From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2018. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back to our live coverage. This is theCUBE here in Las Vegas, Nevada for VMworld 2018. We're in the broadcast booth. This is theCUBE, I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. We've got two CUBE alumnus here. We've got John Gilmartin who's the general manager and vice president of the Integrated Systems Business Unit. Clown Foundation is pretty hot news here. We're going to get to that in a second. And we've got Neil McDonnell, VP and general manager of Synergy Group within HPE. You look back at Enterprise. Great to see you guys, thanks for joining us. Fantastic to be here, thank you. So first of all, great VMworld this year. I was really not shocked, but pleasantly surprised last night in the hall there. The energy, people are, I mean, it's rocking VMworld. A lot of new financial news on your end. The cloud is hitting some of the things that we covered on HPE. Discover many times about composable, multi-cloud, hybrid, all this stuff is actually happening. There's now proof points out there that are clear and people are now connecting the dots. It's pretty obvious now. So hybrid, even Andy Jassy coming out and announcing a on-premises offering. First ever in the history of Amazon. I mean, that's not Amazon, that's on-premises. Yeah, bring it RDS on-prem. That's a great announcement, isn't it? This is validation, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, some of the things that you guys have been working on. So before we get into some of the specifics, talk about the relationship between VMware and HPE right now. Obviously, perfect storm for ecosystem growth, a whole new operating model, whole new set of relationship dynamics. What's the relationship and impact customer base? Well, we've been working together as companies for the full journey of VMware. Together we've served 200,000 customers around the world with all kinds of integrations. And the exciting thing is that the journey that we're on now has a pretty aligned vision about bringing simplicity and efficiency to the data center as organizations try and deal with the complexities of this new world. And we've got a pretty compatible vision that we're bringing together with product. Absolutely, I think this, as you talked about, this idea of hybrid cloud really become real, and hybrid IT really being real. There's a great synergy here between the two companies and a great opportunity to help customers kind of manage that transition and make that transformation into that. Neil, talk about the challenges customers face when it comes to the IT footprint of legacy evolving now on the doorstep of modernization. Again, this is not new for HP. You guys have seen this. I've seen, I've heard this before, but now real action has to be taken place. You got the cloud on-premises. What are some of those challenges that your customers face and what are you guys doing? Well, as companies are embracing that transformation, they've got to balance two things. On the one hand, the needs of the business for velocity and innovation. And on the other hand, the needs in the IT organization to manage cost, drive efficiency, maintain the security and compliance governance, and respond to those business needs. And we believe that the infrastructure has to become a software-defined infrastructure to achieve that. The old approaches to managing infrastructure artisanally just can't scale and can't deliver those benefits. So whether you're dealing with the underlying physical infrastructure that we provide with our composable synergy offerings, or you're dealing with the layers on the software stack above that as provided by our colleagues at VMware, you need to be embracing an architecture that's software-defined to have those kind of flexibilities that you need in order to embrace that transformation. So when I hear you guys talk like this, I think about, okay, you're trying to bring the cloud experience to your customers, on-prem, hybrid cloud. First of all, is that the right way to think about it? And second of all, how are you doing that specifically? I guess, I agree with you, yes. We're trying to bring that cloud experience on-prem, but really we're trying to bring a consistent experience regardless of whether you're running applications on-prem or in a cloud, right? Consistent infrastructure, consistent operations, that brings real business value to our customers. And really what we see people trying to do is really think about how do they use IT to go change how the business operates, right? And that's really where the focus is now. It's less about the systems of record and managing costs. It's about how do you create new experiences? How do you enable employees to be more productive? And that's really about supporting developers and data scientists and engineers and helping them be able to access infrastructure in simple ways, help make them more productive. And so a lot of what we're focused on is how do you transform traditional data centers and go build an infrastructure that is dynamic, that can provide the agility and the elasticity and the things that really the developers need to be able to go build new stuff. What are some of the things that you're providing to HP in the relationship? HPE, I mean, specifically the cloud foundation. What specifically is the relationship? Where's that connection point? Well, I mean, so the great thing about Synergy is it is this composable infrastructure and it's the ability to sort of define on-demand these pools of hardware resources. And that's a tremendous fit with the software capabilities and cloud foundation, right? When it comes to, for example, software to find storage, you have vSAN and the ability to go and say, I want to dynamically define how much compute and how much storage I have and be able to change that over time. That's a really unique capability that you have within the composable infrastructure. What about the Synergy? We had Andy Bachelstein earlier and from Arista and I'm just using that as an example. I've been following Synergy. You guys do a great job. Your architecture is nice, the way it fits in with you guys. Arista is another great example. When you actually plug in with VMware, you can really take advantage of it and vice versa. What are you guys doing that's specifically with VMware and how do you compare the competition who's joining the composable party lately? It seems to be a lot of competition that you guys now have. I mean, you've been there for a while. I don't know how many years it's been. It seems like nine, but I mean, it's only been one. Three years. Not quite that long. Three years ago we announced composability and the Synergy, if you'll excuse the pun that we have with VMware Cloud Foundation really all comes from simplicity. VCF is about delivering simplicity in customer environments and so is Synergy and composable infrastructure and bringing the two together, we can bring those benefits to span the underlying physical plan with the software stack above it and we can take advantage of the fact that you've got a completely programmable composable infrastructure that can be consumed and managed directly by VCF. And it was, Andy, the best thing I was saying is that the leadership of VMware is actually helping its product. Absolutely. And vice versa. This seems to be the same case, right? Yeah, there's a lot of Synergy. And it's a great... And if I may, you think about the evolution of composable. It's a vision we laid out three years ago and we've been in market for over 18 months. We've got 1600 plus customers deployed around the world on Synergy in production with the platform, getting the benefits of managing an infrastructure as a fluid pool of resources and being able to deploy and manage much, much more efficiently than traditional, artisanally managed infrastructure. It sounds like cloud native. It does. It does a little bit, doesn't it? Well, we're kind of excited to see other people arriving and validating the vision, even if they want to change the name of the vision. But you see others in the industry really embracing this notion that physical infrastructure has to become composable, which is great news for the customer base in general. And we're really looking forward to building on all the success and the ecosystem that we have with VMware and dozens of other partners we've integrated with. So you mentioned cloud native. Infrastructure's code is sort of what I'm inferring from this conversation. Cloud native, well, so the convention of wisdom is the public cloud and things like Kubernetes and microservices are headwinds for the traditional on-prem guys, but you're seeing such momentum in the data center. Obviously, VMware, look at the financials, you guys are crushing it. How are you taking advantages of some of those perceived headwinds and turning them into tailwinds? I think you talked about Kubernetes, right? That's a great example. Kubernetes is really becoming the de facto way people are interfacing and providing interface for containers. And that is inherently kind of multi-cloud and hybrid in nature. But there's still all the same considerations around how you secure it, how do you operate it, how do you support it? And so the cloud operations team, the folks actually have to stand up infrastructure. What we can do is provide them the capability through things like Pivotal Container Services to go provide Kubernetes as a service to their developers. We can integrate that right into the infrastructure and help them focus on lifecycle, operations, security, all those other sides. And Neil mentioned this software stack. One of the key things about that is that automation becomes a critical component on the software-defined data center model. Can you collaborate on that? Yeah, automation is critical at every layer, right? A lot of times people think about sort of the development layer of automation, but you still have to automate the building of the infrastructure. And so this great fit between Synergy, where you can automate the composing of infrastructure itself, and then Cloud Foundation can automate how you actually lay down and deploy and automate things like NSX and VSAN and the software-defined stores on top. And then you think about the ongoing operations of lifecycle management, all this sort of day two stuff that's hard to do. Great sort of layering together that allows you to go operate that in a highly automated way. It's interesting how the VMware Cloud Foundation, also known as VCF, is elevated in the conversation. Can you take a minute just to explain the current situation with VMware Cloud Foundation and how it relates specifically with HPE and the community at large? Just a quick update on what it is and how it's working these days. Absolutely, Cloud Foundation really is the coming together of compute, storage, network, and management from VMware, delivered in a simplified way, in a way that we can automate the entire experience, automate the deployment, and automate all of the ongoing lifecycle management and operations of the whole system. So it's a system approach. And then it connects very nicely down to Synergy, where Synergy can provide that sort of dynamic infrastructure that allows you to find sort of key pools of resources to deploy that software on top of. And what about Synergy? So Synergy's evolved over the years, right? You have this platform and you guys have made some other acquisitions. Where do those fit in? Give us the update on that evolution. Well, composable infrastructure is a vision that we began articulating years ago and we've been continuing to build it out. With Synergy, we began with the first implementation in the industry, all of infrastructure that created compute storage and fabric as fluid pools. And that underpinned the unified API, which is central to composable. If you want infrastructure that's going to be as responsive and agile, you have to be able to treat it as a fully programmable set of resources. And that's what we did first. We built an ecosystem around that with great partners like VMware, and we've taken that value to our customers. But we're continuing to extend what we're doing in the Software-Defined Data Center. We brought simplicity into our portfolio, bringing a great complement in VMware environments. We've got Nimble in our portfolio as well, bringing tremendous storage capabilities. And most recently, we brought Plexi into the mix, which lets us bring simplicity to the management of the physical fabric in a way that greatly reduces the complexity that our customers are having to deal with and brings that into the fold of a set of composable resources. So we're very excited about where this is going. We're really excited about the benefits our customers are getting by moving down the path and working with VMware, with VMware Cloud Foundation, it's been great to see the impact that's having on our customer's ability to drive change and get out of the minutiae of managing the piece parts of physical infrastructure or the piece parts of a software stack in a much more holistic way. And all that fits under the sort of synergy vision and, you know, it's a land of vision. So for instance, Nimble, storage company, but they've got all kinds of automated, predictive analytics, that pieces of that flow in, pieces of simplicity flow in. One of the great things about what Nimble brings to the table is all of the predictive analytics and the intelligence and the experience that that can deliver customers in managing the life cycle. And that's technology that we're expanding and bringing across our portfolio over time. So we're really excited about the set of assets we're bringing. And in concert with VMware Cloud Foundation and other offerings from the VMware portfolio, we can bring a great solution to our customers and help them move forward because we have so many customers together who are running vSphere on, say, blade system platforms or rack servers that need a path forward. And we have an opportunity here jointly with Synergy and VCF to bring them some real value and help them on this journey. You know, a lot of our analysis, when we do our in-studio and also on the queue, we do our editorial takes on these things. You know, the commentary that comes from the analyst side of the business is, because the journalism, so everyone's, this is the transition, someone's dead, someone's winning, someone's losing all the time. When we talk about VMware and HPE, you guys have so many customers, you have so many joint customers. Specifically, I know HPE, thousands of customers. One of the some of the use cases specifically that you're seeing patterns emerging around hybrid IT or just hybrid cloud specifically that relate to what's happening in the news today here at VMworld because you start to see some visibility, not just hybrid on-premise private cloud, true private cloud, cloud operations, DevOps, composability, these are the real things. Where are the customers at? What are some of the use cases that are popping up with synergy and ACM? It's across the gamut. One of the beauties of synergy in a composable infrastructure is one infrastructure to run any workload, whether virtualized, bare-metal physical, or containerized. And obviously there have been some big announcements this week about some great progress in VMware's offerings with PKS and so on, in the container space. So whether you're running that bare-metal, the virtualized container, you can use one infrastructure and get some real economies of scale out of that and operational economies. We see customers all the way from private cloud on-prem only implementations to 100% virtualized environments, to very heterogeneous mixtures of types of workload, some hooked up in a hybrid environment. And John and I have a number of customers that we've worked with together to bring that value. John, you want to come up? Absolutely, I mean, great examples of customers using Cloud Foundation plus synergy to go provide this very consistent deployment that they can do around the world, right? So a customer might have something in, say, Spain and South America and UK, and now they can have confidence of what they're deploying and something that's consistent and can be operated by the local teams, right? And then they can connect that back into, say, a cloud service and have this very kind of distributed environment they can manage in a consistent way. So final question for you guys, put you on the spot here in the hot seat. Give me your reaction and our definition or description of the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, because as hybrid cloud is once defined a certain way, people are starting to kind of mix those up. Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud, I'm eating two different things. Some people call it hybrid clouds when you have multiple clouds, someone you want to work within clouds, and you're starting to see cloud specialized. You look at Google Cloud, for instance, you've got great analytics, great AI. So you're starting to see new clouds taking their swim lanes, if you will. The difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. So again, people have their own ideas of what these standards mean, but for me, hybrid cloud really means that more consistent infrastructure. So a great example would be I run Cloud Foundation inside my data center and I run VMware Cloud on AWS to deliver Cloud Foundation as a service. And now I have the same infrastructure on both sides and it's seamless and managed across. And then multi-cloud is really then how I extend that and leverage more than native capabilities inside of a Google Cloud or inside of Azure and leverage their machine learning capabilities or whatever. Multi-cloud, more native clouds. Hybrid cloud, more about that consistent infrastructure. So hybrid cloud, more operational cloud ops, if you will, on-prem. Yeah, well, it consistent, kind of the same interfaces on both sides, public and private. And that's the key, it's about the simplicity because it's great having multiple different silos of infrastructure in different places, on-prem or in different clouds. But if those differences propagate into all of your operational modes, there are barriers to taking advantage of that. So the simplicity that can be brought by having a unified view of how you treat these resources is really key. And with VMware Cloud Foundation and Synergy, we can work together to provide that on the on-prem component, either of a hybrid or of a multi-cloud environment. John and Neil, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Sounds like the cloud has got a nice foundation to it with some great synergy between you guys. Absolutely. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Okay, more live coverage here at VMworld 2018. We are in the VM village with all the actions, two sets of theCUBE. We'll be back with more live coverage after this short break. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Stay with us.


Aloha and welcome to my program, Don't Just Age and Gage. I'm Larry Grimm and I welcome you to this program from Think Tech Hawaii about aging in such a way that you are in charge and you are providing yourself with the most extraordinary elderhood you could possibly have. Is it possible truly that lack of a loss of hearing can create dementia or can contribute to dementia? That is a profound and new insight for me and I am asking Lisa Sales to join us and to provide us some insight into the relationship between loss of hearing and dementia. Hello, Lisa. Hi, Larry. How are you? Fine. Fine, I am and glad so much to have you on this program. Lisa, I've worked with aging population for many years. Three million of our population have what is called dementia and I have never really explored dementia that much except to recognize the difficulty that it presents to patients and to family members as they move through the aging process. So I'm really delighted to have you come on and address that dementia from an aspect that we really don't hear much about because it's so often it's physician initiative and what's going on with the brain in terms of medical approach, how we can medicate it or how we can adjust in some way, diet or whatever, but here we're coming at it from a physical, a physicalness, a physicality, a physical, tell me more, tell me more about this. How does hearing loss affect dementia? Well, there's been tons of research. It's well known that a large portion of our elder population is experiencing hearing loss. And if you use the national data, about half of all adults over the age of 60 in the United States, some type of treatable hearing loss, that's about 38 million people, or about twice the size of New York, New York being the fourth largest state population wise, going forward by the year 2060, that is going to double, well, around 70 more than double to around 74 million people. Due to this increase in aging population, I think we're seeing a lot more research being done to better aging and what the causes and effects are of it. Hearing loss plays a key role. It defines how humans interact with each other all around them. That's really some interesting numbers. Lisa, I went to the AARP website and I found this, which I thought was interesting, paying bills, taking the many pills, doctors prescribed, using the remote control, traveling outside the home, managing life's daily tasks, presents numerous real-world tests of our cognition, mistakes, errors, or subtle declines in performing the well-rehearsed activities of our daily living can be signs of cognitive change that need medical attention. Now, all of those that are listed, Lisa, are word-oriented, they're audio-oriented, how we get instructions to maintain our lives, our daily practice, taking medications, working the remote control, knowing where to go, how to go, and where to get bus stop or whatever I need to get, and then just the other daily tasks are often communicated through word. Yes, absolutely correct. I mean, that's how we have developed as humans. We're very compassionate and communicated people, and when we stop doing that, all kinds of things happen. Probably some of the original research started with Professor Franklin, who's an MD, a PhD, and a board certified otolaryngologist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And he's really been the pioneer, I think, in this as far as researching. He has done multiple studies along with his associates and used large databases on hearing and cognition. One thing I didn't do, excuse me, sorry. These studies use some very rigorous methodologies, and their research laid the foundations for all of this. The original research was done over 12 years with 639 patients, I think ages 39 to 98. And it was the beginning to show that there was volume brain loss, that there was a correlation between cognitive decline and hearing decline. They did another study, Dr. Nguyen did, of 234 adult men between the ages of 70 and 79 over nine years. In this particular study, it's the first one of its kind, there have been several now, but it was associated that a modern hearing loss had, with an increased risk of dementia, the odds ratio were 2.67, you just had a moderate mild, not too bad, you could still communicate hearing loss. And a hazard ratio of one and a half percent, 1.55 percent, that's big, that's a big number. Are you familiar with? I read about that, but I didn't quite understand it. Can you explain it to me a little bit better for my limited knowledge? It's hazard ratio is the effect. And the risk, in this case is hearing loss to an outcome, in this case of dementia, in a case of one to one, it's equal risk. In a moderate hearing loss, this one goes to a 1.55 or 55 percent higher risk of dementia with a moderate hearing loss. As a severity of loss increases, so does the risk factors. And it's over, all the years that I've done this, which have been a lot, I have seen it. That's really amazing. So dementia is recognized and often times by family members more so than the patient or the person themselves. And just let me show a list here or read from a list of recognizable symptoms of dementia. Memory loss that disrupts daily life for getting events and repeating yourself or relying on more age to help you remember like sticky notes. Challenges in planning or solving problems. Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work, or at leisure. Confusion with time or place. Maybe not understanding and understanding an event that is happening later or losing track of dates. Probably understanding visual images and spatial relations. New problems with words or speaking or writing. Misplacing things and losing the ability to reach steps. Decreased or poor judgment, withdrawal from work or social activities. Changes in mood and personality. All of these are demonstrations of what we call dementia. And it strikes me again, how word-oriented many of those are. And I begin to wonder, Lisa, when I have been working with some of my patients as a hospice chaplain, was I actually seeing the effects of hearing loss when they couldn't quite get what I was saying and I was going back over again and again as were family members? How often did you see this? If you can't hear it, you can't remember it. So quite a bit. And the more severe the loss is, the greater the correlation between dementia and cognitive decline in hearing loss. We've seen it in literature and published studies in a 2013 published study where the risk factors are mild, moderate and severe. What you saw was a mild loss of 1.89, a moderate loss 3.00, and a severe loss 4.94. That's five times more likely to have dementia than somebody who has no loss or has a well-treated loss. So if a loved one in the household is receiving a lot of the focus of a lot of frustration because it doesn't seem like they're listening, it may be that they just aren't hearing. Yes, that's true in many things. I mean, think about just the person that has hearing aids. I have hearing aids. I don't hear very well without them.  And so does everybody else or if they don't have. And so it's hard to even in that instance where you're not looking at that dementia, looking at somebody not being able to comprehend what you're telling them. Hearing loss and aging people has often been the brunt of a lot of jokes too.  They just can't hear right. They'll do a kind of a takeoff on some of the loss. I'm wondering, is there a pattern of hearing loss that goes along with aging that is sort of predictable? You can anticipate certain kind of pattern of loss. Oh, sure. The most common losses are sensory no losses. There's some hearing losses that are surgically operable. Doesn't mean you won't still need a hearing aid, but you're surgically operable. But a sensory neural hearing loss, the only treatment for it is getting the appropriate sound pressure in there to stimulate that electrics, electronic response up to the brain. Now you hear with your brain, you don't hear with your ears. They're just kind of the plug to get the thing moving. And when that breaks, and a sensory neural hearing loss is the number one type of loss that we see, and it's more high frequency. So when you couple that with English language, high frequency is 60% of the language, a little more than 60%, the pitch and tonality of women and children. And if you're missing a good part of that or even some of it, then you're in trouble. It's hard. That's that study that says 60% of people over the age of 60, about 60% of them are able to be treated by hearing aids. It was about four years ago, I think that I went for my first hearing test. And that was in my mid 60s. So and then I discovered that I had lost the upper range of the upper range of sound. And I was losing some, I guess it was six years ago, I was also losing some consonants. D, T, S's, Z's, and my auto-long, my ENT doc said, consonants carry all of the information. Yeah, vowels are kind of the power, but the information comes from the consonants. And that's true. And it's 60% of the English language. So when should people get a hearing test? My personal opinion, I believe anybody over the age of 50 should go get a hearing test, get a baseline, know where they're at, even if they don't, I know I don't have, never asked anybody to repeat my entire life, get a baseline, know where you're at. And then every two years, hearing loss, the sooner you treat it, the better the outcomes always. And when you're looking at a mild loss with a 1.89 risk factor for dementia, that's pretty high. That's 2%, you know, one to two. One of the interesting things, Lisa, to the audience, I will tell you, Lisa gave me and advised me on hearing aids and has been my source for hearing ability, to renew my hearing ability. It's kind of odd because as a chaplain in hospice care and in long-term care, my main concern, and as a coach, is my main concern is to listen. And when I found out I wasn't really hearing what I was listening to, it was a blow to my career, actually, if I hadn't gotten better engaged and better connected, I wouldn't be coaching for life and faith like I do online now. But I went for, I did go for the hearing test, discovered that I was losing the upper range of tonality and then of pitch and those consonants. And I would listen to people talk and to begin to identify the holes in my hearing that I would only hear partially what was being said. And it didn't matter how much I got, you know, really intent and paid attention. It was a matter of that my, my ear drum just really wasn't responding to it. So it is particularly important. And then that all feeds into relationships, doesn't it, Lisa? I'm sorry, I didn't catch that last sentence. That feeds into relationships. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.  You have more stress. You have anxiety. Hearing loss causes depression. Hearing loss causes emotional and social consequences. And in many different ways, not to mention the other things that hearing loss can affect. Hearing loss can affect. If you have a low frequency hearing loss, it can affect your heart. You're more likely to have cardiovascular events. It's a fact. Manufacturer of blood pressure. You're more likely to fall. You're more likely to have hospitalization. But as far as dementia goes, the literature is very, very consistent in this field, and that it's a trivial risk for dementia. And dementia is exactly what you described it. And the same is when you describe a hearing loss. It affects all those parts of your life. Because if you can't remember it, you can't hear it. You can't remember it. We are, as a people, are so interested in labeling things. And we want to quickly label what we see in our elders being problematic. And to move to dementia as a label is a very easy and available category to put people in. But what I want viewers to take away from this is that, in fact, hearing loss is not a joke. It's not something to play with. That, in fact, what you see in your loved ones may not, in fact, be dementia, but maybe just a need to get their hearing tested and to get some correction to that hearing loss. Let me check on our questions, Lisa. Do other studies support a link between hearing loss and cognitive decline or dementia? Other than what you've cited so far? That relationship began what year? That study began what year? That study was published, I believe, in 2011. It was 12 years. So it began in the 90s. And that's really when we started taking a look at it as a late 90s. And the literature is very consistent. You've got the Lancelot Commission study, which is a study on dementia, has now listed hearing loss as an accountable attribute for dementia. And this is the first time hearing loss has ever been featured prominently in a comprehensive report on dementia. Much of the literature has used non-auditory tasks for their correlation and cognitive decline. There are, in fact, at this point, there's current studies that are saying that somebody with dementia is getting help from hearing instruments. And that's because we know now, through CAT scans and CAT scans and whatever, that hearing aids help build volume. It's kind of like if you were, you know, I had it explained to me once, if you don't use it, you'll lose it, your brain will rust. So it's like if you laid in bed for a month and then decided on the last day of the month, you were going to go dancing, but you didn't go anywhere out for that whole month. You're not going to dance very well and if you don't use your hearing, you're not going to hear very well. Yeah. But it's that exercise of the brain and it really makes a huge difference. So what kind of treatment, it does make sense and if a person really has been diagnosed with dementia, can hearing aids actually reverse that diagnosis? There are studies working with that right now, yes. There's not nothing conclusive, but there are some positive things in that area that the brain function of people with dementia can be improved through hearing aids. I mean, if you've got a mild hearing loss and you still have a 1 to 1.89, almost 1 to 2 risk factor or 2 times more likely, it makes sense. It doesn't mean that you can't hear. It means some things are softer or not as clear. Lisa, can you give us a quick overview of the kind of hearing aid instruments that are available? Oh, goodness. They are, well, you and I wear what is the most commonly fit instrument today, which is a small device that goes behind our ear that's Bluetooth and just a wonderful thing. You can stream with it. You can see all just it's amazing. It's just where it is now and where it was 30 years ago and my practice are hugely different. And some people, I think, honestly believe that hearing aids are what their grandfather had. Well, they're not. They really are not. They don't whistle. They don't squeak. They're very comfortable. You don't have to have your fingers in your ears turning up and down all the time. A whole different world. I mean, and I think that's really been some of the reason people have been hesitant, even if they know they might be having a problem. And humans are great machines. We can just adapt to about anything and keep on going. But it's just amazing. Often I will see people and one of the processes is to do an unaided word test. That means they can't read your lips. But you're looking for what's so that sounds are clear in single syllable words. And I've seen people that can't pass the test can't, you know, out of 25 words, they missed 25 words out of 50 words. They missed 50 words. Yes, you've got your other device there. That's a wonderful device. And when I treat them, I can get their hearing comprehension to 90 to 100 percent.  So you're getting, you know, and that being said, you're getting 75 percent of the benefit immediately over the next six months. Your brain's going to build some new pathways. You're going to get another 25 percent benefit, which is what the studies are showing. Um, that it is just amazing what it can do to improve the quality of somebody's life. Right, right. I have, I want to show off my my little devices. I have this Bluetooth device that connects my cell phone directly to my hearing aids so that if I have when I have a call come in on my cell phone, it rings right in my ear. I talk right from my, from my device here into the phone. And I don't even have to pick up my phone. So it's really fascinating. Also anything that I want to play on my phone, it comes audio or even video, it comes right into my hearing aids. I think some smart TVs also will key in on your Bluetooth. Yeah, so it's a wide range of possibilities now that we're, that grandpa never had. No, I mean, what are cochlear implants? Cochlear implants. You've probably seen somebody with a thing maybe on the back of their head around circle. It's an implant into the cochlear to stimulate the nerve for somebody who is deaf. And I've referred many people over the years back at the University of Michigan to have cochlear implants. But it doesn't, unless you're born that way or there's some trauma, it doesn't have to be that way. This is years ago. I remember a gentleman who would come in and see me once a year. And he had a serious sensorineural hearing loss that got worse every year. And I explained to him more than once, you know, you need to treat this now. One day you're going to come in here and I won't be able to help you. And he said, well, it's not bad enough yet. I can still hear. No, he couldn't, but he could see. He finally came in one day and said, okay, I'm ready to get a hearing aid. And I tested him and his ability to understand speech was now zero. Oh, that's sad. Watch that decline go from, and he had worked in, you know, factories where there's stamping plants and huge amounts of noise and no ear protection. But so he had a serious loss, but I watched him go from maybe a 70% understanding to zero over the course of five years. Oh, that's sad. So everybody gets your hearing tested. If you're over 50, especially get your hearing tested. And if you think you have dementia in your family, get that their hearing tested, find out for sure that this is treatable. And if that's part of what goes on in your family. Thanks so much for joining with us. We got to close now. This is Aloha to you. Don't just age, engage. I want people aging to be empowered for an extraordinary elderly. Don't just age, engage Larry Grimm and peace be with you. Aloha and come back in two weeks.


What keeps you going every day? A real desire to solve problems. If you could give one piece of advice, what would it be? Explore. Never stop exploring. What was your dream job as a child archaeologist? So I was a student of the classics and was very lucky that I grew up in an expat family. So I was in places like Syria and Iraq and was able to go and visit sites like Babylon and Palmyra. And if you could teleport anywhere right now, where would you go? So I would teleport onto a just about to depart commercial shuttle to space. Who would you fly with? Depends. Whoever comes first. Branson, Bezos, give me a call. And do you have any secret embarrassing indulgence? I love watching Pixar movies with my godkids and just hearing them giggle. Can you finish these sentences? Your most used emoji. So at home my most used emoji is the smiling face with hearts all around it. At work is the wink. My favourite food is... Asian fusion. And pick one word to describe your own country culture. Friendly. And pick one word to describe yourself. Adventurous.


My name is David Sesson. I'm the founder and publisher of Inside Climate News, and we cover climate and energy issues online, everything. The idea actually originally came from a conversation that I had with Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, and he had been a whistleblower himself, and he said, look, we know that the fossil fuel companies are at the forefront of denial, but they have great scientists, so there must be people inside that have a conscience, and we should find them, and talk to them, and find out what the fossil fuel companies can do. And so it made a lot of sense to me, and I started digging and I found out that BP actually had come out in favor of climate solutions. Back in the late 90s, and Lord Brown, who was the head of BP, had said his own scientists were the ones that came to him and demanded that they take an intellectually tenable position. So I pitched it to my staff at the start of the year where we have a meeting looking forward, and they were daunted by the idea of finding a needle in an enormous haystack. They're a very small news organization, and these are some of the most enormous, most powerful companies in the world. How were we ever going to do this? But we started and we managed to get the story. And so what did that investigation find? What was the key storyline that you uncovered? Well, what was enormously surprising to us was how far back Exxon had been aware of climate change, long before the public. They were at the forefront of climate research, working with academia and government in the late 70s. Their board of directors and senior executives were all very well informed and kept close watch on the development of the science. And at first, their reaction was to do good science and try to find scientific solutions. And they thought if they did, they could have a prominent seat at the policymaking table when the time came. So we were surprised how well informed and how ahead of the curve they were. And that's why we ended up calling our series Exxon the Road Not Taking. Because instead of saying, okay, we've got a problem, let's roll up our sleeves and solve it. We know that for the last 20 or 30 years they have been at the forefront of climate denial. It's very well documented story. Not only the expenditure of money on groups that deny climate science, but their own lobbying efforts, the comments of their own CEO. It's a sad record when you see what they could have done. And what has been the impact of your article? You talk about being a small group, but some of the impact that you have has been quite extraordinary. What was the reaction to the article? Well, the impact has been terrific. It's led all the major candidates for president in the Democratic Party to call for an investigation. And the New York Attorney General has launched one recently. So there are documents under subpoena right now and Exxon is going to be forced to turn it over. They've hired a law firm to help them, a big New York law firm. And also the other impact of it is that Exxon is now saying, well, we've always been doing climate science and we've always admitted there's a problem. And they are coming forward now embracing the truth about global warming in public. And it's putting a lot of pressure on the Republican Party, which, as part of its platform, denies climate science. I find it striking that Exxon's responses to your articles was to talk about the good science they did, but completely gloss over all the misinformation that they've funded. That's right. They are emphasizing the fact that they were involved in 50 peer-reviewed papers and they've funded climate science during that time. But it was largely inconsequential work. And also behind the scenes, they were trying to undermine the IPCC and undermine climate scientists within the United States very directly. We've published memos that show them lobbying the Bush Cheney White House. And the way that we put it in one of the subheads is that they took ordinary scientific uncertainties and turned them into weapons of mass confusion. Could you comment on the prospects of legal action or even criminal charges against Exxon? How do you think that might play? It's hard for me to speculate about the legal system and how that will work. It's very complicated. Certainly, Bernie Sanders, the candidate for president, has said that the moral case is clear. It's a more difficult one to press a legal case because of the way the laws are. But certainly, a lot of people are looking at the documents we published and feel like there is a case to be made that Exxon defrauded the public. Thanks very much for your time, David. Okay. Thanks.


Hello there lovers and friends. This is my top three reasons why I believe everyone regardless of gender needs to get pregnant and experience pregnancy and complete a pregnancy at least once in their lifetime. Now before we dive into that list, let's take a little second to shout out the sponsor of this video, which is Tula. Tula is a skincare and wellness brand that is formulated with probiotics and superfoods. The concept there is what you put into your body to feel good should not be massively different from what you put on your body to look great. And if you are interested in a product line like that, go to Tula.com and use my promo code Shanboody if you like anything, because that's how you're going to get 15% off your entire first order. Let's dive into the top three list starting with the number one reason that I think that everyone should be pregnant at least once in their lifetime and that is because it is important to know how you will act and behave when you have a precious life inside of you. Now let me scabby out before I go any further and say when I say everyone needs to be pregnant, I don't necessarily mean with a baby. You could be pregnant with possibilities, pregnant with an intention that you want to set to deliver your higher self in the end and the delivery is actually what the real important part of this is pregnancy is a period of time where you devote yourself to becoming the best and healthiest and most optimal version of yourself so that you can put out something great into the world. Now I didn't get the notion of doing this until I was physically pregnant with a baby, but it was such an incredible masterclass for me on self care. And I just want to share some of the lessons that I learned throughout with you. Now I want to go back to that statement. What we do when we think that there is a precious life inside of us. When I was trying to conceive even and I was preparing my body for a precious life, I made wellness and health changes that I didn't make for myself my entire life started drinking more water. All of a sudden taking prenatals daily was not a thing for me. My entire life I've struggled with remembering to take multi vitamins, but all of a sudden once I realized that I was going to be putting myself in a position to grow a life, it wasn't a thing anymore. I also had issues with my hormones being out of whack. Later on I learned that was massively linked to a lot of things for me like fatigue midday and adult acne. But when I was trying to get pregnant, that was the first time that I got super intentional about trying to fix that. And I went on a hormonal supplement, saw my skin clear up and then six months later was able to conceive a child. I ate better, I prioritized sleep, I prioritized kindness and it was the most bizarre thing because I thought to myself, haven't you had a precious life inside of you this entire time?  And I mean I hyper cared. I threw out almost every nail polish that I had. I started to read more articles about, hey, what am I putting on my skin and how does that impact what goes into my bloodstream? And through this awareness, I learned so many ways that I was slowly poisoning my own body and just putting convenience and vanity over wellness. And at the end of the day, it's not as if making those changes diminished me in any way. It actually amplified me and it wasn't that much more expensive. So I urge you to look at yourself and look at your habits right now and consider if I was pregnant, what top five things am I doing that I would cut out immediately and what is stopping me from doing that for myself today? The second thing, the reason I think everybody needs to get pregnant at least once in their lifetime is I actually advocated for my needs in such a more intentional way. And anybody who has a kid probably knows this that like it's a built in excuse and so is pregnancy. So if somebody asked me to go somewhere that I ultimately know, like I really don't want to go and I don't have the time for it, being pregnant is like, oh, I can't, you know, I'm just, I get really tired by like 3pm. So I can't go. Or even if I was on the phone with somebody and the conversation was done and I wanted to move on with my day, usually I'd feel so guilty. I would just stay on because it's a polite thing to do. But when I was pregnant, I was like, you know what? I actually am getting so exhausted or I have to go for my midday walk. I'm going to go lay down right now. I'm not feeling so well. Like let's talk later. And through that, you would actually think that your relationships would diminish because you're not pushing yourself to the point of meeting people where their comfort level is. But the actual truth is you show up better in your relationships because you're present when you're present and you bounce when you're not. I've realized how many half-assed things I would do. I would go out to dinner with someone when I didn't want to and really not be the most engaging guest or I'd be there and be engaging and then know I wanted to leave, but I'd stick it out and then the night would end kind of humdrum. But now when I actually started to advocate for my needs, what that really meant is I can be as great as I possibly can for you as long as I want to. And when I don't want to anymore, I leave and as a result, you only get the best of me.  And I'll explain that. But first, let's show some more love to Tula. And we take a little break to talk about something great. Tula skincare was founded by Dr. Rashni Raj. You notice that not only did her patients feel good on probiotics, but their skin looked healthy. And that's what Tula is all about. They focus on being healthy, not perfect, which means they're not using harsh chemicals that cut corners and put your face and those who touch it and harms wet. So I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I don't really use skincare products because every time I do, my face breaks out. But Tula, it didn't happen. So I just want to say Tula has a lot of products. So you have to see what fits your needs. For me, it's the cult classic purifying face cleanser and the 24 seven moisture hydrating day and night cream. For me, it's the Protect and glow daily sunscreen gel and the face filter, blurring and moisturizing primer. Like Jay said, they got tons of products. You got to go see for yourself at tula.com.  So be 100% clear. Actual pregnancy sex has a ton of drawbacks, but the energy divide behind pregnancy sex, that is the secret sauce that I think can make all of the difference. It's interesting because it actually goes against everything that we hear about how to be a good lover. Because we hear how to be a good lover is to be selfless, is to be a pleaser, is to care about the other person. And while that's great in many ways, I think that there's not enough dialogue about being a self full lover and by prioritizing self through love making.  And two, you don't do positions or anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.  So no, I can't go for that. And interestingly enough, that actually led to better sex for both parties because one, we showed up more, I showed up more enthusiastically. And then my partner could feel that energy. And then through that mutual comfort, I think it just opened us up for more exploration. And then number two, I always ended sex being like, I wanted to do it and I enjoyed that experience, which thus incentivize me to want to do it again.   But help me out in the comments section because honestly, yeah, it turned up the sex life. The last reason that I think everyone should get pregnant at least once in their lifetime is because you need to buy maternity bras and underwears. This one obviously is specifically for people who wear bras and who wear panties, but goddamn, they're so comfortable. My whole life, you know, my comfort days for bras are like sports bras. And my comfort day for underwear has been like menstruation panties, lack of a better term. But the cut, this is how pregnancy panties are cut. It's not a band that goes all the way across. So it's not restricting. You never have any lines. It is somehow like wedgie proof, the way that it's built. And it's designed to go underneath a belly, but everybody got a belly. So why would I want a band that goes across it? I purchased so many of these after I was pregnant in my non-pregnancy size because I'm not going back. And same with maternity bras, so much more comfortable than sports bras, so much more comfortable than your average bras, look great underneath t-shirts. This is not an ad for these products, but go to Amazon, type that bad boy in, get your size for who you are right now.  That's the end. And now it is your turn. What are you going to get pregnant for this year or next year? Because again, you don't have to do it every single year. I do strongly believe that this year I want to get pregnant with my third book. I have been putting that off. I wrote a proposal last year that got rejected. And I think since then I've had a really hard time getting back into the spirit of that. And it sits on my heart every single day. And I know that I have to set some really clear intentions to reorganize my schedule and to put myself in a place where I can create something amazing again. I loved the experience of putting my first book together. I loved having it out there in the world. But I've just been afraid and tentative and honestly holding on to like some toxic daily habits that stop me from being in a creative space too, right? That I know I have to get rid of. But what's yours? Maybe it's an actual baby. Maybe it's a food baby. That's okay as well too. Write it in the comment section below. And when you go down on me, make a pit stop over on the info box because that's how you're going to find the link to tula.com. And again, tula.com is a skincare and wellness brand that I have been using. But to be honest with you, it's Jared who uses up all the products there on that one. And it's going to allow you to put something on your body that you would confidently put in your body. And again, when you are pregnant, you care about those things. And I know you do. And if you do, get 15% off on your entire first order by using the promo code Shanbooty. Bye.


Hello and welcome to another episode of the Private Property Home Shopper Show. Today we are in a boomed-off area right here in Bedford View, exploring a modern and exquisite family home. This home comprises of four bedrooms and five bathrooms and is on private property for 19,500,000 rand. So what I'd like you to do is come with me as we explore this home and talk about some of its most incredible features. My name is Chad Riveraz. This is the Private Property Home Shopper Show. Welcome home.


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From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of VeeamON 2020. Brought to you by Veeam. Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman, and this is theCUBE's coverage of VeeamON 2020 online course, instead of all gathering together in Las Vegas, we're getting to talk to participants of the community where they are around the globe. Happy to welcome to the program. First time guest on the program, he's part of the opening keynote, for most of you saw, Simon Koskin, Hansen, Chief Technology Officer for VMware Solutions inside of IBM. Simon, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, Stu, it's a pleasure to be here. All right, so obviously, we know IBM quite well. We had theCUBE at the virtual events, both Red Hat Summit and IBM Think, not too long in the past there, talking a lot about the open hybrid cloud, many of the messages that I hear from Veeam remind me of what I heard at their environments, it's multi-cloud environment, we need flexibility in what we're doing, we need to, of course, data is such an important piece of what's going on. Maybe before we get into it too much, give us a little bit about your role there, where you fit into that whole discussion of what IBM is with cloud. So Stu, yeah, the Chief Technology Officer of VMware Solutions on the IBM Cloud, primarily involved and helped create the partnership that exists between IBM and VMware today. Basically providing automated solutions for our clients and automated secure solutions for our clients around the VMware and the IBM Cloud infrastructure space. Yeah, well, Simon, it's interesting stuff, you've got some good history there. Maybe you might remind our audience, I remember at VMworld before there was a big partnership that VMware made with a certain public cloud provider that gets talked about a lot, IBM was the first and if I saw correctly, I'd love you, Fredia, be able to provide the data behind it, there are more VMware customers on the IBM Cloud than any other cloud is what I believe the data I saw at Think. So bring us in a little bit more, explain that relationship. So yes, we were as IBM at the beginning of all of this. I mean, VMware and IBM have had a long relationship and in fact, IBM manages over 850,000 predominantly VMware workloads on premise and have done for the last 10 plus years. But in the latest iteration of this partnership, we brought together our automation and a codified experience from dealing with these client accounts around the world and brought that expertise along with VMware's product set to align this automated SDDC stack on cloud platforms and first to market with that automated SDDC stack called VMware Cloud Foundation, first to market out and we've had a great ongoing relationship since then. It's really resonated with many of our clients and our enterprise clients out there. All right, well, Simon, one of the most important pieces of that VMware SDDC message is that I have VMware, I know how I manage that environment and it's got a really robust ecosystem. So of course, Veeam started exclusively in the VMware environments, now lives across many environments, but the comment I've made on some of these interviews for Veeam on is wherever the VMware solution and VMware Cloud goes, you can just go along for the ride really, if it were. There's obviously some integration work and testing, but help dig into a little bit, what that means for solutions like Veeam tying into what VMware's doing and what VMware is doing in the IBM Cloud. Well, particularly at the beginning of this relationship, part of this partnership with VMware was its rich partner ecosystem. And I was given the remit and had the luxury to choose the best of the best product sets out there, which wasn't necessarily IBM's products in these particular space. Obviously, we chose Veeam for backup. I mean, Veeam's reputation out there is the backup. It's known as the market leader for the backup of its actual workloads. So it was very important for us to embrace that ecosystem and it's been a great partnership from the very, very beginning, getting the backup products out into our platform. And as we've done more recently, bringing in the new enhancements like Veeam Cloud Connect to deal with data replication and more use cases around migration and the movement of data in a hybrid cloud sense. And Veeam has been right there with us every step of the way. Yeah, so Simon, you're CTO. So bring us in a little bit architecturally because when I think about hybrid cloud or even having to move my data between different data centers, there are the physics challenges. And sometimes I can get closer, I can put high bandwidth, low latency connection through there. And then there's the financial considerations. So give us to how we have to think about that. What is data movement in 2020 and what considerations do we have to have here and how does IBM maybe differentiate a little bit from some others? So I'll answer your first question. I'll answer some of the last questions first. What is data movement in 2020 look like? Well, to be perfectly honest, Stu, we never imagined what would happen this year, but data mobility and the movement of data in a hybrid scenario has never been more acute or prevalent because of the stage that the world is currently in and the conditions that we're living in today. Being able to use familiar based tooling that represents and what is used in on-premise state over in the cloud, enabling Veeam or people who have existing investments in Veeam to use that tooling for multiple different use cases, not just backup or not just backup, but that actual data replication functionality has become ever more prevalent in these cases. I was saying similar messages back in 2019 and 2018 and as long as back as 2010, I feel as though I look at that, that's been almost a decade now, talking about the need or the capabilities of hybrid cloud and this movement of data, but I've absolutely seen an absolute increase in it over the last few years and particularly in 2020 in this current situation. The major difference from an IBM perspective is, I would say, is our openness and how we're dealing with the openness in the community and our commitment to open source, our flexibility, our security and the way we actually deal with the enterprise. And one of the major differentiations is the security to the core, actually building up the security, looking at the secure elements, making sure that data is safe from tampering, it's encrypted both in transit and at rest. And these are many of the factors that our enterprise clients actually demand of us. And particularly when we look at the regulated industries with a heavy focus on the financial services sector and Veeam with its capabilities and ability to both do the backup and migration functionality, sort of clients are expecting a two for one deal in these days where they're trying to cut costs and get out of their own data centers in an effort to cut their costs. Excellent. Well, Simon, you laid out really the imperative for enterprises today and how they're dealing with that. Bring us in as to what differentiates the IBM Veeam relationship versus just, IBM is open and flexible. So there are a lot of options. What particularly is there about Veeam that makes that relationship special? Well, I think it all down to the partnership and the deep willingness to work together. The research that we're doing in the products, yeah? Looking at ways that we can take Veeam beyond the VMware space and into bare metals and containers, but maintaining that level of security and flexibility that clients demand. I mean, many clients, if they've invested in a particular technology to do their backups, backup and DR, because of the heavy data requirements, are still one of the most important, if not the most important use case that many cloud users or many of our clients actually go for. So having that partnership with Veeam and not only dealing with the traditional base, which is the VMware backups, but really pushing the boundaries and looking how we can extend that into migrations, into containers and bare metal by still keeping that level of security and flexibility. It's a difficult balance. Sometimes to make it more secure, you have to make things less flexible. And vice versa, having things more flexible, they become less secure. So being willing to work us and actually define that difficult balance and still provide the level of the user experience and the level of functionality that our clients demand and keeping both clients, it's happy. Both IBM and Veeam, it's challenging at times, but I guess what makes the job interesting and exciting. Yeah, Simon, I'm actually glad you mentioned containers as one of the, you know, modernization efforts going on there. Of course, from Veeam standpoint, when VCR seven rolls out that they are being supported in, you know, one of the first to work in that. I'd love to hear your viewpoint, what you're hearing from customers, how you expect as a VMware partner for cloud, that movement of VMs and containers and how they're going together, what should we be looking for as that kind of matures and progress? So I would absolutely watch this space, particularly as we move into this, containers and VMs living very much side by side with VMware's announcements around project Pacific and Tanzu, it's very interesting. It's certainly created a for all around the market and we as IBM are very closely working with them with our acquisition last year of Red Hat and its containerization platform, all while maintaining our ability in the open shift community around Kubernetes. So, Stu, obviously I'm privy to a lot more information, which I really can't really say and dig into too much detail around this particular angle, but just to say that watch the space, there's a lot going to happen. You're going to see a lot of announcements in the back half of 2020 and in the first few halves of 2021, particularly around the collaborations between containers and VMs and seeing how the different offerings from the different companies shape. Interesting times ahead. Yeah, absolutely. Simon, maybe, right, don't want to get you in trouble as to looking too much in the future, but maybe bring us into, I'm sure you're having a lot to conversation with customers. What's their mindset?  I've always said a longfall in the tent of any transformation and modernization we're doing. So, what are some of the challenges and opportunities that you're hearing from customers that you and your partner are helping to solve? So, well, one of some of the challenges around this containerization is containerization is taking a lot longer and it's taking a lot more time than we originally anticipated or expected. So, the realization is actually hitting that VMware is going to be around for a while. I mean, the idea that people are thinking that they're just going to transform their applications or all their VMs over a six or 12 month period is just not reality. So, we're living in this hybrid platform way where you have VMware, you have virtual machines and containers coexisting certain parts of the application, namely, if I take the three tier web app as an example, consisting of a HTTP server and application server and a database, when you containerize that or modernize that, it's very easy to modernize the HTTP server which turns into the ingress egress service on the container. It's very easy to modernize the application server which is fairly static and you can just put a container. But as we know, Stu, data is sticky. So, what are many enterprises? The data migration or the way that the database is transformed is the thing that takes the longest. So, we're seeing out there in the enterprises, people who are running their apps both with the ingress egress service, the application server containerize, but the database still living on a virtual machine for an extended period of time. And until they've made the final jump or shown their data service, they make that move. I do see this being, I personally, I honestly don't believe in my lifetime, VMs will actually disappear because we're seeing that in some cases, it's actually too costly for organizations to actually transform their applications or there's no real business case. It works perfectly well with the existing processes. There's no need to modernize. But they're looking at ways and what parts of the architecture can be modernized and containers are definitely the future for all the attributes that we know and love. But there is going to be this hybrid world. So, having tools and partners like VM who are willing to cross the ecosphere of the different platforms is critical for our clients today and critical for partnerships that we have, like the one we have with VM. All right, well, Simon, it goes back to one of those IT maxims is, IT is always additive. We almost never really get rid of anything. We just keep adding to it and changing it. And as you said, data is that critical component. And I think you highlighted nicely how, Veeam fits in very much for that story. So, Simon, thank you so much for joining us. Pleasure having you on the program. Glad to have you in the CUBE alumni ranks at this point. Thank you, Stu, and thank you, it was a pleasure. Take care. All right, stay tuned for lots more coverage from Veeamon 2020 online. I'm Stu Miniman and thanks for watching theCUBE.


So now we've explained kind of this whole Box and whisker, and if you didn't have any outliers, that's all that you would have But here we have these outliers. So then the next question is what does it mean to be an outlier now? This description of an outlier is somewhat arbitrary. We're doing somewhat of a heuristic here to say, okay What what would make a number outside the general range? We're we're going to determine it is an outlier remember outliers are really important because like For example if you were trying to determine the average wealth of somebody in a particular group and you had one Individual who happened to be a billionaire in it then that billionaire is going to pull up the average of The entire group it'll look like everybody's looks a lot more wealthy than they are Because that outlier could possibly skew the data Greatly depending on you know what the data set is looking at so we have to be careful of the outliers So enter quarter quartile range. This is the IQR. This is going to help us to determine the outliers We're gonna sit. We're gonna just take The quartile three minus quartile one. So this is going to help us to determine where they're coming up with these outliers So if we take quartile three minus quartile one quartile three is the seven two eight hundred minus quartile one six nine seven hundred The difference is that three thousand one hundred which we're calling the interquartile range the lower quartile I'll limit then is Quartile one minus the IQR the interquartile range times one port point five Which is somewhat arbitrary, right? So that's going to be our calculation though. So we're gonna say all right That's what it's calculating So now we're taking the q1 so q1 is Well, let's do it. Let's do the the enter part first the IQR Which is the three one oh oh times one point five Minus q1 minus q1 q1 minus six nine seven and that gives us our 6550 so 65,050 So we're on the lower limit. So anything around that's kind of over this line They're gonna add in a dot Format so that's going to be the outlier and then down here We have a similar calculation for that upper limit where we have the quartile three plus the IQR the interquartile range times one point five So if I take the IQR the three one times 1.5 and then and then I'm gonna add it this time to q3 so plus q3 7 to 800 that gives us our 77 450 which means that if anything's above like the 77 somewhere around here It's gonna put a dot on them. So that's why these two are out line There's the 55 outlier the 84 the 80 are gonna be on the other side 80 and 84 as outliers in our data alright, and then Just note that you in Excel. It's possible to like line up two box plots on on one chart So so if we had two sets of data similar sets of data basically We've just like added added a constant amount To the second data range and now just note that you can do a nice Visual comparison between the two sets of data right I can say okay This one compared to that one and we can get an idea of the averages and the medians and so on and what kind of outliers These ones happen to mirror each other very closely but just Staggered due to the fact that I created the second data list by just basically taking the first times like 1.1 Or something and then you can make your legend On the right-hand side. So notice when you get comparison of multiple data sets like this Then seeing it visually Will probably give you a much better understanding than even if you were to list your stats like you might say hey look to list those Two data sets. I'll just list my stats side-by-side. That's helpful But it's still a little bit hard to see right if you had these two kind of next to each other Then that gives you a pretty good representation About what's happening. I mean if I looked at for example if I looked at the stats side-by-side for the average the Q1 q2 q3 and so on and so forth I might not get an idea that it looks like that it looks like the data set has just been basically Multiplied by like 1.1, but if I look at this I Can say hey that looks pretty symmetrical And it and it moved up like the same and the outliers moved up in alignment with it You know you see you see how the pictorial representation could give you an idea Beyond the stats oftentimes or beyond the data set itself


Are you using folders on your stream deck? Well, I was too, but in my case, that's because I totally misunderstood profiles. And I'm gonna tell you why in this video. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And in this video, we're talking about stream deck. Now this isn't going to be an introduction to stream deck by any means. This is more for people who are already actually actively using their stream deck. And specifically, if you are using folders with your stream deck. So when I first got the stream deck and I had had a look at the different options that you have in terms of organizing different screens on your stream deck. And one option you have is to create profiles. And one of the key features that is highlighted in this is that you can set a profile and then assign this to a particular application so that whenever you open the application, it opens up that profile. And you have all of the commands that you might need for that application to hand. There is also folders on this stream deck which allow you to create in effect something a little bit of a similar effect because you can create multiple different screens if you like and have different actions within those. And so coming from a probably a little bit more of a traditional background and being a big fan of nested folders in the finder and so on. Then I did tend towards the nested folder setup and also I wasn't so keen on having the stream deck automatically switch profiles depending on the application I was in because often I might be in one application such as Zoom, for example, on a meeting but then I'm demonstrating something that is in Microsoft Excel. And so I wouldn't want it to switch to an Excel profile just because I'd opened up Excel when I was in the middle of a Zoom meeting. I would want the Zoom meeting to be the dominant application there. And so for me, I didn't want it just sort of making its own mind up when it was going to switch between profiles. I wanted to be in control of that myself. And so for me, the folders route seemed like the best way to go. And I'm sure there are lots of people watching if there are lots of people watching, I'm sure there'll be some people who are watching who will be shouting at the screen saying that's silly profiles are the way to go but I'm just making this video for anybody else who went down the folder route as I did. And I'm gonna point out what I believe was the error of my ways and I found what I think is a bit of a better way to approach things. And maybe other people who are using folders may find this useful as well. So if you want to leave a comment saying how crazy it was to go down the folder route in the first place, be my guest but I'm well aware of it. So I'm now in my, basically this is my e-com live stream deck view surprisingly enough because that's the application I'm using. Now I've got this big orange home button at the top. So previously, as I say, I had all of this in a folder and this was effectively a folder and the home button was the back button and this comes to my home screen. So as I say, this basically looks very similar to everything that I was doing before with folders and just in case you're interested along the top, I have some volume controls. This changes my speaker output whether I want it to come out through my in-ear monitors or through the speakers on my monitor. Then I've obviously got, this is mute volume up, volume down. This one switches my keyboard and mouse to control either my iPad or my iPhone or my Mac. And then I have this one to flick between spaces on my Mac. Along this row here, I've got various different I suppose work roles really. These are different views that I have or different screens that I have for the stuff that I do for this channel. Then I've got one for my podcast and then these are for different companies that I'm involved in. And so I've got different actions set up related to those companies. Then on the next row, I've got some that are more like applications. So I've actually got my calculator. So if you missed that, I did actually create a desktop calculator out of my stream deck. So I'll leave a link to that video in case you want to make that yourself. But then further along here, I've got basically sets of stream deck screens for different applications. So for example, this one here is for my OmniFocus. So when I'm doing my task management and doing my weekly reviews, month reviews, things like that, I have various different actions assigned here for different perspectives and things like that in OmniFocus. I will get round to making a whole video about OmniFocus actually because it is one of those Mac apps that I use quite heavily. So there we go. I've got different applications here. I've also got another one for dictation. So sometimes I'm dictating text and things like that. So I just have a button here that I can press to dictate using Siri dictation, quick access to settings, which I seem to use quite a lot often in these demonstrations. I've got another one which is actually a, it's a folder of folders for certain files and folders that I access quite regularly on my Mac. So I have those on a particular screen. And then here I do find myself using emojis. And as you can see, I'm either happy, laughing, grateful or in agreement, those are my four primary emotional states and anything else I can pull up the emoji picker from here. But that's basically what my front screen looks like. And as I say, most of these things, so for example, all of these applications and all of the sort of work states, if you like were previously all folders. And what I've done is I've changed these all to be, instead of folders, they are now profiles. So if I come into my profiles or my settings rather, clicking the little cog wheel, you can see that we've got basically all of those different things that I've just shown you. So my different work roles, different take one tech profiles and then different applications and so on as well. And why is it better do I feel now to have these all as profiles? Well, I actually don't use the, you can, you see this feature here, which is Stream Deck will automatically switch to this profile when you are in a particular application and you can, this is where you could click down and I could select, for example, I could select Photoshop so that it always opens up my Photoshop apps when that's open or I could open Excel and have it open all my Excel. I could Stream Deck profile when Excel is open, but as I've said, I don't actually want to do that ever because of the way that I use these applications, I'm often using them with something else and so I just want to be in full control of that. So as I say, that's why I sort of ignored profiles for so long. So I don't have any of these active by application, but the thing that is so useful about this way of doing things is that now, for example, I have, so if I go back into my Take One Tech Recording profile, which is this one, I'm gonna press on this button. In fact, I even made a nice little scene for you to see how I can use it. The thing that is different now is whereas before, I used to create a folder for applications, for commands, so say for example, in this one, I've got some other actions that are related to Ecom Live for my Take One Tech channel but that I don't actually have active all of the time on the main screen. But I might want to access those when I also have a profile, if I come back, I've also got a profile for streaming when I'm live streaming from Ecom Live on Take One Tech. So I'd press this button and this brings up my streaming screen, which is very similar, but it's not exactly the same. There are a few things that are different. The, instead of recording, the go in live button is different and various other things like that. But I still may want to access those other commands that I was also accessing from the other screen and by making them a profile, I can simply click this button here and it will take me to that exact same screen that I just showed you. And the reason why this is better is because before, if I made a folder, you could actually always, I've got a folder here. So you can just copy the folder and you can paste it somewhere else, such as like that. The only trouble is the contents of this folder are now completely independent of the contents of the other folder. And so if I was to have a set of secondary controls or something like that, then if I changed them in one, I would have to go and manually change those in another. Whereas you can just simply take the link to the profile and copy that. And so I could copy this. Obviously, I wouldn't copy it into the same place, but I could copy it into another profile, for example. And there you go. It would still be just linking to that one profile. And if I make any changes on that, then those changes would be reflected everywhere where I've got that duplicate command. And I can also, just as maybe an even better example, if I'm on my front page. So here is my calculator profile. Let's say is like that. Now I could come back here and if I copy my little calculator from here, just go copy. Let's say when I'm in OmniFocus, sometimes I might need a calculator. Well, I could actually just embed it right into there like that. And so then if ever I needed to access the calculator from there, I just press on that button and it brings up the calculator. So the benefit really is the fact that it's exactly the same as a folder in many respects. You could still got all of the screen real estate. You still have the space where you would normally have the, say the back up arrow to get out of the folder. Well, you can just have that linking to like the home screen or you could actually even have it linking to multiple different places. So if I come back to this example, so I've got my three different sort of modes of using my TOT, Take One Tech profiles. And then we've got those extra little buttons that I want to have access to. So I could have coming back to here again, coming back into my recording setup. So these extra buttons, which I have assigned to here, you can see that down the left hand side, I've also can go back to any one of those three profiles. So it means that I can always get back to the profile that I was in. So I know this might not make a lot of sense if you are new to Stream Deck, but as I say, this is not a video that is aimed at new Stream Deck users or people who haven't necessarily had experienced this. It is more aimed at people who are using folders specifically. But maybe I should just quickly show you if we want to how to do this, because it is quite simple. If we come into my preferences, if you want to add in a new profile, you simply open preferences and just click New. And bear in mind that you can have multiple different profiles and you don't have to have them all linked to the front screen. You can actually change them manually. So if I just put this as test profile, and now what you'll see is on the Stream Deck here, you can change manually within the Stream Deck interface, but obviously you won't have access to that on the Stream Deck itself, but I can come down to here and now I've got a completely blank profile. You always get this little welcome button to start with. So let's just get rid of that one. But then to link to a folder before, we used to just right click and then do create folder. And then that would create a folder and you could double click in that and you'd always have this back arrow to get back to the previous screen. Well, if you want to add a link into a profile, you simply click on the Stream Deck section at the side and then here you can just go to switch profile. So this, I could have this going back to my home. So I can just come down here and you can see in the profiles, it's got all of your profiles listed. So I could have that coming back to my home profile and then obviously adding some pretty icons. Incidentally, all of my icons, I've recently just been making all of my icons in keynote and I made a video all about how you can do that. So I'll link to that in the description and in the top corner when I get round to it as well. And so this pressing this button here would take me back to that home screen. So I hope that you have found that useful and if you have found it useful, then obviously don't forget to go and hit that like button and subscribe to the channel and I'll be making a whole series of videos all about Stream Deck in particular. And I'll be starting actually, probably the next one I make will be a total beginner's guide to Stream Deck because although I've made a few videos about Stream Deck, I haven't actually done the sort of total beginner's guide. So if you were a little bit lost from this video, then do watch out for that video and also I'll leave a link to my Stream Deck playlist over on the right-hand side. So until the next time, have a great day.