Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. I am so incredibly excited about this video. I spent a long time in Trader Joe's, combing the aisles, looking for anything fall related. Pumpkin, apple cider, anything and everything that classifies itself as fall. And most importantly, anything that is a delicious fall food item that is WW friendly. I am gonna be showing you a couple of non-food items but boy did I find a lot of items at Trader Joe's that are pumpkin flavored, apple cider flavored, cinnamon flavored that are WW friendly and I cannot wait to share them with you. So if you wanna know what to pick up on your next trip to Trader Joe's for the upcoming fall season, then all you have to do is keep watching. So here is my WW fall haul from Trader Joe's. We have mainly food items but I did pick up a couple of non-food items that I wanted to show you that are perfect for the season. So let's get into our haul. The first fall treat at Trader Joe's is this Trader Joe's Caramel Apple Flavored Granola. This is sweet and tart, crunchy clusters with apple slices, peanuts and pumpkin spiced pumpkin seeds. Yes, please, yum. So as you know, granola is high in point so on the screen I am going to put the points for serving and then I'm gonna drop it down a little bit and get it a little more point friendly and give you that as well. That way you can work all of these things into your points. So this would be really good on top of some yogurt, the dead and light and fit Caramel Apple yogurt, the vanilla, even on the pumpkin. So I picked this up. I'm really excited to have this, really excited. Of course Trader Joe's has canned pumpkin and really for organic canned pumpkin it's the best price you're going to find, $1.99. And as you can see I am putting the prices on the screen here as well. But a $1.99 for organic pumpkin is a great deal. So stock up at Trader Joe's because it generally goes pretty fast. Another new thing that I found perfect for baking for fall and for the holidays is this Trader Joe's vanilla bean paste. So this is Madagascar vanilla beans in a paste formula. Now vanilla beans to buy on their own are incredibly expensive. You can't beat five bucks for a jar of the paste. You can add this to anything that you would generally add vanilla extract to. So I'm really excited about this. I have a lot of baking coming your way for fall and the holidays. This is going to come in extremely handy. I love biscotti. So I was thrilled when I scanned this and realized that this is pretty low points when you cut down the serving size. So this is the Trader Joe's pumpkin biscotti made with pumpkin puree and spices. This is what it looks like. Yum, you guys. I am so excited about this. How delicious would this be with a nice cup of hot pumpkin coffee? Oh, can't wait. So definitely take a look at this sweet things at Trader Joe's. You can still work them into your plan. Just cut down your serving size and this is a prime example of that. So excited to find this. Now this item is going to be a little bit more point heavy but I mainly bought this for Thanksgiving. I just wanna have it. I thought it would be really cute to put one of these little pieces of Belgian chocolates on everyone's plate at Thanksgiving and these go so fast at Trader Joe's I had to pick them up. This is the Premium Harvest Collection Belgium chocolates. Now the points, again, you can make this work into your plan. It's just gonna be a little bit more point heavy. So that I'll probably just say for Thanksgiving. Next is the Trader Joe's Pumpkin Cream Cheese. You guys, yum. So what I was thinking with this is this isn't too bad in points, honestly, but you could put this on a Thomas Light English muffin. Maya first thought was, what about the Western bagel pumpkin bagelettes? They're only one smart point. If you put a little bit of this cream cheese on it, you could have a two to three smart point bagel with pumpkin cream cheese. Doesn't that sound so good? So I picked this up. If you want to order the Western bagels, my code is here on the screen and there is a link down in the description box. Pick up the pumpkin bagelettes. They're only one smart point. And again, you can add this delicious pumpkin cream cheese on top of that and make it a really low smart point part of your breakfast or a snack. Also, you could put this on two ingredient dough. I mean, there are so many things you can do with this cream cheese. So really excited to have that. Also, I thought these were seriously the cutest things I've ever seen. These are the Trader Joe's fall leaf corn tortilla chips. Look it, they are shaped like leaves. Red, orange, and yellow. Okay, how cute is that? So I primarily got this to keep for Thanksgiving because it will last. The expiration date isn't actually until January, but I got this mainly for Thanksgiving, but these are not bad in points. Pair them with some zero point salsa and you have a great little snack and I couldn't pass up how adorable these are. And on the other chip side of the fence, hello, pumpkin tortilla chips crafted with simple ingredients, including pumpkin puree, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Yes, yes, yes. So this also would be good with salsa and I was thinking these would be really good by themselves because they do have the cinnamon and pumpkin and nutmeg already on them. Again, you can save these for Thanksgiving. Your expiration date isn't until January of 20. So definitely a good thing to save for Thanksgiving or a day that you use your weeklies, but I'm really excited about these. You get a little less for the smart points, but nonetheless, it is a great crunchy pumpkin fall snack. So a couple of non-food things that I got at Trader Joe's is I was excited to see this. This is the Honeycrisp Apple Mini Scented Diffuser. So it says this mini diffuser brings the orchard experience to your living space with the bright aroma, reminiscent of farm fresh apples. So it has this dowel that goes into the Honeycrisp Apple Diffuser and it should just radiate this fall delicious smell in your home. This was a great deal. So I picked this up. I think it'd be great in a small space. If you don't want to be lighting a candle or if you want to just kind of set it and forget it, it would be a great thing for a bathroom or a bedroom. So really excited about that. And then I could not pass up Trader Joe's vanilla pumpkin candle. This smells so, so delicious. I have this last year. We loved this candle and the price is great. And it's an all natural delicious candle. I'm telling you guys, it smells amazing. They also had the Honeycrisp Apple in a candle as well. So if you'd rather pick up that honey apple, you can do that in a candle. So love, love, love. So those are my two non food things from Trader Joe. So let's get back into some food. So I found this and again, this is gonna be a little bit more point and heavy, but this is the Trader Joe's pumpkin butter. And this has 40 calories in one tablespoon, but it has nine grams of sugar. So it is going to be a little bit higher in points, but you can cut the serving size in half. And again, how good would this be on a Western bagel pumpkin bagelette? A Thomas Light English muffin. How good would this be on there? And you don't need a lot, just a little bit. Just like you would put butter on, you could use this pumpkin butter. So I had to pick it up. It sounds amazing. And I think I'm going to come up with some sort of baked item with it as well. So they also had a cinnamon roll butter or a cinnamon roll spread that sounded really good too, but tis the season for pumpkin. So I grabbed the pumpkin butter. Next item is food, but not for us. So this is a new product at Trader Joe's. This is the grain-free turkey and pumpkin jerky for dogs. This was a great price, $3.99. It has excellent, excellent ingredients. There really is nothing in it that you shouldn't give to your dogs. And it's great if your dogs are grain-free like mine. So turkey, pumpkin, dried skim milk, dried cultured skim milk, salt and a couple of preservatives. That's it. So not bad for a dog treat. And $3.99, can't beat it. So I'm excited to have these. They're pretty large-sized sticks. You could even break these in pieces for your dogs and not just give them a whole one and make these last a little bit longer, excited to have these for my dogs, especially because they're grain-free. Next up are the Trader Joe's pumpkin o's. So this is similar to Cheerio's, but they are pumpkin. And these are so delicious, you guys. So good. Low-fat, vegan and gluten-free. And they also contain 20 grams of whole grains. So here is your nutritional facts. Of course, the points are here on the screen. And this is for one cup. And there's your ingredients if you were curious as well. So I'm thinking rather than having this as a cereal, because cereal just doesn't fill me up, I thought this would be really good on yogurt. The light and fit pumpkin yogurt with pumpkin o's. You could literally have zero or one smart point of these and add that needed crunch to your yogurt. So excited to have these. I know my husband's going to love them as well. He will probably eat these as cereal. And he better not eat them all because I want to try them on some yogurt. Next, I was excited that they had delicata squash. This is literally my very favorite thing about fall. Hands down, 99 cents a piece, delicious, easy to prepare. You do not peel the skin. So you actually eat the skin of the squash. It becomes nice and soft when you cook it. It is so good, you guys. You can cook it in your air fryer, roast it in your oven. Stay tuned, my friends, because you are going to be seeing a lot of recipes using delicata squash because we love it. Zero smart points, hallelujah, a zero smart point item. So definitely check out Trader Joe's for delicata squash. And you know I love kombucha and this is a limited edition GTs. This is one of my favorite brands of kombucha. This is the Living in Gratitude fall edition. And this has apple, turmeric, carrot and spices. And I actually remember this from last year. It is incredibly good. I love it. And here are your nutrition facts. I do count points on kombucha. I know a lot of people don't, but I generally just save my kombucha for the day that I use my weeklies and I don't track that day. So that's where I can kind of splurge on beverages with points. I generally don't like to spend my points on drinks, but kombucha is one of the exceptions. So if you like kombucha, you like those fall flavors, this is fantastic. Then into the freezer section we go and look at this you guys. I was like, huh, interesting. And then when I scanned it, it is only two smart points for one sixth of the pizza crust. So you could eat all of this pizza crust for 12 points. And then depending on your toppings, you literally could have an entire pizza for the 15 point mark if you added some cheese and a little bit of meat. So love that idea. I did hear that this pizza crust is really good with pesto. So if you're a pesto fan, which I am, I was thinking pesto and some of the Trader Joe's organic mozzarella. And again, you can have a whole pizza for about 15 smart points. So this crust is made with butternut squash, corn flour, olive oil and a touch of salt. That is it. And I'll flip it around and show you guys the nutritional info. But I could not believe it when I scanned it. I was like, that is amazing. And look at how delicious that looks. So we will definitely be trying this pizza crust. I will report back to you. Very excited. Also in the freezer section, I found this. Another thing I'm excited about. This is the Trader Joe's rice, cauliflower and butternut squash risotto. So risotto is generally a creamy kind of cheesy dish. Generally really high in points. So I was excited when I found this. I didn't scan it in the store, but I flipped it over and 70 calories. It does have a little bit of saturated fat. Really not no sugar and no protein. So I wasn't sure of the points, but you can have an entire cup for the smart points. And I thought this would be really, really good, paired with some chicken and your chicken is zero. And then you can use your points on a delicious side dish. So really excited to have this. I hope it tastes as good as it sounds. And then I couldn't pass these up. I couldn't pass them up. So these are the Trader Joe pumpkin waffles.  I know my husband will love these. And my friends, here's the thing. Pumpkin waffle with a little bit of the pumpkin butter or pumpkin waffle with a little bit of the pumpkin cream cheese, doesn't that sound so good? And again, pair this with some eggs and you have a pretty low point decadent fall flavored breakfast. So excited about these waffles. You do get eight waffles in the box. And the other frozen thing that I found that's new for fall is this butternut squash mac and cheese. I have heard that this is amazing. This is big. You guys look how thick that is. So I feel like this is way larger than the guilt. What is it? Reduced guilt mac and cheese and some of the other frozen mac and cheese is out there. Definitely warranted splitting with someone else. But in this cheese or in this mac and cheese, you have mezzi rigatoni pasta with butternut squash puree in a blend of Gouda, cheddar and Parmesan. Yum. And here are your nutritional facts. So there are two servings per container. So I'll put the points here for one serving and I'll put the points here for the entire container depending on how much you wanna eat but it sounds really good. And again, pair this with some chicken and some veggies, zero points and all you have to count is the mac and cheese. So can't wait to try this as well. Next, I picked up the Trader Joe's pumpkin pancake and waffle mix. You know I love my pancake bakes. I love using my mini waffle maker. So I thought that this would be really fun to incorporate into some breakfast prep for the fall season. So here is your nutritional information. Unfortunately, this mix is not one that you just mix with water. You actually have to add butter and milk and an egg. So the points are gonna vary depending on the ingredients that you add to it. But the only thing that would have points is the butter. And if you used, I can't believe it's not butter. It would really not be too bad. And you could make pumpkin pancakes and waffles. I cannot wait for this. You will be seeing this in an upcoming meal prep. And lastly, I was so excited to see these back. These you guys are so good. This is the pumpkin and cranberry crisps. So this is a crispy, savory and sweet cracker to compliment cheese dips and spreads.  I think they have an amazing flavor. So here are your nutrition facts. So you can have 11 crisps for the points. So again, pair down your serving size and it lowers the smart points. But these are so good. And again, you guys, what about some of this on there? So just a delicious pumpkin flavored treat for fall. So that's everything my friends that I picked up at Trader Joe's for fall. I hope you enjoyed seeing the WW friendly things that you can pick up at Trader Joe's. We don't have to cut anything out of our eating plan, which is my favorite part of WW. So head on over to Trader Joe's, pick up some of these fall favorites. Thank you for joining me on this Trader Joe's fall haul. It was so much fun finding these things. And I have tried a lot of them and they are outstanding. That pumpkin biscotti, so good. You guys, the pumpkin, everything from Trader Joe's is awesome. So make sure when you head over to Trader Joe's that you write down all of these great things, put them on your list and pick them up for you and your family because you will not be sorry. So incredibly delicious. I plan on doing a holiday edition of Trader Joe's as well. So definitely stay tuned for that. So thank you guys for coming over, sticking around, watching this video. If you're new, I would love it if you would take a moment and hit that little subscribe button and that notification bell. That way you'll be notified every time I upload a new video you don't wanna miss out. Thumbs up this one, comment down below. Let me know what were your favorite items that I showed you or your must try fall items. Thank you so much for watching you guys. I hope you enjoyed and I'll see you in my next video. Bye.


Well, welcome back to theCUBE, everyone. I'm John Walls, and once again, we're glad to have you here for AWS ReInvent 22. Our coverage continues here on Thursday. Day three of what has been a jam-packed week of tech at AWS, of course, has been the great host for this. It's now a pleasure to welcome in Honoran Gupta, who is the founder and CEO of Shoreline, joining us here as part of the AWS global showcase startup program. And Honoran, good to see you, sir. Thanks for joining us. Thank you so much. Tell us about Shoreline, about what you're up to. So we're a DevOps company. We're really focused on repairing issues. If you think about it, there are a ton of DevOps companies when we all went to the cloud in order to gain faster innovation, and, you know, buy-in-large check. Then all of the things involved in getting things into production, artifact generation, testing, configuration management deployment, also buy-in-large automated. Now, Pity the poor SRE is getting this deluge of stuff on him. You know, every week, every two days, sometimes multiple times a day. And it's complicated, right? Kubernetes, VMs, lots of services, multiple cloud sometimes. And, you know, they need to know a little bit about everything. And you know what? There are a ton of companies that actually help you with what we call day two ops. It's just that most of them help you with observability, telling you what's gone wrong, or incident management, routing something to someone. But, you know, back when I was at AWS, I never got really that excited about one more dashboard to look at, or one more, you know, like better ticket routing. What used to really excite me was having some issue extinguished forever. And if you think about it, like the first five minutes of an incident are detecting and routing. The next hour, two hours, is some human being going in and fixing it. So that feels like the big opportunity to reduce. So hopefully we can talk a little bit about different ways that one can do that. What's some of the day two ops? Just tell me about how you define that. So I basically define it as once the software goes into a production, just making sure things stay up, and you know, are healthy, and you're resilient, and you don't get errors, and all of those sorts of things. Because everything breaks sooner or later, you know, to a greater or less. Especially that SRE you're talking about. Right? So let's go back to that scenario. Yeah, yeah, you're pity the poor soul. Because they do have to be a little expert in everything. And that's really challenging. And we all know that, that's really hard. So how do you go about trying to lighten that burden then? So when you look at the numbers, about somewhere between 40% to even 95% of the alarms that fire, the alerts that fire, are false positives. And that's crazy. Why is someone waking up just to deal with- It's a lot of wasted time, isn't it? A lot of wasted time. And you know, you're also training someone into what I call click ops, just to go in and click the button and resolve it. And you don't actually know if it was the false positive, or it's the, you know, rare, real positive. And so that's a challenge, right? And so the first thing to do is to figure out where the false positives are. Like, let's say Datadog tells you that CPU is high, and alarms. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It's hard for them to tell, right? But you have to then introspect it into something precise. Like, oh, CPU is high, but response times are standard and the request rate is high. Okay, that's a good thing. I'm not going to ignore this. Or CPU is high, but it kind of resolved itself. So I'm going to not wake anybody up.  So let me go and take a heap dump and give that to my dev team and then bounce the JVM.  Or CPU is high, I have no idea what's going on. Now it's time to wake somebody up. You know, what you want to use humans for is the ability to think about novel stuff, not to do repetitive stuff. So that's the first step. The second step is, you know, about 40% of what remains is repetitive and straightforward. So, like, a disk is full. I'd better clean up the garbage on the disk or maybe grow the disk. People shouldn't wake up to deal with a, to grow a disk. And so, for that, what you want to do is just have those sorts of things get automated away. One of the nice things about Shoreline is that we take the experience in what we build for one company and if they're willing, provide it to everybody else. You know, our belief is, a central tenant is if someone somewhere fixes something, everyone everywhere should gain the benefit. Because we all sit on the same three clouds. We all sit on, you know, the same set of database infrastructure, et cetera. We should all get the same benefits.  So that's the second thing. The third thing is, okay, let's say it's not straightforward, not something I've seen before. Then, in that case, what often happens is on average, like, eight people get involved. You know, it initially goes to L1 support or L1 ops. And, but they don't necessarily know because, you know, as you say, the environment's complex. And so, you know, they go into Slack and they say, at here, can somebody help me with this? And, you know, those things take a long, much longer time. So wouldn't it be better that if your best SRE is able to say, hey, check these 20 things, you know, and then run these actions, we could convert that into like a Jupyter Notebook where you could say, the incident got fired. I pre-populated all the diagnostics and then I tell people very precisely if you see this, run this, et cetera, like a wiki, but actually something you can run right in this product. And then, you know, last piece of the puzzle, the smaller piece is, sometimes new things happen. And when something new happens, what you want is sort of the central tech of Shoreline, which is parallel distributed, real-time debugging. And so the ability to do, you know, execute a command across your fleet rather than individual boxes so that you can say something like, I'm hearing that my credit card app is slow. For everything tagged as being part of my credit card app, please run, for everything that's running over 90% CPU, please run a top command. And so, you know, then you can run in the same time on one host as you can on 30,000. And that helps a lot. So that's the core of what we do. People use this for all sorts of things, also preventative maintenance, just the proactive, regular things, like your car, you do an oil change. Well, you know, you need to rotate your certs, certificates. You need to make sure that there isn't drift in your configurations, there isn't drift in your software. There's also security elements to it, right? You want to make sure that you aren't getting weird, inbound, outbound traffic across to ports you don't expect to be open. You know, you don't want to have these processes running. You know, maybe something's bad. And so that's all the kind of weird anomaly detection that's easy to do if you run things in a distributed parallel way across everything. That's super hard to do if you have to go and whack them all across one box after the next. Well, which leads to a question, just in terms of setting priorities then, which is what you're talking about, helping companies establish priorities as hierarchy of level one warning, level two level, level four. Sounds like that should be a basic, right? But you're saying that that's not really happening in the enterprise right now. I would say that if you had an automated deployment, you should do that first.  If you, but now it's time to help people in production.  You know, the crazy thing about the cloud is that companies spend about three times more on the human beings to operate their cloud infrastructure as on the cloud infrastructure itself. I've yet to hear anybody say that their cloud bill is too low. So, there's a clear savings also available. And you know, back when I was at AWS, you know, obviously I had to keep the lights on too.  And I'd really spend, prefer to spend the headcount on innovation, on doing things that delight my customers.  You just avoid irritating them by turning them off, right? Right, right. So, why are companies so fixed in on spending so much time on manually repairing things and not looking for, you know, these kinds of little, much more elegant solution that, and cost efficient, time saving, so on and so forth? I think there just hasn't been very much in this space as yet. Because it's a hard, hard problem to solve. You know, automation's a little bit scary. I mean, that's the reality of it. And the way you make it less scary is by proving it out by doing the simple things first, like reducing the alert fatigue. You know, that's easy.  That's pretty easy. The full automation, that's kind of the North Star. That's what we aspire to do. But, you know, people get there over time. And one of our customers had 700 instances of this particular incident solved for them last week. You imagine how many human beings would have been doing it otherwise? You know? That's just one thing. Right. You know? How many did it take to build a pyramid? How many decades did that take? Right? I think you had an announcement this week. I don't think we've talked about that. No, yes. So we just announced Incident Insights, which is a free product that lets people plug into initially pager duty and, you know, pretty soon Ops Genie service now, et cetera. And what you can do is you give us an API key, read only, and we will suck your pager duty data out. We apply some lightweight ML unsupervised learning. And in a couple of minutes, we categorize all of your incidents so that you can understand which are the ones that happen most often and are getting resolved really quickly. That's click ops, right? Those alarms shouldn't fire. Which are the ones that involve a lot of people? Those are good candidates to build a notebook. Which are the ones that happen again and again and again? You know, those are good candidates for automation. And so, you know, I think one of the challenges people have is that they don't actually know what their teams are doing. And so, this is intended to provide them that visibility. One of our very first customers was doing the beta test for us on it. He used to tell us he had about 100 tickets, incidents a week. You know, he brought this tool in and he had 2100 last week. And it was all, you know, like these false alarms. So while he's giving us a week. You think that was eye opening for him to see that? Sure.  You know, all of that kind of stuff, you know. Before you get to do the fancy work, you got to clean your room before you get to do anything else, right? Right, dinner before dessert, basically. Hey, thanks for the insights on this. And again, the name of the new product, by the way, is? Incident Insights. Incident Insights. Totally free. Free. Yeah, it takes a couple of minutes to set up, you know. Go to the website, shoreline.io, slash insight. And, you know, you can be up and running in a couple of minutes. Outstanding. Again, the company is Shoreline. This is Honor Ron Gupta. And thank you for being with us. We appreciate it. Appreciate it. Glad to have you here on theCUBE. Back with more from AWS Reinvent 22. You're watching theCUBE. The leader in high tech coverage.


Hi, I'm Sean Rasmussen from RWC Group. We're the international dealer here in Phoenix, Arizona. Supply trucks to the Night Swift Transportation Company. Today I'm gonna walk you around the 2024 International LT625 6x4 73-inch Skyrise Sleeper. Let's first start underneath the hood, just giving you an idea of the things that you're going to need to check for your pre-trip inspection. Most everything that you're gonna need to look at will be from this side of the engine. Underneath the hood, once it's tilted forward, you have your power steering fluid here. You have lines here on the canister that indicate the levels that they need to be at. Over here you have your engine oil fill. Here's your engine oil dipstick. Right here is your fuel water separator for the Cummins engine. On the dash there'll be a light. If you get water in your fuel, there's a petcock at the bottom of this that you'll turn open to drain off excess water. The water will be at the bottom, it'll drain off out the bottom here.   Running around here to the side, that's where your battery box is. The cover here, of course, it's magnetic. Close this, just pull it to open. Directly inside you'll have two handles, or two pull cords. Pull cords to drain off air from your tanks. We suggest you purge your tanks daily, just to evacuate any moisture buildup that may take place inside of your tanks, the condensation that you'll find. Primarily in the south, more humid conditions, but that can take place here in Arizona as well. All of your fuel and depth fills have closeouts on them to keep it more aerodynamic, along with along the front wheels, you can see around the wheel wells, there's closeouts on those. All meant for better aerodynamics of the truck to give you better fuel economy. You'll notice inside the luggage compartment space here, it's very roomy, it's lit, it's got the light just right inside here, and also a pass through all the way through to the other side in case you need to haul something that's longer, if you've got brooms or say you got a load lock holder, those primarily will fit back in those box if you don't have the load lock holder off the back of the truck. Notice the skirting all the way down the side for aerodynamics, and then the larger side extenders with the top cover up at the top there, again providing better aerodynamics for higher levels of fuel efficiency. On the back, you'll also notice that we have our CB antennas, others have incorporated those into their cab, which makes it difficult if you have problems with the reception on your CB. It's harder to repair those when you know you've got a bad CB antenna. Those can be easily replaced right from the back, they're not out on your mirrors in a place where they can be damaged when you go under a tree or other things that would create that kind of damage. You have your Fontaine 5th wheel here, here's a manual release of course that they all have, but inside the cab, and I'll show you soon, the release in cab to release the jaws on the 5th wheel along with the air slide release to move this thing back and forth to position load. Typically I know a knight wants to keep it in one spot and not shift those loads around, but I'll let them dictate where you need to be set up on where the slide is. The I-Ross suspension here in the back, 40,000 pound air ride provides really smooth ride for the truck and the trailer. It's also inside the cabin, I'll show you on the dash, when you have your trailer on, there's a button you can go to will tell you how much weight you have over your tandems inside the cab when you're fully loaded. That can be very important when you're carrying a load and maybe you're overloaded, they got a lot of nose weight in the trailer, putting you in a position where it might hurt you going through the port if you're overloaded over your tandems. Coming around the back here, this year we went to the spring-loaded mudflap brackets on here versus the old style, just regular bar, bet style, BB-35s. Very nice bracket here with the tape here for reflective capabilities at the rear and then we've recessed all of our lighting into this back cross member instead of having the individual lights that would sit down here. We've recessed these back into the end cross member. For easier replacement, these lights you can pick up anywhere, the other ones, it was not as easy of a deal coming about the parts needed for replacement. Back here on the back of the cab, you'll notice also we've got our air ride positioned outboard of the frame rails. This gives a much better ride quality for your truck. The one thing that we always get is that we have the smoothest riding truck. If you find or experience that your truck is not riding so smooth, it's a little rougher, you may have your shop check, the air ride bags on the rear, which they can measure as far as expansion, how high it's riding. You could have over-inflated bags creating a hard ride. Same with the bags here on the back for the cab. Along the side up here you'll see on our windows, these pop out much like what you see on a camper. That's easier for when you're in snow conditions. There are some manufacturers out there that will have the slide up, slide down style and they end up getting frozen in place and you can't open them up so well. I've never had a complaint about getting these things open just from the inside. It's an easy pop out, I can show you that here in a minute also. You'll see our, we call them a goal post mirror. Pops out again, this is for aerodynamic. This is heated, it's also motorized. So this allows you to control how you see the traffic that's out there and around you along with the side view mirror, that's just above the passenger door. Always make sure you get those positions just right before you head out on the road. And that over here on this side also, we have, this is your washer fill bottle. And then inside on the dash, we have a warning that will let you know when this bottle gets too low. That way if you're at one of the terminals or you're at the loves or wherever you pick up your washer fluid, you'll know before you get backed out on the road that you're low and that you need more before you hit the road again. And then last but not least over here, well, two things, this is your surge tank for your coolant. Always make sure that you're in a position where you're above the ad mark. And then up here on the top, where the air filter is right up in here, this is for your air filter. You'll notice that that plunger will come out when it gets beyond a certain point. That means that you've got restriction on your air cleaner and that will cause performance issues with it being able to give you the power that you want that you need while you're out there driving on the road. Up front, you can see the stylish front end of our truck. Very beautiful grill. And also we are with LED headlights and turn signals and LED all the way around on our trucks. So the brand new LED headlights on these trucks, we've been getting a lot of great responses on how drivers really love them versus the old incandescent style. Down here on the lower part of the bumper, you've got, these are the receiver hooks for tow hooks, which the truck no longer comes with them because if you're in real need of them and you're needing a tow truck, all the tow truck companies have these hooks, they're generic for all manufacturers. So if you're looking for the tow hooks, they'd be with the tow company. Also right up front here, this is the radar for the new Bendix Fusion 2.0 Collision Avoidance System.  Previously, we used the Wabco system due to some complaints of drivers saying that they were getting hard stopping issues as if there were a stationary object there. We've switched over and we've changed everything over now to the Bendix Fusion 2.0.  Those will pop right away if you end up hitting something and you're not tearing it off the truck. And then they just pop right back into place there. So from there, you can see the aerodynamics of our hood. We're the most aerodynamic truck that's on the market right now. We're a fuel economy leader, really depending on how you've got them set up for electronic parameters, but we're leading most fleets in fuel economy with the way that we have our set up. So you'll be happy with the performance of the Cummins 450 horsepower engine and the Eaton Endurant Transmission. Let's start by getting in the cab before we do, just so you can see it and I'm sure it's quite obvious. Right here is your fire extinguisher mounted to a factory installed bracket right here. All of your switches for your seat are located here on the side of the seat as far as the air control style switches. So air up, air down for your seat to get the pressure that you want. Then you have these three that are for your bolsters which are inside the back of the back cushion which allows you to get the type of support that you want on the seat for wherever your back conditioner might be or for wherever you're most comfortable. From there, we'll go ahead and get up inside the truck and we can go over some of the switching and the gauges and things like that to let you know some of the features and functions that we have inside the truck. All right, now we're in the driver's seat ready to look down onto the dash and some of the controls that are available to the driver. I can't stress enough to a new driver or a driver that's been in another product when you get into a different truck be it ours or someone else's. Make sure you study the dash well, understand what each one of these switches does, how it can work for you, how it can help save your equipment and keep you on the road for a longer period of time. A lot of these features will benefit you in so many ways but knowing how they operate, knowing where they're at is really important. So I'll start off over here just by the headlight switch which you have here that's a normal off then you have an automatic style. That's gonna be your markers, that's full headlights and right next to it is the ability to raise the intensity of the light on the dash itself. Next to that switch is the lamp check switch. So in pushing that switch, that starts the truck into a feature where you can walk around both your truck and your trailer seeing all the lights that will illuminate including stop tail and turn. The only one that doesn't give you is the backup light but it'll give you the clearance lights on your trailer, the clearance lights on your truck and all those things that'll keep you from getting pulled in by DOT when you have a light that's out. So that will allow you in the morning when you go to do your walk around pre-check to make sure that all your lamps are working properly. So up starts it, push back down to end the pre-trip sequence.   But if you get in the truck and it's on, it will automatically extinguish at five miles per hour. I'm sure everybody's seen going down the road and you've seen a guy that's got his work lights on in the back and has no idea that they're still on. That will extinguish at five miles per hour or it can be set for 10 or 15 or 20, whatever you want it. But it's defaulted at five miles per hour. So once you start driving, they'll go ahead and turn off. Up on your dash, you've got your full complement of standard gauges. You have your water temperature. You have both of your primary and secondary PSI for your air and your air system. You have your fuel gauge over here. Of course, RPMs on this side along with your oil pressure, miles per hour, fuel gauge. And then up here is your premium dash cluster. Let's go ahead and take a look at the premium dash cluster really quick, give you an idea of what takes place inside there and the features and the customization that you can do along with this feature. So we're gonna turn the truck on, just the accessory position. And you're gonna notice that the gauges sweep up, sweep back and then outside the truck, you can hear it click and snap. That's just all of the systems of the truck going through, making sure that everything's operating the way that it should. The first thing I'm gonna show you and I have this already queued up inside this cluster, you have the ability to see exactly how much weight is sitting over the tandem axles. And I spoke about that a little bit earlier with your, the rear air ride system. So right now it's showing 7,881 pounds at your rear axles. That's how much weight is sitting over them right now. So once you hook a trailer onto it, that's gonna tell you how much tongue weight you have or kingpin weight you have over the top of the fifth wheel plate that sits right over the top of your tandem axles. To get through the different sequences or functions on that, I'm gonna push this back button that's right here. And then that's gonna take us back into this menu, which if you push up your switch and then push it over, now up into the middle of this, we have the ability to move to different things. This is gonna be your collision avoidance, radar alignment features. And then if we move back over, now we're at trip, this is telling you how many miles per hour you're going, how many miles total are on the vehicle. And then these upper two gauges you can have set to anything that you want for the both of them. If you want your exterior ambient temperature up in the left corner and put that there, if you want your voltmeter over here in this corner, you can put it there, or you can put a number of different features, whatever's most important to you to have on that that opening panel that you wanna be able to keep track of. When you scroll down through the middle of it, now you've got how many miles to empty. Right now it shows zero, there's a little more fuel than that in it. I'd have to really actually turn the truck on. But then you can go through a lot of different other things, your trip average on fuel, how many miles you traveled, the hours that you've had in your current travels. To reset it, you can see it says hold okay to reset. That's this button here in the middle, the delineator button, if you just push in the center of this straight in, once you do that, that will push everything back to zero. And you can do this on each trip that you do. Next is the same thing, this is trip two. We'll just do the same thing, clear that one out as well. That's all delivery miles from the plant. And then how many total hours is on the truck today? And then trip fuel, how many gallons were used? And then trip time, again, push and hold that. We'll clear that out. That goes to zero. And then that's the end for that. Also up here in the left, you can see you're either neutral, drive or reverse on these. And then down in this lower left corner, that'll tell you what gear you're currently in for your transmission. If we go over to the next one, this is where you can get into setting gauges. This is my gauges. And so into the configuration menu when we go down, you can look at the vehicle. If you want to have the voltmeter pop up like this on the front, where you're looking at it instead of miles per hour you can. And then you can see the speedometer. There's just a number of different customized features that you can do on this to get to each one of them. So here's the engine oil temp. You can have that as a virtual gauge. Just a number of transmission. This one doesn't have the transmission temp gauge on it. And I don't think it has axles either. But that's also an additional option that you can get. So the next top one on the top tab is alerts. This truck, a lot of times you can look through here and it's gonna tell you what is happening with the truck where there was a code in here where it says vehicle and there was one over there. You can push on that. But in this case, there's no alerts available. So there's nothing really to show you at this point. But it is a place that you can go to kind of get an idea what's happening with your truck. And then here's the display settings.  This is where you can get into my gauges to set them up where it would say miles per hour. You wanna look at the regular standard mechanical gauge or if you wanna look at something that's more of a virtual style gauge. And then the top corners, like I was saying, you've got your temperature here, your voltmeter there, if you push that. Now you can switch those around if you want fuel up in the upper left or instant fuel economy in the upper left or nothing up there. You can determine that and same with the right. Battery voltage, engine oil, break application, outside ambient temperature, fuel range, so on and so forth. That's where you're going to adjust that gauge view how you want it set up for yourself. And then we're right back to axle load, which I just showed you from the beginning. And then on the engine, the oil life, I believe this is not, it's not available right now because we're not out on the road yet and it hasn't been set by night to determine what they want their engine oil life to be in the way of miles or hours or fuel. I don't believe there's, oh, here is engine mounted fuel filter. This will all show you the percentage until it needs to be replaced, which usually on your preventive maintenance cycles, those will be handled by the shop before you would see that and then death filter the same thing. So it'll let you know when those things need to be changed. Something you can bring up if it comes up and you notice that it's beyond, then you can address that with the shop.  Remember the one feature there that I showed you about the weight over your rear axles, which a lot of drivers don't know they have and we've had on our truck now for better part of 10 years. So it's in all the trucks that are in the night fleet, the Swift fleet, and most of the fleets that I sell. It's an important feature to the drivers and I think they appreciate being able to have that available to see how they're sitting over their tandems. Up here on the steering wheel, we have a number of things up here to show you. All your cruise control settings are gonna be right up here. You're on feature, set and resume, the off and then the cancel. Also, here's what we used to call a good buddy switch. That's just to flash your lights. If somebody's allowed you to move in front of them, you can hit that a couple of times, letting them know thank you and then move on your way. Over here to the left, these are just different things and if you've got your phone hooked up through the radio here, which you can go ahead and bluetooth your phones to the radio, this is a way to control, pick up, hang up, raise the volume, lower the volume, cancel the volume and things like that. Also, here's a flashing for the headlights up here so it allows you to flash your headlights instead of going down here and turning that off and on. Here on the dash, we've got your PDL lock which is your power divider lockout. That can be locked out while you're driving. That's going to engage the front to the rear on your rear axles, giving you traction on both sets instead of just your forward. It goes to your forward and your forward rear. This off road feature here, traction control. What that does is that is a mechanism that's built inside of the Bendix brake system which gives you the traction control. So you'd push that on when you're in snowy conditions. What that does is that if you start getting slip on one axle, it diverts power over to the other side so you can pick up traction on that side. This here is your hill hold assist button. So typically that is always going to be on. So if you're sitting there with the load, you're on a bit of a hill. When you go to let off the brake, the truck won't roll back immediately. It holds it on the hill with the braking system till you put your foot into the fuel and allows it to propel you forward without slipping backwards and hitting somebody behind you. I don't really suggest using this feature or disengaging that feature for much of anything. You'll know if and when you need it on the road but that should be in the on position all the time, not in the off. This is for switch for your lighting inside right here and heated mirror. So lights, heated mirror, this one here will, if it's in the center position, that's going to be when you open a door off, just completely turns it off and then up just turns it on all the time for inside. Here are bunk lights. So this is for, the lower one is for the foot lights.  So your auto climate control system here, this is used in conjunction with your auto start stop system. So when you have that engaged and you engage this, that's going to activate the engine, turn on the engine and keep the inside of the truck either warm or cold. And so you can use this along with these, the dial setting down here of where you want either the heat or the air conditioning to be where you're most comfortable. But using that will keep you from having to idle the truck all the time and keep the inside of the truck at a temperature that fits you best without burning up a lot of fuel. These switches here are really no longer used. They used to be for a security setting. So you'd have to have a six digit code and you'd have to push it in the sequence of the six digits to be able to put the truck into gear and start driving. But that has been discontinued and that will be coming out of these trucks. Here's a little bit of some of your lane departure stuff here. Active and active. You always want that active and running. There you go.  Don't go out of bounds. Keep it between the lines if you can. And over here again is your auto start-stop feature for the truck. So at night when you go to bed you can push this and it'll set it up into a position. Or in the middle of the night, if your battery starts to drain down and get to a certain point, it doesn't kill your batteries depending on what you have plugged into the truck. Down here this is your switches for your AC for the bunk. This will raise and lower the temperature. Pushing it up, pushing it down. We'll also show it up here on the dash along with the fan. It'll show you the fan speed. It'll show you the temperature either hot or cold. Here is for your rear air suspension. So if you want to release the air out of your air bags at the rear, you're just gonna push that. It's gonna drain them out. If you want them to go back up, then you just push that, it's gonna air up the air bags. The good thing about our switch on this is if you release all the air out of your air bags and let's say it's to get underneath of a trailer that's sitting a little bit lower and you wanna take all the air out of it and drive back underneath that trailer. Once you do that, you may forget about it and get distracted. Our truck again at five miles an hour when you go to pull away, will air those air bags back up if you end up forgetting. If you try to run with no air in the rear air bags, you can end up damaging your transmission, drive shaft, and center bearings. Here's the fifth wheel slide. This will allow you to push this and slide the sliding part of the fifth wheel back and forth the position load. And then this is the fifth wheel unlock feature. Pushing that will unlock the jaws of the fifth wheel once you put the landing legs down and you're ready to pull away. If asked on the dash to run a manual regen, this is where you're gonna start a parked regen. You may be asked to do this by maintenance if you're out on the road, they're gonna ask you to push and hold this to get the truck to go into a manual regen. Above the up here on the sun visors, you've got this one sun visor which pulls away and goes over here to set up for sun blocking on this side. This side here will give you a telltale of all of the different things that can pop up on the dash relating to warning lamps for your after treatment system. So if it's your DPF that may be getting clogged or it needs to go through a burn, this is gonna tell you what all those lights mean. And this is gonna tell you what, if you're having an issue with your death, diesel exhaust fluid, these little telltales will also tell you what those lights on the dash are gonna mean too. That'll save you from having to pull over, make a phone call to break down, letting them know you got a light. This will tell you what those lights mean. If you do need to stop, if you don't over here, this breaks it down even more, just kinda gives you more of an idea. So an inverted triangle, service at your first available opportunity. That doesn't mean pull over and call for a record. Means continue on with your load, get it dropped and if you're in an area where you have one of your locations, terminals, take it over to the terminal, have them look at it. This one here that shows the amber colored engine, that is not an engine stop. It's called the mill light. And what that does is that lets you know of things in the emission system that need attention. That's at the first convenient opportunity. So that doesn't mean drop your load, take it right to the shop and look at it. It means get it over there when you can, maybe you've got a little scheduled downtime coming up, get it looked at then, or you have another little break in the action, call in, get it scheduled with the shop you're going to see. When you see this red stop sign, that means you've got about 30 seconds to get that truck pulled over to the side of the road, find a safe place to get over to the side, get that truck stop. You could be in the middle of something prior to what we call a catastrophic event.  And at that point call breakdown just as quick as possible. Breakdown has the ability to look at your truck through our systems here. We have an N2 telematic system that is right up here in the overhead. In this overhead, this communicates constantly up through Navistar's portal down into Knight's portal and will show the current codes that are taking place with your truck. So Knight can look at them, a dealer can look at them, they can pull them up, they can see the codes that are taking place with your truck to better help get you repaired and back on the road. It's part of our systems too, in looking at the codes that will pop up. We can also tell you where the closest possible parts will be for the repair and a breakdown on a trouble tree for the most likely cause of what's taking place with your truck. Down here on the heater in AC setup, you've got all the different places where you can divert air in the truck there. Of course, again, this is where you're gonna be for the temperature control setting, pushing it on when you push it once and the light goes off. That means there's no AC happening, of course. Push it again, the green light comes on. That means AC. There's an auto button over here. So just like in your car, if you push that, now you're on an auto feature. You can hear when I push that, because I've got it set so low to 60 or low that all of a sudden the fan motor kicked on on a much higher level. That's just trying to get the cool air pushed into the truck to get it down to the setting that you've asked for. So typically when I drive the trucks around, I've always got it on the auto and said I like it cold, we live here in Phoenix. And so I like it nice and cold in the cab. It's gonna be a little different if you're running in Minnesota or the original 13. It's gonna be pretty cold up there, so it's gonna be probably just the opposite. So, and then if you just push that off, that'll go back to the standard AC and then you can just set that. It's still blowing, but it's not blowing as heavily as it was before. One thing that I'll point out on our dash, we have within the cab five different USB ports. So these connection ports right here, for you to charge a cell phone, a tablet, you name it. You've got one in the radio, which will also connect to your phone, which will play the music that you have on your iPhone or your Samsung through here. And then also these auxiliary power ports right here. That's just like the old cigar lighters where you can push in those types of phone chargers or what have you in there. So there's one there, another one up here. And then there's three more back behind us, four more back behind us in the sleeper area, three down below and one up top. So there's a number of places for you to plug things in, charge from the dash, charge from the sleeper to give you the ability to have things plugged in and keep things powered up while you're out there on the road. I'm gonna show you a little bit over on the passenger seat, something that you'll wanna know too. It'll help you out on the road, especially if you have an electrical function that goes down, the first place you can check to see what's going on with your truck. Okay, here from the passenger side, the one thing that I think is most important for you to know about, you may or may not see it.  Now inside of here is where you're gonna have your relays and what we call a manual reset circuit breakers. A lot of manufacturers will put in an automatic reset circuit breaker. We don't necessarily believe in that. It'd be like putting in an automatic reset circuit breaker in your home. If something's going bad, the reason why they trip is because there's something wrong in the circuit. So for you to be able to identify what's wrong in that circuit with these manual reset circuit breakers, you can look from your tell-tale here that's on the backside of this cover. It tells you what each one of these circuits is responsible for. So if something stops working, you can pull this off, find where that's at on this legend here, then come back underneath here where all of your fuse panel block is, and you can find exactly where the reset circuit breaker is in the position. There are also some smaller fuses, just blade-style push-in fuses that are in here too. I'd suggest making sure that you have a packet of those replacements that you can keep in the truck in case one of those burns out. You can just get it replaced while you're out there on the road. Above here, you've got plenty of storage room capabilities. I'll show right here too. You've got mirrors that are up underneath on each one of these visors. You have lights that are just above here to shine down over the top of you here and the driver and passenger space. And then the storage capability you have up here.   I'm gonna show you also something on this driver seat that some people don't know about, but really opens things up for a driver. When you're down and you're at a truck stop and you want a little more room and you've got your TV going on the back panel, not everybody wants to sit there on the bunk and watch a TV program. They want to watch it from the driver's seat or some other place that feels more like a lounge chair. Something opens up your space. I know a lot of you, this is your home.  Maybe even play a video game on your TV. This feature on the driver's seat, which I'll show you allows you to swivel that chair around and face back into the birth compartment where you can sit comfortably in the chair and interact with whatever you've got going on back there. So I'll show you that here. What we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and swivel your seat completely around to put it back into the sleeper area. To be able to utilize that way. What you're gonna do on that is you're going to reach up front, slide the seat all the way forward.   So now you've got a place right here where you can sit facing back into your sleeper area where you can watch a program live your life. You've got work here that you can set things up here on your platform desk that you can work on from the bunk. But this kind of opens up your space to give you the ability to kind of live inside the truck and not have it all closed down. We've got your refrigerator here. We put a brand new refrigerator in these. Larger freezer, deeper freezer, allows you to put much more things inside that freezer area there. Getting a lot of good feedback from the drivers how they like this one a lot better than the other one. The other one was shorter, squattier and didn't have the capacity inside the freezer area that was wanted. Probably can't get enough freezer area, I get that. This is a much improved setup with our refrigerator system. Then we have our storage capacity inside of the LT, is second to none. We've got drawer here set up where you can store all of your maybe books and logs or whatever it is that you might have inside of here. Then an upper compartment here, shelving system for clothes, food, whatever it is that you might have that you wanna store in this upper. Then there is a storage for the upper bunk that you can store back up under here up on top. You can't see it from here, but there's additional storage on top of this storage if there's a person sleeping in the upper bunk. The great thing about the upper bunk on this year's truck, starting in mid-July, this one was built just before that. We now have the fold up bunk. So this bunk will fold up completely up against the back wall opening up this space. That's I think much more important for the individual driver, not the team, but the individual driver that likes to be able to feel like they have that space inside the cab. So folding it back up up there, you still get the fan that's up on the roof. It just moves it from the back panel to the roof. We've got plenty of lighting in here down below. These indirect lights here, this light here. And then as you can see, place to bolt down a microwave here maybe and then another feature over here. You have power on both sides, power right here to plug in there. And also on the opposite side on the wall where you've got the USB and another power here to whatever it is that you bolt down there. On this back wall, here's your TV bracket. Lows you to position that right where you sleep. You can sit there and watch TV really well. And then you plug in here with your antenna there to be able to hook up and watch either, I don't know, whatever form of TV you watch or play the video games of your choice. And then overhead storage right in here on both sides for you to be able to put clothing, whatever it is that you care to store in here. On the, again, the windows here, I was showing you before, we have the pop outs. They're really easy to maneuver. You just push it up. They pop out, lower it down, closes them up. This side, we have a wardrobe. Inside the wardrobe, there's a hanger bar inside here for you to be able to hang your clothing in, put shoes down in the bottom. And then this is your first step to get into the upper bunk right here using this rubberized step over here on this compartment. And then another one over here on this one along with a grab handle up top. Plenty of storage over here. This one actually has additional access to where you can put items in here and then access them through a little cubby hole that's right in there from the upper position of the bunk up there. If there's a, again, if it's a team, somebody that'll be sleeping up top that allows them to access the things that they wanna get to when they're up there. One thing I'll show over here, this is the area for your CB. All the connections are in here for your CB. This speaker up here and this speaker are generally for your collision avoidance system. Also for your CB. So actually the CB one is right here. This is CB, those are collision avoidance. So your CB will come through here. Those are your collision avoidance. This up here is for paper towel rolls.  As you can see up top, we've got plenty of lighting, again here, overhead here, under here, right here, over there, two up top just above you there. And then up top here in the upper sleeping area, you've got your main dome light up here, which controlled from the dash. It can also be controlled from up here. So if somebody's sleeping on the top bunk, they can just push that on and off to control that interior light. Curtains that slide completely across, they snap in here closing off the, completely closing off the driver's area from the sleeper birth area to keep it cool or warm or whatever you, separate AC and heater system for the back, all controlled right there from that panel on the back panel, which also has this light here, which that turns on and off the upper lights. So you can control the intensity of the lights up top if you want them to be brighter, if you want to turn them off. Then also right here, this also gives you the ability to turn on and off that dome light that's directly above. And then also the indirect light that was underneath the bunk.  Then here's your fan speeds for the bunk. Here's your hot and cold. Again, there's another auxiliary power plug right there. And then here's your radio with controls to operate your radio from back here too. We've got vents all over the place in the back here to keep the cool air flowing, the warm air flowing, whatever you're needing. And then the SPAR will also help keep you warm in the winter. Speakers against back wall for you to hear well. And many other appointments that we have inside the cab, along with under the bunk storage, which I'll show you. These underneath storage compartment, two different latches you just push up at the same time from underneath, that'll pop it up. That allows you to access anything that you might have down under the storage area. That's your SPAR heater. That's the one that will run when you're not idling the truck. And that does need some servicing every so many hours of use. So that'll be something you'll talk to your shop about after you've had it running for a certain amount of time to have them check and have it cleaned. Outside of that, we're so glad that you've decided to purchase the International Brand of Trucks. I'm always here to help. You can always call RWC Group in Phoenix, Arizona. Ask for Sean Rasmussen. If you have any questions involving your truck, I'd be happy to answer them for you to try to give you the best experience that you can have with our products. Thank you so much for your time.


Good evening. This is Bill Hamilton of the DuPont Company speaking from the stage of the playhouse in Wilmington, Delaware, where the DuPont Cavalcade of America brings you Christmas greetings, as we did last year, with a program of the world's best-loved Christmas carols sung by the DuPont Chorus, 129 men and women of the DuPont Company, under the direction of Daniel W. Boyer. Later in this program, Mr. Walter S. Carpenter Jr., President of the DuPont Company, will speak. Our program begins as the chorus sings the joyous Carol of the Bells. Carols have blossomed from the hearts of people all over the world. The men and women who sing these carols for you tonight work in DuPont laboratories, DuPont offices, and DuPont plants. A cross-section of the company which brings you better things for better living through chemistry. This chorus came into being four years ago, when a small group of men and women began to meet regularly and sing for their own enjoyment. And now we hear them in two well-loved carols, first one of England's finest, when the Crimson Sun is set. The 18th-century Latin composition in Ducci Hubelo, with the ever-popular and early Italian lyric, Low, Howl, Rose, Air, Blooming. Ducci, Mary, Gentleman, these two sacred and traditional carols dedicated to the Nativity. First, the well-known children's carol by Martin Luther, a way in a manger, angels from the realms of glory, a reverent and inspiring carol familiar to us all. Oh, holy night. Mr. J. Clark Gonzalez of the DuPont Chamber's Works, Pensgrove, New Jersey, will be the soloist. And the organ accompaniment will be played by Mr. Branson Fry of the DuPont Engineering Department.  DuPont, Cavalcade of America, Christmas greeting by the DuPont Chorus of 129 voices coming to you from the stage of the Playhouse in Wilmington, Delaware. At this time, we are here from the president of the DuPont Company, Mr. Walter S. Carpenter Jr., Mr. Carpenter. The Christmas broadcast of the DuPont Company last year gave me an opportunity to greet the Cavalcade listeners, and particularly the men and women on the DuPont plants and offices throughout the country who are my business associates. Tonight that opportunity comes again, and I welcome it. The DuPont Company has, this last year, produced more goods for the American people and for shipment abroad than in any peacetime year in the company's history. The good work of 74,000 men and women across the country made this possible. But good work as individuals would not have made it possible. There had to be, and there has been, a fine spirit of cooperation throughout the company. That same cooperation and harmony that has made possible the beautiful singing of the Christmas carols that we have so enjoyed tonight. I want to thank all of them for this. Meanwhile, upon the broader scene, we find men and women and children in other lands less fortunate. We cannot close our ears or our hearts to the appeals that come to us from over the seas, from our fellow human beings who suffer still from the unhealed wounds of the war. They appeal to us to lessen the hardships of cold and of hunger throughout the winter.  We hope too that in doing this, we will encourage those people to seek and perhaps one day attain those benefits of freedom and liberty which we here enjoy and which contribute so much to our capacity to wage them in this period of great emergency. May this Christmas prepare the way for a new year of hope for all of us. Thank you, Mr. Carpenter. The Cavalcade of America continues with the depart chorus, singing one of the best loved of all Christmas carols. O come, all ye faithful. Next to this next group is the great holiday anthem, All Men Now Sing by Johann Sebastian Bach. 15th century Coventry Corpus Christi play. We hear an adaptation from the pageant of the Sherman and the tailor, Coventry Carol. For many years the world over. Deck the hall, Gram of Christmas carols, with what is probably the favorite of all Christmas hymns, Silent Night. We are asking our audience here in the theater to join in singing with the chorus. And we hope that you at home from coast to coast will sing along with us too, if not in voice, at least in your heart. Of the 129 voices, accompanied by Virginia V. Williams of Depart's Organic Chemicals Department, is under the direction of Daniel W. Boyer and has brought you Christmas carols of many lands and many times. This is the second year the depart chorus has been heard Christmas week on our nationwide Cavalcade broadcast. And we hope you will accept these carols with their words of inspiration and good tidings as the expression of heartfelt Christmas greetings from the men and women of the depart company. Next Monday night, the Cavalcade of America brings you one of Hollywood's loveliest and brightest young stars. Joan Caulfield in an original radio play, Power Tan's Daughter. We invite you to listen. This is Bill Hamilton of the depart company, wishing you all a very merry Christmas. No broadcasting company.


Welcome, folks. We had the Dow. Dow industrials closed down 42. We had the Nasdaq up 152. S&P's right now are up 5. This is quad-witching, folks, okay? The volume is going to be explosive, and I don't like to be the bearer of bad news, but guess what, folks, okay? You went to a low, low, and you're going to have explosive volume. That is saying that lower prices are coming at us. If we go take a look at the Dow industrials right now and let's see, they're going to keep coming in. Oh, yeah, look at this, man. 2.8 billion versus 1.4. What I've found is this. Composite, look at this. 6.9 billion versus 5.6.6. This is the building cause, folks, to get to lower price. So it's going to be a long couple months here. Gold. What the gold contract did out here, bottom line, is that you pulled back. You did pull back with light volume. Only 136,000 contracts traded. So that's a nice pullback. I mean, that's how that shakes out. And this is going to be about the good old dollar. And so what you're going to have happen is this, is that Sunday, folks, what you do have, Monday is a holiday. You'll have the futures open Sunday night for a bit. Then they open Monday morning, I think, to 12. And that's it. You know, the dollar today, it got up to 105.085. But then you're going to see, here, watch this. This is, you know, I don't have the volumes on the dollar. So that's always a little bit tougher. But on the weekly basis, it failed to close over the 105.005. And it did go up and test the 105.085. It got higher than that this week. Well, it got a lot higher. It got all the way up to 105.088. Closed underneath. So we'll see how this dollar is going to shake out. You know, if the dollar is going to get to this 121 area, that is going to be a monster problem outside of the fact that you can go buy some nice euros and go to the Amalfi Coast and kind of groove out the Amalfi Coast for a mouth of tube because that would bring the euro down to 87 if we go to 121. Now, in both cases, they both traded there. They traded there in 2001. I remember it well. Have a great weekend, folks. Have a safe weekend. Happy Father's Day out there. Make it a great one. Come back and visit Tommy Tuesday morning. Kicks us off, 9 o'clock in the morning. Great show, folks.


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering IBM Edge 2015, brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to Las Vegas, everybody. I'm Dave Vellante. This is theCUBE and we're at IBM Edge 2015, our fourth year at IBM Edge. We're here in Las Vegas at the Sands. Alex Chen is here. He's a business line executive for XIV. And Oscar Levina is a project manager at ITNOW, a service provider in Barcelona. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Good to see you. So, well, let me start with you, Oscar. So, first trip to Edge? Or have you been to other Edge before? No, it's first time here. First time, what do you think? What do you make of the? That's great. Great session, a lot of people. Good group, audience, right? I mean, the content is good. Meeting some peers. You come to a lot of these shows and how do you put Edge into context from an IT practitioner's perspective? Well, as a customer, I mean, it's great to be here because you, you know, you got a lot of new announcements. You got a lot of, you know, news from IBM, new products. So you get in touch with some other people and, you know, you can share your problems, your daily problems with them and, you know, how to solve them. So that's pretty fun. Pretty cool. So Alex, you know, XIV's had a very interesting history. You know, small Israeli company. That's right. Very little revenue. IBM paid in retrospect a rather low price comparative to some of the other virtualization array companies that got acquired. I recall it was around 350 million. We've seen exits of 2 billion plus 2.5 billion, you know, billion eight.  But give us the update now on XIV. What's the status? Certainly, certainly. So XIV, you know, as the, as exists today, is our, you know, one of our premier cloud offerings. As you all know that XIV users loves, you know, once you kind of gone XIV, you don't go back because of the simplicity, the great scale, easy to manage, easy to scale and easy to deploy. And efficiency as well come with energy start certification. The high density comes with it. Last year, towards the end of the year, we upgraded the capacity of XIV to be about half a petabyte in a single rack. And this year, we are currently, we announced today the availability of wheel time compression integrated with the grid architecture. And with that wheel time compression, we can hold more than two petabytes of storage in a single rack and also reduce the total cost of ownership significantly. Further, since as a part in the enterprise storage space. Yeah, so XIV, I think of XIV, the architecture spreads data out. Correct. Right, so it's used high density, high capacity, SATA devices, so about driving cost down, that was always the sort of ethos of XIV. So how, Oscar, tell us your story of XIV. What was life before XIV and why'd you bring it in and what are you doing with it? Well, it was back into 2012 and we need a new storage solution that as Alex mentioned, it was easy to manage. It got a lot of performance and a lot of capacity with a very little footprint is when XIV came into place. So we did test it and we love it for the very first moment. So we are building our private cloud reliant on XIV. So far we have like almost six petabytes of storage alone, I mean, only on XIV and it's running really, really good. One thing I like the most of XIV is, it's consistent performance. So no matter how hard applications try to write or read data out of the box, I mean, response times doesn't keep bouncing up and down, so for us, you know, for me as a storage manager, XIV makes my life much easier. So can you describe that a little bit further, add some color to that? I mean, in what sense, what was life like before? What was like after and how do you quantify that? Well, big difference probably is that before you had to do like a lot of tuning on your storage, you know, to survive to the applications. And right now, I mean, we have a capacity, we put different workloads on an XIV and you forget about it. So it's quite simple in that sense. So tuning was a big chunk of your time prior to, I think of arms and legs, you say, left leg, left arm, right arm doing tuning. What percent of your time roughly did you spend on tuning then versus now? Well, it depends on the week, but. Maybe take it in like a 12 month chunk. I know it's a hard question because it varies, right? And you're putting on fires, but. But probably it was like 10, 15% of my time. Okay. And now it's barely, you know, close to zero. Zero, okay. So you gave to 10 or 15% of your time. Oh yeah, definitely. Tuning's never that fun, you know, you're never going to get it right permanently. So what other, so I mean, basically, if I understand it, XIV made your life easier, simplified, what else would you spend time doing that you don't spend time doing now? Well, management, I mean, managing the box is something that it's really easy. It's got a nice graphical interface so you can just, you know, map new volumes in barely a few seconds. So deploying capacity, moving stuff around. Oh yeah. Servicing applications, you mentioned performance tuning. So adding capacity. So if you think about that pie chart of where you spent your time, how much of your time got freed up? You mentioned 10 to 15% on tuning. What about other sort of mundane, non-revenue producing tasks? You know, how much more time did you gain percentage wise? Well, it's hard to tell, but I would sell it 25, 30%. Really? Yeah. So that including the performance tuning. Yeah. So okay, so a third, almost a third of your time is essentially freed up now because of XIV. What do you do with that time? Some of the things. Yeah, but they're like what? Like come to edge. They come to edge, okay.  That's right. Yeah, thinking about, you know, thinking about new solutions. Asking Alex, you know, to bring new features to XIV. Okay. Okay, and so, speaking of new features, real-time compressions, the newest feature. That's right. And that's brand new. You don't have that installed yet or do you actually have a complete... We are better testing actually. You are, okay. How's that work? I'm a customer of XIV and I'm not a beta customer. How do I get real-time compression? Do I flick a switch? Is that a software update? Yeah. Is there a fault? Is it a full report to charge for that? Well, so first of all, real-time compression is released in the Gen3 code. So all models of Gen3 are, you just have to upgrade the code and you get real-time compression. You get a 45-day free trial license. So anybody, you know, there's no key enabled. They accept the license, you go to this website, you get a 45-day trial license. And what's really good about it is that in this 45 days, you'll get a very good understanding of how much capacity you'll save. Because inside of XIV GUI integrated is by loan how much capacity you can save if you enable that compression. It was one click a button. And how much capacity you have saved by enabling the compression. So again, all Gen3 clients on their existing system upgrade their microcode, get the real-time compression, get the 45-day trial, go start using it and see the benefit of it. Now it is a license, it is a separately purchased, because it's capacity related. It is for a very reasonable price. You can purchase real-time compression on the existing systems. Now, we are also announcing for limited time only because we're trying to get as much clients to use the real-time compression as possible, at least in North America. And we'll down the road look at the worldwide as well for new systems that are purchased between now and end of September. So until end of three Q, you get free real-time compression and a subscription for a year. For a free year? For a year. Well, after that is software AMA, but you get the perpetual license sort of speak up front cost, one-time license charge. Okay, so the business case, the value proposition is less storage required. You get some kind of compression factor. What have you seen so far in data? Is it too early to tell or can you share with us some early results?  So it's essentially doubling your capacity almost? No, no, 93 percent is more than three. Ten times.   Right, right, yeah.  Right, right. So, okay, so you're seeing a 10x compression ratio. Yeah, in average it's probably like 70 percent in the world with tests. And as Alex mentioned, I mean, it's really easy to deploy. I mean, and what is really cool is that it tells you upfront how much space you're going to gain. So it tells you, you know, which volumes it's worth, you know, to compress them, which volumes are not worth to compress them. And for a capacity point of view and a company as mine that we double this amount of storage every three years. So you can imagine the amount of storage that you can, you know, save using compression. So it's very, very promising. Are you charging him 10 times more? No, absolutely not. We're bringing a lot of value into this enterprise platform that's already better than five nine availability. Have, you know, all the enterprise functions and features. Now just imagine stop paying for, you know, the, you know, several dollars per gigabyte price of capacity by just buying the software innovation that's available on all gen three machines. So we're getting close to our time, but I wanted to ask about software defined in Spectrum. Absolutely. The XIV code has been extracted fundamental part of your Spectrum offering. How's that going? You know, what do you think about? I'm interested in what Oscar thinks about software defined, but give us the update on that. Well, so as you know, we launched software defined for Spectrum Accelerate in one Q, a G8 in March. And it is, you know, we extracted the software out of XIV so that's available to run on any virtual machine with a recommended hardware configuration. A lot of our clients sees a lot of value in these use cases in development tests, in remote and some are in disaster recovery. They're looking at perhaps leveraging Spectrum Accelerate for lower cost of a DR solution. But I think the predominant use case is for people who wants to build private clouds or public cloud infrastructure for MSP because these are the folks that has the engineering knowledge and has the hardware capacity. They're just looking at acquiring the software and the intellectual property and the software form factor so they can apply to their existing infrastructure. Those are the clients that are going to see the most benefit from this offering. So your service provider, does that appeal to you? Is that something that you're looking at or are you sort of happy with the current situation? Yeah, definitely. I mean, we're looking always for new solutions and I'm here at Edge, so I'm looking forward to get a lot of knowledge on software defined. And I have a 45-day trial version, USB, hand it to him and 200 other clients. The freebies are given away here. Exactly, exactly. Come to Edge, get some freebies from IBM. But okay, but so it's more than just sort of a industry buzzword, do you Oscar? Something you're seriously looking at. Oh yeah, definitely. It gives you more flexibility, better cost, combination. I believe it's going to give us more flexibility in moving data around. It's one of the biggest problems, you know? Yeah. To get stuck in an array, so you have to move data around. You talked before about how much time do you spend doing something, and probably, you know, moving data around from one solution to another solution is, it was quite a time that we've been spending. And the bigger it gets, the slower it gets when you start moving around. All right, we're getting this time, we have to go. Okay. Alex and Oscar, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE, it was really fun. Thank you, appreciate it. All right, keep right there everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE, we're live from Edge 2015 in Las Vegas, right back.