Okay, hear me out, something I complain actually pretty often about is that we don't have enough KD apps or they're not good enough or they're not consistent in design enough and so on. I do think that KD core applications like Dolphin, GuenView, Ocular, KD and so on are absolutely incredible and would win against any competition on any day, but I don't quite feel the same way on apps that are about some smaller use cases or not as maintained. From that point of view I absolutely loved GNOME's initiative which is called Circle which manages to onboard a lot and I mean a lot of little cute applications that are consistent with their design. I have praised this system in previous videos too though so this shouldn't come as a surprise. However Plasma Mobile and Kuri Gami are changing that and it's not just changing it for mobile phones but for desktops as well. When designing with a phone in mind developers realize that many applications had to be rewritten from scratch or straight up written from scratch simply because there was no alternative that was working well on a mobile phone. That was obviously done in Kuri Gami which is KD's toolkit that best supports I think touchscreens which is totally a big deal on smartphones you know. However Kuri Gami is designed for convergency it won't make apps automatically convergent there are some great desktop only Kuri Gami apps and some great mobile only ones too but it will make your life very easy if you decide to make your mobile application a desktop one as well. So now we're getting lots and lots of originally thought for mobile but you know what this works very well on desktop two applications. In fact most Plasma Mobile applications now are published in the KD Gear updates just like any other application. So when is the next KD Gear update for these applications? Well it's this month though it's on the 20th. However through the monthly blog post of Plasma Mobile developers in March we can get a little bit of a preview on how these applications have been improved for the release and let me tell you it's a juicy update. So without further ado and I mean it's only been like 383 words let's start talking about what's new. So audio tube audio tube is KD's client for youtube music it allows you to listen to music ad free from youtube music just like if you were paying for it which I do by the way. In March there has been a complete redesign of the play queue on desktop it will appear in a nice blurry sidebar with options to clear the queue or mix it up and the biggest surprise for me is that in the mobile phone version of the application it looks awesome. So I mean just look at this piece of drawer it's beautiful for so many reasons. You have the nice shadow on the dialogue but also an even nicer shadow underneath the album art. You have this gray ish header area that just looks slightly skeuomorphic it's just so pretty. It does sadly raise some concerns due to my consistency goalhead in fact we did already have a drawer that pops from the bottom so what was wrong with that one why was a new one designed is it a consistent component that multiple apps can use with this one replace the old one and so on. Luckily enough the consistency goal was replaced with a new goal last October so I can happily ignore all of those questions and just say hey it looks beautiful. If you aren't sold on how pretty audio tube is and if so what is wrong with you you can check out this screenshot which showcases the fact that now audio tube current song album art and artist will be correctly picked up by the desktop and displayed in a widget in the system tree or wherever you want. A lot of features were also added and it's not just design changes and I do mean a lot. Now you can clear the current playlist, clear the search history, there's an about page, you have your favorite songs and most played songs as playlists. It's much lighter on the RAM, you can share songs, you can create your own playlists and so on. It's a lot of things which I did not expect to whole happen in just a month. Phonebook This is a contact application and I won't talk much about it given that this one is probably much more on the mobile phone side of things but I do want to point out that the big redesigns happened here as well and this application is also using the bottom drawer that I mentioned above which makes me think that it's indeed some sort of reusable component. Arianna If you follow my channel, you know about Arianna. Actually, you should know about at least two different Ariannas. This one and this one, Arianna, the KD application, is a project that I started working some months ago with idea to have a NEPA breeder for e-ink devices such as the Pinewood. After a bit, Carl Schran basically took over and managed to implement lots of new features that would have taken me years. Now, there's even more contributors to the application. What's new and cool in March is now Arianna works on Windows and will probably soon land in the Microsoft Store. Given that EpoB readers on Windows are kinda meh, there's hope that Arianna will be used on that operating system too. And as you know, as soon as you start using free and open source software applications, it's only a matter of time before you fully convert to Linux. Also, Arianna is getting quite future proof by now compiling with Qt6, which will come with like KD Plasma 6 as well on all of your desktops. I do have a couple of announcements before I go on and it's big changes for my channel. Well, firstly, I reached 15,000 subscribers, so thank you so much for that. To give back from now on, all of my videos will be available as blog posts as well. And I mean literally word per word. If you just prefer to read, you can click in the first link in the video description or go to blog.nico.law. Also, all of my videos will now have manually written English subtitles and each one will have chapter marks. All of this actually takes effort and money, so I started adding some benefits for patrons as well, such as private kind of podcasts, blog posts and polls. Thank you so much to all the people helping me out with the channel. My goal is 700 bucks each month and it's not easy, but if you can chip in something that would be lovely, otherwise don't worry, it's still lovely. Tokodon Tokodon is a must-do-done client. Just a few months ago, I actually tried out on Plasma Mobile, but sadly it could not fit my use case perfectly back then because it lacked a major feature that it now has, being able to create polls. But of course, it doesn't stop there. The view to compose messages has been redesigned to to make sure that you can see the post that you're replying to. You have settings to filter out certain types of notifications. To be fully honest, on all of my devices, I'm always in do not disturb mode. And finally, there's also support for follow requests. Now, I gotta say that in English, this S at the end of the word, it's always so difficult to pronounce. You can see all of the people who would like to digitally stalk you, and you can just go through the list and click on Deny on every single one, except of course if it's me. Plasma Tube. Well, you can't have a YouTube music KD client without obviously also having a YouTube KD client. And that's Plasma Tube. And you guessed it, this client was also redesigned. Now, the thumbnails have rounded corners, similarly to how YouTube itself does it. And the media player has a completely new look that you can see in these screenshots. I really appreciate the fact that the person who did the redesign, Matthews Brouchard, clearly how not you pronounce it, sorry about that, decided to use one of my videos to showcase the feature. Neochat. This is the matrix client of KD. By the way, all KD communication happens on the matrix servers of KD and sometimes it's bridged to telegram as well. And this makes this client immediately quite important for KD developers. In the latest round of changes, we have that all the status updates, people joining the room, people changing the real names and so on, automatically gets aggregated together, which makes navigating rooms much easier on other matrix clients. Sometimes I have an entire screen just of these status changes. There's a new command to send a knock event to another room, which I just love as an idea. And as KD is working on accessibility, keyboard navigation was also improved significantly. There is no longer an hamburger menu, but a more simple plus icon with just a couple of actions like creating a new room or starting a chat. The video controls of the video sent on matrix now have more options like a volume slider. You can copy images to the clipboard. There are quick formatting options when you select text in the message that you're writing. And finally, the account switcher now has context menu with more options about accounts. This is a lot of stuff. And I know that you might not be directly interested in new chat. After all, not everybody uses matrix. But remember that if anybody works on another chart application, all of these progress can be applied to that chart application as well. So it's making KD future proof even on other type of clients. Power plan. Finally, to showcase just how good Keregami is at making well-designed applications, let me talk about a project that has been posted publicly six hours ago at the time of recording. It's obviously still in the early development stages and such, but look at these screenshots, like come on, this application is meant to help you at not killing your plants, which is a pretty tough goal. But it does so in a way that just makes me go, wow. And yeah, this application was created yesterday. Like the day before yesterday, this didn't exist. And now it exists. I think Keri apps have a bright future, you know? Oh, I forgot to put the lights. Lights.


Bob, thank you so much for coming up here and to share your testimony Yesterday you shared a lot about how you received Christ, but let's just talk specifically on your salvation How did you get to know God and what was your journey like? Yeah, I'm gonna try to sum this up real quick Anyway, yeah, it started out with You know, I mean back in the 60s I got involved with some people that were producing a massive amount of LSD and they started a cult And it was based on Eastern religion So that and they really were many of them were very sincere thinking they were gonna go ahead and make the world better through Chemistry But anyway, you know, so and we surely believe these people had an Eastern Religious mindset You know like Hinduism and Buddhism and they believe that the kingdom of heaven was in in this vast Nothingness out there and it is the key was to empty out and then then you're gonna go ahead and be enlightened and then you're gonna go ahead and find the kingdom of heaven and So that's what they trained me to do the fast for three or four days Go up to the mountains around Big Bear Lake and up there around LA and and then take a massive amount of LSD And and I really believed I saw God Okay but it was you know from there it went on into I Embraced Hinduism. I went to the Fiji Islands. I studied it with a Hindu priest live with them and his family and And and and and begin to meet all the these different Hindu gods They would they'd be hanging around the temple and I'd be going ahead and Getting to know them personally they would relay messages for the priest to me and and and and give me instructions There was supernatural phenomena going on right left and center There was you know, it was a fire walking ceremony where people walked barefoot through hot cut coals So I just think and that was gonna go ahead and that was gonna bring me into enlightenment So I managed to go ahead and in partake of the ceremony and actually walked across The the hot coals barefooted made it to the other side and and then I'm thinking okay now it's enlightenment well from there I went to I went to I ran out of money so I ended up in New Zealand and Where I could get some work and then I was thinking okay instead of being free a Depression came upon me and emptiness came upon me. That was so that was so like I'd never experienced before in my life instead of instead of joy peace and love it was just a Deeper Emptiness, you know a great void and then now so then I got hooked up with an organization called the church of Scientology I became a licensed minister of the church of Scientology in Auckland, New Zealand for five years and finally found out that this was not the answer and it was and and Came back to the United States Totally confused I thought I was going ahead and achieve enlightenment The thousands of hours sitting in caves and third world countries and villages and and here I am just that just a confused 30-year-old man Well, then I met my wife and Here's here's here's the key to this We've been married 40 years. We did we did her burial service for her memorial yesterday and And and and it became so clear to me that in 1979 we had just been dating I was living in Portland. She was in Seattle. She came she came down from Seattle on Thanksgiving We baked the turkey. I was carving up the turkey. I come back and all of a sudden She's in my living room and she's completely prostrate on the ground crying crocodile tears I said what happened, honey, and she said what Jesus just appeared to me And he and he just and she was going through an ugly divorce and she was going through a horrible experience herself at that time so we were both hurting units and and and and it was a short time after that that all of a sudden it's like Things we kept going wrong. I said, you know, I talked to God But I believe that Jesus actually intervened right there He he touched my wife mildly in 1979 just just a matter of weeks later. He says You I got an assignment for you. I want you to take care of this woman you know, so I Did and I've been taking care of her for 40 years now and and and that was the key Because everything I had been involved with I mean I can go on and on and on but everything I had been involved with was spiritual darkness and the holds that it had on me and and and the stranglehold It had on me and and but because she had that experience and then I was true to that assignment And I was true to a second assignment and that was to go ahead and and go into the prisons and reach reach prisoners And and I was I've been true to that just the evangelical evangelical outreach to the prisons for 26 years now So it took both those things and it took my the picture that he showed me was like I was like a kite Who would he just flown out into a vast empty nothingness? But she had she had the string and she had that she had the she had you know, and she was she was Anchored there's no way I could I could seduce her into a counterfeit Jesus Christ She had the real thing because she met the real thing and and and and She she you know her and the Holy Spirit and and the work in the prison ministry It kept pulling pulling the kite down pulling the kite down and then finally in 19 There was a massive deliverance that that took place in me And and I had five men restraining me to the floor and at that time I was I was chanting the same Hindu chants. I chanted in 1973 And and all of a sudden I realized that that Hindu God had been lingering all these years So the bottom line is this church there is spiritual darkness and there's counterfeits coming from every different direction And right now that what's on my heart and and and as I see revival going on I also know all the different counterfeits that are out there I see I see how they they come sneaking in you know, and and they're coming through the emerging church They're coming into so many different directions into the Christian community coming through they're coming through they've already impacted our culture to such an extent That the culture is now coming into the church and the whole thing is just getting completely You know mixed up with Eastern religions and and and and those techniques So my heart my passion is that This be clean this be clean and this be clear of all that be free from all of that You know and and and that it be the pure Holy Spirit that manifests with with no impurity and no counterfeits whatsoever And that's my heart church and that's what I'm praying for And I'm gonna do everything I can to go ahead and try to protect what's happening in this church And I'll be and and and I'm locked in with you And I and I just wanted to thank you for the love that you shared with with on my on my wife when I bring her in that wheelchair and Six or seven or eight of you would be praying for her that never happened in any other church We went to and she loved this church and she loved you guys And I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything that for all all the love that you poured into her And and and she's in glory right now And I better stop talking. No, you did good. You did so good. I Would say this is the You know what Bob said yesterday he said that You know we're at the funeral. He says I'm so happy. She finished the membership class at hungry Jen before she died I'm like, I don't think that matters now He's like I know but because she was in a wheelchair, so she couldn't go up upstairs for the classes Then we switched the classes having downstairs. He's like she finished them like how many months ago There's a couple of months ago.  Okay perfect timing Please keep standing with the support that Bob and Helen brought to the church I mean truly as he said it perfectly yesterday. She was just a light and We just want to be that church continuously and just be praying with them supporting them whatever your heart leads to do on Financial or just on a time basis just to reach out and just to keep supporting on this rough time so Church I'm asking and inviting us just to stretch your hands to him and just bless him and just ask God for the grace and this mercy and The comfort at this time God We just thank you so much for Bob and the ministry that him and Helen have brought and will continue to do so that he's so faithful Even coming to church to this morning after the memorial But God we thank you Lord that your hand is on him that your hand was on their relationship Lord And we just invite your comfort your grace your super natural touch Lord and that father You will bring your comfort your mercy and your grace on to Bob and the family that has been impacted by this God And so Lord we thank you God that you're so faithful that you're so good and that we can never question your goodness God so we just come under your strength under your mercy and under your comfort this morning in Jesus mighty name and we Thank you father for Bob and Helen's faithfulness and Jesus mighty name Amen. 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Hello, my name is Brianna and I'm here to welcome you to the Open Education Conference of 2022. This is the 19th year that the Open Education Conference community has gathered together to share and learn from one another at this event. It's the third year to be held virtually and the first to be led by our new community elected Board of Directors. This year's theme, Rise to Action, allows us to focus on how we can all act in large and small ways to make education more affordable, equitable, accessible, and inclusive for all. There's an amazing program ahead and we are so excited for you to be here. Let's take a quick tour of the conference so that you can make the most out of your experience. To access the conference, you'll log into SCED at OpenEd22.SCED.com. There you will be able to set your time zone and act sessions to your schedule. The best place to start is on the SCED conference homepage where you can quickly browse key parts of the program. Each day features a plenary session with inspiring keynote talks and panels. There are live presentations and panels scheduled throughout the day and posters and pre-recorded videos are available as well for your viewing either at the schedule time or on your own time. Viewing the schedule in grid mode will give you a better sense of the layout. There are also many ways to connect and engage more casually. There are breaks throughout the day that we call tea time where you can chat with other conference attendees and participate in games or wellness activities. Each day will end with an open debrief session led by our conference community members. Remember that you must be logged into SCED in order to access all sessions. When it's time to join a session, click the title to access the session page, then click the blue button at the top of the page. This will take you to a Zoom instant registration page where you can enter your name and email to join the session. We recommend downloading the free Zoom desktop software for the best experience. The primary digital spaces to be social are on Twitter where the official hashtag is OpenEd22 and Discord, which is a private space with chat and voice channels. A link to join Discord is provided in the day one welcome email that was sent to all attendees. Please note that our Code of Conduct applies to all participants at all times, and it is essential to maintaining a welcoming and safe environment. Please ensure that you have read the Code of Conduct and know how to submit a report. Each aspect of this year's conference was designed through a community driven process. Hundreds of individuals have contributed to reimagining, organizing and hosting the Open Education Conference over the last three years, and everyone has worked so hard to ensure that you feel welcome and have a great time. It has been an incredible year for Open Education, and the work that you do to share knowledge, support learning and advocate for students is more important now than ever. We're so excited to officially welcome you to the Open Education 2022 conference.


Hey, good morning. I'm very excited to be here. It's been a great opportunity so far to learn and also a chance to really talk about Cota Containers. So I'm going to kind of take a risk here where I'm going to provide a bit of motivation for why we do Cota Containers.  It's not a magic box that's solving all of the world's problems. It's just a mix of different key pre-existing Linux kernel features which are leveraged together to provide process isolation on a system. So let's talk about that. First and foremost, our namespaces. So this feature is leveraged to isolate applications. So using namespaces, nothing to do with containers, just happens to be used by containers, we're able to give applications a view that they're the only ones existing on the system. They can only see their own network devices. They can only see their volumes, their process trees. So using this, it makes it looks like they're the only ones on the system. Next, let's talk about control groups, C groups. We need to avoid a situation where imagine our process B here is using all the CPUs on the system. That's kind of providing a suboptimal experience for everyone else trying to use it. It's kind of acting like a denial of service. So control groups, commonly, are going to be used here. And what it does is it allows us to really throttle or limit the amount of CPU, memory, or IO that a process can execute. So another key feature. On top of this, a well-configured container solution is also going to limit what a process is allowed to do. I think it's pretty pragmatic that process C should not be able to say, hey, can you reboot the system? That's not a great opportunity for everyone else. Similarly, leveraging seccomp, you can limit what syscalls is a process allowed to execute. So on top of this, usually you would have something like a mandatory access control if you have a well-configured, secure container solution. And this would be something like SE Linux or App Armor. Again, further limiting what you're allowed to do protecting. So combined, these provide a really good amount of isolation. This is just, again, best practices using containers. Having said this, I consider this kind of all one single layer. They all use the same single interface. And that's the host Linux kernel that they all share. And when you're looking at defense in depth, it's really common. The design pattern would be that you want to use multiple layers. So if you have a secure, conscious solution, you would be using defense in depth. And that's kind of what we're looking at with the Cota Containers Project is to provide that second level of isolation utilizing hardware virtualization. With Cota Containers, each container or pod executes within its own lightweight virtual machine using its own unique kernel. Well, we continue to leverage the same core Linux features that I've described already inside of that. So really, it's not that we say we're the speedy containers with the security of VMs. It's beyond that. It's actually security of VMs with the security of containers as well. So before I went thinking of virtual machines, I would often think, OK, gigabytes, minutes, how is this really going to work? Our work in Cota is to provide an optimal and minimal virtualization solution, providing footprint and speed is comparable to what you would get with traditional containers. Really, there's no need for us to wait for the floppy disk drive when we're trying to boot your container workload. Thank you. The Cota Containers are so different. Cota Containers itself is OCI compatible. That is just like Run-C. Cota Containers can integrate with almost all the container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes, and Docker, and also OpenStack zone. Actually, we are a member of the OCI. And over the last year, we have welcomed many additions from both in contributors and in architectures and in fitters. We started from x86, then scale to IBM, ARM, and AMD soon. And also, we got many contributions from NVIDIA. Similarly, we got many contributions from software and service companies. In short, the community is healthy and growing. Currently, we are at version 1.3, and with 1.4 coming very soon. I'm excited to have add capabilities which are very important to our users, including hotblocks and enhanced tracing technology. And also, going forward, aside from improved hyperwider efficiency and performance, we are looking at, such as, the enhancing security and life upgrade capabilities, which is very critical features for the production usage. In this week, Cata Upstream developers provide many sessions. And my topic is about the Cata, Kubernetes, and divisor. It will be held in this afternoon, not 11 AM. It's 2.30 PM. And also, after that, we have two forums after that. In about, I think that's about 4.20 and 5.10. And that's about two forums about the POC and the container isolation. It's a philosophy problem. And tomorrow morning, at 9 AM, we have a forum about the Kubernetes integration. Eric and I will be there. And after that, all the upstream developers will come to the site of the project update at around 10. So welcome to come and ask us everything. Thank you. Cheers.


Live from Las Vegas, it's The Cube! Covering Fortinet Accelerate 18, brought to you by Fortinet. Hi, welcome back to Fortinet Accelerate 2018. I am Lisa Martin with The Cube. We're excited to be here for our second year. I'm joined by Peter Burris from The Cube as well, and we're very excited to be joined by our next guest, John Bobe, the Vice President of America's Channels at Fortinet. Welcome to The Cube. Thank you, thank you for having us. So, it's exciting for us to be here. I, as a marketer, geek out on taglines. So, I would love for you to kind of tell our viewers strength and numbers as the title of the event. What does that mean? Well, it's really about the depth and breadth of what Fortinet's doing in the marketplace. You know, bringing the security fabric, not only to our customers, but to enable our partner community, right? So, Accelerate is a collection. We have about almost 3,000 attendees here, about 2,300 of those. There are carrier partners, resale partners, managed security service providers, and also our fabric-ready alliance partners, right? So, the security fabric has allowed us to incorporate some additional third-party technologies, right? And it's really, we're creating a really strong culture around integration and openness. Before we get into the technology, let's talk about pivot on that culture for a second. Sure. Because one of the things that was evident from the keynotes this morning that Kenzie talked about was really this long-standing partner-driven culture that Fortinet has. You've recently come back to Fortinet. Tell us about being a boomerang. What excites you about coming back? But also, how has that culture of really being partner-focused and maybe partner-first evolved? Well, the channel-first culture at Fortinet makes my job really easy, right? And the reason that I came back was here with the company for six years. We experienced a tremendous, you know, run of revenue. And to have the opportunity to lead the, you know, the America's Channel Organization is a great privilege. But it really comes from the culture within the company of being a channel leverage and a channel-first company. I think, you know, in Patrice's keynote this morning and Ken's keynote as well, they really talked about the channel program and the channel partners. You know, the partners are the fabric of what we do as an organization, you know, and we're delivering the security fabric to something that they can build a business around. So as you think about what the type of, or the nature of the changes that are taking place in all business, digital business, and as we've heard today, the rapidity with which change is happening in the security world. That, I got to believe, is putting a fair amount of stress on your partners because they have to come up to speed very, very rapidly on new things, even as they demonstrate that they can sustain operational excellence for old things. What is the role that education's playing, or cultivating your partners to a new network, or a new approach to doing things? How is that leading to a better set of capabilities for your customers? Sure, well I think the one change in this digital transformation era is change, right? We're seeing customers consume technologies much differently than they ever have before, and so our partners have to be in a situation to be able to deliver those technologies. We're seeing the threat landscape continue to widen and be very broad in nature, and so existing postures and existing deployments are not necessarily going to be able to protect those customers, and quite frankly, from a partner standpoint, the way that they look at their business and build their business needs to be different today than it was due to the change that digital transformation is driving. So in terms of your sort of symbiosis with the channel, we talked with Phil Quaid just a minute ago. We talked about how are CISOs looking to him to say, how are you guys doing this at Fortinet in terms of security? Tell me about the symbiotic relationship with your partners. What information are they bringing to you from the front lines from the customers, whether it's education, Fed, Sled, healthcare, that is helping to evolve Fortinet's technologies? I mean, at the end of the day, security is a very noisy space right now, right? And we depend upon our partners not only to ensure that our programs and how we go deliver value to them, but also in what the customers are telling them and what they're seeing in the marketplace today. We're really focused on service enablement and the service delivery because the transactional type of business that we've seen in the past is no longer the route to market for success for the broad base channel organizations, right? So we have a responsibility as a company to ensure that our partners have the capabilities to deliver services in ways that customers want to consume. IoT is a marketplace that's been created, right? OT is opportunistic for the bad actors, right? The move of workloads to public clouds and SaaS-based applications. And the fabric is really resonating with those partners in terms of being able to meet those customers' changing needs. And you guys have had to do a partner advisory council. How long has that been going on? And what are some of the things that accept you about it? Yeah, so over 10 years, we've had a partner advisory council. And it's industry leaders that are business owners and business drivers that really kind of keep us honest about what we're doing internally. They have access to our executive staff. They have access to product roadmaps as well. And with the creation of the fabric and what we're doing with our alliance partnerships, they're kind of helping fill some of those holes as to what we're seeing in the marketplace today. I think today we announced 11 additional fabric alliance partners today. Organizations like Phantom for orchestration and automation, right? Integration is truly the new best of breed, but the ability to react when things occur and to orchestrate and to automate those controls are really important. And the company's done a great job and we attribute a lot of that guidance to our partner advisory council. As Fortnett grows and expands its footprint, puts in place new types of arrangements like the CTA and other types of things, its ecosystem continues to expand in a way that Fortnett is moving towards the center, more of a focus, at least a low side within the ecosystem. What does that mean from your ability to get partners to influence partner behavior and customers and get more pull through out of the entire ecosystem? And how's that going to shape the way Fortnett competes, the way Fortnett serves its customers over the next few years? I think simply put, the tailwinds we have behind us, we're on the precipice of $2 billion in revenue, we've got now a line of sight to three and four here pretty quickly. We definitely think that the fabric is going to allow us to continue to scale and grow through that partner community. But quite frankly, I am amazed just in my time here, how partners have embraced and really wrapped a business practice and the service's first business practice around that fabric. So we're really excited about the opportunity that we have at hand. I think the fabric is going to continue to change the game, right? It's not about products, it's about delivering an integrated solution. Speaking of the fabric, I was kind of thinking of pivoting on what you were saying, Peter, about differentiation. When partners have choices of companies to work with, you guys have been in this space for a very long time. But besides the fabric, what are some of the, maybe the other top two differentiators where a partner may be coming into the program and goes, I get it. For, with this partnership with Fortinet, we can go and really revolutionize customers in any industry. You know, we're really unique in the market because we serve from the S&B to the mid-market, to the enterprise and some of the largest service provider brands. And that affords our partner community to be extremely diverse. And we want to be very easy to work with. So I think more than anything, my goal is to be simple and predictable in nature and ensure that we're driving a very margin-rich solution. You know, a lot of companies in the market will be enterprise-focused or mid-market-focused. And so, you know, we're really keen on establishing clear routes to market with our partner community, aligning and investing where they fit, and then taking advantage of some of the even vertical opportunities that the partners present based on those capabilities. We were chatting a little bit earlier about education and that was one of the things I was reading that in some articles that some of your guys did. And it's been a while since I've been in college and it's just, it's so remarkable how, you know, smart classrooms and it's BYOD and how vulnerable school districts are for obvious reasons that we won't go into for political reasons. But even from a security perspective, I'm curious if there's any kind of maybe favorite example that you have of a partner customer through the channel in education that has really been able to facilitate a digital business transformation with the underpinning of security, security transformation. I actually was just in a partner meeting and we were talking about that very topic. And they had established with one of the top five largest school districts in the United States, a fully deployed wireless mesh network that they, once that was deployed, then they were really able to underpin it with, you know, the FortiGate, FortiOS and really be able to deliver the security posture back through that wireless infrastructure. You know, you make a really good point. We're seeing more and more internet connected devices. A lot of those internet connected devices are very low end in terms of their overall price point. And so these organizations are not necessarily pushing out vulnerabilities to it and patches and remediation. And that's why IoT security is so important in that kind of K through 12 example, right? Leveraging FortiOS, connecting to both LAN and wireless LAN capabilities, and it really, that's a great use case of how the fabric can impact a customer. So as you imagine, the role the partners are going to play in the future, will they be more purveyors of hardware, purveyors of software, purveyors of services? How do you think the ecosystem's going to evolve as Fortinet expands its footprint? That's a really good question. And quite frankly, I spend a lot of my time thinking about that, right? I truly feel like we have an obligation and a responsibility to help our partners through this digital transformation into where we think things are going to go. Things are moving towards security as a service. Things are moving towards on demand, pay as you go, consumption modeling, right? And we have to put our partners in a situation to be able to deliver goods and services to our customer base the way they want to buy and make sure that they're driving value and after the transaction. Because selling to the transaction is probably going to be a dying breed. It's really important that partners have the capabilities to install, deploy, and support on the ongoing basis in which is really becoming a best practice in the security space. And one of the other interesting things about digital business is that historically, businesses have been aligned by the arrangement of their assets. So you could look at a transportation company and say, oh, that company is transportation assets or financial services company and say, oh, that company is financial services assets, but digital business starts changing that because when you bring programmability and digital orientation to a lot of these assets, you reduce the specificity of those assets which increases mobility across businesses. How do you think the opportunity of helping partners transform in this digital business way is going to increase the noise or complexity or the interconnectedness and the potential conflicts within partners as they go after, as their expertise and their relationships becomes more fungible? That's a really, I mean, that's a really good point. We deal and we want to ensure that we've got a programmatic way to handle channel conflict, right? I mean, at the end of the day, partner brings us- But also channel opportunity. And channel opportunity, that's right. So it's really about being consistent in how you treat the partner community and having really set rules. But digital transformation, if anything else, the thing that makes Fortinet so unique is we are an engineering company. Security is very complicated. And the good news is that at the heart of what we do is technology. The feedback we continue to get from our partners is that our technology is second to none. So we win on the technology side. And now with the momentum that we're seeing with the Fabric Ready Alliance programs, the momentum that we're seeing in the marketplace and really kind of being prepared for the shift of technology by introducing the Fabric concept, you know, we're really excited about the opportunity for our partners and the role they're going to play in the coming years. So as we kind of, you know, wrap things up here, I'll go back to where we started off with John and talking about the strength in numbers and some things that I wrote down that I think Patrice shared this morning, nearly 18,000 new customers acquired in 2017. That's right. What are your, as the channel chief, what are your hopes and dreams for what that number will look like by the end of 2018? I mean, at the end of the day, I want to be able to drive an enabled channel organization to go take advantage of the tailwinds in the market, right? We want to go continue to drive market share in the SMB, that's going to be partner led. We want to go expand in the fabric, you know, within the mid market. And we want to be very opportunistic in the enterprise to go knock down some of the largest logos. You know, mostly, you know, the opportunity we have in the US alone is really quite significant. And we're really excited to see, you know, as we just exceeded the half a billion dollar mark in Q4 for the first time as a company. And so as we start, you know, planning in future quarters, it's really exciting to be a part of the momentum we have here at Fortinet. And I think the momentum is tangible. You can feel it here. You can hear it behind us in the expo. So, we thank you so much, John, for stopping by the Q. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Absolutely, sharing your insights and how the, I'm feeling another tagline with the fabric of our lives, but I think somebody else beat you guys to it. Cotton, maybe? Anyway, thanks so much, John, for sharing what's going on in the channel. And we wish you a great show. Thank you. Thank you very much. And for my co-host, Peter Burris, I'm Lisa Martin. You've been watching theCUBE live from Fortinet Accelerate 2018. Stick around, we'll be right back.