Welcome to the CNCF on-demand webinar, reduce the carbon footprint of your cloud native workloads now. I'm Robert Duffner from the product team at IT Renew. Today, we welcome Andy Randall, Chief Commercial Officer at Kinvolt and Eric Riedel, Senior VP of Engineering of IT Renew. At the end of the discussion, we will answer some questions, so please stay with us. With that, I'll turn it over to Eric to get the discussion going. All right, thanks, Robert, for the introduction. Thanks, Andy, for joining us for the webinar. What we wanna talk about today is a topic maybe doesn't come up that often in CNCF circles is the interaction with the hardware that underlies all of the infrastructure that CNCF and the world builds on from day to day. Luckily for most people, you don't have to worry about your hardware because there's those of us in our corners of the industry that are taking care of what lies underneath. And occasionally, we just like to surface a little bit of what we're doing. And our focus today based on some of the Sesame products that we have at IT Renew is focusing in this week of Earth Day on the carbon footprint that that code provides, or sorry, that hardware provides as well as how it interacts with the large scale ecosystem. So that's why we asked Andy to join us, longtime software open source advocate and implementer. And so hopefully we'll outline how openness applies to hardware as well as it does to software and how all of it can be used to be more efficient, more efficient in the software and the systems and the applications, and more efficient in the way that we provide and produce the hardware underneath. Andy, do you wanna talk a little bit about Kinvoke and the software infrastructure? So we'll start at the top and work our way down to the hardware. Yeah, absolutely. And I think the first thing to point out is when we thought about how do we build this solution, we wanted it to be open from top to bottom. So it's an open hardware architecture and an open software architecture. And IT Renew and Kinvoke have really collaborated together as a team to deliver this. And that kind of goes back to some of the founding principles that Kinvoke was established on over five years ago now, right at the beginning of the cloud native revolution. We started with a team that had a lot of expertise in Linux, a lot of the low level layers of the cloud native stack, and built on that with container technologies and Kubernetes expertise as well. The kind of values that we set up the company around were all around open source, so contributing, cooperating, community, welcoming. And this kind of embodies both how we work with IT Renew to deliver the open systems that we're gonna talk about more as well as how we wanna work with the users, with the customer community and other vendors and partners out there. So that's kind of a little bit of how we at Kinvoke think about things. And we take this expertise, we take these values and kind of the direction we're pushing in is all around how do we build a truly enterprise grade cloud native stack for deploying applications that's 100% open source and community driven. Of course, we base this around Kubernetes and we put a lot of other software together with that and we do integration with the hardware systems and that's what we're gonna talk about in the rest of the session today. Beautiful, yeah, thanks Andy. So just to briefly introduce IT Renew as a company has been around almost 20 years but Sesame as a line of rack integrated server storage and networking is a little bit more than two years old. So we're a little bit on the startup phase but building on an established base, right? And the other thing that we're building on similar to the community of CNCF and the community of Linux that so much of our software is based on is the open compute project, right? And the open compute project is just under 10 years old was originally started by Facebook. There were other hyperscalers before most notably Google, Amazon that had started innovating in hardware on their own and then Facebook and a number of others and Arista and a set of small set of vendors were responsible for bringing that into the open, right? And saying, hey, can we do hardware innovation in the same ways that we do software innovation, right? We already collaborate globally, right? The hardware industry is global in its implementation lots of dependencies, lots of supply chain that we've seen recently, you know certainly pluses and minuses but this is how we've built the industry, right? With global and worldwide collaboration but we was often being done in a one on one or a one on a few small number of vendors, right? I personally spent nine to last 10 years at EMC and then Dell after the merger we did lots of collaborations with lots of vendors and different hardware partners, different software partners but it was often done in the service of our ultimately proprietary platforms, right? And so what Open Compute does is it brings that community explicitly into the open and what you see in the individual that I have up there's a huge breadth of projects that over the last nine years that community has been able to bring together. So there's over a hundred active projects nearly 200 projects all told and they span a very wide dynamic range of hardware and related systems, right? All the way from data center facilities so this is literally about the physical infrastructure the concrete and the pipes and the cooling and so on of data center infrastructure where the teams have been able to innovate in incredible ways to bring efficiency way down at any amount of electricity and water that is wasted cooling or otherwise kind of managing the data center could better be applied to the actual computing, right? And so there's a number of metrics there that have been much reduced from 30 and 40% overhead to sometimes four and 5% overheads today that data centers are able to provide. Similarly, in terms of server innovation this rethinking again starting nine years ago sometimes longer with some of the other hyperscale vendors of what is really necessary inside a server what is core and what is context? And there's similar design simplifications that have taken place over that timeframe, right? That reduce the total number of components which makes the system simpler but as a side effect also makes it more reliable if there's less components there's less components that fail makes it more efficient and if there's a smaller number of larger components then there can be a greater mechanical and a greater electrical efficiency. For example, we use larger fans that move a larger volume of air for the same amount of input electrons. We use larger power supplies that have less waste in their conversion factors, right? And so all of those end up being multiplicative effects to both the server specific design and the rack and power design. The final thing I wanna mention while we have this visual up is you'll notice that open compute includes not just hardware vendors in the list, right? Intel, Wewin, Quanta, et cetera, Arista but also end user companies such as Facebook, AT&T, Microsoft and other component vendors, right? You see Edgecore, Delta Electronics. And so we're really bringing to the table the component vendors, right? Those who designed the power supplies and know more about the power supply than you ever really wanted to know. The system integrators who are bringing those together into operational systems. And then the end users who are like, this is how it actually operates in the data center. And so that has been incredibly powerful for us in the hardware space as I would assume is very similar in the software space, Andy. Yeah, absolutely, Eric. I mean, I think if you look at the velocity that the cloud native community has moved out over the last few years it wouldn't have been possible in a proprietary world. I mean, it's all a result of kind of collaborations that we see between vendors and end users all coming together, working in the open. Right, yeah, absolutely. And then just to nod to the worldwide aspect of what we're doing. So Robert is in California and Silicon Valley. I'm actually in a seaside town south of Boston and Andy is in Germany in Berlin, Metropolis there. So we're even this webinar is in its production global. And of course the audience will be likely in every time zone around the world. And that's really provided us a lot of power and synchronicity there. So let me talk a little bit about then the hardware footprints that underlie what we're doing here, right? So I've given the backdrop of open compute designs. So what we're showing now in the visual is a couple of the solutions from IT Renew. And if you start in the center, so in the center what we have is an integrated Sesame rack, storage, compute, networking as it's ready to ship to one of our customers. And so we have a mix of compute nodes and storage nodes so that different workloads can use different aspects of the system, right? Well, when we then add the Kubernetes, the container orchestration system, then customers are able to get exactly the same type of flexibility that they're used to in now the public cloud which has exactly the same hardware underneath, right? There's lots of servers in serverless no matter how you do it. But what we're able to provide at the design level is that type of flexibility. So when we work with our customers, we ask how many containers are you gonna run? How many cores, how much networking bandwidth, so on. And then we'll take care of fitting that into a rack. As you see in the center here, there's a rack with about a dozen nodes and some high density storage at the very bottom of the rack. And then what you see on the right hand side is a three rack build out that is actually one part of a build out that we're doing together with a customer, a partner block heating in Amsterdam. So those three racks are part of an 18 rack footprint that block heating is using to manage a computing infrastructure. But then they're doing a second benefit in that they're using the exhaust heat, the waste heat from those racks, from the CPUs in those racks to heat up water which then heats up their greenhouses which is shown in the bottom. So not only do we use the hardware for cost efficient, energy efficient computing, but then the waste heat that is generated, conservation of energy. So every electron that goes in as power has to be exhausted as heat. We use that heat again or block heating uses that heat again to warm up their greenhouses and grow tomatoes. So we're really making use of not just we've taken the efficiency of the hardware to the kind of the ultimate level but we've also made additional use in this case of the energy that's dissipated, right? And then finally on the left hand side is a desk side unit. So this is something that has been quite popular for our engineers and for some of our customers during the pandemic. So this is a way to have a four or five node hyperscale cluster under your desk. So this unit plugs into a standard 110 electrical outlet, sits underneath your desk and has exactly the same nodes as would be found in the rack. So we use this, our engineers use this to design and develop the systems and our customers use this to do benchmarking and POCs. It also gives many of our customers a sense of what's possible in reimagining the footprint of computing. So there's a number of designs I won't go into in this discussion but for edge computing in all different types of wiring closets or the corner of a mall or a real estate scenario or a manufacturing facility where it really makes sense to not bring an entire rack but maybe three nodes, four nodes, five nodes but then there is a hundred or a thousand locations. So imagine a retail customer with a thousand physical stores each store has three or four servers and they wanna treat that as a 3000 to 5000 node Kubernetes cluster because it really is globally distributed has a global workload needs kind of orchestration and monitoring just as a data center infrastructure does but now it's widely distributed and with our capabilities of reimagining the hardware we're able to bring that to bear. And just because you were talking about global there Eric it's not just available with 110 volts at all there's also a 230 or 240 volts option, right? That's right, Andy. Thanks for the reminder. The crate, the box in fact comes with two cables so the same power supply can also be used in 220 volt companies. It actually gives a little bit more juice in some cases when we use it in the racks, right? So Andy do you wanna talk a bit about the analogous so what I've tried to present is gonna have some of the components and the details of how we build up a hardware stack. Do we wanna talk a bit about the software that then so now goes in reverse, right? Let's go further up the stack. Yeah, yeah, of course. And we always each of us looks at it from a different perspective. So from the software folks it's just, oh just give us some hardware that's the easy bit and the hardware folks think, oh the software that's the easy bit that runs on top but it's kind of where they come together that actually is kind of where the magic happens and that's what's so exciting about what we're doing here. And you see that in this chart here, it all starts with a lifecycle management, right? And what is that experience when you first start to use a Sesame rack? We've put a lot of effort into working together so that when you get that rack delivered everything is pre-configured. All the software you need is located on the management node so we can deploy to the rack in a matter of a few minutes. We know what servers are there and we don't have to pull down all of the images. So this enables us to do literally a single command to provision the rack how you want. Now there may be some configuration options you wanna set to adjust how it integrates with your network or things like that but essentially everything is there within the rack. And not just a deploy time but when there are updates the whole stack is designed to be able to take updates automatically deploy them into the rack and do rolling upgrades across the cluster. So that's super important from an operational perspective and just a kind of time to value. You don't have to think about assembling a whole set of components for networking and storage and monitoring and the actual Kubernetes piece itself and the operating system and security patches and all of that it's all just automated and streamlined. So that's a lot of value right there. The next layer up is kind of from the hardware. We build the system around the flat car containing Linux operating system has a lot of advantages for systems like this. So it's optimized not just for running containers. So it is a minimal distro so it just has what you need for running containers but we've also tested and qualified and verified it on the Sesame hardware so you know that it's gonna work and it's gonna keep working. It's also a very secure base as well. So the fact that you're running everything within containers means that you can think of the operating system as an immutable thing that only ever gets updated when you do a full OS update and you switch from the base partition that's currently running to an update partition. If that upgrade doesn't work, you switch back but you don't have to worry about package management. You don't have to worry about security vectors where malicious actors actually modify the operating system on disk, all of that's protected. So it's basically the best basis from an OS perspective for running cloud native workloads. Then onto that we deploy Kubernetes where the core of the Kubernetes experience is just vanilla upstream. There's no special distro version here with modified pieces. This is the open source community Kubernetes but on top of that then we have a curated set of components that we deploy. So for networking, for storage, for monitoring, et cetera. And those components, it's not just that we select the right components to deploy, that they work together, we test them, we give you defaults out of the box. So you rarely have to think about what are all of the configuration options I need to get these things working together. That's all set up by the installer and by default by the locomotive infrastructure. Part of those components are for monitoring and telemetry, so there's Prometheus with dashboards and you can see what's going on from the top of the stack through to some of the hardware monitoring pieces as well or in one dashboard. And then at the very top level, you have a management UI where there's a clean, extensible UI from seeing what's happening within the cluster which nodes there are, what pods are running and we're increasingly building this out with more and more capabilities in terms of what we call systems intelligence. So starting with plugins based on a technology called eBPF to do things like trace monitoring of SysCalls that your applications are performing. So it even stores these on disk out of a ring buffer from the kernel. So in the event that something crashes you can say what was happening up to the point that crashes helps you diagnose and debug things happening in your cluster and also identifying where you can enhance security. So for example, defining network policies it can listen out to the network traffic that's happening and then suggest network policies for you to apply into the cluster to further increase your security. So that's kind of the layers of the stack and I guess the key point here is everything here is 100% open source, 100% community driven. There's no proprietary pieces we're trying to get in and some kind of layer here. And what KinFault brings is both development but also curating of this stack and updates and making those updates available in an automatic way which is not just a day zero and a day one issue but it's the day two and thereafter and really thinking about that full lifecycle of the experience you're gonna have with this software deployment. Right, yeah, Andy and that day two and day end is really the most important part of all of this that the experience that we've been optimizing together with KinFault for 60 minutes from truck to workload. So that's an analogy I often give or a focus I often give for our customers that we can deliver a rack on sort of a week's lead time and then once it arrives on the truck, fully cabled, fully integrated and so we can roll it right into the data center, plug it into the floor for power, the wall for networking and be running workload 60 or 90 minutes later. And one key to that is also the pre-qualification and the implementation of that software infrastructure so that there's not suddenly surprises. Oh, the network driver or this cable doesn't plug into this connector which can often lead to weeks or more of delay, sort of days and weeks of delay, right? And then the last part to point out in that vein is that the install time, the setup time if it's 60 minutes or 90 minutes is only a small fraction of the lifetime of that system, right? That the most important thing is that it's gonna spend many years running workload and as much as we go back and forth about software versus hardware and all we've talked about here is infrastructure level, right? And the real heroes or the real people doing the work here are the application developers who since we're taking care of hardware infrastructure, software infrastructure they're able to worry about mobile applications, web applications, APIs, databases, all the things that really make computing work because we're taking care of the plumbing of both the hardware and the software. Absolutely, yeah, I mean, another way of putting what we're trying to do here, Eric, is to say we're trying to deliver an experience which is as close as possible to a managed Kubernetes service but you get it on-prem and you own the whole stack and it's open and that allows you and your developers to focus on what's running on top of that infrastructure stack. You should not be spending time worrying about which version of my networking plugin or have I got or which version of my storage plugin am I running? Just let us keep that up to date. Let us make sure that it works software together with hardware, you focus on the application that's getting deployed and everything that's around that because that's enough of a job, that's a full-time job. Right, right, and then similar for us, right? So we also don't want anyone to have to worry about the difference between RJ45 and SFP and QSFP and all the other protocols that are and standards that are at the hardware level. We'll take care of that in our qualification labs and in our production facilities, right? So then the last piece that I wanna get to is what we advertise at the front, so the carbon footprint, right? And so the next visual that I put up is specific to the carbon footprint of this equipment, right? And we've now laid in all the pieces that make this picture relevant, right? So what we've done in our hardware designs and with the open compute community is we've made the systems when they're running as efficient as possible, right? Low PUE, high density, high translation of electrons into useful work, right? We've made the software infrastructure as efficient as it can be, right? Streamlined operating system containers, orchestration monitoring, looking for things that are out of whack or using an unnecessary set of resources, kind of optimized resources, right? So the infrastructure has done all it can to make the system as efficient as possible, remove waste, if you will, waste in the hardware design, waste in the software layers, right? But at the end of the day, we're still gonna have a carbon footprint. And then there's one more aspect that the IT renew approach, the sesame approach brings to the picture which is illustrated here. And so what we're showing in this chart is on the left hand side, a sense of in the past year, the total number of new servers that were delivered in 2020, right? 46 million servers which constitute over 3 million tons of CO2 equivalents and over 6 million cars that were added to the road, right? And as we know, you know, the pandemic caused an increase in computing demand and so also an increase in computing production, right? To the extent that we have delays and so on hiccups in the supply chain, but the numbers for 2021 will be even significantly larger than this, right? So very large carbon footprint, right? And so what we're showing on the right hand side is a nine year CO2 equivalent comparison of a traditional model on the right hand side with the big blue bar and the big orange bar versus a sesame model. And what we're doing is we're saving in two ways, right? And one, we're reducing the operational footprint and that's the efficiencies that we've just been talking about, right? The efficiencies of open compute design, the efficiencies in the data center, some efficiencies in software and so on, right? So the operational phase, the power that is used by the systems while they are running is the orange bar and that's being reduced by being more efficient in the way that we design and build the systems, right? But that still leaves the energy that's being expended in what is here called the pre-use phase. So what we were also referred to as the embodied energy of those servers, right? So all of those servers, all the components, the highly integrated CPUs, the integrated memories, and networking interfaces, super dense, super complicated technology has to be fabricated with processes that are both energy intensive, water intensive in a lot of cases, not people intensive, because we've automated a lot of it, but the robots again need to be fed with electrons and water, right? And so what we show on the right hand side in kind of the standard today system is we show a customer that refreshes their hardware every three years. And so that means there is a pre-use burden and embodied energy burden every time they install new hardware in the system. So what we do with IT Renew is for the last 18 years, we've been in the business of decommissioning data center equipment and helping companies like the largest hyperscalers, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Uber Dropbox, kind of a general who's who of the hyperscale business, and we help them extend the life of their equipment. And then when they are done with it, then we create secondary and sometimes third uses for that equipment to reduce the blue bars. So we're squeezing out the pre-use by not building new servers. So if we're able to take a set of servers that are coming off the line from an existing hyperscale customer and extend their life years four through six, often the sweet spot, but years seven through nine can also be helpful to reducing the footprint. Then we're able to do a massive savings that is additive to the savings that we do in the orange bar, right? So the orange bar savings remain if we're more efficient with the electrons, more efficient with the infrastructure, more efficient with the applications, of course. All right, also think of the algorithms, right? O log N rather than O of N, it's still important ultimately, but we're able to provide an efficiency at the hardware layer. So that is a super powerful kind of innovation that we're bringing to the marketplace for our customers today. Andy, any commentary to wrap us up or about the footprint on the software side? No, I mean, I think it's increasingly a concern for companies across every industry, like what is their environmental footprint? And at the same time, digitalization is increasing and is increasing concern across every industry. So it's kind of logical that they come together. I think the other thing that intersects with this is cloud usage as well. And if one of the things we're trying to do here is to enable customers to basically mix and match where they put their workloads. In some cases, it'll make sense to put workloads in cloud and that might be energy efficient in some scenarios, but you can put workloads on-prem in a data center that you rent using this kind of solution and get better in many ways and environmental footprint and also much better from a cost perspective as well. So what this does is it allows you, it's another kind of tool in your toolbox to reduce the environmental footprint and cost optimize at the same time. Right, yeah, absolutely. Andy, I didn't mention this upfront, but probably for the Sesame product line at the moment, almost 50% of our customers are cloud service providers themselves, right? So the end users that are creating the applications, running the servers and systems, they're renting this infrastructure from the cloud service providers that are our customers, right? We also work with some of the hyperscalers to self-recertify, to self-extend, life-extend their hardware. So the footprint reduction that I'm talking about and the innovations in the hardware space are accessible to everyone.  Yeah, and one of the things that having Kubernetes-based cloud native software infrastructure here allows you to do is to do that workload placement either within this rack or another rack and on-prem in the cloud, a mix and match where you do that workload placement for maximum efficiency. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yep, so hopefully we've characterized kind of the hardware interaction, the software interaction. It's a solution that the two companies have worked on together. We're happy to make that available to the marketplace. So happy to find us for additional details. Robert, do we have any questions based on our session so far? Thanks, Eric. Well, we have some questions here. I guess we'll start with you. So Eric, do you expect to see the traditional hardware vendors joining the Open Compute project? Oh, absolutely, Robert. So as I alluded to, the Open Compute project is almost 10 years old and we've seen participation across the board. So HP, Dell, other what you would term traditional vendors have been active participants and throughout the system, right? They may not participate in all the tracks, but different vendors decide on different things that they're sharing and that they're interested in. But the benefits of the community have really accrued even to traditional players. One way that you see it very specifically is there's now a standard for an OCP networking card that is used in servers across the industry because it was something that was just a kind of a no-brainer for everyone to do. But absolutely, the innovations have also folded in to what would otherwise be considered proprietary products, just like it has with Linux and containers and so on. Okay, next question's for Andy. Andy, how do you manage updates to the cloud native stack, specifically your flat car container Linux and your Kubernetes engine? Yeah, no, it's great question, Robert, because it's something we think a lot about. How do we do this in a secure way and a way that works operationally because people want to have control over updates when they're applied. So we actually have a product, it's an open source project, which is our update server, and that basically allows each of the hosts within the rack to query what is the latest version of the OS and you can apply policies on that update server as to how fast and how automatically you want those hosts to update. And then that's coordinated between the OS and the Kubernetes layer. So when a new OS version goes out, which is fairly frequently because there are security updates from time to time, that's available then on the management node and then each of the hosts within the rack based on the policies you define for it, we'll just pick it up. But it winds down the workloads that are running on it. So because they're containers, you can do that. It's called cordoning and draining the node in Kubernetes speak, apply the new OS update and reboot. The Kubernetes layer updates and the component layer updates are somewhat similar. It can be detected, you can go into the UI, it'll say, hey, this version is out of date. There's a new one, do you want to apply? Or you can do it via a command line as well. So a lot of flexibility and we try and automate as much as possible. Okay, I guess this next question I'll throw both Eric to you and to Andy. What are the key drivers your customers consider when choosing to deploy their own hardware infrastructure versus going straight to one of the public cloud service providers? Yeah, Robert, when we address this, I think the straightforward thing, right? So I've been working in high scale computing for my entire career and have watched the evolution of the public clouds over the last 15 years. The real truth of the matter is that what the public cloud has allowed customers to do is separate out the different sets of concern. So we have customers that do all possible models that you could imagine between, you know, on-premise infrastructure with proprietary software to public cloud with shared software. So we have customers that own their facilities but want to lease the hardware. We have customers that buy their hardware and use managed services for the infrastructure layer. So they pay a company a monthly fee in order to manage their software infrastructure. And so then they pay only their developers, they don't pay an infrastructure company. So what cloud has really allowed customers to do is a la carte which pieces are kind of critical for them and which pieces can be outsourced and converted into a monthly fee. And so the public cloud converts it into an all-in monthly fee that includes in development of the hardware, deployment of the hardware, development of the infrastructure, deployment of the infrastructure, but we have customers that do every piece in between. So it really isn't a question of do I do on-premise or do I do cloud? The important thing is something Andy said in the main part of the session which is I design my applications as a set of services or microservices, a set of infrastructure to a common set of APIs, a common set of paradigms. And then I'm able to run that application on top of whichever infrastructure makes the most sense. And I'm able to float that infrastructure on top of whatever hardware makes sense. And so we have customers that are 20% public cloud, we have customers that are 80% public cloud, but there is whenever there is a need for on-premise hardware then IT renew can step in. And of course the software stacks like Kubernetes and flat car and locomotive are applicable whether it's on-prem or public. Andy, do you wanna add to that? Yeah, no, I think it's a great answer. I mean, this idea that cloud is both a pricing model as well as a separation of operational concerns that's kind of the innovation that it brought. And a lot of those things can be applied into on-prem as well. And that's one of the things that we've been trying to do is to enable that operational concern as we were saying in the main session. We don't want you to worry about spending a lot of time managing the infrastructure. Now, if I can take away a lot of that effort from you, maybe we can make it as easy, almost as easy to have hardware on-prem as it is to consume just virtual machines and cloud. Okay, a couple more questions. Eric, can you comment on the typical timeframes for the hardware operational phase you see with your customers? Yeah, absolutely, Robert. So the most important thing is there is no such thing as typical. So we absolutely have customers that are focused on, improving their infrastructure, increasing their infrastructure, squeezing out a last bit of efficiency. Most recently, for example, in AI type of workloads where there really is still a Moore's law of innovation, where a piece of hardware that was just announced last week at a GPU event is a factor of two and three more powerful than the system just 18 months ago. But there is also kind of a typical heavy weight of or heavy center centroid of computing where Moore's law isn't advancing as efficiently as it was. And then there's also a set of what are often considered secondary use cases in storage and other aspects of the infrastructure where the laws have always been different. So Criter's law in storage was always a very different one than Moore's law. And so as a result, once you think about which workload is being applied to which hardware and what are the life cycles of the various hardware, you find that there is no clean distinction. There are some drivers at three years because of financial reasons, but when you look at, there are customers that will have storage systems in place for six, seven, eight years because that's where the data lives and the data maybe isn't growing or maybe it is growing and they're very comfortable with those systems and APIs. And on the other extreme, there are compute maybe a GPU type workloads where there's a turnover in 16 or 18 months, right? And then in between maybe is networking, right? So we still have customers today where we're bringing them from the one gigabit era into 25 gigabit, right? And at the other end of the spectrum, we have customers that are starting to deploy 200 gigabit and 400 gigabit solutions, right? So the most important thing, Robert and for folks on the webinar here is there is no typical and what the systems that we've described allow you to optimize within whatever your timeframes are. If your timeframe is three years, if your timeframe is two years, if your timeframe is seven or eight years, the important thing is that we can look at the optimization across workloads, across on-premise, across public cloud as Andy's has alluded to and get the most efficiency across the board, right? And it's all enabled because we're collaborating and sharing on the lingua franca of the APIs and the workloads and the deployments. Okay, last question. I guess I'll vote to both of you. Are you seeing a changing mindset with regards to how organizations are addressing sustainability? Andy, do you wanna take a, sorry? Sure, yeah. I mean, I think it's definitely coming front and center, and I, interestingly, so I moved from the States to Europe two years ago and the US two years ago was not necessarily at the forefront of concern about climate change and moving into Europe. Definitely, you saw a lot more political tailwind for pushing for climate change regulation. And I think companies are aware of that and are certainly having an eye on what regulation is coming. As much as anything, actually, I think what you're seeing generational change pushing it. Companies have people coming into the workforce who the new employees want to work for companies that are doing good for the world, good for the environment. For the millennial generation, these are important topics. And I see companies responding to demands from their employees, from their communities to be more proactive in these areas. And you see this with, for example, the net zero commitments by companies like Microsoft, by Amazon, and also in European countries which are committing to have zero traditional fuel vehicles by 2030, these are the kind of things that are really pushing forward environmental awareness. So having said that, I mean, I think it is just one of many factors still. Overall cost is still the key driver for compute infrastructure. But from what I see, I think, we can make this a win-win, right? If we're doing well by the environment, we can also make solutions that cost less. And those two, if we can make them go hand in hand, then it's good for everyone. Right, yeah. So speaking from my perspective, I think the first perspective I should bring, so speaking as an engineer, the politics of sustainability is only catching up with the scientific reality, right? So if we are inefficient in our use of the resources, then we will use more resources, right? And that's been kind of a focus of mine in my entire engineering career. We always try to create the most efficient solution to a particular problem, right? And so that's how I've approached the designs that we do in OCP, the designs that we use for power consumption and so on, don't waste the resources if we don't have to, right? Get a given amount of work for less kind of inputs. Whether those inputs are electrons in energy or rare earth metals or et cetera water in some of the processes, right? So as an engineer, I've always been focused on optimizing the processes and doing the same with less input materials, right? So in some sense, we're really just bringing all that together at the level of a rack or at the level of a data center, right? And that said, as Andy said, there is certainly a drive with employees at companies but also companies that are just now just starting to do the accounting. What is our footprint? And as soon as you look at the numbers, then you realize, hey, our footprint could be smaller, right? Where is the waste? Where is the return on investment for reducing that waste? And that's the most important thing in our solution is that when a customer buys into a Sesame rack, it is more efficient without compromise. So it's not, oh, you're paying more for the system but it's sustainable on the backend. It's actually paying less. So our customers typically pay between a 30% to 50% less than using a traditional solution and it has the sustainability benefit. So we think with those kinds of innovations that are, as Andy said, a win-win or a no-brainer, just do it this way because it's more efficient and it reduces the impact on the environment. Okay, that's a wrap. Thank you, Eric and Andy. A big thanks to the good folks at CNCF and thank you for joining us on this webinar. Thank you, Roy. Bye everybody. Thanks, Robert.


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Item Number – SCP-140 Object Class – Keter Special Containment Procedures – SCP-140 must never be brought closer than 15 meters to any source of standard ink, human blood, or other fluids suitable for writing. Any contamination by blood or ink must be reported immediately. Any remaining copies of SCP-140 created during the initial printing must be found and destroyed as soon as possible. Only SCP-140 is to be preserved for purposes of study, early warning, and cataloging and recording possible SCPs derived from its subject matter. SCP-140 is contained at Site-76 in a sealed vault containing a single desk. At this time, no research is to be carried out upon the original SCP-140. Researchers are to read from prepared copies not bearing the signature of its author, which lack its properties. In the event of approved research, SCP-140 may not be removed from the vault, and readers may not be in contact with it for longer than nine hours. Access requires written approval from the head researcher for the explicit purposes of testing. An armed guard stationed outside the vault will meet any attempted theft with deadly force. Should any personnel begin displaying obsession with SCP-140, or signs of possible memetic contamination, they are to be issued a Class A amnesiac. False memories implanted is necessary, and transferred to another project. Transferred personnel must be monitored for signs of relapse. Description SCP-140 is a modern hard copy book with an unremarkable black binding and an unknown number of white pages. The book jacket is missing, but the title, A Chronicle of the Davos, is clearly legible. The inside cover is signed by the author, whose name is Indiceciferable. The text is copyrighted 19… careful examination reveals there are far more pages between the bindings than could be contained within them. Readers admit to feelings of paranoia, unease, and occasional nausea while reading SCP-140, although this may be related to the subject material. Nonetheless, readers almost universally describe SCP-140 as fascinating and express continued interest, despite its frequently unsettling content. One in 15 readers describes SCP-140 as having a faint odor of dried blood. SCP-140 is a detailed account of an ancient civilization, originating in what is now South Central Siberia, identified as the Davates. Although, like all cultures, the Davates evolved and changed over time. They appear to have exhibited unusual continuity. Universal fixtures of the Davate culture in all periods includes militarism, conquest, ancestor worship, urban centers ruling over large slave populations, gruesome human sacrifice, and the practice of apparently efficacious thaumaturgic rituals. A variety of relics and creatures produced by the Davate culture would be abnormal or dangerous enough, if the account is to be believed, to qualify for containment in their own right. If SCP-140 comes into contact with any fluid suitable for writing, including human blood, the account of the Davate civilization's history expands. Human blood appears the most potent of possible writing substances, but in any case, the amount of new material does not correspond proportionally to the fluids introduced. Although these new segments sometimes include new descriptions of rituals or cultural traits or illustrations of previously covered material, they more frequently include new, more recent accounts of information, chronicling the continued history of the Davate civilization or descriptions of new individuals and artifacts. Formerly decisive defeats become setbacks. New persons and events are inserted. Foundation archaeologists have discovered corresponding new artifacts and traces of the Davate civilization in applicable locations and strata. In some cases, found in dig sites that had already been thoroughly explored. Although at times the Davates were a collection of city-states, they appear to have consistently returned to imperialism under a theocratic aristocracy, the Deva, practitioners of cannibalism, and thaumaturgy. Although initially foundation researchers believed the Deva to have been a hereditary class recycling the names of noteworthy individuals, evidence, and the events now suggest that the Deva possessed preternatural longevity as a result of data expunged. Several researchers, notably Professor Rui, have concluded that Deva were so divergent from modern humans as to be a separate subspecies, a conclusion supported by graphic representations within SCP-140 and data expunged. SCP-140 is remarkably detailed by the standards of a primary source, seeming closer to a biography than a historic text. It includes lurid descriptions of sacrificial rites, battlefield descriptions, daily life, and the life stories of various noteworthy individuals, including quotes and dates of birth. Several distinct individuals have been identified, including the individual presently termed SCP-140A, of which only rites are accounted for by recorded deaths. Foundation archaeologists have discovered several sites containing ruins consistent with the supposed Deva culture in various locations across Siberia, Northern Iran, and Mongolia. Artifacts and traces of intercultural conflict and contact have been discovered as far west as the Carpathian Mountains, and as far east as Northern Pakistan and China. These include SCP-140A, Addendum 140A. SCP-140 was originally found in the office of a deceased historian. The previous owner was discovered in his office at the University, having expired from self-inflicted lacerations on both wrists. There were no traces of their blood in the office. The subject's colleagues claimed during interviews they discovered a note in faded ink in their handwriting next to SCP-140. All witnesses were administered Class A amnesiacs and false memories implanted. The note read, I have to know, I'm sorry. All texts, within 15 meters, except several books relating to the history of the region, were blank. The remaining books now included accounts of supposed interaction between the David civilization and the subject cultures, or applicable discussions of David history and culture. These texts were confiscated. All printed forms and media were blank. All pens, printers, and ink cartridges were empty. Addendum 140B Although SCP-140 was published during the 20th century, the tone of the book suggests it is a recounting of events, individuals, and practices experienced first hand by SCP-140's unknown author. Foundation investigators have tracked SCP-140's publication to the data expunged, printing house and a batch of several copies self-published by a wealthy individual, hereby termed SCP-140A. SCP-140A's signature on the contract matches the strange signature inside SCP-140. More than 40 of the copies produced in this batch were apparently leached of all ink by the remaining copies. To date, Foundation agents have recovered and destroyed the majority of the remainder, but some remain at large. True expansion events have been reported during periods when SCP-140 had never been exposed to fluids of any sort, or removed from its vault. An investigation in Manhunt for the author of SCP-140 is ongoing. Addendum 140C Through study of SCP-140 and other contained objects related to the David civilization, Foundation researchers have concluded that, transposed to the modern era, the resurgence of a hostile David civilization in history, more recent than the modern CE, would constitute a grave and even possibly retroactive threat to the Foundation and modern civilization as we know it. Even best case projections of David resurgence in the modern day suggest a CK-class restructuring of modern society and a worldwide conflict with a projected death toll of at least expunged and an end to the Foundation's secrecy. Section 140D's journal, found on his home PC, indicates that upon his initial reading of SCP-140, it ended with the almost utter destruction of the David civilization and the genocide of all known David in 200 BCE by the forces of Chinese general Kinkai. As a result of subsequent containment breaches, including those detailed in the journal, copious quantities of new material have been added, describing survivors regrouping and migrating to another region of central Siberia, rebuilding their empire steadily and continuing to advance culturally and technologically. At present, the empire is described as having finally been crushed by Genghis Khan during the early period of his conquests, although the fates of many important persons in several cities remain ambiguous. Foundation archaeologists will be dispatched for investigation and research. Addendum 140E, after an incident at an undisclosed dig site resulting in countless casualties, all Foundation archaeologists excavating sites of suspected David artifacts or ruins are to be accompanied by a fully armed security team. SCP-141 has been neutralized, SCP-142 remains at large. All other anomalous contacts and artifacts were destroyed when the dig site was struck by a cruise missile. Agent R. received a commendation and was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. R. received a posthumous commendation for courage. An investigation into the possible involvement of SCP-140A or their agents in these events is ongoing. Item Number – SCP-141 Object Class – SAFE Special Containment Procedures – When not in use, SCP-141 is to be stored inside a locked safe in Site-76. Access to this safe requires security level clearance three or higher and written approval to use SCP-141. When SCP-141 is in use, either for implementation in accordance with Foundation goals or for research purposes, it is to be kept within the possession of the assigned researcher at all times. Failure to account for SCP-141 will result in a severe reprimand. While SCP-141's danger to the Foundation appears limited, it could still be a tempting target for certain subversive groups or opportunistic users. For this reason, SCP-141 is to be checked out for no more than one week at a time. Description – SCP-141 is a small leather-bound codex dating back to Roman times, easily carried in one hand. Despite its great age, it never acquires any additional signs of wear and tear beyond a somewhat aged-looking cover. Its thin papyrus pages are always crisp, and so far have proven difficult to tear from the codex's binding. All attempts at radiocarbon dating have failed. The judgment of SCP-141 as being Roman in origin was initially based upon its appearance, but later confirmed through extensive research using SCP-141, corroborated by historical records. The title is apparently Codex Damnasio, based upon the text on its spine. SCP-141's pages are written in Roman Republic era Latin. It is a detailed description of notes and summations for a wide range of legal trials. This first half contains a series of historic trials from throughout history. The earliest trial appears to be from the prescriptions of the late Roman Republic, while the most recent case is the data expunged, taking place in 2001. Each case summary is extensive, with precise witness quotations, exact physical descriptions of evidence, and their importance to the case, and so on. The codex actually contains far more legal cases than its 150 pages could possibly allow. A reader must make a detailed reference to a range or specific case to discover if it is listed inside. If it is, the pages will transform into those relating to the specified case. This requires specific mentions of historical context surrounding the cases. Research with SCP-141, conducted by Professor Roth, revealed SCP-141 has apparently been employed in, among other important periods, a wide variety of Roman prescriptions, heretical trials of the Catholic Church, the Spanish Inquisition, the Witch Hunts of the 17th century, and the Red Scare of the mid-20th century. The latter half of the book is blank, and can be written in with any pen with black ink. A user of SCP-141 must provide detailed information about a criminal proceeding, including victim, evidence, witness statements, and suspects, and they must do so in Republic-era Latin. Later readings of the book will reveal these new cases in the first half of the book, written in the same handwriting as the rest. A very precise, careful hand. When this information is provided to SCP-141, the particulars of the case described in SCP-141 appear to become true in regards to memory and evidence surrounding the case. Witnesses' memories and testimony will correspond to the information written in SCP-141. Falsified evidence springs into existence in accordance with its description, usually appearing in the court record or the crime scene where it can easily be discovered. This has included murder weapons, suspicious traces of the subject such as fluids or fingerprints, stolen items, or incriminating documents. SCP-141 appears able to cause criminal activities that would not have taken place, although this requires even more precise wording and description of the particulars. The guilty party specified by SCP-141 may have a false memory implanted that corresponds with SCP-141's account of events, although this result requires a clever description of the desired scenario. These memories do not overwrite the original ones, but they do seem quite nearly as real. Care must be taken by all users to ensure as many loopholes are closed as possible. SCP-141's falsifications will stand up to all but the most critical of examinations, but it will only produce precisely the memories and evidence written inside it. While it appears to prejudice the court against the guilty party, this is not foolproof. Nonetheless, successfully employed, SCP-141 is an almost sure-fire conviction. Even in the event of exoneration, guilty subjects will often still be ostracized and viewed as guilty by influenced witnesses and law enforcement personnel who may in some cases data expunged. Addendum SCP-141A Tests are ongoing to determine if SCP-141 is capable of exonerating an innocent man wrongly convicted, or if changing the results during the trial has any measurable effect. Approval to employ SCP-141 in a test case is pending. Addendum SCP-141B Following data expunged, all test cases involving Foundation disciplinary hearings or implicating members of the Foundation, other than D-Class personnel with out-signed waivers from the guilty subject are hereby forbidden by 05- Violation of this new security protocol shall be dealt with harshly. Item Number SCP-152 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-152 is to be kept in a locked chamber in Site 49, henceforth referred to as the Reading Room. The Reading Room is off-limits to personnel below clearance level 2. The Reading Room will be equipped with one ceiling lamp, one security camera, one scanner copy or printer to be restocked with paper and ink as needed, one standard office chair, and one standard office desk upon which SCP-152 will rest. When not in use, SCP-152 is to be turned to its last page so that any additions made to it can be immediately observed. A single guard will be posted outside of the Reading Room to deter unauthorized persons from entering the Reading Room. All personnel are advised to remain quiet if they are near the Reading Room. Description SCP-152 is a large, hardbound book with leather bindings. The paper inside resembles vellum and is written upon in black ink. The contents of the book consist entirely of a series of entries that describe apocalyptic events, which are not always XK-class end-of-the-world scenarios but invariably deal with the extinction of humanity. The entries are arranged in chronological order, beginning with an unexplained spontaneous failure of the sun in 6000 BC and ending with other events close to the present day. Many of the entries describe apocalypses caused or facilitated by objects that are or were in Foundation custody or are of a paranormal nature. There are also records of human extinction caused by more conventional means, such as nuclear warfare or deadly viral epidemics. Each entry describes in some detail the events leading up to the calamity itself and the aftermath until the point at which the last human on Earth dies. It has been observed that the entries in SCP-152 changed whatever language the reader is most comfortable with, up to the point where the sentence structure can change significantly from reader to reader or even begin using colloquialisms that only the reader would understand. Only the basic meaning of the entries remains constant. If multiple people are looking at SCP-152, it will read in the personal language of whomever began reading first. If no one is directly observing SCP-152, it will display the language of whomever read it last. Rarely, words will appear in the book that do not translate and instead appear as horizontally arranged calligraphic characters, which have not been matched to any known language. To the best knowledge of Foundation historians, most of the information contained in SCP-152 is accurate, diverging only at the point where the apocalypse occurs. In almost all cases, the difference is that a few key decisions were apparently made differently in SCP-152's version of history, leading ultimately to humankind's annihilation. SCP-152 resists all attempts to change or write in it. Inks, graphite, charcoal, and other marking materials do not adhere to the pages and are easily brushed off. Lasers or other heat sources do not burn into the paper. Close inspection has revealed that foreign substances are stopped from actually coming into contact with the pages. At least five micrometers of empty space are always present between the pages themselves and any foreign materials that might come into contact with them. For this reason, SCP-152 does not decay, which also means that it has proven impossible to determine SCP-152's exact age. SCP-152 is self-updating, with newly inked entries and new descriptions of how the last human died appearing at unpredictable intervals, always on the last page of the book. The date that a new entry appears corresponds with the date given in the entry for the death of the last member of the human species. When space becomes an issue, extra pages appear along with the text, and the spine of SCP-152 broadens accordingly. There have been several updates to the book since it came into Foundation custody. As with past events, SCP-152 has proven to be up to date on current events, until a point at which a catastrophe occurs. Because recent entries frequently concern entities or groups of interest to the Foundation, including the Foundation itself, SCP-152 is to be checked regularly for any information of importance. Addendum 1 With the acknowledgement made that letting this thing lie around where the public could find it is dangerous to us, is there any real reason to study it? Outdated hypothetical disaster scenarios aren't our concern. We've got plenty of real ones in the present to deal with. 05 Addendum 2 The book is accurate enough about pre-disaster Earth that it makes a decent guide to the present. Plus, it gives a little perspective on the big picture of what some SCPs could do if they got loose. I think all researchers with clearance ought to read the last 50 pages or so just to drive home how important what they do here is. For want of a nail and all that. 06 Addendum 3 Janssen, half the entries in the last 50 pages show the Foundation screwing up and killing everybody. 05 Addendum 4 Like I said, it gives a little perspective. Dr. Janssen Incident Report 152-05 On the night of the security guard on camera duty noticed that SCP-152 was missing from the reading room. However, by the time she had finished reaching for the switchboard to report this, SCP-152 had reappeared, and there was a new entry on the last page. As this was the fifth such occurrence of sudden disappearance and reappearance, a simple test was conducted with a high-speed camera, a sensitive electronic scale upon which SCP-152 was placed, and an alarm set to go off if the weight upon the scale abruptly changed. The next three updates to SCP-152 all set the alarm off, and the high-speed camera revealed that SCP-152 vanished from sight for exactly one second each time. 05 Addendum 5 I posit that the book isn't actually being updated as such. It's actually being replaced, and each time it changes we are actually receiving a new addition of it. I would very much like to find out where these are coming from. Dr. Janssen Item number, SCP-095, Object Class, Safe. Special Containment Procedures SCP-095 is to be placed in a standard polyethylene sleeve when not under scheduled research, and stored in a standard locked filing cabinet to prevent damage or wear. High-resolution digital scans are available for any level one and above personnel who wish to view SCP-095. SCP-095 appears to be a set of three moderately aged black and white comic books printed in 1932. The front and rear covers are missing, and several pages have been rendered illegible due to water damage. It was found by Agent W... in a small antique shop in Denver, Colorado, and purchased for a small fee without incident. The owner of the shop had apparently not read the item past the publisher's date on the first page. Other inspections of SCP-095 have revealed it to be genuine, though completely unremarkable safe for its content. It is printed on cheap pulp paper, and inked with dyes common to other publications of its era. The publisher's stamp indicates it was produced by Future Funnies, a company operating out of the town of Purple Lake, Ohio. All research and inquiries thus far have shown both the company and the town to be completely non-existent. The comic itself is a pulp science fiction story, entitled The Atomic Adventures of Ronnie Reagan, featuring a lead character bearing an unmistakable resemblance to former United States President Ronald Reagan. Each story opens with a large panel reading, In the Far Fetched Future World of the 1980s, Only Ronnie Reagan Can Save the Day. It appears to follow an episodic format, with one self-contained story per publication. The three stories are briefly described below. Ronnie vs. Space Admiral Carter. This story pits planetary Governor Ronnie Reagan and his sidekick, Space Major Herbert, against the titular Space Admiral Carter, as they both vie for the position of Space Marshal. The events loosely follow the events of the 1980 presidential election. Space Assassin. This story follows a character named Spaceman Hinckley as he prepares to assassinate Space Marshal Reagan. He manages to catch Reagan by surprise and wound him with his Devastator Ray, before being subdued by Reagan's soldiers. The events obviously refer to the 1981 assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. Jungle Planet. This story follows Reagan's attempts to create an army of robots on the jungle-covered planet of Nika in order to protect it from the evil sand bandits. Although Reagan is told that he will lose his command if he interferes with events on planet Nika, he sends his lieutenant, Space Colonel West, to secretly build a force under the cover of the jungle. When their plan is discovered, Space Colonel West publicly takes the blame and saves his superior. The storyline appears to be a simplified retelling of the Iran Contra controversies of 1986. Possibly most interesting is the final page of each book, which advertises other stories published by Future Funnies. Investigation is underway to locate any surviving copies at once. The advertised stories are listed below. Space Major Herbert assumes command. Starman Willie versus the space succubus. Globe Walker in, sneak attack. Barry Beetlejuice on planet Afgar. Diamond Donnie in Puttin' on the Ritz. Sky Marm Cera of the Ice World. Flying Franken versus Rocket Rush. Star Command Proton in a losing battle. The new menace, Death to Mankind. Personal log of Dr. Date, October 6th, 2004. I don't think I need to emphasize how important it is to recover any and all of the advertised stories immediately, the final two in particular. Lesson complete. To continue with your orientation training, subscribe to SCP Orientation right now and make sure you don't miss any of our upcoming videos.


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Hey everyone this is Henry Oval Jance here from Nintendo Prime be sure to drop a like on this video subscribe for more content and enter Our Nintendo switch super smash bros ultimate bundle giveaway through the gleam. I'll link down in the description now What you are looking at right here is the e3 2019 preliminary show floor plans. It's preliminary because not everything is set in stone yet but we get a good look at things and There's a few things. I want to highlight but Let's just go into the main halls here specifically the West Hall since that's where Nintendo's app Now when you go into the West Hall, you'll see Nintendo America Has the two spots here this reserved area here as well is typically also Nintendo America. This is where Basically all the staff members go to hang out That's also where you can like go and try to get booth tours And if you have any private interviews or whatever it usually happens up in this area now Some people said that oh this looks bigger than last year's and it's not actually Here is a map of last year's bring this up for you guys And you'll see that Nintendo has basically the same two spots here. So Definitely not any bigger For Nintendo now what you'll notice last year, of course is you have Sony interactive entertainment over here They are not here this year will get into what replaced this massive area that Sony had which was overall more floors Place than Nintendo and as I said Nintendo always has a reserved spot over there Sega is over here. This was last year down here. See the gung-ho right here This was all Ninjala last year and then this stuff here was like a Bunch of Nintendo video game stuff that some outlets out there were pushing and Yeah, but anyways, I can go into all this in more detail if you want of last year's map over here to focus on this So Nintendo of America Nintendo has actually the exact same amount of boost space. That is what I wanted to note here All right, so Nintendo has the same amount of space this reserve spot here is probably Nintendo again, too what's notable is the Sega area has moved from here to down here and Sega took over not only the spot that gung-ho was at last year But also the two little spots where there were a bunch of Nintendo games and then like these companies selling Nintendo games So Sega just took up this entire area. It's actually a really big chunk of space I mean as you can see it's roughly half the size of Nintendo's primary booth area So that is definitely something to keep in mind And this is usually like Nintendo's entire booth over here again is more private areas where you could like play games and stuff like this. I'll be interested to see if the Warp pipe past maybe gets us over here or if it's just more over here Anyways, it's the same show floor space Nintendo basically has the same show floor space every single year How they lay it out is a little different every single year So last time Nintendo Treehouse was up here up on a platform Two years ago up on the platform up on the top where they have like multiple levels was actually a press area So we'll see how they set up the booth this time around Oculus is in here next to Nintendo in the old Sega space from last year. So that's very interesting Oculus having a big presence I scrolled here. You see satisfied gaming. They are a gaming accessory Maker one of the primary things they are known for is actually the satisfy grip for switch So maybe we'll hide on over that booth and check out some gaming accessories This one hasn't been claimed yet Friend times. I'm not sure what that is but that's a that's a booth That's gonna be there little buddy. Not sure it could be an indie studio. I'm guessing Studio a doesn't really say anything here, but that's an indie studio I believe Geico gaming no idea what Geico is doing here, but they apparently are here The space is still available Indicate international independent game showcase. So there'll speak bunch of indie titles They have one of these they're almost every single year the unreal garden at E3. I'm not sure what this is I'm assuming it's a much unreal engine stuff But I don't know because they did not have this last year. This is all new the E3 networking lounge Again, that is all new. So I'm guessing this is just a hangout place where you can like chill and rest your feet for a little bit I'm not sure if this is like someplace where there's gonna be live streaming from or what? The market such bionic. They are also an accessory maker. They used to have a booth like this one right here I think was the bionic one last year. So now they've moved over here across from Nintendo of America Game spot has moved over here as well. I think game spot was actually in the other hall last year If I remember right Lenovo is here, you know, maybe they have some gaming laptops or something to show off XC games We got over here. We got the college game competition gaming lifestyle pavilion They had this last year as well It was a little smaller than this but it's basically a showcase of games that some college students put together. It's really cool This is IGDA take this stack up. I'm not sure who that is. I think it's the E3 esports zone With Shaq news also in the mix there with a little spot of it So Shaq news has a little part of the e-sports e3 e-sports zone again This is obviously just a place showing off on competitive games big bends here IGN is usually right here where Lenovo is Lenovo in this spot right here usually IGN Notably, I did not see IGN anywhere. Maybe they have this reserve space above Nintendo This is usually tables and chairs up here for people to kind of sit down and relax But last year they removed the tables and chairs and they made it a giant line for Nintendo So this could be a line area that Nintendo has reserved Over here. We just have some available areas We have performance design products Perfect World Games is here G Fuel, which is a big sponsor I might actually I'm actually gonna hold them see if they only want to throw sponsorship at the channel Probably not that's wishful thinking and then opera solutions much who that is and then we have AMD has a little section up here So they usually have some computers and stuff like that So yeah, that is the West Hall used to be considered the primary hall Since it used to house Microsoft Nintendo and Sony However with Nintendo being the only one in here because Microsoft's in their own building It'll be interesting to see if this actually is considered a primary hall anymore Because a lot of the big names are not in here now the big names you're gonna find at e3 It won't be platform holders. It will be you know companies like Sega So now the other hall becomes very interesting. So if we go to the South Hall, oh Boy, look at all the companies here. So let's compare this to South Hall of last year Let me open this up here. So As you can see in the smaller picture Bethesda's basically in the exact same spot Ubisoft is in the exact same spot What's notable is about a quarter of this area of about a quarter this upper left quadrant of the Ubisoft area is Basically dedicated to just dance. It's where they have the giant just dance stage and you can like go up there and dance and stuff like that That's what it's been for a few years I don't think it's gonna change now as long as they're still making just dance So where Enix is basically in the exact same spot. We have Alienware here Alienware used to be up here So they kind of move down closer to the entrance which will give them a little bit more attention aka racing Modus games black shark technology VP exports a broadcast center So there'll be some broadcasting going on some live streaming next level racing simulations VP exports and then a couple of bills by the carnaxes here This is interesting the joint force initiatives. That's new that wasn't here epic games has moved from over here to a slightly bigger space Down here. They used to be occupied by let's see here Who's it say take two interactive and twitch used to be down there But now that's being occupied by epic games So that's interesting 2k is over here They kind of moved from like half of the spot over here to a bigger booth THQ Nordic is here the THQ New York Nordic spot used to be a Microsoft Mixer spot. So Warner Bros. Interactive has a slightly bigger area actually say slightly It's almost almost twice the size of last year So they're gonna have something obviously to show off over here. This is the shopping district So this was new to E3 last year This is where you can go and buy a whole bunch of gaming gear and goodies and stuff So let's just go through like with a guy got even racing there So by some of those racing does that like office chairs kind of like this one of my maxonomic They have chairs like that may flash limited aim controllers rainbow horse gentle giant studios So there might be a little game studio and then they decided to get a smaller booth e-guardian group Todak Chronicle collectibles again place where you can buy stuff tagway Shenzhen shades Beijing skyline interaction Fluid stands AI carer soul seat a lot of these places you'll be able to buy stuff from Game kit. I think game kits one of the ones that were selling like these giant cube boxes of like random gaming gear Momo gaming convention Click entertainment These are all the ones and these are a lot of them might be the same from last year and some new ones perfect gamespeed company So five-hour energy whoo tech and sprint All this great stuff. So some of these aren't bought up yet But again, there's still time for them to fill up meta threads LF gaming giant games gaming outfitters Vi pod is that a whole bunch of stuff? Some tables and chairs and some bathrooms back here. There's not really any food You can buy on the show floor you kind of have to go outside the show floor to get your food. So So looking over here, we got Facebook gaming. I believe that's new. Let me let me look at this I remember Facebook gaming. Yeah, there was Samsung, but there was no Facebook gaming So the eSports stuff moved to the other the other hall Let's see here THQ Nordic ESA foundation Red hydrogens there super soul bros What we got here haymaker? I don't know who that is. We're ready. Let's see here National video game museum. That's that's interesting. See here volt ed see sun is here. It's insorium double fine tastemakers Funko, so there's gonna be a Funko pop area, but you can buy some Funko pop there Rainer games Hyperkin hyperkin another accessory maker Xrocker who custom controllers, so there might be some custom controllers going on there. So pretty interesting stuff Again, this is a lot better laid out than the map I have for last year. So My biggest takeaway, I guess is that this hall was kind of become the bigger hall of the two If you are attending E3 with a gamer pass or industry This is the hall where you're probably gonna spend a majority of your time if you're not there to play just Nintendo games And it is notable there will be Nintendo like versions again like Bethesda if you want to play Things like Doom Eternal or Wolfenstein young blood Bethesda will have it available here to play on switch Usually without very many lines Because all the because they'll have these games also like in the Nintendo side and everyone I'll wait in line for hours and hours and hours to play those games And you can just go to the Bethesda booth And I like looking at these maps because it helped me map out maybe what my plan is like I know Ubisoft will probably have at least one game for switch But that's though will have those two games for sure Square Enix might have at least one game 2k might have NBA 2k Epic games, you know for tonight, but you know, I don't know if they have anything else for switch So I don't know that's kind of like an area you can maybe skip So Capcom will probably have a game or two So it kind of gives me an idea of like how I want to hit things as I'm mapping out my journey Obviously the one that everyone knows all about is the West Hall where Nintendo of America is seated and Sega You know has a much bigger booth this year. So it's going to be interesting to see what Sega has planned Probably some games for switch as well They'd back or your chronicles for a team sonic racing last year as well Although you couldn't play the switch version on the show floor. Anyway, I think it's just really cool to look at the map I hope you guys learned a bunch of stuff if you are interested if there's anything you want to glean out of this Obviously the big change is this used to all be Sony this whole area here is all Sony plus up here So a whole bunch of it is now just a bunch of random stuff It's still gonna be really exciting. This obviously is not the layout for Microsoft's area Microsoft has their own Area and you can't really look at there mapping out of that ahead of time So you just kind of go into it not knowing what to expect But that's something that hopefully we get into this year We didn't get to go in last year So I can't even describe what last year's experience was like with Microsoft But I think if we back things out correctly take advantage of the warp height pass We should be done with Nintendo and all the ones in here day one I'm hoping and then we'll hop on over to the rest on day two and then maybe hit Microsoft on day three We'll see anyways. Thank you guys so much for tuning in I hope you enjoyed this look at the map layout for e3 Man the e3 hype is real is it not I'm getting more and more excited I mean again I'm just every single day is one day closer to Eric And I heading out to e3 to get ready to cover that event for you guys I hope you're looking forward to our e3 coverage, which will start Officially, I believe either on June 5th or June 6th June 6th for sure I haven't decided if I'm gonna do my first e3 vlog on June 5th since we're just going You know, we're just driving an hour and a half to a hotel. It's not really too exciting But we'll probably start the journey that next morning on the 6th. So thank you guys for tuning in I love your faces and I'll see you in the next video


Welcome folks. This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN.  Hope everyone's having a great day, safe day. Make it a great night, folks. Be impeccable with your word. Express your love. Impeccability of the word can be measured by a level of self-love. If you love yourself, you'll express that love in your interaction with others, and that action will produce a like reaction. Not going to rise. Let's take a look at it out here. We have the Dow Industries down 88. NASDAQ is up 32. S&P's are flat. All have hit new all-time highs, folks. Each and every day we've been hitting a new all-time high. Gold. Gold contract. That's $1.40 trading at $14.73 an ounce. We have silver up 10 cents. $17.10 an ounce. Light sweet crew. That's getting whacked. Big volume, $783,000 contracts on the way down. You're down to $1.84 trading $55.21. That contract wants to go back to the lower end of its consolidation, which is a $50 mark. Plenty of energy out here, folks. Notes and bonds. Bottom line, higher price, lower yield. You get the 10-year up 4-6, $129.15, the 30-year up 18, and $159.11. Now, both of them have light volume today, so the bottom line, they're going to need more volume in order to hold higher price. $Kingdala. $Kingdala up 51 takes trade, $97.844. That's building costs for lower price. You get a sideways move out here today. $Kingdala looks like it wants to run down to the lower end of this consolidation, which is approximately the 96.5 number. The euro is at 110. The pound is at 129. And the yen is at 1.8 to 1 U.S. dollar. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Let's call folks. I want to know what's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at them. What do you have? You've got another day. You've got another dollar. You've got another high. Pretty amazing. There's no doubt. We are at 312.17 right now. The high of yesterday was 312.28. You've hit 312.69. And the bottom line is that inch by inch, this thing just keeps climbing. NDX100, same type of setup inside the NDX100. We take a look at the NDX100. What you have with the NDX100 is that that reached a high out here today. The three cues of $203.84. Right now you're at 2,356. The high of yesterday was 2, 203.39. Dow industrials. Dow also hit a high. Now the differential is that the Dow is back down 100 points off of that high. We hit 28,090. And right now you're at 27,942. So the bottom line is that it made a new high backing down off of that high. The culprit inside the Dow industrials is Home Depot. Home Depot is putting 82 negative points into the Dow industrials. Home Depot came out with the numbers this morning. A little light on the numbers, monster volume on the way down. You get 12 million shares traded. I suspect Home Depot, we're trading 226.217. Home Depot can get down into. It hasn't got to the lower swing point today, which is pretty impressive, which is 222.12. If we go take a look at Lowe's, it's going to be interesting because Home Depot came out with their numbers this morning. Lowe's is going to come out with their numbers tomorrow morning before the market. Lowe's is trading 113. Now Lowe's wasn't getting hit like Home Depot. Well, sometimes it doesn't make any sense if in fact they came out with numbers or didn't, same sector. So what ended up happening is that Home Depot did come out with the numbers. They're smoking that 11 bucks down. Lowe's, they're basically giving them another day where right now you are at $1.93 and you're at $1.1309. If we go take a look at the MDX100, the strength versus the weakness inside that MDX100, the strength is AMD. That's up 4.2%. Alexia Pharmaceutical up 3.5. Biomilan up 3.5. Taking away from it. You get Walgreens, Western Digital rather, down 3.7. Qualcomm's up 3.3. Micrantex up 3.2. And Amos up 2. That's really interesting too because that's very unusual folks when you have the aspect that we have one chip stock meaning AMD putting 4.5% into the MDX100 where then you have Qualcomm, Micrantex, Micrantex and AMAT basically getting toasted on the other side. Macy's. Let's go take a look at Macy's. Macy's out here right now is trading down a price point of $1.80, year of 1506. The low for the year is $14.11. The high is $35. And this is coming down with some juice too. Let me just see this. Did they come out with numbers too? No, they're coming out on the 21st. So this probably has to do with Kohl's, I suspect. Oh, I see. It's the data breach. Macy's online. Data breach could put holidays at risk. They had a data breach in October, about the time they come out with it. Bottom line is that what you may have here with Macy's is that you very well could have an ABC structure on the way down. So when we take a look at it five months ago, you're at $23. You get all the way down to $14. You do a counter trend bounce up to $17. You're at $15 right now. This is running with monster volume. Oh, this is a dangerous chat set up, man. This is dangerous. Yep. So, you know, this is going to go attack $14.20. The real question's going to be at $14.20, does it have the attack with volume behind the move? And if that's what you get, you're going to be down fast and furious into this $5 level, which was the, excuse me folks, was the lows of November of 2008. So big numbers are coming across most of these boards out here. Let's go take a look at Kohl's. We had with Kohl's out here today. They came out with numbers this morning. This was at an all-time high. It's down $11 right now. That's getting toasted, no doubt about it. No, it wasn't at all-time. I know. All-time high this year is $75. So we're at the bottom of the range. We pull this up. Oh, that's dangerous too. Holy cow. This has had some big down drafts. So 83, it was trading in 2018. Come down viciously in 2018 to 60. There's a counter trend bounce of 75.  It goes 60 to 54. Yeah, this is going to go right after it's a lower swing point. You get a high volume, low at 43, right here, 47. We're going to be going after that number. Stay right there, folks. Good job, man. Mr. Basel Chapman coming up next. Basel's going to be doing a great workshop for you, folks, today. Five to six-thirty Eastern Standard Time for all his subscribers. Very easy to be a subscriber. Just go over to our website at TFNN. You're going to feature content. You'll see the opening call. Subscribe. It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Great newsletter. Great workshop tonight. Basel's going to be coming right up.


If you're wondering why anyone would want to drink a cocktail that contains only Campari and salt, the answer is I have no idea. I saw this drink in Beta Cocktails, formerly known as Rogue Cocktails, a book that was first published in 2009. Now, I've never actually seen an original copy of this book. Apparently, they're about as rare as copies of the Necronomicon Bounded Human Flesh, but I did score a reprint online. If you'd like your own copy, I'll link to where I got it below. So yeah, Campari, you either love it or you don't, although I am of the opinion that nobody truly dislikes Campari, they just don't like it yet.  Whenever I come up with a new cocktail, I have to fight the urge to add some because it makes so many things taste better. But what about a cocktail that's just Campari and salt? And more importantly, why?  Precisely how it does so is kind of complicated, but while researching the subject, psychophysiologists at the Monelle Chemical Senses Institute in Philadelphia were experimenting with combinations of sweet, salty, and bitter solutions, and they concluded the following.  And Campari, in addition to being bitter, also has quite a bit of sugar. So if the research they did is correct, then Campari and salt should be sweeter and less bitter than Campari alone. Got all that? Great, on to the drink. Measure three ounces or 90 mls of Campari into a mixing glass and add three to five drops of saline solution. Add the biggest ice you have and stir, stir, stir. The recipe says to do either a pinch of salt or saline solution. Feel free to salt bay it up, but a pinch is a little imprecise, so I went with the solution, which is one part salt dissolved in three parts water by weight. And here I am, weighing ingredients again. Strain into the up glass of your choice and garnish with an orange peel. The Campari martini. Cheers. Now that is really interesting. First off, it is not salty at all. Bitter notes of the Campari are so prominent, but they're not as aggressive. And the sweetness really pops. It's almost like there's a strawberry flavor coming through. Kind of hard to explain, but this is kind of making Campari taste more like the way it wants to taste. Will it turn a non-Campari drinker into a Campari drinker? Who cares? If they don't like it, it just means there's more for you. If you have a bottle of Campari laying around, you absolutely should make this. It's too easy not to. And if you make a lot of drinks at home, keeping salt water around is a no-brainer. Next time you make your favorite cocktail, add a few drops and see what happens. If you liked it, it like, consider subscribing if you have it already, and if there's something you think I should try, let me know in the comments. Take care and Campari forever.


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