The first item of business this afternoon is portfolio questions and the portfolio on this occasion is education and skills. Anybody who has asked a supplementary question should press the request-to-speak-butons during the relevant question. I call solution number one, Clare Baker. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met cosLa to discuss pay awards in schools. Cabinet Secretary. I'm advised that the Minister for a local government empowerment and planning met cosLa ond 24 Holyutor. Maen nhw'r goithsgwrdd y ddinllewid yw mewn og yn ymddangos y gwerth yn y ddisbu ar fy ngysylltu hwn i. It's important that I reaffirm that the workers involved in this dispute are local government employees, not teachers, so this is not a specific education dispute and I'm not directly involved in the negotiations. Negotiations on local government pay are rightly between COSLA and the representatives of the employer, local government and the trade unions representing the workforce. Nevertheless, I have an agreement with COSLA that we work together to ensure that any disruption to learning is avoided as far as possible in the event of further industrial action. I'll be meeting coesla ahead of further planned industrial action next week, similarly I met with coesla prior to the last action. Clare Baker. I thank the cabinet secretary for that response. She will know that while GMB and Unite have voted in favour of the offer from coesla, Unison staff overwhelmingly voted to reject and members are beginning a rolling programme of strikes in regions including in Fife. Even the unions who accepted the offer have stated that the negotiating process fuelled uncertainty and mistrust and the revised offer should have been put on the table months ago. I do hear what the cabinet secretary said about her involvement in the discussions with coesla. I would like an update on what the government is doing to try and resolve the current dispute but something that is purely within her remit as workforce planning and can she give also an update on what work the government are taking forward to ensure there is proper workforce planning in schools. I thank the cabinet secretary for her question and I do as she has outlined to welcome the news that GMB and Unite members have voted to accept the deal and negotiations remain on-going in relation to the wider challenges with Unison. I am aware that council leaders are due to meet tomorrow further to that. Of course, my focus on this as I have outlined is very much on ensuring consistency in relation to how our local authorities are engaging with industrial action when it happens in their area. I met regularly with coesla on this point in the run-up to the last action as I intimated. I was very clear of the need for us to have a joint understanding of what that looked like and my expectation was that most schools should have remained open at that time, subject to a school-by-school risk assessment, which is the responsibility of local authorities. We had agreed form of wording that I can share with the member. I do not think that I need to read it out today, Presiding Officer. That was shared with ADES and I think that that was really important in ensuring that consistency. More broadly in relation to workforce planning, I work with coesla very regularly in relation to that challenge. I have asked the student board for teacher education to look more holistically at how we can plan better in relation to workforce planning and I look forward to engaging with coesla on this point and on the issues relating to school closures when I meet with them next week. Thank you and supplementary, Alasdair Allan. Can I ask the cabinet secretary how comparable investment in school education in Scotland compares to that in other parts of the UK? Independent research conducted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that in 2223, school spending per pupil in Scotland was more than £8,500. That is more than 18 per cent or £1,300 higher than the level seen in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where spending was around £7,200 per pupil. We also had the highest spending per pupil, the lowest pupil teacher ratio, and the best-paid teachers in the UK, all of that in the face of over a decade of austerity from the UK Government and further cuts. That is what we have been able to achieve, Presiding Officer, with one hand tied behind our back. Imagine what we could have achieved with the full powers of independence. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on implementing the recommendations on the skills delivered on a landscape in the report, fit for the future, developing a post-school learning system to fuel economic transformation. The programme for government sets out our plans for implementing reform of our education and skills bodies and putting the voices of children, young people and adult learners at their core. On post-school specifically, James Willis report was an important milestone in developing our approach to reform. We have been clear that we accept the direction of travel set out in the report, but we will take a little bit of time to fully consider the recommendations and engage with stakeholders before updating Parliament in the coming months on a set of actions. That is what we are actively doing. Scottish ministers agree that parity of esteem across all qualifications is essential with recognition needed on the importance of vocational skills. What is being done to help deliver that message to our schools, young people and parents? How can we ensure that employers have greater input into skills development to ensure that the skills are available to fuel future economic growth? The theme of parity of esteem, as Kerry Gibson indicates, comes across very strongly in The Withers report. It has done, I have to say, my own interaction with a host of interested parties, not the least of whom have been young people who have chosen to undertake apprenticeships. There are a number of ways that the message has already been delivered to schools or in schools that develop in the young workforce network, and careers advisers are important conduits to giving young people awareness to the range of qualifications that are now available in the senior phase, including foundation apprenticeships and access to the support that they need in order to make the decisions on their next steps. However, there is more to be done, and I think that the delivery of an enhanced national career service, as we have in mind, will be central to that. On employers, they will always have an important role to play in post-school education skills development, whether it has made important recommendations about strengthening that role, and I am considering how we best do that with a number of employer voices. It has been months since with this report, and as we heard yesterday, the Scottish Government has been largely silent on it. Can the minister confirm whether the Government intends to implement recommendation 5, establishing a single national funding body, and if so, when? I think that Liam Kerr relates what he terms of silence with inactivity. There has been a great deal of activity going on to developer thinking on that. I know that the recommendation that has come from winners on that specific point, I am sympathetic to it, but, as he would expect us to do, we are working through any potential unintended consequences that would flow from that, because I think that, as we all do in this chamber, we want the best outcome here for our learners. Workplace learning is a critical part of ensuring that students maximise the value of what they learn in the classroom or lecture theatre. Can I ask what the Scottish Government is doing in response to the Wither's report to maximise the use of apprenticeships and other forms of workplace learning within the education system to support Scotland's economic growth aspirations? I totally agree with the member on the importance of work-based learning. It is something that I would like to see more of building on the good work of the careers advisers and, in particular, DIY networks, in highlighting the range of opportunities available in the senior phase. Apprenticeships, I can assure the chamber, will continue to be front and centre of not only our work on reform but on our whole post-school system. I am also keen to explore how, in conjunction with employers, we increase opportunities for work experience to help young people to decide on the best career options for them. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the potential role of emerging video games technology in education and skills development. Digital technologies have been used to enhance teaching and learning experiences in Scotland for some time. When deployed effectively, digital technologies, including video game technology, have the potential to increase the engagement and motivation of learners and develop skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration and digital literacy. It is, of course, for teachers, schools and local authorities to decide whether and how to make use of all forms of digital technology to best effect. I thank the minister for his answer. Next week is the second annual Scottish Games week. I urge college to attend events at Dynamic Earth, Michael Marra's event in the Parliament and to speak in my member's debate next week. The cultural, social and commercial value of the games sector is staggering. We need to embed it in the sector into public policy because video games are used in so many instances, including in colleges and in schools, but also in medical advances and in gaming platforms, part of so much that we do in society. Can I ask the minister how the requirements of the gaming industry are being embedded in our schools and colleges to ensure that we can truly meet our ambitions for Scotland as a digital nation? We are in a period of rapid digital advancement. We should consider what opportunities that progress might offer for our respective interests. The education delivery colleagues are already exploring how available and emerging technologies may be used to enhance teaching and learning, including video game technology. On a recent visit to Stornoway and the newly merged colleges, I saw for myself how students and schools across the vast area that the institution now covers were participating in remote learning of games-related courses being delivered by the college. On a tour of Abertau University, I was fascinated to see the learning that can be delivered by games technology. Fascinated, I should add, is a 60-year-old whose most recent interaction with games tech was probably playing space invaders. In all seriousness, the learners of today are far more acquainted with this technology than some of my vintage, and we would be missing a trick not to seize the opportunities that it presents in the area of education. The minister should not knock space invaders. It is a great pleasure to follow on from Clare Adamson's advert about next week. Development companies have much they can actually offer direct into our schools in the terms of STEM education. I think of the work of 4J Studios, based in East Lint and East Lothian, with a small outreach somewhere in Dundee, and the interaction that they have had with primary school and secondary school pupils. So can the minister outline what work is currently being done to facilitate individual industry players to work in schools? As we move out of the territory of space invaders and I was by no means knocking, I am coming out of my comfort zone. This is more in the space of the cabinet secretary. I am in the context of primary schools, cabinet secretary. I think that it would be reasonable to expect that we will do as much as we possibly can to encourage this, and I will be happy to write the member in greater detail. Move on before the ministerial splits question 4, Monica Lennon. Thank you, Deputy Prime Minister. To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any link between nutrition and behaviour in its work to address violence in schools. The Scottish Government's programme for government restates our commitment to ensuring that our young people have access to the right nutrition, and we will continue to work with partners to ensure that that is realised. The behaviour in Scottish schools research, which has been published in November, will provide teachers' insights into factors that may underlie behaviour in our schools. We are also currently working with Young Scott and Youth Link Scotland to understand the impact of the cost of living crisis on young people's readiness to learn. The Scottish Government will consider those findings carefully to identify any actions that should be taken to address the concerns raised. Monica Lennon. I am grateful to the cabinet secretary for her response and for recently meeting with me and the STUC Women's Committee to discuss some of those issues. Today, I was placed at a tender event in Parliament sponsored by Jim Fairlie MSP, celebrating Scotland's school meals and front-line caterers, where speeches by assist FM and Food for Life Scotland reinforced the importance of feeding and nourishing young minds. With the Good Food Nation Act national plan coming to consultation, does the cabinet secretary agree that the roll-out of universal free school meals has never been more important, and can she update Parliament on when universal free school meals will be piloted in secondary schools? I thank the member for her question. We had a really worthwhile meeting with the STUC earlier this year, a few weeks ago now, and we discussed the issue of school nutrition at that meeting. I touched on some of the work that I hope to take forward with Mary Gougeon in the space of the Good Food Nation Bill, recognising the opportunities that that provides us with in ensuring that there is appropriate nutrition in our schools, and particularly in relation to our roll-out of free school meals that she touched on. We have recently established a joint ministerial working group on food, which will enable us to have a cross-government approach to those matters. I specifically asked for an agenda item that relates to school nutrition, to the member's point more broadly. That is in addition to some of our broader work, which supports the Food for Life programme. That aims to increase the amount of healthy locally sourced food that is served by local councils and schools and currently operates in 17 local authorities. That is another option to work more closely with COSLA in relation to that as well. The member asked for an update on the secondary pilot. I do not yet have a date for the roll-out of that pilot, but I am more than happy to write to the member on that. I know that we discussed that in some detail when we met recently. I have a couple of supplementaries first. The roll-out of universal free school meals for all pupils in primaries, one-to-five and in ASN education, has been startling. Could the cabinet secretary provide an update on the uptake of free school meals in general? The Government is very pleased that we can support families at this very difficult and challenging time through our free school meals scheme. I can confirm that our latest pupil census shows that over half of pupils are now registered for free school meals, with the proportion of eligible pupils increasing to just over 70 per cent. I would like to see that figure increase. We will continue to work with COSLA on ensuring that that is the case. This year's healthy living survey also found that 2,301 free school lunches were provided to children and young people on survey day. That represents an increase from the previous high of free school lunches provided in 2022. However, I am keen to work with COSLA to ensure that we can see that continued increase across the piece. We recognise that some of that has been impacted by changes in relation to behaviour at school as a result of the pandemic, but, undoubtedly, there is more work to be undertaken with COSLA on increasing that figure further. Not only is good nutrition linked to tackling violence in school, but it is also linked to physical and mental health, attainment and malnutrition. I am sure that we are all fed up seeing the cues of school children outside the chip shop at lunchtime, so it is not just about ensuring high-quality school meals, but it is also about encouraging that uptake in school meals, which is too low, especially in urban areas. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what the Scottish Government will do to promote and encourage school meals uptake? For his question, I recognise his interest, particularly in relation to physical exercise and the impact that that can have on raising attainment more broadly. I have provided an update in response to Michelle Thomson's question, so that proportion of eligible pupils has increased to around 70.4 per cent. However, there is more that we will need to do working with local authorities, particularly as the member relates to urban areas. I recall the chip man, for example, when I was at school that used to be parked outside. It is not a new problem that schools are facing, and I think that it is imperative that we engage with local authorities directly and actually head teachers in our schools who know our school communities and can help to put in place the encouragement that is needed to see that uptake increase further. Question 5 has been withdrawn. Question 6, Maurice Golden. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the education secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding action to reduce instances of vaping in schools. We remain concerned about the proportion of young people using vaping products. Scottish Government officials in education and in health and in social care are working together to ensure that we have a holistic approach to tackling vaping in schools. We are also working with Education Scotland, Public and Third sector partners to support work on substance use education, and further work will be informed by insights from our forthcoming behaviour in Scottish schools research, which I alluded to in a previous response that we will publish next month. We would expect local authorities to work with our schools to ensure that appropriate measures are in place to deal with instances of vaping. Maurice Golden. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. We know that underage vaping is widespread, but we do not know how prevalent it is within our school system. Analysis that I conducted at the start of the year revealed that at least 22 local authorities were unable to provide information on vapes being confiscated from pupils. Can the cabinet secretary disclose what information the Scottish Government holds on that problem, and how many schools are now recording that information consistently? In terms of the evidence that we hold on this issue, although the most recent survey of young people in relation to substance use shows that the vast majority of teenagers do not vape regularly, we are concerned about the proportion of young people who have tried vaping. We know the majority of pupils agree or strongly agree that their school has given them the advice and support that they need to make important decisions about drinking, alcohol, smoking and drugs. However, more broadly, I think that there is further action that we can take. The member will recognise that there is a split in terms of responsibilities here, in terms of health and education. Education Scotland is taking forward further work to that end at a national level. However, I will be more than keen to see the members' data that he has gathered on this topic. I have not actually had sight of it, but I think that it is a really important topic that he has raised more broadly. I alluded to in my initial response to the behaviour in Scottish schools research, which will look to tap into some of the behaviour change that has happened in our schools, particularly since the pandemic. I will be more than happy to meet with the member to talk about this issue in more detail, recognising that it is a challenge in our schools at the current time. We know the colourful packaging, cheap price and easy accessibility of vaping products confirms that they are targeted at our younger population. We think that almost one in 10 of those who vapes are thought to be under the age of 16, and the health implications are still not known. Urgent action is required. Can the cabinet secretary update members on discussions that are had with schools and local authorities about stores that sell those products in close vicinity of schools to work towards ensuring that youth vaping, particularly in the school setting, is reduced and, indeed, eradicated? The enforcement of the legislation around the sale and the purchase of those products is carried out by local councils as part of the Enhanced Tobacco Sales Enforcement programme. That is overseen by the Society for Trading Standards officers in Scotland, and it is also funded by the Scottish Government. We did write last year to all retailers selling nicotine vapour products. The member makes an important point about the targeting of young people in this space. That was to remind them of their responsibilities to comply with the legislation around the sale of those products. More broadly, we would encourage anyone with information about suppliers who may be providing, for example, vapes to underage young people to contact trading standards. There is a challenge here, though, in relation to some of the legislation that we have been keen to work across the UK to have a four nations approach to tackling this issue more broadly. As I alluded to in my response to Maurice Golden, there is a separation between the educational opportunities and those in health. I will continue to work with my colleagues in the health directorate to ensure that we have a consistent approach across government to dealing with this issue. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase the number of new secondary school teachers. The Scottish Government is committed to supporting the recruitment of more teachers, and we are providing £145.5 million in this year's budget to protect increased teacher numbers and support staff across all local councils. We will also work with partners to promote teaching as a highly rewarding career and the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of children and young people. The aim of this work is to improve recruitment and retention, and to attract more highly qualified individuals into teaching to areas and subjects that are needed most. In addition, the strategic board for teacher education, which is made up of a range of key education stakeholders, is looking at issues around the recruitment and retention of teachers in Scotland in detail. Jamie Greene. I thank the cabinet secretary for that response. She must be disappointed though that last year over 800 vacancies went unfilled in our secondary schools. There is particular widespread concern about the lack of STEM teachers, and particularly in rural areas. Of course, take-up of the Golden Hallow aimed at addressing shortages of rural teachers have reaped disappointingly low levels of interest. Can I ask the cabinet secretary why she thinks her own government is struggling to meet its own targets for recruiting into secondary schools? More importantly, what reassurances can the Government offer parents and pupils that they will not be facing reduced subject choice because there simply are not the teachers available to teach those subjects? I recognise the member's interests in this area. I know who has asked a number of written portfolio questions on this recently. He talked about the Golden Hallow. I declare an interest, having ticked the box myself back in 2008, and I went to Elgin for a year to teach. The preference waiver payment provides probationary teachers with an additional payment, as the member has alluded to. More broadly, there has been a change in relation to how people engage with that system. I held a round table with probationers just before parliamentary recess and heard from them a number of different approaches to how they are regarding their employment, with people perhaps less likely to move than they may have been in the past. We need to recognise that challenge, particularly to the member's points on specific subjects. We have a teaching bursary scheme that gives bursaries of up to £20,000 for career changers wishing to undertake a one-year postgraduate qualification in hard to fill STEM subjects that the member alludes to, such as physics, maths, technical education, computing, science, chemistry and home economics. That scheme has also now been extended to include Gallic as a secondary subject and Gallic Medium across all secondary subjects and in primary. It is worthwhile pointing out that the number of school teachers we have in Scotland has increased since December 2014. The number of school teachers in post has increased by 8 per cent. However, I recognise that there are subject-specific challenges in particular in secondary. That is why I have commissioned the strategic war for teacher education to look at the issue in further detail and to provide me with greater advice on how we can support that challenge. A couple of supplementaries from Audrey Neckle. Alongside increasing teaching numbers, retention is also a key matter that the cabinet secretary has alluded to. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what further work the Scottish Government is undertaking to promote and support retention across Scotland's teaching profession? The retention of teachers is absolutely key and also undoubtedly the historic pay settlement that reached earlier this year will go some way towards showing our teachers how valued they are in Scotland. However, we are also working with our partners to promote teaching as a highly rewarding career with, as I mentioned in my initial response, the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of our young people. The aim of this work is to improve recruitment but also to the member's question of retention and attract more highly qualified individuals into teaching to make a difference in our classrooms. In addition, as I mentioned in my response to Jamie Greene, the strategic war for teacher education is looking at issues around recruitment and retention of teachers in Scotland in detail. I am also looking to work with our teaching unions on this issue more broadly to look at how we can work together to encourage more people into teaching. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The Institute of Engineering and Technology highlighted some of the problems that they are having or they are seeing in finding teachers in STEM. I welcome the cabinet secretary's comments about the bursaries, but in the report that the organisation used, it asked for a review of those bursaries because they are not attracting people who work in those sectors to change careers and go into teaching. So what can the cabinet secretary do to try and attract those people further into teaching? I thank the member for her question. I think that she raises an important point as she has touched on. I have outlined in my response to Jamie Greene some of the additionality that we have provided here. There have been historic challenges here and a number of different subjects over a number of different years. I know for example that there are gender divides, for example in the teaching of physics and maths and we need to be cognisant about that and encourage more women into the teaching of those subjects more generally. I have been more than happy to meet with the member to talk about some of the opportunity here. Although I am not going to, on my feet today, commit to review, I am more than happy to look at this issue in a bit more detail. Because in our secondary school recruitment process specifically, there are gaps in terms of certain subject areas and we need to be cognisant that different action will be needed to respond to those challenges accordingly. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any discussions between the city of Glasgow college senior management and trade union representatives regarding the on-going industrial dispute. Presiding Officer, while colleges are responsible for operational decisions on resourcing and staffing, the Government expects that the principles of fair work will be at the heart of decision making and I have written to all college principles to make that clear. I expect every effort to be made in consultation with the campus trade unions to protect jobs. On the city of Glasgow colleges specifically, I have also engaged with the chair of Glasgow colleges regional board which has all governance oversight here on the situation at the college. In addition, the Scottish Government has regular meetings with both college employers Scotland and representatives of campus trade unions where workforce issues are discussed, including those at city of Glasgow college. I thank the minister for that answer. I have been contacted by numerous students, parents and staff and this dispute has been on-going. The continued impasse leading to further strike action has caused disruption to students' educational experience with the potential to do severe damage to the reputation of the college. What additional powers does the minister have to intervene on this matter and does he agree with me that now is the time to step in and exercise them in any way that he can to help bring about a resolution? I think that I have outlined a very workforce issues relating to redundancy and severance and operational matters for the college themselves to consider and ministers have no locus to intervene. I think that I have also been clear, however, that in all my discussions with the sector matters relating to workforce, fair work must be the guiding light. In my engagement with the chair of Glasgow College's regional board, I sought assurances that fair work principles have been followed at city of Glasgow and the impacts on learning and students have been considered in decision making. What I think we can all agree on, Presiding Officer, regarding this college is that industrial relations there are extremely poor and without doubt, as co-cab students are allured to. That is a detrimental effect on students. I hope that the member will be interested to learn that Education Scotland has commenced a planned thematic review of all three colleges in Glasgow which, while among other things, cover governance and management. If, and I stress if, that activity will not highlight any areas of concern, then it would be open to the SFC to take an interest in such matters. Thank you, and with a bit of time over the course of this afternoon, I will take a brief supplementary from Willie Rennie. The industrial dispute at the city of Glasgow College is symptomatic of the wider problems, deep-rooted problems, we have in the college sector. As he prepares for the budget process for next year, where do colleges fit within his priorities? And secondly, will he review the Government's policy of no compulsory redundancies and bring them to the college sector? Minister. Presiding Officer, I respect Willie Rennie's position. I mean, the underlying message is there that you have to find more money for colleges. Of course, what we never hear from the Opposition benches is where you would find that money from, you know, and that's the luxury I accept that Opposition benches are. Of course, colleges are a priority for the citizens. Willie Rennie well knows this isn't simply about the budget process, it's also about how we engage with the colleges. He knows that we have been doing a lot of work around flexibilities for colleges to allow them that bit of scope to create a more sustainable immediate term until we can get them into a stronger position. On the point about compulsory redundancies, the position on that has not changed. There has been no change to that. I hope he now accepts that. It's not that colleges have been moved from that policy. They've always been where they are now. So I hope that answers his question. Thank you, Minister. That concludes portfolio questions. There'll be a brief pause before we move to the next item of buzziness to allow front benches to change.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 Las Vegas. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We are live in Las Vegas at HP Discover 2016. This is actually the first Las Vegas version of the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise version of Discover. We're here for the final HP Discover a year ago and a lot has changed and a lot of exciting announcements and we're here to talk about one of the most exciting ones that just came out today. So we're joined here by David Hunter, VP and Chief Technologist, Converged Data Center Infrastructure for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Welcome. Thank you. And theCUBE alumni who you probably recognize, Mariana Tessel, the EVP Strategic Development from Docker. Welcome, good to see you. Nice to see you. So big announcement today. David, tell us what was the big announcement concerning HPE and Docker? Sure. So today we announced a strategic relationship between Docker and Hewlett Packard Enterprise and we announced that we're going to go ahead and ship ready servers, Docker ready servers as well as converged reference architectures and support for those coming right out of our support organization as well as large go to market activities as well. Okay, so you touched on about four or five things. So let's break it down. So there was an announcement, I think from DockerCon last year, but this is a significant uptake in the alliance. We talked about a reference architecture. How's that going to play out? Yeah, so reference architecture, we've actually released two already. One is on a C700 where you can go and actually go ahead and it allows you to, it shows you how to install, how to upgrade it, et cetera, and utilize it. That's one way to do it. The other one is where we're going to go ahead and give examples of workloads on top of it. And the last one is we announced in this relationship that we're going to go ahead and release it also on our brand new HC-380 hyperconverged platform, which Meg talked about on the stage as well. So this is just like when you buy a phone, it's pre-configured with the apps. I buy an HP server, it's going to be pre-configured with Docker. Yeah, it's not just pre-configured, it's also pre-tested, pre-validated with Docker. That's a big part of this effort. No one else is doing that with Docker. We think this is a great way for our customers to get value right out of the door. Awesome, well Docker is certainly hot, hot, hot. We were at DockerCon last year. We look forward to coming up to Seattle in a couple of weeks. So Mariana, what does it mean to partner with somebody like Hewlett Packard Enterprise for scale reach? Obviously it's a big company. Docker's an exciting company, not quite that big. Yes, obviously very significant partnership for both sides, but for us it's the leading infrastructure provider and was important for us to create a partnership there and get our stack on the well-known HP stacks. And then with that, as David mentioned, there's a whole resale agreement and support and everything and from a customer point of view, they're going to get a very strong combined architectures with all the way from how the customer can engage with it, to how they're going to be supported and how we're going to provide services. So it's actually very meaningful for both sides and customers. So David, why? I guess is the reason, was this demand from the customer base, why Docker and why now? Sure, so HPE wants to take a leadership position in the up-and-coming DevOps and container world. No better way to do it with the leading vendor in the container space. So we want to get out ahead of this, go ahead and start building the ecosystem, start driving demand for something that we really see as a key up-and-coming technology for the next wave of computing. And my honor, talk about how this whole container thing has changed the way people think about applications, deploy applications. We know a lot of it, kind of our reference point if you're not in the enterprise space is our phone, right? You don't have to pay attention when you download an app to your phone, you just download it and it works, whether you've got an Android, an old Android, an iOS or whatever. But it's really started to change the way that people perceive applications, how they should work, how they should be installed and how they should be developed on. Absolutely, it's hard to talk about containers without talking about microservices and how applications fundamentally have been changing. Now they're part of many microservices together are used to create an application. And with that, the whole development process has changed as well. You have to deal with different scale, much more automation, much more different tooling around it, et cetera, et cetera. And containers really helped enable that whole transformation that's going on in the industry. All right, let's get down to the nitty gritty, David. Again, kind of timing, when is GA? When can we start to see this in the marketplace? So you're going to probably see this around the end of our Q4, so October timeframe. That's kind of where we're targeting. Okay. And will we see you in Seattle in a couple of weeks? You know, unfortunately I have to be somewhere else. I wish I was going to go. I was at DockerCon Europe where we were caught back up, but the next one I'll definitely be there. Okay, well there's not much more beautiful places in the world than Seattle in July as opposed to Seattle in November, which is good for watching football. All right, well thanks for taking a few minutes, exciting news and we look forward to the rollout in the GA. Sure, thank you. Nice talking to you. Nice talking to you too. All right, Jeff, Rick, Mariana, David, we are HPE Discover Las Vegas 2016. You're watching theCUBE, see you next time.


What's up everyone today is Monday, January 31st, 2022 is the last day of the month. So a couple of things I want to talk about before we get started, we just had our meetup in California. So we've been talking about this for a very long time. We just had our meetup over 200 traders showed up members and non-members. And for anyone that attended, I think it was a great time. We had pizza, park games. Basically, it was kind of interesting because we didn't really plan to do this. A lot of people came up on the microphone and kind of shared their stories of success and failure, right? So a lot of people have a lot of similar stories. A lot of people have maybe joined another community and lost money or started gambling or whatever, maybe or had these crazy high goals, unattainable goals. And we were able to really talk out a lot of things. We opened up a nice Q&A panel where there was some great questions. Shout out to the next-gen traders. This is a group of five or six traders that's 19 years old. These 19-year-old traders got an Airbnb together. They hung out together. And I'm pretty sure they're going to be lifelong friends together as they start to figure out this trading business, right? And I want to kind of give a special shout out to Bao. Bao was very vulnerable at the meeting. He shared a lot of experiences and a lot of stories. It was great to see him kind of share whatever he wanted to get off his chest, which made members feel very comfortable sharing what they want to be sharing. So shout out to Bao. You are amazing. Very proud of you, bro.  And I think a lot of people really appreciate it. So we have some photos. We have some videos. We're going to post that all up once I kind of get that footage back. So we'll post it on Facebook. We'll post it on Instagram. If anyone has any photos, they can send it to me. Overall, it was an absolutely amazing experience. It was so amazing that the security guards that I hired came up to me at the end and they're like, bro, I have no idea what I was walking into, but this is going to change my life. I really appreciate it. And the security guards learned a lot, right? So if the security guards learned a lot, imagine the traders that learned a lot. So shout out to all the moderators that attended and helped set up Oren, Steven, Claudio, everyone that came. We really appreciate it. And this is the start of many more meetups to come. So great time. Let's talk about the market, right? So last week, the market was in chaos. The market was collapsing. The Fed said that they're going to raise interest rates and all this crazy stuff. Tesla earnings collapsed, Microsoft earnings collapsed, and then rebounded. And then this week is like Facebook and Google and all that other stuff. And so what kind of happened to the market, right? So the market moves pretty much on fear, guys. So fear is the main thing that kind of decides fear and greed. Fear and greed decide if the market's going to go up or the market's going to go down. And it seemed like to me, there was an abundance of greed in this market. And when I say greed, I mean heavily, heavily margined people, right? So a lot of people, what they do is they borrow money that they don't have from their brokers, and they go all in on these stocks. And if the stocks go down 10%, their accounts are getting liquidated. So something like Tesla, today Tesla is almost 8.5%. That was up 8.5% today, because what probably happened is everyone that was margined out in the 1,000 to 1,100 range got liquidated. When the stock went down to 900 and 800 and even $780, they all got margin sell, and then the shorts got very aggressive.  So the market moves in cycles of greed and fear. So right now, guys, right now, a lot of these large cap stocks, I've been just sitting and watching, right? So small cap action has been a little bit slow this past week, or last week. And I've kind of just been waiting and looking in the large cap room to expand my playbook to learn new things. And this is because I'm already a consistent trader. So I'm just looking to see what's moving, see what I can learn from. And I've had a couple of scalps here and there, but my bread and butter is these small cap stocks. So as these small cap stocks are dead, like we spoke about in the meetup, this is your opportunity to learn, and this is your opportunity to kind of just go back and watch the videos and catch up on everything that you missed out on. So today in the market, we have KSCP moving. So KSCP is a pretty big runner, right? And what I want to do in this market, guys, is a lot of people are very hungry for runners. They're hungry for a play, they're hungry for a stock, they're hungry to push these stocks, whatever way it may be. And for me, I know that all it takes is one big runner to ignite the entire market. So I'm basically just waiting for that runner to show up, right? Oftentimes in the past, I would try to attack and try to slay the dragon. But now I've learned that if I just wait and let that stock run, then the next coming days I'm going to have a lot easier action. So I've been taking it very slow, I've been very patient. I haven't been oversized and I haven't really been overtrading in this market, which is good. And I'm basically just waiting for these runners to come back because when they come back, it's going to be easier to trade them again. And as we see what the market's starting to rebound, the spy reclaiming the 200-day moving average and all these other things like Tesla rebounding 10%, Apple going straight up, all this stuff. So there's money coming back into the market, there's confidence coming back into the market. And when there is money and confidence coming back into the market, we're going to have more opportunities, we're going to have more plays, and we're going to have more trades. And today, it already showed that small cap stocks are starting to run again. So I'm getting very close to the market heating up again. We're getting very close to a lot more action. And in the meantime, I'm going to be here watching, learning, educating with Bao and the rest of the team. So this is going to be a little bit of a different video. I want to open it up into a Q&A and see what questions that you guys have in this market or in this market cycle and how we can go over it together. Because the main thing that I've been thinking is I'm just waiting for a runner. I don't know when it's going to come, I don't know which stock it's going to be. We have a stock I&N running today, which is kind of crazy too. But yeah guys, so if you have any questions, let's go into the live chat right here. We'll answer questions for a little bit. And then I'm going to kind of get back to work and catch up because I've missed a lot of stuff. So a lot of member questions, so let's get through it guys. So any questions, leave it in the live chat here and let's start going over it. And this is the shirt that we gave away for free at the meetup. Any questions guys? How have you guys been adapting in this market cycle? I want to actually talk about one last thing before we get into the questions is I want to talk about some common questions or some common mistakes that I heard from traders at the meetup. So one common mistake from traders at the meetup is that they were going all in on the first line. So if there's two or three different resistance points, some people would be going all in on the first one and then they'd be blowing up at the second one. So sizing accordingly guys, that's number one thing is if there's different resistance levels, if there's different lines, break up your orders, right? Do a 10%, 10%, 10%. Don't go 100% onto the first line then get blown out in the second line, right? So a lot of people were over sizing on the first line. That's one common mistake that a lot of people were making. And number two is a lot of people said that if they were on losing streaks, they started revenge trading. They started trading sloppier. So what could they do to improve on that? So a couple of things guys.   And when you come back trading, your goal is very simple. It's just to have one green day under your belt to regain your confidence. So these were some very, very common questions that a lot of people were saying, right? So be careful sizing. We have sizing rules. We have max loss rules. And we even had our broker partner Cobra come up and share some of the reasons that they see a lot of traders blowing up and they see a lot of traders oversizing pre-market and they see a lot of traders not using max loss rules. So all of the same things that we preach and we educate to our members every single day is the same thing that people that have 10, 20, $30 million accounts are using. So the people that have 10, 20, $30 million accounts are using our MIC process to become profitable.  So that's kind of one thing I want to recap. I thought SSR was a red flag for shorting. Can you explain why it was on the watch list? It is a red flag for shorting, but that does not mean that you avoid every single stack that's on SSR. It just means be more careful that there could be more manipulation so size down accordingly. Don't oversize. You could still trade a stock that has SSR but don't go all in on it because the edge is not in your favor on SSR. We could still trade it. We could still make money on it. It doesn't mean load the boat. TKLF was weird today. What's your take on it? I mean, TKLF, I'm watching right now. It's at like 420. Not really sure. Stock seems a little bit crazy. I don't really know. It's zombie time right now so it's probably doing a zombie time squeeze and it's probably gonna be on my radar tomorrow to attack. So I'm just pretty much chilling, waiting. Yeah, so that's TKLF. Would you nail and bail the first resistance? Yeah, usually. That's obviously, that's a high probability setup. The high probability setup is shorting the first resistance and nail and bailing. If you overstay, if you're over trading, you are not trading the process. Love the t-shirt, how can I get one? You should have come to the meetup. Exactly Nancy. You could trade anything you want as long as you have the right risk and share size in mind. Do you gravitate towards large caps when small caps are dead? Well, large caps are a market that will always have liquidity and always have range, right? But small caps are a higher probability win rate on the short side. So small caps, I probably have like a 90% win rate on. So that's where I focus most of my attention and most of my money. Whereas large caps, when the small cap market is slow, I use that slow time to educate myself on large cap stocks.   Whereas me, I've already been consistent in the small cap lens, so I'm trying to expand my playbook a little bit. Hi, Alex. I found myself trading okay first few trades on the day, but if I take a few losses in a row, I get impulsive and gamble, that's a suggestion. So that's because you were revenge trading. You feel like you have to get back to where you were and the truth of the matter is you should have a give back rule. So let's say you make $1,000 on the day. You should give yourself a 20% give back rule.  If this TKLF is squeezing. How much percent are your long trades?  I'm mostly short bias. Any other questions, guys? This is your opportunity, man. And even at the meetup, it was all the kids asking the questions. None of the older people were asking questions. I don't know why, but the kids are hungry, man. When shorting a broken pre-market chart playing the VWAP rejection after opening, if it goes up to VWAP again and does a fake out, do you exit or enter again after it pulls back on the review app? If it reclaims, exit. And then if it tanks again, just get back in. You have to protect yourself. You have to manage your risk. You have to make sure that you are staying alive because you never know what these stocks could do. Can you make consistent money longing small caps? I mean, if you know what you're doing, there's a lot of people in MIC that make consistent money longing small caps. There is opportunity there, there is edge there, but you must be educated first. Zombie rules are everything.   That right there is money. How many setups should new traders focus on when getting started? What you should do first is learn, learn a bunch of different setups and test them all out, paper trade. Paper trade every single setup that we have and find the setup that fits your personality. What do you think of tracking data? Yeah, you should definitely track your data to find out what your most profitable and your best setups are. If your max size is 100 shares, should you scale in lines or wait for outer lines? Scale, use the 30% rule. Do 10, 10, 10 shares at a time until your 30% size and then if the stock confirms, breaks down, breaks out whatever your setup is, then you add on that confirmation. I think I'm gonna call it there guys. I have a lot of member questions to kind of get back to and a lot of work to catch up on. So I know Bao's gonna be doing an Instagram live tomorrow at 11 a.m. So I appreciate everyone that came to the meetup. It was very, very successful, very, very fun and we plan on doing a lot more meetups. So thanks for everyone. I hope this video helped. I hope you guys learned a lot and if you guys have any questions about joining, you could email tosh at myinvestingclub.com. You could text them at<PHONE_NUMBER> and I'll see you guys back in the room. Thank you guys so much for attending and thank you so much for watching.


Welcome back to the channel. Today I wanna talk about something that affects a lot of new entrepreneurs or people who are learning new skills or doing something meaningful in their life. And that is imposter syndrome. Now imposter syndrome, it affects anybody who is starting something new and feeling uncomfortable. It's that feeling of I'm a fraud, I can't be doing this because I'm not the best in the world at this.  So I think it's important to talk about this. I've been getting a lot of comments on my channel of how do I deal with this feeling of not being the best? I feel like I'm a fraud. I don't know if I should continue doing this. And I can relate. It's something that I've struggled with for a long time. It's something that I struggle with today still. Whenever I'm learning a new skill or I'm doing something new, there's always that feeling and voice in the back of my head of, well, you're not the best in the world at this. What right do you have to help somebody else with this? And I wanna talk about some tips that have helped me to manage this feeling and to overcome this feeling of being an imposter.  So first thing is everybody starts off as an imposter. And I know that sounds weird, but if you think about someone like Jeff Bezos who started Amazon, one of the biggest companies in the world, it started off as an online bookstore. It wasn't this company that sold everything. So Jeff Bezos, do you think he knew he was gonna build one of the biggest companies in the world? Probably not. I mean, maybe he had that as a goal, but that didn't start off, Amazon didn't start off as the biggest company in the world. So in some ways, Jeff Bezos was an imposter in the beginning. So everybody starts off this way and it's just learning how to manage and think about this and use it to fuel you instead of just using it as a way or an excuse to not do this thing that you're working on. So it's your responsibility as a human being to share your ideas, to learn new things and to share what you're learning with the world. At least that's my opinion. So what I wanna do here is share with you three ways that I was able to overcome imposter syndrome or at least what I use, this mindset that I use to manage this feeling of being an imposter. So let's jump into these three things right now. So the first tip for overcoming imposter syndrome is to first imitate and then innovate. And I learned this from a guy named David Perrell. I follow him on Twitter, brilliant writer and he talks about this a lot is the greatest people in the world every single thing didn't start off as innovators. They first started imitating somebody else who was an expert in the field and then they formed their own style and their own way of doing things after they started first imitating that person. So for example, I get a lot of people asking me like how did you get good at writing and copywriting and email marketing and all these things that I do now? I didn't start off as the top in the world at it. I'm still not the top in the world at it. But the way that I started off was I would find letters and emails from some of the top marketers in the world and I would just literally hand copy their letters and hand copy their emails so that I could have imprinted in my brain and learn about how they were doing it, how their style of writing, what they were doing, how were they transitioning from sentence to sentence and by just literally hand copying, I have notebooks on my shelf here of just hand copied notes and letters. I was able to learn the structure of good copy and good emails and it just stuck with me from hand copying for months. So after writing hundreds and hundreds of sales letters and emails from some of the greats in the industry, I started to get a better feeling of writing and the flow and how things were supposed to work. And from there I was able to create my own stories and my own style and my own form of writing. But it was only first starting off from imitating the greats that I was able to figure out, okay, this is how the sentence structure goes, this is how the flow of emails or a sales letter goes and this is how you can create your own tone and create your own voice. So some of the greatest artists in the world have done this as well. And some of the greatest sports players, right? Kobe Bryant modeled his gameplay after Michael Jordan when he first got started and eventually throughout his career, he got better and better and he had his own style, his own killer instinct. But it all started off imitating MJ. So that's tip number one, is to first imitate then innovate. So tip number two is just because something is easy to you or obvious to you doesn't mean it's obvious to other people. So the tip is to value what you do. And it's funny because the better and faster that we get at doing something, the less that we tend to value it. And we start to think like, oh, this is so easy for me, it's boring. It's boring because I can do this in my sleep. And we start to get into this habit of thinking if it's boring and easy to me and obvious to me, it must be this way for everybody else. And that's how I was with a lot of my stuff, right? Writing emails and writing sales pages, I thought it would be obvious to everybody and creating offers, but it's not. So I have a student who started writing emails 10 months ago, started from scratch. And now he's pretty good at writing emails. He writes for small e-commerce brands. And we have a conversation about a week ago and he just asked me, it feels weird and unethical for me to charge for this because I'm able to do this so fast now. And it comes a lot easier for me. I can write an email in 20 minutes. Should I be lowering my prices? And that was interesting because we tend to undervalue these things that we get good at. When we get better and faster, we should be charging more. We should be valuing it more because people are looking for this thing that they can't do, but you can do. So just because something is easier, obvious to you doesn't mean it's the same way for everybody else. So that's the second tip is to value what you do, especially if it feels easy and obvious to you because chances are it's not easy and obvious to everybody else. The third tip, and this one is huge, just really affected the way that I think about everything that I do. And it's just this mindset of you're just a third grader helping a second grader. A third grader helping a second grader. So you don't have to be the number one expert in your field. You don't have to be a college professor to help out a second grader. You just have to be one grade ahead and help them take that next step.  Now of course, you should know what you're talking about but as long as you're able to help a second grader get a result and take that step up to the third grade where you're at and maybe from there you go to fourth grade, that's all that you need.  In fact, it's probably bad if a professor were to go to the second grade and leave this big old textbook with calculus and algebra on the desk of a second grader who's just trying to learn multiplication for the first time. So this is the way that I think about it now. Can I help someone get a meaningful result? Can I help them go from second grade to third grade? If I can, I'm totally fine with moving forward and helping them, right? Whether it's a service or a coaching or a course, I'm just a third grader helping a second grader. So a good example of this is a guy named Tony Robbins. You probably know who that is. He doesn't have any personal development degrees in psychology or psychiatry or whatever it is, yet he's worth $600 million and has probably helped more people than psychologists and psychiatrists and self-help gurus. So Tony Robbins, he just went out and there's a story early in his career where someone said you don't have these degrees, you don't have all these awards. How are you qualified to help these people? He said, well, I just know how to help them and I want to help as many people as possible. And he went out and did it. Now he's worth over half a billion dollars. So you don't have to be the number one person in your field to help somebody. It doesn't matter what you do.  Just think of it as a third grader helping a second grader. So those are my three tips for getting over imposter syndrome. These three tips helped me to overcome imposter syndrome and to manage it. Tip number one is to first imitate and innovate. You're not gonna be the top innovator in a field when you're first starting out. So first start off by imitating the greats and then innovate based on your own style, your own learnings. Tip number two is to value what you do just because it's easy and obvious to you. Definitely does not mean it's easy and obvious to everyone else. And tip number three is you're just a third grader helping a second grader. You don't have to be the college professor. You don't have to be the number one in your field to help somebody get a result and improve their life or their business in some way. So hopefully this helps you with overcoming imposter syndrome if you're struggling with that right now. This has really helped me to shift my mindset, allow me to take action and continue growing even during those times where I'm feeling like, well, maybe I'm not the best in the world. Maybe I should stop doing this because I'm not at the top of my field yet. It never happens that way. It only happens once you're moving along. You're taking the steps. You're taking action on a consistent basis. So hopefully this helps you out. Give me a like if it did. Comment below what was most helpful out of these tips for you and what you're gonna be starting to do moving forward to overcome imposter syndrome. And that's it for this one. I'll see you in the next video. Take care.