Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this roll-up box. I've done similar before in the past they've been really popular so at this time I thought I would do one and the idea has actually come from my edge dies and this is the Dragonfly so I know some of you will recognise this you'll probably also if you've got the wiper dies you'll recognise the sentiment and the papers are from one of my earlier collections as well. So I was just having a look around at ways that I could incorporate the card making dies into 3D projects and I just thought it would look really nice as the edge or the top of the gift box. So this is how it looks on the side here you have these 4 boxes so it's got a nice profile and you can see there obviously mine's got nothing in it so I just need to kind of squeeze it into place there but you can see once everything's in there. And then it's just attached using some Velcro so just open those and then you'll see it all kind of comes out like this. Then you have these 4 boxes and they all open like so you can get lots in them and this one. I've reinforced the edges because during the tutorial I think I cut some of them a bit too much on the side so they were popping open but I've just gone and stuck another piece of card stock over the top there so and then this one here again it's there's nothing wrong with it but it opens this way when it should open obviously the same as all the rest but that's how they open so you've got heaps of space you've got room here as well to be able to stamp and write things but I think it's turned out really nice I really love how it's come together let me just pop these back again so and then it just all rolls up and then make sure it's got its square form again you don't have to use Velcro you might want to use ribbon you may put handles on yours as well like so and I think it looks fantastic such a nice gift to give somebody so let me show you how to make it okay so this is what I've used for today's project so I'm using the 5x7 excellent edges now you can use the ones for the landscape or the portrait or any edge dies that you have this one I've used the dragonflies but you've also got the presence and the flowers you're better off having something that's maybe not so directional so the dragonflies they fly in all directions and the flowers obviously they're symmetrical the presence obviously go in one direction so you could have them lying on their side there because those do kind of you know point towards you know they face upwards as well so that's the dragonfly there so that's the border or edge border that I'm using and then you've also got this one here so the stars would look really good because I know some of you have that one and along with the flowers there again you have the balloons which you could put on the side I guess because some of those again they do kind of face up so that's those and you could if you're someone you know you're confident to be able to shrink down the sizes the six by six ones would look lovely because that bow I imagine would look really nice at the top as well and you've got the butterflies so there's quite a few there but today I'm going to be using the dragonflies and then the papers I'm using that lovely funky flowers paper there and that's from the scenes paper pad and again everything will be shared below and and the sentiment I'm using this one here is the yay it's your day and it's from my slider set so again I know some of you've got that but you can use any sentiments that you might have so first of all you're going to want four pieces of cardstock for the main for the actual boxes and these ones here so it's eight and a quarter by eleven and a half now I know that is larger than the letter size but I needed that half inch for my tab you know the to be able to have closed the boxes so you may decide that you you know if you're using 11 inch then you can add the half inch you can just attach it you know cut a one inch piece and just attach half an inch underneath so you've got the half inch hanging over or you might decide that actually you will maybe do yours at eight and a half because that's what the width of yours would be and you could do all the same scoring that I'm going to do but you'll have half an inch here rather than the quarter and you could have your boxes so don't worry about that there yours would be 11 inches you fold in all of your sides and you have yours opening from the long side from the top the reason I've not done it for this is because you you might get a bit of gaping because it would be quite a long box but there's an option there but I am going to be using the A4 size today so this is eight and a quarter by eleven and a half along the eleven and a half inch side you want to score it two nine and eleven and then along the eight and a quarter side you want to score at two four six and eight okay you can get rid of the scoreboard and now you just want to fold and burnish all of those score lines okay then you want to do some cutting so I've got that quarter inch tab on the left hand side so I'm just going to cut up the score line here just to remove that small corner and then just put a little wedge on that tab there and then you just want to cut up all of these ones along the bottom just to that first score line and then again rotate it so now you'll have this small quarter inch tab on the right hand side you want to cut down pass the first score line down to the second and remove that section and then again just take a little wedge off of the end there because that's now our little tab and then just cut down all of these so you're going this time you're going past that first score line down to the second okay so you'll have something like that okay so now I'm just going to stick it together so I'm just popping some glue on that tab and do the rest of the cutting while it's together so just in half like so and I like to just open it up and then fold it over that side as well and just burnish it this end here where you don't have that extra half inch tab this is the base okay so really all you want to do here is just fold in all of the sides but I like to decide what one you're going to fold down last and then on two of them just take a little bit off of each of the sides and it will just give you a nice finish because obviously you do see these and then the opposite side so then what I'm going to do so they're the two that I've just taken wedges off of this is going to be the last one I stick down so I'm going to stick this one up first then I'm going to put glue on one of the ones that I've just cut and fold that in don't worry if it doesn't quite stick so I'm going to pop a ruler in there in a minute and then I'm going to pop glue on this one and fold the other half or the opposite side again where I've just cut a little bit off and then cover that all and stick that last one down then if you just grab a ruler open up these four pop the ruler in you can just really stick that down now you'll have a nice tidy finish there to the base okay then these are just handy box sizes as well so I mean if you want to put some you know a little miniature would go in there a little wine bottle possibly and they're great boxes for that as well next we need to now make our closure so one of these is going to have this piece left on because you're going to be folding it in like but we're going to take some bits off the side so I'm going to keep that one as that that one I'm going to fold over so what I'm going to do here is on this one and this one just going to cut so there's about half left and then just very very slightly just shave a little bit off not a lot because otherwise the box may pop open you want it to become like a little you want this bit to kind of wedge in so it like forms a little lock so just take a little bit off sometimes you know some people don't do this until they go to close at all and then you can see if this is going to like buckle a little bit on the edges this one you're going to cut off completely so this is why I said you might want to do this when it's all flat but I'm just folding them in and it's really easy to just cut right along that score line like so so now this will go in here but you need to take a little bit off of this but again it's just a tiny amount it's best to just take a small bit off first and then you can always add a little bit more so now you want it to wedge in so see it stays nice and shut okay so you want to do that for four identical boxes okay so I've got my four boxes now some of my I've already put my pattern paper on I haven't done it on all the sides but I'm going to explain all that to you in a moment you want to have all of those so don't worry about the mats and layers on yours for a minute we're just going to focus on starting to kind of lay this down on the case so what I have here is this is a piece of seven by a four length 11 inches will be fine because you add your edge to the top okay so that's like an extra addition that you add on now I haven't I've done the score lines after I've kind of it's a bit like how I do the belly bands so I lay the box down and then I kind of folded it up just to get that perfect kind of you know placement and then I put another box on top like so and then I just fold this over and then I put it in my scoreboard just to kind of you know embedded the score lines so I just think you get a much nicer finish a much tighter case rather than me starting to explain the 16th of an inch and that kind of thing so what I've got this here what you want to do first of all is lay two boxes so this is the end of your card stock okay you're going to lay two boxes side by side okay one is obviously right at the edge here and then the one next to it then that's when you then want to bring your card up just kind of start to bend it up around the box okay and then put another one on top of here and bend it around again and then what I did is with a pencil as I put a pencil mark that's still got it there I need to rub it out just there and then that's when I folded that piece up and then get your scoreboard and just go find a track where then you kind of had the rough fold and just go back in with your stylus just to get a perfect score line but that way you know you've got a really nice tight closure around those boxes so that's what you want to do with one of them I'll go through the measurements of the mat layer and I'll talk through the edge die because I'm going to be doing that on this one but with the second one it's going to be a little bit different because what I want to have so we're going to go back to our boxes so I've got one box here now I'm going to start in fact I'm going to stick this side because it's going to make more sense so and then that will make it more clearer for the mats and layers so this one here I've only put them on three sides and then I've covered obviously the ends there now my open end is here so you can see how it opens now I want my to open when it's facing up so when the box is open someone can get into there and open it up you might want to do yours that way it's entirely up to you so I'm going to add my glue onto the bottom of this one I'm going to stick this one right up to that score line just bring this up around like so again I'm just going to open that I can just go in there and just make sure that glues spread out okay close that one all up again now with the next one so I'll do this one here this one here so what's going to happen is that's going to be on top like this and this is going to come up around it but I want to stick make sure I've got the right end it's going to be that one up yeah so I don't want to stick this onto here I want to just add glue to this side and it's going to stick to the top half of this it's going to end up sticking about there so again once I've stuck this down and then pull it down you'll see so I'm going to add the glue I'm going to sit it on top of this box and then I'm going to bring up this side and make sure because it's at 7 inches this is all lined up here so it fits perfectly across the top because you would have bent yours and then scored it all to kind of marry up and then I can just now open it and I can go in with my ruler now we've got that one dropping down but when it comes up you'll see there it kind of locks in really nicely with that one you can see or how that all closes up so now we've got those two in place I'm just going to kind of leave that there for a second this piece is going to just sit on top of this we're going to glue it in place so I'm going to add some glue on here so this is the same size this white piece as this piece here so that's 7 by a 4 length which is about 11 and 3 quarters but like I said 11 you can do it as well but you'll need to extend it with your edge okay so now I'm going to sit this one over the top I'm not going to I've got no folds in this at all she'll see exactly how I fold this one but I'm just going to sit that one down there for a minute okay so I'm happy with that now thinking about it might be better if you were to stick it underneath but just line it up to there because we're now going to be pulling this cardstock up and obviously I need to just make sure that glues really really secure but I think it'd be okay so next get another box and put it side by side and then bring it up really nice and tight and that way you just get it's just how I do my belly bands you get a much nicer fit so now I can see I've got a line there so I'll do it now with my scoreboard actually so I'm just going to bring the scoreboard in and just find a track that I can line it up with so that one there and just score that a bit better and then that way I can just really bring that up then you get a nice finish okay so I've got that one in place so I'm going to pop that box back on top there we go and then I'm going to put the other one the last one on top just sit it there for the minute bring this up and then just pinch it around the top of that one close that up so just squeeze it out this top one you will end up sticking to it like so and again just find a track line that up so you can burnish that as well if you want to so now what's going to happen is I'm going to be sticking that one like so so when the box comes up that's going to lock in there so I'm going to stick this one here actually yeah I'm going to stick that one down now so I need to add some more mats to this one hopefully this is all making sense it's just I want there to be an equal space between each one but I want it to all wrap up into that you know that square so now I'm going to pop this one just in there like so and then we can in fact I'm going to stick that one in place as well so that one you're going to stick above that school line the last one and just make sure when you stick them let it all kind of sound just together don't worry about this bit of the minute just whilst they're kind of in place I'm happy so I'm just going to open those both up just with my ruler just make sure okay so now again we'll see we'll just leave that one there for a minute we need to now fold so what I did is I just put a little bend there open it up and you're going to obviously sit this one right next to the box and just add make sure that all stays nice and straight that one can bend so and that's where what's going to join with our top piece here okay so this one I don't want to give you an exact measurement because everybody's edge die is going to be different so for me with this one here the end of mine is one and a quarter so all I need to do from this score line here is just mark one and a quarter with my pencil so I'm just trying to show you how you can adapt it with what you've got like so and then I'm going to do a scoreline and then I'm just going to cut it because that's going to get covered with my border die or my edge die I'm not too worried okay so each end is going to kind of finish slightly differently but when they all come up together you can see there how they all fold up into that shape we just need to cover them at some layers so you are going to need three six nine twelve pieces of I've got mine here so this is to finish off the other ones for each of these measure one and three quarters by six and three quarters they will cover the three sides of all the boxes then you'll want this piece for the I show you on here so you'll want two pieces and that's to cover this piece here so I've actually done mine to cover the whole part of it if you want to do your shorter you know you can but it's seven by four so two pieces and then you'll want two four six eight pieces of one and three quarter squared to cover the ends of your boxes also I've got this piece here and I've got two pieces and they are to decorate the top so I've got your day on both sides so this here is one and three quarters by six and three quarters and then one and a half by six and a half and then that's where I've used that sentiment die and I've just die cut a few of them stuck them on top of each other and then I've covered it with glossy accents you can see there looks really cool so I'm gonna go and get all this stuck down okay so you can see now how it all comes together once that's down like so you can see it's closed but remember when I said about them popping open this one here wants to come out but I think once it's closed it kind of holds it in so just make sure you know that that one now probably taken a bit too much off of that edge there so that's what I mean about them popping out so I think once they've got the stuff in they're gonna stay in place anyway so now you want to do your edge border now this is kind of a directional one so what you'll need to do is if I was to just die cut another one and stick it on there they're not gonna join up can you see they're different whereas if it's a symmetrical one so for example like the flowers you could just die cut that stick among so they're both gonna line up an easy way around around that or at least to get a nice finish is I've got my cardstock here and I'm gonna cut it with the die facing up and the cardstock over the top and then I'm gonna lay a sheet of copy paper over that so that any kind of markings that you might have on your plates won't damage or they won't go on to the cardstock so give it a really nice finish and then you just use your bone folder to flatten the sides and it will give you the perfect edge in that reversed orientation so I've got the die there because you can see my base plate it's a you know there's nothing wrong with it but it's obviously heavily used I've got literally just the right size cardstock here and then I'm gonna sit that copy paper over the top top plate and run that through remove the copy paper so now that is a perfect piece whereas you can see on the back there can you see all those markings and all those indentations if you put that on the front now that's what you would get and it wouldn't look very nice so if you just get your bone folder now and just go around the edges you only have to do this on the ones that aren't a symmetrical image because they just won't line up but now I can stick this one on this side and can you see they perfectly line up and it looks nice it's got a nice finish to it so I'm gonna grab my glue and just pop it all on that section there and I'm gonna sit that over that and I've done this box especially around the size of these edge dies so it's exactly the same width which is the seven inches but I just want to make sure they line up which they do just spend a minute making sure that's all in place and then I'd already gone ahead and die cut because you get the same amount of dragonflies there to fill that edge border do it that way you can see they all fit in to their little spots there turn that one the other way there we go okay so I've already cut them all out and I've put glossy accents over them on it's all dry so you can see they've all got that shine on them to pop a little bit of glue on the body and then you can see I like to sit it down on the left hand side first and get that white kind of border line it up and then push down on the body but keep the wings kind of lifted so again just pop a little bit of glue this one's going this way so again just sit it where it should go make sure the tail it's nice and straight as well like so I'm just gonna go along stick these down okay and then I've got two here which I'm gonna stick onto the front gonna stick them all down I'm not gonna lift anything on these ones so let's do one because they're gonna catch I think and then I'll do one kind of like that okay so that's all done now I'm gonna add my Velcro dots these are the dot and dab ones these are the 20 mil or the two centimeter ones so I'm gonna pop one or one set there and then make sure they don't go together yet just pair up the other ones at this end here and then everything lined up there we go now you could also pop some hole punches in there and you can have a little handle if you want but I'm really pleased with that so easy put a nice gift tag on there just open that up make sure they're secure and then it just opens up I've realized as well that I've got these ones all face you know they open this way but this one opens that way but there you go you get hopefully I've given you lots of kind of alternatives different ways to use your cardstock and have different openings you know even if you're using the shorter length cardstock how to add you know because this is just an extra kind of piece that you add on to it but there's ways around that I can always put sellotape on them anyway when I put the gifts in because I always say I don't expect people to keep these things you know enjoy them and I also need to add pattern paper onto that one and onto that one as well but I need to cut that because I put the papers away but I just love really love how that all closes up and then just make sure all secure was up nicely there there we go I just love this way of using the edge dies in 3d makes as well so gift boxes and gift bags because you could run that along the top of the gift pad and I think it'd look really nice so there you have it so thank you for watching and I'll link everything as always in their description box below and I'll be back again very soon with another tutorial see you then bye


Atea, savage white queen of Tor, has learned of Jeanette Burton's rescue from the Chamber of Serpents by Wong Tai and of their invasions of her treasure cave. She follows them with a company of palace guards and surprises the Chinese in the act of looting her jewel caskets. Ordering their immediate death by sacrifice to the fires of Tor, Atea conducts her captives to the Hall of Pantu, the Chamber of Sacrifice. Tarzan and O'Rourke, meanwhile, have opened the city gates to the invading hordes of Rathor, and leaving the invasion and sack of Tor to the savage Rathorians, the ape man, Darno and O'Rourke, fight their way into the palace in search of Jeanette. As the three white men enter the deserted council chamber, the sound of chanting voices comes to them from the Hall of Pantu. They recognize the chant of sacrifice. This way, the Hall of Pantu at the end of the corridor. Come on. Sacrifice, Tarzan. There are many guards before that door. Right to the devil with the yellow scum. If Jeanette's in there, we'll get her out. No! Oh, listen. That sounded like Jeanette. Oh, my God, it is Jeanette. Are the devils a murderer in her? No! We're coming, Jeanette, of course, la. Oh, grass, I've warned you. Well, yeah. Look, back there, coming down the corridor. Who can use Rathorians? Come on. With the speed of a charging lion, the fierce challenging cry of the bull ape ringing piercingly from his throat, Tarzan leaps directly into the midst of the yellow guardsmen. In his hands, the great two-edged Torian's sword, its reddened blade reflecting the light from burning wall pressets, whistles through the air in great sweeping arcs. Straight through the living wall of yellow-skinned, gigantic Torians, the eight-man cleaves a path to the heavy door of the Hall of Pantu. Behind him, Darno and O'Rourke wielding savage weapons, fight desperately to prevent the Torians from closing in. Darno, O'Rourke, come on. Leave them to O'Conn, his Latorians. Here, the door. Inside, quick. Tarzan! The door, O'Rourke. Close it. At Atea's screaming command, Mantar, the high priest, springs from the circle of startled priests, toward the lever in the base of the huge golden image that operates the stone trap over the fire pit. Across the chamber, near the door, Darno and O'Rourke halt in their tracks, staring in frozen horror as the priest's hand reaches out to grasp the lever. Swift as thought, Tarzan swings the long Torian sword back over his shoulder, brings it forward in one powerful sweep, and lets go. True as an arrow launched from a bow, the huge weapon flashes point foremost across the chamber to bury itself to the hilt in the breast of the high priest. With a scream, Mantar sinks writhing in death to the floor. The remaining priests stand petrified, gazing fearfully at the ape man who reaches back snatching O'Rourke's sword from his hands. The first one to move toward that lever dies as Mantar died. Tell them, Atea. And you think Tarzan of the Apes, that will save Jeanette Burton? Not so. One step away from that door by you or one of your companions, and she dies by these sacrificial knives. Won't I remain where you are? Mon Dieu, she is holding Jeanette on the edge of the storm trap with a knife at her throat. If anyone touches that lever... O'Rourke, faith in me, that divile himself strike the woman dead where she stands. If I could only get my two hands on her for one little minute... Easy, O'Rourke. Stand still, Wong.  Your city's fallen into the hands of Sean Rattour and his warriors. Your nobles and fighting men are dead or prisoners. Jeanette's death won't help you now. Never the less she will die in the fires of Thor or by the blade of sacrifice. Unless the Sean of Rattour and you, Tarzan of the Apes, are prepared to bargain for her life. What do you want? The Sean and his warriors will evacuate my city at once. He may take with him all Rattorian slaves. I am not authorized to negotiate terms for the Sean, Dono. Nor am I. You'll have to make your own terms with the Sean, Atea. What do you want of me? Your intervention under Paul Dono with his friend, the Sean. You have my word for that and Dono's, right, Dono? Oui, Tarzan. And your acceptance of the kingship of Thor, Tarzan of the Apes. Oh, no, Tarzan. No, you mustn't listen to him.  Or I bury this blade in your throat. Oh, by the saints I'll make that she devils. All right, Atea. As far as I am concerned, you have my word. Okay, Tarzan. The woman speaks with a double tongue. She is without honor, crafty, vindictive, as evil as sin. So speaks my most worthy and loyal consular, Wang Tai, who is himself the soul of honor, who bites the hand that feeds him and renders from the one who has saved his miserable life. To combat fire, my illustrious queen, one must himself apply the torch. And as this one has so often stated, the shadow moves as the sun directs. Therefore, Tarzan, my friend, I warn you, walk softly. Walk softly. As the crafty Chinese speaks, he moves surreptitiously inch by inch toward Atea, where she stands holding Jeanette beside the fire trap. Unobserved by all but the watchful Tarzan, Wang moves closer. Closer. Enough. Enough of this talk. Tarzan, what is your answer to my terms? Do you accept? I'm a Montazan, before you answer. Would it not first be well for Atea to learn whether or not she has a kingdom to offer? Perhaps the Shah of Rathor has other plans for the governing of Tor and for Atea. Then they will be set aside if Jeanette Burton is to live. Speak, Tarzan. Tarzan herself, Tarzan, she's planning divalement. You have my word that I will return, Atea. Oh, Tarzan. Providing you put down that knife and Jeanette and Wang come over here to us, now. Pernigarh, Tarzan. Her eyes are trying to deliver a message to one of those priests. I know. Not so fast, Tarzan of the Apes. Jeanette Burton will step out from under this knife only when the order has been given and guaranteed by yourself for the Rathorians to leave Tor, and not before. You'll have to take that up with the Shah later. No, now. Send for him. Darno, go outside and see if you can find Uka. Deliver Atea's message to him. Lahando, Tarzan! Lahando! Tarzan, to heaven, please! The priest to whom Atea has pledged a signal and cried out leaps suddenly forward to the base of the golden idol in the lever. As his clawing fingers fasten themselves on the handle, Tarzan's sword whistles through the air and buries itself between his shoulders. With a scream of savage agony, the dying priest throws himself against the lever, pulling the handle with him as he falls. Seeing one of their number felled by the lightning action of the eight men, the other yellow-skinned priest, screaming with terror, rushed for the door behind the golden idol to disappear in the secret passageways of the Temple of Pantu. A dull, heavy rumble of grinding rock and the stone tap beside which the women stand begins to slide open. Oh, Tarzan of the apes, you thought to cheat Atea of her vengeance. She on that button dies and it fires a thaw and with the knife of sacrifice in her heart. Le feu, Tarzan! The fire! Absurdly trapped! Eyes glittering evenly, the savage queen raises the sacrificial knife. As she leans forward to drive it into Jeanette's heart, Wong Tai throws himself between the two women. His shoulder striking Jeanette hurls her away from the opening trap. The descending knife with all Atea's strength behind it plunges deep into his unprotected back. The force of his forward lunge and Atea's blow carries him staggering to the brink of the open, roaring fire pit. Oh, that's it, leave it, Tarzan! Lieutenant, quick! Oh, mon Dieu! They will fall! Connoring at the edge of the horrible pit, Wong turns, throws his arms round Atea. He who strikes with a sharp point will not himself be safe for long. Listen, Patrick. He dragged her into the fire pit along with him. Jeanette, you're all right? Not hurt? No. No, I'm all right. But, but Dr. Wong... He saved your life, Jeanette. Oh, very dear. And as he himself might have said, may the all-seeing guide his footsteps into the heavenly palaces of his distinguished ancestors. Faith, and I'm taking back everything I ever said or thought of him. Oh, I'd like to take the head and buy the hand and call him friend. He, he wasn't a heathen, Tarzan. More than once, he saved this all from Atea's jealous anger. Especially me. If it hadn't been for Dr. Wong... Oh, we'll remember him, Acusler, as a real friend. With a queer way of saying things, most folks couldn't understand. And they voyaged. Look, they're on the trap. A necklace of rubies. They must have fallen from his pocket. He got them from Atea's treasure cave. He wanted me to have them. I couldn't take them. Take them. Atea has no further use for them. And the rest of the treasure? We'll stay where it is, O'Rourke. Oh, faith, and I want none of it. N'ai moi non plus, nor I. Et bien, mes amis. What now? Oh, let's get out of here. All I ask is to get as far away as possible from this awful place. And as quickly as we can. You're right, Jeanette. You and O'Rourke will be safe with the Shan and Uka. They'll see that you'll reach civilization safely. I mean that you're not going with us. You, you're going to stay here? You forget. Darno and I are on a special mission. Ah, oui. I myself had almost forgotten. We still have a task to perform. Monsieur Ismet is ivory poaching and slave trading. We'll take care of that in due time. Tomorrow we go back to my jungle. Meanwhile, we'll find O'Rourke and tell him our plans regarding Jeanette and O'Rourke.


Live from San Francisco, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering Oracle OpenWorld 2015 from Studio C, brought to you by Cisco. Now your host, Stu Miniman. This is SiliconANGLE's production of Oracle OpenWorld 2015 here for Moscone South in beautiful San Francisco. I'm Stu Miniman from wikibon.com. Excited to have on the program Michael Grant, who's VP of sales with VitaCore, who is not only a user of Oracle's products, but they're also a service provider. Michael, tell us a little bit about yourself, your role in the organization, and for folks that haven't heard of VitaCore, you know, what's the company? Excellent, so my name is Michael Grant, the Vice President of Sales for VitaCore. VitaCore is a cloud service provider that focuses on VMware-based hosting for production and disaster recovery. Our, my background has been in technology. I've been at the large players, IBM, Verizon Business, and at some smaller players too that are taking over the market with a service-based approach to cloud hosting. All right, can you give me a little bit of the speeds and feed of the company?  Okay, great, yeah, so we're headquartered out of Sterling, Virginia. We're about a 50-person company, 20 million dollar run rate. We have about 1,000 customers across our fabric, and our main presence for data center hosting and for VMware-based hosting is out of Sterling, Virginia data center. Right there is actually the second most cloud storage hosted in the world, so a lot of people don't know. There's a lot of fiber, a lot of network, a lot of data center running out of that area. Then we have a secondary site that covers more nationally out of Chicago, Illinois. All right, so when I look at service providers, one of the biggest challenges they usually have is, I mean, growth. And you talk about the amount of changes that are happening, enterprises, talk about change, but service providers, it's the agility and the ability to make change is kind of fundamental. How do you characterize growth at your company? So I think that's it. So from a vertical perspective, we target a very specific segment. We're basically going for the mid-market, high SMB. Some of the low enterprise, really, that's our space. And for growth, we really run through our channel. We look at partners that are Cisco providers that are Nimble providers, that are looking to extend their fabric of IT solutions by offering cloud hosting. And that gives us a force multiplier in the market to go out and attack a broader base. From a growth perspective, we're seeing 30% year-over-year growth as an organization. And what makes us different to enable that growth is we provide more of a boutique, high-level, white-love approach to service. And a lot of what you see and what you hear and what our customers get, we've had and we've been independently studied and we're one of only two service providers globally to have zero outages in the last two years. So not only do we have proof from an independent watchdog watching our solution, we're able to go out in the market and tout that and provide a white-love service. All right, that's excellent. So to be able to deliver that, can you talk a little bit about kind of the behind-the-scenes, what goes, you know, the stuff that your customers don't need to worry about it, or do they? Do your customers ask you about your infrastructure and can you kind of map out from us, you know, what you guys build, how you chose that from an infrastructure standpoint? Excellent, so that's a great question. So customers of ours, we're very transparent with how we go to market. Customers purchase for three reasons, technology, value, and price. Now the technology, a lot of our competitors out there don't want to put it up front. For us, we're looking for a customer that understands Cisco, that understands Nimble, that understands VMware. It's a very targeted, enterprise-based infrastructure. It's a reference architecture, and that's what customers want. If we deliver that experience, then that customer can come in knowing that we have 20 engineers that are working 24-7 to manage that infrastructure, keep it up, and anything hypervisor down is going to be taken care of with an SLA and a commitment to delivering a valued service. So how do you look at utilization? I mean, we think of kind of the public cloud as, you know, almost having infinite resource. Obviously, you need to make sure that you're using what you have okay. You have to look at the cost. You need to, I mean, forecasting's always a scary thing for any company, but you know, how do you tackle those kind of challenges, and how do you work with your suppliers to sort that out? So great question. From our perspective, sales and engineering has to be very tight. We're, not for lack of a better word, a very nimble organization, and we have to be able to predict what our storage growth is, what our compute growth is going to be. So we look at that forecasting from a top down, from the engineering down, and we look at what's going to be coming down, and we balance that out from a front end. Then from a back end, our engineers are working closely with Cisco, they're working closely with Nimble to look at actually the resource allocation across the fabric, and then ultimately based on what they're seeing, they're either adding, subtracting, running algorithms to make that work every day. Now you mentioned before about public cloud hosting. From a vertical perspective, we're not targeting that market. We completely take ourselves out of the wake of those larger burst cloud environments. We're not looking for that. We're looking for a corporate static workload, an Oracle-based database, a SQL-based database, a database that is a mission critical to a corporate business that doesn't need infinite up-down time to be charged hourly. They want a monthly cost that's fixed, that's going to work on an enterprise architecture that's backed by an SLA and a service. So Michael, as we talk to users, the cloud is not a singular thing to them. Sure, there's lots of people using AWS, lots of people using Office 365, things from Microsoft. They've got their own workloads. They're working with companies like yours. One of the biggest challenges, how do I manage all this? How does it all kind of fit together? And I don't think Vitacorps is trying to own the orchestration of everything, but how do you tie into that? How does that fit into the conversation that you have with customers? So, very good question. So, every customer that we talk to is touching the cloud in some form or fashion today. Whether it's 365, whether it's Amazon, whether it's a private cloud, whether it's an internal cloud that they've built, whether it's an application, they may have hosted out in the cloud. So, from our perspective, we integrate through various set of ways. One is we're in Equinix data centers. So, within the Equinix exchange, we can actually directly tie into an Amazon workload and have a cross fabric built in between our cloud and their cloud. You can seamlessly move workloads. We've got other solutions that can tie in ADFS through Microsoft 365. So, once you migrate, you're tying that back in. So, the user's application, everything gets experienced and put together. So, we're sort of experts at making that stuff work. All right, so, Michael, can you share a little bit? You know, what's your activities been at Oracle Open World? You know, what have you learned? What have you shared? And I know your time at the show's wrapping up. So, what are your key takeaways? So, very impressed. It's my first application-based show, Nimble being a huge partner of ours. They asked VertiCorp if we could come out and present in their booth as a Nimble customer. So, we did two presentations here. I was very surprised. We had a lot of people sitting around, a lot of people listening, a lot of questions coming out from the application people about the infrastructure. So, those go hand in hand. And when you realize that you're targeting application developers or DBAs or people that are working with these heavy workloads, they're, it's critical that the infrastructure piece goes hand in hand with that. So, from my perspective, I see that it's not just an IT infrastructure decision. It's a corporate application decision that's running on this infrastructure. So, for me, the experience has been eye-opening. Oracle does a great job of putting a show together, that's for sure. And this is my first time in the Cisco Cube, so this has been pretty impressive as well. Yeah, well, great having you on the Cube. I want to give you the final word.  You're working with public partners like Cisco with Nimble Storage that, you know, you wish you'd known at the beginning or something you would have done a little bit different if you'd known going into it. So, I've learned that the importance of the technology partnerships that we're creating are so critical to our growth, to us as a business, that we need to be even more intertwined. I haven't had the pleasure of being entwined with the field marketing team or the marketing events or the product managers as much as I should. But man, just sitting with them, hearing them pitch, talking about the new things that they're building. I mean, we're on the forefront of this cloud revolution and being with partners like this to understand that, it's been amazing. All right, well, Michael Grant, really appreciate you taking the time to come share with our community everything that's going on here. And thanks for watching. We'll be right back with lots more coverage here from Oracle Open World right after this quick break. Thank you.


But I left Congress in Washington. Pollux, politics is forgiven as you may have heard sometimes, forget. This year throughout America, our eyes are turned to Philadelphia as America. And yes, that's what I told Ben Franklin at the time. Never before had an entire people joined together so peacefully. We joined together to do it ourselves. And there's no better example of Americans joining together for a kind of good than the founding almost 200 years ago. All of us, and a leader in medical studies, the College of Boats, one of the world's finest and most used medical libraries. One of the best. How do we need to turn America into a 21st century? What kind of country will we pass on to our growing world economy? If we have a source as many as ours is our future, it includes making use or sure that American education is the best in the world. The best you need are the limits of their dreams. The key here is lower tax rates and fewer needless regulations. We've made great progress in both of them. Government has played a large role in the inflation of medical costs. As I said, once the burden of hospital is over, we're not on the go. The incentives and the public assigning liability doctors were hurt, too. Stories of storing costs and excessive bills, carnage to prevent and ensure that the fund remains strong through the year 2000. We must do more. And that's why I've sent a new package of proposals. The recovery system would discourage innovation, restrict services and be a step toward government control of the entire medical profession. American medicine, times it seems, though the courts are ready to award damages even to that man. Last year, a jury awarded one woman a million dollars in damages. She'd come to the country. Women haven't been able to find doctors to deliver their babies. And other medical services have become scarce and more expensive. This is both a state and federal matter. Our third century with undernourished commitment to the high schools of U.S. And we very much appreciate your visit here today. States of America, in the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. And whereas he has used this occasion to address some of the critical healthcare issues of our times. And whereas Ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure for me to introduce the president and to thank him as I have privately and publicly for his support. This occasion of celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. This was going to be a longer introduction, but the White House didn't send me any biographical information, so I, oh yeah. Mr. President, we are delighted, honored and just tickled that you're here. And we thank you very much for coming. Thank you all. Thank you, Bill, and thank all of you very much. Governor Casey and Mayor Good and ladies and gentlemen to begin with. Let me put you all at ease by letting you know that I intend to keep my remarks brief. I will, as Henry VIII said to each of his six wives, I won't keep you long. I often reflect that George Washington gave an inaugural address of only 135 words and became a great president. And then there was William Henry Harrison. In his inauguration, he spoke for nearly two hours, caught pneumonia, and was dead within a month. But it's an honor to be here in this historic place with all of you who are doing so much this year to help make our history come alive, especially on September 17th, the 200th anniversary of the day of our Constitution. The eyes of the world will turn here to Philadelphia. The hours and hours that you've spent contributing the energy and imagination, all these represent a magnificent gift to the nation. And on behalf of all Americans, I thank you. By the way, looking around, I can't help thinking that the National Park Service has done a darn good job of taking care of this place. It looks almost like new. And I ought to know I was here the day it opened. And I can't tell you how nice the bell in the other building looked before it cracked. But on a serious note, join me if you will in considering three moments in the history of this square. First, it was, it is December 1790. 65 representatives and 26 senators have gathered here in Congress Hall. Outside, there is the distracting constant clop of horse hooves and the rumble of coaches. And the men inside here in this room are worried. Many risked property and life itself in the revolution just a few years before. Now they faced a sobering question. Have they and their countrymen overreached? Can this raw new republic survive? Or will it be torn apart by disputes between the state's lack of finance pressure from the great powers of Europe? In this House chamber and the Senate chamber above, the members of the Congress of the United States faced these challenges and surmounted them, bringing into being a sound system of finance, providing for the defense of the nation, and learning through it all to make this fledgling democracy work. And now, it's February 1861, Abraham Lincoln has been making his way slowly eastward from Springfield, Illinois to Washington to take the oath of office as president. And like the men of 1790, Lincoln faced a simple question. Not could the republic prosper, but could the republic survive? Before dawn on the 22nd, he came here to this set of buildings and spoke to the crowd that he found waiting. He had often asked himself, Mr. Lincoln said, What great principal idea it was that it held the union together for so long. And then it was not, he said, the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the mother country. Instead, it was something giving liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world. It was that which gave promise that in due course, the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men." Well, the final moment I'd like you to join me in considering requires no imagining. It is now the present, like the men of 1790, like Lincoln in 1861, indeed like every generation of Americans throughout our history. We too face the question, will this nation founded upon freedom continue to flourish? Will it continue to extend the hope of liberty to all the world? It's my belief that in the last six years we've done much to restore our nation, restore our economy and defenses, restore our basic values, even restore a sense of our own fundamental goodness as a people. Yes, I feel certain that despite all the challenges that be set us, this nation of freedom will flourish. But if we're to succeed in the future, we must first learn our own past. We must learn to go to a building like this and hear the echoes and sense the greatness and draw strength. For a study American history is, in a sense, to study free will. It is to see that all our greatness has been built up by specific acts of choice and determination. And it is to see how very fragile our nation is, how very quickly so much that we cherish could be lost. All this is really a more elaborate way of repeating what I said at the beginning, that by doing so much to bring American history to life, each of you is making a weighty gift to the nation and especially to our young people. And so let me repeat, too, the other remark I made a moment ago. My friends, I thank you and God bless you all.


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