That's why we welcome in Melissa Armo, founder, owner of the stocks whoosh. Let's start with today's market performance. So what were you thinking when you were looking at today's market action? I mean, for at one point the Dow was down over 900 points. It improved some as a matter of fact, all the major averages improved some and the Nasdaq even moved into the green. What were you watching and what were you thinking? Well, when I get up this morning, I wasn't really surprised that we were down because my expectation for the entire last week and really since the beginning of September was that September was going to be a bearish month for the market. Now, why did I think this? One, just looking at fundamentals, I know people like that, even though I look at technicals, you have the election coming up, the market just came off making brand new all-time highs. You have many, many reasons here why the market may not continue higher, even though it's still in an uptrend in the next month or two weeks, let's say, to the end of September. Also, when I look at the technicals, we gapped down this morning and this wasn't a nothing gap down. This was a significant gap down in the market, specifically what I'm watching is the spy. So that's the symbol for the ETF for the S&P. So I'm watching that and the reason I'm watching that is because there's more stocks in that than there is in the Nasdaq and also in the Dow and also I feel like the Nasdaq is over-weighted with Apple. So when Apple gapped down today, people love Apple. They love buying it. Oh, it's down a lot. We'll buy it. It's a great price long term to buy this. So when Apple rallied today, the QQQ's rallied with it, but the spy still fell, Boeing still fell, the Diamond still fell, which is the ETF for the Dow. So you have a lot of drag on the market. Now, last week, what I was watching for an indicator was Amazon. I was really watching Amazon last week. I watched it break, break, break, break, break. That is lower and I still like the overall market lower. This week, I can't tell you the exact second that we fall again, but I will tell you this, if we gap down anywhere, anywhere at all tomorrow, we don't even have to gap down that much tomorrow. In other words, if we don't hold this rally into the close, which I don't think we hold between now and Friday, we gap down anywhere tomorrow, we're going to sell off again. The volatility is going to go up like this because it's going to be very tricky because people did buy today. One, you had short covering today from the shorts that sold off from Friday into Monday and then on the day today, two, you had people buying because people love to buy the dip, but I do not think this is a dip I would buy. That's also not what I look at. And I really think that there's no reason here to think whatsoever at all. The market is going to push through all the selling that's happened since like September 2nd, September 3rd. Yeah. And here's the Amazon chart right here. So you could see the more turquoise color is the 50 D moving average. And just like the Nasdaq and the S&P 500, we see Amazon breaking down below that 50 days. So the question is whether or not it turns around. What's next when you look at that? I know you have JPMorgan and Boeing too, but the quick thought here is you looked at that chart of Amazon. Well, right. I looked at Amazon because Amazon's got a long way to drop.  I mean, Amazon can drop 100 points in a day and you're not going to have that sector, that big sector, that tech sector hang on when you've got Amazon, which is the big guy fall. So even Apple will turn around when that turns around. And Facebook looks lower to me. Facebook broke another level today. Facebook is lower. And again, when you're looking at all these things, you're saying, OK, you look at the financials, which are part of the spy. And that's one of the reasons I'm focusing on that ETF. Banks are going to be writing off substantial loan losses into the end of 2020. You cannot have banks continue to push off, push off all of these foreclosures. And don't forget, you're going to have other things happen to here. You have people, they're dealing the moratorium on the people that are paying rents. Well, guess what? Landlords don't get a moratorium if they have mortgages on their commercial properties. They still have to pay them. And what's happening now is banks are doing all kinds of loan reviews. I have a friend that's an appraiser. He's doing right now is appraisals for banks because banks want to know what properties are worth. He's not even sure how to set the tone for them. And here in New York City, and again, I'm talking about New York because this is a big, this is, there's so much business that happens in New York. And I truly believe that the New York City real estate is going to drop 40 to 50% in the next 12 months. And that is crushing. You have so much commercial real estate here. There's no way that's not going to affect the rest of the market. Right. And we're showing the JP Morgan chart here. So in the end, are you saying, really, you're not picking up anything? You're not buying, you know, I know you're watching names like JP Morgan, Boeing, Amazon to sort of give you an indication of which way the market is headed. But are you saying that you would buy some dips on any of these? No, I wouldn't buy right now overnight. If you want to buy in the day as a day trade and play it as a day trade or a one off or do a call for a one day fine, I wouldn't be long here overnight because you don't want to be against something that could happen like you saw one from Thursday to Friday, from Wednesday to Thursday and then Friday to Monday, which was what? We kept gapping down. You don't want to be long shopping overnight and then get up in the morning and we're down huge because then what are you going to do? You're going to be down in the trade. You're going to have to decide if you're going to, if you're going to basically buy more to try to help the position or sometimes what happens and this is with a danger with traders then the broker does a margin call and you have to come up with the money. Be careful right now between now and the election period or wait till earnings, which is about a month away. I wouldn't be long overnight. You don't want to be against what could happen here. I will be very, very careful with your overnight positions. You could do options because again, that has a fixed risk. You can't lose any more than you have on the trade and I would be extremely careful with anything. Go ahead. Now someone has a long-term portfolio and this show is really about a lot of long-term investing. Are they making moves now or just sort of sit tight and see? I would sit tight even for long-term moves because it's again the same thing. If someone told you that you could buy a stock at, I'm just going to make up a number. Say you could buy something at $100. Would you want to pay 150 if you know you're going to be able to buy it at $100 a strike? No, so just wait. I look at momentum. Right now the momentum is dragging down. Wait till the momentum starts to lift again. If we see some follow-through and then next week, if we rally between now every single day, between now and Friday, then obviously you can change your tune but I just don't think that's going to happen because if you look at it, we would have to go right back up to the highs and reverse all of the selling in five days then that we've had in the last two weeks in September and I don't think that's likely. Remember, what's going to do it? There's no stimulus right now with Congress. Congress right now isn't even thinking about another stimulus plan. They're thinking about what's happening now with the new Supreme Court justice. We're not even focused on that and I can tell you right now, the market saw that this morning too and that scared the market as well because Congress isn't going to deal with that. They may not pass a new stimulus plan now until the election and that's really going to hurt a lot of people. The long term I would wait. All right, Melissa Armo. I would wait. Great having you on as always. Melissa Armo, founder, owner of the stocks, whoosh. Thank you, Melissa. Good to see you.


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Okay everyone, welcome again to A Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons. And today we have reached Workbook Lesson 128. The world I see holds nothing that I want. Some of you are familiar with a scroll that was discovered that contained what is now called the Gospel of Thomas. And in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus teaches, I think it's one of the shortest teachings. The teaching is Be Passers-By. And I think that's delightful, Be Passers-By. And a lot of people have felt, wee, that sounds really good, Be Passers-By. What does it mean? Today you get to find out what that means, what it means to be a passer-by of the world. Today we're going long, far, far beyond the phrase be in the world, but not of it. Today we're going to the Passers-By state of mind. So here we go. Workbook Lesson 128, the world I see holds nothing that I want. The world you see holds nothing that you need to offer you. Nothing that you can use in any way, nor anything at all that serves to give you joy. Believe this thought, and you are saved from years of misery, from countless disappointments, and from hopes that turn to bitter ashes of despair. No one but must accept this thought as true. Believe if he would leave the world behind and soar beyond its petty scope and little ways. Each thing you value here is but a chain that binds you to the world. And it will serve no other end but this. Where everything must serve the purpose you have given it until you see a different purpose there. The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want. Today, the change you place upon your mind when you perceive salvation here. For what you value you make part of you as you perceive yourself. All things you seek to make your value greater in your site limit you further. Provide your worth from you and add another bar across the door that leads to true awareness of your Christ self. Let nothing that relates to body thoughts delay your progress to salvation, nor permit temptation to believe the world holds anything you want to hold you back. Nothing is here to cherish nothing here worth one instant of delay and pain one moment of uncertainty and doubt the worthless offer nothing. Certainty of worth cannot be found in worthlessness. Today we practice letting go all thought of values we have given to the world. We are free of purposes we gave its aspects and its phases and its dreams. We hold it purposeless within our minds and loosen it from all we wish it were. Thus do we lift the chains that bar the door to freedom from the world and go beyond all little values and diminished goals. We pause and be still a little while and see how far you rise above the world when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs, but frees wings and it will fly in sureness and enjoy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its creator there to be restored to sanity to freedom and to love. Give it 10 minutes rest three times today. And when your eyes are opened afterwards you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little every time you let your mind escape its chains. The world is not where it belongs. And you belong where it would be and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. Your guide is sure. Open your mind to him. Be still and rest. Protect your mind throughout the day as well. And when you think you see some value and aspect or an image of the world refuse to lay this chain upon your mind but tell yourself with quiet certainty. This will not tempt me to delay myself. The world I see holds nothing that I want. I was sharing with Lisa this morning that many many years ago I was speaking at a church. And a friend of mine named Mason had invited me to to this church in Lexington, Kentucky to give a talk. And I was getting the talk. And during the talk, I said, Oh, I mentioned this workbook lesson 128. I said what a lovely lesson this is. This is truly a lesson to free the mind instantly. And I said the lesson is the world I see holds nothing that I want. And my friend Mason who was in the audience he was the one who was hosting me and organizing the event he raised his hand. And he said David David. And I said yeah what is it Mason he said. This was the lesson 128, the world I see holds nothing that I want. This is the lesson where I closed the book. This, this is the lesson where I stopped doing the course of miracles workbook lessons I stopped at this lesson and he said the reason I stopped is because when I read the lesson, I said, Oh, no. He said, he said, Oh, no. No, no, this. This world does hold things that I want to close the book. And I laughed and left and then I said to him I said, Oh, Mason. You stopped right there he said yeah yeah that said that was my last workbook lesson I closed the book and stopped doing the lessons at that point. And I said well. Lesson 129 is such an amazing spectacular lesson, which is first the next lesson, and he said really. What was that lesson. That beyond this world is a world I want. Jesus never leaves you hanging.  And so, beyond this world is a world I want is actually very, very hopeful. If this one is like a roto router that goes into your mind and cleans the drain so to speak, then, then tomorrow he will come with all the light and love and happiness and joy and and take us into the happy dream, which is the world that I really want beyond this world is the world I want is really a world without judgment, a world free of judgment just a very happy dream in which there's no judgment. But today we rejoice in being passers by, as Jesus says. Yeah, the only thing that this world holds is that you, you pass it by, and don't look further for something to to give you a sense of worth in the world. Worth is given by God and nothing I think or say or make or do can establish my worth because God is the eternal worth Establishers being pure divine love. Along with this lesson today I thought I would just give you a little reading from the text and this text, it looks like it's chapter 16. And we're going to go into the section that's called the bridge to the real world since I've done a little foreshadowing about the real world and tomorrow's lesson. And I've talked about beyond this world is a world I want. All right, I did a little sneak peek there I'm going to give you some, some beautiful teachings from Jesus so that while you're practicing our beautiful be passers by lesson today, do it enjoy because I assure you. There is some big time joy and love and light coming for your awareness as you are a passers by of this world as you pass this world by you're passing by the past, and you're opening your heart to the eternal present, and that is beautiful. I'll start on paragraph five here in this section.  You see the world of separate bodies seeking to join each other in separate unions, and to become one by losing. That's Jesus's commentary on interpersonal relationships. I have to read that sense again. On this side of the bridge you see the world of separate bodies seeking to join each other in separate unions and to become one by losing. To join into exclusive partnerships and to seek to find union by losing. Yeah, losing awareness of God. This world was made as an attempt to make up something that substitute for divine love. And Jesus is giving us a clue there. Two individuals seek to become one. They are trying to decrease their magnitude. Each would deny his power. With a separate union excludes the universe. Far more is left outside than would be taken in for God is left without and nothing is taken in. If one such union were made in perfect faith the Union, the universe would enter into it. Yet the special relationship, the ego seeks does not include even one whole individual. The ego wants but part of him and sees only this part and nothing else. So much for bodies relating. These are joined bodies are not across the bridge it is so different. For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively, as it is seen here. The little spark that holds the great rays within it is also visible, and this spark cannot be limited long to littleness. When you have crossed the bridge, the value of the body is so diminished in your sight that you will see no need to at all to magnify it. For you will realize that the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge with you and to be released together there. How do you bring your brothers with you using letting the Holy Spirit use the body as a communication device and speaking smiling laughing hugging shining sharing extending love. Let the Holy Spirit use the puppet for a little while and then everyone joins the mind everyone is joined at the bridge to the real world. The bridge itself is nothing more than a transition in the perspective of reality. On this side, everything you see is grossly distorted and completely out of perspective. What is little and insignificant is magnified and what is strong and powerful cut down to littleness. The world of images and glitz and glory and money and the search for physical power and what is it that's cut down to littleness, kindness, gentleness, patience, heart to heart connections. Yeah, you don't see that on the news very often. What is little and insignificant is magnified. All the power and glory and wars and bombs and guns and greed and fame and fortune. What is little and insignificant is magnified and what is strong and powerful cut down to littleness. It's a meat for they shall inherit the earth. It's worlds backwards and upside down. You probably have noticed that. In the transition. There is a period of confusion in which a sense of actual disorientation may occur. Fear it not for it means only that you have been willing to let go your hold on the distorted frame of reference that seemed to hold your world together. This frame of reference is built around the special relationship. Without this illusion, there could be no meaning. You would still seek here. And to graph eight fear not that you will be abruptly lifted up and hurled into reality. Time is kind. And if you use it on behalf of reality, it will keep gentle pace with you in your transition. The urgency is only in dislodging your mind from its fixed position here. This will not leave you homeless and without a frame of reference. The period of disorientation which precedes the actual transition is far shorter than the time it took to fix your mind so firmly on illusions. Delay will hurt you now more than before, only because you realize it is delayed, and that escape from pain is really possible. There is no hope and comfort rather than despair in this. You could not long find even the illusion of love in any special relationship here. For you are no longer fully insane. And you would soon recognize the guilt of self-betrayal for what it is. So here is a very deep day. First we start off with our lesson of the day 128. World I see holds nothing that I want. And then as we let go of valuing everything of this world, as we see that there is nothing that will last forever in this world, it's all temporary. God is eternal. Christ is eternal. Heaven is eternal. But everything of the cosmos of time and space, everything without exception is temporary. As it says in Corinthians, you know, we look upon a darkened glass but it also says, you know, that that which is temporary will pass away and that which is eternal will last forever. And basically the Bible is telling us there in Corinthians it's saying same thing that we're talking about today. That just value God and value spirit and value Christ value eternity and be happy and and let go of any other values that block you from from that direct awareness.  For a while. But then, in my late 20s, that was my track but Jesus intercepted that track. And, and intercepted and took it the other direction. I told you like football, Jesus pulled off a pick six. He intercepted the direction my so called life is going into the future. And then he took it back to the holy instant for for a touchdown pick six. So, what's beautiful is. Opening today to pass by the world to re actually rejoice that there's no value in this world and to rejoice that that who we are in God forever is all value, and there is zero value in the ego and the egos cosmos of time and space. And let's just be grateful today that that God did not create a meaningless world that we don't have to be anthropomorphic and we don't have to try to assign human characteristics to the God of eternity. We simply have to be willing to realize that nothing that was invented, nothing that was made, nothing that was attempted to be added on to the kingdom of heaven that wasn't eternal, which is what this world is it's it's not eternal. And it doesn't really go well with eternity so we're not going to let time and eternity conflict in our mind anymore. Today, we say to time, time, you and your world hold nothing that I want and we say to eternity and God and Christ. Yes, to you. Yes, to my eternal creator. Yes, to my divine self, and goodbye to temporary illusions. Thank you. My heart is singing today, the world I see holds nothing that I want be passersby today of all of the world. Amen. Love you. Joy.


Live from Chicago, Illinois. It's theCUBE, covering VeeamON 2018. Brought to you by Veeam. Welcome back to VeeamON 2018, everybody. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. We go out to the events. We extract the signal from the noise. This is day one of our coverage of VeeamON, the second year theCUBE has been here. I'm Dave Vellante with my co-host, Stu Miniman-Zeb Ahmed is here. He's the senior offering manager for VMware with the IBM Cloud at IBM, of course. Thanks for coming to theCUBE, good to see you, Zeb. Thank you for having me, very excited to be here. Yeah, so IBM Cloud, big part of your business. Obviously, VMware, you've been there for a long time. Partnerships with Veeam, lay it all out for us. What's going on at IBM, IBM Cloud? Yeah, so we started the VMware partnership a couple of years ago, and our goal was really to build a practice around VMware, which was automated, take it to the next cell essentially, not just be a me too player, but everybody else was doing it out there, but rather make the transition from on-premises to the cloud much easier for those VMware customers. So we've automated a lot of things on the VMware platform. You can deploy VMware stack in a matter of minutes instead of days and months. So it's a much easier transition. We've also worked with a lot of partners, such as Veeam, what customers was using on-premises, and we've allowed them to have those capabilities in the cloud as well in a very automated fashion. I can quickly remember, but I think you guys were first doing something with VMware and the cloud. You're kind of a year ahead of most. I mean, I... It was a few months ahead. They were the first big partner out there with the VMware cloud basically. We got the cloud there and everything like that. In terms of shipping, actually, you guys, I think it was the first one. We were the first ones, yeah. So we were the first ones to market with Cloud Foundation stack, right? Yeah, and then the other vendors followed as well. But yeah, that's been doing great, right? And again, it's fully automated. Matter of minutes, you can deploy the whole stack. A lot of value out there. Yeah, Zeb, maybe help set the picture first a little bit because we talk about this multi-cloud world. IBM owns a lot of applications. IBM partners was a lot. Where does IBM see themselves playing in this multi-cloud, multi-app world? Great question. I think I... So I refer to it as the two T's. So the first one being the transition and then the transformation. So the transition phase, it's really where the challenge has been for those customers, the barrier to entry. How do these customers actually make that move seamless to the cloud? Especially the space that IBM is in on the enterprise side. You know, these applications are legacy, very, very complicated design, a lot of dependencies. So that was a challenge that we try to solve for. And I think we're at a state now where we've not only solved for that, we've also, I don't know if you guys have seen the HCX release that we had with VMware recently, which was, which is a great migration tool and helps customer onboard cloud and adapt to cloud much, much faster. And then also build that ecosystem partner network. So all those tools that you were using on premises like Veeam, right? Making those available in the cloud for those customers has been there. And also on the transformation side, right? So not only just move them to the cloud, but also help them leverage and go up the stack. So microservices, blockchain, Watson, containers, all those things are available to our customers. You know, I think that's a key point that I wanted to highlight is people often say, well, how does IBM compete, you know, with some of the big, you know, cloud players? You're not just infrastructure as a service. You've got a giant SaaS portfolio. You mentioned Watson. So talk about your strategy in that regard. Yeah, I mean, so the enterprise customer, a typical customer, whether it's financial industry or whether it's healthcare, transportation, et cetera. Nobody is just looking for a partner where they can just move their infrastructure to. They're looking for the next state. They're looking to transform their business. They're trying to, you know, utilize all those new capabilities that exist in the cloud today. And IBM has solved for that exactly because not only just use, move your infrastructure and workloads, but now you can consume all those additional value ads in the clouds like Watson and make it for a more intelligent solution in the end. Right, so that's a key differentiator. I mean, there's only a couple of companies that have that. Well, I guess, you know, you guys, Oracle, Microsoft obviously has the applications. And IBM talks a lot about the cognitive piece. Am I correct? You can only get Watson in the IBM cloud. Is that still the case or you now have it on-prem? No, no, Watson can be consumed using an API. So it's a PAS platform. And if somebody wanted to consume Watson for the on-premises workloads and wanted to bring the intelligence for that on-premises environment, they can do that. Are you seeing more demand for that? Or is it primarily in the cloud? We've got huge traction in the healthcare space, especially. There's a lot of financial customers that are onboarding that as well. So Watson's doing great in that regard. For privacy reasons and data sovereignty, yeah. That's right. Except one of the things we've been watching with Veeam for the last few years is how do they penetrate deeper in the enterprise? Or is IBM has, you know, strong position in the enterprise? Help connect for us how the Veeam and IBM partnership go together. So I think this was a very easy answer for a lot of our customers because Veeam has a lot of penetration on the on-premises workloads, especially on the backup and business continuity space. So when we looked at the partners and the products that existed in the space and we really looked at the market space where the customers were consuming, Veeam had a huge market share. And like I said previously, we wanted to solve for those problems and we wanted to keep the tool set, the same tool set that they were using today on-premises. So this was very seamless for us and it is seamless for the customers to move to IBM Cloud and leverage the same tools exactly. So talk about choice because I can imagine you're getting a call from, you know, Ed Walsh. Hey, how about using my data protection software? Instead of Veeam, how do you manage that? You know, it is tough, right? It is obviously tough. IBM also has a huge portfolio of products, right? In the end, the decision was, or it really came down to what is it the customers are looking for? When it came to the backup space, especially on the VMware platform, you know, the answer was there, a lot of the VMware customers use Veeam. In addition to that, Veeam also checks a lot of other boxes for us. So not only is the VMware stack, but also, I don't know if it's been announced yet or not, but AIX is something of beta that they're launching at this event. So that is huge for IBM. Oh yes, they're also in the bare metal space. So, you know, consolidated view of all your backups for your bare metal, for AIX, for, you know, virtualized platform. So the power guys will be happy. Yeah, except for those that aren't as familiar anymore, I mean, remember AIX back in the day, but this second week in a row, I'm talking about AIX, it was Nutanix last week and it's Veeam today. How much AIX is there still out in the wild? There's quite a bit, I mean, IBM, if you guys know the background, right? When software was acquired, it was a bare metal shop. So with that, a lot of the power stuff came as well. So we have a huge power of practice in IBM. All right, and well, it's still, I remember the Steve Mills charts that showed the availability of AIX versus the only more available platform was the mainframe. That's right. And then you had all that other stuff that everybody else buys, but it's a volume market. So that kind of makes sense though. People will pay up for that. It's still a huge install base, not growing. And Nutanix has a relationship with the power guy. So maybe that's where it's sort of decked in, right? Sure, sure. But Linux, of course, is the hot space, right? I mean, so you see it's powering the web. Well, I'm a VMware guy, so. Yeah, there's Linux sitting on top of some of that. That's right, of course. Yeah, Linux on mainframe, right? Yes. Everywhere, okay. All right, so talk a little bit more about what you're seeing from the VMware customer base, how it's synergistic and not just sort of a one-way trip into Hotel California. Yeah, so a typical VMware customer is seeing who's on-premises today looking to IBM Cloud or actually take the leap into the cloud. Especially on the enterprise phase, these customers want to transform. I mean, there's been a lot of questions for them, especially the customer-based IBM focused on, you know, questions around security, compliance, data business continuity, and data protection and such. So these customers not only want to just make the leap into the cloud, but they also want to solve for some of these challenges and also go up the stack, like I was mentioning. So we're seeing a huge push for containers for those customers that are moving to VMware. They want to build up the stack on the PaaS layer and also want to leverage Watson services like that. Yeah, could you expand on that a little more? Things like, are you working with PKS, the solution with VMware and Pivotal and the Kubernetes stuff? Yes, yes, Kubernetes, Dockers.  I mean, in the end, you know, they can consume us from an IS standpoint and build their PaaS on top or they can use our own. So Kubernetes, Dockers, et cetera. What's the stories do with cloud foundry these days, right? There was a big push early on and I feel like I'm not as close as you are, but there seems to be a, I don't want to say a pullback, but maybe less enthusiasm. What's the lay of the land? Sure, I mean, IBM was one of the earliest, you know, in Bluemix, I believe, and with IBM Cloud, IBM has a few offerings. I didn't see as big of a push from IBM at the Cloud Foundry Summit as that last month, but you know, IBM, like most of the cloud providers are giving customers choice. That's right. The question is, what? In heavy and open source, I mean, I'm seeing IBM heavy push. I'm wondering serverless, if you've got any commentary there. We've been looking at like OpenWisk and some of the pieces there. Yeah, OpenWisk is there. There's, you know, serverless is a thing that a lot of these customers, back to your own quite original question, a lot of these customers are looking for those types of services and they're all available in the catalog. It's still pretty early. That hasn't overtaken the discussions of the containers and the Kubernetes stuff in your world, has it? It hasn't, but I think the enterprise customers who are looking to move to cloud, they are thinking about those things. So these are some of the check boxes that need to be checked for them for the future growth, et cetera. So you've got VMware's, you know, obviously virtualization strategy. You've got containers come in.  And Pat's response was, look, we've got the best containers in the world. We're going to embrace containers. We're like, oh, sure. But that's exactly what happened. What's IBM's point of view? Yeah, you know, here's the thing. You know, we want to give them the option to do whatever they want to do. We're seeing a lot of traction on the microservices side on the containerization, but I think it's going hand in hand. A lot of the customers are using the Ember platform still, yet they're also leveraging some of these other microservices and containers. So I think Pat's right on. You know, I think originally what was, people were talking about getting rid of the IaaS layer of VMware is going containers completely. You know, our take is, let give the customers all the functionality and the ability to do whatever they want to do. We are seeing it's more of a mixer at the moment. And we had Ed Booneon on recently, founder of one of the founders of VMware, and he was talking about the challenges in the data center at scale.  That's even on-prem. Now introduce cloud and you've got distance and latency and other physics. So what do you, what's the discussion like with customers around how to architect, you know, the ideal cloud on-prem hybrid? You know, it's a great question because that is a question that got asked all the time because in the enterprise space, like I said, these customers in a lot of cases have a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy so it never becomes a key part of that discussion. For us, the answer is very simple. You know, we've laid down the fiber across the globe, across all these data centers. So when you're talking about latency and data transfer and those types of speeds or having, you know, a multi-cloud strategy across the globe, it's a very simple and easy conversation because not only do we make all that information available to our customers as far as what latency to expect from which data center to another one across the globe, but also it's all private and it's all secure and it makes for a very good multi-cloud story. I don't know if you saw Ginny Rometti's talk at IBM Think, but she used the term, a lot of people tongue-in-cheek make fun of it, but I kind of like it, incumbent disruptors. I mean like, if you're IBM and you get the client base that IBM has, you better come up with a term like that because that's exactly what you're trying to help your customers do. So, my question is where does the cloud and your offering, you know, with VMware fit into the incumbent disruptive scenario? Yeah, so, VMware, like I said earlier, you know, we didn't want to be a me-too player with VMware. Not only did we want to have a good story with VMware because obviously VMware is a huge market share when it comes to virtualization, but on top of that we wanted to be more futuristic and solve for some of those questions and concerns that the enterprise customer had. So, you know, tight integration on the enterprise base, on the microservices, containerization. Watson is a huge part of the VMware platform. You can seamlessly integrate into Watson really have intelligent decision-making on the VMware platform. So, you know, we wanted to ensure that we were, you know, helping our enterprise customers move to cloud yet also solve for the future problems. So, the incumbent piece would be both VMware and IBM, right, the incumbent customers. The disruptor would be, I guess, cloud, all the new cloud services, certainly the machine, intelligence, cognitive, et cetera, components is the disruptive capability. Now, it's up to you to figure out, okay, how do you apply all that? Presumably, IBM and your partners can help. Yeah, and you know, here's the thing, you know, you mentioned earlier, IBM is one of the only companies in the world that can have an end-to-end, not just infrastructure, but also services wrapped around it. So, if you're a customer who's not only looking to move to the cloud, but also have services wrapped around to go end-to-end, you know, IBM is the company to do that for you. Well, it's interesting, okay, I got to ask this too. So, we were with Dell Technologies a couple of weeks ago, and we had Jeff Clark on, and we asked them, he said, look, companies like IBM, HPE sort of, IBM selling off its X86 division, HPE splitting, Dell did the opposite, you know, the mega merger. And his comment was, well, I don't see how you can do end-to-end without both ends. Now, his definition of end-to-end is obviously different than your end-to-end. I have to ask you, what do you mean by end-to-end? Is the client sort of just a commodity? We can get that anywhere? It's not really an integration challenge? So, what I'm saying end-to-end, what I'm talking about is a enterprise customer looking to move to the cloud, solve for the future problems, essentially reinvent themselves, transform their business, leverage the new applications, microservices that are there, but also have services wrapped around it, right? Somebody who's there to help them end-to-end, whether it's just doing migrations, for example, or right, from on-premises to the cloud, but also help them on board and guide them on what is there in the cloud, or the microservices or our PAS layer and how they can transform really. So, that, to me, Stu, is, Zeb's talking about not a hardware view of end-to-end, but maybe a systems and a software view of end-to-end and cloud services. All right, Zeb, thank you very much. You have one more? You're good? Thanks so much for coming with theCUBE. Thank you very much. Appreciate it, yeah. All right, keep it right there. But Stu and I will be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE. We're live from Veeamon 2018 in Chaitan. We'll be right back.


All right, man, so you're fairly new to Brooklyn, which means you got a lot of fresh posts on your Instagram feed Twitter feed Great take a look at some of them. Yeah, let's do it. All right, baby Now not to make everybody hungry at home and I'm sure yourself since around lunchtime right now, but dude Wingstop wings. Yeah, that's a oh, that's a old post but um Yeah, I think a lemon pepper definitely my favorite flavor to go with if I decide to go with wingstop Yeah, sure. How many usually get Depends on how hungry I am, but I usually settle with a 10 10 and you could probably take this down easy Did Rick Ross reply to this tweet eventually or did you ever see him and get a chance to talk about it? No, he didn't know but He's definitely big influence as far as obviously him being an owner of the franchises you hear than the songs and stuff So I was eating it before that, but it just makes it More cool to add add and treat about it. So that's one of the things I did Yeah, why not and not to get everybody confused because you do eat very healthy, right? Right, so right here enjoying a nice vacation.  This is like the life It was actually a post for JD sports who is actually I think they're the owner of finish line I'm a company that owns finish line and I just had to inquire the Obsidian ones in some type of way and I was on vacation. So just thought to be creative with it now one thing that I do want to point out is that I Read a great story about when you first purchased your very own bite at a Walmart, right? And just that satisfied feeling leaving the store just being so happy. Yeah, so To getting to this point did not come easy, but that's got to make all this even more satisfying, right? Yeah Like you earned all this exactly exact and that's the best part about it. Nothing was given I think that's why I appreciate everything that I have and I miss homeboys. I am because of my past This post gave me a good laugh $25 for the upgrade went for the exit row. Oh 100% I'm being being tall you trying to try to be as comfortable as possible and I'm sure that was a long flight That seems like a summer flight. So it's probably from NY to LA or from LA to Texas and vice versa But uh, yeah, I took advantage of that. It's a nice way to spend that $25 man. Well worth it. Oh, yeah I'll spend it every single time So you get $25 and if you had a choice between an upgrade on a flight or 10 count lemon pepper wings Which one would you go? I gotta go with the upgrade on the flight.  You got the cool hoodie the jeans Notice one thing about you is that you can get a little flashy, but you could also stay very simple, right? Right and this right here. This is this is the perfect comfortable outfit. Yeah, that's definitely simplicity is key for me Whether it's dressing life The game of basketball just keeping everything simple And like you said, I could get flashy at times when needed But I'd rather go to simple route clean route and just Get up and go seen those friends t-shirts to that you have a couple different colors. Yeah Yeah, yeah be long be long So I'll be long and this is by far one of the best videos on the internet When it comes to basketball soccer type skills, right? I don't know how it doesn't have millions and millions of views But we're gonna revisit this so that maybe it will right? Yeah, so it's my one of my friends he Contacted me through IG. So that's how I met him, but back when I was in Atlanta and we just He brought the idea to me to inquire the soccer with basketball. I didn't know how it worked, but um, he was creative and he pretty much made up All these but really testing my soccer skills, too You got him. Yeah, sure. I got a little something I love on some of the shots when you look back into the camera kind of like yeah Yeah, yeah, you gotta know you're gonna make it How long did this take as we see some of them look like they could have taken a shorter amount of time to others But like that shot right there. I don't I would think about About 45 Wow, really? Yeah. Yeah, we're pretty quick, especially the three-point shots the behind the head at half quarter some I've been Doing not consistently. I guess you can say but some I've been throwing up in the air since middle school So just a few tries and you can get it right That's pretty cool, man So you got the soccer skills. Do you have any camera shooting skills? Yeah, I actually do And also I have a couple friends who Are always around me and they're a lot better than I am but I kind of picked their brain and I kind of view myself as a Swiss army knife in a way just being able to do a lot of different things in life Basketball is obviously my job and a great thing to do and A great hobby of mine, but I have other hobbies too And Pictures are definitely one of them now that you're playing for brooklyn You got a chance to go out into new york and take photos of all the different skylines and everything else I have him personally, but like I said my friend who who's With the photography game I actually brought him to china with us So he got crazy pictures of the games and everybody on the plane and And everybody liked them. You'll see him on some of the guys pages I even took some of the pictures that the guys posted, but I gave him the credit because his camera his lens, but Definitely just looking to upgrade as time goes on Here you are just chilling also the left right here playing little madden your big time madden guy and video game guy in general Yeah, uh, I love madden. I'd rather play that over 2k. Um, I love fortnight And um, obviously you see the uggs Again simplicity and comfortability is is definitely a thing that I take seriously And I'm just trying to get some wins. I guess you could say yeah all around the clock, right? Comfort and getting the bell views This is your first taste of being inside of a video game. Here you are Um, what was that like finally seeing yourself in a game? It was crazy. Um, I wouldn't say a dream come true because I never really cared whether I was in a video game or not, but um, I mean it was great experience, but Definitely honored in a way too. And you took it a step further when you actually got to a league, right? And here you are right there coming for 80 Asap salt last year you got 79. So, right, right? I said that's a cool goal though. I should be going up this Now the next year This was your headshot, right look like you not look like you saw some of the tweets Like me, right? I mean, yeah I think it looked like me and then in tk19 you had mentioned something about wanting to get Scan for the the following year. Yeah, this year, right? So Did it a pretty good job? But you want that scan, right? They yeah, I definitely want to scan. I think that's gonna Make everything that much more realistic it also changed my hair to what it really is and um I think bring like you're like I said on the tweet like I need that That it's really neat. You know what I'm saying? Like it's me. It's me on the game. I see me, but I don't I need that. Dang. That's really me. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, why not get the full the full get this guy scan asap, right? Please if you're watching I'll get I'll get it though. I'll get this. All right. So last couple One thing that you did have some creative control over was your logo, right? This is a cool logo You can see the initials. Yeah, for sure. Um, like I said simplicity. Um, very elegant Shout out to my college coach coach drew who connected me with a guy named uh, about it goes by name Anando He He's oh, he's overseas right now, but he does a lot of logo work and um, he's done things for the basketball community and the basketball world for a long time. So It was an honor. Um, I had my own logo, but when he told me this it was Just made all the right sense is how elegant it is how simple it is and you can actually just see the tp And um, then nobody has it. So I had to get a trademark quick And now that's my official logo something that looked cool too on a t-shirt. You don't like the side of your sleeve or something Like that you got a custom apparel all that. Yeah digging it Would you ever get it as a tattoo and who you are getting? Some at home. Yeah, for sure. I would um, I have a couple logos of her So that logo is strictly for products and in the basketball world and I have another logo that I would probably more so be tapping on me or Or bring that to life in other different ways Okay, okay, cool. Now this setup. This looks like the perfect type of setup when it comes to actually get Is this your home and also too? I noticed there's two laptops got the ipad.  Yeah, I got to the music and now probably just online surfing the web Probably looking at more tattoo ideas Who knows And now this is the final post to look at everything that we've Taken a look at so far has been a lot of fun stuff that you've had the opportunity to do that basketball has brought you to Uh, your hard work your determination And I think this video right here encompasses all of that very well, but I mean, yeah, I would agree My guy Zach Lowe talking for a videographer out in Atlanta He's done countless works for the nfl and other artists around the city and it was just a A piece he actually asked me to do for me Because he read my story on the player's tribune I mean, we probably spent like four hours Ed recording a whole bunch of scenes and for it to come out like it did It was just perfect and then this kid you found and just kind of resembled it Resembles the past and the future and what I am now and and where I'm where I'm gonna go Right, right, right exactly the natural logo at the end We see all these posts whether it's on twitter instagram What would you say is your favorite part about those social media platforms for you? I think just be able to show the versatility of my life whether it be dressing Shoes which I love and even on my story just posting basketball pictures or videos of my family More so kind of use my page for Myself But I'm I post my family on on my on my story more more so than my page It's just a way to give I don't know the outside world the insiders of my life And there's a lot of high quality content on it too, right now. It's the time for the plug. Yeah Why should people follow you and what do you have to offer? I mean people should follow me because I'm a hundred percent authentic.


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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and today we are going to be jumping into an area that I've sort of wanted to go into for a while, sort of being the operative phrase, which is the incredible realm of One Piece Cosplay. Now luckily there is a convenient opportunity to do just that, as the One Piece Cosplay King Grand Prix, which was an event in association with the World Cosplay Summit, has just been held in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the One Piece anime. As a result, 20 finalists were selected from around the world, and we are going to go through them here. Now at this point I should say that at the time of this recording I have not seen any of these. The following 20 images have been compiled for me in no particular order, except that I believe the overall winner will be at the end. So this is very new for me because generally I throw a list script videos, so yeah let's see how this goes and hopefully it won't be a complete disaster. And with that in mind, let's get straight into things with entry number one.  Oh my god, this is a pretty shockingly high standard to begin with.  Especially that cold steely blue backlight that gives this guy a zin from Bulgaria by the way. All the depth in the world. Literally all of it. Now I can't use depth in any of the shows I do because it's all here, but this is really cool. You could never go wrong with any character who wields a sword. Brilliant work, good sir. And next up we have the one and only Niko Robin, which I initially love because it shows us exactly what Robin should look like if her body was drawn in proper proportions. But essentially it's a simple and effective cosplay and what I'm looking at right now is actually two different outfits. I'm seeing the Stronghold Robin and Water 7 Robin, both of which look pretty fantastic, but I have to say that the wig is absolutely on point in both. And you know there is nothing worse than a fantastic cosplay being brought down by an unconvincing wig, but that is not the case here. Solid Robin. Monkey D. Luffy, of course. Alright so well this is another one of those cases that proves that lighting is everything. Once again I'm looking at two different pictures which I assume will be the standard for the rest of the entries at this point, but the Luffy in his immediate post time skip outfit on the one to post to absolutely blows me away. So much so that it's almost hard to believe that it's the same cosplayer donning the dress-roser outfit. Guess you know what, it almost certainly is not the same photographer who took those pictures. I'll say that much. But really both are fantastically simple and effective Luffy cosplays. It's just that one is lit from an interesting angle and one is lit in a really really flat and kind of boring manner. Still great job Harukana, think it is from Japan. Alright. Now I said before that you can't really go wrong with any character who wields a sword and I, I suppose I'd like to amend that statement because you definitely can go wrong by not showing the sword. Well to be clear this looks pretty damn fantastic close up, but it's hard to really judge the cosplay without seeing most of the costume. Plus the photo quality is incredibly grainy like this was clearly not a photoshoot, it's just a selfie on a phone camera or something. So it could be really fantastic, I don't know. And you know what, what's this dude's name? Let's see if there are any proper photos of this out there. And it turns out not really. I found another selfie but I also stumbled upon this shot of him on a hotel room bed making me hawk look like a very high class escort, but it does seem to be a pretty damn good job with the costume. I think it just suffers from any real lack of photography and of course the lack of sword. Ow ow ow! I really love a good Frankie. And I'm pretty certain I've seen this guy floating around on the internet before, but L Supernova from Argentina you are just amazing. I'm one of those people who really love Frankie's post time skip design and it is so amazingly cool that you have managed to capture his proportions so well. The only thing I'm less keen on once again is the quality of the pictures. And I mean actually the one that isn't the one to post or is kind of nice it has a great angle which really sells the illusion of how huge your Frankie is. It's just the location, the lighting, the quality and the random bits of blur that exist for whatever reason that lets it down. And yes I know at this point it's becoming pretty apparent that I am a true photography snob, but damn it this cosplay deserves some proper epic treatment and I really hope that it gets it at some stage. Ah, Perona! This is fantastic. I love everything about this especially the wanted poster image. The pose is just so so wonderfully dynamic. Even the wig is up in the air like a character in motion. It makes me wonder if she like flung her hair up for that well-timed shot or if it had to be stuck up to get this picture. And I guess speaking of the wig I can only imagine that mimicking Perona's hair must have been a nightmare as well as the supreme attention to detail on the rest of the outfit. I mean ugh. It's like most female characters in one piece have very simple costumes I feel for the large majority of the time. But Perona certainly is not one of them. So Kalsara from Germany, very very well done. Probably definitely my favorite so far. Oh wow alright well this is pretty timed with what I just said. Because when it comes to one piece cosplay Nami is usually a pretty simple one to achieve. Her outfits generally consist of one or two core elements many of which don't uh don't comprise a lot of fabric. And as a result it's actually kind of difficult to comment on a whole lot except that the wig is very nicely done and they also like the attention put into the log pose. The climb attacked while I wish it wasn't just a blue stick I also understand because immediately post time skip is when the climb attacked was definitely at its most aesthetically boring. Other than that the photography is top-notch with a beautiful dramatic state for the wanted poster and a cool kind of blue and orange lighting effect thrown into the full body shot. I guess it's just one of those things where I personally find it a bit more difficult to give as much respect to a cosplay like this as opposed to say the Frankie one we just saw. I'm not saying that effort hasn't gone into this it certainly has it's just that Nami doesn't give you much to work with. Ah Sakazuki. Dre Fan from Singapore this this is superb. I think there are certain characters in one piece that are very difficult to capture and the admirals definitely fit that bill because they are a larger than life presence both figuratively and literally. But this Sakazuki looks seriously intimidating and I love that he was able to get a shot in an ornate admiral style chair it really completes the illusion.  But we're not going to do that primarily out of the fear that Dre Fan will track me down and magma fist me through the chest. Well moving right along with that train of thought we have podcasty ace and this looks pretty spectacular the hat is certainly my favorite part and there's some great attention to detail with Ace's messy but in a way structured type of hair. I have to say though Ace is probably the male equivalent of Nami in terms of cosplay there's really not a whole lot to it especially because neither of these pictures even show his lower body which is where the uh the actual clothes are. But just as with the Nami cosplay we saw before the minimal elements that do exist are done to perfection. Like I could see this guy playing Ace in a live action one piece which is surely one of the ultimate compliments in the cosplay world. Aha I was wondering how long it would be before the inevitable Zoro popped up turns out about this long. This outfit seems really well put together although I don't recall Zoro's shoes being that super super shiny and what I really want to know is if Dragon or Doragon from the UK manages to keep his left eye closed at all times whilst embodying Zoro. This is also another one of those situations where I think you really need a proper photoshoot with a background that isn't just a the flat gray mess. The pirate empress Bola Hancock another fantastic entry with probably the most piercing eyes we've seen so far which is very important for a woman who can turn you to stone with minimal effort. But those earrings though tiny tiny detail but so very well done. The saddest part here I guess is that I only have one picture essentially to go by and once again it definitely needs a proper shoot to really convey the full glory of this cosplay. Yo! Look just as with Frankie a good brook is a magnificent thing. I've seen a lot and I mean a lot of brook cosplays in my day and many of them just plain cannot get the head right and no matter how good the rest of the cosplay is it just doesn't quite make up for it. But this is probably one of if not the best brook cosplay I have ever seen especially because it looks like Kirish Kuz from Russia has multiple brook heads to swap in and out depending on the context of the moment which is just great. Soul King Crown is also fantastic one of my favorite hats in the entire series and yeah I I want it. Sindri! Alright that was unexpected. Of all of the characters in the series that I often I often just plain forget exist Sindri definitely lands on that list so lots of respect initially for a character that requires you to zombify yourself which is a pretty gigantic makeup endeavor and can often end up looking quite inconsistent and splotchy but that certainly is not the case here. I think the cosplayer I uh to be honest I can't read Kanji well enough to save my life but she has done a great job of capturing Sindri's signature in motionless nature. The only thing that could have possibly made this cosplay any better would be a pile of plates ready to be thrown at a moment's notice. All right oh sorry Perona but but we have a new favorite and wow I thought Sindri was unexpected. I'm not actually sure if I've ever seen a Miss Monday cosplay before and after this I don't think I will ever have a need to. This is perfection and you know what this probably actually would have been quite difficult to put together because that exact pattern and cut of the dress is it's very unique. Once again the photography snob within me wants to see this in a better context so I may be surrounded by giant cactuses and some nice whiskey peak lighting. Captain Usopp! Actually my mistake that's God Usopp in the one to post a picture and from one I can make out this is a damn fine job.  But Don Lawless has done flawlessly in that regard. Full respect for constructing Usopp's dresser as a headgear as well I know I just said that Usopp's outfits aren't generally all that complicated outside of like the super detailed movie ones but this piece of headgear is a great exception to that so well done sir. Sanji! But this I think we have all the straw hats now and wait no no we haven't we haven't seen a chopper yet. In any case Aiki from Portugal has pretty well nailed the star chef in both his regular attire as well as his whole cake island garb. I also really like the lighting of the one to poster shot there's a nice warm touch to it very much evoking the sense of fire and passion that Sanji is very much famed for. And here we go now we have a full complement of straw hats and this chopper is amazing. One point is a stupidly ambitious form of chopper to choose to recreate and I have no idea how crafting something so big could comfortably stay on one's head but I'm going to assume that Q has successfully accomplished it plus the fur and the hat and just just the everything I think this is one of the best cosplays we've seen if only for its logistic glory but also it's probably the only chopper cosplay I've ever laid eyes on that actually looks like chopper and that is a fantastic achievement oh wow wow so many longtime viewers of the channel will know that Sabo is into a particular favorite character of mine but this is undeniably awesome this is it's incredible actually think that Eugene Fay and the photographer have made Sabo look even cooler than he has ever appeared in the manga there's just something about the once again messy but structured hair the overall outfit and the perfect expression of the cosplayer that makes this a phenomenal effort I mean if I hadn't been told in advance that the very last image I'd be seeing was the winner I probably would have guessed that this one to be honest and it sets up some pretty damn high expectations for the eventual winner which I now cannot wait to see but before we get to that though we have one more finalist and it is... Smoothie! Yowza! Well the factor that is certainly the most important to nail in regards to Charlotte Smoothie is undoubtedly the illusion of leg and honestly short of Pantobrona actually being a member of the Long Leg Tribe I'm not sure how she's done this so fantastically but here we are there's also some fine work on the tattoo the core outfit and I also very much appreciate the glass of liquid by her side absolutely fantastic but now let's go ahead and take a look at the winner of the one piece cosplay king Grand Prix Eustace Captain Kid man that arm is amazing now this is one that I have seen in the past actually I was astounded by it then and I continue to be astounded by it now Johnny Lab from Italy has put in an incredible effort with this cosplay there's really nothing I can fault the costume is detailed to perfection and he is even able to capture the menacing kid expression and while I am still kind of surprised that the cyber cosplay didn't win especially considering his absurd popularity in Japan I am really glad that this took the crown it's well deserved and in my opinion stands at the pinnacle of cosplay but that pretty much does it for the one piece cosplay king grand prix not the sort of thing I'd usually do on the channel but I saw it and thought it might be fun to highlight this aspect of the series for a change if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the grand line review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible and if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime manga series then please do check out my second channel new world review for all of your wider needs and if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my discord server where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis and finally please do comment with your thoughts on this one piece cosplay or even with your own favorite one piece cosplayers this has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time


and Square in the heart of San Francisco. It's theCUBE, covering Spark Summit 2016, brought to you by Databricks and IBM. Now here are your hosts, John Walls and George Gilbert. I think it's pretty safe to say the sparks are flying here at the Spark Summit. A lot of energy here on the Expo Fords for continuing our coverage here on theCUBE. 3,500 attendees, the largest Spark Summit by far over the past three years in the history of this event. It really shows you how this has continued to generate a lot of enthusiasm within this community. Along with George Gilbert, I'm John Walls and we're joined now by Ashish Tussaud, who is the CEO of CUBO, Ashish. Thank you for being with us, we appreciate the time. Thank you for having me here, glad to be here. Let's just start off at the 30,000 foot level here. Obviously you deal with big data in the cloud and trying to introduce clients to a variety of services there. How does cloud-based infrastructure empower people or maybe engage people or entice people to get involved with big data? Yeah, no, that's a great question. The big thing about the cloud-based infrastructure is that it helps in two areas. One, it helps in making things self-service and second, it helps in automation of infrastructure. So what that means is that when you're using a cloud-based solution for big data, the lifecycle management of clusters or lifecycle management of the infrastructure can be automated because cloud is a very dynamic environment. You don't have to think about deploying infrastructure, then using it, and then getting your results. You can deploy infrastructure on the fly. You can say, I need a certain type of a computation done and the infrastructure can be created on fly and dynamically scaled and up and down. So that automation significantly reduces the dependency on experts that company needs for running the infrastructure because all of that is automated out in the software. The second thing that the cloud infrastructure does is it helps make things much more self-service. The cloud itself has been built on self-service principles which are very different from your typical enterprise infrastructure, data center side of things where you have to deploy and then there's a central team which can use that infrastructure and everybody's dependent on that central team. But in the cloud, you can create things which are much more self-service and you tie the self-service interfaces with automation on the back end, you get something that is usable at a very broader scale and with a very, very small operational footprint that the companies need to deploy. The net and net of that is that you lead, this essentially leads to an explosion of how big data can be used within the enterprise, who can use it and how enterprises can operationalize them in a much, much easier way. So let me hit that who can use it apart. I mean, who is the optimal user then?  So, you know, it's a complex environment. Data can be used by a lot of different types of people. The primary personas that we see big data being used for are either the developers who are trying to build applications on big data platforms, analysts who are trying to look for certain patterns.  And then the fourth persona is more like ETL engineers who are trying to, you know, put data into a place, into a form, so that all of these other groups can use them in a productive manner. So, it's a very complex phenomenon as to who you, who can, or, you know, it's a very complex or diverse environment as to who can use the data. The critical thing there is that for all of these groups to be able to use the data, you need to make infrastructure self-service so that, you know, these groups can come in through either the interfaces that the infrastructure provides or through third-party interfaces. And for the central data team that is in, you know, in control of this infrastructure, you make it, you have to make it very simple for them to allow this broad-based access. But the usage of data can be very, very diverse, with very, you know, there's almost a gradation or a spectrum of the technical capabilities of the users who are using this data, you know, all the way from people who are just consuming it through canned interfaces and apps to the people who are actually doing, you know, dynamically playing with data, you know, exploring it and creating applications out of it. So, it's a very, very diverse environment, in the enterprise especially. On the smaller companies, it tends to be a lot more developer-centric, but as you start to mature as an organization, it starts moving from there to a very broad-based set of users who can use that data. So, let me key off that, as she's, maybe it's hard to find, you know, statistically significant data, but perhaps with anecdotes, if a company starts off with a non-prem Hadoop deployment, you know, starts with a POC and then a pilot and then gets into production, what type of experience curve is that and how does that compare with, you know, starting with Q-Ball in the cloud and going through that same life cycle, if that life cycle is the same? Yeah, so I think the experience is completely different. We have seen market research that suggests that for on-prem deployments, it takes anywhere between six to 18 months for those deployments to get into production. It is one thing to download something and, you know, play on a few small nodes to test out things, but when you're, you know, deploying production ready clusters, it takes six to 18 months, according to market research that we have seen in order to get to production and even there we see, you know, some of the estimates range from 13 to 25% in success rate for those types of deployments. So what takes so long? What if some of those thorny tasks, whether it's the fact that, you know, each server component has a different security model or, you know, who knows what and then why the low success rate?  You know, the first bottleneck is typically, you know, getting the hardware and certifying it and, you know, deploying the infrastructure there. The second bottleneck is expertise.   So the ecosystem of these projects is highly evolving and it's very difficult to find expertise that can manage and deploy all of these in a way, you know, that makes optimal use of these engines. And then from there, once you start expanding and scaling, the bottleneck becomes, you know, I ran the data infrastructure at Facebook before I started Qboard. We were always running to, you know, add to capacity of these clusters because as it starts getting into production, the plethora of use cases and personas and users who start using the system put a lot of load on the system. So all these three things make it very complex in an entrepreneurial environment. So when you're actually in production, you've got all these bottlenecks and you have to chase them down. Yes. So, because you're not generally just making everything bigger, you're trying to find the critical sections.  There's a certain size of your infrastructure and everything has to fit in that. Now, if you take that, you know, coming to your original question around the experience in the cloud, the experience on the cloud is very different because there you don't think about setting up the infrastructure and then doing your processing. In the Qboard model, for example, people, you know, give the processing out and on the basis of processing, we are creating the infrastructure on the fly. So not only do you get that elasticity and on-demandness and making the infrastructure fit your, you know, your computation, not only does that take away some of the risks, the second thing that takes away risks is in the Qboard model, everything is production. You know, you are getting the same SaaS platform that is already running, you know, already processing more than 300 petabytes of data every month. And you get access to that from day one. It's not like you're the first deploy, you know, in an on-prem model, you're the first deploy and, you know, get to that scale. You're already getting access to that type of a scale. So, but you can't hide completely the scenes between the components in Hadoop, despite heroic engineering. So what shows through to the customer who's using a QBall service? So I think in the QBall service, the take that we have taken is, you know, bring the best of great tools for each particular use case and provide that in QBall and supported by a common infrastructure, common orchestration layer that deploys infrastructure. For example, for Spark, Notebooks is becoming very, very popular. So we provide Notebooks interfaces for Spark. We don't try to say, you know, this interface is now going to get used for all the other use cases. Similarly for developers, we have API integration. For SQL users, we have SQL workbenches and ODBC connectivity. So the take that you have to take is, you know, provide a plethora of different tools. Every persona has a particular tool that they like because that tool does, the 80% of their work does that very efficiently. And we connect that, we make sure that that tool is coming through a common metadata plane or a common control plane into QBall and the orchestration of the infrastructure is automated whether you're running machine learning, Spark jobs or you're learning, you know, running Presto queries for SQL analysis or you're, you know, doing Hadoop jobs. All of that comes through the same central control plane. So I mean, when you look at, you have a lot of options systems. What is it about Spark? You've talked a little bit about it, I mean, what is it about Spark that you think is you find most appealing? Yeah. And ultimately, what are your accounts doing with it? Now, what do they find to be the optimal use of it? Yeah, so great question. So Spark started really taking off about two years back in terms of usage. The thing that we find that our customers are saying about Spark is the APIs are extremely rich. So the programmability and the API experience is very, very good. The second is especially on jobs that can, you know, a lot of machine learning jobs are about iterating on the same data set again and again. And in that paradigm, something, you know, Spark started off as an in-memory platform and has diversified into a much broader platform from that. But in that paradigm, especially holding things in memory and having a great memory architecture, like Spark has, has significant advantages. And that is what we see a lot of our customers doing. They're using Spark for a lot of machine learning use cases, trying to do deep learning stuff. The libraries like MLM and stuff also help in that area. So that use case is essentially emergent. We see that data science persona, people who are doing, you know, deep learning and they might also use SQL for some bit of exploration and stuff. That persona really likes Spark because of these two reasons. You know, the speed of iteration because of the in-memory, you know, background. And second is the richness in the APIs that they can use to, you know, drive higher productivity for their jobs. Their job more productive. To get to what they're trying to do quicker. To get to the point where they can model. Right, so they want to get there quicker. I want to jump in on one question before we have to go, which is, Hadoop was designed with the assumption that it's deployed on-prem. And, you know, it assumes a certain amount, a certain type of infrastructure. And then there's the cloud native infrastructure from Amazon or Azure that assumes a different type of infrastructure. How does that show through in terms of the administrative demands, you know? And then the third category is where you're trying to combine the best of both. Yeah, so I think the cloud infrastructure and the on-prem infrastructure and the way you deal with Hadoop in these two environments is fundamentally very different. So, and the biggest difference in my mind comes from the, you know, on-prem infrastructure and Hadoop has been harping about this, was built on this premise that compute and storage is converged. You know, the same clusters have HDFS which is storing the data and on the same clusters you are running the compute. On the cloud, the infrastructure that we have built is on a completely different assumption where the storage is actually on an object store. For example, in AWS it'll be S3, in Azure it'll be Blob Store, in Google it'll be Google Cloud Storage. So that frees up compute to become dynamic. So compute is not tied to become persistent in the cloud and that allows you to do all this, you know, dynamic scaling and stuff like that. Now, some of the cloud vendors themselves, essentially they had taken this on-prem, you know, Hadoop and, you know, put that in the similar sort of, you know, architecture, you know, that we have done. The place where we have done better than those cloud vendors is number one, we are agnostic to all these clouds. The same Cubool interface runs on Azure or Google or AWS as opposed to being specific to that particular thing. The second thing that we have done is we have done automation across, you know, automation on the clouds to a much better degree. For example, auto scaling is something that we have had in Cubool for a very long time, right from the start, which assumes a deep knowledge of both Hadoop as well as a deep knowledge of what, you know, what the cloud infrastructure can provide and combining that together to get these benefits. These are not the benefits that you see in the on-prem world.  One more point. The second thing is also the security models on the cloud are different from what you see in, you know, in the on-prem world.  When you come to the cloud, since cloud was built from the outside in, a different type of- There's no perimeter. There is no perimeter. So it's like logical security, you know, security groups and stuff is all logically created. So you can do things in a much different way there than the very static security model that you have on-prem. So would you say that the Google Cloud Dataproc, which is their spark and their Hadoop and then the HD Insight on Azure and then Amazon AMR, are they really pretty much straight ports from the on-prem code or have they done some adaptation to be cloud-native? So I think they have, the adaptation that they've done is essentially separating the compute and storage part. That is the primary adaptation that all three of them have sort of done in order to get there. But to us, the, you know, that is one portion of, you know, that is the baseline to get working in the cloud. Table stakes. It's table stakes. After that, you have to add a lot of automation, which none of them have done like auto-scaling and stuff. After that, you also have to add, you know, we have a SaaS model in our, you know, in Cubol, we have added integration to tools and have certain tools which make access to data much more enterprise-wide, which none of these folks have done. You know, their focus has been primarily, you know, they approach it from an angle of saying that, hey, this Hadoop and Spark is interesting. Let's make it easy to run. Would it be that they make Hadoop and Spark a managed service and you're trying to make data a service? I would say we are trying to make a data platform within the enterprise so that not just a single, you know, all the developers use it, but other folks can also use it. And I would say these folks are generally usually targeting the developers who can, you know, that's why the amount of automation that is needed there maybe is not necessary for that crowd, but much more in our, in our platforms. Okay. Just before we let you go, just briefly, I mean, your thoughts about the summit being here, being present and seeing the community build and buzz. I mean, just your reaction to that. As you said, the Sparks are flying all around. So it's great. There's a lot of great vibe here. I'm very, very excited to see that there's a lot of developer crowd, a lot of, you know, grassroots crowd that we don't get to see in a lot of other, you know, conferences. So it's been great. It's fantastic. You know, for us, Spark is an integral part of our platform and being at this conference and seeing the amount of, you know, interest is just, is just great. It's good. Well, thank you for being with us. Good observations and best of luck down the road to Cuba. Thank you for having me. Thank you. You're back. We're back with more on theCUBE here in San Francisco right after this.