My name is Tom Lee. I'll be giving a presentation on open source and big business. Bob's already taken a lot of the thunder, which a lot of his message actually sort of comes up in this presentation, so hopefully I'll just be able to have a read on that. So just a quick overview. Essentially I'll be talking about what we do, our clients, how open source fits into our sort of business model because we're not an open source company, but we do tend to apply open source to meet our clients' needs. So as I said, I'm a senior consultant for Shine Technologies. We're a software consultancy with officers in Melbourne and Brisbane. Brisbane one's very, very recent. I'm also an open source contributor. I've contributed some sort of non-trivial patches to the CPython core because I've got a geeky interest in compilers and passes and all that sort of stuff. I've also contributed patches to Node, Rails, and various other open source projects actually as part of my work with Shine. So yeah. So our clients, I guess I'll give you a quick run through of A, who our clients are, and B, the sort of work that we're doing for them, and the sort of work that we're doing that sort of incorporates open source anyway. NAB for example, we went out there and it was essentially installing, configuring Hudson instances. Not a lot of actual software development there, but we were delivering real business value to those guys because essentially they didn't have automated processes in certain projects. And Hudson, if any of you have ever used, has anybody used Hudson? Yeah, cool. Hudson's just a great flexible tool. It's fantastic. They've also just recently, and it's not something that we were sort of directly involved with, but they've started using Git internally or started switching over to Git from, I think it was a clear case before that. And the transformation was just, yeah, it's still ongoing and very kind of cool to see that thing happening in a place like a bank. Anyway, continuing on. Census, we're doing a bit of, a lot of Node.js actually. The city search website is one of our main projects out there. Census is actually opted to go ahead and use Node.js for a re-platform. They're moving away from a proprietary CMS over to a custom built CMS built on Node. What else are we doing at Census? The internet is moving away from the same proprietary CMS to Juma. Yeah, there's a lot of really good stuff happening in the open source space out at Census at the moment. Really good to see. Loyalty Pacific, I'm not too familiar with. I've never actually been on site out there, but I do know that they've been using Open CMS, which is a Java-based CMS. Lufthansa Technic, where we've got Ruby on Rattles on Plains, which is really cool. Yeah, and a whole bunch of others. It sort of speaks in specs of open source development for quite a few of our clients. So I guess before I start talking about consulting, a good thing to be would be to define what a consultant is. It's somebody who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area of expertise. That means that people are paying you for your opinions and your expertise. And I believe that this will actually translate to tangible value, which sort of touches on what Bob was saying earlier. So we're not an open source company, but we use open source technologies to deliver business value to our clients. And as consultants, we should really be striving to deliver optimum value to our clients. And in our opinion, that's not necessarily saying, open source all the time is the best solution. You should be looking at delivering optimum value. And open source is part of our toolkit to do just that. So in terms of selling big business on open source, we don't really do a lot of pitching open source necessarily, unless it's kind of the obvious solution. So somebody says, hey, we need to do X and we can say, oh, great. You can use this open source project or that open source project. It'll save you all this money and be great rather than going down proprietary path. Or they're already using it as well. We will sometimes go in there and they'll say, hey, we've got this Ruby-based system that was written three years ago. The old developers sort of annoyed us. We don't want to use them anymore. So can you guys sort it out? That sort of thing where they've sort of the relationship between the people providing the support and the business sort of didn't want it working out. That's one of the benefits of open source. If that relationship doesn't work out, you can sort of say, hey, well, we can do that instead. And yeah, it's really powerful for the business. So yeah, when they are using open source, it does tend to be sort of tried and tested stuff. I've listed Ruby and Rails on there. We're starting to see lots and lots of, well, have been seeing for a while now lots and lots of Ruby on Rails. Even though I'm not necessarily from an enterprise perspective, they would sort of call it tried and tested. Things like PHP as well as sort of starting to make inroads. Again, it's one of those things where, you know, if it's not Java and .NET, then you sort of have to jump through hoops to get it accepted in the enterprise. Anyway, getting back to what I was saying, these big commonly accepted open source projects are the ones that you need to get in and say, well, hey, we can support that. We've worked with that before. We've delivered solutions using that before. And that's a good way to sort of get an adore there. So as I was saying, big business is generally conservative with what they choose. So stick to the big projects. The bleeding edge stuff isn't entirely unheard of, e.g. census city search node. They were using node before they had a stable release. We had the API changing underneath this. We had promises disappear from node. If anybody's used node, instead of using, if you ever use a JavaScript callback, a promise is kind of like a callback that you can sort of say, OK, if it's successful, then do this. Otherwise, do that. They did away with that entire concept and replaced it with two callbacks. So you pass two callbacks to a function instead of anyway. So yeah, and again, as I was saying before, the good business relationships should be trumping this proprietary lock-in that comes with closed systems. You shouldn't be stuck with a vendor just because you've chosen their particular software solution.  Yeah, and I think it's just such an important thing for business to be made aware of in particular. Yeah, so exactly what I was just saying. I mean, there are some sort of secondary benefits. I sort of don't see them as huge benefits, and that's the initial outlay being less. So quite often open source is free. I mean, yes, you might pay a whole lot to get some arbitrary commercial closed system installed but really over the lifetime of the system, that's not always going to be the case. I mean, the flip side of that is ongoing licensing costs and all that sort of thing as well. But you also get benefits from features and bug fixes delivered by the community. So development continues rolling along without you having necessarily to do anything. The flip side of that is that it's undirected effort, so it's not necessarily stuff that's going to be useful to you.  I know a lot of what goes on in the corporate world sometimes seems to be that they'll say, oh, well, we'll take that and we'll make changes to it and we won't contribute those changes upstream and really that just creates more problems and I'll go into that in a little bit. Okay, so yeah, I think I've covered my set already. So getting big business to give back, this has been an interesting one. For us, it's sort of dependent on who the client is, our relationship with them, so on and so forth, what the project is as well. I mean, we've done a lot of continuous giving back just as part of our work with Census, for example. Census has been, for me anyway, one of the main ones where I've actively sort of gone, okay, well, we've got this bug, fix it, checking the change locally, create a patch, send it off upstream, and then when they do the next release, that's incorporated, everything's great. Again, they don't necessarily have to take the patch from you, but you sort of do what you can and it's just one of those things where if they don't accept your patch, it's just one of those things that you have to manage. You probably have to be doing anyway even if you weren't trying to contribute backup strength. So something that, and this is something that I personally took on board, as part of my geeky, interesting compilers and all that sort of thing, is I wrote a template language for Node and actually started using it in the city search project because at the time, because of all the fluctuations in the API and all that sort of stuff, all the template languages that we had available sort of weren't the best or wouldn't compile or segfaulted or, you know, so Jazz was sort of a custom made template language that, you know, compiled and ran. And it was a lot of fun to put together and we've had good contribution from outside and all that sort of thing as well, so we'll see what happens with that. So yeah, as I was saying, it really, if you can convince your clients to give back upstream, it's just such a huge benefit to everyone. Especially to the business, which is one that you're trying to keep happy in terms of upgrades, the less changes you make to the core system that don't make it back upstream, the better for obvious reasons. And it also has a knock-on benefit of, you know, sort of marketing within the development community as you're sending off patches and sort of saying, you know, hey, we're a company working in open source. This is what we're doing. It's kind of cool. And there is a bit of talk around total cost of ownership. My opinion is that it's kind of pointless to generalize. You talk about it in terms of individual projects, not necessarily in terms of, you know, our solution X is always more cost-efficient than the solution Y or whatever. But yeah, a bit of a tangent. So yeah, focus on delivering value to your clients is the big one for me. And Bob already covered most of that. Yeah, and don't get caught up in the dogma. I mean, it's important. Open source is important, and it is important for companies to continue giving back. But, you know, if you're going to businesses and trying to pitch open source when there's proprietary solution that clearly delivers more value, that to me, you know, is no-brainer. Anyway, any questions? Yes? And you're using, utilizing, sorry, open source at the front end. So are you doing a lot of connecting the two together, so passing packets and et cetera between them? So connecting open source proprietary systems. Yeah, so we might have, for instance, take WCM, IBM, WCM, right? Yep. They're the ones that run it, that are already tied into IBM, corpus that are already tied into IBM. They're utilizing it for a back end, for the more heavy transactional information, client records, things like that, et cetera. When it comes to a web front end, horrible, not good, slow to implement, blows the budget out, blah, blah, blah. In a solution like that, what I'm finding, I don't go to companies and pitch, companies come to me. And what I find is the companies come to me because it's okay, we want a PHP. We want an open source PHP front end there that we can easily change things on because marketing want a Facebook like button, and I can go out there and grab that code or that module and plug it into my CMS. But when it comes to the sensitive data or when it comes to what already is there or the 100 to 200 Java developers that they already have employed, they're going to keep on doing that stuff. So it's kind of not about totally replacing it.  So having that kind of open source PHP say things lies in here, but then also integrated into that deeper proprietary systems? Well, that's it. You've got to keep the business happy in the end. And I mean, even part of our work with City Search, like doing away with proprietary CMS, the proprietary CMS is still there running probably 70% of the site. The node stuff is currently only running maybe 30% of it. But in order to do that, we've had to integrate with all this horrible old technology that's just, yeah, nightmarish. And it can be done. And I think it's a good thing that it can be done. And sooner or later, the proprietary stuff is just going to be phased out. And it's a powerful thing to be able to do that. Yeah, saves business money. Awesome. Before about upstream. Cheers. When you're talking before about essentially educating the companies to, you know, encourage them to give back upstream and that sort of stuff. How much of that... I guess I'll try to ask, how much percentage of that is in the work that you do? Contributing back upstream? No, more the education of the the corporates themselves. The education, yeah. Actually, for the clients where we've actually been contributing back upstream, like where they've given us to go ahead, it's...  If it's a fix to the core and it's not something specific to their business, do you know what I mean? Then, yeah, you know, that hasn't been a problem for us at all. It's not something that we have to actively manage or anything like that. It's just been a five second conversation with our direct business stakeholder. Easy, yeah. So, it's not like... because I wasn't sure when you were saying before how much of it was a bit of a selling a part of it, you know what I mean? But it sounds like there's a lot more savings there. I don't know, is that what you're saying? I mean, it's like anything else we do with a client.  It's just a natural part of what we do. So, yeah. Is there another question up there? Hi. In my job, there's a lot of weighing up what is the most value short term versus long term. Do you have an opinion on how you see companies panning out based on how they weight those things? Is it a luxury to always choose long term and, you know, what scenarios would have have you seen it fail and things like that? How do you put it? So, I haven't really seen... It depends on the magnitude of the difference. Do you know what I mean? If you're kind of looking long term and there's an obvious difference in terms of budget expenditure in order of magnitude, then obviously, you know, what are you going to do? Sorry, does that sort of answer your question? I'm not sure I... Yeah. I'm just wondering, yeah. We were actually involved in the original build of CitySearch which used that horrible proprietary system and that was actually one of those situations where, you know, it wasn't our solution that we pitched to them, it's something that they got from somebody else that we got in to help build kind of thing. And that solution, you know, at the time it was kind of like, well, this has been used here and it's been used here, so we might as well use it here as well. You know, using it here costs X million dollars or whatever. But it's just because it was the standard that was being settled on all over the place and blah, blah, blah. And so it quickly sort of became obvious to them that, you know, ah, going with the proprietary solution and I'm not sure that we were doing much at the time to sort of push the open source side of things, whether there were open source options available or what. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not sure I'm answering your question, but yeah. Sure. No, not at all. It depends on business, depends on project, depends on your relationship with them. I didn't find case studies being very good because I found quite a lot of concerning of proprietary systems in the open source system and just, you know, how that can be experienced and what they're for. The level of the company as well that they're at. So, you know, SunCorp did a nice kind of move away from web patricks and techniques and Drupal and PHP kind of thing. It's a great nice story there and how they kind of did that and then the transactions. So I find that that helps. And by being able to say, so like I had Drupal stuff, but being able to say things like the White House uses it, the government uses it, this uses it, that uses it. People start going, oh, okay, so it's not just some small little system running away here, it's actually been accepted and used by the White House. That's right. I start to listen. Yeah, once you get the names attached to it, it's, yeah. Yeah, that's it. So that gets... Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's the same thing, you know, by a different name. Do you know what I mean? So it's... It is the same sort of thing. But, you know, if it comes time that they need to support a Drupal solution versus the commercial solution, then Drupal, they've got so many options like, how many Drupal developers are there in Brisbane? Yeah, exactly. So I think it's about those options, like creating those options as opposed to, you know, routing somebody, you know, down the proprietary path. Anyway, I think I'm out of time, so thanks very much.


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What does it mean, radius? I say good afternoon, everybody. My name is Phil Banks. I'm the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety. And this is what I've been told to say. There's a saying that an informed customer, an informed customer is a happy customer. And we're going to take that and switch it around that an informed citizen is a safer citizen. And to that end, we'll be holding regularly meetings to keep you informed of what the city is doing to keep you safe. And you can tune into the Mayor's Office social media pages, wherever you're watching this right now, to hear directly from the leaders in charge of protecting our city about the services their agency provides, what programs they offer, what's new, and some tips to keep you and your family safe. So to hear, we're here today today to talk about the Department of Probation and the critical role that it plays in the criminal justice system. They are the ones who work with people who have been just as involved to not only hold them accountable, but also to make sure that they have a chance to succeed. And that is very, very important. Ultimately, their work results in a safer community for all of us. So I'm joined here today by Winita Holmes, who's the Commissioner of the Department of Probation, former colleague of mine. We've worked together for many, many years. She will be introducing her staff and just by way of background, Commissioner Holmes served three decades in the NYPD, where she was the first African-American woman to serve as a proud commander and the first woman to ever serve as the Chief of Patrol. And the Chief of Patrol is in charge of all of the, think about all of the precents in the city. They all come up the line and they report to the Chief of Patrol. She also previously served as the commanding officer of the domestic violence unit, the school safety division, the chief of training prior to becoming the probation commissioner. And she brings a wealth of experience to this department. So now I'm going to turn it over to you, Commissioner Holmes, to be able to explain to the citizens here exactly what probation does. How do they contribute to the fabric of the city? I know that you have a host of your senior leadership here who I'm very familiar with. And I know that we're all interested in giving this really bird's-eye view about what's going on in probation. So good afternoon, and I talk to us. Thank you, Dia. Good afternoon. I'm Winita N. Holmes, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation, also here with me today are the following key members of our leadership team, Deputy Commissioner of Strategic Initiative, Robert Maldonado, Acting Deputy Commissioner of Juvenile Operations, Lisa Frost, Associate Commissioner of Adult Operations, Robert Eusebiel, and General Counsel, Bridget Hamlin. Today we will be defining the role that the Department of Probation serves in the criminal justice system. Probation's core function is to reduce recidivism with the hopes of improving public safety. Probation is an alternative to incarceration when an individual is sentenced by a judge to community corrections. Unlike parole, which serves individuals who were sentenced to incarceration and released early, the Department of Probation currently has a staffing level of approximately 900 members with a total of 490 probation officers who each manage a caseload of 40-plus clients. Probation processes over 40,000 individuals a year. It consists of the following two components that supervises over 14,000 individuals. Adult operations accounts for 13,000 plus. Juvenile operation accounts for 500. These numbers are indicative of the importance of proper client assessments being conducted, in turn allowing for the appropriate programs and services to be provided. Several of these programs are provided at our seven neon centers throughout New York City. Neon centers are strategically placed in communities where a large number of our clients reside. Neons are not only used by clients, but also by many residents in New York City. What many of you may not know is that the Department of Probation serves over 40,000 mills a month to members of the community complements of our food pantries. In addition to programs, I'm sorry, in addition programs are also provided via collaboration with many other city agencies and non-for-profits. I would like to now turn it over to our Acting Deputy Commissioner of Juvenile Operations, Lisa Frost, and she'll give us a brief overview of the juvenile process. Thank you, Commissioner. Good afternoon. Nearly all young people between the age of 12, less than 18, come through our front door once they are arrested. To put that into perspective, from January to now, we have conducted over 6,500 intake interviews with young people. An intake interview consists of a probation officer interviewing a young person, their parent. We reach out to the victim as well as the arresting officer, and we also reach out to their schools as well as any program that they may be involved in in the community. Why do we do this? This is for us to make an assessment if this young person is suitable and eligible to be diverted from court and we can monitor them in the community. Some of the things that we consider when we are making that decision is the young person's risk factors, the safety to the community, the victim's input, and the young person's willingness to cooperate with interventions. During this process, we have 90 days to work with this young person. If additional time is needed, we have an additional 20 days with no to find the court. The purpose of diversion is to support the young person by providing services, also holding that young person accountable for their actions as well as determining them for further contact in the juvenile justice system. Between January and the present, we have opened over 1,600 divergent cases with 700 of those being raised to age youth. Lisa, can you tell us a little bit about the diversion cases when it comes to the criminal justice system? How does it reflect the young adult? In other words, young adults that are recommended for diversion are pretty much taken out of the criminal justice system. Yes, that is correct. So with the diversion, we're looking at how can we hold the young person accountable? Without pushing them further through the justice system. We have dedicated probation officers that are working with these young people in the community. We are providing program for them. We are connecting with those programs to make sure that they are cooperating and they're getting the best services to help them thrive in the community and not return. Thank you, Lisa. Lisa, I'm sorry. How long have you been with probation? 28 years. 28 years, right? Yes. Okay, very good. Yeah, I think the most important thing there is removing the young person out of the criminal justice system, which is what we aim to do. So that assessment in the beginning is critical. And also, there are two other points when a young person can be referred or recommended for diversion, even though they may be referred by the probation officer to the court counsel, the court counsel can turn around and say, nope, we don't agree with this. We want them to go back and you now reconsider them for the diversion program. Same thing if it reaches all the way up to a judge, a judge can turn around and say, no, we want this person considered for a diversion program. So I think that's critical to the work that we do. Thank you, Lisa. Robert, now I associate commission of adult operations. I'd like to turn it over to you for a brief overview of the adult process. Thank you, Commissioner Holmes. So good afternoon, everyone. Although supervision or probation, as we call it, I'm gonna throw some things for us to keep in perspective. We meet, we assess, we connect, and we support people for the professional growth. What that means is, when someone comes through a door through an investigation where we assess nearly 30,000 cases a year, that's the average investigations that we do, we do an assessment of someone to help the judge make the decision, judicial decision as to whether this person can be safely supervised in the community. Assuming that the decision is made for this person to be in the community, then our supervision team kicks in. Part of that is to assess what are the risk level, what are the things that we need to focus our work to make sure that this person can successfully get through this journey of cooperation. As part of that, we use validated instruments to make sure that we look at what are the things that out of this person's life that we need to focus on to reduce the risk of then coming back into the system. That is by definition what our intake looks like. Our supervision process, which can be anyone can be on probation for a year to up to 10 years depending on what type of offenses. We have different things to meet their needs. And along that, let me remind you, a Naval Opportunity Network or NEON is the model that we use by providing services to those people on probation in their community, connecting them to viable resources. Under the vision of commission of homes, we're taking a deeper dive to look at what are the things that we as a department can do better. In the front end, while we are assessing, look at what are the things that we're doing, what are the metrics of that. And as we go through the probation process, continue to support the person so they can safely be in the community. Let me throw a number out for everyone to sort of assess. We have 12,000 people to 13,000 people on probation at any given day. That constitute three times the population of Rikers. So that means what? We have dedicated members of the Department of Probation who give their best each day to make sure that we can safely work through our city while you get providing opportunities to those that are on probation to be able to get off the system and continue with their life. I am their commissioner. Thank you, Robert. Robert, also, you wanna speak about some of the things that we're doing new, like the exit interviews or some different variables that have been added to the entry assessments as well. So currently we have a work group really looking in a more intentional way. When someone comes through the door, we often overlook the fact that we look, what are the tangible things also that we can sort of look and assess and be able to tell the community? These are things that we're doing that people may not realize. From getting a New York City ID when you never have one, to having a resume, to being connected now to your family and having healthy conversations with your family, reconnecting to your community in a different way, or being able to get not just a job, career. One of the things our commissioner home has been big on is not just jobs. Let's look at what are things that we can do so that they can be connected to union jobs on CDL classes, which we're starting internally. To things like, we have something called neo-photography, which is also another opportunity for someone to develop the skills as a photographer. So all these things, if you put our own perspective, it's part of the body of the work of our department, which essentially, we in the business are keeping our community safe by connecting our people to meaningful things that can do in the community. Thank you, Robert. And also our perspective that we are developed together, this is my perspective. As long as we have them, it should be where we do our best to make sure that when they leave us, they are at least up to standard. What I think a lot of people don't realize is that a lot of our clients are under credited or behind in grade, unemployed. And with that, we wanna make sure that we have meaningful programs and services to offer them where they can leave us and still be in a better place. Thank you. I'll now turn it over to our Deputy Commissioner, Robin Maldonado, who's overseeing strategic initiative. This is a new position that was created under my leadership as a result of me having a strong interest in making sure that we get it right with the programs and services that are afforded to our clients. So, Robert's been tasked with a number of many things, but more importantly, program evaluations, research assessments, things of that nature. So, Robert, do you wanna give us a little overview? Sure. Consistent with Commissioner Holmes's vision, we're tracking the success rate of our programs as they relate to recidivism, educational attainment, and employment. In my capacity, I'm responsible for ensuring that our programs and services are consistently aligned with our clients' needs, thereby guaranteeing their effectiveness. We've established key performance indicators that support successful outcomes. These key performance indicators will help guide our decision-making, ensuring that our resources are used effectively and that we're making a real difference. They're not just numbers, they're milestones that show real progress in a person's life. The Commissioner has also tasked me with researching and envisioning new needs for the agency and for our clients, and that she indicated a number of other things, and this combination of tasks is focused on making a meaningful impact on the lives of those on probation and by extension, enhancing the well-being of our community. Thank you. And for an example, when we're looking at new things surrounding programs, we're looking for the LGBTQIA Plus community. We're looking for special needs community. Probation encompasses these different types of communities and we really didn't have anything specific really related to those two categories. So Robert's been tasked with researching those programs as well. I'll now turn it over to our general counsel, Bridget Hamlin. Many people don't know specifically what it is that a general counsel does for an agency, but I'm quite sure Bridget Hamlin's gonna make that quite clear today. Thank you, Bridget. Good afternoon, everyone. So as a general counsel, I serve as the chief legal officer for the department, advising the commissioner as well as the entire agency and a whole on issues of law, fact, and policy. As this new commissioner has come on board, making sure that we make our legal obligations not only to the probationers, but to the members of the actual department. I'm also tasked with making sure that certain bills that are proposed that the department supports are pushed. I'm also responsible for making sure that we are keeping compliance with all federal laws, state laws, and city laws. My job as a general counsel is to ensure that the agency has as minimal risk and liability and exposure as possible. Many people think as an attorney for the department, I'm in court with the agency. My role is to keep the agency and the city and the whole out of the court. Thank you. And that pretty much completes our presentation here today. So thank you for allowing us to join you here today and speak about the impact that the department of probation has on public safety issues. So I have a couple of questions, commissioner. One, I just remiss if I don't just acknowledge the union, head of the union for the probation officers of any of any power. I deal with a lot of union leaders and I tell you like this, second to none, as far as like supporting your members, they all support, but you are like fierce in that regard there. So it's wanting to acknowledge your presence here too. So we have how many members, how many probation officers, what's the scope of the agency? We have currently 490 probation officers, but it's a total approximately over 900 members assigned to the agency. And we're in all of the boroughs. We have officers in all of the boroughs. I know they were in some in the court rooms, et cetera, et cetera.  So officers are assigned to every borough in New York City naturally. And then we also have different branches that they belong to. Adult operations is made up of six different branches and what do we mean by branches? So when someone's assigned to probation, what happens is based on their assessment, based on how they're rated as far as low, medium, high, and it may be intense engagement that they require, there's a particular branch that they will be assigned to. Over that branch, you have what's called a branch chief and then you have several supervising probation officers that oversee or manage the probation officers. So that's pretty much the structure. Each borough has what's called, if your family called a borough director and if you're adult operations, then you have what's called an assistant commissioner. Those individuals report up the line to the deputy commissioners of juvenile operations and the deputy commissioner of adult operations. So tell me about this neon centers, right? Can you tell us a little bit about the neon center, exactly what they are, how many we have with associated? So neon centers were created pretty much as a conveniency, right? Pretty much in the communities where we tend to have a large number of probationers residing. It was done in conjunction with a lot of members, key stakeholders from that particular community. And they also play a role in deciding what programs are delivered at those centers. But we also have, I believe it's three centers that have pantries that feed a lot of people in the neighborhood as well as our probationers. And then we have what's called clothing closets. So we're doing a coat drive now that's running in every borough. So if you have any coats, and I'm speaking to our virtual community as well, please feel free to stop by any probation office and drop off coats. But they serve a tremendous purpose because it helps allow for, I know some probationers that didn't have what we call coffee. I don't know what do we call it now, Metro Cards or whatever, to get to the particular cords just to check in with their probation officer. So now it makes it a lot more convenient for them to be compliant with their check-ins or simply if they want to have a space with safe, do homework, receive tutoring. We've now reintroduced somehow, I think in a Bronx, we recently opened up our high school equivalency program which was shut down for a period of time due to lack of Wi-Fi. So we're making sure that that's up and running in every borough. Also mentioned here today was the CDL course that I pretty much signed up with that program. Standing room only, a lot of our clients are involved. Women and men have an interest and we're actually conducting that particular training. I believe it's hybrid as well. So Lisa, I got to go back to you for a second because something interesting. So a young person, society gets arrested, right? For every arrest, they're gonna have some contact with probation or there's certain arrests that you will not have contact with them. Most young adults will come before probation for intake interview. For the 16 and 17 year olds or the misdemeanors, the nonviolent felonies, VFOs, they're going to the youth part where if they are removed to family court, then we will then conduct an intake interview. So the intake is almost like an assessment, correct? That is correct. So you're looking to determine any support that they could utilize. So what do we do with that assessment? Does it get to the judge? Does it get to the prosecutor? Explain that process a little more thoroughly. Okay, so the assessment, if the case has been determined to refer to court, what is discussed in those interviews is not shared with the court. However, the court will know whether the young person is doing, how they're doing in school, the chair, the law department will have that type of information. We are in the courtroom at that time where the young person, well, we can share that as far as school, but what's happened in the intake interview is not shared with the court. But we are doing an evaluation to determine what resources we could offer to this young person so that he or she can keep on the straight narrow or try to be removed from the criminal justice system, correct? That is correct. We connect with agencies in the community. What is it, the PAL? We've done connecting with mentoring programs or educational programs. And as long as that young person cooperates with the program, then their case will be closed. If not, then that's when we will have to refer on to the law department for access to court. Okay, so if they were on probation, we're doing some type of monitoring. And as long as they could kind of comply with whatever those guidelines or suggested guidelines are, our goal, right? If I heard you correctly, correct me if I didn't. The goal is to keep them out of the criminal justice system, correct? That is correct. In Family Court, we have this unique opportunity where we can divert a young person from that. So they don't even have to be on probation. Some family members believe because they're coming to a probation officer, they're on probation. When actually, if we diverted them, while they've seen a probation officer, it's no court access. We can work with them. They thrive on that. While they're on divergent services, we can close out their case and they never have to see a judge. So is that very similar to Robin on the adult side? Like we have somebody who's 25 years old or whatever their age is, 19, 20 years old? There are similarities and differences. For us, our business begin when someone takes a plea or have been found guilty in a criminal court. And in terms of the assessing piece of it, yeah, we're assessing to see what are the needs. Where can we meet this person? We meet them where they're at. And we hope to develop whatever skills or whatever area they wanna go through a plan. We create a plan. That plan is their case plan. Essentially identifying what are the things that they wanna work on. And with the support of the probation officer, we wanna meet them and help them get where they wanna be in life. So if you don't mind, I just wanna chime in. So the difference with a young person is that during that intake process, we're making an assessment of that young person. That differs from the adults. Where we kick in with the adults is that if a judge is considering an adult for probation, they will request of us an investigation be conducted. And it's a pre-sentencing instrument that's used to conduct that investigation that's then forwarded to the judge. It's a certain amount of days we have because if someone's incarcerated, naturally it has to be done a quicker process than if someone is released on their own recognize. So once that's forwarded to the judge, a judge now considers that as part of the sentencing. And if the adult is now sentenced to probation, now they come into probation and now we're really doing a thorough assessment of what are their needs. Unlike the children, the young people, where that's done with probation, initially in the intake section.   The reality of the matter is, is that so many of these people can be saved if we give them the proper resources. And that's not to say it's 100%, but I certainly believe that the majority of the people to get the proper resources, like job education, literacy training, and emotionally help with ever the issues that they have that we can stop them from committing the crime to begin with, right? So for many years, make the crime, make the arrest. Sometimes we have to do that. But if that's the only tool in the toolbox, then that's a fail-fail system. And I'm happy that the work that probation has been doing, but I expected nothing short of that because I've worked with Commissioner Holmes for a very long time. And she's worked for me in plenty of different assignments. And the one thing about that I will have to say about your commission is that she probably more than, as much as anybody I've ever worked with, always come up with new ideas and new ideas and new ideas and we don't have to do it this way. And how do we push and how do we push and how do we push and how do we save the kids and how do we save the kids? And I've been hearing that from her ever since I met her. We can save these kids. So I really do appreciate that and I appreciate, you know, what you're bringing here to your particular team as well. And this is just not, hey, we're in front of the camera. You know, I've thought that way about even when you're in domestic violence, school safety, so I'm happy and pleased that you bring that same type of a different way to look at it, not the same way as yesterday, approach to probation. And we're seeing some really, really good things. So I just wanna thank the team here for all of the work that you've been doing. So with that, we're going to kick it to you. Deputy Mayor, kind of two questions. Number one, I'm just wondering, but what exactly is the purpose of this briefing? Number one, and number two, us and other outlets have heard in the past few days that you're about to resign. Can you just set the record straight on what's going on there? Are you about to leave the administration? Why don't we keep them all to probation? And then after that, we can go to whatever other particular topic. So your first question was, is to keep New Yorkers informed of exactly what's going on from a public safety perspective. So we send out the social media outlets and we want people to understand, hey, this is what's happening. So people may not realize exactly what the joint operations, adult operations was strategic initiative does. They may not exactly know what Commissioner Holmes is vision of what she's doing. So that is the objective and the purpose of that. And then a lot of questions we'll get to once we finish the probation questions. Mona, David, it's a little African news. So I'm really, really glad that you guys are having this briefing because just wearing both hats, both media, as well as a parent advocate and a school safety advocate. I can tell you that families would like to know more about juvenile operations. And then speaking media-wise, I'd like to know, what are some of the organizations, community-based organizations that you are working with, Deputy Commissioner Frost, and then also in the African community, there's a rise of our youth getting involved with criminal activities. I know Reverend Cohn and Mrs. Cohn can speak to it because wearing the other hat, I work closely with them. So when it comes to those communities and we're seeing the rise, when it comes to our youth, with the language difference when it comes to engaging the families and the parents, and then with community-based organizations, are you working with any, say, for example, African, French-speaking organizations, what type of engagement is out there to inform these communities and community leaders about these programs, both for juvenile as well as for adult operations? And then my second question is, when it comes to the schools, are you guys, are you already engaging schools, public schools, and charter schools, so that their guidance counselors and their deans can also know about this program because I can tell you, as someone very active in the space, I didn't know. And if I didn't know, believe me, people don't know. Thank you. Yes, and so I believe there were two or three questions there. So, and you're absolutely right. I worked in public service for the police department 36 years. I didn't know a neon existed until I took over for probation. So that's another thing that we're focused on doing a better marketing job. But I'll answer your question, pertaining, first I'll do a DOE. I recently met with the Department of Education because you're absolutely right. Looking at the number of undercredited kids we had or kids just simply not attending school was concerning to me. We know basic fundamentals. It's what's essential as far as reducing recidivism. So with that being said, I recently met with, or we recently met with Mark Rappasat, who is key in DOE. I've known him for years. I was chief of school safety and we identified all of our children, named them. He's working with us to get them placement in the right environment. You believe it or not, some children haven't been to school in a year. Very concerning when you're 13, 14, 15 years old. So now they are too embarrassed to go to school. As a result of such, what we will do is make sure that we put them in an environment where they're comfortable, at least to bring them up to grade level or to bring them up to seventh grade reading and math level, which is only when you're going to qualify for a high school equivalency program. So that is definitely being met with. Your other question, as far as meeting with the African and French community, I'm so glad that you brought that up because we were just speaking about language access yesterday, right? Which is a report mandated by DCAS. Everyone has to be in compliance, but to get more granular boots on the ground, that is something that this good person right here is working on in his research to make sure that we're meeting with those community-based organizations and developing those relationships. So I know for a fact, he has made note of your inquiry right now and that we're definitely going to be on top of and make sure we're doing. As far as the Coens, I've been with them through the police department, through my mentorship groups. We work well together. They do a terrific job with TAG and they'll be tapping into the Department of Probation as well. And then you had a question about some of the programs with the juveniles. Lisa, would you like to speak to that? Sure, yes. So some of these programs you may be aware of, we work with cases. We also work with, I mentioned the PAL. We also work with the Yes program. This is a program with young people with shoplifting, where they work with, that is part of the diversion program. And various programs in the schools, we do go to schools with the young people in the diversion. We visit the schools. We meet with the counselors. And programs that are within the school or the young persons connected to in the community, we will meet with them, learn about what they do. So we're not actually setting the young person up by having them go to various programs. If the young person can get service in the school, then that's what we'll do. Well, we're not based in the school. We make visits to the school, but if the young person is in a charter school, we're going to a charter school. Yes. You're welcome. Who do you work for? I'm the publisher of Little African News. We're the only African newspaper, weekly newspaper in New York City, New York State. And I'm also the head of the school safety coalition. What's your name? Mona. David. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Darla from Channel 7. If you guys have done Darla and Miles, can we talk about how the success is being measured and what data and metrics you can provide to show us that success in terms of this briefing? And also just dig a little bit more deeply into this program with regard to what age range of children are you dealing with and what type of offenses are they being referred to you with? Are these misdemeanors? Are these violent felonies? Can you kind of just give us a little bit more of a breath of how that works, please? Right. So if we're speaking about the juvenile population, naturally we are met with raised the age, right? In 2018, I believe it was 16-year-olds were now considered juveniles and then that elevated to 2019. Now it encompasses 17-year-olds. So naturally anything such as a misdemeanor now for that those particular age groups will be referred to family court. With the exception, I believe it's a misdemeanor VTL law. And then still, even if it's not processed in family court and it's processed in youth part of Supreme Court, it can still be deferred to family court based on a judge's decision. So it's all crimes that we've taken on. We've taken on a lot of criminal possession of weapon crimes that are now in the juvenile section of probation as a result of raised the age. So any crime can be deferred pretty much to family court naturally. But another part you spoke about were, I think you said programs that you spoke about or metrics. Yeah, I think you answered that part. How is the success being measured? Okay, so right, you're absolutely right. Coming in the door, that's what I asked because originally coming in the door what I saw built into contracts and RFPs was simply you have 16 people, that's success. So if you were a particular, let's say, mentorship group as long as you had 16 names, that was success. It didn't add up to me. So naturally as a result of such, we sat down as a team and decided and implemented what we call key performance indicators. So success to me is this. If I'm speaking with a person that's met with the criminal justice system or not met with the criminal justice system and they're not attending school or someone that needs to be employed and now as a result of me meeting with them, I'm able to plug them into those needs that they have. To me, those are successful outcomes. And so as a result of such, we have what's called DOP Connect when we're dealing with our partners that we currently have existing programs with, they are certain standards or certain metrics that we're now collecting. Prior... So this is the beginning. This is the beginning. This is the benchmark and you'll be able to provide them at a later date. Absolutely, absolutely. Yes. And it's gonna be gauged. Is this looked at over three months, six months? And here, when should we expect to receive those funds? Right, so what we're looking at, naturally contracts can be a year, they can be two-year contracts. Not only have we just implemented these key performance indicators, we have sat down and spoke with the vendors and let them know now this is the gauge that we're using, this is the direction we're moving in, so they're aware of it. As a result of such, we have what's called program evaluators under this fine person right here. And naturally, we look at it on a monthly basis. If we see something deficient, then we'll speak with the vendors. Look, we're not saying, are you having trouble getting individuals? Are you communicating with different other mentorship groups? So even such as NYPD, I created two mentorship groups there with young people, blue chips and girls talk, very vibrant mentorship groups. And so it may be individuals in those particular groups that may benefit also from partnering with other providers. So we're doing this cross collaboration and trying to really look at it as one New York City and not having 10 auto mechanic body shops on one block, if that makes sense. I apologize, one more quick follow up. Within your strategic initiative, how is the gang issue specifically being addressed because that's obviously a different population than some of the family court issues. We know this is well documented in terms of the NYPD with the problem in the Bronx and the problem in Brooklyn. So within these neons and your strategic initiatives, is there anything carved out to deal with those gang members? So everything really is to deal with gang members because you're dealing with the individual. And naturally in New York City, gangs is a problem because that's where some young people feel as a family. We call it gangs, it's really my friends. And now as a result of us associating with them, you're considered a gang the minute that one criminal act is committed and you have an associate, now it can be quasi looked at as a gang. What we're trying to do is identify and kind of channel that energy. If you are with a particular group of people that you like more than others, we think about blue chips. I had created blue chips and now we have two probation teams, I think in the Bronx, if I'm not mistaken, that are now part of what we call blue chips with NYPD. They took their friends, they like playing sports, it could be flag football, it could be chess checkers, whatever it is they offer it, more importantly they have to give back to the community. That's the one thing I love about that mentorship group so they have to do something to give back to the community. That's why it's important to really identify these problems especially in the Bronx. The Bronx and Brooklyn, where our crime is naturally is where our problems are. So that's where probation is focused as well. So I think in the creation of marrying them up with PD, they get to know the officers, there's relationships there, they have the officers' phone numbers, hopefully that'll mitigate some of that but we do look at gangs in particular and hopefully we can channel them in a different direction. You're welcome. You can move on to weather. Yeah, I mean we had to read the same question I had earlier. Of course we would. We as well as other outlets have been hearing that you're gonna be stepping down by the end of the year. Who are you hearing it from? I'm not gonna disclose my sources but we've been hearing it from people who are familiar with that. You know people say you can't disclose my sources because I got this information but I can't disclose my source by somebody who's stepping down or not stepping down. When you tell me who you heard it from, I'll answer the question. So you're not gonna address the question whatsoever though? Hold on, hold on, because it's probably, they think sometimes you gotta go to the, I answered the question, right? You got the answer that you're gonna get. Right, but it's not a yes or no so you're not really answering the question. You have the answer that you're gonna get. I think he had a question next. And I also did wonder, but that's something I saw on Twitter, so I don't have a video. So I don't know if that changes anything at all. No, this is interesting, right? We got some questions, some really good questions here that the public wants to hear about probation. We're gonna hear about that too. Yeah. I've heard it, but no, I really want to hear about it. No, is it a yes or no?  You'll see, the public wants to know that it's worth it. The public does not want to know. The public doesn't, the public care less about who they want. You know what the public's concerned about? Safety. They don't care what you listen to them. They care about safety. They don't care about what an individual person is doing. But either way, you had a question. Welcome back, because I spent all, I couldn't do this all day. Go ahead. So going back to when the mayor returned from Washington after Brianna Suggs had her room raided. Did you speak to the mayor that day? Did you meet with him? Did you talk to him? I think the question was actually the mayor. He says that he does not share conversations. So I'm gonna give the same answer that he gave, but I speak to the mayor 400 times a day, all at a time. So I couldn't even go back to say a day I did or did not speak to him. I speak to him all of the time. I spoke to him before I came into the general. I'm gonna speak to him. I leave out his room because public safety is platform and we speak. But the reality of the matter, I don't even record a day. There's not a day that doesn't go by that I don't have multiple, multiple, multiple conversations with him. So that whole issue here. What about closing the nature of what the conversation was just broadly as a topic? Did you discuss Brianna Taylor? Or Brianna Suggs, I'm sorry. I can't, I don't share my conversations with the mayor. But I'm gonna give you a little bit. I don't know if I've ever had a conversation with the mayor about Brianna. So I'll just give you that. I don't know if I've ever, ever had a conversation with her about her. But the whole stuff about who he met with, he said he doesn't share his conversations. I'm not gonna particularly share my, those particular conversations there as well. Can I ask about another one? Can I ask about another one? I'll get to the streets. You're gonna go. No, no, no, no. You can. Okay, I'm actually gonna ask Chris's question again. He raised the question. Is that what they teach in general in the school? One person asks. Another person asks. Is there any different answer here? No. Louis Molina, the correction commissioner, was supposed to move.


And this is actually one of my most used stimulants because it is so convenient and easy to use. I'm jacked. Hey, what's up guys? It's Josh here. I just want to say a few words today on this area. Trabrenesis, kind of like one of the new stimulants on the market today. Came up several years ago. It's kind of been thrown around with DMAA and DMHA. When I was studying DMAA and DMHA, I did come across this. I did a little bit of research. It seemed like it was going to be a lot weaker than DMAA and DMHA. So I was like, for the same price, I'll just stick with that DMHA. But since then, I have tried this maybe about 20 to 30 times. I have tried it in varying doses. And it actually has a pretty decent place in somebody's stimulant lineup if you choose to cycle your stimulants like I do. This is very similar to a combination between L-final alanine and DMAA. L-final alanine is pretty much one of the weakest stimulants or mood boosters on the market. It lasts for about 10 minutes. DMAA and DMHA, they last for about 11 hours in the half-life, which pretty much means they're like the strongest stimulants available. And one of the reasons that DMAA and DMHA are so strong is because they have these MOI inhibitors, which basically stop your body from getting rid of the stimulant. So you're going to have an extremely long effect. They took L-final alanine and they basically put that MOI inhibitor on it that your body cannot get rid of it as fast. So it's going to last longer than 10 minutes. I did look for a half-life on this one. I couldn't really find too much information about it. I know L-final alanine is about 10 minutes and I've looked online, somebody says they get about four hours of energy with it. Yeah, four hours is pretty much the max. You could also probably take this a little bit later in the day than caffeine and you'd still be fine. I know I do that. This is actually one of my most used stimulants because it is so convenient and easy to use. Has an effect, but it also doesn't last forever at the same time. So you could take it later in the day, you could take it and not really have too much negative side effects while feeling a little bit of a zip when you do take it. Initially I thought this was essentially L-final alanine. L-final alanine lasts for about 10 minutes. I think it's actually in diet coke if I'm not mistaken. It's kind of nice to have an L-final alanine, that 10 minute thing.  So it was always something nice to throw into a drink because every time you take a sip you're getting that 10 minutes of boost to go along with the other stimulants. That's kind of what I thought about this one. I thought it was just L-final alanine. And initially when I first got this I was heavily dosing it. Probably about like four or 500 milligrams just throwing it in my water for the day. I didn't think it was really gonna do really too much or that much. And then after a little while I've taken it so high a dose I kind of was noticing that I would get a little tired afterwards. I was kind of starting to figure out this is very, very, very strong. It doesn't have a super strong backbone because like I said, it doesn't last forever. It's not one of the strongest but it definitely does have an effect. I usually dose it at about 100 to 200 milligrams. This tastes pretty much the same as DMA and DMHA. There's that similar kind of taste. They all taste the same. Same with tea cream and dynamine. They taste pretty much the same. This tastes just like DMA and DMHA. Although it's not nearly as strong for sure. This supplement and dynamine technically would go pretty close to each other because dynamine is basically tea cream that lasts for a lot shorter about time. I think it's about four hours. So you could take dynamine later in the day. So this is kind of like what that is. But this is instead of being like tea cream, this is more like DMHA but also lighter at the same time like DMHA light. That's kind of the best way I would describe this one. I would say this has more of a zip and more of a crash than something like dynamine. It definitely can count on this one. So you kind of have to be a little more careful. Kind of not got to avoid that crash. The reason I don't take too much is kind of to avoid that crash. And I find pretty much all the benefits I need around 100 or maybe up to 250 milligrams. I wouldn't really go over that just because I think at that point you're just going to be waiting for a crash and you would have already passed up the benefits if you've had it. Dynamine and area gerinosis actually would have been an interesting late night combo. I can picture somebody creating kind of like a nighttime pre-workout and having dynamine and area gerinosis in it. And you kind of like market it as towards like a later in the day workout because both dynamine and area gerinosis should be out of your system a lot faster than caffeine. So if you were to put those with some pump boosters in there, I'd be very interested to see what they could do with that. You get more of a bang for your buck when you pick DMA and DMHA. I was just talking about that earlier. They're about the same price, $30 for 10 grams. This one's much, much, much weaker than DMA and DMHA. So I just want to say for the price you will get more energy for your dollar with DMA and DMHA. But this is actually really, really nice. It's kind of like an exotic style energy. Not many places are going to have this. You can mix with almost anything as long as you have enough flavor in it. And it's very exotic and very unique and it's so easy to use. I find myself grabbing this probably the most out of any one because it could aid along with other stimulants or if it's later in the day and I don't want to have any caffeine or something I just take a little bit of this, I fill a little zip and then it's going to go away fast. 133 servings if you go by 75 milligrams. But like I was saying, you probably want a little bit more. So I would say this is right around 80 servings for about $30. So it still is very, very good. I think that comes out to probably like 30 or 40 cents per serving. Definitely where I would buy it and where I'd want to test it personally just to know how it's going to work with you and if you like it, things like that. It's kind of been my rundown of area, gerinosis, you kind of get a feel of what I like about it. This is one of my most used stimulants for sure. And like I said, it provides you the zip but it's also so safe and not dangerous at the same time. If you have something like DMA or DMHA and you want to high dose it in the middle of the day, you're completely wrecked. If you high dose this, you're pretty much fine because like I said, it doesn't last very long but also provides a little bit of a zip. Let me know if you tried DMA. Let me know if you tried DMHA. Let me know if you tried area gerinosis. I'll be very interested to see down below. We're on the road, 25,000 subscribers and I couldn't do it. Thank you guys, I hope you guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully you're having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.


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Hey, welcome to this CUBE conversation with Dell Technologies. I'm Lisa Martin. I've got Kaushik Ghost here with me. He's back on theCUBE, Director of Product Management for Unified NAS Solutions at Dell Technologies. Kaushik, great to see you again. Yes, hi, great to be here again. We're going to be talking about the major announcement that Dell Technologies just made with their scale out file storage system that is Dell EMC power scale. We're going to unpack the recent announcement, new features, capabilities, all that good stuff. Kaushik, let's go ahead and start. Just give us that high level view of Dell EMC power scale. Yes, absolutely. So power scale is a high performance scale out file storage solution. It's the successor to the Isilon family, which as you guys know, I mean, it's one of the leading file solutions in the market today. PowerScale 1FS, which is the file system that runs on power scale. And also the Isilon family offers exceptional simplicity, flexibility and performance, which is what Isilon and PowerScale is known for. I mean, if you look at Gartner's Magic Order 1FS has been listed as the leader in the distributed and object file system. So that basically is now power scale. We launched our first power scale, all flash products last year. And then this year with this launch, we are sort of completing that portfolio with new hybrid and archive platforms. Excellent, and we're going to get into that as well. Let's go ahead and start unpacking this announcement. Walk me through some of the key things that are new and announced in this recent announcement. Yeah, Sam, I mean though, we just launched the hybrid and archive platforms on as part of the PowerScale family. There are two archive platforms and two hybrid platforms that we launched and they offer better CPU performance, cash and all that stuff. But we don't want to go into the speeds and feeds. What I really want to address is the software capabilities that this PowerScale brings for starters. It now includes inline data compression, inline data reduction, it's all built into it. We support now new ransomware protection capabilities with this product. There's a new data protection capability that we now support with our PowerProtect data manager and then all the goodness of ISLON 1FS and PowerScale 1FS that sort of continues with this new. I imagine since the launch last year, Karshvik, a lot of customer conversations that helped to drive this launch and the complete transition and the innovation of what we now see as PowerScale. Yeah, I mean, there have been some great conversations. People have been really waiting for this product offering because now they can basically combine those flash platforms that we launched last year with these hybrid platforms and can offer a really solution that not only gives you that performance, but also the cost and savings and the value that only our PowerScale and ISLON can give you. Karshvik, give me a good overview of some of those key capabilities that the existing ISLON customers and the prospective new customers of PowerScale are going to be able to take advantage of. Yes, so some of the new capabilities that is in line efficiency, as I mentioned earlier, that's now built into the product. We have in line efficiency today on our all flash platforms. So now introducing it with these hybrid and archive nodes, what that means is that when you set up a mixed cluster with all flash and hybrid, when you tear the data down from the flash to the hybrid, the data does not have to be rehydrated. They stay compressed, they stay duplicated, and so on and so forth. So that's one big advantage that you get. Second, these PowerScale, hybrid and archive platforms were built to ground up with our own custom hardware, unlike the flash platforms with the leverage power and servers, for these ones, we use our custom hardware. And the reason for that is because for those archive and storage, the cold storage, we want that density. We can store up to 500 terabytes of usable capacity, effective usable capacity in these archive nodes in a single one you recommend. And then of course, from a software perspective, we talked about ransomware protection. So we have new capability with ransomware protection, and then there's this new capability that we just launched with regard to backups, more efficient, more faster backups with our PowerProtect family of general products. Excellent, I want to dig into the ransomware and data protection in a minute, but I want to get a sense of the overall theme of the launch. You talked about this being the completion of that tech refresh, some of the new capabilities and enhancements that customers are going to be able to take advantage of. But give me that higher level kind of thematic look at this news. Yeah, so the big theme of this is basically finishing that PowerSkill family that we started last year, right? So we started with the launching the whole flash, now with this hybrid and archive, now we have the full family done. All products now support inline efficiency, so you can move the data around, you get the same, data doesn't get rehydrated. You can make it part of a single cluster and you get all the performance benefits, the scalability benefits of 1FS and new data management capabilities. So all of that that we started, all of that goodness that we started with PowerSkill all flash, we sort of continued now with this platform. Got it. And I know you guys did your own internal study and I'd like you to share some of the results with the audience. You guys compared PowerSkill to competitors in traditional NAS, in flash only NAS, in mixed NAS, SAN and software only NAS. Give us a snapshot into what some of those results were for PowerSkill. Yeah, I mean, the big takeaway out here is that when it comes to PowerSkill, there we don't have a competitor when it comes to scalability, right? The fact that you can now put on petabytes of capacity under single namespace, a single file system and also give you that performance, there is none today, right? And there may be some which can do those also but then they don't have the enterprise capabilities like replication and the rich enterprise capabilities that OneFS has. So performance, scale, capabilities and all with the simplicity of OneFS. And that's basically what the unique thing about PowerSkill is. Performance, scale and simplicity, three things that I'm sure enterprises, small-media businesses and any industry appreciate. You talked about what's new in terms of the hybrid nodes and the archive nodes. Can you help us understand what workloads those nodes are best targeted for? Absolutely, so hybrid and archive, what we have realized is that not every data can be compressed or new, right? So it's not, we would love customers to use our all flash products. They get the deduplication, they get the compression, then it lowers the cost and clearly then you get the performance as in the cost but there are workloads like media and entertainment with your surveillance where you will not be able to compress or deduble data. In that case, rather than paying for a very expensive flash you could put those data sets in our lower cost archive platforms as an example. And if you have situations where look, I need some performance but there is a lot of old data then you can actually mix and match it also. So you can have those flash platforms giving you that performance and then you have our archive platforms which is basically giving you the lowest cost storage for that data that is not so frequently being accessed. And there's the flexibility there. So how can, this is the tech refresh, she said this has been completed now, power scale from Isilon. How can existing Isilon customers take advantage? What are their next steps to be able to take advantage of the newer capabilities and technologies? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, one thing we power scale has it that's very different from others is that power scale has this mantra called the no node left behind. So if you are an existing Isilon customer, you can basically add these power scale nodes to your existing Isilon cluster without creating any downtime. Power scale will automatically redistribute, rebalance your workloads across these new nodes and you sort of keep on expanding your cluster and when you feel like it, you can take out the older nodes at the time of your choosing, right? So that's a huge benefit that we get. So in fact, in some customer environments, their data has been there for almost 10 to 12 years now because they've never had to do a forklift update. So when that sort of continues with this family, if you learn to learn more about it, I would encourage going to Dell Technologies slash Power Scale or contact Dell Technologies Rep. Let's kind of wrap up things here with talking about digging to ransomware. We've seen ransomware become a household word, the colonial pipeline, the meatpacking organization that was attacked earlier this summer we know that a lot of data show that there's a one ransomware attack happens every 11 seconds. And of course, we only hear about the really big attacks. I've had the opportunity to talk to a lot of cybersecurity leaders lately and they're showing that ransomware is up at least 10X in the last year with this massive pivot to work from home, now work from anywhere. Talk to me about some of the focus that Dell has put in Power Scale now with respect to your ransomware protection and recovery. Yeah, so for ransomware protect, we have two things that we are doing. So one is this concept of detection. So when an attack is happening, we want to be able to detect quickly that an attack is happening and take some corrective measures, right? And so we have this product called Superna eyeglass which is exclusively built for Power Scale. And using this product, we use AIs to basically to figure out that if an attack is happening, we detect it and based on that, based on policies, we can then either if it's happening with only one user, we can sort of prevent, sort of lock it down that particular user profile or take other corrective actions that you may set up. So that's one aspect of it which is about the detection of it and taking some quick steps. Then there's a second aspect of it which is all about recovery, right? So we do have replications event. If the customer chooses, we can have replications set up from your Power Scale production cluster to another cluster and in that replication, we can introduce an air gap so that anything bad thing is happening here does not get replicated to that remote and wind. So those are the two ways, one detecting and second basically protecting it and not only just protecting it but ensuring that air gap capabilities there as well so that the ransomware is not replicated there as well. Absolutely critical given some of the things that you and I mentioned a few minutes ago in terms of the explosion of ransomware which hopefully in our remote work hybrid environment as more technologies like this come out from Dell Technologies and its partners will start to see this ransomware numbers go down. Last thing I want you to just restate. You mentioned a URL where folks can go to learn more information. Now you've got several different links to point folks to. Can you go ahead and remind us what those are again? Yes, absolutely. I mean the easiest URL to go to is Dell Technologies slash Power Scale.  Excellent, Kashik. Thank you for joining me today, talking to me about what's new with Power Scale. Congratulations on the completion of the refresh. A lot of new capabilities and technologies that your customers existing Isilon and future perspective Power Scale customers are going to be able to take advantage of. Look forward to hearing in the next few months and customer success stories. Thanks for your time. Thank you. For Kashik Ghosh, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching a CUBE conversation.


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This game is crazy I felt like this guy was chucking the ball all over the place catching a wild pass You see playmakers is tight end has nowhere to go But this is why you have Michael Vick spins makes a tackling I'll also hate these guys that wear the Bobo jerseys man check or YouTube if you're guys that wear the Bobo jerseys, you got to stop man pick a NFL team Rep your favorite NFL team none of these jerseys look good and here goes with a little wham But gentlemen Ramsey comes and makes a play gentlemen Ramsey honestly still one of the best cards in the game One hand ball to Calvin Johnson. That's that new Calvin Johnson. He's a gall. 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He's just gonna chuck it up and you know in double coverage Ramsey jumps, but you know Randy Moss You know, he's just gonna come down with that. No big deal. No problem caught Okay, first down got a steak imposed gets hit bang Nice defense there Jamal Adams on the blitz. Here we go. Send us more. We're getting more pressure Can we get the Vic clowny? Come here, sweetie. We grab him with your Davion clowny, man I promise. I'm like the only one that still uses clowny. I love clowny Give a third and 21 got to make a tackle. Hold them out of field range, man One thing I hate about man, and you guys can tell me if you agree or not Feel those are way too easy 32. That's a 47 yard.  You got to keep them on drags pop a little run with Ricky right now I was just thinking about the clock a little bit. I get the ball a half So I got to take my time. He screams at me right there That's it my time a little bit man. I don't want to kick through. 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That's team of the year time girly got about 98 speed on a kid Just nice nice call thinking he would go to the man blitz That's what he did to try to stop the run hit the little swing route get your running back out in space man At first one play left and a half, you know, these kids they want to go ahead put this guy had Munoz He had Kelsey at all these guys at Yra Seymour and tight end to try to help him run block Crazy there second half and we'll start off try to soften them up with a little Todd girly We're up by four feeling good dump it off the top girly try to stop and go on But he was able to make the tackle man. We get a nice little third down 37 Bang Shannon sharp drops the ball fourth down. This is looking rough right away We're gonna go to a little fade action over here to Randy Moss Michael Vicks want to lay it right in for easy touchdown the overthrow it damn. So we turn the ball over and downs I'm really starting believing DDA man. This kid was gonna quit if I catch a touchdown there But you know they keep him alive Get the overthrow when you're winning man. Keep this guy in the game Here goes again, everybody's opening fires it Jalen Ramsey breaks it off Jalen Ramsey having a good game so far man really playing well for me over in that first corner spot Here you go lob the wheel route, but that's me over there with Derwin This is all about knowing your responsibility knowing where you're weak right there. I blitz the corner I know I had to guard the corner out. He went with the wheel route. He got scared That's why he didn't bullet it just panic tipped it and I was able to run over there with Derwin James so I play a line better make a play Blitzing at me got to dump it off over here to Todd Gurley make a good a couple yards get what you can man I picked up for right there. Get me the second down We're gonna go ahead and run a little four verticals hit uncle Shannon sharp up the seam on that vertical route First down that's what I'm talking about. Here we go again. We want to try to hit this cross around catch them With a little rack egg. He's nowhere to be found on that play Dion can't keep up So here we go another first down doing good moving the ball well Dump it off as snacks Lawrence Taylor in the face man. He could have picked that off But he didn't just a incomplete next player one bang his Shannon sharp on the corner route He goes for the strip Sean Taylor does not get the ball out moving the ball very well keeping it moving Little angle routes are running back there. Throw for the high ball Calvin Johnson, man, I spent a lot of money on them. That's what he gets Here we go run a door a little deep in route. He picks he off his hand picked off and he got his feet in there Guys if you don't believe in DDA, I'm starting to believe in it. How do you get his feet in here? He goes try to go everybody and I did just playmaker that right there.  No where to throw the ball. What's he gonna do? Throw it out, man We're playing great defense. My boys really getting at the quarterback. That's what I pay him to do Once again, nowhere to throw tries to fit this corner out in but gelling and Sean Taylor made that a tough throw Next play little playmaker wasn't getting nowhere to throw the ball throws all the way back across the body Jamal Adams is not having that man. Jamal Adams and Derwin James. I think play linebacker I move around a lot of people. I have about eight DB's right now.  That's what you gotta do You're tight in sometimes here goes a little man coverage on everybody go for the post route Keisha Maybe need Tyreek Hill or somebody super fast on I think Keisha is 96 fourth down We're gonna draw up a dot over here to Calvin Johnson Megatron getting to his territory man It's 14 to 10 one field will we'll go ahead and give me a seven-point lead But another first down I'll be looking good first down in completion next play I go for four verts It's not there take off with Vick slides staying bounds Can't take this too many warning. So I'll just run a play Of course these kids have the best insides on defense in the world We're gonna go for it because I'm streaming and I don't want to go to kick a field when I stream both guys open But he got to me man always go for it when I'm streaming if you want to watch your stream Man you guys can check it out my twitch link is below as he hits this playmaker bang Gotta get a people something to watch man. It's not always about winning these games, man You got to give him something to watch So he's driving I feel like I'm playing great defense everybody's pretty covered out here those back across his body boom knocks the ball out 3rd and 11 Russian 3 Feeling good. He's at the running back street. Everybody's covered nowhere to throw the ball Michael Vick throws it out of bounds again He has to go for got everybody manned up Fits this man is tight ends is called a creed. I think that's Olsen man Just a tough catch right there He goes to toss with Munoz and Kelsey and all the goons and gets in the end zone. I'm sick He just came out randomly and toss got to the end zone, but we're cool We're cool 22 seconds through timeouts first play bang Megatron spend the same bounds But I get up get back out there 44 yards need one more doubt to get them tied Feel will range looking for something nice got the crossing route great pass protection possession catch Randy Maas first down infill arrange one play out one play Let's go to the end zone bang I got this crossing route coming across the middle going to high ball it Vic over throws it almost were picked man I guess I shouldn't have high balled it and we kick the ice field will now just to go into overtime First ice field will all year. Maybe I don't know. I don't know if I want to make it What's gonna happen? Let me know if you guys are gonna ice for those cuz I don't know about me, man I'm kind of rough and we kick it up and of course, it's good man I wanted to show the YouTube video if I miss the ice field But we're gonna take that one and go ahead and go into overtime over time He gets the ball first goes for a bomb first play Dion Sanders gonna swat it probably could have picked it next time I'm picking it man. Dion's not getting burnt. He's gonna go for it again Dion's not getting burnt hold wide picked off Dion Sanders now break this tackle one time, of course Dion gets tackled by Calvin Gotta get in the field will range man, but like I said, we're streaming right now is Vic over those the high ball We're not gonna kick a fool man You if you want to be a man player you guys were touchdowns and he gets a dive in tackle roughing the passer with how he long Completely unnecessary roughness man. You guys gotta watch out football is really changing the way they call games as we get that Play right there next one bang crossing route Randy Moss were in field will range. Obviously I can kick it But man, you know, I'm here for the glory Get set by Michael Vick and I'm gonna sue got me. Okay second down Looking for four words. Don't get it. Take off with Vic. He's we're airing down a little bit too slow here, man Next play we're gonna go up top Calvin Johnson, man, if you guys don't got Calvin find the way to get him Dude's a dog as you see him. 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The Rife Dance Company has been working hard these past few weeks on their most intimate show. Reporter Cheryl Moore has a preview of their company's show for this week's In Focus. The hours of practices, buckets of sweat, moments of triumphs and failures have all led to the special moment on stage. This is one of my favorite shows personally just because you have Nutcracker which is the Christmas thing of the year and then you have Spring Show which kind of ends the year and it has like a theme but company show is more something a little more real and a little more like a different side of what people see of us. The company's show incorporates a bit of everything from modern to jazz. What you can see in this show is they sort of interweave the disciplines um we don't have we have you know maybe one or two strictly ballet pieces but then the rest are you know incorporate everything that they've learned. The company's show is also extremely personal. Every step you see was choreographed by the dancers themselves. This year I was fortunate enough to choreograph two pieces in the show one upon myself which is my senior solo and one upon eight other girls um two music that a friend of mine actually made which is really exciting. One of my pieces it's like the music's called In My Blood and also the performances and it's like self choreographed so I feel like I can express my self more. The girls are set to perform at the Rife Center this Saturday starting at 7 30 and Sunday starting at 2 p.m. They say they hope audiences understand how much work goes into their performance. I think something that the audience shouldn't know is how hard it is like we try to make it seem like as easy as we can you know we don't want them to know we're dying back there before we come on. Burning Grand Rapids with this week's In Focus. Shawmore, Lakeland News.