digital transformation and then all the assets and capabilities we have now, again, couldn't be more excited about the opportunities ahead. Bezos said on his interview, I'll ask you the same question in context to your world. He said, you know, Amazon started out driving his car around and going to the drop of stuff at the post office and then it became what it is today. And he said he still has the guiding principles that's timeless for his culture, which was lower prices and get stuff to the consumer fast. That's been the ethos of Amazon's culture and a lot of other things wrap around it, but that's been kind of the guiding principles. What is your guiding principles that have been timeless for you as an entrepreneur led CEO? It's been customer focus. It's been big years and listening. It's been understanding the customer's challenges and opportunities and designing the company from the customer back. It's been understanding the technology and then finding the intersection between the customer's challenges and the technology to create the solution. And you know, I think that's stood the test of time for us and worked really well. And wow, I mean, the opportunities ahead of us again are even much, much more exciting. Well, congratulations. I want to ask you the question that everyone's on everyone's mind here at the show. It's obviously the EMC, Dell EMC. Culture's still intact. We gave Howard some props on the combination, the merger of equals. But now you have obviously a strategy I'm not going to deny. It's a pretty good one. Mature market, consolidating, win the game there. You see that happening. But the question that I have is the growth strategy. Okay, cause you now got to have a growth strategy in a hyper flywheel market called the cloud, cloud computing, cloud native, Kubernetes, machine learning, Pivotal. What is that growth strategy as you build off that existing market? Well, certainly with Pivotal, we've got kind of the tip of the spear of our cloud strategy as the platform to develop cloud native apps, the operating system for the internet of things and the digital transformation for many of the largest companies in the world. And then we've virtue stream, we've got a mission critical public cloud for those super high performing, intensive workloads, VMware driving the software defined data center. Everybody wants to have a data center that is software defined. And what VMware has done in virtualization obviously is unparalleled, taking that into the network and into storage. VMware's got incredible momentum. I know you're going to have Pat on tomorrow to talk more about that. When we put all this together with the consolidation that's going on in the existing, you know, several hundred billion dollar client and data center business, you know, the combination together we're very well positioned to grow. I got a lot of heat for a few years ago when I said to Pat Gelsinger, hybrid cloud is a destination that most people go to but I made a comment, I said, you know, the cloud is not a product. Hybrid cloud is not a product.  You can't say, give me a hybrid cloud. It's more of a mindset destination of the customers. You said on stage today that hybrid cloud and cloud is a way of doing IT. Explain specifically what you mean by that and how does that translate into growth for you? Well, let me take you back to the internet, okay? Because if we were having this discussion 20 years ago, we wouldn't be talking about the cloud.  And where is all that today? It's everywhere. The internet is part of everything. Internet is a way of doing IT and cloud really is the same thing. If you look at these large public cloud companies what they've done is extrapolated the workload up to the application layer. And that's what we're doing with Pivotal. That's what we're doing with a software defined data center. That's what we're doing with Converge and Hyperconverge infrastructure. And that's why all those things are white hot in terms of growth and customer adoption. The internet was a bubble that burst and everyone had a website, remember that those days. But you mentioned the internet. Let's just stay on that for a second because that's interesting. Software has changed, right? Shrinkwrap software, enter the internet, you download it. Okay, now you have the cloud, it's SAS. So we were just talking in our intro that the role of a software company isn't the business model of selling software. It's how software works within the business model of this new modern era of computing. What's your vision around that? Because a lot of people will say, and I even said to you privately, where's the software play? And a lot of people jump to that, right? So what's your vision around software? You don't have to sell it. I mean, Facebook doesn't sell software. They have software DNA and they're open source, but their business is an application. Can you explain your vision on software? Sure, well, obviously you've got mission critical apps. You've got some of the traditional platform two kind of apps and you've got the cloud native apps. And there's a right place and a right way to develop all those. And it's not a monolith, right? There are many, many different approaches within that. That's why we see it as a multi-cloud world. For cloud native, Pivotal is clearly our platform and a winning platform and has tremendous momentum. And avoids this problem of lock-in that many customers are starting to experience with the public cloud. You can leverage the public cloud but also run them on premise. In fact, 80% of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry instances end up on premise. Then for the traditional apps, the platform two apps, VMware is continuing to do great. You'll see that in the growth of their business and all the success that VMware is enjoying as now part of Dell Technologies. And then for those mission critical apps, like SAP, like Oracle, like Epic, you need a different level of performance and capability and that's where Virtustream comes into play. So I asked you a question last year. What are you most excited about? What are you digging into?  You mentioned Pivotal. Obviously, you've seen that change and I think it much draw our strategic front row with Cloud Foundry. This year, what is that thing for you? Is it NSX? What are you like looking, what are you geeking out on right now? In terms of you look at the future, you're making some bets. What are you looking at? What is Michael Dell unpacking the most for you personally? Not so much for the business, you personally. What are you learning? What are you understanding deeper? What's exciting is how all of our customers are engaged in this digital transformation. And we're just at the beginning of this and we're all trying to figure out, hey, how do I use all this data to make my product and service better? And they're all on this digital transformation journey. So again, you put together what we're doing with VMware, the Software Defined Data Center, with NSX, with Pivotal, with Converge and Hyperconverge, the amount of growth in the data, and then all the new computer science, that's the machine intelligence that's being reasoned over that data. Super exciting time. And if you're not excited now, right, you're totally asleep or you're dead. Yeah, that's super. If you're a computer science major right now, that's time to be coding and building stuff. Okay, Pat Gelsinger, what's the conversation with Pat like these days? Because VMware's market cap is greater than HPE right now. That's one of your companies. It's not even part of the, not even the holistic view of everything you got. One piece is bigger than HPE. You've competed with HPE over the years. So you got to go to Pat. You say, you got to watch what you're doing here. You got to tiger by the tail with VMware. What are some of the conversations that you have with Pat Gelsinger? Share some color around how you guys interact. What is he thinking? Obviously he's got some new things with the Amazon relationship. What's the conversation like? Well, I've known Pat for almost 30 years. You know, met long time ago, back when he was at Intel. And VMware's doing great. And the team there continues to innovate in virtualization now with the whole Software to Find data center. I am particularly excited about NSX because what you can do when the network is delivered as code by virtualizing the network and virtualizing all the functions in the network, all the layer four through seven functions and then run that on top of, you know, our open switching, it's a huge opportunity. And you combine that with everything else we're doing. You know, VMware's incredibly well positioned. And certainly for us, when we think about how do you modernize and automate the data center, VMware's at the very center of that. So when you have conversations with Pat, they're like, hey, let's take that beach head, let's conquer that hill. What are some of those conversations when you take them to the ranch or you guys have your meetings? What's the strategy? What's in, you know, take us to the war room? What is, what are some of the conversations strategically? You know, we work together quite closely as well as ensuring that the open ecosystem that VMware has continues to thrive. Because VMware also works with the rest of the industry and that's been an important part of their strategy and important part of their growth for a long time. What you're seeing now is a much tighter collaboration across Dell Technologies. So, Bumi and Pivotal working together. Pivotal and VMware, NSF working together. Dell EMC and VMware working together and bringing together combined innovations in the form of new products and new solutions like the kinds we're introducing here at Dell EMC World. Okay, so you got 33 years under your belt with Dell, your company, Michael Dell's company. Dell Technologies now, whole new future ahead of you. What's your reaction to EMC World now converted into Dell EMC World? Again, you had a little event in Austin, wasn't really kind of as Dell, wasn't really the real big EMC World event. This is the Dell EMC World, we spoke last year. I think we walked back from the party chatting. What's it like this year? What's different? What's your perspective? What's your reaction? Share some color on what you think's happening here. We've been really thrilled with the reaction from customers or partners. I'll tell you, I think initially there was a bit of a wait and see. Customers were like, oh, how's this going to work? I think we're past that. And now customers are seeing that we really are one company and they're seeing the new products and innovations. And the theory that we had that customers would want to buy more of everything from one company is absolutely playing itself out in the wins and the business that we're seeing. And the internet is a great example like how you use that analogy because internet was over-hyped, it popped, but it all delivered, the same, there was pet foods online and everything happened that everyone said was going to happen. It just didn't happen the way they thought. Do you see the cloud the same way? Because in a way you're taking a very cautious, pragmatic approach by saying, we're going to integrate our customers and have this operating environment called multi-cloud or whatever the customers want. Do you see that internet kind of analogy happening at the same now with cloud? Yeah, I think, as I said, cloud is not a place, it's a way of doing IT. And having sold billions of dollars of equipment to the public cloud providers for years and years, what we see the big difference there is that these companies have, again, moved up to the application layer, they've moved to the Software Defined Data Center, everybody wants that. And as we can bring those efficiencies and now with our cloud flex pricing, we see loss of opportunity. As an entrepreneur now, CEO, go back to the entrepreneur, final question for you is, there's always the hustle in the entrepreneur. I mean that in a good way. Mark Cuban talks about it like the same way, in a way like, you've still got to have that agile mindset, never be settled for complacency, baselessness, you share all the letter, kind of points out the same thing, common thread amongst entrepreneurs. What is the Michael Dell zeal right now that you have that you're pushing through your organization that really is more of a, not an order, but more of a mindset, like to be entrepreneurial because it is moving very fast, it's transformation, it's business, it's technical, it's supply chain, it's everything across the board, software. What do you tell your troops to keep their eye on the price? What is that entrepreneurial ethos? You know, we call it please but never satisfied. We are relentless about innovating and improving on behalf of customers and designing our business with the two billion interactions we have a year with customers and taking that input and feedback and making our products, our systems, our services, everything we do better on behalf of our customers to enable them. What's the coolest thing that you saw last year with customers in the transformation of Dell and EMC coming together? What is the coolest customer example you could point to? You know, I saw some customers that used Pivotal to fundamentally change the way they develop applications inside their own businesses. One particular customer showed us that they had 1,500 developers developing 1,000 applications with only four operations people. And the way they did that was they, again, extrapolated up to the platform level using Pivotal Cloud Foundry. That is the nirvana state that many of our customers seek to obtain and we certainly want to help them get there. Dave Vellante wanted me to ask you a question.  And if you do, I saw a little venture announcement. It looks like the Dell EMC Ventures is kind of coming together, saw that release. So it's good to get the hands in the water. You invest personally through your capital company, but M&A is a lot of activity going on. Do you have any dry powder left for M&A? We sure do and we've already made some acquisitions both in the Dell EMC level and at the VMware level. And of course, Dell Technologies Capital, we're now having a bit of a coming out party explaining what we're doing with the portfolio and the new investments and lots of new investments in machine learning, deep learning, security, and cloud and all the kind of next generation business models that are important to us. Are you going to be involved in some of those decisions? You going to see them all or is that all roll up to you? Are they going to be autonomous? I'm involved in them, but look, we got a fantastic team with Scott Darling and team running the show there and I'm there to support them. Well, great keynote, final, final question. You mentioned AI a little bit, some machine learning. You brought that up. Good to see you not really hyping up the AI and not having to back it up, not promoting AI. Everyone's coming out and saying AI. So I'd ask you, what's your take on AI these days?  What's your view on AI and how do you see that impacting Dell EMC short, medium, long-term? I think the potential here is really tremendous. It takes time though. DARPA had this contest to see could you drive a car through the desert, vehicle through the desert 150 miles back in 2004. The first year, I think the farthest I got was eight miles. By 2005, they had lots of cars completing the entire 150-mile journey. Now we still don't have self-driving cars. That was 12 years ago. So it does take time for these things to evolve, but the level of improvement and advancement in the processing power and the learning that's going on in these systems is tremendous. And again, when you have hundreds of billions of nodes and all this data and increase in processing power, it is really a Cambrian explosion. We do think of it as the fourth industrial revolution. To me, that is incredibly exciting. Michael Dell here inside theCUBE. Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. This is the Dell EMC World 2017, the first of the Dell EMC World. Congratulations. Great to see you on theCUBE. Thank you, John. More live coverage here at Dell EMC World 2017 at the Sherbrooke. Stay with us. Be right back.


Hey, I wanted to come on and just be really vulnerable with you and share three of my own personal struggles. First, I don't have the utmost self-control with my diet at all times, and I do get down on myself for that. I sometimes get stuck in these all-or-nothing ruts where I'm either eating way too much crap because it's a holiday and I've already reached my goals. Or I am being way, way too strict and not allowing myself any indulgences because of the pressures of being a public figure in health. And that's something I'm consciously working on. Number two is that I sometimes struggle with giving myself that quiet self-time every day. I might have a huge amount to do or I'm just really excited about projects I'm working on. But taking that quiet time to myself either seems like a waste of time or too boring compared to other things that I could be doing. And third, if I'm being 100% honest, I still do struggle with the cycle of burnout in the same way as I do with the diet I just talked about. What I mean by that is I get so excited to share the info that I have and to help others succeed that I go all in without at all noticing that I'm running myself down. And all of a sudden it hits me and I'm way too exhausted to keep making content, videos, or going live for a while. I notice how when I'm giving myself what I need, it fundamentally changes me as a person. I need to take that time to myself every single day to recharge and connect, even for just a few minutes. I need to plan out my days in advance so that my activities are a little more balanced. And also allow myself these little indulgences so that my diet can be a little more balanced as well. When I really do those things that I need, I notice I'm much more joyful, I'm more present, and I can stay way more focused. It just improves my life as a whole. So we all have struggles and I just want you to know that it is a marathon, not a sprint. And nobody is 100% perfect all the time. It's okay to stumble, it's okay to pull back, to take a breather, and to reset. We need to sometimes. At the end of the day, our mental and physical health and wellness should be top priority. Whatever that means to us as the unique individuals that we are. So let's together revisit our priorities, keep working towards them, and we can make it happen. I am always here for you. Comment below with some of your struggles, and let's be there for each other.


So, early prototypes of Cortex A9 processors from ARM, and then now that we're getting access to the early build-out of the Calzada processor, we're working with Calzada. We've been working with them for about 18 months across FPGA, these are very early. Before you actually have silicon, you can do software modeling on what a processor will look like. So, we've been working on this for a while. So you've got your own kind of little lab going, sort of virtual lab, is that right? Sort of what HP is setting up in Houston, have you sort of started that? Not a very small scale, but the great news about the Moonshot program is we get access to hardware on a scale that really allows the whole ecosystem to start benchmarking and then optimizing. This is the beginning of a several-year journey. So talk about how you're going to use that discovery lab. It sounds good, they show a little video of a guy walking around, it looks like a real lab. You guys are going to go there physically, you're going to remotely, yes, yes? So both. What does it mean for you guys? So we've got the initial builds up, there's a lot of planning going on at the moment, but our goal is to take the daily build of Ubuntu Server. So when we're in a development mode, we publish every day a build of Ubuntu Server with all the applications and we'll be testing that in these labs. And the goal is in the next six months with active benchmarking is every time we come across a problem, either in the Linux kernel, it could be in PHP, it could be in Apache. We identify that problem and we automatically then send that bug with a fix up to the upstream community. So this is really about accelerating the focus of upstream developers on issues in these low-power servers and also giving them access so they can actually then debug and fix ahead of this finally coming to market. Okay, so you'll be active in that lab for the daily builds? And we also have a large team in Texas so that most of the server team are based in Texas. Can you talk about some of the dynamics around Linux and around now? I mean obviously Linux became, you know, because of open source and commodity hardware, it was the boom for developers. Hey, you know, of course it's great. Use the gear, make it work, stack them up, you know, rack and stack, get the processing power. Okay, now you mentioned the scale issues. Okay, what are you learning in the program that you've been prototyping? What are some of the things you're seeing in the use cases of the band that you can share with folks? Can you talk about that at all? Sure, so is it the first question? Can it differ from the old way, which essentially rack and stack versus some of the new stuff? Okay, so I mean the first question is, I think it's a change in how Linux is being used. It's always been very popular with developers. The last 10, 15 years have really seen Linux replace proprietary Unix in Wall Street and in big enterprise. And now we've got this new class of hyperscale customers who use Linux in a fundamentally different way at a much larger horizontal scale. What are we doing, therefore, to address those specific issues? Well, there's some very basic making sure that all these apps and the OS work beautifully on the hardware. There's a separate set of management problems. So if your power saving from running, I think today was 2,800 cores is what Paul announced. 2,880. 80 cores, that's possible in a rack. You need different approach to management software so that as you are starting to use only 50% of that power, you're literally turning off cores dynamically and then waking them up as necessary. And so a lot of the work, sure there's a ton of work just to make sure that the stack is working beautifully on these new SOCs, but there's also a different way of thinking about the management of multiple nodes. And I think you'll see both open source solutions to that and some proprietary solutions both coming into market. So Paul, I think Paul this morning put some high level numbers out about what we think is achievable. I think it's too early to put. We want to do more benchmarking, and before we really nail our... But it's significant. Oh, it's very significant. It's very significant. Because remember, it's not just power at the CPU, it's power in cooling. It's weight. You're dealing with the waste of... There's numbers well. There's fantastic. 10 racks to a half a rack. But you can maybe nickel dine the numbers when you're saying it's... Or magnitude significant. Thinking about massively parallel using low power architectures, whether they are, or frankly, atom, using them this different way we think can yield enormous savings. So if this was only, frankly, if we were only talking about a 10, 20% saving in power here, it wouldn't be worth the ecosystem thinking about a massive change in architecture. It's the fact that we're looking at such a huge potential saving that means that we, frankly, a developer who's responsible for Pearl or PHP, we're going to... This is such a big saving. It's worth everyone caring. And that's the good story. What's the point and point you just made about power and cooling? Because every dollar spent on running the IT equipment is another dollar spent on cooling it on average. That's probably not the case in these large web properties. They're probably a little more efficient than that. But still... It's a big issue. And I meet CTOs sometimes at banks and they'll talk about the fact that they're actively... Where's the new data center going and your biggest constraint is how close can I get to a piece of the grid that has the available electricity. So this is also about getting much more bang for buck out of existing data centers. We've been talking a lot today about customers innovating with IT. You remember Nick Carr's book, Does IT Matter? And of course, obviously, to guys like Google, it matters a lot. They're printing money with it. I'm envisioning the data center is an ATM. And the more you can get out of that ATM, the more money you're going to print essentially is really what we're talking about here, isn't it? These companies are basically profit centers. I think density of compute within existing data centers. It's not just... It's Greenfield as well, but within existing data centers is a big part of this. The other part, and Nick Carr's book, is what's interesting is whether you look at this type of architecture of compute or whether or not you look at big data, these are solutions to problems that occurred first in hyperscale companies at Google, at Yahoo, with Hadoop. And what we're now seeing is people taking big data and saying, how does this apply to the traditional enterprise? And so that innovation occurred at the small number of companies is now flowing out to the mainstream. Well, the premise of the book was that IT cannot give a sustainable competitive advantage, but data in many ways potentially changes that dramatically, doesn't it? Your ability to store more of it, to do more analysis on it, and to do that analysis faster, velocity, volume is the big driver. So it just shows. It's incredibly wealthy from running a book where the premise is fundamentally flawed, but as long as you package it, right? You can be successful. Yeah, so we've been talking, we're here with Christopher Kenyon, who is with Canonical, and they are behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and we're here at HP Labs. What's next for you guys in this space? Big question. We have three big focuses. Cloud, we've just announced actually with HP that HP's public cloud is running all on Ubuntu, both as a guest and as a host OS. So expect to see more announcements around OpenStack and Ubuntu Cloud. It's an OpenStack. If you're building out on OpenStack, the default OS underneath that right now is Ubuntu. And there's a host of historical reasons for that, but expect to see lots more news around Ubuntu and Ubuntu Cloud and then Ubuntu and big data. Should we just talk about OpenStack? Because Ubuntu is fundamental to OpenStack, right? Is OpenStack ready for primetime, Christopher? We know of many customers who are deploying on Diablo, and we certainly think that the Essex release that comes out just before our release, so that we work very closely with the OpenStack community, so as soon as their final version is out, it's ready in time to be released in the next version of Ubuntu. But the Essex release is certainly, I think, the one that everyone's putting the big money on to be production ready. There's a lot of canonical developers who now work at Rackspace and at Nebula, and there's a lot of movement of great quality time to round at the moment. Yeah, there's a lot of energy behind it. A lot of Rackspace people here at HP now, from what I hear. Oh, I hear the same thing, John Furrier and a few others. John Purrier, not to be confused with Furrier. Sorry, correct me. I'm John Furrier. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate your commentary. Thank you very much for your time. Have a great rest of the day.


Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. I am going to be doing a second trimester pregnancy update because I have been keeping this channel primarily all about my nursing stuff but as many of you know I am pregnant and so I've been doing a couple updates here and there about my pregnancy in relation to how it's affected me as a nurse and I have more specific updates if you're wanting to see like belly shots and like my more specific symptoms and updates on my appointments you can go down below in the description box and I have a whole channel dedicated towards my pregnancy right now so if you want to see that go subscribe to that channel check out those videos but I wanted to do a second trimester update because I am 24 weeks by the time this video is up I don't even know I'll probably be 25 26 maybe 27 weeks but 28 weeks is when you're in your third trimester so I'm at the end of my second trimester I feel confident enough to make this video now confident enough that sounds silly but like I feel like I'm well into my second trimester and I have definitely noticed some big changes when it comes to work so I don't have any like restrictions at work I've talked about this before like yes there's restrictions like with certain patients but as far as like the physicalness of being a nurse there's no restrictions for me right now obviously I'm being very careful and cautious when I lift and boost patients and turn and all that squatting up standing up or squatting up squatting down standing up but my shifts have just progressively as I've gotten further along have gotten more tiring and I'm definitely noticing like a difference in my body by the end of shift like my back is more achy my feet are starting to swell so I got compression socks and I've been wearing them to my shifts I don't know if it's helping but whatever my feet aren't really swollen but it's enough to I'm like yeah you can tell that I've been on my feet all day I'm still able to do most things at work I haven't been sick anymore as far as like nauseous and throwing up things like that so I'm thankful for that really I've been feeling generally good I just can tell I'm getting bigger you know sometimes the baby's sitting on my sciatic nerve or in a position where it's bothering my sciatic nerve and so that'll bother me every once in a while by the end of my shifts the biggest thing I've noticed is my upper back is kind of bothering me which I'm just guessing it's probably from the weight in my belly is kind of pulling forward on my upper back and I'm still working out I'm stretching and yada yada but for whatever reason my upper back it feels like my spine is like compressed and that sounds weird but like almost like I just need someone to like pull me like take my arms and take my feet and like stretch me out and so I've been looking into maybe going to a chiropractor maybe going to get a massage I don't know basically just had my husband be my massage person when I get home from work but I can't complain too much honestly I really plan to work up until I can't anymore if that means until she's born awesome if that means I need to stop sooner because of whatever reason then so be it but I plan on working up until I can't I've started to look into my FMLA and my pregnancy leave and all that and I'm still trying to decide 100 what I want to do so I don't want to talk about it yet but I have been looking into kind of how long I want to take off of work I can take up to 12 weeks off and I'm not sure what I plan on doing just yet um and maybe I'll share on here when I do I don't know maybe my third trimester update I'll have that on there but like co-workers have been super supportive of me being pregnant they're very helpful they're always like do you need to get something to eat do you need something to drink I'm peeing a lot so obviously I have to have them kind of can you watch my patients really quick I gotta run the bathroom again so um other than that I've been drinking lots and lots of water during my shifts because my resting heart rate is like in the 90s and when I don't drink water my heart rate will be chilling at like 110 115 I want to say when I don't drink water when I don't drink enough water so I'm drinking over a gallon of water a day to just try and like one keep me hydrated keep baby hydrated but like just not like to prevent any complications from not drinking enough water during my shifts I've never really realized how much extra water you need while pregnant I know it's on silly but like eat like I never like if I didn't drink enough water I may feel like kind of sluggish right at the end of the day or have a headache or something like that but I never noticed such a dramatic change like in my vital signs like my heart rate is just like goes so high and I don't feel winded I don't feel like my heart's racing but it just it is high so I've been really cautious of that and making sure I can drink enough water throughout my shifts other than that I think that's all I have to update you guys on as far as work goes and how pregnancy is if you want like specific specific update details on my pregnancy then go to my pregnancy personal channel that you'll see down below other than that thanks for watching and I'll see you guys on my next video bye