from Korea to Germany, from Alaska to Puerto Rico. All over the world, the United States Army is on the alert to defend our country, you, the American people, against aggression. This is the big picture. An official television report to the nation from the United States Army. Now, to show you part of the big picture, here is Captain Carl Zimmerman. The advancements of Army medicine are brought home to all of us in this report of lives saved in Korea. The chances are almost 98 out of 100 that a wounded man will be saved once our medical people have reached him. And that's a fine record, and there are many reasons for this. Broader training for our medical personnel, quicker evacuation from the battle zone, research to find improved methods for treatment. Outstanding among the many research installations in the Army is Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. And that's our story today. It begins at the front line in Korea. I didn't remember much after the grenade landed in our bunker. They brought me back with other guys who'd run out of luck. That day I saw a lot of things I want to forget. A lot of good soldiers who would make roll call next day. Everything was medics, bandages and bottles. Oh yeah, needles. Morphine for the kid alongside. His patrol got back this morning. We wondered where we were going from here, how badly we were wounded. Would we get shipped back to the States? We didn't know, but we could hope. Everything was still kind of hazy. Medics and docs went to work and they gave me a lot of attention. I needed blood bad, and got it. I can still see that bottle hanging there, seen with every drip I was getting stronger. They moved us back to a hospital. A lot of us needed extra medical attention, including operations, and then evacuation. But again we wondered where, where are we going? All the nurse would tell us was that we were on our way back home. It was all we wanted to hear. A few days later I got the answer. We got off the plane and into an ambulance. Brought us here to Washington to Walter Reed. I knew that name. I'd read about this place and heard a lot about it from the nurses and medics. Yeah, we were home. Even from here it looked good. I would be here for quite a while, they said. They said I had to get a replacement for something I left in Korea. Before he arrived here, PFC Phillip Thornhill knew little about this institution, except that its reputation had by grapevine and legend, reached the foxholes of combat. Today on its 320 acre site in Washington D.C. and Forestland, Maryland, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, of which the hospital is but one part, is a great military medical installation. It not only treats our wounded and cares for the otherwise sick, but is engaged in a wide medical research program. In this research program, doctors and scientists are carrying on the quiet search for knowledge which will speed the recovery of the sick today and save the lives of more of our soldiers tomorrow. And in the clinic rooms, the fight continues, hated by weapons like this giant million volt X-ray machine, pinpointing disease and destroying it. To this center come many of the more difficult and challenging cases in Army and Air Force medicine, amputees, cancer and heart patients, those with brain injuries, liver disease, polio victims. And here is utilized new equipment, such as the electrocardioscope, which measures the beat of a man's heart, and shows it on a viewing screen. The Army's best known medical center is commanded by Major General Paul H. Streit. Today, every field station on the firing line is an emergency entrance to Walter Reed and other Army hospitals. To be wounded on the battle front no longer means needless and agonizing suffering, followed by infection and death. Today, once Army medical staffs get to a wounded man, the chances are 98 out of 100 that his life will be saved. No matter how badly hurt, no matter what kind of medicine or surgery he needs, the man has a 98% chance of recovery. No patient in any hospital in the world can get more expert attention or more devoted care than the American soldier in his own Army hospital. Never before have patients received such good care and never before have so many new medical and surgical methods and educational programs saved as many Army limbs and lives. I therefore am proud of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the great staffs which operate here. Private Thornhill, now a citizen of Walter Reed, begins the long journey towards recovery, a journey of pain, hard work and adjustment. They sent me to Ward 33, amputee ward. I figured it would be a gloomy place, but it wasn't. I got to know this big room pretty well. Got to know the men in it too. You know you forget about your own troubles. Just look around and you find somebody a lot worse off than you. You want to help the other guy forget. Mostly about the old outfit back in Korea and the jobs we had back home. Getting well takes a lot of time. You don't always sit around doing nothing. Night time is the worst. Everybody settles down. You're alone. Do a lot of thinking. Find a lot of things. We all do. Jack with one leg. Chuck one leg. Bill one arm. Red no legs. The length of one arm and hutch one leg. But in the morning it's back to work. Just as Private Thornhill starts toward rehabilitation and a new hand, so and other parts of the hospital, other patients are today progressing step by halting step along their individually prescribed courses of treatment. Men must learn how to walk again with artificial limbs or their own. The road back to good health is not easy at Walter Reed. Patients do not sit back and leave it to medicine and surgery alone. Once disease and infection have been killed, limbs and bodies must be made strong again. The outstanding results achieved here are obtained not by miracles, but by hard work on the part of the patient and the skill and knowledge of its medical staff. And behind it are research and educational programs which assure the best medicine and methods in the world. It's a tough physical handicap course these patients endure, but with each stretch and bend it's another step near recovery. There's no shortcut to getting well. Sometimes recovery is slow, but aiding the patient are some of the best brains in the business and up-to-date reconditioning equipment. Equipment like this rocking bed, which helps a man to breathe, or hubbored tanks in which the polyostric and fine relief, hot and cold treatments, stimulating new life into hurt limbs, diathermy treatment, and violet ray. All day long by prescription and appointment, patients come and go on their rigid schedules of recovery. Of all its great work in medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center is perhaps better known for its amputee patients. The hospital buildings are linked by special ramps to aid all types of wheelchair patients. The Center Theater even has its own wheelchair entrance. Everything possible is done to make the full facilities of the center easily available to its sick. The Center is a world leader in fundamental research of prosthetic or artificial limb. In the limb shop, the finest prosthetic appliances are designed. The old shoulder strap method of operating artificial limbs has now been replaced by a new surgical procedure named Cineplasty. After a special operation and months of reconditioning, Private Thornhill at last arrived at the day when he too got his new hand. He no longer had to watch his buddies. Well, here it is, Thornhill. It's all finished. Yes, sir. It works just like your hooks. It's the same socket. You ought to be able to use it fine. This is absolutely the best one that's ever been able to be made. You notice that the glove is made to look just like any ordinary hand. I see. And the mechanism works just like the hooks. Pull the cable. Open. I see, sir. Pull. Close. Pull. Off. Sir, how much pressure can you put on them to break them on them? Well, now, this will do about 40 pounds. I'll show you how it works later on. Let's try it. There you are, Thornhill. How does it feel? It feels kind of funny, sir. Yes, I think you'll find it'll feel funny for a little while, but with practice you'll get used to it and pretty soon it'll be just like a real flesh and blood hand. I see, sir. Be surprised how strong that is. Here, here's 40 pounds down here. How about picking that up for me? Okay, sir. Now try it with your other hand. There you see? I see, sir. And you'll find that it's delicate enough to pick up an egg shell, too. Here. That'll give you some idea of how versatile it is. Yes, sir. Now I'll be seeing you again next week, and you keep practicing with that, and I'll expect to find pretty good improvement in it. Okay, sir. Good luck. Yes, sir. To go with the mechanical hand, the amputee is given a life-like plastic glove, which is colored to the exact skin tones of his natural hand. This glove has fingerprints, palm lines, veins, and even freckles and scars. These skin gloves are being approved constantly and are subjected to weather tests and durability examinations.  When an amputee wears one, it's hard to tell he has lost a hand. For heavier duty, an improved hook is also issued to each amputee, but even this can perform domestic duties of the most delicate kind. It is then only a matter of practice and adjustment before the amputee can do almost anything with his new hand. He realizes that it's almost as useful as the one he left in Korea. In the occupational therapy room, other soldiers work their way slowly towards good health. It might be an amputee making a leather wallet or a wounded combat veteran busy in the hospital print shop. Even here, the patients are supervised by specialists and human understanding. Therapists who with a smile and a friendly gesture can further the healing where medicine has stopped. Busy hands make occupied minds, and even if the hands have to be helped, patients enjoy this kind of treatment. But only a few of the center's patients come to Walter Reed in search of a new hand or leg. Some living in a world of silence come here in search of better hearing. One of the center's most active clinics is audiology, the army's only hearing and speech correction center. Electronic testing devices are used for diagnosis, in some cases which need special testing. Hearing aids are given those who need them. To find out the decibel loss of hearing, tests like this one are used. To the patient's fingers are attached electrodes which pick up any change in skin resistance. The examiner then sends a tone through the earphones on the patient's head, sending a mild electrical shock through his other arm. When and if the patient hears the tone, he anticipates the shock and the psychometer measures the skin resistance change in his fingers. In a special room at the clinic, another testing device is used to measure hearing. It is this electric chair-looking machine. An operator sends a clicking sound through the earphones on the patient's head. If the patient hears the sound, he involuntarily blinks his eye. It is impossible for the patient to control this reflex, and the phonograph pickup with a blunt-ended wire records the reaction on a screen. When their diagnosis is complete, each patient is fitted with a hearing aids due to his particular hearing loss, and then begins a rehabilitation program, including speech reading. Good morning. This is a class in speech reading, and I'm going to show you how speech reading can help your hearing. For instance, all of these things are indications of what people are going to say. If you watch me, I will show you. Watch my facial expression and my lips. What did I say? I watched my facial expression. That's right.  Now let's try another one. Watch my facial expression again and watch my lips. What did I say now? That's right. Men who were wounded, men whose ears have been deafened by the continuous roar of heavy guns, and an airman whose defect was caused by the scream of jet engines. All meet here on common ground. They watch their buddies act out soundless dramas at the clinic's barn theater and improve their lip-reading technique by following the silent dialogue. And they learn how to listen again using a hearing aid. The hearing aids must learn how to do the everyday things which must now be done differently.  And some adult patients must again begin at the beginning. As new methods meet new demands, it has become more and more obvious that the great strength of army medicine rests in the research laboratories and in the ability of doctor-scientists to stay abreast of changing types of warfare. Backbone of army medical education and research is the Army Medical Service Graduate School, another part of Walter Reed. Its mission is research in biological and medical sciences as well as advanced training of army medical officers. In these buildings were tested and found valuable the new antibiotic drugs which may have saved Private Thornhill's life and which may protect our soldiers in whatever land they serve. Here too, army doctors receive graduate training in special diseases affecting the military. They follow in the steps of Major Walter Reed, Conqueror of Yellow Fever, and the man after whom this installation is named. Few people realized that some of the major battles of the last war were waged in this building on the hill. Not a single soldier, even those serving in disease-ridden areas, died of typhus. This can be partly traced to the work done in these laboratories. Gateway to a new era in medical research is the school's radioactive isotope lab where atomic power is used for clinical investigation and treatment. Radioactive iodine, sent straight from Oak Ridge, is made into what you might call an atomic cocktail and is swallowed by a patient whose thyroid condition is under investigation. 24 hours later, under a huge Geiger counter, the patient is measured for the amount of radioactivity retained by the thyroid. In the biologic division of the school, our produce scores of vaccines for our army and the struggle to provide immunization against disease for our fighting men wherever they serve is the daily problem of these specialists. To improve inoculation methods, a multiple-dose high-pressure injection gun is being tested. It is hoped it will replace the hypodermic needle. The jet gun has no needle and it shoots vaccine into the patient by compressed air. With this new injection gun, large groups of people could be treated quickly. More than ever before, blood is today a leading factor in the recovery of the wounded. Here again, research is tirelessly at work. Glass containers, now used for the collection and storage of blood, stand little chance of survival in the event of atomic attack. Under test now at Walter Reed and other army hospitals is the army's possible answer, a durable plastic blood container which remains unbroken even when dropped. And more limbs and lives are being saved by the use of artery and bone banks. Human arteries are being kept alive for about 30 days and by skillful surgery, are put back as replacements for any damaged artery which had to be removed. Also at Walter Reed is the Advanced Medical Technician School. Enlisted soldiers and wax receive a year's intensified course in practical nursing. These medical technicians will provide additional needed support to the graduate commissioned nurses. A comprehensive dental program is also being carried out at Walter Reed and new research instruments like this cephalometer which x-rays the whole jaw are being used. Advanced educational and training courses for officers in the dental corps of the United States Army and Air Force are another part of the program. New techniques are taught and the entire program is designed to improve the dental health of all our citizens. The research behind army medicine is not confined to the buildings at Walter Reed, but stretches out across the world in jungle, mountain, or village. Expeditions are sent out like this one to Malaya to study scrub titus. In search of knowledge, the scientists deliberately expose themselves to virus-carrying lice. Natives and scientists alike are subjected to the same infections and the same medicines. The doctors of this expedition wanted to know what effect the bite of the lice would have on themselves. Such an innocent-looking bite has been the cause of wiping out the entire population of a Malayan village. Only recently has science found an effective antibiotic which can fight this form of titus. Under the microscope, the scrubbed titus looks like this. Back at Walter Reed, a more intensified study is made of the findings of these self-sacrificing doctors, and this is what the mite looks like enlarged into a drawing. Doctors and scientists search for the answers to diseases like hepatitis, a liver infection. A special study of this disease is being made at Walter Reed and patients are kept under constant observation. Everything the patients do is watched and noted. Tests and analysis reveal the course of the disease and the progress of the patients. Each patient lives on a controlled diet and the food they eat is measured to a milligram. Then it is served under close supervision. But the day all patients wait for is the day of their discharge and they carry with them a prayer they remember. God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Courage to change the things we can and wisdom to know the difference. Private Thornhill's day came too. His rehabilitation was now complete enough for his discharge. He faces the future with confidence and a new hand. But behind him at the center men are busy at the game of getting well. Their handicaps forgotten in the next challenge. In every ward every day doctors, scientists nurses and the soldiers they serve continue the humanitarian cycle forging new links to strengthen the reputation of this great Army Medical Center, Walter Reed. Adapting new methods of medicine making yesterday's experiments the medical practices of today. That's what's being done at Walter Reed and other medical centers throughout your Army. Now next week on The Big Picture we'll take you to the far east and to Europe to show how information and education is brought to the soldier overseas. This is Captain Carl Zimmerman inviting you to be with us then. The Big Picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the Army at home and overseas produced by the Signal Corps Photographic Center presented by the U.S. Army in cooperation with this station. You can be an important part of The Big Picture. You can proudly serve with the best equipped the best trained the best fighting team in the world today the United States Army.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat. Hey, welcome back everyone. We are here live in San Francisco at Moscone West. This is theCUBE's exclusive coverage of Red Hat Summit 2018. I'm John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE. This week, John Troyer, guest analyst. He's the co-founder of Tech Reckoning, an advisory and a consulting firm around community. Our next guest is Matt Hick, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat. He's going to give us all the features and specs of the roadmap and all the priorities. Thanks for coming on. Hey, thanks guys. He's like, oh no not. So thanks for coming on. I'll see a successful show for you guys. Congratulations. Thank you. Paul Comey was on earlier talking about some of the bets you guys made. And it's all open source, so those bets are all part of the community, with the community. But certainly there's a big shift happening. We're seeing it now with containers and Kubernetes really showing the way, giving customers clear line of sight of where things are starting to fall in the stack. Obviously got infrastructure and application development all under a DevOps kind of concept. So congratulations. Thank you. It's been fun. It's been, I think Paul shared this a couple. We started OpenShift from 2011. So it's pretty cool to be here now in 2018 and just see how far that's come in terms of how many customers are using it, how successful they've been with it. So that's been great. You know we always like to talk on theCUBE. We love talking to product people and engineers because we always say, the cloud is like an operating system. It's just all over the place. Decentralized network, distributed computing. These are concepts that have been around. A lot of the Red Hat DNA comes from systems. You sell an operating system that you offer for free but also have services around it. It's a systems problem as we look at the cloud. Cloud economics. So when you go look at some of the product and engineering priorities, how do you guys keep that going? What are some of the guiding principles that you guys have with your team? Obviously open source being an upstream project, but as you guys have to build this out in real time, what are some of the principles that you guys have? It's a great question. I'll try to cover it on two areas. I think the first for us is workload compatibility where you get down into the building that new apps is great. It's fun. A lot of people can do it and that's an exciting area but customers also, they have to deal with apps. They've built over 10 plus years and so in everything we design, we try to make sure we can address both of those use cases. I think that's one of the reasons, we talked about OpenShift and how coupled it is to RHEL and Linux. It's for that. You can take anything that runs on RHEL, run it in a container on OpenShift, stateful, not stateful. That's one really key design principle. The other one, and this we've actually experienced ourselves, of the roles and responsibilities separation, we run an OpenShift host environment publicly. I joke like anyone that gives me an email address, I'll run their code and my operations team doesn't have to know what's inside of the containers. They have a really clear boundary which is make the infrastructure infinitely available for them and know that you can run anything on that environment. So that separation, when customers talk about DevOps and getting to Agile, I think that's almost as critical as the technology itself letting them be able to do that. That's been a real theme here at the show. I've certainly noticed, sure there were technology demos up on stage, but also a lot of talk about culture, about process or anti-planning maybe, or helping people. The role of Red Hat with OpenShift and the full stack all the way down is bigger now than it was just Linux. So I mean, is you and your team, I mean you're in engineering, as you work with the open source communities, surely it seems like you're having to deal with a much broader scope of responsibilities. Yeah, I started in Red Hat when it was just Linux and part of it is Linux is big and it's complex and that in and of itself is a pretty broad community, but these days it is, we get to work with customers that are transforming their business and that touches everything from how they're organizationally structured, how we make teams work together, how I make the developers happy with their rate of innovation and this security team still comfortable with what they're changing and I love it. Like it is, you know, and we're open source at our core, so I feel like I'm an open source guy, I always have been, you're seeing open source drive a much wider scope of change than I ever have before. Let's talk about functionality product-wise because again we interviewed Jim Whitehurst yesterday and we had Denise Dumas on as well on the REL side and we talked about security, these things are going on and with OpenShift and with Kubernetes and containers, it makes your job harder. You got to do more, right? So talk about what does that mean for you guys and how does that translate to the customer impact because it's more complicated. There's abstraction layers that are abstracting away the complexity and complexity is not going away, it's just being abstracted away. This is harder on engineering. How are you handling that and what's your approach? So I've looked at it as a great opportunity for us. So I've been working with Linux for a long time and I was a big fan when we introduced SC Linux and for a long time moving from traditional Linux hosting to operations teams wanting to turn on SC Linux, it's been a really tough climb. It'll break things so they're not comfortable with it. They know they need that layer of security but turning it on has been a challenge. Then go to C groups or different namespaces and they're not going to get there. With OpenShift, the vast majority of OpenShift deployments under the covers we run with SC Linux on by default, customize policies, everything's in control groups. Containers uses Linux namespaces. So you get a level of workload isolation that it was unimaginable five, 10 years ago and I love that aspect because you start with one aspect of security, you get much, much stronger. So it's our ability to, we know all the levers and knobs in Linux itself and we get to turn them all and pull them all. I want to push on the spot and it's not an insult to you guys at all but we've heard some hallway conversations just in a joking way because everyone loves Linux, open source, we all love that. But they say nothing's perfect either, no software actually runs all the time, great. So one customer said, I won't say the name, when OpenShift fails, it fails big. Meaning it's very reliable but it's taking on a lot of heavy lifting. There's a lot of things going on there because it's Linux, when it breaks, it breaks a lot and you're trying to avoid that but my point is is that these are important components. How do you make that completely bulletproof? How do you guys stay on top of it so that things don't break? I'm not saying they do all the time, just saying his comment was more of an order of a magnitude thing. Yeah, I think it's a couple of things. So we invested in OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated and those were new for Red Hat if we're running hosting environments so we could learn a lot of the nuances of how do you, OpenShift Online is roughly a single environment. How do we make that never break as a whole? A user might do something in their app and make their app break. How do we not make the whole break? The second challenge I think we've hit is just skills in the market of it's not necessarily an easy system. There are lots of moving pieces there. The deal with Azure and the partnership there, having managed service offerings I think is really going to help users get into, I have a highly available environment. I don't have to worry about SCD replication of those components but I can still get the benefits. And then I think over time as people learn the technology they know how to utilize it well. We'll see less and less of the it catastrophically failed because I didn't know I could make it highly available. Those are always painful to me. That's education. Yeah, yep. So Matt, there's a clear conversation here. Very clarity of roles and responsibilities even in the stack. I think even as recently as a year or two ago people were having conversations about the role of OpenStack versus Kubernetes and you were getting kind of weird like what's on top of what and even in terms of other parts of the stack. I mean here, it's very clear. OpenStack is about infrastructure, OpenShift on top of it and even in terms of virtualization, containers versus VMs. The conversation this year seems more clear. As an engineer and an engineering leader did the engineering teams rolling their eyes going well we knew how this was going to work out all along or did you all also kind of come along on that journey the last couple years? I think seeing the customer use cases refine a little bit while education builds those has been great. We always, we're engineers. We like clear separation and what each product's good at. So for us it's fantastic. OpenStack is great at managing metal. One of my favorite demonstrations was using OpenStack Director to on a boot machines, put OSs on them and leave OpenShift running and be able to share network and storage planes with OpenStack. Those things are great for me as an engineering lead because we're doing that once as well as we can but it's nice in engineering if you get to optimize each side of the stack. So I think I have seen the customer's understanding as they've done more with OpenStack they've done more with OpenShift they know which product they want to use what for that has helped us accelerate the engineering work towards it. You mentioned skills, skills gaps and skills in general. How's the hiring going? Is there a new kind of DevOps Rockstar out there? Is there a new kind of profile? Is there pieces of the stack that you want certain skills for? Is there generalism? Are the roles in engineering changing? Can you just add some color to that conversation around, because we're talking about engineering now, it used to be called software engineering when I graduated college and you became a developer. I don't know which one's better but to me there's real engineering going on which is using software development techniques. So what's the skills situation? For us I think it is nice you're seeing a lot of gravitation to Linux at the host level and Kubernetes has helped just at the distributed system level so obviously skills there play pretty well in general. I would say what we have seen is there's been a stronger increase in having operational skills as well as development skills and it's a spectrum. You're still going to have operational experts and algorithmic experts but the blended role where you do know what it takes to run an application in production to some extent and you do know some about infrastructure and development. I certainly look for that on our teams because that's where customers I've seen struggle for years and years is in the handoff and the shift between everyone can write functional apps. They usually struggle getting them into production and it's really neither team's fault it's in that translation and these platforms help bridge that. People that have some skills on either side have become incredibly valuable in that. So that's where the DevOps action is right, the overlay. It really is, yeah. So what do you about the networking growth with DevOps? DevOps has always been infrastructure's code. In all concerts it's still minimum I always talk about. There's always a network that gets the beat on the most. I need better latency. And so networking software to find networking is not a new concept. So I'll find data centers out there. What's new in networking that you could point to that's part of this new wave? Two geeky things that might not have been noticed. One is the work we've done on Ansible Networking has been stunningly popular to me and that was just the simplicity of Ansible it just needs SSH in a minimal set of dependencies. Most switches out there can actually, they have SSH running and having automation of switches and the actual gear itself was surprisingly not unified and Ansible was able to fit that niche where you could remotely configure switches and that has grown and exploded because if you think of the, I'm going to do a DevOps workflow but now I need to actually change routing or bleed something. You're often talking to switches and being able to couple that in has been, it has been fun to watch. So I've loved that aspect. The other portion when we combine OpenShift on OpenStack, the courier work which we've talked about some is you know OpenShift often describe as it consumes infrastructure that OpenStack provides and the one exception was usually the networking tier. It's like we have to run an overlay network on it. When we run OpenShift on OpenStack it can actually utilize OpenStack's networking to be able to provide that instead of doing its own overlay. That is critical. So the policy comes in handy there is that war configurations? Where's the benefit? Both on network topology which do you have two teams that are building different structures that may collide in the night? So it gets it from two teams down to one and then the second is just the knock controls and isolation it's done once. It's been nice for me in the engineering side where we put a ton of effort in the OpenStack community. We put a ton of effort in Kubernetes and the OpenShift communities and we're able to pretty nicely combine those. We know them both really well. So take us through some inside baseball at Red Hat. What's going on internally within your group? I want to probe on developer and software engineers productivity. If you quote DevOps works, the test is the freeing up their time from doing mundane tasks and you got cool things like you said but the network thing is pretty positive. This is going to free up some intellectual capital from engineering. So okay, if that's true, I'm assuming it's true. If it's not, then say it's not true. But if it sounds like it's probably going to be true for you. What are your guys working on? What's next?  Is that intellectual capital being freed up on the developer side? Are they doing more programming? Are you seeing some more creativity? What are they doing with that free time, extra intellectual cycle? I'm excessive. Tell Paul how he was up before me. Like Matt Steen barely has to work anymore. They're clipping coupons at the beach, you know. That's right. It's all running, we're busy. So a good creative example and this was I think the second demo we showed. Red Hat Insights has been in the market for a while and that was our, can we glean enough information from systems to get ahead of a support issue? And this year we showed the, it's not just known fixes, we match it to a knowledge-based article but can we interpret fixes from peer analysis and machine learning type techniques? That's a classic example where we use the creativity in free time to say that stack internally runs on OpenShift, running on OpenStack using Red Hat Storage and we're applying some of, you know, TensorFlow and other capabilities to do that. That was probably my favorite example at Summit where if we weren't getting more efficient at what we worked on, we wouldn't have been able to stand up that stack ourselves, much less execute to it and show it live in Summit, doing the analysis across a hybrid cloud. But this is the whole point of DevOps. This is the whole purpose, being highly productive to use those intellectual cycle times to build stuff, solve problems. Yeah, absolutely. The vision servers or networks. That's right, yeah. Awesome. Well, hey, thanks for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate it. Thank you guys. What's the priorities for you guys this year? What's the focus? Share some, share your plans for the year. Yeah, I think it's similar to the last thing we showed today. We really want to make customers feel like they can deploy hybrid cloud, whether it's compute applications, they have the services they need, down to storage, it works. They're on premise. They know we're going to have the best combination we can. This year is a stay ahead of people on that path, make sure they're successful with it. We'll see you guys at OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. Thanks for coming on, Matt Hicks. Thanks a lot, guys. Senior Vice President of Engineering, Red Hat. I'm John Furrier, John Troyer. Stay with us. We're day three of three days of live coverage here in San Francisco, Red Hat Summit 2018. Stay with us. We'll be right back after this short break.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering ServiceNow Knowledge 2018. Brought to you by ServiceNow. Hey, welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at ServiceNow Knowledge 18, 2018. Been here for six years, it's amazing. It's like 18,000 people all over the sans convention center, huge ecosystem and we're excited to be back as usual. And our next guest, Greg Dietrich, he's a VP of Operations and Engineering at DXC, joined by Tim Henderson, Director of Automation Engineering at DXC. So gentlemen, welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having us here. Yeah, absolutely. So first off, just kind of impressions of the show that's amazing. This thing grows like four or 5,000 people, I think, every single year. Yeah, it's amazing to see 18,000 people here at a ServiceNow conference. I actually attended back in October of 2007 before they had knowledge. I attended a first user group session in New York where there was about 70 people around the table. It's for you and Fred and a couple other people, right? Fred, his brother who ran operations at the time and a few more. That's right.  So you guys have a long history and really making a bet on the ServiceNow value proposition. Yeah, that's right. CSC and now DXC has had a long history of partnership with ServiceNow. And as you said, as evidenced by some of these acquisitions that we did with fruition and logic Alice, the guys with the green suits around here. And that continues to be a very strong part of our business. Good bet. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And what's interesting and I'm sure back of the day, we used to talk to Fred, he had this great platform, but nobody's got line item budget for a new platform, right? So you have to build the application. Obviously the story is well known. He built the service management application, but he still has that great platform underneath. And now we're seeing all these different kind of applications built on this platform beyond what the original applications are. I think that's what you see is the pivot to more focus on business and less about IT, right? And that's what we're doing with Bionics and Platform DXC is taking a completely different angle that we're trying to orchestrate business within an ecosystem, which ServiceNow is a key construct of. And it resonates with clients. We've showed what we've done to several major clients and it's really trying to achieve, like John said, business outcomes and less about the IT. But how can you quickly bundle, sequence workflows and capability to get efficiency and automation into the workplace? Right. So let's dig down a little deeper on that application. So what a problem did you approach? Why was this the right tool to go after this problem? Sure. The big thing that Tim and I are driving across DXC is our DXC-Bionics approach, which is really centered on how can we transform and digitally transform our delivery engine, right? So we're applying data and analytics and leaning out our people and processes and applying technology and automation tools to really drive intelligent automation across everything we do to get better, faster, cheaper, more automated, scalable, repeatable. In doing that, it was really important that we took a platform approach and ServiceNow has been a cornerstone in that platform and we call that platform, platform DXC. And why do you call it Bionics? So Bionics for us is that combination of data, people and technology. So it's not just automation as the silver bullet and just the technology. It has to be that combination of the data with the people and the technology and automation coming together to make people work smarter, work more intelligently. Right. And I think some of that too is the muscle part of it, right? You think Bionics, but as Greg said, you really got to understand the root business problem or what's occurring. And a lot of people we've seen in the industry are applying just automation without really understanding the underlying problem. And a lot of companies have had IT implemented in a diversified portfolio for 20 years and these disparate systems are very siloed and there's a lot of waste in the value stream of their company. And if you really don't break that apart and look at that, you're really not helping them lead in their marketplace. Right. It's just fascinating how we just continue to find these big, giant buckets of inefficiency all the way back to the original ERP days and just keep finding so many giant buckets that where things are just not working as smoothly as they could. And it's not just, you know, people look at this somewhat, they'll say, well, automation is to get heads out. Well, actually it's to free up heads, right, Greg? To where you can actually empower these people to go do other value added things for that company and not sit here in this toil or managing technical debt or inefficient waste. It's really liberating. But it does take a good champion within a company to go pull that off. And clearly the people part's probably the hardest part, right? In the keynote yesterday, John touched on kind of best practices and one of them, I think, number three was, you know, a commitment to change process. And that's obviously a big part of your guys' business, helping people to get through that piece of it because I laugh, I have Alexa and I have a Google Home and they send me emails on how I should interact with this thing, right? To try to help me change my behavior, to take advantage of this new technology, like, oh, okay, so it's hard to change people's behavior. Yeah, so the people component comes down to a couple of things. One, it comes down to skills, right? And there's been a lot of discussion here this week around getting the right skills, the digital types of skills that are needed in this new economy. But the other piece that's more important, I think, around people is this cultural pivot, right? So a big piece of our digital transformation has not been about technology, but it has been about a cultural change, thinking differently, challenging the status quo, working differently, right? That agile DevOps, eliminating that fear of failure, let's fail fast, let's learn from it in that continual incremental way of driving improvement. Right, right. And something we did when Greg and I experimented with this, we actually didn't know how it was going to work out. To put the platform itself together, we created this concept called a buildathon. And it sounds like a buildathon. A buildathon. Not a hackathon, but a buildathon. So we have our team, we have ServiceNow, we have AWS, Microsoft, Dell, other partners in there, and we write code together. It's no PowerPoint, you know, you're doing scrum sessions, sprints, and we basically created the platform in 230 days, which is phenomenal when you think about it. From inception to briefing Greg and the CTO of our company, Dan Hushin, to saying it's open for business. And it's, like Greg said, empowering people, getting them to work. But one thing we're doing is getting our partners to build with us. We call it co-creation. I know that's a little dicey term, but you can take that the wrong way. But they're having fun with it because instead of getting all caught up in contractuals and, you know, what am I going to make on this? It's like, let's go try some things and build together and then go, oh, well I made that water glass and I can go price this in here and everybody understands what they're going to make in it, right, is a business. And it's huge, it transforms the workforce. Our partner network loves it. They're lined up to get into the framework. And like Greg says, it's re-energized our workforce. It's been huge. It's so interesting, the whole DevOps conversation. So all these terms, Moore's Law, et cetera, have a very specific application, but I think it's much more interesting, the more general purpose application of that method. You know, whether it's Moore's Law and just presumption that we're just going to keep getting better, faster, cheaper and driving forward, or really DevOps, which is, no, we're not going to do a big ol' MRD and we're not going to do a big giant PRD and spec this thing out and start our build and someday down the road, hope to deliver something. It's like, let's start delivering now.  It's got to be that more interactive, collaborative, gradual way. And the thing about the people, you know, we go to a ton of shows, right? Everyone's automation's going to take people away, but I've never heard anyone say we're overstaffed. That we have more people qualified in these new areas than we need. I mean, there's still such a demand for people across the board or whether it's truck driving or anything else, right? It's unlocking the power of those people. And just to kind of share, you know, an example, when we went through the pilot for this to go get the funding, we took basically a womb to tomb situation where we would go do infrastructure as a service, a platform and have it in the client's hands for business. In the past that would take us like 2,100 hours and eight teams and, you know, 53 handoffs. In seven weeks, we proved we could orchestrate that all the way through the last mile, getting to the client's network in two hours and 14 minutes to where the client could log in. Wow, that's game changer. It is a game changer, but you free up those resources then to help that customer understand how to leverage that application and change their business versus all this toil of trying to figure out, well, did I get the network connected? Right, right. Well, who knows how to do the firewalls and all that's, everything is code, right? And that's really, I said it earlier, we're really going towards business as code, right? Because that's what John's talking about is getting business processes as code and then empowering people to have that situational awareness. And then hopefully opening up their minds to, oh my goodness, if I can do this that easily, you know, what else can I do, right? Exactly, exactly. You know, what else can I do? So Tim, you've got an interesting background. You, not that service now is not exciting, but you were involved in a very exciting business for years and years at Cape Canaveral. So what did you do there? And what lessons did you learn there that you can apply to now? That's a great question. So it was actually an honor to support our country in that way, but I was the IT director at Cape Canaveral for 12 years and supported Atlas, Titan, and Delta rocket launches for commercial and military purposes. But what I learned there a lot was two key things, systems engineering, that's almost like DevOps for aerospace and defense is people really building a system together and understanding what they have to achieve. The other thing is command and control and that sounds a little rigid in today's world of agile. But when Greg and I talked about platform DXC, what we felt is we need a command and control system for business, right? That has a complete loop. And we're going to talk about this Thursday at 1.30. So we took a lot of those constructs and we didn't even select service now when we put the platform together. We've been a good partner with them. But then we said, you know what? They have a market leading solution. They're going to fit into the orchestration of business. And then there's an intelligence pillar and an automation pillar, but we're seeing huge gains.  And we also have, our partners are actually wanting to put their IP into our platform so people can just consume it and we could wrap a managed service wrapper around it. So it kind of turns into an IT marketplace in a way. So we're pretty excited about it. I'd love to just kind of drill down on the command and control. It's interesting. I talked to a company a couple of weeks ago and they're in aviation. Right. And the guy's like, you know, in aviation, if they want to innovate around ticketing or AV systems in the planes or that, you know, they can innovate all day long. It doesn't really matter if somebody can't print their ticket or it doesn't come up on their phone. But in terms of the safety, it's not the same in terms of the regs and the maintenance of the aircraft. It's super rigid. You can't take risk. It's a great point. And I would imagine a Cape Canaveral, although some missions have people, some people, some don't. It's still big, expensive missions and you really aren't like failing fast in kind of a developed culture. Well, you actually move pretty quick, believe it or not. You can build a rocket in six months and they'll fly it in. You can erect it and test it in 30 days in launch, which is pretty crazy when you think about it. And a rocket's a lot of hardware and software, right? What they have is that value stream of through systems engineering is situational awareness. So, for example, they know every time a torque wrench was used, who used it, so if it went out of calibration, they can immediately go back and say it was used on this guidance system, on that rocket, we need to go back and check it before it launches. And it's really a pedigree. You know who was the tech, were they assigned? Did they have the right skills? Did they capture the data for the test? And you really have a pedigree and we've actually built some of that into the platform DXC. We call it the digital thread, which is something we had worked on with the Air Force. And it's having, so if you take compliance, right, and you have this thread of everything that's occurred, whether it's a people, an asset, an application, you have a thread, so you look at compliance radically different. So we capture a lot of telemetry, whether it's technical business or security. And that's where the intelligence pillar has this whole AI engine and machine learning and things to just start pivoting radically. So it's really a closed loop system, which is what a rocket has. The airplane that probably everybody in this room flew here in, right? It's always sensing itself and adjusting. And if it has a failure potentially coming up, it notifies Boeing before that plane lands that they need something to go look at, right? That's what we're trying to do here for business. It's funny that another interviewer, Gal came, she was a lawyer, she was a homicide detective, and talked really about kind of chain of possession. And what an important concept chain of possession is but I'm just curious about how cumbersome was that before when you started versus with the tools that we have now in terms of sensors and networks and basically unlimited compute, unlimited networking and unlimited store. You know, kind of what percentage of your effort was chain of command versus actually doing things and that kind of followed along. You know, I think you asked the question how cumbersome was it? I think it was so difficult that in many cases it was not there, right? So you had these big gaps and you didn't know what happened and you didn't have the integration of the data. And now in today's world with these more real-time, cloud-based, integrated systems where you're able to get that at more and more a commoditized price, right? It's no longer as expensive and difficult to get that. It's being commoditized where in the past, in some cases you didn't have it because it was too hard or too expensive to get it. So you didn't have that closed loop kind of feedback mechanism to make sure that things go well. You know, with people and paper. Yeah. All right. So we're, I can't believe we're like May 9th, year's halfway gone. So kind of what's next steps in the balance of 2018 on this journey? If we talk a year from now, what are we going to be talking about? Yeah, so our strategy for this year ahead of us is really to continue driving Bionics or intelligent automation across our whole business unit, right? So DXC, the world's leading, largest independent services company across infrastructure, apps and BPS. So we're transforming how we deliver and deploying that at scale. So intelligent automation at scale across our business. The second key piece for us this year is to work across all of our offerings and our industry solutions to ensure that they're built for operations and built on platform DXC. So all of that efficiency, effectiveness, and automation is built into the offerings. So that's what we have ahead of us for this year. All right. Should be fun. Yeah. Yeah. And a couple of rock. Yeah. And we'll watch along Musk car, keep going through the space because that's very entertaining. It is pretty cool. Well, what's cool too is now everyone's excited to watch launches. You don't get up at six in the morning and just like count it down. And it is very cool. All right, with Tim, Greg, thanks again for taking a few minutes and stopping by. Thanks, Jeff. All right, Tim and Greg, I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE from Service Down Knowledge 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. We'll be right back after this short break. Thanks for watching.


What's good, Josh, we're Ross back again with another video. So we're gonna check out 10 insane WWE backstage moments that were caught on camera. This should be a very interesting one by WrestleMania. This is the time period we live in where you have a little bit more, I guess you can say opportunities to see what happens behind the scenes or backstage that we couldn't really see, you know, back in the day, like in the attitude era or whatnot. Other than the segments and stuff that, you know, they allow us to see like those pre-planned backstage interviews and brawls and stuff like that. Now everyone has a phone and it's really easy for someone to record something happening that probably wasn't meant to be seen by the public eye. Public eye. So we're going to check out some of these moments. Appreciate all the love and support, man. Let's get right into this one. When the WWE Network launched in 2014, it changed the way fans saw the WWE product where the network WWE began to allow fans to see behind the curtain with immersive documentaries that highlighted and that too. The documentary before 2014, seeing anything of this nature was extremely rare and was usually seen in specific documentaries such as the infamous Beyond the Mat film shows such as WWE 24 have shown fans backstage moments that really needed to be seen to be believed and it's truly wonderful that they were captured on camera. Join us now as WrestleMania looks at 10 insane WWE backstage moments caught on camera. Subscribe to WrestleMania if you haven't already. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive news. Also, check out our new channel, WrestleMania Short. Number 10, Goldberg and Triple H embrace at WrestleMania 33. It's well documented that Goldberg and Triple H weren't exactly the best friends during Goldberg's initial WWE run. However, when Goldberg returned to WWE in 2016, it looked like both men had fixed their relationship and a wholesome moment between the two legends was captured on camera. Thanks to Goldberg's 24 seven episode, we saw Goldberg backstage at WrestleMania 33. He was set to wrestle Brock Lesnar and he seemed to be in a fantastic place both mentally and physically. As Goldberg was getting ready to make his entrance, he walked up to Triple H with a huge smile on his face and they both embraced. That's a nice moment, man. Goldberg asked the game if he's ever seen him smile this much and Triple H hilariously replied, never. It's a touching moment that showed that any bad blood between the two had completely gone. Number nine, and that's how it should be.  You're both making some good money. Let let let bygones be bygones, man. Brock Lesnar offers support to the undertaker of WrestleMania 31. No, I don't think I've ever seen this one. 24 that focused on WrestleMania 31 was a special watch as it allowed fans to see the undertaker behind the scenes. In one of the most notable moments of the episode, the undertaker is seen getting ready for his match with Bray Wyatt. And that's when Brock Lesnar comes up to the undertaker, looks him right in the eyes and says, you're going to get some. Lesnar had been friends for over two decades, and this was Lesnar's way of motivating his friend ahead of this huge match. This moment was extra special because Lesnar had ended the undertaker's WrestleMania Winstreet the year prior. So it was fantastic to see that the two all time greats had such a strong rapport. Number eight. And that's once again, this is their job to make you believe like they don't really like each other or whatever the case may be. And they're putting on physical pain in the ring. But when they get behind that curtain, nine times out of ten. Well, I wouldn't say nine times out of ten. I would say depending on the wrestler or what not and how long they've been in the business and their relationship with each other. For the most part, they're they're pretty cool. Pretty pretty cordial with each other. Probably somewhere even actually a good friend. So, you know, it's it's just crazy seeing that once they get behind that curtain, how everything kind of changes. The Miz receives medical attention at WrestleMania 27. When WrestleMania 27 had gone off the air, there was immediate concern for the Miz. The Miz had suffered a serious concussion. Oh, yeah, I did forget about that. That's why his head did hit the ground. This led to Miz wrestling the final stages of the match completely out of it. The division of the WWE 24 showed fans what the Miz went through following WrestleMania, and it gave a close-up look at what WWE was back in 2011. Miz is medically evaluated in the clip and even the Rock looks incredibly concerned. Once a medical evaluation is completed, the Rock and the Miz embrace and a great one offers some great words of encouragement to the WrestleMania main eventer. And once again, I know people like to give, you know, the Miz hate, but you got to give him respect. He's done a lot in the business, bro. He has and you can only respect someone that wasn't meant to make it for a lot of people in the back when he came from the real world reality TV. He was not meant to make it. They didn't want him to make it. And let me say like that. He was meant to make it because he's there now. But people backstage, they didn't want him to make it and he did. So got to give him credit there. But seven Vince McMahon shuns Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 33. One of the major disappointments of WrestleMania 33 was the match placement of Chris Jericho versus Kevin Owens. The match itself was fine, but the rivalry and story heading into the match deserved more than the second match placement at WrestleMania. Due to the placement of the card, fan interest in the match wasn't exactly high and Vince McMahon reportedly hated the match and called it one of the worst matches he's ever seen. During Kevin Owens's WWE 365 documentary, Owens can be seen asking what man if they're good backstage and McMahon replies. No, it's a fascinating insight into how the WWE talent looks for the approval of McMahon and how McMahon is never one to shy away from his opinions. Damn, it's crazy. He just nah, we're not good. Ultimately, I do think they fix things and patch things. But at that time, damn, I just really think they really should have. I think that should have been for the title. That to me personally, I think it should have been for the title. I enjoyed the story. They were telling with them feuding. They used to be best friends. Now they're feuding. I don't know, man, they had something there. I just feel like they kind of dropped a ball with it. Smackdown in 2021 and similar 2021 fans were finally allowed to attend WWE shows again. The COVID-19 pandemic meant that fans were previously prohibited from attending WWE events, but this was now changing. WWE captured tremendous footage backstage from the first Smackdown back with fans and in the footage, Edge is hyping up Dominic Mysterio.  So he was obviously nervous, but Edge along with Dominic's father Rey were both there to assure him that he would do just fine. The trio were going to wrestle the bloodline in a thrilling six man tag in front of a red hot sold out crowd. Of course. Number five, the Hardy Boys return at WrestleMania 33. This was a great WrestleMania moment. The return of Matt and Jeff Hardy. The two would return as a great surprise and even ended up winning the Royal Tag Team titles footage from the WWE 24 special shows a camera crew following the duo ahead of their return. And as they're about to make their entrance, the two have an intimate interaction with Vince McMahon. Firstly, Matt goes up to McMahon and McMahon rises from his chair and gives Matt a huge hug. This is then followed by Jeff doing the same. And in an emotional moment, McMahon simply says, welcome home. Yeah, Matt and Jeff had been through a lot of personal turmoil in the past decade. Yeah, great to see McMahon welcome one of the greatest tag teams of all time back with open arms. And it's crazy. They're not there anymore. I mean, they'll probably end up their careers in AEW most likely, which I'm okay with. Number four, Snoop Dogg gives the Undertaker a gift at WrestleMania 39. Snoop Dogg has notoriously always been a huge WWE fan and his hosting role at WrestleMania 39 received widespread praise. Love Uncle Snoop, man. I love his custom title too. He truly loves the WWE in the footage Snoop Dogg walks up to the Undertaker and his wife Michelle McCool and hands them both a gift. The gift appears to be a necklace of some kind, but it's not just a gift that makes the moment special. Snoop Dogg offers flattering words towards the Deadman, but also towards Michelle McCool. That's awesome refers to McCool as a queen. Take her and McCool are visibly stunned by Snoop Dogg's that's awesome. Man, really rare to see the Undertaker showing so much raw emotion. That's because they're both legends. They're both goats in their respective fields. Everybody respects and loves the Undertaker and everybody respects and loves Snoop Dogg. So that's that's a I've never seen that clip, man. That's a wholesome moment. I love to see it. Roman Reigns announces his cancer has returned at Raw 2018. This was a very emotional moment here. 22nd 2018 edition of Raw. Very emotional watch during the show, reigning Universal champion Roman Reigns announced to the fans that his leukemia had returned. This moment sent shockwaves throughout the wrestling world as it was naturally serious concern for Roman Reigns. They capture the moment backstage in which Reigns returned through the curtain following his announcement and it's hard not to watch the footage without being emotional. The first person Reigns walked up to is Triple H. These two have always had a thriving relationship. Even main event in WrestleMania 32 against each other. Reigns proceeded to hug Shawn Michaels and Paul Heyman and before Reigns knows it, virtually all the locker room is waiting to offer their support and love. It's a beautiful moment. Beautiful moment Reigns was and continues to be perceived by the locker room in WWE. Number two, Brock Lesnar launches the Universal title at Vince McMahon at WrestleMania. We've seen this one. Once again, this will always be a funny-ass moment. Once again, Vince is regarded as the BRN doll in WWE. You know, well, at least back then it was. And the fact that Brock was displeased with how that match went and everything else. He just launched the title.  Take this trash. I don't care. Anybody else do that? They probably getting fired or future endeavored or they're going to get buried down the card. But Brock is the one person that can get away with that because what's Vince going to do? You're going to fire him.  He knows he's there. He at that time was his biggest draw. So it was like that's crazy. An event of WrestleMania 34 was a total letdown. Brock Lesnar collided with Roman Reigns. One of the worst main event matches of all time. Fans had zero interest. No one cared. Everything Lesnar and Reigns did to the match backfired as the crowd heckled both men and this evidently flustered Lesnar. Yeah. When Lesnar got backstage instead of walking up to Vince McMahon and giving him a warm gesture, he proceeded to launch his Universal title right at Vince McMahon. This was reported a few hours following WrestleMania 34 going off the air, but it seemed too far fetched to be true. Yeah. However, when the WWE episode aired focusing on WrestleMania 34, footage of the incident could be seen for the entire world to witness. He legit threw it. What's insane about the footage is that McMahon calls Lesnar a curse word following the incident.  Jay McMahon, but unfortunately that wasn't captured on camera. And number one, Eddie Guerrero celebrates backstage and no way out 2004 featured in the most celebrated moments in WWE history. The beloved Eddie Guerrero captured the WWE title in an all-time classic match against Brock Lesnar. Due to the significance of this moment, WWE released footage of the reaction backstage when Guerrero came back through the curtain. This was unprecedented. Wow. We would use the footage for future documentaries relating to the legend himself. When Guerrero came through the curtain, the entire SmackDown locker room was waiting to greet him. That's how popular Guerrero was backstage for sure in winning the title felt like a huge victory for the fans as well as the other WWE talent. The backstage footage of Guerrero also contains a clip of Guerrero calling his wife Vicky in the clip. Guerrero thanks Vicky for standing by him during his battles with addiction. It's truly a beautiful moment that makes Guerrero even more endearing, not just as a wrestler, but as a human being that hits the feels. This is why Eddie is the go one of the greatest to ever wrestle, man. We miss you, Eddie, man. Rest in peace. We miss you. This is this video is great. I love getting a little emotional. I was not prepared to get a little bit emotional. I definitely am only because it's like, yo, we're really witnessing, you know, we got to see some of these heartfelt moments that you normally don't see. You don't see these moments. So when you get those moments of people showing love to each other before or after a match, it's it's beautiful, man. It's beautiful. Even Brock Lesnar throwing the championship at Vince McMahon and getting Vince McMahon to curse him out a little bit. That's beautiful too. But comment down below. Let me know your favorite backstage moment from this video. If I had to choose. It'll probably be that anyone is tough, man. That anyone is is that that anyone definitely hits hits the field feels. But I do like them. The Matt and Jeff Hardy one Vince hugging them him saying welcome back home to Jeff. That one, that one definitely hits the fields too. So y'all, let me know your favorite one from this video. I appreciate all of the support you guys show on our channel. Road to 150 K and I'm still here on this video. You too. Rest in Chamber. The world. Appreciate y'all. Next one.


Okay, hi guys, Anthony here. It's just gone 10 30 p.m. on Monday the 19th of July. I'm actually off Today and tomorrow, but obviously I am aware of what's happened in the markets And I thought that calendar-wise it was going to be quite quiet on Monday and Tuesday But looks like I missed a lot of the fun and the action today So I'm actually traveling tomorrow. So what I thought I'd do is a jump on just give you a quick 15 minute update as to What's happened? Why have we seen a global kind of sell-off and a risk to flight to quality kind of risk off trade across the asset Classes then we'll have a look as well for what to expect from Tuesday session ahead So first off, here's a look at the close. So we finished down around 1.6% in the S&P 500 2.1% in the Dow the Nasdaq 100 outperforming a little bit and just narrowing losses to just 0.09 percent on the session And in fact though in terms of what we're going to look at across the asset classes some of the worst days We've seen a number of months across the board So from an equity perspective, you can see here the last time some of the major indices were down this much If we have to go back towards a kind of May time of earlier this year Long-term Treasury yields fell to their lowest level since February dragging the yield curve flatter 10-year yields tumbled as much as 12 basis points to as little as 1.17 percent The VIX sort of volatility index jumped the most since February and crude oil fell almost 8% Obviously we had that news over the weekend And as I showed you not a lot of movement at the reopening of globe x trade But soon as we got into the swing of the European morning and then the Americans came in really weighed on the price But overall the same thing moving oil really is the same thing within global markets Focus on Covid and the kind of growing situation that we're seeing with case rates here in the UK It respects to the fact that we are reopening but case rates really globally everywhere picking up as the Delta variant really takes hold We've seen lockdown rollovers in the likes of Australia in some of the key areas like Sydney and Melbourne Which is going to weigh on their growth going forward and that kind of sentiment is just Feeding in to investor psyche about the growth potential of the second half of this year Which we thought we would be kind of hitting the boom Kind of period if you like prior to the Fed starting to tighten and now things are kind of backing off. So Let a quick look across the charts. Obviously you can see here equities Finishing the day pretty heavy But there was a little bit of a late ramp on Wall Street Which did CS move off the worst levels and actually just a quick look at the S&P 500 first and we'll rotate across a couple of charts to Put in a bit of perspective So we already started to move lower here in some of these US indices off record territories towards the end of last week after We hit that double top peak in midweek last week Friday we move lower and we just added to that in the overnight on the daily chart Perhaps then some key levels here to watch going forward I've just got a trend line here from the mid kind of March price action got retested back in 21st of June close to it today And the markets just kind of sprung back up towards the final half an hour of trade on Wall Street But we did close beneath horizontally quite a key level of 42 69 a quarter Which does kind of set us up in a fairly bearish fashion here So I'll be keeping on that downside trend line and Horizontal inflection point for price of resistance and support around 4205 and three quarters going forward for the nasdaq 100 Yeah, mega cap tech tends to fare a bit better So the reopening kind of trade on the sector rotation in equities Plays more negatively in the likes of the Dow and the Russell as we've been discussing last week But does then mean that those stay at home names tend to favor better And that does help tech a little bit albeit they did move lower on the day on a daily chart for the nasdaq We've had a bit of a pullback importantly though We managed to close above quite a key area You can see here if I just highlight at 14471 in the nasdaq 100 futures had a brief excursion below there But sort of firm close above that level So still holding up for the time being and as I said the tech names will probably behave more favorable if people are becoming a little bit more spooked about the global spread of Covid Elsewhere a quick look in the FX markets generally a flight to quality quality observed in the currency space and generally Dollar-strength had weighed on some of the major pairs. I wanted to look at cable really on a daily chart You can see cable fairly one-dimensional in terms of its direction of travel over the last two sessions we have of course gone through this reopening now in the UK and Case rates are spreaded to materially worse than over time I would say as I said in the briefing this morning I still don't see too much yet on the numbers from the mathematical modeling to suggest a Severe repricing but as we were discussing in the broader context Seeing a bit of a flip and a reversal back into the dollar Which has weighed just generally on some currency pairs But on a daily continuation really important level here for cable as you can see here we go back to really where we were on that double bottom quite clearly on the end of March and the 9th and 10th of April which held and We again briefly tested below there, but closed pretty much at the level So this is really make or break for sterling here and and certainly with the Fed Had been talking pivoting a little bit more hawkish of late with some of the resurrect But obviously the more spooked the market gets on covid the more delayed then some of that conversation might be on tapering and so forth Bit early to tell is yet and I would say the timeline still remains intact for the time being about the timings around Not the July Fed meeting but more Jackson Hole end of August and then September more formal signaling towards tapering then For the beginning of next year. I don't think today's move really to tracks from that point too much I think today with a very lack of calendar events very much a kind of sentiment-led kind of self-perpetuating Fears start to manifest and then you get quite distinct risk of trade when we start breaching some key levels and Momentum specs come in and start hitting the market. So as you saw in the final half an hour of trade There were still buyers down at the bottom in US equities to see a bit of a ramp into the close But this is a key level for Tuesday. I'd definitely be keeping an arm for sterling currency here going forward. Remember, we've got the lights of the UK Flash PMI data on Friday alongside UK retail sales as well So as much as we're looking for the dollar to dictate a little bit of proceedings on the sentiment base side And we're navigating fundamentals on the covid developments in the UK and how the trajectory looks on case and subsequent then Lift in hospitalization rates. You're keeping an arm that technically as well for sure the other thing then is oil markets and Yeah, I got absolutely hammered today Multi-dollar loss and that meant we fell in New York around seven and a half percent for Monday session on a daily Continuation I've got marked up here quite interesting trend line on the pullback coinciding with a support level going back to Where we were trading kind of late May 6547 you can see going back from that trend line initiated on 12th of April Tested on 21st of May and that with that horizontal level pretty much coinciding at that same point So got down through there through 66 momentarily and then bounce back up to close Pretty much on that level of what was previous resistance and going back through late April May So definitely for crude kind of a combination of things really. I mean if I just flip over my screen here, so we had Crew drop the most in 10 months at the virus surge sparing concerns I think that was definitely more a focal point because that move global markets across asset Rather than just the variable of OPEC said to add 400,000 brows per day each from August which was in terms of magnitude pretty much expected and as I said in the briefing this morning I think that it was only matter of time before the UAE's got some kind of compromise out of Saudi So I don't think really that came as a surprise. So I definitely think it was more of a demand impact that really weighed on oil rather than that of Supply side dynamics in that that respect. The other thing, of course though it really drove sentiment today was On the COVID side and then we're going to talk about geopolitics as well. So on the COVID side US has raised UK travel alert as COVID surge Mars obviously freedom day which marked today with the final reopening Airline shares dropped amid a worldwide slump in equities Americans should avoid traveling to the UK according to US government and health officials given the spread that we're currently seeing of COVID-19 On the geopolitical front What was quite interesting was the US UK and their allies their allies being Australia Canada, New Zealand Japan and NATO Formerly attributed the Microsoft exchange hack to actors affiliated with the Chinese government and accused Beijing's leadership for a broad array of malicious cyber activities and It's just the latest escalation that we've seen between the White House and China so yeah, really It's kind of going up a few notches This is one of the things that we were talking about in the briefings going all the way back to Prior to the US election that we had before Biden came in and what we were saying is how China and it sounded quite odd at the Time when Trump was president that China might have wanted actually Trump to remain as president And the reason for that is although the US were initiating in a protectionist policy And that was leading for a tit for tat trade war, which is negative for both nations and definitely weighing on the Chinese economy The point being is is that the fear was that Biden could unite then allied forces of the West and wild powers against a united front against China and certainly this would be a step in that type of Direction in a unified approach against China, which does kind of ratchet up the geopolitical tensions against the nation so For as far as I've read tonight and as I said, I've not been at the desk today at all So I'm just playing playing catch up a little bit But I haven't seen any official rebuttal yet from China But I'm pretty sure one will come from Beijing overnight So something to be aware of if you're trading the Aussie in the overnight session So yeah, definitely a combination today the reason for the risk of trade Covid first and foremost a bit of a re-evaluation of that situation on a global sense And you know in America the vaccination rates They're still encountering a lot of take-up particularly among young people with the appetite to take the vaccine So that trajectory is shallowed a lot and we still got the Far East tackling To a large degree outbreaks of the Delta variant at the moment and then the geopolitical risk overlaid with that as well Other things that have happened after the closing bell. We've got one of the bigger earnings reports IBM came out reported its biggest increase in revenue in three years on the back of strong cloud computing demand 18.7 billion US dollars above the expected 18.3 billion their shares were up About 3% after market. Let's have a latest check still pretty much the same. So IBM You know after really struggling for a long time with their revenues putting in a big number led by cloud computing So a decent report by them The other thing I thought was quite interesting That came out really after The FX fix this afternoon was a comment out of the newly incoming MPC member come when august comes around Catherine Catherine Mann. I think she was a previous economist at the OECD and also she was tied to city group But as you'll know that chief economist Andy Haldane who was the outlying hawk has now left the MPC Catherine Mann is coming in and what's quite interesting is she said the bank i.e. the boe Should not cut back on stimulus too early Echoing comments that were made earlier today on monday by MPC member Jonathan Haskell who said reducing Stimulus was not the right option for the foreseeable future And if you remember we had both deputy governors last week ramsden and michael saunders both talking quite a hawkish game last week So quite the reversal from some of these other members compared to where we were so Another contributing factor amongst the other things I've already mentioned for why there's been a bit of Weight more in prevalent in sterling in cable rather than euro dollar for example Looking at the day ahead So overnight session if you are trading it as I said look out for any rebutter from beijing on the latest headlines pertaining to Attributing then the cyber activities to beijing on the western world and particularly the tech firm microsoft in the us We've also got japanese cpi overnight and the rba minutes are coming out at 2 30 am london time Otherwise really quiet in the uk European economic calendar. You've got us housing starts building permits at 1 30 api crude oil infertiles as per normal tomorrow night Or yeah tomorrow night. I should say I'm getting a bit confused delivering this briefing at nearly 11 p.m And then earnings tomorrow morning look out for ubs if you're monitoring the bank stocks Otherwise pre-market us philip morris halliburton. You've also got united airlines and then after market You have netflix one of the headline names closely followed in the retail space and the tech stocks and sentiment based as well A couple of things that people are looking out for there Um netflix will be closely watched for details around both their video game strategy Which we heard announced just the other day and its financial performance Um, so here are some of the numbers the number of global paid streaming subscribers is expected to rise year in year At the slowest pace in the last 14 quarters and that's because revenue growth is expected to decelerate given how saturated The marketplace has begun and hence that moved in announcement into the gaming space So definitely keeping an eye out for for this one analyst estimate eps of three dollars 14 Versus 159 uh in q2 four year of 2020 Um, and then that is it. So, yeah, just really wanted to just jump on As I said, I'm not around tomorrow, but hopefully that's useful Quite a big day in the market with generally not a lot going on in the calendar as the General investment community starts to reevaluate what the second half of this year looks like as Covid delta variant continues to spread at this point in time And again, although the vaccines are proving uh, fairly effective Vaccination rates are continuing to pick up. It's the whole point that um in the end Different national strategies will adopt likely a slower reopening or Reimplementation of restrictions and that of course is going to have then an impact on what the shape of the recovery looks like For the second half of this year That's kind of the bottom line So again, I hope that was useful. Uh, enjoy the session tomorrow and I'll catch you guys on wednesday. Take care