Today we have with us Comrade S. N. Pathak and Comrade Sree Kumar, President and General Secretary respectively of All India Defense Employees Federation. Welcome Comrades. Can you tell us why you are sitting on a Dharna since July 3rd? What has caused it? What has brought it about? You see the Government of India has taken a decision to privatize the defense production which is either to under the control of the Government of India through the ordinance factories, DRDO and public sector to the private sector and they have also decided to allow 100 percent foreign direct investment in the defense production sector. This is one aspect which we are fighting against the policy of the government since we with our vast experience in the defense industry as worker of the defense industry for more than 35-40 years, we are having a serious concern that this will go against the security of our country to open the doors of the defense production to private corporates whose basic interest is to earn profit, more profit and more and more profit. Now recently during the month of February, a letter came from the Prime Minister's office to all the ordinance factories asking for certain vital information like the name of the product, the technical description of the product, the photograph of the product, and the cost of the product and the number of products for the past three years what these factories have produced. That much we can understand because after all Prime Minister has got every right to review any government departments function but the subsequent information asked that is about the land holding by the ordinance factories. You see the ordinance factories are holding more than 60,000 acres of land and many of the factories are in prime locations like Chennai, Suburban of Mumbai, Pune, Kanpur, Deradun like that. So this has cost us a series of worry why these information are being asked. So immediately we started protesting against that but no response came from the government. While we were fighting against this particular aspect suddenly on 27th April 2017 the Department of Defense Production issued an order with the approval of the Defense Minister Mr. Arun Getli stating that 143 products which are today being manufactured by the ordinance factories will be outsourced with immediate effect. Now 143 products if it is taken away then almost 25 ordinance factories will be very badly affected and some of the factories are I can mention vehicle factory Jabalpur which is manufacturing the military vehicles 2019 onwards they will not get any workload from the army. After that another order came on 1st of June that 39 more items are also going to be outsourced in the name of non-core items. So this we have protested and told the government that you see any defense requirement any defense item how can you call it a non-core item and these items are being manufactured in the ordinance factories for years together. Now one fine morning somebody decides that these are all non-core items and you need not produce and that too arbitrarily without discussing with the major stakeholder we are representing the defense civilian workforce numbering about 4 lakhs and ordinance factories alone have got about 90,000 employees. In the past the previous defense ministers right from Mr. George Fernandez Mr. Jaswant Singh the present Rashtrabadi Pranam Mukherjee Sahib and Mr. A. K. Antain they have all assured that whatever products you are manufacturing will not be outsourced and when we told sir whatever today we are manufacturing tomorrow because of the technology it will become obsolete then what will happen about the future production then they have assured that future also any new products are required for the army and then factories will be given the first priority. You say that this whole process of privatization has been or this apprehension that they are trying to privatize has been there for many years. So what is so special about today what has happened in the last few years that make you feel that that the speed with which privatization is being undertaken has gone far ahead. See this defense budget is 18% of the Indian budget out of 18% till that 5% was the salary of armies say 12 to 13% was being explained for manufacturing of defense items till that in India these were being these money were being made expenditure by the government itself. There was no broker in between purchasing of materials in making infrastructure ordinance factories salary to the defense civilian employees is all were going through so many years in 12 or 13% is not very small amount of the budget you see it is started from where it is started from the privatization of hospitals that is our medical care and schools they are having very small 2% 3% so they take first they take 6% of this government expenditure they find that is very much they got they are very enjoying it all these MPs MLA's were having this open these schools and got this 5% now out of this 12% nobody was getting anything it is we it is defense ministry who was making expenditure for all of that the private people multinational you say not multinational some of the multinational also they thought this is a huge amount which you can if we once we get we can get a lot of amount from the government's money and that is the you can say the first pillar of privatization. Now but the argument that is constantly made against the defense sector that the defense sector is just gets a lot of funds from the government of India every year in the budgetary allocation but they are not able to make maximum use of it and that they are incapable of taking us on the path of indigenization how do you meet this argument you see rifle is the basic equipment required for a shotgun that is a basic weapon now the Indian Army some 15 years before they told that then existing model of 7.61 rifle that is out that has become outdated so we want a modern rifle so DRDO and the ordnance factories jointly designed a rifle which is called the INSAS rifle Indian National Small Arms System 5.56 when I mean the size of the bullet now that is being used by the army for more than 15 years after 15 years one fine morning army has come and told because basically we depend on only one customer that is the army they should decide about their requirement what is going to be their futuristic weapon for the next 10 years 20 years like that that they have to take a decision depending upon the geo-political situation and the political policy of the government all these things are interlinked now suddenly one some two years before they told no don't produce no more 5.56 rifles I have got enough stock in my go downs in my depots so I want an oven assault rifle so we have developed they have got three major small arms factories one is in Nishapur rifle factory Nishapur near Kolkata small arms factory Kanpur and factory Thichirapur these three factories have developed three different designs all the three different designs were given to the army for trial lot of trials were done and finally one rifle they have in principle approved that is being produced by this was an year before last year then they told you make this improvement and all those things so this has been done whatever army suggested as a user the producer ordinance factory has done it different trials of our own we have held and since we became satisfied that this rifle which we have developed definitely this will satisfy the army we have informed the army now you please come and check yourself director general of infantry himself came so he himself presided over the proof proof was successfully done only some minor aberrations which he has pointed out and immediately the ordinance factory as told rifle factory Shapur as told within a month we will be able to overcome all these small small defects whatever you have and there are minutes which it must have been there because these are all high level things you see we why minute just when a month before we both visited that factory we made the higher officer they themselves confess to us we have given them to up to their satisfaction we both were there who know the situation now you see after this all of us were expecting at least this issue will be sorted out even in the newspapers also this came the got a rifle developed by Shapur is being in principle approved by the army for procurement but after couple of days another news item came that army has rejected this since it is not fulfilling their requirement immediately they have asked the government to import to more than 1,50,000 rifle and supply to them so this is how things are being going on in this country how much are they going to spend to acquire 1,50,000 right they will go for a global tender we do not know how much of them quotation it will come but in the meantime another development which has taken place is this punch Lloyd one of the another corporate this punch Lloyd company has entered into an agreement a collaborative arrangement what they now call as a strategic partnership with the Israel weapon industry the information what we are having is that this Israel weapon industry was previously called as Israel military industry IMI which was blacklisted by government of India when Mr. AK Antony was the defense minister maybe they must have changed their name to IWI and with that IWI this punch Lloyd has entered into a collaborative arrangement and he has opened a factory near Gwalior which was inaugurated by the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister himself and he is now telling that I have got a license from the government of India and I have got a collaborative arrangement with Israel weapon industry I will supply whatever rifle is required for the armed forces so these are all the game plan game plan of the private corporate houses and lobbies within the government which whom they wanted to encourage more and more private sector and give an argument as what you are telling against the ordinance factories defense PSUs and DRDO and then see that in due course of time these industries become sick so that they can be sold out their lands can be sold out the factories can be sold out and the entire defense production will come under the control of the corporate houses is it in the interest of the security of the nation this is the major question all India defense employees federation is posing before the public and punch Lloyd when punch Lloyd is asking for material they get within 30 days when we ask for material we do not forget for eight months why to you believe that this privatization threatens national security defense industries are not supposed to be commercial industry defense industry is not to earn a profit the relationship between the armed forces and the ordinance factories today is a patriotic relationship in fact in one of the meeting the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi told the ordinance factories are the fourth force of the defense of our country now handing over this security related industry to the private sector we are of the firm view that any corporate house who invest money in this sector and who is the customer only one customer you know this is not an item to be produced and sold in the market this cannot be sold in the market you have to depend on the Indian Army only an Indian Army as I have earlier mentioned to you they themselves are not clear what type of weapons they require for the next 10 years or 5 years why ordinance factories are there because sometimes army wants to 500 items be produced sometimes they want 10 lakhs be produced because it is a government industry that is why this industry is called a war reserve industry only government can maintain this only government can preserve this no private industry will be able to manage a defense industry because the customer is limited the order is limited and that is why confederation of Indian industry has come with a statement that our private industries will be able to participate in defense only if the government of India ensures 10 years workload I am giving you another example right example we are when 65 war came the people of the factories when 71 war came in other wars the people of the ordinance factories they do not go houses their houses for one week they worked 24 hours there they sleep there they eat there they take bath there and all arrangements they make there because Pakistan is a learner but when this will go to Tata or go to any other people what is going to happen nobody has thought of it tell me Tata will go Tata will go in the war time he will say to their own union tell your people to go for a strike I will bargain with the government it is the right time to bargain to make some increase of the rate so that what it will happen but tell me the process of privatization did not begin with this government it began under UPA and the Khelkar committee was set up by Atal Bihari Bajpayee government they are the ones who recommended that one should go in for it at no point were the all India defense employees federation consulted you see there even before Khelkar committee there was another committee that was TK Nair committee who happened to be the principal secretary of prime minister Manmohan Singh that was the first committee BJ Khelkar committee came then only first was the TK Nair committee that committee we attended that because with a good intention that a committee has been formed to strengthen to restructure the ordinance factory something good will come we attended that meeting both the first and we have argued before that committee because that committee asked us a question why ordinance factory should remain as a government department why not it should it be corporatized then we have understood there is something fishy behind this then we opposed we told no corporatization because corporatization means first step of privatization so we are opposing we don't accept it as expected Nair committee has recommended for corporatization we opposed George Fernandez was the minister we went agreement was made no corporatization then BJ Khelkar committee came they also recommended for corporatization again we went to the government two agreements one with Mr Pranam Mukherjee another with Mr AK Anthony written agreements written notes recorded minutes in which we were also there the honorable ministers were there and their paraphernalia secretary secretary dp all these people were there now this government has never held even a single meeting in its more than three years with the major stakeholders that what is going to be their policy one defense production and what they expect from the workforce for the improvement of the organization after all we are prepared for that we are patriotic citizens we also want that ordinance factory should improve it should be empowered it should be strengthened it should be developed and for that what government expect from us they should call us and have a dialogue no which they are not having arbitrarily they are deciding and our representations are not being attended or addressed to up to this time eight days over in Delhi we are sitting under strike we have given notice to the government their own CID or IB whatever information sources they are having they are getting the information but how they bother to call us to discuss with us no thank you very much for the interview and coming and telling us taking us through very major issue of concern that faces our country thank you very much we also thank you so much


When a vigil to remember Sarah Everard ended in police wrestling women to the ground the public response was one of outrage The scenes were particularly unpleasant because of the relationship of the police to Sarah Everard's death The man suspected of her murder is himself a Met officer What's worse the Met had been informed of allegations of sexual harassment by the suspect before Everard's murder And it appears they had failed to act Now in response to the controversy Pretty Patel requested that her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, quite a mouthful, investigate the incident and on Tuesday They reported that the Met did nothing wrong These were their conclusions After reviewing hundreds of documents body-worn video from police officers at the vigil and other media and conducting interviews with the police, vigil organisers and politicians The Inspectorate found that police officers at the vigil did their best to peacefully disperse the crowd Police officers remained calm and professional when subjected to abuse And police officers did not act inappropriately or in a heavy-handed manner However, HMICFRS also found there was insufficient communication between police commanders about changing events on the ground The Inspectorate said that public confidence in the Metropolitan Police suffered as a result of the vigil And that given the impact of images of women under arrest, which were widely disseminated on social media A more conciliatory response after the event might have served the Met's interests better So essentially they're saying the police did a great job They could have handled it slightly better on social media afterwards Because people ended up thinking they'd done a bad job So they're saying the policing was excellent, all that wrestling of women to the ground, that was fine But you should have been more proactive in terms of defending yourself on Twitter afterwards Now, of course, the key part there, the big takeaway was the comment Police officers did not act inappropriately or in a heavy-handed manner Now let's remind ourselves of the scenes we saw that night She got their young women getting dragged away by police when they're just standing very peacefully At a vigil next to flowers that have been laid to remember someone who was tragically murdered There is a long, long history of the police and of state institutions Who are supposed to do impartial investigations of the police Whether it's the inspector or the IOPC, previously known as the IPCC Investigating the police either through sort of regular reviews Or through, you know, being the people who, being the institution that people go to With complaints about police conduct And finding that the police did nothing wrong And failing to hold the police account or failing to connect these outcomes of violence or of Oppression to structural issues within and of the police Every, you know, every prosecution of a death in police custody over the past 15 years Has ended in acquittal and found that the police did nothing wrong We recently had Alice O'Keefe who is one, I think she's part of the inspector or has some kind of role And was involved in the delivery of a report that was, you know, released this month On protest and on the policing of protest and she said that in her experience of being within that institution The police showed repeat the inspector. It showed repeated bias in favor of the police and against peaceful protesters And she said this really interesting thing where she said Quote the purpose of the report was not to collect evidence and then make a decision But rather to collect evidence to support the decision that had already been made And that's all done within the context of the home secretary looking for, you know Trying to create the context in which she can more easily pass things like the policing bill And look at the policing crime bill So what that tells us is that the outcomes of policing that we're seeing of of dead people and cells Of black and brown people being stopped and searched and surveilled of protesters being physically beaten of You know people with mental health issues who come from working class or black or brown backgrounds Being treated with, you know, carceral and you know punishment based Responses rather than care, but this is not some, you know, heat of the moment response by police Or some kind of deviation from protocol But it is according to the police themselves or at least the bodies that are meant to investigate the police The cell it is protocol And it might not be protocol that's you know written down anywhere But it's protocol that has emerged through repeatedly taking place and repeatedly being sanctioned And you know, obviously it goes without saying that this is not the first time that, you know An investigation has been done into the police Particularly, you know, when it comes to to police responses to protesters or political dissent The lines here, you know, the scenes of police throwing women, you know, women to the ground It's much more clearer because it's you know To many people or perceived to be a much more shocking image than the police doing the same thing for, you know Black and brown teenagers But that tactic of inflicting harm as in the case of sarah everard allegedly Using violence against protesters who are protesting the police, especially who are protesting the police Um is a well known textbook thing. Um, we saw it in for example Mark dougan and how protests and attempts to organize in the wake of mark dougan's death Um was itself criminalized So or itself faced extreme responses from the police So it's a well hash technique and I think we need to stop thinking about this in terms of Oh, the you know, the the investigation has made a mistake here But rather that as this keeps happening It tells us something about the fact that the police Genuinely do see this as part of our of its role and then see from that position Where do we go from there in our analysis of who the police serve and of what the police do? I mean, I think it's very convincing that idea that this report was written not to find out whether the police had Done anything wrong, but rather to look at what evidence can we use to justify what they've done So they they decided the conclusion before they they started and what they wanted to do was defend the police now Some of this interest of some of this often said it's often true is that attack Is the best form of defense and I think this report also drew upon that particular Dictum and because they did go on the attack against anyone who had a different opinion to them They said the police did a great job and they're attacking anyone who disagreed at the time So this is is from that report They write the inspectors write the inspectorate Right the chorus of those condemning the metropolitan police and calling for the resignation of the commissioner within hours of the arrest And presumably with a very limited understanding of what had happened was unwarranted Whereas a certain degree of uninformed commentary, particularly on social media is inevitable In this case some of the leading voices were those impositions of some responsibility It is one thing as in the case of the home secretary to recognize that the scenes were worrying or upsetting And to order an inspection such as this it is another to jump to conclusions And in doing so undermine public confidence in policing based on very limited evidence Now that's quite clearly a reference to sadeek khan who tweeted and made a public statement at the time that he wasn't impressed by the police's actions And their explanations to him had been unsatisfactory Also, probably a reference to ed david the lib dem leader. He called for crested a dick To resign she's of course the the met commissioner the head of the met Now this is super interesting because not only are we in a situation whereby You have an organization which tends to just whitewash whatever the police do So it's an organization the police can generally rely on to say what you've done is fine They want to delegitimize anyone else who comes to a different conclusion So even though we've all seen the videos of young women getting pushed over in an incredibly heavy handed way by the police And in a very insensitive way given the reason of why people were protesting They're saying to even have an opinion on that is itself Something to be condemned So saying politics politicians should not be able to make their minds up about police activity It should be completely depoliticized It should be put in the hands of a commission who low and behold tend to say that everything the police did was actually right


Hi everyone! Today I want to show you what Spil Expo Gaming Convention in Norway looks like. I'm gonna take you through the entire thing and show you all of my pickups which were some things that might be interesting. In this video there's a lot of video games, there's a lot of cosplayers and I'm also meeting some youtubers, maybe you will recognize some of them.  I flew down there recently it's in Lillström. It is an annual thing and it is the biggest gaming convention we have as far as I know. It's held in this really big hall with a bunch of shops and stands of all kinds. Okay so here I am at my first day, Friday, with my free Red Bull. Red Bull was a big sponsor so they were handing those out for free for everyone and to begin with I am going straight over to the Nintendo stand. Here they have Mario Kart for people to play, that new sports title and a bunch of Splatoon 3. And here is me being awkward before we check out L shops place. And this thing is lots of old electronics melted together for art. Pretty cool stuff. So at Spil Expo there are a ton of cosplayers. There's just a big focus on cosplays of all sorts and kinds from anything you can think of. But I have to say there were a bunch of Genshin Impact cosplayers. Like here we have Venti and Lisa from Genshin Impact. Just amazing guys. I want to also do a Genshin cosplay sometime. My favorite character in Genshin Impact was Lisa if you may remember that. Okay so I continue to make my first round just looking around. Looking at body pillows of the shady type. Never understood the appeal of body pillows but I know there are fans up there for that. And here's another cool cosplayer. Thank you for letting me share. I just went up to people asking them if I could film them a tiny bit for my vlog. And all of them said yes. I come across some video games, some NES titles, SNES and N64 stuff. I'm just browsing through that really quickly. And some Xbox games are thrown in there for some good measure as well. So many books, magazines and comics. I mean you can find just about anything at this convention. Well another cosplayer. Pretty good. I found a cool Destiny Ghost show. I found Mario puzzles, Banjo-Kazooie puzzles and a PS2 games section. Scrolling through there seems to pets. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Making sure I'm not missing out on anything. Nothing piqued my interest and then I saw PS1 games and Theme Park World of all things and Discworld. I've never seen that before. So you couldn't. And a Vita section. I loved the Vita and I picked up a Senran Kagura hack and slash game from this pile. Even though I'm not really a fan of Senran Kagura, but any new excuse to play the Vita, I'll take it. Here's the first God of War game.  And PS5 games and the newest God of War game. Which I'm actually currently playing. Here are some Switch games and Persona 5 Royal. I actually have the collector's limited edition of Persona 5 Royal. It's gonna be unboxed in another video.  AI, the Insomnion files. Play that a tiny bit on Game Pass actually. It's a mystery visual novel. Here is 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim and you know how people in my inbox on Twitter, I talked with a guy that said that that was the most incredible game he had played this year. And I keep hearing people saying that, so I should definitely play it sometime. And here is a game called Chaos. I know nothing of this game. I just like their cover. So here are 3DS games and I find Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn. In PS4 games I see Smurfs and I picked up Smurfs on the Switch in this convention. I will be talking about this game pretty soon on my channel. And if you listen to the podcast, Disgirdisk, you know some things already. It's an interesting story, okay? Here is Atelier Sophie 2. Great game, guys. I reviewed it earlier this year on my channel. Here is Valkyrie Elysium. I've never played that. Is that good? Let me know. Here is Re Zero, a visual novel hybrid I have never played, but Loki wants to someday. Doom Collectors Edition is huge and so is Bayonetta 3's. A near-autometer figure. I'm currently playing that on the Switch. Another Genshin cosplayer, guys. Really detailed, so pretty. I love it. Here's a stall with handmade Pokémon decorative items. And I had to pick up one of these. There are also Christmas themed Pokéballs and they were really pretty. I'm gonna show you later which one I picked up. Here is the crew dancing and doing their thing. And here are more cosplayers. So many interesting things to look at. I think I walked around on this first day for five plus hours and every time I walked the entire round I saw something new. I absolutely recommend taking a trip to any local gaming convention that you may have near where you're living. It is just its own community. Here I met Torkel and I have pretty much too much material to come up with a commentary to everything to be honest. But here is the big Swedish booth.  I am still interested in finding some special GameCube games. Any new good game to play on the GameCube and I am up for it. And there were a lot of obscure and underrated titles for the system. I feel like. Here's Little Mermaid on the Game Boy. Kurokuro Kureen on the Game Boy Advance, the best title ever. Beauty and the Beast and tons of Game Boy's DSS, 3DS systems and Dark Alliance on the GBA. That is pretty interesting. Spyro II Season of Flames is an excellent GBA game guys. I highly recommend that. And I bought this necklace, a Zelda shield. So pretty. And there were so many other pretty necklaces though. I want all of them to be honest. Norway's best gamer is here and they hired me to do like a mini documentary commercial with them like a year ago. I do that sometimes. And they had that video rolling in the background. It was so funny. That's what we could call meta. Ikone Island is a game I'm going to check out. It is confirmed for the Switch. I think it looks good. It looks like a farming, crafting, monster taming type of game. I saw PS5 cover plates but they didn't have the black one. And no, I still haven't gotten the one that I ordered months ago. So I assume that I'm never gonna get that. We are nearing the end of the first day and it is incredibly noisy in this hall. And I slept two hours last night. Here is the developer of Rorschauk. Totally butchered that pronunciation. And he told me that he has spent 10 years making this game. It is also confirmed for the Nintendo Switch. Here's the Moomin game and I have seen it before. And here is a brew, another game showcase. And Switch confirmed, I believe. And then I get poked in the side by an Norwegian YouTuber that I have never met. But I've heard his name, Kaltikrip. We hit it off immediately, like we already knew each other. Check him out. Link down below. He was there with a friend that's promoting a game that's called The Holy Goshtarn. And we hung around. We goofed around. It was pretty awesome stuff. I hope we can get to meet another time sometime. Definitely, dude. So, the next day after a good night's sleep, I am ready for new adventures on day two of the convention. Plenty of new stuff has appeared in the hall, like this Mario pipe that you can pose at. Funny. And let me just say, a ton more people over here today. This was the day that the entire hall was packed with people. I mean, Friday was a chill day compared to this Saturday. A ton more cosplayers, too. Genshin Impact cosplayers, Zelda Breath of the Wild, so many things. And I met Kim. You have that show on PlayStation Norway's YouTube channel called L2R2. Super awesome stuff. I am looking forward to meeting you again. I am scrolling through some games again, making sure I didn't miss anything yesterday. And here is Ninja Gaiden on the video. This Zelda notebook was pretty. But I mean, I just got this notebook, remember, from my last video. The God of War video. Black is my favorite color, too. And here I met Gamer Baby from my Discord server. We hung around. We went shopping together. You were so cute. I know, and we have been talking a lot on Discord, and now we finally met. I'm so grateful for all your support that you have shown to me and my channel for such a long time. And I felt honored. And then I had to say hi to two of Norway's biggest YouTubers, Sara Höjdahl and Victoria Skö. You guys were so sweet, so nice. It was really nice meeting you, too. And then I met my favorite Norwegian streamer, Emzia Emilia. That was a big surprise. I immediately recognized you and ran up to you. You are adorable. Link down below to all of these content creators if you want to check them out. So do that. Check them out. And now I met Nathan also from my Discord server. It was awesome meeting you as well. You and Gamer Baby, you are the best people in the world. And for everyone watching right now, we are a very family-like community over in my Discord server. Link down below, the Esha Gaming Discord server. This is where we hung, where we talk about video games, and we meet under this common hobby that we have. And then I met PlayStation Helena. She was there working with the Giving Out the God of War merch. And we hung with Cathy Creep a tiny bit at this point. And here you can see Nathan bought a witcher necklace that went very nicely together with the podcast merch, such a shirt. And here you have some of the cosplay parade. And here we have Nathan being so sweet. He wanted me to sign his God of War on the Rocky copy. And I made sure that I wrote something special in the cover as well. And then he showed me a fan art piece that he has made for me. I was so surprised. Dude, I know how hard it is to make a digital art. It is me as a dragonborn from Skyrim. Skyrim being my all-time favorite game. If you have followed this channel for a tiny bit, that was pretty amazing, dude. Thank you, Nathan. And thank you, Gamerbaby, for wanting to meet me. And thank you to Spill Expo for the weekend pass. Here's that Pokemon decorative item. I don't know what else to call it. I will have it here. So now you know the story behind this one. If you're watching some of my upcoming videos and you see this one, here's the game, Senran Kagura. I haven't popped that in yet, but I will. It wasn't supposed to be on the table, but this is Razor Kishi. I will talk more about that later. I bought these things, which are heat pads. And here are all the flyers. I mean, Iconi Island looks like a fun game. Movement stickers, some other stickers. Now thank you for watching, and please hit like if you enjoyed this video. I will see you guys later.


Okay, very good morning to everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend. It's Monday the 7th of October As per usual Monday look ahead for the week not just for the session ahead And as you can see you've got the full agenda to the side of me here If you would like access to this it is available on my Twitter account. You can see my my handle just below my image Gonna run through that then Sam's gonna come on as per usual. I've kind of taken off any of the Technical analysis on my charts so he can go at them fresh and again look at some of the the key levels both for the Intra day and for the kind of medium term for potential targets particularly equity markets, of course Having seen quite a roller coaster last week having sold off at the beginning of the week But then recovering and then obviously coming And closing on the high side following payrolls on Friday But first off before I get into the calendar and some of the news from the weekend Look at the charts from this morning. I'll see China Hong Kong closed a few other closures as well overnight in Asia Pacific region I think so relatively quiet and Leaning toward then the Dixie's pretty flat not much movement overall in the currency markets gold all T-notes Likewise for US index futures minor gap down But it's very moderate nothing too major and we're just sitting at above the pivot across all three major US Indices for the moment. I'll explain why there's been a slight negative reaction overnight markets It's to do with the latest China US trade talks which recommence later this week in Washington from Thursday The Dax actually as I'm just literally click the start button. It's just broken through The pivot level and the futures and the overnight Asia Pacific low points a bit of a run lower there in usual Dax fashion But in terms of the Overall kind of composition of the charts. I'd say it's relatively flat and slight negative from the overnight developments Getting straight into it then let's talk about the week ahead as I said, I'll talk about the fundamentals Sam will go on the charts but for the The morning rather than go through this by data Just want to jump straight into that main story that's causing a little bit of apprehension in the market And this is on Bloomberg came out overnight and it comes ahead as I said face-to-face talks the kind of senior Delegation from China is arriving in Washington. They're going to have talks on Thursday and Friday of this week Chinese officials are signaling that they are increasingly reluctant to agree to a broad trade deal Pursued by US President Donald Trump in meetings with US visitors to Beijing and Washington in recent weeks according to this report citing Unidentified sources and people close to the discussions Senior Chinese officials have indicated that the range of topics that they are willing to discuss has narrowed Considerably and so we continue to follow that, you know Ever since we had that targeted of the tech firms and the intellectual property stuff from from the US on China It really has switched quite dramatically and kind of the concession now coming of being fairly passive from China seems to have ended and Importantly and I think rightly so from a Chinese perspective Donald Trump is obviously facing these renewed calls and process and procedure behind a potential impeachment So if I was China, I definitely would follow the same tact I'd be going to these talks making noises that look I'm not going to make any type of concession at this point you're the one that needs to do that because statistically Trump although I see an impeachment as Incredibly unlikely The point being is that he's under a lot of pressure at the moment in media and just managing the kind of public perception About how he's dealing with a lot of other things and so it's a good time to press the president I feel if I was China saying so I don't find this particularly surprising And that I think is why I think that's a view shared At least at this point by the market I think that's why the the reaction effect overnight has been won But has been fairly small definitely would be more interested when the US come in And you start to see the volume is pick up to see how they respond So as we get to around 11 a.m. 11 30 a.m. Our time when the Americans start to come into their desk I'm interested to just see how the market reacts to this and the kind of classic movement would be a little bit of downside pressure for equities Perhaps a flight to quality support for the likes of gold and in US tenure Otherwise a quick run Back to the calendar and then we'll run through the the other headlines in terms of the actual session Today it is relatively quiet. There's nothing really major coming out we have Had German industrial orders Kind of fitting the narrative of late for the German economy minus zero point six percent against expected minus zero point three So a touch weaker, but no real Meaningful reaction. I wouldn't say the DAX reaction is to do with that data I mean it's come after that and the euros unfazed. I think that was just more technical You can see the DAX is already pulled back after that technical breach of the overnight Asia low So I think it's no more than that initial opening volatility The one thing you'll see on the calendar though here for Monday is that Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to meet his Irish Counterpart this week. So let's go to the Brexit update. What is going on here? Brexit deal prospects fade as talks stall the EU signals pessimism So French president Macron and the Irish PM for adca both signaled that they want progress by Friday The reason Friday is because time is running out before that EU summit which happens next week on Thursday and Friday the 17th and 18th And that's when that following weekend I next weekend UK law would have it that was passed in Parliament a few weeks ago that Boris Johnson would then need to pen a Letter to Brussels to ask for an extension now this in itself has brought about a lot of Contradiction from the Prime Minister of course of which I'm sure you're fully aware of He wrote in the Sun newspaper on Sunday that will be packing our bags and walking out But then he's also said that they'll obey a law passed by Parliament Compelling the Premier to request a Brexit delay if he can't get an agreement by the 19th So again, all of this is political posturing at this point I'm sure there's going to be lots more to come as I've said before from a calendar point of view I think towards the end of the week you'll start seeing some more meaningful market impactful headlines to do with Brexit because of this These deadlines that Europe abound Bounding about about trying to get a deal done by the end of the week Boris Johnson himself has also Self-imposed deadline if you like on himself for the of the 11th, which of course is this Friday So I'd say there's some Brexit moves and sensitivity in the pound to come But I wouldn't really foresee that until the end of the week all of this of course Will probably lead to the biggest Brexit movement politically if any over the weekend and then it's going to really heat up a Few notches by the beginning of this time next week because then that runs in Directly in toward the kind of decision point of whether or not he's going to have to ask for that extension Whether or not a deal can be achieved or not So I think this morning as you can see from the charts the pound is Relatively disinterested by the developments politically over the weekend. I think that's right but I do think you've got to kind of play this from the The timelines that you are aware of of which is Friday and then the following week for that You summit and I'd expect then the type of movement and volatility and news flow to pick up around those Affirmation timelines Back to the calendar other things then moving on from Monday Because that's pretty much it from Monday. So there's no major kind of high-ranking European UK Or US data Tuesday a little bit different though this time tomorrow will be looking for the updates for the Chinese trade Balance situation obviously always important to kind of get a flavor for house significant the current economic Phase is playing out in China given the weakness that's been observed as the trade war has escalated The German industrial production obviously that we've just seen This morning what that was industrial orders industrial production tomorrow, excuse me And then you get a the beginning of quite a large sequence of Fed speakers You remember last week. I think there's about 11 Fed speeches. This comes of course as the market as this Significantly reprised the prospects about the outcome for the meeting at the end of this month on the 30th of October That now the base case is for a rate cut Well, you get feds Powell Evans and Kashkari all speaking on Tuesday now talking of Fed speakers one thing I wanted to mention was Overnight you've had two people speak. You've had number one, which is Rosengren One of the dissenters of course from the last two Fed meetings has been of the belief that we should not have cut rates on either occasion So one of the most hawkish members of the FOMC and feds Rosengren said see slower growth But bullish on the US consumer and of course we know that that's being the general setup for The US economy of late kind of things like activity Manufacturing production these types of things have all been weakening fairly consistently in some cases quite quite significantly as well, but The consumer has held up to a relative degree But if confidence starts waning if the job situation starts Deteriorating so a matter of time you would imagine that the consumer does start to be impacted But for the moment Rosengren talking up the hawkish side of things Feds George then messed or Esther George also followed and said sees no need to ease unless slow down deepens So I just thought it was quite interesting because what we've had over the recent weeks as you're Aware of is this distinct re-pricing about the timing of when the Fed are gonna cut. We always knew that they were gonna cut However given How bad things like the ISM data points manufacturing non manufacturing then ADP then on farms as well Has played out particularly that really non-existent wage growth that we had in the payrolls report on Friday and The probability now of a rate cut in October as you can see from this blue line has radically changed over recent weeks Particularly last it went from 40 this time last week to now up towards 80 percent So I what I thought was quite interesting was that given how severe this has been It almost feels like the Fed has deployed two of the most hawkish members in Rosengren and George just to temper back perhaps a little bit of the markets natural and what normally is the case over extension of It's just buying into data and kind of reacting or overreacting to the point of pricing it in so Aggressively it's interesting to see whether or not that makes any difference. Of course We've got these other Fed speakers not only is power speaking on Tuesday speaks again on Wednesday We also get the FMC minutes on Wednesday night And so you get another Rosengren cat plan cash carry back on the on the tape as well on Friday So all of this of course comes into just really Trying to align market Expectations and I definitely think that all in all It's likely to remain the case that an October height and height of cuts. Excuse me still remains priced into markets Now moving on then beyond Tuesday Wednesday FMC minutes as just mentioned Thursday The main data point here I'd say is the US inflation readings the other key component of course Behind what decisions the Fed are going to make don't forget. It's not It's not always although. There's no projections updated coming out in the October meeting Of course, all of these speeches will be looking to kind of just build in the idea of what are they going to do? beyond the October cup and this idea of the mid-cycle adjustment and then probably one of the main Macro forces that will drive markets this week is going to be on Thursday and Friday And as you can see that is the resumption of the talks in Washington between the US and China But if the press this morning is anything to go by and I still think of course This will remain the case that they're likely to make very limited if any type of Headway in regard to the trade negotiation again, I think it's going to be one of those where it's they continue to just have The door open to having more talks in future rather than anything concrete being said or in fact done that in itself then is Subjected disruption from the fact that the Chinese have been quite aggressive here almost indirectly through these Bloomberg sources meaning that Trump typically tends to respond to this in one way and that's he he rises to the challenge and the more that there's a Breakdown foreseen by the market in this and it hasn't been Uncommon for talks scheduled for the end of the week to be completely called off At the beck and wall of Trump just saying you know it's off as he tries to reassert his dominance on the negotiation That does happen Again, we go into that kind of renewed phase at the trade war cycle and you could see renewed risk off trade materialized quite quite quickly The other headline I just wanted to point out this morning HSBC shares actually not a massive move this morning But I know a couple of you guys do look at the footsie 100 So I thought I just point out this headline which is that HSBC according to the FT you're going to cut up to 10,000 jobs in order to slash costs Did hear them talking about it a little bit this morning? I'm not sure if I heard it right, but they're talking about cost savings if in excess of a billion pounds so obviously meaningful does follow on from the likes of Deutsche Bank cutting what was it 18,000 jobs a few months ago I think Barclays socked Jen. They've all done the same thousands of job cuts particularly for HSBC Targeting in Europe given the fact that you know, they've long been pivoting towards Asia Where they generate almost 80% of their pre-tax profit in the first half of the year comes out of Asia alone So increasingly more important and less or so for Europe and hence just this restructuring in order to save costs Is what's been being touted this morning their share price the initial open obviously might have fluctuated since I last looked Since the initial opening price, but they were down negative by about percent originally at the open That's it really from me I don't think I really need to really go on longer than what is necessary The one thing I would say is just as I'm wrapping things up Gold is just broken lower. I'm not sure if there's a headline that's come out just while I've been talking I've obviously had to squawk off golds just rock Fairly quickly in the last couple of minutes as equities have just picked up You can see that kind of false breaking to the downside for the DAX again Absolutely nothing news driven certainly not on the back of that German data earlier You can see that wick extension just on the run through the Asia pack break and now we're looking for the gap fill Looking reversed to some of the price movement from this morning Similarly the the Dixie just picking up a bit of traction now one-tenth It's a bit of downside pressure just coming in as well on Euro Dorian cable For the moment, but I guess that's a good opportunity now for me to hand you over to Sam And he can look at the charts and the technical levels of significance for the weekend. Thanks very much guys Yeah, good morning We'll have a quick look over That moving in gold shortly and as the dollar just decides to strengthen this morning And just having a look at the the charts from last week that we put on to the strategy report and luckily for me It makes my job a bit easier that everything certainly currency wise is pretty much contained within the same levels that it was On those longer term charts from last week and just to put that into picture now here with the euro You can see relatively small range. Obviously, that's nothing new and surprising for the euro But it was contained very much within the levels we had marked up to the top side We were looking here at the low the 24th and once twice just could not get above and looks like a great level too I've got short and the failed Push higher shall we say obviously pushing to the downside The beginning of last week only to recover but can't get quite above there now And I would obviously look to have a couple of trend lines on from the top it for any Potential bigger push to the upside later on but at the moment doesn't seem like that's going to be the case that The 24th holding price action and with the pound before we come back and look a bit more intraday on The the euro you can see kind of similar We did push higher, but then last week we just couldn't get back above what was the similar level that low the 24th so really key point for Currencies the lower the 24th on the pound and the Euro as well just looking here now on a 240 chart you can see from those last few loads of The days or whatever we're not far away from coming to test that lower part of that trend line Certainly something I would look to to have on there as this dollar is just strengthening a touch So that could well come into play and about 10 ticks or so So one for the pound certainly to have marked up there and looking even lower time frame 60 minutes just to Confirm that trend line. Let's just make it as Perfect as it needs to be there we go You can see if that was to break well then suddenly 123 lower Friday and Thursday could come in relatively quickly From that point of view to the upside as well Here we are, you know also getting squeezed in we pushed higher this morning only to be confirmed Another trend line from the top that we just could not get above So something has to happen here for the pound pivot and that trend line key resistance trend line to the downside Important for support euro as mentioned couldn't get back above one ten forty nine You can see the two fail tests there and with this dollar strength that we've seen We're coming back to what has been an important level We talked about in non-farms and also each briefing just around this zone here if you like one ten twenty Can't confirm a 60 minute break below So when we've been above it has acted as good support So here now a key level to keep a watch on and also where would the third test be of the last couple of days? I'm pretty much in that that level as well So both the euro and pound coming to key levels and certainly one third to keep an eye on with that dollar strength as and mentioned Gold there strengthening. I mean weakening sorry with the dollar strength key level. I would say to their to the downside Here looking at 1500 you've got yesterday's low Friday's large to say Thursday's in the mix there as well And also today's s1 Pretty important level and you can see just over the last two Full day trading session. So that's where I'd have marked up there for gold. Of course with moves like this Always worked has been a bit patient You know the volume is not really going to be there for gold for a massive move low about any retracement So I'll be keeping an eye on some of the support from Friday But of course, you know this morning as well. So you can also see Technically we broke this trend line and this is now looking five minutes But you can just see how well that was respected this morning one two three And you get the break so of course looking at a retest of that area for a level of Resistance with gold coming low with the dollar strengthening. We have to see in equities just push to the upsides I keep an eye of course literally where we're trading now a confirmed break maybe above here on the five minutes We've got a minute left of Eight where before 8 30 you could be you know start to talk about the potential for a gap close Obviously we get lower and this was a market where if we were looking right on the clothes of of Friday as a ball you'd be pretty happy to close back above You know albeit very very slightly back above 2945 was was pretty key So if we can get back above there Then I'm you know definitely a lot more confident about this market going high Of course a lot can happen in the day and the week and that gap feel just above where we're trading now will be Important if we can get back up to 49 29 49 50 and close above there for the day That would be a job well done for the bulls looking for the bears to take over and it'd be to bring in the pivots Again, you can already see those key levels to the upside You know I think you're anything if we may have a down day I would say you'd feel pretty pretty comfortable in In this market moving lover. I'd say to the downside 29 26 is a pretty key level before we get down to some more important zones Around 29 14 there would be two levels of interest that I would have marked up As well so stocks looking similar across the board So have a quick look over how the DAX has started Monday morning. You can see it's actually tried Try to get back above to fill that gap I'll be keeping an eye on the DAX if looking at US stocks as well The fact that we have just you know trying now to close above Where we open the week is pretty key. Of course the first retest of that gap. We're looking for potential So resistance there to come in quick look over at oil and you can see Private we came to try and test what was a key level following The move lower in the week We just couldn't confirm a break above and and that has been pretty important from a technical point of view So I'd still have it marked up here Although we did spike through just pretty much on these highs here Which were the low that we had back on the first of the month fifty three dollars and change to the upside would be a Level to be focusing on you can see just how steep we've come down as well So I've been looking for some potential trend lines, you know coming up from here only for that sort of Third or potential third test and that will be you know from this one anyway looking around the R1 Which is also then law for looking at the breakdown that we had on the second before that move lower So some interesting levels for oil also from the low that we had I'll be looking to have that trend line on can we get a third test of that and then that could obviously lead to a Decent break lower that also coming in at the moment Anyway on where is the current low of the day fifty two fifty eight for oil as well Of course as usual we'll we'll get some of these charts out around midday in the strategy for those that You know just follow Bitcoin. I'm sure you know this already But just having a look at this market and you can see following last week's Push lower we're now trading below eight thousand obviously it's open 24 hours But on the future is not so much and a big gap lower from 8207 8% wise You can see a 4.3 percent move to the downside obviously on that day on the 24 the important 24 15% lower See worth keeping an eye on there for those that do trade it just coming under a bit of pressure As well this this morning as usual any questions obviously, please do let us know the dollars strengthening a touch stocks looking for that gap Feel gold not far away from 1500 again It seems like a magnet at the moment while making that decision Other than that I guess it'd be a case of just being a bit patient You've seen the calendar already is as quite a quiet one big things to come Later this week. I hope you'll have a good trading date and a great week ahead


From the SiliconANGLE Media office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, and welcome to a special presentation of theCUBE here in our Boston area studio. Happy to welcome back to the program, Lasvec Ureides, who's the CTO and co-founder of ClearSky Data, also a Boston area company. Las, thanks for joining me. Yeah, thanks for having me. So Las, we're going to go through a few things here.  I first met you when we were both working on virtualization technology, well over a decade ago. So I want to dig into kind of the state of some of the things that are going on. Then of course, I want to talk about what you're hearing from customers, the update from your company, who we've been tracking you since you came out of stealth. We had Ellen back on the program a few months ago, and you got a really, solving a really interesting problem out there that many of us have been watching and looking at and hacking at for a lot of our careers. Sure. So first of all, yeah, tell me, what's the latest with you? What's keeping you busy? And how are things at the company? Well, so we've been very busy. So first week, first year of selling, really. And so we're collecting our first round of customers, trying to understand what their needs are, trying to understand their pain points, really trying to identify what the sweet spot is for our technology. And it's a great learning experience. It keeps you up at night, but it's been extraordinarily interesting for me because you're starting to see a lot of the things that we suspected over time would happen or are happening and you see the angst as people have to make a shift in the way they think about technology and there's always a continuous path for them to get from where they are to where they need to go. And so we're having a lot of really interesting discussions and we've been updating the product and believe it's the service that we provide and the technology has been expanded substantially over the course of the last year. Great. And we're gonna, I think we're gonna unpack some of that a little bit, but let's start on some of those. Use word like product and services and some of the big shifts that are going in the marketplace. Let's start with storage. So storage is, I said, maybe we got beyond it being storage, but the things I say, I worked at a large storage company for 10 years. I'm a networking guy by background. And I said, hey guys, I'm sorry, no matter what the coolest technology you're gonna have, it's never gonna be sexy. But what do you see happening? What's the big trend in storage today? What's driving customers you're talking to and as you think about the technology area, what's the state of storage? Oh, state of storage is, so depending on where you sit in the storage ecosystem, you may be ready to slit your wrists right now or not. So the fact is that the marginal cost of storing a byte of data is going to zero. And we knew this all along, right? So you basically have an entire ecosystem of people that basically sell bytes and the cost per byte is going down. So the density of storage is gone up so fast so quickly that you can't help but have a reduction in revenue. And so everything has become really coin operated. And so you see that, you can see the acquisition of Nimble very recently. Everyone's getting bought, if you consider yourself a storage company, you're getting bought or your product is getting bought for a very less interesting multiple, I should say, than maybe two or three years ago. Yeah, so I guess it was fair to say you did think that the era of the standalone storage company has passed. Yes, yes. And of course we look at the largest player in storage market got acquired slash merged. So EMC, biggest acquisition in the IT space with Dell. So they are no longer a storage company they're now part of a much broader portfolio and all the companies are figuring out how do I deal with cloud? How do I deal with kind of the changing legacy? What new solutions and areas get me into kind of my data, my applications and interesting things that I can do with that information as opposed to just storing the data. That's right. And so that's a lot of what we have been talking about. Our vision was always about access to your data. And we always saw a place where you'd never be limited to one location. And the cloud has kind of forced that on us. And the clouds are actually in specific places. They're in Virginia and they're in Portland. So whether or not you thought you had a second data center you actually do if you're in the cloud and your data has a lot of inertia and the world is really rapidly gonna become aware of the inertia of your data. So if you want to spin up all that cheap compute in Amazon to work on a problem how do you get the data there? You could spin up an infinite number of cores there but for an infinite number of cores you need a really, really large footprint for them to work on. Moving a petabyte is a very difficult thing. And so you're not gonna do that. And the current state of infrastructure does not allow you to make these types of choices and to be that nimble.  You're never gonna want to move it. Yes, so what is your viewpoint on cloud today? And I guess specifically want to talk about the public clouds. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM has a show. They're doing some things with it. Oracle making their push into cloud. But there's a small number of the big public cloud guys and then of course, I mean they're service providers. There's people that are allowing other clouds to exist but the big clouds and how does storage fit into that discussion? Well, so the big clouds, the whole notion of cloud it's about optionality. It's about being able to turn things on and off anytime you really want it. And the optionality of having multiple clouds or multiple sources of infrastructure is not there yet. And so you're seeing a lot of really interesting, at least we are in our sales process. We're seeing a lot of really interesting consternation with respect to a couple of weeks ago, Amazon S3 went down for some ungodly amount of time. Everyone is thinking about, well, how do I manage that? If I was sole sourced on S3, my entire IT would be down for five hours right now. What would that be like? And so we're kind of heading into this multi-cloud world just from a requirement of durability and reliability. But you're also seeing that the cloud vendors are differentiating themselves in various ways either with creative pricing or creative infrastructure. And so how do you get data there? And so the new architecture for infrastructure is going to require this sort of more agile infrastructure that allows you to take your data and put it where it needs to be crunched and then move it somewhere else where somebody else might want to touch it. And that's a hard thing to do. And a lot of what we're trying to do in Clear Sky is try to enable that vision and also take away some of the more mundane problems that customers have. Typically part of the problem is that you have primary storage, you have secondary storage, you have backup storage, you have DR, you have all sorts of things. That makes moving stuff around even more difficult. And so being able to just have a bucket that is your safely protected encrypted data that you can access from anywhere is not possible today for a lot of these guys. So I think it makes sense that we allow you to talk a little bit about what you're doing because you went through a bunch of pieces and I agree with much of it. When we talk to users out there and you say, hear everything, it's like, oh, the state of the world today is hybrid. And you say, okay, what does that mean? It means I have some applications that I'm doing SAS with. I have some applications I have in my own data center or in my hosted environment to something that I understand the infrastructure stack underneath it and I built an application on top of it. And then I'm using one or more public clouds out there and how much am I using just base things like just compute or storage or how much am I going up the stack there and how do I get my arms around all of that, all of those applications, all of those data? There are lots of companies and lots of people dealing with it because we had, somebody wrote for Wikibon a couple of years ago and it was like, well, it's composite cloud. And it's really, it's not hybrid, it's like, I buy at the CVS and at my grocery store and multiple grocery stores and I buy from Amazon and sometimes I'll buy from other place. I'm not a hybrid shopper. I might get a credit card bill that tells me where all my shopping went but how do I manage that as a family? So it's really not hybrid because it's not really orchestrated well and that management and orchestration it sure as heck isn't simple today and how much am I trading a certain kind of operational paradigm for a different one and public cloud is just getting more complicated as time goes on. So how do you, what are you hearing from your customers? What's the pain that they have? How are you helping them to solve at least, what parts of those problems are you helping to solve? Well, so that was actually a really, really apt analogy by the way because the way I think about it is that if there was only one drug store in your neighborhood and the roads were really bad, you would be by necessity always going to the same place. What makes it possible for you to be a hybrid shopper in that word world is you have a car, you have clear roads, you have sort of a friction-free experience, right? Today the friction is too high. I have deliveries today and Boston now has one hour delivery for some stuff and drones are coming sometime in the future so. The friction in the marketplace or the friction to switch things is very high at this point and that plays into our vision. If you look at, when we talk to customers in the enterprise, we always talk about these things. Curiously, there's also a lot of mundane stuff that we talk about along the lines of data protection and just essentially making things resilient for them because a lot of what they, the difference between buying a $300 disk drive and putting your data on it and enterprise requirements is durability and reliability and availability, right? And so they have a real bizarre patchwork of ways that they achieve this and it's incredibly expensive today. So it just makes it that much difficult.  You can't just make another copy of your data. And you guys are in an interesting intersection, you know? When I worked at a storage company, I'm a networking guy by background and I worked on that whole thing we called storage networking. And the reason we created a separate network for storage is because storage group and the network group didn't necessarily play together and the storage team wanted to control things like, you know, performance and latency and all this stuff. So if I could build it all together and have something bespoke, but when I go to this multi-cloud world, I need to understand how the storage and the network all fit together and of course that's where you guys live. So how's the world different today? How are you guys solving that? Because as we said, storage is a service with networking really as the enabler. Yes, that's right. Well, so while we raised $39 million, I keep saying we didn't raise enough money to change the speed of light. So maybe it'll happen at IBM, I don't know. But we are very, very focused on building a very, very high-speed data path that can be solely focused on moving data around. And we're focused on fixing latency problems. We're not gonna be on the internet anytime soon. You just can't do this, there isn't enough bandwidth. And just like that storage network that was very, very focused on a single purpose inside the Enterprise Data Center, we're doing something that's external that has a similar focus, which is to move data around. And this is a requirement and it's actually a piece of infrastructure that is possible to build today. I think if we tried to do this 10, 15 years ago, the cost equation would have been substantially different, we would have given up. But now it's possible to do it and there's also a set of technologies that we're using to make it more amenable to this type of application. So we have a network, we have a unique data management stack which takes advantage of the network to create a performance profile that is pretty much the same as local storage. And because we're starting to build out endpoints all over the place, you wanna access your data in Amazon, we can do that. You wanna access your data from Virginia or New York and you're in Boston, we can enable that as well. So it's the same thing, only much grander in terms of what a storage network really, really is intended for. It's there to allow you to exercise options about how you consume data and what applications can use data. And more importantly, since latency is very important, where, physically where, because your users actually do experience latency and they're not happy about it and your compute does as well. Yeah, so maybe I think it would be helpful if you could talk about some of those applications cause it reminds me of say what Citrix Net Scaler does to help with access to certain kind of, if I'm an end user and I'm doing mobility and I need to have access, I wanna be able to have the same response on my mobile device as I had sitting on my laptop in a server that was directly attached pretty close. So understand shrinking, not change the speed of light but making sure I've got the network bandwidth and the application response that I need. So what are some of those kind of use case and applications that you can share? So we spent a lot of time selling to folks that are doing analytics. So analytics workloads are particularly interesting because they're enormous and they're also highly tiered and you need to have, in order to crunch this data, you really need to have very, very low latency and very, very high throughput at least to the compute so that you can actually build these enormous indexes to complicate matters. When you're doing something like internet of things, things don't understand traffic jams. They're just gonna keep dumping data at you. So if you're getting two or three or four or five terabytes a day, that's quite a fire hose of data. So an application like that is a really interesting one for us because we have this really, really gigantic pipe that goes out to the cloud where last I heard there is infinite storage or they won't run out anytime soon or else we're all in trouble. And so there's always a place for that data to go and using our clever caching algorithms, there's always enough data there close by the compute that you can do your crunching. So the cost benefit of using a network like ours is very, very high there because you have a single endpoint that you're using at your data storage. So I'm curious because there's a big discussion that's been happening kind of the last maybe year at this is and Wikibon's David Floyd has actually been writing a lot about the edge compute requirement because there's certain things. Think about the windmill. I don't have network connectivity or I've got all these devices where I need to make that immediate action. So I need to have some compute there and do things but then some data will go back to the cloud. So how do you parse that? What happens at the edge? What goes back there? How are you getting inserted? Are there some big partners? Amazon is looking at this. Some of the other, everybody's looking. Cisco, anybody that's involved, when Peter Levine wrote like cloud computing is dead because it's all going to be at the edge, it was like, okay, wait, we need to rethink. Data center is changing, edge is changing, cloud is changing. I mean, we know that's the only constant intact right is change. So where do you fit in that equation of? Well, so we are the transport. We are fundamentally the way you actually can get access to the data. And so if you're collecting typical splunk like or log, we also partnered with Elasticsearch. I mean, these types of applications, you're collecting a lot of data at the edge and you need to aggregate it at some point. So what are the aggregation points that's local? That's very low latency. That's very, very fast. That provides you that landing pad where you could do your initial processing. We also can provide you with another high performance sort of a processing point in the cloud. So you can do pre-processing, post-processing, using a single platform. You don't have to make two copies of the data. And that's, when you're talking about 10 terabytes a day or something like that, that's a pretty expensive footprint that you have to duplicate in two places. And not to mention the plumbing and all the other things that need to happen in order for that to be real. And so we can just enable that as just a byproduct of what we do. And so it's very attractive. There are other scenarios. We've here in the Boston Medical Community, there's a lot of folks doing genomic research where you have more enormous data footprints. So we've talked to a lot of people that have the same types of data management problems where you have machines. In this case, they're medical imaging scanners and things like that, that are generating huge amounts of data that get crunched. And that data needs to be shared or it needs to be used in the cloud at some point in the future. Because you can't really have a giant farm of compute sitting around idle waiting for the opportunity to be used. And so those are the kinds of use cases that I see as the classic, I call them classic edge computing use cases because you have that need for low latency. We have a fire hose of data being generated way out in the edge where the thing is or where the people are. And you have that latency problem. The other thing that's interesting about this and we haven't really talked about it is that the internet is not really appropriate for sending a lot of this stuff. There isn't enough bandwidth really for uploads. It's kind of optimized for downloads which is coincidentally how we all use it. So, you need infrastructure like this. And so that's the classic use case for us. Great, we're going to be talking about how high depth video can get a faster end to be even better. Yes. If you want to upload it, sure. Absolutely, we want to stream it. We want to do lots of stuff with it. Great, so I guess last piece is, talk about what's exciting you in the industry. We always get excited to kind of the next big tool, containerization, serverless technology. Where does that fit into the discussion and how does that change the discussion of data and application modernization? So, we're slowly creeping up the stack. So, we're a data management company not really like what a typical storage company does. And so we're creeping up the stack. The thing that is really interesting to us right now are technologies that are more abstracting of the underlying infrastructure. So, Docker is one of those. Certainly, the serverless compute vendors, although that's so fragmented right now, I find myself, I really wish that there was some VMware-like entity that was the serverless computing company that we could just all go and integrate with and make it all happen. But I don't see that right now. We've got AWS Lambda and I think we have at least three open source solutions that I'm aware of right now. And they're working on it still very early. Yes, but managing state in those environments is a very, very difficult thing because ultimately, that's what we do. We manage state and we fix it so your state is always present.  And that's a missing piece of the Docker foundation today. And so there's a big opportunity there and that's really exciting to us. But Docker's mature enough where you can actually say, well, okay, that's likely to be one of one or two players that are gonna be available and are gonna have an addressable market that you could attack serverless compute. As you said, it's hard to be the state for Amazon today, just not built that way. But the other players, they're open source solutions and they don't have as much traction. I'm curious when I think about kind of how the network and things move in there, wonder if it comments on VMware NFV and I'm not NFV, NSX, sorry. And like Kubernetes, which ties into the container piece but also one of the things they talk about is if I've got multiple clouds, Kubernetes has supported it all the public clouds and OpenStack and locks the environment. So either of both of those if you have how those fit in. And we fit in wonderfully in those kinds of environments because what we enable is the state to move, really large amounts of data. So one of the things that we found interesting is that folks are using containers for a lot of the stateless portions of the applications but if you have the lifeblood of the enterprise is databases, right? They have these big, huge, either structure or unstructured databases and huge data footprints. Putting that in a container is kind of an oddity right now and their folks are trying to work on how to actually do that but consider a world where you can just treat a database as a containerized thing and you can just move it from one piece of compute to another, another one location to another. That's a very, very exciting thing to me. It makes me wanna go out and build something right now. In fact, maybe we're doing that. So. Excellent. Last one to give you the final word. Any specific jobs you guys are hiring for or things that you'd say people out there in the industry, it's like, hey, if you're having, if you have this, come talk to us. Well, so we are in the middle of our sales ramp. So we're all about hiring, really talented, go to market and certainly account executives. So, you know, tweet at me if you're in any of the territories where we have an actual point of presence. And there are a few places like the West Coast where we might have one very, very shortly where I'd love to talk to you if you're out there. All right, great. And last, always great catching up with you. We expect to hear lots more updates coming out as product enhances, customers are growing and congratulations on the progress so far. Always great to talk with you here and online. So, thanks for joining us for this segment and you've been watching theCUBE.


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So now we're here to wrap up our series on how to make a digital scan model of the solar system that uses scratch. In this video, we're going to use the orbital period values from that NASA planetary fact sheet. That just means the number of days that a planet takes to orbit around the sun. We'll also incorporate that with some relative distances to create a simulation of what that might look like. Now remember, this is just a model, it's not perfect, it's just there to give you some visual understanding of how this might work. Because those large distances, they're really hard for my head to comprehend.  But let's go and complete our voyage around the sun in just a sec. Hello world, Surfing Scratcher here, Teacher's Surfer Programmer and on this channel, I help curious owners just like you along on your learning journeys. In this video, we're going to take our planets that we've constructed in previous videos and get them orbiting around the sun. If you're just jumping into this tutorial, go check the description for a link to a starter project. And there's also a link to the playlist up in the top right hand corner coming your way. You won't need the project to work along with me, but it's going to make your life a lot easier. Okay, so let's dive into it. First things first, you're going to need to go down in the description and click on the link for this NASA planetary fact sheet that we've been using. And the two columns that we're interested in is the distance from the sun and the orbital period, which is just the number of days the planet takes to go around the sun. And these are Earth days. Once you've found this file, I want you to open up a text editor. I've just got text edit here on the Mac, but any plain text editor will do. I'm just going to change that to plain text. I'm going to go back to my fact sheet here. And I'm just going to shift, click all these values and copy them, control or command C, head back over to text edit. And I'm going to paste those values in. Got my values here, then I'm going to save it. And you'll see I've already got it listed here as distances. So I'm just going to overwrite that for now and replace it. That's good. Close it. Do the same thing with your orbital days. Copy, you text edit and save that one. We're going to save this one as orbit days. Boom. Now that we've got our data, let's head back over to scratch. Now that we're back over here in scratch, I want you to click on the variable so that you can access the lists and let's make some new lists. We'll call one distances, call this one orbit days. Great. So we've got our two new lists here. Now what we want to do is right click and import and locate that text file that you saved. Just make sure that you've got the match. So this is the distances text, right click, import for the orbit days and import the data. Cool. So we've got our data in here. Now it's not to use it. I'm just going to have a look over here at the comment that I've created. And this is sort of the blueprint of what I'm hoping to achieve here. So we've just gone ahead and imported all the NASA data. You'll recall that this application runs on different states and we need to add a new state for the orbits for currently in a gravity state. So do that. I'm going to head over to the backdrops. I'm just going to make this a little bit smaller so we can see what's going on. There we go. So let's click on the variables and create a new variable. We're going to call this the state underscore orbit scroll down. Going to grab a set block. We're going to set state underscore orbit to whatever you want, but I'm calling it orbit. We've been using our key presses. I've just duplicated one of those blocks. I'm going to scroll down and make this the number four. And we're going to set that to the state underscore orbit. I'm going to do something that's going to look a little bit strange. It will make sense soon. I'm going to grab a, when the green flag is, click block, then grabbing a forever block. Then we'll get an if condition. Now condition, we want to see if state is equal to the state underscore orbit. And when it is, we want to broadcast the message. In the message we want to broadcast, I'm going to call orbit planets. And what this block is going to do, it's going to send a message to anyone who's listening to it and all of our planets are going to listen to this whenever we're in a state of orbiting. The reason I'm doing this way is so I don't have to have a forever block in every single planet. I'm just doing it centrally here in the stage. Now I'm just going to hide these lists because we don't really need to see them. I'll also hide that state underscore orbit. Just going to click the green flag here and press the number four. And you can see we're now in the orbit state, which is great. Now we've got all the planets lined up here, but what we want is we want our planets lined up from the center because we're going to create a sun and we're going to space them out the relative distance to each other. So we can't have a relative size with a relative distance as we saw when we created the distance sprite here. Those distances are quite large relative to their size. So we can put the relative distances between them. The sizes will be funky, but we can also put the relative orbit times. And that's what we're going for in this particular view.  Currently we've got the when the state has changed and we're going to set the size. So we're going to set a constant size for when we're in the orbit state to do that. I'm just going to grab an if block. I'm just going to do the check to see if the state is equal to orbit. And I'm going to grab that if block and put it up the top of our conditions here. And then we do something a little bit sneaky. Our state is equal to orbit. Then I want to stop this script. And what this will do is it will stop executing the rest of the instructions because what would happen if we didn't do this, it would skip over this one because state is not equal to scale, but it would execute this size. And I don't want that to happen. So we can execute the business inside this block sandwich and then quit this script. And what I'm wanting to do here is set a size. So I'm just going to duplicate these blocks. I'm not going to worry about the x value for now. And I'm just going to set a size here. We've got a constant default planet size. And I'm going to change this to a new constant and make a new variable. I'm going to call it orbit planet size in all caps. I'm going to scroll down. I'm going to set it to 1.5. So basically this will be 100 times 1.5. Then I'm going to right click and select that variable quickly jump back over to the stage and just make sure that when I'm setting up all these constants that I set up the orbit planet size as well. Cool. Let's jump back into Mercury. So now if I press number four on the keyboard, you can see that Mercury has gone to a really tiny size. And that's what we're looking for. Now I've just duplicated that code block. I'm going to drag and drop it over each of the planets. I'll go inside of a planet and I will just attach that if blocked to the top of set size. I'm going to do that for all the planets. And you go ahead and do that too. Cool. That only took a minute. I'm going to press number four and you can see all of our planet sizes has tripled down. I'll go back to this third state and we've blown the back up when we're in the gravity state. So that's just what we're looking for. This next step is easy peasy. I've just created a sun sprite, drawn a circle, set it at 0x and 0y. And when we receive the state has changed, I'm checking to see if we're in that orbit state and then I'm just showing it if we are and hiding it if we're not. Now let's get all these planets and spacing that with their relative distances to each other. On the screen, I've just got our distances list back up and I've also got the grid backdrop happening here. The way this is going to work is we know that the X width from the center to the edge of the stage is 240. And we want to put our planet with the longest distance away from the sun. So this would be Pluto here, pretty close to the edge of the stage. We basically want to calibrate it. So 5,900 and million miles. But I'd have to check that. We want to say this number is equal to around about 230. We want to say Mercury up here is going to be pretty close to the sun, but we don't want it right on the sun. We want it about here. So I'm going to compensate for about 10 or so pixels. And the way that we'll do that is by using some simple division. And this is our formula. We're going to take the planet distance. So this is going to be the variable that changes. And we're going to divide that against the longest distance. So to give you an example, the smallest distance is going to be Mercury. And if we divide Mercury by Pluto, we're going to get a value that's really close to zero. If we get the longest distance and we divide it by itself, or we know if we divide anything by itself, we just get the number one. And then what we can do is we can use multiplication. So we can times one by say 220. And that will give us a value around about 220. And when we're close to zero, this number is going to be much closer to zero. And then what I'm going to do just to bump it a little bit away from the sun when it's really close to zero, I'm just going to shift it by a constant of say 10 pixels. So the maximum x is going to be 230 and the minimum will be 10. So let's turn this into scratch code blocks. So we want to find the planet distance of Mercury. Now we know it's the first value of our distances list. So to access that, we can get the item number planet names. The planet we're interested in is Mercury. If I click that, we'll get number one, because we want to refer to the first item in the distances list. Then we want to take that index that we just got and get that item number of distances. If I click this, we should get 57.9. Now we've got our planet distance. Let's get our longest distance. If we just duplicate this code block, we'll get the item of Pluto. And we click this, we get the plutonium value. Last thing we need to do is get our division block here. Let's work that in. I click this block, we get a number that's really close to zero. And if I change this to Pluto and I click it, we get a number that's one. Okay, now we need to do the multiplication. So let's grab a multiplication block. And hey, you'd probably want this as a constant value because it'll be really painful to update if we want to change this. But I'm going to leave it at 220 for now. And then I'm going to whack that code block inside. And you can see this block is getting pretty long. But now if I click it, it's equal to 220 for Pluto. And then when we set it to Mercury, it's equal to two. The last thing we want to do is just add the shifted amount. So we're not always on top of the sun. What we need to do there is grab an addition block, grab that number 10, and combine all those blocks together. Now, these two values, like I said, you probably want them as a constant because I don't want to have to go through and change the number 10 for all of these. So I'm just going to go ahead and quickly do that. And the process is just the same for the orbital default size that we set earlier in the video. You see, I've just done that with max width and sunshift. And I've also created one in the future for our max height. So now that we have this code block, we can go ahead and use our orbit event. So when we receive orbit planets, let's set the x position to this block. And then for now, we're just going to set the y position to zero. Now, if we make this a little bit bigger, you can see that Mercury has taken up its position next to the sun here. Now it looks like it's a little bit far from the sun. So I can go ahead and change that sunshift value to say around five, click the green flag and look, it's pretty close to the sun. And I'm happy with that. Now I'm not going to duplicate this across the other planets yet, because I think we'll actually get this planet orbiting around the sun. And then we can copy this code block across to the rest. We're going to be using some trigonometry to help us out. I'm not going to go through it in depth in this tutorial. Go check the card in the top right corner for a deep explanation on how this will work. Okay, so let's go execute this plan. First thing we need to do going to make a variable. And it's very important that we make it for this sprite only going to call it orbit angle. What will happen here is when we drag and drop this onto other sprites, it will recreate that variable automatically for us, making our labs a little easier. Now this variable orbit angle is going to tell us what amount of degrees the planet is around the sun. Recall that for a full orbit of a circle, it's going to be 360 degrees. We're just going to make that one planetary year. So what we can do is get our orbital days list and we can take that 360 degree value and divide it by the orbit days. We'll get larger angle amounts of the mercury and we'll get really small amounts for Pluto. To get a reference to our orbit days list here, I'm just going to duplicate this code block and we're going to get the mercury planet name and we're going to get the orbit days. I'll click this and you see we get 88. Then we'll grab a division block. We're just going to hard code in 360. This one's not going to change. I'm not going to worry about a constant for this. If I click this, you'll see that the angle amount that we get is four. Now this four is just an arbitrary number, but I'm going to treat it as an angle amount. So you can think of this as 4.09 degrees. I'm going to get a change block. Then we're going to change the orbit angle. We're going to change the orbit angle by this block that we've just created. Then I'll grab an if block. We're going to check to see if the orbit angle is greater than 360 degrees. And if it is, we need to set the orbit angle to the orbit angle value mod 360. And what the mod operator does here is it just divides whatever the orbit angle is by 360 and that just leaves us with the remainder. Now you can see when I click this code block, we can see our orbit angle increasing. And I've just set the orbit angle to 357. I'll click this block again. And you can see it's reset it to one degree, which is awesome. And I'm going to grab this code block and attach it to when I receive all the planets. And you can see our orbit angle is updating and resetting back to zero. Next, it's trick time into grab out this ABS operator block, click the drop down and find where it says cause and the angle that we're interested in, that's orbit angle. If I click this now, you'll see it keeps updating and it's going to oscillate between values of one and negative one. What we can do with that is multiply it by a constant value. And the constant value that we want to use is the X values that we discovered earlier in the video. So I'm going to grab a multiplication block here.  And then we can whack that inside the X. And you can see Mercury kind of looks like it's orbiting around the sun, but just behind the sun. It's kind of being a bit cheeky here. So we also need to do this for the Y value. What we can do is really just duplicate this code block and change a couple of things in it. Instead of cause, we want to focus on the sign. And let's just scroll across to where we see max width, because we don't want the max width. We want the max height. Okay, we're not quite done. We just need to put that inside the set Y. And now you can see Mercury is orbiting around the sun. Now I'm going to grab this code block and I'm going to drag and drop it onto Venus.  It's a bit of a mess.  And wherever I see a Mercury reference, I'm going to change that to Venus. And there you have it for very little work. We've also got Venus orbiting around the sun as well. And you can see it's going at a much slower rate than what Mercury is. And there you have it. I've gone ahead and just dragged and dropped all those code blocks onto every other planet and just changed these three variables here to correspond to the planet that it's on. You can see that they move at a snail's pace. And I can set a challenge for you to see if you could speed it up. And the hint would be you do that in your change orbit angle code block. And you probably just want to increase the move amount. And there you have it. That is how you can create relative orbit values and move amounts for each of the planets that are sort of spaced to their relative distances as well. Of course, the planet sizes, they're not relative as they're all clambering into each other here into the inner solar system. And on that, another extension idea that you can do is maybe create some different states. You create an inner solar system orbit state and an outer solar system orbit because you can see it's all kind of bunched up and sort of hard to see here. Another extension idea could be to grab the pen tool and trace the path of the orbit. That would look pretty cool. If you really want to get gnarly about it, you could move the X position of the sun because I believe it also has a little slight orbit as well. But that's where we're going to leave this tutorial. I hope you enjoyed this series of making a digital solar system model using a scratch. I'd also encourage you to have a look at the NASA planetary fact sheet again and seeing if there's some other values here that you could replicate in your digital scale model because you know how to make states so you can create different views. You know, I'm thinking about mass. How could you do that? Thinking about the length of the day, so maybe you get some rotation values and perhaps you could even do the temperature. You're really limited by what you can think of with this. Down below in the description, I'll leave a link to a scratch studio where you can post your version or your digital solar system and hey, tag me and let me know if you went ahead and you created some different values because I would be really keen to see them. I hope you enjoyed this series. I will catch you in another one.