We have application also in home automation. So the idea is to connect the home to enhance the energy consumption or to have some kind of security services and so on. So this is the typical architecture for an IoT system. So IoT, it's about device. So this device can be deployed anywhere, inside the car, on the body, inside the building. This device will be able to connect to different kind of information, for example, related to the environment, related to the health, related to the proximity of people and so on. And all this data will be collected and transmitted wirelessly to a remote cloud platform. So this platform will be in charge of collecting the data, doing some kind of processing data analytics, and finally, to deliver this data to high-level application. And of course, here, the idea is to create knowledge based on this raw data. So what are the benefits of the internet of things? So here, the idea is to connect any device, to connect anybody, any business, using any kind of network. It can be a Wi-Fi, it can be a cellular network and so on, from anywhere, anytime. And the idea, of course, is to collect raw data. So these data will be processed, filtered, and will be transformed into information. This information then will be translated into knowledge and then wisdom. So some emerging application and challenge. So in nowadays, there are already some IoT application already available on the market. Some typical example is the connected car. So the idea here is to deploy some device inside the car and be able to monitor in real time, for example, a fleet of vehicle, to be able to track those vehicles, to track the behavior of the driver, and so on. Another typical application is the activity tracker. So here the idea is to monitor in real time the physical activity of the people and maybe to propose them some program in order to enhance their physical health. Other application, of course, we have smart outlet for smart building, we have parking sensor, and so on. Yes. Of course, tomorrow we have more exciting application in this area of IoT and all the urban environment will be actually connected to the internet of things. And this is what we call the smart city. So I think there will be talking about that after this talk. So the idea of a smart city is just the ability for all the things which are inside the urban environment to be connected to the internet and be managed in a centralized way. So of course, in order to reach to that level of the internet of things, there is currently still a lot of challenge. One of the biggest challenge is the lack of shared infrastructure or common platform. So currently, a company, for example, if a company developed a new solution for intelligent transport system, so this company will develop the whole architecture, including the platform, the device, really optimized for this application segment. However, in order to have this internet of things, we need to have some anti-operability. So we need to rely more and more on standard, such that, I mean, we can build an application based on any kind of data collected from any kind of device. Another challenge is that the current technology and standard are still fragmented. So there is a lot of standard and technology to build such kind of IoT applications. Also managing and fostering the rapid innovation is still a challenge for government. Another big challenge is related to the big data. So here it's about data collection. So the volume of the data which will be collected is very huge. And we have some challenge related on the control, how the user can control his own data, how this data can be shared potentially with other users, how to store it, how to process it, and so on. So all these are still a challenge. And finally, there is challenge related to user privacy and security, of course. So just to give you some idea about some market forecast and trend in the area of internet of things. So here the opportunities are really big. So we can see that currently the data is growing at 10X. The connected device are growing also at 300%. And it is estimated that the impact for the company will be around 14.4 trillion US dollar. So really the opportunity are very big. And there is a lot of trend and forecast and some of the company are expecting to see like 200 billion device connected by 2020. Some specific forecast related to the Middle East. So the adoption of IoT in the Middle East is starting and it represents around 2% to 3% of the global IoT market. It is expected in 2015 that more than 25 million IoT device will be shipped. And the expected growth is mainly in the IoT service, so which is around 50% to 60%. So the main driver are of course the telecom operator, the enterprise, the government, and maybe the fastest area or application area in this IoT is mainly related to transportation, automotive, logistics, of course followed by utility and other application in gas, security, healthcare, and so on. So some standard and enabling technology related to the internet of things. So currently maybe one of the biggest standard which is working in this area of internet of things is called 1M2M. So it's a new standard which started actually in 2011 and which is like a group of many organizations, standardization organization in the US, Europe, Asia, and whose objective is to unify all this standardization activity related to IoT and M2M. So M2M is machine to machine, so it's about the communication between machine without the need for any human intervention. And one of the main objective of this standard is to provide a service layer. So as I said, currently most of the platform are really dedicated to certain application field, but in the IoT we need to have a platform which is able to talk to any device which is able to enable any kind of applications. So we need to have more and more horizontal platform which are generic and application agnostic. And one of the objective of this 1M2M activity is to define what we call the service layer which will be responsible for receiving the data, collecting that data and delivering the data to the end applications and users. Different other IoT key enabling standard exist currently. So including for example, for the communication protocol we have MQTT. So it's quite famous in the area of IoT. We have co-app, lightweight M2M, OMAD device management. So all of these are like communication protocol which are standardized and which tomorrow will be like supported by any kind of device. There are other technology more at the Mac and physical layer like Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z-Wave and Wi-Fi, 5G, all this technology tomorrow will be part of this IoT ecosystem. Of course in the area of open source, so we can see that there is more and more projects which are open source and free which started to provide some basic building blocks to enable the development of IoT applications very easily. So for example, there is different things including Eclipse Pao which is an implementation of the MQTT protocol. So a lot of projects around this IoT and M2M and this kind of software of course can help the developer to very easily develop a small prototype for IoT. So now I will talk about the Labib IoT platform. So what is Labib IoT? So Labib IoT, it's a new application agnostic platform as a service which we are developing at Cumic. So the idea here is to develop an horizontal platform which is agnostic, so we don't care about the exact application, it is generic and the idea of course is to be able to collect data from any kind of device using standardized communication protocol to receive this data, filter it, analyze it and then store it in the database and finally to be able to export or make this data available to the end user to develop specific application in specific application domain like health, transportation and so on. So why this need for the Labib IoT? So one of the main target users of this Labib IoT, it's the local entrepreneur in Qatar, the R&D community and the research center and the local enterprise and startup. Let's assume tomorrow you would like to, you have a great idea and you want to develop a prototype. So using this Labib IoT, you can very easily and very fastly develop a prototype without having to deal with the complexity about how to connect this device to internet, how to understand the communication protocol of that device, how to collect the data, how to store it. So all these basic functionality related to device management, data management will be somehow provided by this platform such that the end user and developer can focus on the development of their own or main target applications. So here the benefit are, we have many benefit, of course, the idea is to have one common platform to enable different applications, to support different functionality and service capability, of course, with the support of a standard which is very important for the IoT. It can enable the user to do fast prototyping with less complexity, as I said, we don't need to care about how to configure a device, how to communicate, how to store the data and so on. So it can enable faster innovation, rapid time to market. And here the idea is to have an horizontal business model where the user can move from one business market to another one and be able very quickly to test different kind of applications. So this is our R&D roadmap. So we started a few years ago in 2012. We released the first version of this platform in December 2014. So here we released the first version 1.0. So using that version, we provide different functionality related to data management, device management and so on. And now we are working, of course, to integrate more technology, especially in the area of big data, like no SQL database, time series database and so on. So these are the different features of this LeBib Internet of Things platform. So it provides three main functionality. One is related to the data management. So let's assume you have a device and you would like to collect data related, I don't know, to temperature, humidity. So using this platform, you can define the different kind of data model you would like to receive from your device. You can specify filter, different storage option and so on. And you can access to this data using standardized interface like web service. The other feature is about device management. So here the idea is that you can define your own profile of your device and you can manage those devices. So you can track them in real time to know if your device is online, offline, if it is malfunctioning, working and so on. And finally, user management. So here the idea, of course, is to support different enterprise. Each enterprise manage his own device and data and to have really a certain level of security and privacy for the user. So in order to do that, so in this platform, we implement an application and device agnostic data model. So if we take a typical device, IOT device, which is a small piece of electronic, in this device, we may have different sensor. For example, we may have a GPS sensor, a motion sensor, an ambient sensor, et cetera. And for every sensor, we may have different data. For the GPS, we may have the altitude, longitude and so on. So the idea here is that we model this using a generic model, such that we can model any kind of device and be able to receive the data and store it. I think it's better to put it here. Yeah. And to finish, so this is some, a few screenshots about this IOT platform. So as a user or developer, the first step is to create and to sign up an account.  Then let's assume you have a device. It can be a drone, it can be a sensor, it can be a smartphone, a Linux machine or whatever. One of the first steps is to define the profile of this device. So it means you need to define, okay, what is the type of this device? What are the data you will receive from that device? Potentially you can define some filter. For example, temperature should be between, I don't know, zero and 50. So to define all the profile related to your device. And then you can add manually, one by one, the different device that you have in the platform. And the platform will automatically configure all what is related to communication, data analytics, to manage your own device. And finally, once your device is connected to the internet, with the proper IP address of this platform, the platform will be able to receive data from that device. And using dashboard, of course, you can monitor, okay, where is my device? You can know if it is currently online or offline. You can know how much data you receive from each device. And of course, you can extract the data based on different filter, and you can do some statistics and so on. So it's really a platform to make, I mean, the development of IoT application much more easier. It will make all what is related to data, device management very easy. And then as a developer and using web service, you can develop your own specific application on top of this Labib IoT platform. So you can develop an application for logistics, for transportation, mHealth, and so on. So this concludes my talk. So if you have any questions, yes?


Hello everyone and welcome back to For The Minions episode 32 the weekly show where we talk about some what can hopefully be the spiritual successors to Paragon I'm your host the one and only man goose joining me as always is my sister from another Mr. Mandy now Mandy how you doing? I'm doing much better I was kind of suffering there for a while I had a headache for like two days in a row but I'm doing so much better now and I'm super excited because we have a really cool guest host with us Mr. Creed and you are a game tester for CORE is that correct? Yeah I'm a part of the quality control team so I game test I help troubleshoot the community all that stuff you guys have problems like when we did our map test launch I was run around trying to help everybody get that up and going so I don't know that much stuff. Well we're definitely excited to have you on the show why don't you tell us how you got started with Paragon your favorite hero all that good stuff? Well I started playing on like PS4 way back in the day like I don't it wasn't too far but I never really played Legacy but then summer hit I got like I started playing that religiously I think I put like over 70 days in the game and then I think I ended up like top 200 like 2000 plus Evo just played way too much for my own good favorite character was probably Morgesh unreleased like she was just so fun to play and then other than that probably Revs that's also a PS4 player at the time so it's like easier to use and I this is my favorite because I got my first pinch of kill with him and I was like super hyped up about this only it's the only clip I have saved for Paragon so I watched that sometimes for probably a little bit send it over to me I'll feature it on the show love a good love a good pinch of kill I hated Morgesh though she was she was terrible so you you ended up in the top 200 that was uh that's that's that's quite an accomplishment I mean there wasn't a whole lot of people playing at the time but still there was a couple you know there was a lot I mean that is an accomplishment that's pretty cool right it was a grind it was a lot of frustration I think I broke my hand once because I was so mad at the game it just smashed my desk it was even on my smurf account too it wasn't even on my main so I was like wow took me out for like two weeks I was I was more excited about that wow I mean if we weren't passionate about the game we wouldn't be still talking about it right now you know exactly yeah so let's uh let's move right along let's get to news and updates starting with madeabuff and core and uh creed I really didn't have anything from oppa so it's it's on you man they're they're throwing you out there you need to bring us to bring us some good news brother right uh I mean the only good news is that we're just still working we're just trying to push away at the thing but everyone's kind of like down and discouraged but we have to remember that uh we have three times of heroes that we have to work on and stuff so it's obviously gonna take a lot longer than other like games that are working on the project yeah yeah that's like oh yeah that's all just we're just keep walking away until we can come out with something big for you guys so you get the you get to get in there and the client and mess around and everything and play around I'm not at the moment now but that should be coming out hopefully pretty soon okay but but during the the map test in the your room yes I was making sure that was all working so nobody was falling through the map or anything like that like Mandy and I and I were the first two people to fall through the map and the grayscale map testing I was very proud of that yeah it was it was cool to claim the fame man so how hard is it once somebody identifies like a bug in the uh in the gap game or like a gap in in the terrain or anything like that how how hard is that to identify and fix um it's just a lot of like trial and error and uh our level design team is super talented so like I don't know if you guys notice this but like the turnaround time was super good like yes it was having problems and like next day next few hours it's like fixed it was really awesome working with the team like they're super talented yeah what even when um uh when I did the the full scale map testing um you know then they released it about a week later for everybody to test but you know they let me kind of take a spin on four of the minions before anybody else like the time like that little spin that I did between then and when they released it to everyone there was several changes to the map like already and then within a day of people map testing there was you know changes to the orb prime pit and everything too so yeah the flash to bang with with metabuff seems to be on point so that's uh that's good to see yeah it's uh it's just crazy to me too I was just like wow it's like good it's like I was crazy it's just like how do you do that so fast yeah right um can I ask how did you get started um like how were you able to become a game tester did you reach out to them did they reach out to you how did how did that go about happening um I just love breaking games like I've been breaking games since like Call of Duty like I broke like I don't know I was like kind of like that kid that I like to be on the leaderboards right so I'd always play like zombies or something I'm buying glitches and I'm just like let's do that I break the game and try and climb to the top so then kind of take like the same principles of breaking Call of Duty that kind of put it at a core to break it the same way anything like I just look for anything that I can use to my advantage to help you win and I'm like I shouldn't be there so um well there you go Mandy you're good at breaking games yeah unintentionally I don't quite mean to but it happens yeah it happens a lot that's pretty cool I'm sure I'll share a lot of people out there are envious of your position for sure let's uh let's move right along on to Mata Studios and Predecessor uh they've been they conducted another internal test like uh they already did their test for the heroes to see what kind of bugs were still existing with the heroes and uh they did another test for the Minion AI and the Tower AI and uh Smokey said that went well so the next step is for them to rebuild the item system and then test that out too I'm glad to hear that the Minion AI is better because the minions were pretty damned wonky during that that initial alpha release I didn't notice any real problems with the towers but yeah the minions definitely needed some love and the item system too didn't quite work right the words didn't work and you couldn't activate health or mana potions so seems like things are going really well for them and then not only that but the new map design French has been releasing some stuff on his stream um I know Brick did a video on it as well and it looks like they they have some new assets that they're using in place of the core in the towers I mean I think it's just the towers that have been dressed they've just been dressed up a little bit but it does look nice and it looks more legacy feeling than when they had the the sort of monolith towers on the legacy style map so uh I think you guys the link to that you guys check that out I did I seen that on Brick's channel as well too yeah I thought uh I thought it looked really really awesome I was just super impressed um and I'm mistaken or did I hear someone say that fringe actually made the new the new assets that they're using um he actually created those from scratch I believe I swear I heard that somewhere but I could be wrong if you if you didn't hear that maybe I made it up I'm not I'm not entirely certain I'm I know he has the capability to do so and um so it very well could be I'm sure I'm sure he will let us know in the comments he will confirm or deny if that is the piece or not he will get back to you guys with that so yeah hopefully they got their uh that alpha back soon we can get back in there and do get out some more but uh let's move on now from uh from a made of studios and get into undying with ethereal uh cool stuff from them we finally get to see uh the full reveal of marina who is the 14th hero that is scheduled for their alpha their alpha's only going to have the 14 heroes she's kind of the final one we showed her a little bit on the channel before on on ftm but uh we didn't we couldn't see her face and um now we can and it's and it's awesome she looks really good uh just like but can everything else they do she looks amazing uh creed what do you think about ethereal what do you think about marina uh i think it's a cool idea i thought marina she looked uh she looked awesome i was super like too loud i was like that's there was a lot of detail harry looked good uh looked just great i was super impressed i love all their artwork did they do all that looks amazing what about you mandy yeah they are just phenomenal they are really their their art department is just knocking it out of the park and it was really good to see um something you know a little bit more substantial from them as far as just like yeah we're working we're working and then we can see you can see a product of what they've been working on so that's really really exciting uh she seemed a little more subdued in the as far as color goes than what we originally saw uh with her um concept art um i was expecting her to be a little bit more colorful and i know that they had wanted her to have hair that was made of water i don't know if that's going to be a particle effect in game or if that's just something that's going to be you know outside their their comfort zone or something that would really seems like that would really mess up a render if you've got a ongoing particle effect like that it's going to be rough on a computer so they may have just removed that i'll have to get with them and check it out um but yeah i'm really excited about it uh she's going to be a support and um she's uh she's aquatic based as evidenced by you know the kind of gills fins on the side of her head and the the trident that she uses so pretty cool stuff which looks good and we got nothing for phoenix rising this week um kind of looking out there though there is the um um got got word of a uh auto chest version of paragon somebody's working on a paragon auto chest um creed you you took a look at that uh what did you think what did you think of the progress on that uh i thought it looked pretty cool uh i've been playing a lot of team five tactics on league i've been grinding that like every day recently it's kind of feeling my void so something like that like did drop i mean i don't know how would play or how i don't think there's a 3d4 like as an alternate game mode versus like 3d3 or something i think that'd be something cool to a game it's nice seeing people using those assets for more than just a MOBA um we got uh made the troll phases in my discord a lot i keep Mina to talk to him about this and i just never have the time but he's he's designing like a um like a single player adventure style game using the paragon assets like i know from the last i saw you know sarah running through like a castle and stuff that looked really cool kind of a dark souls-ish type thing but i need to get i need to really need to get with him find out more about that and see see how far along he is on that game but um the team fight tactics in the auto chest i haven't played much of it i've watched windu play quite a bit but i haven't played it myself i need to get in on that if somebody makes a paragon team fight tactics or auto chest i will be on that like stinking shit i couldn't think of anything less less vulgar that's just how my mind works but yeah i'll be all over that shit but um i'll try and find out a little bit more about that and uh link that in the uh video description below so you guys can check that out for yourself so i think that wraps that up let's move on to the poll results for most impactful ultimate and uh i've been doing two polls a week this time we had the uh the big one i thought i thought was the big one was uh muriel nabash phase rampage and revenant muriel won with 43 percent of the votes nabash had 18 phase 15 rampage 12 and revenant 12 so uh yeah i definitely agree with that i definitely agree that reversal of fortune for muriel was probably probably the most impactful ultimate out of all those i think their arguments could be made for rampage um definitely arguments can be made for nabash because his ultimate you know the big aoe slow and and knock up um phase kind of a little bit um and then revenant could completely remove somebody from the enemy team for a while so i thought revenants was quite impactful as well but i do agree that muriel was probably the most impactful out of those options what do you guys think um i actually kind of thought nabash was a little bit more just because it seemed like that was such a cool thing in uh in teamfights however muriel was a badass there's no no denying that um you know she i have seen the error of my ways in the beginning i was not much of a i i just never had good experiences with a muriel on my team but that's not the hero's fault it's the player's fault you know you don't have a good player then you know but um yeah i thought nabash was such a badass so i i uh i'm not surprised he's second i'm just surprised at the um the gap between yeah yeah what do you think who do you like i thought muriel was like a clearer winner here i mean nabash was pretty i could uh i looked at everything from like higher like super high gameplay and everybody it can be used like there's an advantage to everybody in every situation true but except for maybe phase you know hyper flux could be pretty pretty good used in the right situation yeah i didn't want to use it if you knew how to use it if you're if you're if you're caring if you're caring you how to aim i mean with the attack speed you really don't have to aim you just kind of pray yeah just spray and pray especially with multi-shot gym yeah oh my god oh man but muriel for sure because um that all to then the cleanse that goes along with it it was definitely most impactful oh i'd forgotten about the cleanse yeah but then uh i'll go ahead yeah i liked revenant as well too because like he could single somebody out like one of their aoe damages like say take out giddy and out of the fight for your team if he's like they're only aoe and especially at the end of the game since it stunned everybody that was a big like change for a team by two so uh moved on to the the next poll it was ricketer sarith severog shinby and sparrow severog won with 36 percent of the votes ricketer had 28 percent which kind of surprised me sarith had 11 shinby had 10 sparrow had 14 so i was a little surprised at the results of this one um ricketer i think could his his ultimate could be impactful and as much as i loved ricketer i really don't think he was the winner here if i had to vote i don't get a vote in these um i guess it would either be severog or sparrow i think sparrow's inner fire could be very effective in a team fight but it kind of had to be comboed with somebody else like it needed to have a decker cage or a crash bang boom or you know a phase flux or something like that to really make inner fire rock as hard as it possibly could so what'd you guys think of this poll um i know creed i know you said you your your vote went to severog yeah it did yes um i think a lot of people voted for severog because it's like it's like the face you see before you die like everyone's like like damn that severog is the reason i died he's just uh he's just such a good initiator he just goes in like smacks three people towards your team you're just like that severog killed me you're gotten killed a lot of us i'm pretty sure yeah that's right yeah it's right he could just cut the team in half just like that exactly good stuff i i can't deny here uh that severog is a clear winner even though i voted for sparrow because she's my girl i knew it i knew you would i knew you would i don't know i think that's a pretty good choice sparrow but that that's gonna wrap it up for the poll results for this week pretty soon we'll get into the uh to pit in all these winners against each other and find out who's cuisine reign supreme at the end for now we're going to take a look at the highlight reel and uh we've got some pretty funny ones this time it's uh kind of kind of murdoch heavy and then i threw a bonus sock app clip in there of him killing muni i miss muni out of all the out of all the guys you always saw the community corner i enjoyed muni the most but uh yeah let's go ahead and take a look at the highlight reel got a clip here from big daddy murdoch and he is of course playing big daddy murdoch got a team fight here in the mid lane on the legacy map still throwing down that shield wall murdoch's going to try and maneuver around it using it to the best of his abilities to block those shots and he scoots down into the jungle here i didn't know what the hell he was doing when i first watched this clip i was like why is he dropping down in the jungle in the middle of a team fight well you're going to see here in a second still lays down the big ultimate followed by the long dong of the law softens him up quite a bit gideon the friendly gideon tried to finish it off but it didn't quite work out but here comes murdoch enemy team gideon gets wasted standing in place trying to do his ultimate now decker is taking shots she realizes she's getting attacked from behind this was the plant all along he comes in from behind cleans up for a triple kill but now he's got gadget and kalari and kalari's got that red buff gadget hits him with the mine and the shower of pain he knocks her back with the shield skeet shoots kalari straight out of the air now it's a shoot out with gadget that he may lose but of course he's not going to lose this is a highlight reel he lines up the shots takes out gadget goes very very low on health he wants that red buff he's going to try and sneak around and get this red buff as it's laying on the ground takes a couple hits from minions that almost kill him so uh great stuff from big daddy murdoch michael the god here playing a master skin grim on the monolith map rotating towards the middle lane you'll see y'all for the distance that there is a low health chimera fleeing for his life behind the tower he copies that displacement blast gets him low enough to take him down with the get the fuck out another legacy murdoch clip with that uh the halloween cooking head skin this is coming to us from prototype who hosted the show with us recently the whole rampage is in trouble but here it comes murdoch taken out richer with ease finishes off the other murdoch before murdoch can take out his rampage rampage very low on health sticking around get away this clip is funny these guys are so freaking funny rampage going to toss that rock he does miss it he's going to pay for with his life here maybe murdoch laying down the shots gets into tower range takes some hits from the tower rampage gets away with a sliver of health as well as murdoch he got out of that tower just in time that's gotta be annoying we got another rampage rock let's see some rampage on rampage action if that rock hits it does not goes just above his head now the enemy team rampage is going to kind of fuck with him here a little bit jumping around comes in after the murdoch murdoch's got the red and black buff he just keeps jumping around but the laser stops him oh but that get the fuck out targeted him very nice body block from the rampage that definitely would have killed murdoch he's going to hide the shadow well thinks that grim doesn't know where he is grim knows exactly where he is chucks out a displacement blast trying to take him out turns to take out rampage if you want to focus on one of the other he might have had a chance but he had no chance there is a prototype takes out the grim funny clip funny clip i told you dude you didn't know where i was special treat for you moony fans out here this is my boy sockap he said me quite a few clips his team just got uh thrashed by the enemy team but that's moony playing the gideon almost got him with that rock sockap's going to come in after him he knows he's in trouble he tries to get away sock pulls him out of the tower silences him and takes him out that's uh that's a special moony death clip for you all right guys i hope you enjoyed the highlight reel uh before we get into the topic for discussion we are once again going to play the name game with dara that's mayby's sister she didn't play paragon and she has no idea about any of the heroes except for what she's seen on four of the minions so uh what we do is we get three heroes and i put three names and three ability names and see if she can match up the names and abilities with a hero portrait and it's always a lot of fun actually put ended up making a mistake and putting two correct answers for more gash this time but uh anyway let's check it out because it is quite hilarious all right guys we're going to start up the name game once again with dara we got three heroes we got three names we got three abilities we actually we got four names of four abilities because i made up two let's see if we can fool dara and if you don't know dara never played paragon and knows nothing about the heroes which is why this is so much fun so dara let's take it away and see see how well you do your you went 50% on the last two let's see how well you do this time okay welcome to the third installment of a literacy time with dara but i think i got this one okay i know i know this is the fey uh because they talk about her a lot um i i feel like i don't know that fascia or sachet i feel like the face has a power to sachet away okay she does in that pose she does look like she she's uh sacheting a bit yes um but i'm gonna say she's got wings oh wait fly trap come on come oh gang gang i bet it fly trap nope that seems like i think you're trying to trick me um i'll say she swarms and and oh you know why i'm explaining sorry um let's see i think the lady with the big horn ram head up here i think that is i keep hearing about this kalari person a lot but i don't think that's kalari i think more morgish is ram head's name ram head another spirit shadow walker i feel like this guy is oh my god mark i just saw watch it be a real thing um but see some of these things look i don't know maybe shadow walker maybe he slithers away i don't know this one's so hard it's so hard for me not to giggle i don't want to give anything away yeah one more you just gotta get that ability because there's somebody in the comments who always says kalari so kalari's a person but morgish can't be up i also didn't think that that or knock knock i didn't know knock knock was a real thing i don't know maybe mark's a real thing maybe she marks you with her little sword i'm confused you got me on this one i'm done oh my god is that your final answer yeah there you went 50 again that mark is correct morgish is correct and morgish has an ability called mark where she marks her target oh my god you also got the fey correct and you are right you were saying uh earlier that one of these look like one of my favorites the fey was my second favorite right behind rick her but uh she does not swarm swarm is not real she has a fly trap so you should have went with your gut on that one you almost had it and this guy is actually a girl can't really tell but that is kalari that you hear so much about yep and she does not slither she does however shadow walk so there you go you 50 again you you keep hitting it you keep surprising me what really got me there was the mark for morgish i can't believe you got that that was so good that's the whole reason i picked these three because i was like mark that sounds like a name that's going to confuse her and it was real so well done once again dara we haven't been able to stump you i i consider somebody that has never played paragon i i consider 50 to be success that's an a in my book and i you've aced the last three um we'll have to see if we can get you next time oh actually i guess i had more than i thought as far as the fake ones great job dara and thanks once again for coming out and doing this everybody enjoys watching you struggle through these names you know what i just thought of swarm actually is correct all right guys i hope you had fun watching dara play the name game i know it's certainly a lot of fun for us and it has become a fan favorite one for the minions um tech time by the way is not going away i just haven't had i've been busy as a bed bug in a whorehouse i haven't been able to do hardly anything so let's move on to the topic for discussion for this week is uh since we got creed here um what alpha testers need to look for when bug testing so you're the expert on breaking games how do we need to go in there and try and break some shit whenever we play the alpha there creed um so how i would approach it if it's another map test you guys have great on last one um to run around see if anything's broken like ledges and stuff so you can uh get stuck on that but once we release a uh full game kind of just uh play it as normal maybe go off if you want but like play it as normal make sure everything plays smoothly and uh if anything breaks on the way just kind of record it like a normal bug i would say uh most people most bugs you find actually just come from just playing the game so the alpha release is it's probably going to be bugs with like scaling issues with cards and stuff like that you're like one shot of people with murdoch alt or some something like that just insane scaling so it's a lot of looking for little i mean i guess that wouldn't be a little i'd be pretty free game breaking but just kind of play the game like normal and then as you find bugs that like hinder and take away from the normal gameplay or how it should feel just set that in be like this wall caught me and got me killed by their whole team you know who the team lost the game like that stuff would make me upset so i don't want that in the game so if that was your gaming experience just make sure set that in be like this would be fixed or i'm gonna die a lot of pain to me so i'm gonna break my hand a lot more yes so is there anything in particular we should be like uh including in the reports whenever we are whenever people do like test for the bugs and the alpha and all that um just uh kind of have like severe bugs you want kind of on report those like right away and severe bug will be like game crashes stuff along the lines like falling through the math all that stuff would be a severe game breaking bug um smaller bugs would just be like collisions like i said that's like that's more moderate bug than just like tiny bugs is like animation issues like abilities not playing out the way they should be it's a smaller bug then that's kind of how we prioritize things so we always take like if somebody's game crashes and that obviously takes away from the fun so that's a bigger priority for us to do yeah like if muriel isn't extending her arm all the way out that's probably not on the list of things that you must but if she holds off the map then yeah that's interesting um good good information that you gave us because that kind of made me think me and goose kind of made the dream team of game testing then because in the uh in the alpha for a predecessor you just ran off like a madman and did what the fuck ever you wanted to do and i was like no i'm gonna play my role i'm gonna play the game the way it's supposed to be played and see what bugs i find so we were like the dream team go us i was i was really hoping i got to play that because i just i was missing it for so long but sad that i think the key just i just thought i was like that looks like a lot of fun everyone's enjoying it i mean the delay is just like everyone's just like lagging all it was to me i was just like it could be worked wrong to just tell them at least not fix it exactly yeah yeah gadget was very powerful because of she was so ability driven and there was some scaling issues with her too like her ultimate was ridiculous but i can't aim for it very well with this leg so let me just throw this all down yeah exactly i think i did exactly that too and probably miss the ultimate two seconds later it throws down behind you just like oh okay it wasn't that bad it's going to be interesting to see what kind of bugs ethereal has with their map because like you're supposed to fall through in some spots but like i can imagine you could probably fall through and end up completely off the map and oh that's going to be a nightmare for them i think into the abyss somewhere yeah i mean they've got a great team over there so hopefully they can they they they got a handle on it i would think yeah i'm excited for them like i want to just see how that plays like everything like stacked on top of each other like it's gonna be a different gameplay it's gonna be really cool yeah that's definitely something exciting to look forward to did you find any bugs in paragon itself um nothing like too bad i get stuck some places like aurora falari so obviously i would use those to be like oh we can't can't touch me here rampage just like jump up on the legend back and be like my bad dude yeah sit there and swing at the wall until you almost hit me oh that would make me so mad that would make me so mad it's definitely got it was just a lot of fun i always used uh when they had that old board bracket i always like i mastered like being able to jump through and like back i don't know they kind of had that wall and like it went down i'd always be able to like jump from up here like onto that wall yeah i don't know how i mastered it i was just like that's like an impossible jump like i just took everybody out that way just born to be a game breaker one of the bugs that used to piss me off and it took them forever to fix it i don't know if they ever completely fixed it was the steps in it was mid lane and in safe lane both every once in a while especially if you were on fey like somebody who floated a little bit you would just pop way up in the air hey what's up dude in the background you would just pop like way up in the air like it would just get crushed like oh that pissed me off so much i mean that was a known bug everybody knew about the fucking steps bug but then epic never like fixed it it said be flying up like bellica all and used to be like oh great i'm stunned by my own tower that was always funny too i saw quite a few of that where bellica would hit somebody with seismic assault and they would just go pop and like 200 feet up in the air i thought her stun was so fun like i don't think that was kind of a little broken like she'd stun the sun won't start till you landed so if you flew like way up in the air it's like a six second stun you just like you guys have to see if i'd stun go grab lunch i'll be right back yeah this game afterwards all right i think that's it for the top of the discussion unless you guys had anything else you wanted to say i'm good you did i'm all good i said everything all right let's uh let's move on to plugs uh creed you got like a you got a twitch youtube channel anything like that you want to plug um i'll plug my twitch i stream on us and team by tactics i'm gonna begin when i'm three so right on it's a ak creed and i believe it's just double up on your score afterwards all right yeah just send that to me and i'll link it in the uh video description below so you guys can check that out if you want to uh mandy i got nothing i don't do anything check out mandy's discord she's got quite the thriving popular discord you can uh you see me making up rhymes about her mom in there it's a good time it is a good time i gotta be extra nice to you because i've been burning you left and right in your own discord that's like messed up so messed up i have no comments and i got nothing to plug so uh that's going to be it that's going to wrap it up for for the minions episode number 32 thanks for joining us i hope you guys had fun i hope you guys uh the name game i thought was especially funny this time with that whole mark thing but anyway that's gonna be all for this week uh you guys have a good one that is before the minions team signing off goodbye man go


JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV. We are coming at you live from the show floor at Encompass 2016 in the Lone Star State of Texas. And we're in Dallas, Texas, to be specific. And I'm here with Mr. Manix O'Connor. Manix, why don't you, what is your title, Manix? Have I forgotten this already? No, you didn't forget, Dean. I haven't told you yet. What is your title, Manix? Director of technical marketing. Outstanding. Manix O'Connor, the director of technical marketing at MRV. Manix, welcome to JSA TV. Thanks. Glad to be here and with you in the audience. Glad to be here. Outstanding, outstanding. So how is the show going for you? Well, it's excellent because there are so many service providers here and we love talking to them because many of them are our customers and we hope more will be after the show. Very, very good, very good. And so for our viewers that don't already know, tell us a little bit about MRV. MRV communications. We have been in business since 1988. So more than 25 years, we're traded on NASDAQ. And we're a telecommunications equipment vendor. We make wave division multiplexing. That's optical transport for those of you in the know. And for those of you in the know, I love it. Which I'm sure most of you are, right? And carrier ethernet, which are interface devices which mainly at businesses to create the services that we need today with the high bandwidth and the good quality. Outstanding, so what's the latest and greatest coming out of the newsroom there at MRV? Well, we have to talk about data centers. I love it, let's do it. You know, they say data centers are using maybe 2% of all the electricity in the world. This is a phenomena and it's a trend. And the optical part of our business is really advancing quickly because of it. 100 gig and 200 gig connections between buildings for servers within data centers. And the other part of our optical transport business is access. So when we think of the access network and the core network, when we think of a routed network, we think of access and core. But in the optical network, there's a core optical long haul network. And there's an access optical network where simpler, lower cost, flexible devices with a lot of features and functions feed the optical core. And we specialize in the techniques, the tools, and the equipment to get the optical edge connected to the optical core. I love it. So when I met you earlier, you looked like somebody who could predict the future. So I'm going to ask you to do that for me today. Is that all right? Dean, are we talking about politics now? We are not. We will not be talking politics today. So where's the industry? Where is your industry going, say, in the next year? One of the interesting developments is the creation of large, what look like service providers, but you and I know them as Baidu, or Facebook, or Netflix, or Google. These are huge networks. And the brilliant engineers within these companies are looking to design a little bit different type of equipment than is traditional in the telco industry. And so we're seeing new kinds of designs and new ideas come out of these organizations. So I think that's where you want to look if you want to see what we'll be doing five, six, eight years from now. But it's happening now. It's starting now. Awesome. Manics, I can't thank you enough for joining us today. Well, my pleasure, Dean, and I hope you'll have me back sometime. Of course. Of course. I'd love to. I'd love to. Thanks again, and thank you viewers for watching JSA TV.


This is stock number 1959. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used RAM headquarters. Remember we are the guys with the trucks on 41. Today we are taking a look at the all-new 2019 RAM 1500 crew cab, 6 foot 4 inch short box, and this particular RAM is the Patriot Blue color. This is our first one that we have received. The truck looks really good. So on these new videos I like to take a distance walk around first before we get into the specifics of the truck. A lot of people have requested to stay zoomed out on the walk arounds for the new ones. So that's why a little bit farther back. It's a really good looking color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is like you're right here looking at the truck with me. Patriot Blue is a reboot color. I used to put it on the 2000s mid 2000 trucks. I think it went away in 06 was probably the last year for that color. Maybe 07 but I want to do a walk around because it is a really good looking color and our first one a lot of people like to see the colors on the videos here. Get a real-life perspective of what it looks like instead of just a computer rendering. Factory Foglight's chrome trimmed grille has the RAM stamped front end. Very good looking truck. Has the Nexon Rodion 20 inch tires, the 20 inch factory alloy rims with the chrome covers. Got the built-in directional signals in the mirrors. What makes the RAM so special is the coil springs them back. Gives you a much smoother ride when you're not carrying anything and it still has all the payload capacity that you'd expect with a truck. The dual rear exhaust, the chrome bumper has the backup camera, the RAM badge in the middle. A lot of people really like this Patriot Blue. New for the 2019 Rams is the capitalist fuel fill. If you've ever had a capitalist fuel fill you never really want to go back after having one. Has the heated mirrors, built-in directional signals and of course those side blinkers. This truck has the Hemi. It is a big horn so you get the gray cloth interior. This is the new interior design. Kind of a gray over black power driver seat. This one has auto headlamps. They put the power pedals down there now. New for the RAM. This year as they have the tilt but they also have the telescope so that steering wheel goes in and out which is a pretty neat feature and they did not have it before on the RAM half tons. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors. Those mirrors are power fold-in just like they always were on the big horns. This one has the little bit smaller screen here and then it has the digital speedometer still compass and temperature display. This one has a leather wrapped steering wheel. It's a new design on the steering wheel. The cruise controls on the right information and Bluetooth audio controls on the left. You can select your gears on the steering wheel. This one has the 8.4 touchscreen radio which gives you the Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities. Wanted to point out on these radios just how high definition these new cameras are. They're really really high-def. Very crystal clear which is nice. Looks like they brought the CD player back in the dash. I think a lot of people complained about that. You still have your cell phone holder down here. You have USB C's, two USB's and an AUX jack down there. Your stability control, your tow-haul mode are buttons right on there. AM, FM and Serious Satellite radio capabilities. This one has the home link, the power sliding rear window. Just a nice overall design on the vehicle. Still get the dual glove boxes over there. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats. This one they've named the bins back here the RAM bin. So now you can they still are removable so you can still you know empty them out easy cleaning but now they've added rulers on them. So they got standard up top metric on the bottom. I guess if you're gonna put fish back here or something you could measure the length of your fish.  And these seats go nice and vertically flat or vertically vertical. But anyways it's nice and flat back here is what I meant to say and so if you got pets they can lay nice and flat back here. Have a nice area to lay down or just hauling extra stuff. You don't have to worry about the hump in the middle or pulling out a load floor to make it flat. So kind of cool. There's no release on them so you just grab them and pull them down. Really nice feature. And that's about it for this one. It has the hemi in it and this particular one has the e-torque. We just started getting the e-torques in so I'm sure we'll do a video on that one of these days on the e-torque over the non- e-torque. 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So I think we'll get started. Thank you for joining. This is not the programmatic, pragmatic, how you do XYZ with OpenStack. But I think what's really interesting about this talk and as applicable today is how do you actually take an investment like OpenStack and actually move it into a hybrid cloud and then move it beyond that into what we call borderless computing. And so remember when you were young, when we started out in terms of finger painting, you can do pretty much whatever you wanted to.   But then you kind of got into KidnaGuard and everyone started saying, well, hey, make sure you start drawing in the lines. Don't throw all outside the lines.  As we got older, I actually started traveling. I grew up in Maryland on the East Coast. Been on the West Coast for 21 years or so. Actually no longer, not 25 years. And we had this notion of going from state to state. Maryland's a very small state, so you kind of move in between things very easily and you had this big sign. And I remember kind of saying to my dad, what the heck's that mean? He goes, oh, we're entering into a new state. But the roads were the same where they were a little bit crappier. Maryland had better roads at the time. But everything kind of felt the same, but it's kind of like, oh, okay, there's this change, right? Something is actually different. Cars are the same, roads are the same, but things are starting to change. And then we actually start to get on airplanes and travel outside of the United States and go somewhere else. Then all of a sudden it becomes very real that you're actually in a very, very different environment. You have to prove your identity. You have to, today, answer questions like, well, what are you doing here? How long are you gonna stay? What hotel are you in? We're really trying to figure out what's going on and the rules about what you can, can't do are changing. And so why do borders matter and why is this applicable to anyone at OpenStack Vancouver? Hopefully you understand that the exact same metaphor around finger painting and traveling applies to, how do we actually use, consume, and take advantage of computing resources? Where you still think of them as raw compute network and storage or think of them higher level services. There's borders, right? And there are technology borders. The most part computers are the same, the chips are the same, the disks, SSDs kind of are all the same. Yet when we talk about hybrid or we talk about borders computing, the notion of being able to seamlessly use all of these things together, kind of like finger painting in pre-kindergarten, really feels like it's something that can't be achieved today, that it's further out than most people think. And so for me, at least, it's kind of interesting to realize where we've been. The notion that we've kind of only been in this about 50 years, I think is a lot lost on the community at large of how far we've actually come. I mean, in 1970s we had mainframes. You had to go into a special building that you had access to, everything was kind of there. We all know these stories, but the timeframe of which we've actually looked in terms of, on here, 40 plus years is very, very short. We went into client server. I'm older, so I remember all these trends because I was living them, and we moved then from the desktop to what I consider some of the big mega trends that hit. Internet and cloud, and then mobile. What's interesting is that we have 10 times the number of users every cycle, and I actually think that's gonna keep going up. Even more importantly, we have a hundred times of the data being generated, and I'll explain why I think that's really, really important. This quote by my former boss, Eric Schmidt at Google, every two days we create as much information as we did in totality up to 2003. I think this quote's like three years old too. So the amount of data that we're actually generating, and the amount of data that we need to have access to, and the way we process it, and the way we make services out of it is gonna be a key into kind of why this notion of hybrid and borderless computing, at least in my opinion, is important. We all have some sort of touch base with information technology, right? IT. But the IT that I grew up with, going to school a long time ago, is very, very different I think than what the modern IT is today, where it's rooted around where's the data being generated? What APIs can we put on that data? Not only to access it, but to generate services that then present their own API. Right, so this data API and services and data as we know is always growing. I think the numbers are, any number you say is probably gonna be wrong. We were speaking with a Gartner analyst the other day and I made a comment that kind of made her laugh. We're dealing with 50,000 year old hardware in our brains. It's very hard for us to actually think exponentially.  That's just the way we're built. So any type of estimates on data I believe are actually gonna be inaccurate even though they feel like they're just crazy in terms of how big they're going. But what people I think also are starting to understand is that data by itself doesn't really do a lot. And so you probably heard of terms like the API economy where things are being massively explored around how you actually access the data. And in services, right? Everything is adding new capabilities, new ways to process the data into information which then is useful and then we can actually use that to do important things. I currently reside in San Francisco and we have this notion of personalized everything. Uber and TaskRabbit and Caviar and all these kind of things. IT is around personalized data for everybody and every organization in an IT organization in my opinion. Cloud Computering has kind of actually liberated the fact that all of this data can actually be used. Now I believe and I don't know if this number is right, I believe the majority of data still goes useless meaning we don't do anything with it. But we're kind of starting to try to catch up and cloud computing was a big deal. Again, for me, I remember when it might take three months just to get a computer. We had to do a CapEx budget and a justification and send the order in and I always screwed it up so then we had to send it back and then it would come and somebody would burn it in and then they put the operating system on it and then three, four, six months later they'd hand it to you and say, here you go and it's like, well great, I need five more, what do I do now? And then you get back in line for a six-month cycle. The dawn of virtualization and what kind of VMware did in terms of extracting what actually existed on mainframes a long, long time ago but kind of popularizing it. I actually used it when it first came out but I used it for QA to actually do Windows installer so that I didn't have to keep re-imaging Windows machines. When they actually moved into the data center with a deal with IBM, it became this notion of dawn of virtualization and you came down to the number of days that it would take to actually get things spun up which was a huge deal compared to three, six months. Nowadays, most cloud providers, it's less than two minutes and with the new dawn of containers, right, which are very, very fast, sometimes sub one second, right, 500 millisecond on, for example, the platform that the company that I work for actually provides. So, what's interesting here is that trends go in two phases in my opinion. One is keep doing the things that you're doing, just do them faster. Then eventually you get to a point where you can't do it any faster and then you actually start thinking about how to do things differently. We're getting to the point where we're gonna start thinking about things differently. And at least for me and a lot of the people at Epsera and throughout the industry have heard me speak or know of me say the world does not need faster VMs or faster containers. They're fast enough. Now, how are we actually gonna do things slightly differently with the technology that we have? But this cycle is pretty amazing and if you look at the 45 year cycle I put up on the previous slide, this one is actually about 11 years or so, right? So in 11 years we've gone from three months and it's gracious, it's probably like six to nine months if I remember correctly, down to less than a second you can actually get a computing resource that you can log into and start doing things with. So there's clear benefits, right? The economies of scale reduce overall spending, capital cost shift from cap X to Op X. Now sometimes that can be more expensive, less expensive. The interesting part here is that it's choice and for me the only thing that keeps getting more expensive in technology is the people that are sitting in this room. Everything else is getting cheaper. So anything you do that involves more people probably don't do that, look at the other way. And cloud computing is a way to say don't worry about people to maintain the buildings, figure out energy, powering, cooling, building, keeping computers running, fixing them, all that other stuff. So even though an Amazon bill can be extremely expensive sometimes, right? You have to actually look at the head count that you're saving a lot of times. And you get a lot of business and technology, oh Julie. We had a little gathering last night and someone who kind of ran a lot of the technology at Zynga was there and he was talking about the move from Amazon back into Zynga with I think it was called Z Cloud and now they're moving back into Amazon, right? And he was kind of scratching his head at why they were doing it but the agility that cloud computing provides is pretty obvious. Yet these borders keep popping up, right? Zynga did a lot of tremendous innovation in my opinion on figuring out how to move from Amazon to Z Cloud, Z Cloud back and forth. But it's not easy and for the most part, at least from what I've seen is that people who want to actually move to the cloud, they pick one provider. I think Gartner just came out with a big magic quadrant that shows Amazon's way up into the right, you know, ahead of everyone else, two levels that people didn't actually expect at all.  So some of the benefits, private, right? Security, reliability, high performance, public cloud benefit, more cost effective, agile, flexible, easier to deploy. Anything you put in either one of those columns, I can promise you is probably gonna be a wrong depending on who you're talking to. But there's differences, right? There's reasons for certain companies. Last night again, someone said, hey, do you believe we're all going to public cloud? And I said, absolutely not. I do believe hybrid is kind of where everything's going. And that's why we have such a huge focus at Epsara on hybrid. But even when I was at Google doing Gmail, I realized that I would trust Gmail over anything that any IT organization could set up in terms of a mail system, knowing kind of what was going on underneath the covers. Data at rest, data in motion, access, audit trails, all this other stuff. And the ability that, at least for me, when I get into a hotel room, if I wanna make sure my wifi connection's working, I just type in Google.com and it'd enter. I assume Google's always on, it's always there, right? And yet, when I started there, they were built on computers that were put together with Velcro. They were literally open trays and all the pieces were Velcroed in. Hardware never talked to software, software never talked to machines, which was kind of a light bulb moment for me. These all have borders in terms of public and private. For the most part, anyone, at least from my perspective, who says they have a hybrid cloud strategy is saying these apps will run on-premise and totally new Greenfield apps will run in the cloud and never the two shall meet. And we know that there's just limited viability to that type of approach. And so there's lots of challenges around this. For example, private cloud is expensive to build out in terms of cat-backs, time, people. It's not only, it's not always as reliable as people think. Public cloud is perceived to be less secure and some of that's been kind of proven out, again, I would probably trust public cloud more, to be honest with you. The biggest one for us is public cloud has inconsistent across multiple vendors and your private cloud stuff, the ability to secure, regulate policy, regulate service access, regulate network connectivity between these things. And so for us, and I believe once technology actually gets to a maturity level that everyone can trust it, hybrid cloud is the real answer to have that choice. It is a lower total cost of ownership. I think the availability and the agility, kind of like what the Zynga model was going back and forth and being able to pick and choose depending on what they were trying to do. One of the other big things here is, is that compute, network and storage and doing that faster, as I said, is interesting, but we're gonna change. And where we're changing now is, is what I call the services ecosystem. And so if you look at Amazon, right, Amazon has, of course, lots of computers having lots of geographies, but the stickiness that they're really, really driving is around services, right? If you want to build your software faster, which by the way, software systems will never get any simpler than they are today. Tomorrow they're gonna be more complex. You want to build less and assemble more. And what Amazon's doing is, is they're giving you all the common off the shelf services to assemble a system and just build what makes you different. But what's interesting is, again, going back to my comment, most organizations that we've talked to will pick one cloud. But what happens if another cloud comes up and they really do have a service that you absolutely want for one application? Most people won't do that. They'll say, don't worry about it. At least to my knowledge, the only customer that Amazon has lost was to IBM and it had nothing to do with their computers or their network or storage. It had to do with a Watson service. And this company had an application that they really wanted to use state-of-the-art machine learning represented by the Watson service to do that. And so, hopefully this isn't news to anyone. It's a massively growing market. It's projected to get to about $90 billion in less than five years. That's pretty big. Even in terms of all of the numbers that you see flying around. And hybrid is obviously something that everyone has been talking about. But it means a lot of different things, a lot of different people. But I think the point that we can all agree on is it is going to be a massive opportunity. So for us and my perspective, it's not perfect and I think we all know that it's not perfect. Again, if any of you saw the keynote the other morning where Google and Rackspace were trying to actually demonstrate some of the hybrid cloud stuff, it almost worked. Well, almost isn't good enough. It has to be seamless and trusted and it has to be able to, in my opinion, deliver trust across any type of computing resources that you use. And that's hard and it's hard and for the most part, people think it's boring and it's not very sexy and nobody really cares about this stuff. But it's one of the biggest impediments to why hybrid cloud, at least in terms of actually using these resources totally fungibly and interchangeably, hasn't really occurred yet. Now what's interesting about the borders in my opinion is, and I had a reporter ask me the other day, they said, well, what should happen? And I said, well, what should happen is is we should probably have a common set of APIs across all vendors, both public and private, and there's a way to securely and transparently interconnect all these networks on the fly. And she looked at me, she goes, I agree.  It's just not gonna happen. But it feels like it should, right? There's still machines, some machine, there's the same machines all over the place.  The way you access services, the way you set up things like auto scale groups on Amazon versus all kinds of different things on Google Compute and SoftLayer, they're all different. And that just solidifies these borders, solidifies friction, and it drives people back to, oh yeah, we have a hybrid cloud strategy. We do this over here, and we do something totally different over here. So imagine if those borders didn't have to exist. And again, this is non-trivial and it's not easy, but if they did not exist, what would the world look like? What was interesting for me when I came into Google, I came in in 2003, was there was a couple of mantras that were in place. Hardware never talked to software. So literally, the hardware people never had to say dilly squat to anybody about the machine they were about to unplug, that they were walking down the aisle with the tray of hard disks, hard disks were the ones that just failed all the time. And that was kind of interesting because I had come from a company called Tipco for about 12 years where we really tried to make sure the hardware was reliable and we knew what it was doing and everybody was knowing where everything was running. The other interesting thing was is that at Google, software people didn't talk to machines. They talked to a system called the Borg, right? An intermediary in terms of saying, hey, could you please do this for me? I couldn't say, oh, I want that seat right there. The Borg would look across and figure out all the seats and say, okay, you're gonna sit here today. Now, what was interesting is at the time, the Borg was very rudimentary, but I think the light bulb moment for me was is that there wasn't a border between what I was trying to do and let's say Google search or Google ads. The interesting thing though is is if you got stuck on a machine where Google search was running, you were kind of SOL and your process really kind of got starved out. And so we would then shoot that one and then it would get moved around by the Borg until we actually got happy. But again, that was 12 years ago. Now, what's interesting is that consumer tech seems to be running ahead of kind of enterprise IT tech. And borderless computing is really getting real in consumer tech. I mean, I remember a time when you take a picture and then you had to plug it in and sync and then you had to copy it to get it to somewhere where you could archive it and then all of these different texts that slowly were coming and delivering the promise of borderless computing and it was not fun, it was a little bit painful. But for most part now, I take a picture. It automatically goes to Dropbox, goes to Carousel, goes to iCloud, it's all over the place. Luckily, nobody cares about the photos I take so if they're stolen, it's no big deal. But the interesting part is is I could literally take my phone right now, take a picture of you, pause maybe a second, put it on the floor and crush it, go get another one and all my stuff comes back. For most part, I can do that with this. What's crazy is is that, because I live in San Francisco, I'm a real big fan of Tesla, I have a Tesla car and everyone's like, oh, well Tesla cars are different or cars different. I literally about four months ago upgraded my car, I drove in, 40 minutes later I drove out. The car looked exactly the same but it was the newer P85D or whatever like that. All the stuff was already switched over, it's all electronic and all just reappeared. The car was a fungible asset, I could just throw it away and get a new one and everything came back. I think what Google taught me early on was is that IT and the hardware resources that we should use should be exactly the same way. Yet a lot of this absolutely has to work now type of technology and IT is it runs on that computer in the closet, please don't touch it, do not pass, go, stay away, right? And so we need to move past the border, so to speak. So at least for us at Epsara, we want to easily leverage any available compute resource and by compute I mean not just compute but network storage services. Across all clouds, all infrastructure, from any vendor, in a connected, seamless, but highly secure and trusted fashion. I've been talking a lot about trust lately and it's interesting because I can't really define it but I can tell you, you know when you have it and you know when you don't. And I'm pretty sure a lot of people don't have trust not only in the public cloud yet but they don't have trust in any type of hybrid cloud. And at least the customers that we've been talking to really get kind of wigged out when we try to draw a connective line in between what's running on premise in their data center and anything out in Amazon or Google or software or Azure. So why it matters, remember the modern IT economy and it's around data and then the APIs and then the services that generate more APIs which hopefully turn the data into information that's actually useful. The amount of unstructured data being generated is astounding and for the most part I'd say 85 plus percent of it is being unused today. I was at actually right here about three months ago or so, two months ago at a conference called TED. So TED is actually in Vancouver for the last two years. And there was a talk from an MIT PhD grad student and he talked about the fact that even our perceived world we only perceive like this much of what's really going on around us. And then he showed a picture of what looked like a picture and he goes, this is actually a video and you're looking at it and it's just like a picture and it's not moving at all. And it was a picture of a bag of chips and you can go on YouTube and actually see it now it's pretty amazing. And behind a soundproof barrier you had a camera, a high-speed video camera that was watching it. He flipped to a little bit of math and algorithms and he immediately flipped to his algorithm can recreate the conversation that was happening in the room between two people with a bag of chips in between them. The only reason I point this out is that it was literally looks like a bag of chips and it looks like nothing was going on there and yet he extracted all of this information out of it. It is a great talk, I would recommend you go see it. The coolest part was what he did next which was once he had kind of the infrastructure and all the stuff working, he took a weekend project to do the exact same thing but actually recreate the material composition of something just from a video. And so then he showed a picture of a tree and it was barely moving but all he needed was that little bit of movement and then he ran a fully automated simulation where he would pull the tree and it was materially correct. Now what's interesting for, again, us in San Francisco is what if you could just have cameras watching buildings and say, hey, this building might have a problem if we have an earthquake over 4.5? Point I'm trying to make is that it sounds like it's like, oh, well that's kind of way, way out there, some MIT, PhD, grad student type stuff but I'm telling you the world we live in today even as enterprises are trying to extract more information out of the data we're barely tapping what's below the surface and so the ability to bring massive amount of compute resources very quickly to a problem to extract things that people can't see is gonna be the difference in my opinion between who wins and who loses. So with IoT, IoT is a big thing that I've been watching. It's very interesting right now we're in the very, very first baby steps of sensors everywhere generating data. The trend though is pretty clear to see, it just depends on how long we get there and for me again that thing that if you ask me to define I can't trust is what we need to get there but I'll give you a quick example. So I'm old, I'm trying to run and stay in shape but let's say I have a pacemaker or you can talk about an airline engine, you know an airplane engine. Eventually the sensors are creating data that is being farmed, manipulated, watched through cloud services and then they wanna close the loop and send something back to change the behavior. We're talking about pacemakers and we're talking about airplane engines but within Enterprise IT we wanna take the data, we wanna process it, we wanna make intelligent decisions, actually we don't, we want the machines to and we wanna send control back to actually affect what's going on. And in certain situations it's very easy to see oh we can kinda maybe do that today and contrive examples but I'd ask you to kind of just think in your head, all right well what happens if we are talking about the pacemaker that keeps Derek standing up? What level of trust has to exist for me to trust that the sensors that's maybe on my Apple I watch if I ever get one and my Fitbit or whatever are trusted that they're trusting the data that they're sending to the cloud service. They trust the communication, they trust the cloud service. The cloud service has to be trust the communication back to the pacemaker to say oh Chakami's about to fall over and he's on stage, that wouldn't look good. You start understanding this notion of again that thing I can't define trust but how we actually need to look at that. And I'm not gonna do that on my iPhone, right? There's gonna be massive amounts of computing resources and things all over that I wanna be able to take advantage of whether I own them or not to do this. And so for us, breaking down these barriers is kind of the mission of the company. The company started about three years ago and we're trying to solve some really really hard problems but whether we do or not the industry has to figure out how to get rid of these borders in order to really kind of take advantage of what we have. Not playing the old card too much but my iPhone is more powerful than the supercomputers I used in college. And yet for the most part I use it to check email and look at Facebook and Twitter, things like that. But with machine learning, with all different types of things around anomaly detection, threshold management, there's a tremendous amount of information that can be mined from what we're already doing today. And we're not gonna do it with our own data centers, right? We're gonna do it with all of the resources that are available. And the person that can do that in a trusted fashion in the fastest way is gonna have an advantage. And so for us, with a hybrid cloud operating system, we wanna be able to just deploy, orchestrate, govern and again govern is just as bad a word as policy but across any asset that we might have access to whether we own it or not. We talked about the PageMaker example but this notion of even the passport, right? Which I have to use to get back into the United States tonight. Do I know you? Can I trust you? What resources can you get access to? Remember, there's probably, I might have my math wrong, getting close to eight billion people in the world. These are all talking about carbon stuff. Think about how many different software systems need identity and trust in this new world. The reason IoT is such a big deal for such massive makers is if anyone kind of missed the boat on mobile, they can make it up 100 fold in IoT. It's gonna be that big. So for us, policy and governance is the key.  We can't do what we need to do. I fundamentally believe policy, governance and security done right gets out of your way. It's kind of like guardrails. It just makes you safe, but it doesn't slow you down. And we know what happens when, well, I think most of us have seen what happens when companies try to go very fast and things get kind of loose. And all of a sudden you feel like you're safe, but you're not. I had a CEO who I'm not gonna mention, but I remember sitting in front of him one time and he says, Derek, he goes, let me make it as clear as possible. Go as fast as you possibly can but keep my name out of the newspapers. And I remember laughing and chuckling at that but then I also kind of said, wow, what does that really mean? One, he wanted hands off. He's like, don't tell me what you're about to do. Just keep going, but keep my name out of the newspapers. And he was serious, but he also was kidding. But then, first time at least in the United States history, I believe, a CEO lost his job because of an IT breach, not the CIO, not the CISO, but targets CEO, right? That's a pretty big deal. And so, companies need to innovate. They need to go faster, but how do they do that in a safe way? And most people think these are opposing forces and we don't. So, policy for utilizing infrastructure and securing access control and new technologies and environments. We did a demo yesterday in the marketplace room where we showed the notion of a developer deploying an application and that's not new and exciting, right? You want that friction to go to zero. But the interesting part was that policy was all around this workload as it moved from OpenStack to Amazon to Google. Totally seamlessly, yet governed by policy. Network access was totally exactly the same everywhere. There was no concept of, well, let's try to recreate that on Amazon and make sure we kind of got it right and hope that we did, all right? And it worked. I didn't have to high-five anybody. It worked every single time, all right?  I think the last little app we showed was a map app that just showed which application was responding and where it was on the globe and we kept hitting refresh and it's ping-ponging between Japan and Ireland and Europe and North America. The app was fairly simple, but it was connected to a database running in Amazon. We were redoing the network on the fly as everything was moving around and it was a trusted environment. I think a lot of people that came up after the demo were like, well, how did you do that? And I said, I can promise you, I didn't do it in a weekend and I didn't do it in the last six months and I definitely didn't do it by myself. So a lot of hard problems here, but they are tractable problems. So the future, internet of things, big data, this modern IT economy, how do we actually go fast enough and use all the resources that we need? When we started the talk, I told you this is not gonna be a pragmatic talk per se, but more of a kind of where things are going, but borderless computing driven by trust I think is the future that we're looking at. If we back it up today, what does that mean? What's the first step? And for me, that's true hybrid computing, right? And hybrid computing in terms of, we're here at an OpenStack conference. So how do we root some of that with our investment in OpenStack? Probably running on premise ball. A lot of imagine there's some cloud service providers here that are using it and then seamlessly extend that out to any compute infrastructure, any public cloud. And again, at least in my opinion, more importantly, a public cloud that either offers another competitive advantage, usually through a service, maybe through pricing, although I actually don't think you're gonna be, everyone says, oh, you're gonna move around to get pennies on the dollar. Well, if you've got 500,000 workloads, maybe. But it's interesting to see this technology at work in terms of leverage going, well, we could move by just clicking a button in less than three seconds, we'd have all our workloads off of Amazon to Google. But more importantly, it's like, how do we take advantage of these services that are coming online? I'll give you a good example of our 50,000-year-old hardware that can't think really well ahead, at least I can. 5G's about to hit in 2020. And I remember when we went from 3G to 4G and then 4G to LTE, and we're stepping up. And it's just not speed of access. Remember, I said, you keep doing the same things you're doing faster and faster and faster and eventually get fast enough that you actually do things differently? 5G is gonna radically change the way we do a lot of different things, whether it's conscious or not. And so now, what's interesting is, is that the telco providers, who to date really haven't been able to take full advantage of cloud computing opportunities, right? They might be able to come up with services that if something like OpenStack PlusUpSera exists and it does today, allows us to friction-free actually direct certain workloads to that, to take advantage of that service, all based on policy, all governed by technology that you can trust. It becomes very interesting that now hybrid means multiple public clouds, private infrastructure on OpenStack. Today, we've got the technology that you can see, you can feel, you can touch, we'll install it, it'll work, I promise. It's been about three years in the making on terms of how we did this. Today, we have SoftLare, Amazon, and Google, we're gonna add Azure. And of course, on the private cloud side, OpenStack, which is why we're all here. But then also VMware in terms of the 800-pound gorilla. What's interesting, though, is there's this massive ecosystem toolkit. I believe the trust comes eventually in an integrated solution. But today, I think most enterprises look at a toolkit, a toolbox of things that they wanna pull from, including OpenStack. And for us, we are very conscious about putting things back into that toolbox, and also partnering and integrating with things in there. Schedulers, network, container security are probably a lot of the things you've heard as you've been walking around the conference for the last several days. Thank you. I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. Hopefully, you found it useful. Again, it's not how to deploy a heat map on OpenStack today. But I promise you, this will become relevant faster than we think. Again, because we're using very, very old hardware. Any questions? You gotta have at least one. So the question is, when we're moving workloads, are we touching a database or something in terms of workloads? Our system is comprised of three logical points. A routing plane, layer three through seven. A management plane, which is the persistent state of packages and jobs and where things are running and how they link and channel together. That obviously is being updated, right? It's not a single point of failure. It's a replicated system. When the workloads are actually moving, though, all of the policy is wrapped around the workload and it's being enforced all at the endpoints. So if I move you from Amazon to Google, but you are connected to a database in Amazon, we redo the network on the fly based on authenticated policy that's digitally signed when the workload appears in Google in our runtime. Does that make sense? Sure. So the question is, what happened to the data that my app was using when my app got moved? In the demo we gave yesterday to do app, the database was actually provisioned and introduced into our system from Amazon. So we just used RDS. And so it didn't go anywhere. So what we did was when the workload appeared in Google, policy was wrapped around and says, it should be allowed to have access to this database. And our system, when we see that, our system transparently figures out how to build routes on the fly, secure routes from Google all the way back to the database in Amazon. Now, if you wanted to move the database, that's going to be a huge issue, not an app-serra issue. It's just a general issue around, well, how do you move like an S3 bucket to Google Cloud or IBM software? And of course, there's technologies to try to make that a leaky abstraction, but leaky abstractions are usually bad, at least in my opinion. Yes? It's actually very similar to the question that the other gentleman was asking. You mentioned earlier about all these analytic data, big data, exabytes and however much it is. So a lot of the companies we talked to actually want to not really burst, like they want to do a hybrid cloud private and public, but they want to burst compute into the public cloud because of either video encoding or some kind of other analytics. So in those cases, you really have to move the data around because otherwise you can't really burst compute into the public cloud if you're trying to access data in your private cloud. So how does you guys handle that? Yeah, so that's a great question, which I don't have a great answer for. There's still nothing as fast as a truckload of disk running down a highway, right? Speed of light and latency is important. But what's interesting about the demo we gave yesterday, which might not have been obvious, is that our network topology and how we actually reroute and secure everything is full mesh. So in other words, when the app moved over to Google and was accessing the database, there was a direct peer secure network connection between those, and the latency between those is pretty darn good. That being said, there's also things that, and then this will really get woo-woo on you, but if I study the kind of the way the brain works, the brain works in layers. And so there's a massive amount of data coming into your visual cortex, which gets processed in parallel and then moved on to different layers. And usually the signal is higher, the entropy is lower, but the amount of data is less. And so I think you're gonna start seeing that. So again, my math might be off, but a GE engine on an airline generates, I don't know, 40 terabytes. We can't download that all the way to the ground and check it and then bring something up. But there could be something where it's a trusted compute that goes up to the airplane, processes it and sends specific amounts of data down. In your case, when you do bursting, I don't think cloud bursting is actually a really good example of hybrid in reality. But I do see DevTest get spun up and the data is actually being generated there. So in other words, it's not actually operating on something else and then it kind of goes down. Again, I said I wouldn't have a great answer for it. Data gravity, which is, I worked with a gentleman who kind of coined the term, I believe, it's real, right? Speed of light is a constant. We can't change it, at least I don't think we can. Any others? Thank you very much. I appreciate it.