What is going on everybody, Astos here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be talking about the top five stocks that I'm looking to trade in the month of February in 2019. So for all you guys out there that are new to my channel, my name is Stos, and I make videos dealing with swing trading, day trading, long-term investing, and my personal philosophies and strategies when it comes down to investing and trading in the stock market. So for those of you guys who want to learn more about that, follow along with me in my journey in the stock market. Feel free to drop a like, leave a comment, and subscribe. Follow me on Instagram as well as on Twitter. And join our Discord group chat as well as our Facebook group. All of those are linked down below in the description box. And please guys, do your own research before trading and investing in any stocks in the stock market. Do not buy, sell, trade any of these stocks that I'm talking about in this video solely off of my opinion. You have to do your own research, you have to understand the risk, and you have to formulate a plan for yourself because that's the only way you're going to become successful trading and investing in the stock market. Another quick reminder, I'm sure a lot of you guys already know this, but this upcoming week starting off on the 28th of January, we're entering arguably the biggest week of earnings that we've seen in a while, guys. A lot of the largest companies in the whole entire world are reporting earnings. And this is going to dictate how well the stock market is going to be doing over the next couple of months, what our economy as a whole is looking like, and quite frankly, the strength of our economy as a whole. We want to see what these companies are going to be reporting in earnings to see how much money our consumers out there spending, right? It's very, very important. And I have a screenshot here for you guys so you can see the major earnings reports over the next couple of days. So Monday, not too crazy of a day, we have Caterpillar, Whirlpool, and all of these other ones, but the fund starts to begin on Tuesday when we have Apple, AMD, eBay, we have Verizon, we have 3M, and then on Wednesday, arguably the biggest day of earnings, Alibaba, Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla, PayPal, Visa, McDonald's, AT&T, Thursday, General Electric, Amazon, which is very huge, guys, UPS, we have Altria, Nokia, just to name a few here, and then on Friday, we have ExxonMobil, Merck, Chevron, Honeywell, Signum, Sony, a bunch of big, big earnings reports this week, guys. And this is going to have a huge sway on the stock market, whether it's positive or it's negative. So I just want to let you guys know this before we go into this video, because some of the stocks I'm talking about in this video are reporting earnings, and I typically don't like to trade stocks before earnings, which is why I'm going to be waiting after earnings to trade most of these stocks that I'm going to be talking about. So without further ado, guys, let's get right into the topic of today's video, starting off with the SPX here, the S&P 500 Index. Let's just get a better understanding of where the overall market has been pushing over the past couple of weeks. So we all know that I've been paying attention to the markets, right? We've been selling off very heavily from the beginning of October. The SPX, S&P 500 hit around 2950 as a high, and from there, it went all the way down to 2346, which was nearly a 21% drop by the end of December. And since the end of December, guys, 26th of December to be exact, we've went from 2346, headed into the new year of 2019, up nearly 12% in the S&P 500. But the one thing I want you guys to keep an eye on here, and I've been talking about this over the past couple of videos, is this resistance right here at the 180 S&A on this 180-day four-hour chart. The SPX has been rejected here once, twice, three times in the past, and it's looking like we're having struggle breaking above it here. We saw this past, I believe Thursday or Wednesday, we got rejected pretty hard by this 180 S&A, and then we had a big gap update this past Friday. We were in a bull wedge right here, or a bullish pennant formation rather, and we popped out above it, and now we're trading right under that same resistance at around 2675 from the previous pop-up that we had back on the 18th of January. So, in terms of the overall SPX, guys, the earnings reports are really going to dictate where this is going to be going. Are we breaking above the 180 S&A, which is going to change the trend completely? Or are these earnings going to be poor? The stock prices are going to go down, thus dragging down the entire index. So, that's why this week is very, very important, guys. These numbers that the companies are going to report, this is going to affect the entire stock market and probably bring it down or push it up out of this 180 S&A resistance. So, now let's get into some stocks, guys, that I'm personally watching and looking to trade for this upcoming month. And again, do your own research. Please do not buy or sell any of these stocks that I'm going to be talking about. And the first one that I am going to be talking about in this video is ticker symbol AMD Advanced Micro Devices. So, we've seen a lot of action this past couple of weeks, really just the past week and a half, two weeks in the semiconductor group of stocks. The three main ones that I follow are AMD, which has been doing very well, Micron, which I'm personally invested in in my longer-term portfolio, which has been absolutely killing it recently, and NVIDIA. This one's been doing pretty well as well from the bottom at around 124 all the way up to 120 or 160 rather right now. So, what I like in terms of AMD, guys, is this bullish move that we're seeing, right? We saw it bounce, or rather we saw it hold on the 180 S&A for about a month, not really a month for about two, three weeks, I would say, right, from the 8th of January, all the way to around the 23rd of January. And then we saw it break this resistance, which I was waiting to see if it was going to break at around $21.30. And obviously, we can see here, we're at around $22 nearly in the share price of AMD. So, what I want to see, guys, is I want to see A, them report their earnings. I'm going to wait to see what they're doing in terms of price action after earnings. And let's say they pull back after earnings, guys, and let's say their earnings report wasn't terrible, let's say it was decent, right? We get a little pullback. I would love to see a better position to enter at around $21.50. If we do pull back here and end up holding this previous resistance as a support, guys. And for all you beginners out there, whenever a stock, whenever the candlesticks break above a resistance, it becomes a new support level. So, a new support level would be around $21.45. If we do pull back there, guys, that's also going to bring down the RSI level a bit, the Relative Strength Index, because right now we can see it seems a bit overbought, right? And if we do sell off, this is going to be going down more towards the oversold portion, right? Right around $50 to $55 would be my guess if we do end up pulling back. And that would open up a good entry point in AMD if it is able to hold this resistance as a new support and slowly start to climb its way back up. And from there, guys, the next resistance that I'm really seeing here would be around $23.75 to $24. So that's the number one stock, guys. I'm watching in the month of February. It is AMD. The next one I'm watching is ticker symbol Tesla. So a lot of stocks in the stock market right now are under heavy scrutiny. And there isn't one that's under more scrutiny in my personal opinion than Tesla, right? We saw the 7% layoff that they had. That tanked the stock down from $350, roughly, all the way down to $280. I personally got in here about last week, took a little loss. But now we're seeing that we're seeing some strong support and consolidation on a previous support level back at $290. And remember, guys, Tesla's also reporting earnings. I believe it was on Wednesday, right? Tesla's reporting earnings on Wednesday. So I would love to see what happens to the stock after reporting their earnings. And let's say this consolidation stays, right? Let's say we start to push back up, maybe get back into the low 300 levels. That could be a good opportunity to hop into Tesla and swing it to the next resistance at around $330. But there's been a lot of problems surrounding Tesla, guys. Their earnings report doesn't seem to be, you know, it's not really expected to be too great. Elon Musk has said there's going to be profitability issues this quarter, production issues as well. So this might honestly, if it doesn't end up pushing back up, this could be a good put option play. If the stock really does pushing, starts to push back down back into the 280s, 270s and 260s after their earnings report, which is why I think and I personally always wait till a company reports their earnings before hopping into the stock, right? Because we'll get to see the reaction of the stock to the earnings report and thus, you know, react to that as investors and traders, right? Let's say the stock's pushing down. You know, that could be a good idea opportunity to play a short-term put option and maybe short the stock, right? But let's say, you know, the earnings report wasn't that bad. The market's not reacting too poorly to it and it starts to push up. You know, that could be a good opportunity to hop in for a potential day trade or a couple of days as a swing trade, right? So Tesla, guys, that's the second one I'm watching. Again, reporting earnings on Wednesday. So keep an eye out for Tesla. And another company that's reporting earnings is Apple, ticker symbol AAPL. And this is another stock I'm watching and looking to potentially play a short put option on it, guys, because we've seen China, right? We've seen China. They're doing very poorly in their economy. They said Apple products are not doing too well in China. And China is obviously a very big market for Apple's products. So their earnings report that's going to come out, we already know revenue is going to miss heavily, right? They cut their revenue expectations drastically for those of you guys that don't know. And this, a lot of people already say, is priced into the stock. And I can't really argue with you because the stock did get down to around 142. And obviously, since the beginning of 2019, we've been pushing back up. But I do honestly think, guys, that there is going to be some negative reaction to Apple stock. And we do have a potential to start to sell back off, maybe back into the high 140s, maybe to the low 150s, right? And that does open up a good opportunity for a put option play in my personal opinion, and especially since we are a bit overbought on the stock right now on the 184-hour chart. And we're right by this 180-day, 4-hour SMA resistance right here on Apple stock. But again, guys, let's say the market positively reacts to the earnings report, which is unlikely in my opinion. And let's say we push out of this resistance and out of this 158 resistance, Apple could be a play in the 160s, maybe from the 160s, low 160s to the mid-160s. That's very, very possible. But again, I don't think that's too likely right now on a short-term basis, like a month out. I'm pretty short on Apple, guys. I do think it's going to be going down in price over the next couple of weeks. And I could be 100% wrong, guys. This is just my personal opinion. I think we're going to be going down. Let me know down below in the comment section what do you guys think right now in terms of Apple. So another stock I'm looking to trade in the month of February is Johnson & Johnson, ticker symbol J&J. And this is actually a stock that is considered a value play, right? This is a stock that I'm personally invested in in my long-term portfolio. This is a dividend paying stock. It's a dividend aristocrat. And speaking about dividends, guys, if you guys want to see five dividend stocks that I'm personally looking to buy and some that I'm already invested in, I made a video yesterday called Five Dividend Stocks for 2019. Go check that video out. It's the one before this one. It's a pretty good value in that video. If you're interested in producing an income investment strategy, very, very important for a longer-term investor, go check out that video. But anyway, in terms of Johnson & Johnson on a shorter-term play here, let's draw out some resistance levels and some support so I can give you guys my thesis and my reasoning why I like this stock as a potential play. And I've been talking about this one in the group chat in a couple of videos recently. I haven't pulled the trigger on it in terms of the trade, but I do want to, once we start to see a break out of this 180 SMA. So Johnson & Johnson, guys, they reported their earnings last week. I believe they beat on EPS and they beat on revenue, but the stock went from 132 all the way down to 126. And now we're seeing it's trading in this horizontal channel from around 126 up to 132, giving it around a 4, 3, 4% margin of profit from this bounce. And I want to see whether or not we're going to break this 50 SMA resistance and this 180 SMA resistance here on the 20-day one-hour chart to continue the uptrend reversal pattern to see if we're going to get back to the higher 130s or maybe the lower to mid 130s, giving us a good opportunity for a trade. So I'm going to set an alert, guys, here on Johnson & Johnson. I'm going to put one at around $129. Let me quickly do that here. And for those of you guys that don't know how to create an alert, very simple. You right-click, you go to create alert, you go to mark is at or above, you want to be alerted when the stock is at or above, and then you set your price target. Right here for me, $129 is when I want to be alerted. If Johnson & Johnson is breaking that 180 SMA on this 20-day one-hour chart, that's going to be a good opportunity, in my opinion, to hop in and take advantage of, let's say, a 2% move back to that previous resistance, guys. And I know 2% may not seem too attractive to you, but as a more conservative investor, me personally, guys, I think that's great. For example, if you have $10,000 and you want to put $10,000 into this trade, 2% over, let's say, a couple of days, that's $200, right? That's $200 that you didn't have before. And in my opinion, guys, you can't really complain about getting a profit in the market, guys. In my opinion, it's all about keeping it consistent, keeping it small wins over time, and that just really helps with success, in my personal opinion, when trading stocks. So we talked about J&J, Apple, AMD, and what was the other one we talked about? Tesla. Now, let's talk about one inverse ETF that I'm personally looking to trade in this upcoming month, right? And I've been trading this one a lot over the past couple of months, guys, and really just for the past couple of years at this point. And that is UGAS ticker symbol UGAZ. And this one trades based upon natural gas futures, guys. And UGAS itself is a bull natural gas ETF, meaning whenever natural gas is going up in price, UGAS is going up in price as well. So we recently saw a huge sell-off in natural gas from around 370, and this happened back on the 14th of January, all the way down to around 296. And this 296 level is holding a higher low from the previous low at around 290, right? 290 here, you can see it. And if I draw the trend line, you can see it's maintaining the uptrending pattern. And now we're seeing that slowly natural gas itself is making higher highs, right? And it's making higher lows. It bounced here at 305, which was a previous, you know, a higher low from the previous at around $3. So what I would like to see, guys, ultimately before taking a position in UGAS, I would love to see a push above around 320, which is the resistance level we are at right now, then ultimately ahead into, you know, the 320 to 325 price level. I just want to see a continuation of this upwards trending pattern in terms of natural gas. And that'll give UGAS guys a lot of opportunity in my personal opinion from the level that it's at right now at around $48, right? Back up to levels like $64, $60, maybe even the 55 mid $50 range in terms of UGAS. So I'm going to set an alert, guys, on UGAS at $50. I want to be notified when it's at or above $50. That'll put it right above that 180 SMA here on the 20 day one hour chart. And that's going to be the price level that I would like to buy, right? That's a pretty good level in my personal opinion to see UGAS break above. So we talked about five ETFs stocks, you know, in the month for the month of February in 2014. I want to leave you guys with one more little, not really a trick, just one more little piece of advice, guys. So this month in February could be a very volatile month. Obviously, we talked about the earnings reports that are coming. These can have a huge sway on the entire stock market. Not only that, guys, the trade war with Trump and China, there needs to be a decision made by March 1st. This is the deadline that Trump and China said that they're going to come to a trade war agreement buy, right? And if that does end up happening, this could be very good for the market, right? But if it doesn't end up happening, February and March and April could be very, very crazy, crazy months of volatility in the stock market. So, you know, with anticipation of this trade war deal and these earnings reports, I think February is going to be a very volatile, choppy month. And what can you do to trade in markets like this? You can trade market ETFs, right? And there's two ETFs here in particular that you can trade when the markets are going down. And those are TVIX and SQQQ. These are two ETFs you can trade when the markets are selling off. But let's say the markets are doing good for a couple of days, like they have been over the past couple of weeks, you can trade TQQQ as well as QQQ. These are two ETFs that do very well when the markets are going up in price, right?  But let's say the markets are heading down, bad earnings reports, negative press, news about Trump, China trade war, whatever is going on, bringing down the markets, that would be a good opportunity to trade TVIX as well as, you know, SQQQQ. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, feel free to drop a like, leave a comment, subscribe, follow me on Instagram as well as on Twitter. All the links are down below in the description box. I really do appreciate all you guys that watch the videos, that like the videos, that subscribe to the channel. It really means a lot to me and without you guys, this channel would not be anything. And you know, that's just crazy to me, right guys? So I'll catch you guys in the next video. Thanks again for all the support. Peace out.


Daily Tech News show is powered by its audience not outside organizations to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech News for July 1983 from DTS headquarters in Greenville, Illinois. I'm Tom Merritt and from Sebastopol, California. I'm Sarah Lane. Oh Really, we're at the start over because we can't hear you Sarah I can hear no idea Can you hear me Tom Tom? So Tom's a got problems. Okay. Here we go. Tom. Can you hear us? Yes, now we can hear you Okay, you can hear me and you can hear me. Yep. Okay All right, here we go Hold on three two Daily Tech News show is powered by its audience not outside organizations to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash support Screwed that up three two Daily Tech News show is powered by its audience not outside organizations to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech News for July 1983 from DTS headquarters in Greenville, Illinois. I'm Tom Merritt and from Sebastopol, California where I live I'm Sarah Lane From Etobicoke, Ontario. I'm Jen Cutter and of course joining us our producer Roger Chang Roger, thank you for joining us on this remote broadcast that we're doing. Yes, it's a rare sunny day here in the Bay Area. I Hope you're enjoying the cassettes that we mail out to everyone of the show where where we go through and Talk about all of the computing news Every month and this month is no exception July 1983 could not be a more exciting time to live in. Let's start with a few computer things. You should know Grolier electronic publishing has made the academic American Encyclopedia the first unabridged online encyclopedia Accessible from the Dow Jones news retrieval system or BRS Inc The encyclopedia is searchable by subject and Biographical name on BRS. You can also choose two words and check this the system will retrieve every sentence that contains both words Even if the words aren't next to each other It'll just look it'll know where a sentence is and find those two words Encyclopedia was tested in video techs in Columbus, Ohio So if you're lucky enough to live there you might have got to check that out It's scheduled to go live later this year on Viewtron as well a video tech service in southern Florida Grolier plans to make a video disc edition of the encyclopedia available with announcements coming later this summer on that I have to say the idea of being able to look up anything in an encyclopedia is Exciting enough on its own in an online system, but these search capabilities are pretty impressive I just wonder what it's going to do to everybody's encyclopedia boot cases that we all have I mean right this would be nice if I hadn't invested in my 400 pound encyclopedia that takes up the entire wall of my living room But now that I have do I really need this free up living room space, right? I can think of more than a few libraries that might be interested in this because they are clearing some space To make room at the main library in San Francisco For a new San Francisco only collection Which means that they're gonna have to toss out a lot of books and if you can you can save space by using an online Encyclopedia, I think that would be pretty keen You know Jen I don't know what the the retrieval fees are for something like Dow Jones or BRS in Canada, but Might be worth it, right? I'm more interested in the video disc release because this way like you're saving Shaving space. You don't have all that bookshelf and you've got it right at your fingertips. You use your own system Oh, that's true. I mean it's even somewhat portable then right you could you could take the video disc with you a long as someone else has a video disc player on the other end attached to a micro computer and and then carry an Encyclopedia around In a way that that one that's on Sarah's bookshelves can't be carried around But the total game changer changer for universities for students for people like me you like to read And the search capabilities just blow me away I mean the yeah The fact that the two words don't have to be in any particular order You just have to know that whatever you're searching for might contain these two terms and it just pull it up automatically feels pretty magical Yeah, that's a smart little bad for the librarians here because I'm one of those people that hit them up when I need to cross-reference You know subject matter like whales or something and well That's that's something to consider. You know the downside to any technology like this is the loss of jobs We may not see librarians or libraries by the 90s I Mean that we're gonna have to have a transition plan for people who work in those those areas Or just imagine what libraries are going to look like in the 90s I mean do you just walk into a big structure and people sit at computers and look for things? Yeah, that's what I think you'd have something like a TRS 80 or an IBM PC You know several of them available hooked up to these video disc players Maybe with with some kind of network connectivity that you would pay for perhaps In order to access information, but you only need one or two people to monitor something like that Quick question. How many of you would really miss the Dewey decimal system? Oh, please.  It's never made much sense to me. Anyway, bring on the tech Tom it's funny that you mentioned the TRS 80 because according to Byte magazine Radio Shack has unveiled the TRS 80 model for so this new machine features a built-in 12 inch monochrome 80 column display 70 key typewriter like keyboard with a 12 key numeric keypad as well for megahertz Z80 a microprocessor 64 kilobytes of memory that it could be expanded to 128 Rrs 232 c serial port to 184k byte floppy disk drives. It's got a lot of stuff here Model 4 is compatible with all model 3 software including OS is like C CPM plus L DOS TRS DOS although Radio Shack is planning writing new software to take advantage of the monitor's 80 column mode Like a spreadsheet calculator and a word processor the model 4 will retail for $1,999 that's reasonable. Yeah, that's that's cheap. I mean, I was I was scoping out an Apple too Complete with its own RGB monitor and disk drives and I was looking at something well over $3,000. I mean $2,000 for a computer with disk drives and a monitor. That's that's that's pretty competitive Well, and even if you have to pay a little extra you can expand it to 128 kilobytes It's got the standard rs 232 serial port and Backward compatibility. That's huge if you've got a model 3 right now. You don't want to have to buy all new software Although I do like the idea of taking advantage of 80 column mode You know you I do run into that a lot, especially if I'm using a computer like a TI 99 hooked up to a television well, you know, I'm gonna say this and it might be seem kind of out of left field but Thank God they included the numeric keypad I mean, I'm really really annoyed that you're gonna have to spend out of pocket jam Yeah, Apple too doesn't come with a numeric keypad. You got to spend extra Yeah, I mean the only ones that really do are like the high-end business machines like an IBM PC And I mean God knows I don't have $4,000 sent around to buy one of those Now I know I you know I have a reputation as being a little bit of an Apple to fan because that's where I learned to program basic But the TRS 80 has made a lot of progress and I think the model 4 shows that Jen. Do you have a dog in this fight? I'm interested in the 80 column thing. Is it gonna stretch some of my model 3 stuff like are the games gonna look okay? Is it gonna be warped? Well, so this is the great thing about TSR 80, especially the model 3 even TRS 80 I mean all the games are text-based. So info com Some of the stuff from Broderbund. I mean, it's all text-based.  It's gonna be text and it's gonna look nice I just think with the you know that the fact that Radio Shack is is sewing Computers that are so affordable with such great specs. What do how long Radio Shack will call itself a radio Yeah, when is it gonna be computer now? Yeah, it seems like it computer shack is probably the next best Idea it really is becoming that like I'm gonna say this right now Radio Shack will be a major competitor in the home computers home computing space And then in for at least the next 10 15 I think it becomes your destination I mean it it is the place no disrespect to your local computer hobby shop, right or your local computer guy Those are going to continue to survive but Radio Shack fills a niche in a lot of places like Greenville You know the wind will the wind hobby shop is our Radio Shack. They're all one and the same. It is the local guy There and I think that's the beauty of Radio Shack. I do see it getting bigger and bigger I don't know if we'll see like mall size stores like a JC Penney or anything But but I do I do think the future is bright because Radio Shack is willing to pivot into this without abandoning the base You could still get your resistors in your ham radio supplies. I mean, they're they're in a very competitive spot They're not a department store where you get your attires you get your Commodores in the electronics section But they're also not the specialized computer store So they have both kind of a retail space that allows them to sell a lot of plain stuff But also computers and I think it puts them in a very good position Now I know we get a lot of complaints that you know you guys talk about Radio Shack Radio Shack Radio Shack, but one of the reasons we do is because They are doing so much in this space that we all love in the latest issue of compute The Fort Worth based company has introduced a new portable computer that fits on your lap Talk about carrying the video disc and carry a whole computer around with you. It's the TRS-80 model 100 measuring at two inches thick 11 and 7 eighth inches wide and eight and a half inches long weighing four pounds has a built-in liquid crystal display that is 40 characters wide and eight lines deep featuring a full-size typewriter keyboard Model 100 uses four triple AA batteries, which can power the machine for around 20 hours You get a whole day's work out of this thing. No problem. You could also use an AC adapter and plug it in It's got built-in nickel cadmium batteries that keep data in the memory for up to 30 days when the model 100 is turned off 8k RAM model sells for $800 and the 24k RAM version for $1,000 and either of those can be expanded to 32k Which is huge I'm gonna say this now this Device will become the must-have for any journalist Worth their salt because I mean whether you're covering a local crime scene You're doing the local newsbeat or you're traveling halfway across the world to cover, you know a peace summit You're gonna want one of these. I mean think about it. You get rid of your notepad. You can type your stories on the machine Four pounds. I mean come on. That's like that's like two pieces of paper Yeah, I mean unless you're you're actually on the move. I don't know how many people are really gonna put a laptop on their lap Or computer rather But I like that. I like what you just came up with the laptop. That's a great name. Well, yeah, right, right It's it's it's you know, that's I think what they mean is hey, it's small enough to fit on your lap I mean most people still are going to put their computers on the desk I mean, but then but you're right this this portable computer different than the compacts we've seen It's literally could fit on your lap. That's amazing.  I'm sure this my meetings I'm taking notes on it and you know what between between the you know Between my lunches or not my lunches between my meetings in my lunch break I can do a simple thing like type up type up, you know a draft of my story and then it Saves it when it's off This is amazing. I don't need a drive to store the text I just typed in and it takes four double-a batteries. I mean the future this granted battery life is nothing compared to a flashlight But considering what what more you can do on this Plus at four pounds. You're right. It's this is not luggable. This is portable. That's a big difference Oh, my grandfather works at U of T and would love one of these He could be in his office during the day with this computer And then take it home and still use it at night and I can steal it from him You could it's only four pounds Take to get in your backpack and make off of it Moving on children's computer workshop a new division of children's television workshop announced new educational programs for the Radio Shack Color computer and Atari 2600 VCS with more systems to follow These games feature Sesame Street characters like Cookie Monster, Ernie and Grover Well aiming to increase math and reading readiness skills Atari and children's computer workshop also introduced a new Atari kids Controller to make playing more accessible to young children without requiring a full keyboard This is amazing and again it points points to the future where you know My parents have always been worried about you know, the kids spending too much time watching TV And and and I think this shows that hey, you know what you you can take what they've tried to do with children's television Workshop put it on a micro computer and and suddenly all those concerns evaporate now You've got something that is directly educational and the child can participate in they're not just sitting there passively Staring at the screen themselves. Well, and if you know again It makes it makes good point that if we have a kid's controller that takes the pressure off a child to know how to type or You know understand how you know depending on the age our words are even spelled that sort of thing I think that would hinder a lot of kids Being plonked down in front of a computer to do something different than watch TV, but but be a little overwhelmed. I Think we're coming into possibly a new age of education And we're education in software meat. I mean we have sticky bear just came out of the market helping kids to read You have Broder Bund coming out with a suite of Software that allows kids to learn things like geography There's one could some called the where in the world is Carmen San Diego So you can can learn about different capitals around the world. I mean, it's great I mean, I think this is what we anticipated when we talk about Technology and education coming together that this could be a fantastic thing Learning without knowing that you're learning Right and and and like you said sticky bear is huge Everyone's worried that you know kids are gonna play things like jump man and donkey Kong on the computer This shows that that's that's not all that it's good for for kids. So I think this is a positive Positive move forward especially for the younger kids Yeah, like Ernie's magic shapes you get Ernie everybody loves Ernie He's got a magician's hat and you just kind of use the controller or the kids one to point at what he's asking you to look for You get to read you get to play with shapes. You've got music It's like you're working with your Sesame Street pals and I know I'm looking ahead a bit, but it makes me wonder what kinds of Children's programming will be offered, you know, is the TV Going the way of the dodo sooner than later because kids will all be on computers With it, you know, it's just sort of a different non video type format. Yeah, no You need you need the TV to hook the Atari 2600 up to that's it. That's all you need it for That's a bold prediction Tom. I think it's a very but I can totally see it. I can see it I you know, I do get that some people are worried like wait a minute If I buy the Atari 2600 is my kid gonna just play Donkey Kong on it And I think that's always going to be a problem with with new technology. It has to be supervised Parents have to take part and encourage kids but with with this kind of Educational software out there more and more. I think it's I think it's great Shelly Heller and Judith axler Turner of Popular computing magazine note that Los Angeles programmer Steve grumat has rewritten The 1960s area era computer conversation program Eliza in basic Can you imagine this thing needed a mainframe from MIT in the 60s now? He can write it in basic his company artificial intelligence research group is selling it for $25 or If you pay an extra 20 bucks pay $45 you get the unprotected source code that you can then customize yourself It works on the Apple 2 2e and the 2 works on the IBM PC the Osborne 1 and other CPM based computers There's also a version of Eliza called Terry Who even starts by saying he's filling in for Eliza? Terry works on the Atari 400 and 800 as long as you have that 32k Ram It's $16 so it's quite a bit cheaper and there's a version called abuse Which insults you if you insult it And that was actually the most expensive or not the most expensive, but it was more expensive than Terry It's 20 bucks works on Apple 2 2e needs 48k Ram for all that abuse And also works on the Atari 400 and 800 with 40k Ram You know I this really kind of underscores how powerful computers are today and to have these programs at home on a home computer I mean it's unheard of unheard of I think this is really just A first step into a long line of programs where we talk to the computer and it talks back to us I want to know what kind of insults we're going to get I mean it's it's it's What is this computer going to say to me if I insult it does that okay? Yeah It's like how does the computer know what to say? I mean are we going to be looking at how and just maybe in in five to eight years just coming home And it's talking to us and we tell it to do things for us like tell us the time or maybe turn on the lights Or you know what? I'm out of milk go order me some milk You know go get you know get milk home delivered or something with my groceries from the local You have to have the computer on all the time. I mean As much as I love that scenario that seems Well, no, I mean the way the More intensive and the way some of the things that comp you serve have worked You you put in your order and then it'll tell you what to expect deliveries So you could shut down the computer after that I mean, I guess if you're worried about it getting canceled or something you have to put in a telephone number as a backup But it can't work Uh without having to be constantly taking up the phone line But I also think this underscores how powerful basic is I mean Basic has been touted as the beginner's Programming language is it's it's fully interpreted. It means you don't need to compile it and run it And uh, you know, maybe it's not a structure just for trying to cold ball. No, certainly not. Yeah, but but definitely I mean, that's a very powerful Language to be able to recreate something like this For the home the home market I think it's amazing that you have the option to pick up the unprotected source code Right who else is doing that right now to make it so that you can customize this thing without having to start from scratch And type it all in although some people would argue that it's a cash grab to make you pay to get the source code You should get the source code anyway When you pay for software, but I understand what you're saying. It's an interesting model. I haven't seen that either I I don't know.  I mean this is the beginning of AI. It's incredibly Imagine if yeah, Eliza became Oh, I don't know like an assistant that that humans actually got used to talking to you as if it was Yeah, yeah, you could just type in whatever you want and it could I don't know how I'd carry it out But yeah, well, you know, it used to pen pal. I don't know Yeah, just somebody to talk to the idea of it being a you know, I did a female of some kind Like, you know, if they had telecommunication services like Hayes modem support or something and you could dial into a service You know like at my university and then you know upload things or download things as as needed I think it would be pretty nice pretty nice. Hey folks If you don't have time to listen to these cassettes all the time we understand That's why we also make a compressed headlines version of the show available on dictaphone It's a smaller cassette and a smaller show And you can get that from the same place that you get this show. It's called the daily tech headlines All right, I want to talk a little bit about another story in this month's popular computing magazine written by a richard imel The title is is software piracy justified software piracy Is a problem It's it's it's something that you think of as hobbyists You think of as companies saying, you know, people getting together and swapping disks is taking money out of our pockets But that's not all in fact. Imler makes the really good point that there is corporate piracy being engaged in by technical officers of corporations They generally use it to maybe run a piece of software on multiple machines when they only are authorized to run it on one Sometimes it's used for good though cracking into code to fix bugs Or even make backup copies with which a lot of corporations feel they shouldn't have to pay extra for You know, you know backup backup being your software. I think is one reason I'll be honest. I copy software I buy because I want to backup And when you're paying, you know 70 or 80 dollars for for lotus one two three Um, it comes on a single floppy and if that goes, I mean you're gonna have a hard time Asking the company to you know, give you give you an additional copy and you know having a backup I mean, isn't that what we all do when I when I write a report I keep a copy of it that you know often a drawer locks somewhere in the file cabinet I just make so it makes sense to have a copy of software that you have bought now granted piracy is an issue In that but I think I think you know the concerns about piracy are warranted But I don't necessarily believe that the the answer to it has been very successful Well, sure if it's for personal usage as you've described roger I totally agree with you because you're you're you know, you're creating a backup, right? It's a it's some sort of a safety net What about in these more corporate institutions where there might be copies of software that have not technically been paid for and I mean Who's going to go after these corporations for things like this?  I mean Piracy is piracy, right? It's stealing. I you know, honestly, I think maybe it might be the model the way they sell the software Instead of selling it like a book Right where you just get the one copy and and and you read it and people, you know, think you can go and Hand it out You know, it's it's a different model that that calls for a different kind of answer than what people have been Doing so far, which I think is you know, you know Looking at it from the you know from the days when you know vinyl LPs Which are still very popular day, but are being slowly Passed over for newer technologies Right and there's some optical disc technology smaller versions of laser discs that are are being explored as ways of A more durable form a more faithful fidelity for music Uh, so so we're we're definitely moving to different storage options that will address some of these problems But right now I get the problems on both sides if I'm a company and I just spent a lot of money I spent $1,500 Uh on four copies of a piece of software I want to have a backup of it just in case right that that makes sense I've spent a lot of money on something if one of them gets damaged. I want to be able to replace it Now some software vendors are more amenable to replacing than others But they all want to prevent the abuse of people saying pretending that their their software is damaged Uh and and replacing it that way Some companies offer backup copies at a at a slightly reduced fee from buying a full new copy, but that can be abused too So, you know, it's a matter of trust Uh at at the end of it here, but mr. Imel actually has three different scenarios For why different corporate officers might engage in software piracy I was thinking I might run these by the panel here And you you guys tell me what you think Of of whether these are over the line or not All right So the first one is mr. Finance. Now these are taken from actual people that he interviewed But but they're not Yeah, they're not going to give their names. Mr. Finance has four copies of visit calc available for use on 12 computers Uh for convenience he Made some extra copies so that you know the 12 computers don't have to go running down the hall to find out who had it last Uh No more than one version is running at a time. He says so he's not like running 12 versions and and really trying to get around He says he thought spending $1,500 on the four copies was enough To justify needing to run one at a time And making the copies was a convenience Because maybe one of the corporate officers is taken at home and they have a micro computer at home that they use Well, I don't want to tattle tail here But I know that my grandfather at the university does a similar thing for all of the students so that they Can practice and get better and be ready for the corporate world because there isn't really any kind of way to get it cheaper for the educational institutions I mean to be honest. I think mr. Finance Might have a point. I mean if you're using it I mean again, I think I think we're I don't know what the model will be but i'm not sure the model We're using right now is really fit for the way software is used, but he's breaking copy protection Well, you know It's yeah I mean, what if what if What if you could uh sarah, what do you think of mr. Finance? I think mr. Finance He's got four copies of software. He's got 12 computers his his team, um, I I get why this is very convenient for them But will the software manufacturer be happy to know that he didn't buy 12 copies for the 12 computers? No. Yeah, definitely not so that's you know, it's it's sort of like I I get why it works for him, but If he's not allowed to do that, but only one is running at a time Remember, I mean you have to have the disk and put it in the computer. This is just for convenience This is just so you don't have to run down the hall or find out who left it at home Uh, I see swears they're not running more than one at a time Well, and if mr. Finance is being honest then great.  It's all about trust, right? Mr. Consultant keeps programs like word processors in a library. That's pretty common Where folks can check it out Get the disks put it in use the word processor when they need it However, each copy is supposed to be licensed to a single machine So he's violating the license by letting people get it out of the library and use it even though it's I mean, it's a floppy disk, right? I mean you can put it in any machine, but technically It's only supposed to be used on one machine Well, you know This kind of relates to mr. Finance if only one machine is using it at a time. Is it really a violation? But that's the license the license says it should be you have to buy one copy for every machine you're going to use it on Well, I know in my uh, my old, uh, university library. This is how it worked. They had one No, they actually had two Computers and you would go up and you would take the software from behind the desk And they would only have one copy.  I You know, it's it's hard to I mean I understand But the same time I like, you know This is I think this is a restrictive license. Don't you guys? Yeah, I think I think What if they just if I buy a floppy disk I should be free to put it in any computer I want as long as I don't make a copy of it copy protection is meant to I mean it's it's it's like you It's like taking a an LP and saying you can only play it on this one exact turn right right. No exactly. That's ridiculous Yeah, that that that I agree with you guys there as long as there aren't copies being made that the Originating company hasn't authorized I think this seems I think this seems fair Well, honestly consultant is he's following the spirit of the law if not the letter sure No, that's a good way of putting it. Uh, finally, mr. Office man has 20 copies of piece of software for 100 employees Uh, and he says you know what if the company that I spent the money buying the 20 copies of doesn't like it Uh, we'll stop doing business with you They use copy to pc So programs can be loaded onto hard disks Uh loading onto hard disks usually is prevented by copy protection. Now. This is a little more sophisticated This is an office manager saying look, I've got 20 copies I got 100 employees and they're all going to be able to use it. I'm going to load it on the hard disk You don't like it. We'll take our business somewhere else We don't care about your licensing terms and yeah, but you know like mr. Office and mr. Consultant Very similar issue. I mean it's if he has 20 copies and there's 20 mr. Consultant is using one copy though At a time whereas He's not making copies mr. Office man is making copies not only making copies. He's putting them on a hard drive Well, you know, that's so so I think this goes back to two things verification And the in the licensing model What if the licensing model was a little Not as restrictive and it was based on kind of a timeshare principle. You can only use the software For like say the the 12 hours of the day and this is what you pay Doesn't matter who who runs it doesn't matter what machine runs on Sometimes I think all of these issues are just a result of the fact that software is natively not something you should be able to protect That that you know software used to be the thing that you just use to run the hardware you bought Uh and people should be able to fix bugs people should be able to go in and and Change the software to use the machine they're using I get that micro computers are different than the more single purpose machines that we used to have Uh, but at the same time like I I know there's a lot of companies out there making money and it's a business But it's you're fighting against the winds here. You're fighting against the nature of code It just makes me wonder what's going to happen to these software companies that are making software that Everyone wants to use particularly in an office setting It's it's it's valuable But if you're a company that can only sell a certain amount of copies Kind of knowing that behind closed doors. There are copies being made. You can't keep track of all of that stuff Yeah, you know, are we putting companies in jeopardy by exhibiting this behavior even if we feel it's warranted What if they make their money not on writing the software but but supporting it so you pay them But it's like a subscription fee. I don't know I mean, I I think one of the one of the issues with copy protection right now is these These technical officers or companies are like, we're better at fixing the bugs than the software companies are I I I don't think anybody wants to pay the software company To to manage something that they feel like they can manage better. They just want access to the code Well, you know one thing but uh, mr. Office men is very dedicated to Stealing more copies of the software than he's entitled to it doesn't seem like he's about fixing the bugs as a Solution. No, it's not the only reason. That's true. That's true and and that goes back to sarah's point of You know if mr. Office man gets his way too often these software companies are going to run out of business There's a question of how big of a business can software ever be when it faces this problem It's it's gonna have to solve it. It's gonna have to solve it before Yeah, I think this this just shows that hardware makers will always be the bigger companies than than software companies All right, let's finish up with something out of our mailbag sarah trials Excuse me trials did case from raleigh, north carolina writes Campbell university school of law where I am an adjunct professor of computer law began offering a course in computer law three years ago Campbell also requires each law student to take a course in the use of Microcomputers in the law office and offers courses in the use of westlaw legal research system Now as is typical for other high technology areas around the country the micro electronics and information industries located in research Triangle park offer excellent opportunities to private practitioners like myself engaged in the wide range of issues involved in Computer law. There's more and more of them apparently because of the pervasiveness of information technology Lawyers and law students must develop a working knowledge of computers and computer law In order to provide complete services to clients who rely on these technologies It's really opening up a whole, you know area of study particularly at the university level I I I've said it before and I'll say it again I think Computer programming and and how to use a computer should be just a normal part of High school coursework leading into university where it should also be a required course like typing Well, I don't know if it should be required or not, but because typing isn't necessarily required But it's highly encouraged if you're going to aim yourself at certain places function in the in the 80s with so much of our Business and so much of our infrastructure moving to computers again. You're gonna need to have these skills It's just as important as arithmetic and reading and writing Well, I wonder now back to our piracy discussion How involved the courts are going to be when the software companies want to challenge say mr. Office man about his goings on Yeah, well and and charles d. Case's letter here. It makes me very hopeful that future judges which draw from law students generally Will have a good basis in computers and understanding micro computers and micro electronics If that's the case then our future laws should be well established and and and very helpful I'm also really interested to see what kinds of court cases come out of the fact that a lawyer who's very competent in computer law Who might be working for a corporation? Who's not real keen on people stealing software? What kind of case against civilians we might be seeing what kind of cases?  Yeah, and how how will the public react to that? You know, who side will they be on? I would I would argue that the side of the the the pirate But you know, it's it's you know, the law's the law It's it's it's gonna change. I mean when computers become common places stereos and TVs and refrigerators And I predict this will happen in the next eight years. I think uh, you'll have A population that is going to be a little Uh a little more educated, but also, you know Maybe a little more entitled about being able to do things they want with the machine that they paid with their own money Yeah All right. Well, uh, thank you gen cutter, uh for joining us If folks want to uh follow your work, uh, where should they look? You should look at openalpha.tv and on this thing called twitter where you can just follow me by my name gen cutter That's uh, it's it must be similar to compu serve or Or or something like that. It's interesting. Yeah, and and a domain name very sophisticated. 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Hi everybody, we're back, this is Dave Vellante at Wikibon.org, I'm here with At Stu. Stu Miniman is my co-host today. We've been going wall-to-wall coverage. This is day two, we're at IBM Edge. Inhecho is here. Cube alum, good friend of the Cube. Welcome back, great to see you again. Thank you, Dave. I'm excited to be here. Second year of Edge, we were down at Orlando last year. It's less than half of the folks here, so we're excited to see the growth.  We had 2,000 Orlando. I liked Orlando, but it's been interesting the broader mix of audience here at this event. Yeah, so talk about that a little bit. It's not just a storage audience, right? Oh, far from it. You know, the day one session topics were really about data, cloud, and results. Results around the business, results around the economics, and we talked about data economics, and one of the topics was, you know, there's a tipping point. You've heard of the tipping point, right? Sure. At some point, what happens? Well, what's interesting is, historically, as data volumes increased, what would happen? Performance systems would... Degradate. What we're saying is actually, the notion is, as you add more data, you actually get more context, and as you add more data, if you leverage capabilities like flash, the economics change, your performance fundamentally increases, and the cost actually decreases. So that's the new tipping point. Yeah, and we heard a lot of talk, it was all chat on Twitter about, you know, the dollar per gigabyte should really be focused on dollar per IO, and I sort of chime in and said, you know, really, the metric should be about business value. Yeah, so I don't think it's IO. I think it's dollar per workload, right? It's really the workload. Are you optimizing for the workload? So one of the questions we actually got from a client is, you know, if you're going to embark on, for example, a big data project around Hadoop, and are you going to use really, you know, scaled out servers, distributed memory, or are you going to have a direct attached storage? And the answer is, it actually depends on the workload and what you actually want to do with it. You know, are you going to use it for in-line production type activities, or are you just doing it to do a sandbox activity just to kick the tires, or just, you don't care about the nature of the data, or you don't care about necessarily the security or backup availability, then that changes. So it's about the economics. We were talking off camera, had Ambush Goyal on yesterday, and you know him well. He's a brilliant guy. Yeah, he really is. And what I love about him is he's embracing this disruption. On the one hand, you got the tube. On the other hand, you got the Amazon, you know, AWS cloud factor, and it's aimed right at his business that he just took over six months ago, and he just smiles and loves it. You know, in his keynote, he talked about he wants to take away the word storage and replace it with the word data, because it's actually what that is the value for most clients, and it's what you want to do with it, managing data and moving up the scale in terms of the value. So you're at the heart of that disruption in he, which is a good place to be, and it's like these traditional lines, even organizational lines are starting to blur, they're changing within the customer base. What are you seeing there? Oh, data is a hot space, right? Everyone's talking about big data. What's interesting is, is I actually gave a presentation earlier today around big data myths. You know, what are the myths? Well, it's only about volume. It's not about volume. We've talked about it. There are other V's, there's a lot more complexity. We've talked about, oh, is big data doesn't include transactional data? That's not true. Most, actually, majority of big data implementations include integrating transactional data. Why? Because that's actually how most of the world operates in terms of business operations, and you want to integrate that with new data sources, new data types to actually make measurable impact at the point of contact. It's interesting the conversations that are coming up and all that we're covering. Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit. I mean, the notion of bringing together analytic and transactional data. We talked a little bit about in the past. What are you seeing some of your customers do in that regard? Oh, sure. Probably a few use cases. I would say a couple use cases. One is data warehouse augmentation is probably one of the dominant use cases where we've seen where clients have said, you know what, I want to either do one of two things. I either want to have a landing area to land a lot of data and use technologies like Hadoop as a pre-process kind of landing area before I target it to an operational data warehouse or data store or database. Or you have it in conjunction with the warehouse or database to do active archiving. Why active? Well, the nature of what we do and how we live, you don't actually know sometimes how to tier the data appropriately and you don't know when it's going to be needed or when that context or the value of the data is going to be relevant to the particular queries that you're going to run at a given time. So we're seeing a lot more interaction around transactional data, around data warehouse augmentation. In addition, we're seeing it, especially in real-time fraud, right? Why? Because what you're trying to do in the middle and interrupt, depending on the query you're doing, interrupt a transaction that may be happening. You swipe the card and before you fully process that transaction to hit someone's bill, you want to ensure that that really was the right person and the right geographic location and that transaction wasn't done 3,000 miles away in another location. You just take six months to figure that out.  Oh, I don't even get a letter. I actually get a text. Six months ago, six years ago, you get a letter, remember? You get a letter. Oh, you might have been hacked. So what happens now? Oh, now I get text. I get an email. I get a call. I especially get calls when I'm traveling internationally. I love getting it via text because then I'm not interrupted as I'm doing it and I can text back and say, yep, it's a valid transaction. I made that purchase. If I'm traveling internationally, when I get a call, it's quite nice. Are you sure you want to make that extra shoe purchase? Yeah. I'm kidding. Sort of. How about streams? What you guys are doing in streams is really interesting. It's sort of a new model, right? Yeah.  And that's a trend that... Let's see. I think it came out of IBM Research, that technology. Oh, yes. You might have done an acquisition there as well. I can't really remember. No, no, no. Because pure organic investment is one of... This is pretty cool stuff. So to explain to us what this is all about. So how does it all work and what is it and how are you applying it? The genesis of streams actually started with an investment around security intelligence in terms of the use case and really protecting citizens. One of the things we realized and for a lot of different organizations was that they actually have a lot of data in-house. And if they had the ability to make sense of it in real time, that they could actually prevent disasters from happening. So how do you do that? How do you correlate data sets that are incredibly varied, generated by not only video surveillance, text, email, taken into consideration GPS locations, taken into consideration identity of individuals to resolve all of that and then do that as it's coming at you? So if I use a simple analogy like water, water in a river, water in a lake, water in a waterfall, streams is the only technology in the industry that can actually analyze water moving as fast as waterfall and pick out the one piece that actually matters and take out the noise of the waterfall. Whereas historically, if you think about Hadoop and other types of operational systems, it's either a river flow or it's a lake, right? The water's fairly static, meaning the data static. The data may change, but the speed at which it's falling down is not the pace of waterfall. So streams is really bad. Yeah, I wish our CTO David Fleuer was here because actually he's done, looked at some of the big streams out there. And really we feel that this is the intersection of kind of the big data wave and the transformation of traditional infrastructure. So it kind of brings together, you know, what IT was doing and where it needs to go. So it's pretty fascinating technology. We analyze data that's moving, information that's moving in motion. That's actually the value. So why do you need to move the data, right? One of the fundamental benefits is to leave the data where it is and learn to analyze the data in place or analyze the data while it's in movement, even before it lands. So I'm wondering... This is how we process this human being. What's your thought on kind of the industrial internet, internet of things or internet of everything meme that's going on in the industry right now? You know what? Streams is actually one of the core technologies that clients are using to leverage what I would consider the machine-generated data. What you're talking about is infrastructure and there's two dimensions to it. One is process efficiency, operational process, workflow process, asset optimization. Another aspect is most companies are generating a lot of insights, a lot of data, but they don't actually know how to monetize it. And part of monetizing it means you need to understand when you use those insights in context at the point of impact. For example, in life insurance. Or any insurance industry.  In that moment, you're probably more apt to consider your insurance policies than you are at any other time because it's a life-changing moment, life-changing moments happen in point situations. And you need to be listening and active to understand it. Or real-time CDR mediation. Or understanding you're standing next to a mobile billboard and people know that you're going to be more apt to certain types of brands and products. And the mobile billboard automatically shifts based on your physical presence next to it. Okay, so we talked about a couple of commercial use cases. What about, let's talk a little bit more about the application of this technology in things like security, facial recognition, is that something that's actually happening today or is that kind of a future? It's, security is a huge aspect. Security intelligence, fraud detection, really learning to kind of minimize the risk. In terms of what I would consider political and geographic sort of securities in terms of political boundaries, geographic boundaries, there's a company called Global Terra Echoes who's actually leveraging our streaming capabilities. They're embedding fiber optic cables underground and we're sensing that in real-time. So typically to do perimeter surveillance, what would you do? You'd have either video cameras or you'd have people, you know, man, kind of the outside perimeter or you have helicopters come up and down and observe. Now, because of the sensing ability, we can actually see when a squirrel passes, when a human passes, when an object passes and based on heat, radiation, based on weight, size, airflow, who's there and who's not there. And it's a completely different dimension or the ability to analyze something that's going on in one part of the world at the same time, something else is happening because the physics of objects is that we physically cannot be in two places at the same time, right? Not yet anyway. Not yet. Did they do that on Star Trek? I don't know. I don't think so. Even Star Trek couldn't do that. Okay, so one of the talks you're giving here was big data how to get started. So a lot of clients say, you know, big data, big data is big money, but is that a myth? Is that a reality? Is it a future promise? What are customers asking you in terms of the how to get started question? Is it how do I actually get value out of my data? Is it how do I actually deploy the technology? What are the big questions that you're getting? Probably the two questions I'm getting is one around where should I start, meaning what use cases are kind of demonstrating real ROI and results. That gets to your point about value. And then we've determined that there's five dominant use cases that we've seen clients actually be quite successful in starting from. And then the second piece is, do I have the right skills in house to get this stuff up and running? And the skills could be quite varied. Skills could be around, do I have the analytic skills, applied math skills to write both the queries, data mining skills. It could be visualization techniques because once you get to larger pools of data to consume it can take quite a bit of time. Or do I have data integration and quality and governance and privacy skills to ensure that I'm actually putting the right governance around how that's being accessed and touched? So what else is exciting you? Let's see, DB2. It's pretty exciting, right? It's got a nice facelift in April. Oh my gosh. So talk about that a little bit. You got ours? I love it, love it. We've just announced a capability in our delivering it is DB2 with blue acceleration. It is our new in-column memory, sorry, in-memory column store processing. I'm so excited. Can't get the words out. Column or processing capabilities in our database. So unique aspects of it. One of it is what we call adaptive compression. So we can actually compress the data down by an order of 10x. 10x, so like 10 terabytes. Looks like one terabyte. In addition to that, we can have the ability to keep most of that data in the compressed state and run the analytics on the compressed state. Most analytic tools require you to uncompress the data, recompress the data so you really don't get the storage savings or the time efficiency when you're running the queries. The second piece we've seen is what we call leveraging the capabilities of the hardware around vector processing. So you can do single instruction and then drive a single instruction for a query and then run it across the multiple threads of a system. That's also enabling you to quickly get the results back. The other aspect we've also applied is this method of data skipping. So it can actually skip large orders, large sets of data and maintain the order of the query so that you get the results back faster. Now what does this really mean in terms of real end user benefit? We're talking on the order of 100 to 1,000 times faster for individual queries. We've seen 8 to 25 times faster for entire workloads. We actually did a demo here. I was excited to do a main tent demo. We showed blue with Cognos with a flash system, 820, running on two nodes of a power 780 and the load time we put in over a terabyte of data, I think it was like 3 billion rows, 20 million dimensions all under less than 12 minutes and as you're running the queries in the product dimensions, it's moving as fast as you can think. It's moving as fast as you're moving the clicker. There was no hourglass, tick-tock, tick-tock, wait for your report. So you put the entire database in flash in that demo? In that demo we actually had a split. We used some flash and we also had some mix of SSDs, but it was mostly flash. Okay, but most of the database is running on semiconductor. And then we also did a demo also using pure scale, DB2 pure scale, because you're really going to see the flash benefits when it's an IO intensive workload, right? First of all, flash will make anything faster, but the order of magnitude on an IO intensive workload, especially around transactional systems, they're going to be just ridiculous. So speaking of databases, IBM made an announcement today with Mongo in the NoSQL space. Can you give us a little color on that? Yeah, you know, this is about IBM's commitment just in general around the open source community and also with OpenStack. And we're adopting and understanding that clients are going to need new capabilities in order to prepare for new types of application development. We've actually added JSON NoSQL support within both DB2 and Informix as well. In addition to that, we also wanted to partner with Mongo because of what they've done in terms of the community and advancements around cloud-based application sets and some mobile-based application development. Yeah, okay, so the Mongo's obviously been focused on that JSON integration for a while, kind of a leader there. So it's a big moment for them. They must be excited. We're actually doing, is it next week still? Next Friday in New York City. We're doing the Mongo DB conference, which would be great with the guys from 10Gen, so Jeff Kelly and I will be down there next Friday. Next one. I'll be driving the cube down from Malboro and it'll be great. Good action down there. You're everywhere. East Coast, West Coast. It's crazy, isn't it? I don't know if people from IBM will be there, but we'll definitely get them on if in fact they are. So that's cool. Okay, good. In he. Amazing. Did we miss anything? Let's see. We covered so much. What's next for you? Where are you off to next? Wherever you are. Yeah, okay. Well, hopefully we'll be at IOD. We'll see you before that. But we've got a long summer coming up ahead of us. Well, nice job. You know, this is always great to talk to you and love the enthusiasm. How many keynotes have you done this week? Four. Four? Good. I've got one left. One main tent, three breakouts and one left. Good. Great. Well, good luck with that. In he. Chosa, thank you so much for coming on the cube, sharing your enthusiasm. I know how you keep all this great information in your head, but our listeners appreciate it. So great to see you as always. Well, thank you very much. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be right back with our next guest, Charles Long, who's the CEO of Centerline. This is a really good story. He was one of the keynote speakers in the morning. And we'll have him on next. So keep it right there. This is the cube. We'll be right back.


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