Welcome back. This is theCUBE. We are here at HP Discover 2013. We're in Las Vegas. This is HP Discover's flagship program that their customers, their partners, the tech geeks and gurus, and here really sharing all the new announcements. This is SiliconANGLE's theCUBE. We go here where the signal is, and that's where we are. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by co-hosts. I'm Dave Vellante at Wikibon.org. Craig Nunes is here. He's the Vice President of Marketing for HP Storage. Craig, welcome back. Multi-time CUBE-hardened guest. Thanks for coming on. CUBE-hardened, yes. Thank you for having us here. You guys, this is a great set that you guys have. Awesome, HP. How many people are here this year? Gosh, I'd be just guessing, but it's probably around 10,000. Okay, so that's... It feels great.  Yeah, it's comfortable. Yeah, no, it's great. So you guys got some hot news. We got the deep dive. I said to Milan, we got the Kool-Aid injection a couple of weeks ago, which was good. We had a really... I liked what you guys did. You brought in a lot of people and took us through this sort of road map, and so we know a lot about what you announced today, but why don't we share with the audience what you announced here at the show? Sure, yeah. There were really a couple of things we talked about. One was in the area of three-part store-serve and an all-flash array, the store-serve 7450. And the big deal here is this is a platform that brings the performance, the efficiency, and the media endurance characteristics that you got to have with flash. It's why people are buying them to accelerate their applications as cost-effectively as possible. So you got all that, but what we also brought was the system resiliency and availability features that tier one, you know, mission-critical data require.  So it's the best of both worlds because we have customers saying, look, I'm concerned about traditional architectures. They can't address the performance and efficiency needs that I want to use for flash. There's a lot of new companies out there, paint still wet on their architecture and services. So I'm kind of nervous about that, and by the way, not a lot in the area of resiliency. So, you know, we think we've kind of got the right combination for what folks are looking for. Yeah, Federation is something we didn't talk to Milan Shetty about. That's very unique in the industry.  And so you guys have come up with the best of both worlds.  And so now I got to ask you, so you like made your mark with three-par of attacking companies trying to bolt on thin provisioning and did some damage, you know, in the marketplace, doing more damage today, significantly more than you did when you were three-par now that you were with HP. But so a lot of people are going to say, hey, that's a bolt-on. Why is this not a bolt-on? We talked to Milan about it a little bit, but give us your marketing take. Yeah, so I would expect folks who don't have products or capable products to sling that kind of stuff. The reality is, look, don't take it from a marketing guy, lift up the hood and take a look at the technology. And, you know, what we introduced today was not just a three-par array with SSDs in it. In fact, that was kind of the end of the project. The beginning of the project was all about some really important cache optimization features we drove. And when we drive some granularity in the I.O. between the controller and the flash that you can only find in a handful of vendors in the industry, I mean, we'll do 512-byte reads, 2,000 times smaller than a BNX, for example. That's important because latency is important on the back end. So we've driven some important optimizations in the software. We also had the foresight to inject an enhancement into the three-par ASIC to give us a level of silicon-enabled acceleration. We've taken advantage of that ASIC in the HDD world, but it was a great opportunity to really use that here to drive some of the performance we're looking at. Well, like I said, let's not take the marketing guy's word for it. The market's going to decide, ultimately. And so you and I have had discussions over the last several years about sort of rethinking the definition of tier one storage. Three-par, obviously, is really the only new entrance into that whole tier one space. You know, you've got the high-end IBM and EMC and Tachi and the three-par is right there, clearly stealing share in that high-end IDC price band. And then all of a sudden flash comes along, this notion of all-flesh arrays, and one can say, wow, these are the new tier ones. You call them tier zero, but you can see them if they have the stack, you know, replacing a lot of that value. And who knows what happens to that traditional tier one. And so the market's going to decide, you know, whether or not your architecture is worthy of doing that. And you guys have made that bet.  I would also tell you, we are where we are today. And we're able to do those enhancements today because of some very smart guys, you know, a few years ago, right, the guys who put together the architecture, the three-par operating system. That, you know, that was a labor of, you know, trying to unlock the back-end performance of an array, right? Back-end performance is limited to spending media, a couple of hundred IOPS per disk. And, you know, that's kind of how that world revolved. And the whole approach they took was, how do I aggregate every drive in a thousand-drive array and, you know, hammer that through the controller infrastructure? So guess what? Dual controllers? No way. That isn't the approach they were taking. It had to be a very clustered approach where they could aim all that frame of horsepower at that workload. And guess what? All we're doing is replacing a thousand drives with, you know, 50 flash drives, right? It's not a big change for the system. The real change came in that cash-to-flash optimization.  We have that architecture that, frankly, you know, folks who are starting today to do this are taking a page from our book. Thank God for 3-par because HP's story should be deep-duty without it. I have to say that's because you got, it's true, you got, and this is what's so interesting about your business.  So you got to throw even more gas on that fire because you got to get the new stuff outpacing, you know, the old stuff. It looks like you're almost there, you know, really, really close. I've said a number of times HP in general across the board might have to shrink to grow. I think it's true for, you know, a lot of the divisions within the company. So, to me, the all-flasher race throws gas on that fire. Yeah, I, uh, first of all, I have to tell you, the real secret to 3-par success, absolutely killer marketing. Well, yeah, well, of course. It's like the products don't really, you know. The products are table stakes. So the thing about this all-flash array, so we're talking to a lot of folks here at Discover.  And a lot of folks, I mean, it's hot and it's sexy, right? For a lot of these folks, they're, they might not buy one. Why?  Guess what? They're going to turn around and buy, you know, a 3-par store serve 7,000, the mid-range array we introduced in December, or maybe they'll go to a 10,000, a high-end array, and they'll run some combination of HDB and SSD. But the, you know, the lights go on because they're going, wait a minute. You started with tier one high-end, you know, for the cloud.  Now you're doing flash. This platform really can do it all, right? And so maybe I don't need flash today, but I even want to buy into a platform that can go wherever my business needs to take it, right? So that's been a huge takeaway. And for the guys who are taking advantage of 3-par today, wheeling in an all-flash tier, they're going, man, I'm there, because I already get it. And I already am going to see how I can take advantage of services across those platforms now. So that's part of my architecture. What about the economics of flash?  But, you know, you think about the tier one arrays, they got 15K RPM drives, they're short-stroke of them. I mean, that looks like a dead duck. Yeah. And so can you talk a little bit about the economics? And, you know, cost is an issue, right?   You're betting you are. But talk about the economics of flash. Yeah. So, look, I never take a bet that I don't know I'll win, right? If I am going into... You've been a lot with, like, 10-year-olds. Yeah. I would never take advantage. Well, maybe I would for certain friends of mine. But the compaction story around flash is a huge enabler, right? Because otherwise, you know, the 10-to-1 difference, or whatever it is, is going to hold folks back from adoption. So that the... I pulled some stats from our installed base, right? And just looking at the last quarter, I pulled a sample that said, looking at all of our thin volumes, exported to host, you know, what the server saw in capacity, the actual provision storage, one-third. One-third of what hosts thought they had, right? Real life today with customers. And we know that, you know, thin technologies, the zero detection in silicon, we know that runs as fast as you can pump data through it at flash speeds, right? So how about... Here's the value proposition.  That starts to bring flash into, you know, into a lot of folks' budgets. And so that's why we think we've got it. Have you ever had to pay one of those guarantees? Never. Never paid it? Not once. No, so you're mentioning that. And I have to say, we know that because we don't just take your word for it. We actually analyze the metadata coming out of customers, controllers, three-part controllers, we did a statistical analysis on it, everything else, and the three-part nailed it. So, okay, so that's cool. You got some other knobs that you can turn over time, whatever, compression and dedupe and so forth. So that's cool. All right, what else? We're sort of running up against the clock here. I can't stop talking about all flash arrays and three-parts.  And this is something that, you know, the words are, I think, pretty new, right? We're dealing with software-defined data centers, software-defined storage. Yeah, less than a year old. Yeah, but would you believe that we've been doing software-defined storage since before it was cool, since 2007 with our store virtual, virtual storage appliance, formerly known as Left Hand. And we've seen, you know, a nice uptick in demand since a lot of the discussion here. And we brought that notion of, you know, a full suite of storage software provisioned as a VM to information protection. And so our store once line up, our purpose-built backup appliance running deduplication from HP Labs. We took that software from the appliance, and we now are delivering that as a virtual storage appliance, a VM-based backup appliance. So great for, you know, remote office deployments where you want to keep a local backup or an SMB who just didn't want another box. It's the perfect convergence approach for them or service providers who are looking to spin up a very flexible infrastructure for their customers, spin it up, tear it down, you know, SP is an interesting, absolutely very interesting. Do you have an API? Can I get a tunnel in through an API to that platform yet? Well, as it turns out, the store virtual VSA is manageable by OpenStack, manageable by Cinder. In fact, we've had a lot to do with the Cinder work. I was on GitHub the other day confirming that everybody's talking the game. It's HP, IBM, Red Hat, SolidFire. Yeah, it's a big contributor. AMC's in there a little bit. Yeah, yeah. A couple others, maybe I'm Citrix. Yeah, yeah. It's, we love the model. I mean, we've seen how it's gone on mobile phones, right? Android's really, you know, become the dominant operating system out there. Open source is a great way. Yeah, so SDN, you're there and you'll evolve that. This idea of storage as a platform is pretty interesting, you know. Yeah, yeah. But stack is the orchestration layer, API is in. Yeah, yeah, leverage your infrastructure. And I would defy you to figure how much CPU resource and how much disk is unused in these servers these days and just think, hey, if a little software can enable, you know, shared storage can take advantage of older assets and, you know, show a decent ROI, why wouldn't you?  Absolutely. That's good, yeah. Heterogeneous, that's an interesting play.  Well, in a way, you know, what we're talking about here and the beauty of a VM-based storage device, the CERT matrix, the QA matrix, is no longer physical from our perspective, it's the hypervisor. Yeah, okay, so it's up to. So, it's up in stack, VMware. It's up to, yeah, VMware and Microsoft and, yeah. And so, we tap any storage. Wash your hands of that, that's nice. Any storage, yeah. If you get me a few R&D dollars, that's good, good answer. So, yeah, it's good for customers, too. All right, anything else you want to get in before we get to the hunt here? We talked about my two favorites today, but I speak here all day. Soundbite on store once before we break? Store once, still the broadest lineup in the industry, getting broader now with our VSA.  No one can do it for, no one can do it faster at a better price, so. Awesome. All right, Craig, well, listen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Craig Nunez runs storage marketing, does a, doing a great job, keep it up. Secret weapon marketing. We'll be right back. This is Kadefa this year, and this is theCUBE. We're live at HPE Discover, we're right back after this.


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Welcome back, it's still the breakfast and class TV Africa. We go straight now to off the press. G.D. Johnson, the chief lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, will be analysing the dailies with us this morning. Good morning to you, J.J. Good morning, Justin, and good morning to the message, the citizen of the message. All right, merci. You have the first paper. All right, let's take a look at the Nigerian Tribune this morning. 2020 revised budget and NASA proves 4 trillion Naira for fuel subsidy. We talked about this yesterday. Interesting. Please get 182 billion Naira a salary increment. INEC allocated 219.54 billion Naira and federal government gives not to 17.32 trillion Naira total budget for 2022 fiscal year. These are riders underneath the board caption. Push on the way to prune PDP presidential aspirant to four. You're also fine. Platoon attack. We have buried 106 people so far, says local government chairman. And just before we move away, gunman killed INEC official in email during voter registration and commission suspense exercise. Now, there's a video that's making the rounds. I mean, a video that made the round. If you go on Twitter, you see that video where some armed men went to a registration centre where people were collecting their PVC. And it was really, really a sad, you know, sight to behold. Really, really sad. But we move away from that. You also find this, a day ban draw. Some will you or your toilet orders to graze fest remembrance anniversary of who will find out on the Nigerian Tribune this morning. Federal government may conduct consensus or census April next year. It's interesting. Federal governments may conduct census April next year. And as council of state, okay, is patterned for 159 convicts. Away from that, get your NIN ready to board train from May. And our C is quoted. It might just be a requirement to board a train. Really. All right. Away from the Nigerian Tribune to the daily independent. The lead story this morning, APC chiefs, more northern candidates to checkmate PDP. Other stories, insecurity, 11,536 schools closed in Nigeria since December 2020. That's according to UNICEF. Gone men shot dead attacking a number of police station. I and the official shot dead in Amos state. Federal government to conduct national census in April 2023. CBN FX program rakes in 60 million dollars in one month. Lawan urges police to probe death of Osinachi Muachiko. Other stories on the daily independent newspaper. Let's see. Easter security, unity, most guide our actions and utterances that's according to the president. Document show AB OBJ approved transfer of OPL 245 to Malibu. APC Congress's hoodlums unleashed violence disrupt by your support session. Those are all of the stories you can find on the front page of the daily independent newspaper. That's another way from the daily independent. We take a quick look at the punch newspaper and security. US approves $1 billion attack helicopters. Others for Nigeria. Buhari meets service chiefs, a boat caption for the punch this morning. Underneath insists Nigerian military must undergo human rights related training. And PDP knocks APC over killings. Kidnapping says ruling party has failed. These are riders underneath the boat caption.  Man, LCCI orders won the president. It's a lot to grapple with. National assembly okay's 17.3 trillionaire revised budget. 965 billionaire fresh borrowing. Senate orders probe of oil theft. Please get 182 billionaire salary increase. That's also another boat caption and rider you find this morning. Claring agents reject customs 15% charge on imported vehicles. And you find federal government fixes April 23 for fest consensus in 17 years. And just away from that, families of kidnapped Caduna train passengers grown, appeal to bandits. Consumer group, others kick his reps, clared dirty fuel importers. Really? And you find Chibok parents again demand. Action eight years after kidnapping. The question is, are these children still alive? And M.K.O.A. Biola's eldest son, Kola joins politics. Let's see what the difference it would make. Autopsy begins on Osena cheese body. Senate demands justice. And just before we move away, you find a plateau attack. Community buries 106. And local government chair says many missing. Lagos accountant allegedly set wife and brother in law ablaze and calls for help. These are the headlines on the punch this morning. And finally, the nation newspaper. Experts are saying economy will sink further with 4 trillionaire subsidy. What to write as their national assembly revises medium-term expenditure framework. Police get additional 182 billionaire full salaries. All the stories make in front page. And in O.B. consort O'Koa in Asaba. Weakest shunts of Basiki. Arabuhari, lawan, Tinnabu Edge Hope, Alista. In security, worries can. 21,039 policemen promoted. Omishio Ray's comment will retire some politician or politicians says O'Yatala APC neck to meet on Tuesday. And just below the red strip there renovation of complex senators reps relocate. Osena cheese death probe that's from the national assembly. Those are all of the stories we can take from the nation newspaper this Friday morning. Let's have G.D. Johnson joined the conversation right here. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Good morning.  All right. G.D. Johnson, the bold caption for the Nigerian Tribune says NAS approved 4 trillion Naira for fuel subsidy and you have a reaction coming from the manufacturers association of Niger amongst others saying that this is going to kill the economy. What are your thoughts on this? Should this come to your surprise that the national assembly approved the revised budget of 17.3 trillion Naira? They approved it. This is April 2022. So you shouldn't come to anyone as a surprise. You guess a pattern is a consistent pattern. Now election here that you see is a long goes budget in approach across the length and breadth of the country from the government to state to the national. But what is interesting to note is the amount of money that is voted for fuel subsidy. The entire budget is 17.3 trillion and then you have a quarter of the budget because you have 4 trillion Naira. A quarter of the budget goes to fuel subsidy. A quarter 25 percent goes to 25 percent of your budget goes to fuel subsidy. You don't need the subsidy or to tell you that something is wrong somewhere. And you don't need an economic expert to tell you. The basics of economy will tell you that you are running the economy at ground and then this month that you and I can see. The question is who are those accounts on this? Well, this is that you spend this huge amount of money is on record that the president, when he was still a private citizen and a contestant, questioned the force of it. It's unfortunate that the APC government enjoyed a lot of leverage from the media and coupled with the fact that we have a moribund opposition party, that you are a light. Well, for me there are no opposition parties. They are just two sides of the same coin because you're just in there because carpeting. Among the political class is just an interest. And once their interests are what are you doing? You don't care. But just to cut the amount. Who is subsidizing? What are these subsidizing? That was 24 trillion. 25% of our annual budget will be expended on fuel subsidy. No subsidy of carousel, no subsidy of diesel or subsidy of PMS, premium motor spirit, which you call petrol. So it's unbelievable. It's unimaginable. So you don't need an expert to tell you that the economy will surely face a downturn because the bulk of the budget we are running is budget deficit. Two, we service a lot of debts. Three, we also, instead of investing in capital expenditure, we engage in consumption in the current expenditure, expenditure that cannot be easily audited, that cannot be verified or accounted for. But Jideh Janssen, if you look at some of the argument that's been put out. First, the government is saying that there are plans to reduce the production quota due to the activities of Vandals. And now due to the price, I mean the high-key price of crude oil, and that's necessitated by the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. These are some of the reasons. Don't you think that this is valid? I will get info from Ukraine. But however you look at it, do you know the prices? No, no, no. Even the European Union that gets info from Ukraine, has they affected the price of petroleum production in those countries? No, it's one, it's lazy economics to, it's incompetence. And three, it's just an excuse of those that are making money out of young fortunes of Nigerians, fortunes of Nigerians that are giving that Ukraine crisis as always with them. Not just that. When there's a crisis in the oil market, it pays you as a country because our own type of crude oil, money life, is one of the most sought after globally. So we are making more money from, from your handling, your handling more foreign exchange for me. You see, let's see. I don't want, the more you talk about this, the more you feel, I don't want, this, you see this issue of forced subsidy. Only God knows what is happening. All right, JJ, let's move on. Daily independent, it's main story that this one is APC chief's mall northern candidate to checkmate PDP. But leave that for a bit. Let me take one issue that is boggling me, which is that of insecurity, education, kidnapping and all of that, school security and all. 11,536 schools closed in December since, in Nigeria, rather since December 2020. That's according to the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF. What are your thoughts as regards that, JJ? Add that to the COVID disruption. Add that to us to strike and then look at what happened to Nigeria economy in five years, in 10 years, in 20 years time. The implication of closing down school does not only have immediate consequences, it also has future implications. Because what is the quality of manpower that would get it in S5, 10, 20 years? That's just the implication. That's the implication of disclosure of schools and it's unfortunate that we reward failure in Nigeria because some ministers ought not to be in government again with respect to how they have handled the educational sector and the labor sector. Because how can the nation open its eyes to see that those numbers of schools are closed and then as we don't strike and then there's no heading side with respect to how to resolve that. Education is the key to transformation. Transformation of any nation comes from innovation and innovation is a product of learning, inspiration and instruction. Now you have denied that opportunity. Then how do you intend to prove your economy, how do you intend to prove your society? Because there's a template, there's a plan that those that are in primary school this year in five, six years they will be in secondary school. In ten years they will have graduated. They will contribute to the economy of the nation. But you have truncated that process with school being closed and nobody's batting an eyelid and nobody's resigning, nobody's called to question. Rather you have them displaying some measure of it's unfortunate and I'm not missing my word, it's unfortunate that the character that we have had as Ministry of Education, as head of Ministry of Education and head of Ministry of Labor have shown some measure of arrogance that is not required for public service and that is not required for the common work and the common good of Nigerians. It's unfortunate. Okay, so another one that's very troubling as we inch closer to 2023, it's the election and on the Nigerian Tribune you have gunman Kiel Aynak official in Emo during voter registration commission suspense exercise. Now prior to this time I had mentioned the attack, I mean looking at the video that's actually gone viral. It was also being promoted by a sister station. PVC registration and collection center was being attacked. This is what's happening. What should we anticipate looking at 2023 because there's been a lot of concern about you know security and the 2023 January elections or the elections? The EU attack in Emo state is not in new. It's not in new. Attacking Aynak infrastructure in Emo state. You recall before the election in Anambra state, the critical sensitive documents were housed in Emo state and we have situation whereby Aynak offices were set up in some of the critical sensitive materials that are required were set up. And you ask yourself, are these people ghost? Are they ghost? Can they be traced? Can they be located? What has happened to our intelligence community? What has happened to our intelligence garden? What has happened to our security architecture at the state level that it has become easy for people to commit one term destruction of property and sin and then this itself, it's anyone that tries to threaten the democratic process is planning a coup. It's planning a coup. It's any attempt. It is not the use of bond to seize a radio station and announce the change of government. That is a coup. Any attempt for you to threaten the democratic process is it's addition. It's a coup and not even a single security aid has been fired, not singled, not police commissioner, not DPO, not area commander, not state DSA director. Look at the catalog of crises you have had with respect to Aynak offices and is infrastructure. In almost, for example, not to talk of an understate and then you have a governor that collects the security vote. You have the local government spending the security vote and then you have someone parading himself as a commissioner of police and someone parading as the DSA director. You don't, you don't reinforce failure. Accountability is holding people accountable to whatever responsibility you have given to them. The people committing this crime are not ghost, they are human beings. And why can't security agents track these people down? But Jida Johnson, he might just be quite disturbing. I mean, looking at that particular video, I'm probably sure you probably, you haven't really seen it. Who are these gone men? Because from what I saw, this person is probably very heated. I mean, they look very well dressed and heated. Looking like they have a bulletproof vest on and with proper ammunition. Where do they get the guns from? So who are these people? How do they move the gun? How do they move the gun? How do they move around without being intercepted by security agents? All right, Jida, let's move on before we get very emotional about the security situation in the country. It's not been emotional. It's just been, just looking at it from a passive point of view. Let's just move on now. There are talks of the conduct of a census in 2023. Precisely, we are looking at the country that is the federal government is looking at in April. Let's just talk about the census and know that in April 2023, the elections and all that. Let's talk about the time. Who are the elections in February? Who are the elections in February? Who are the elections in March? And then you have a census in April. So in April, the first two months and the first month in the second quarter. Now, this census, you are taking place in 2016. You are taking place because the last census we had was in 2006 and we are meant to have a census every 10, 10 years. Now, 2016 to date, there are no windows or opportunities other than for us to fix the census in an election year. And then we'll go on national holiday in February because of the election. We'll go on national holiday in March because of election. And then we'll go on at least a minimum of one week all the day because of census in April. And then you hand over power in May. They've approved it. There's nothing anybody can do. But once you just want that, what is the strategic thinking behind some of the decision making? What informs the way we go about coming about with policy statement that would drive our nation? I hope that the census succeed. But you could see the bottlenecks you have created with respect to that. That's putting too much pressure on your people who go out to vote for polling again for the census. And then you close businesses on election day. You close businesses again because of census that we could have done. We could have scattered in different periods and different years.  But let's also look at another part of the fact that we're going to have sensors. We understand the importance of having sensors for every country and for every government because it helps in planning. You will plan because you know the number of persons that you have in the country, different group of persons. It helps also with the budget. So how have we been going about budgeting for the people and planning without for the window? I mean, you say, I mean, if we're looking at 10 years to have a census, we've had a window of almost five or there about. So how have we been planning? What have we been doing? How did we arrive at having all of this? Now, let me put it across to you. We should have done this sensor before 2023 election, which will have a lot for constituency delineation, constituency delineation for the other group. I agree with the sensor as critical to planning. Planning is key to development. However, when you are planning, plan does not. All right. We seem to be having a disconnect. Julie Johnson. All right.  We have so much to do in 2023. There will be so many holidays, like he has said with the elections are holding at that time, you know, and when you do sensors, you know, people are advised to stay at home. There's no work for quite some time. People are asked those who either want to travel to the estate, you know, they have this window and timeframe to do all of that. And because of that, there will be so much time, there will be so much timeless. And I wonder how that will actually keep our economies. But we understand that we have Julie Johnson back. So it's about the timing. A plan does not guarantee you success.  But if you understand what you're going to be dealing with, then it makes it possible. So do we even know the number of children that are born into this country every day? Do we know how do we even plan? If we look at the, you know, budget that's been allocated to educational sector, do we know the number of persons that we have? I'm just saying as much as planning does not necessitate success, but we also need to understand that you can't take away planning. And so government that has not been planning for the past five years, what have they been, how have they been, you know, working with the policies and action? You have an administration that is at the twilight of its administration, a month to the end of the administration. That's when the administration is conducting sensor. The sensor will be conducted in April. Power will be under over in May 29. By the time the new administration comes in, that's when the provisional result of the sensors will be coming on. What we are seeing in the flight is very, very simple. Sensor is key, is important. In actual sense, number is so important that in the Jewish tradition, God gave a particular book, the book of numbers. Numbers is important. It's important for us to have accurate data, accurate data of the number of people we have in Nigeria and accurate data of the real demographic attributes of our population. It's important. However, the timing is critical. Look at what the 20-23 budget has made provisions for and what 20-23 budget we make provisions for. Now look at the INEK budget. $219.54 billion for INEK. They should share this money to all Nigerians and let us not do any election. $219.5 billion for INEK. $4.3 million for petroleum subsidy. And then the national sensor will come up with. In fact, when you see the budget for the national sensor, you will be shocked to see the number, the amount of money they will use to enumerate, because that's the term, to enumerate in Nigeria. You will be shocked with what we voted for. All right, J.J., that's as much as we can take on this particular discuss for one tough time. J.J. Johnson is the Chief Lecturer and Nigerian Institute of Journalism. Many thanks for your time this morning. It's a pleasure to be with you, Justin and Miss. I hope you could write it. I will wait for the drama in Oshun between Uttalar, Omishuri, and Arrebre-Shala. Uttalar retired there, Arrebre-Shala, but I'm glad to let him know that, to be sure of your time, you can take this to the bank. It's a conundrum. All right. I would see how that plays out in Oshun state. Thank you so much yet again. It is still the breakfast on the Mplus TV Africa. Off the press is off right now. We'll take a break and see what happened this day in history. And we'll come back and talk some more about Bumbaka, Augusta, and a whole lot to expect on the show today. Stay with us.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says finally roots of the following equation 1 upon x plus 4 minus 1 upon x minus 7 equal to 11 upon 30 where we have x not equal to minus 4 and 7. Now let's move on to the solution. The equation given to us is 1 upon x plus 4 minus 1 upon x minus 7 equal to 11 upon 30. Now as we have that x is not equal to minus 4 and 7 so multiplying the equation by x plus 4 into x minus 7 we get x plus 4 into x minus 7 whole into 1 upon x plus 4 minus 1 upon x minus 7 equal to x plus 4 into x minus 7 into 11 upon 30. So this gives us x minus 7 minus x plus 4 equal to x plus 4 into x minus 7 into 11 upon 30 that is we get x minus 7 minus x minus 4 equal to x plus 4 into x minus 7 into 11 upon 30 this further implies minus 11 equal to x plus 4 into x minus 7 into 11 upon 30. Now this 11 and this 11 gets cancelled so this gives us minus 30 equal to x square minus 7 x plus 4 x minus 28 that is we get x square minus 3 x plus 2 equal to 0. So the given equation reduces to this which is a quadratic equation. So now from this equation we have a equal to 1 b equal to minus 3 and c equal to 2. So let's find out b square minus 4 ac this would be equal to minus 3 the whole square minus 4 into 1 into 2 this is equal to 9 minus 8 and this is equal to 1. Now you get that b square minus 4 ac is greater than 0 since we have this one is greater than 0. Now we know that when b square minus 4 ac is greater than 0 then the roots of the equation given by x would be equal to minus b plus minus square root b square minus 4 ac upon 2 a. So using this we get x equal to minus b that is minus of minus 3 which is 3 plus minus square root b square minus 4 ac that is 1 that is square root 1 upon 2 a that is 2 into 1 and so this further implies that x is equal to 3 plus minus 1 since square root 1 is 1 upon 2 that is we have x equal to 3 plus 1 upon 2 and 3 minus 1 upon 2. So we get 2 values for x that is x equal to 2 and x equal to 1. Hence the final answer is that the roots of the given equation are 2 and 1. So now this complete session hope you have understood the solutions for this question.


From New York City, it's the Cube, covering New Relic Future Stack 2019, brought to you by New Relic. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman, and we're here at New Relic's Future Stack 2019 at the Grand Hyatt, next to Grand Central Station here in New York City. Happy to welcome to the program a first time guest, Roger Scott, who's the chief customer officer at New Relic. Roger, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks Stu, thanks for having me on. All right, so I love this morning actually, in addition to hearing all the announcements, my first handful of guests on the Cube were customers, so I got to hear from them. And we know your team is always excited about the announcement, but definitely enthusiasm from the customers, things in the keynote that got people clapping and fired up, things like, oh wait, 10 terabytes of data, pressure thing, refresh for like a second, and oh my gosh, there's results, pretty impressive. So maybe give us a little bit of insight into customer engagement and how it's led to the bevy of announcements here at the show. Oh, it's a great question actually, and I think in my capacity as chief customer officer and the functions I'm responsible for, we continually engaging with customers as you can imagine. And one of the things we take a lot of pride in is being a proxy for the voice of the customer back into the organization. So we have a pretty rigid process, not rigid, a pretty disciplined process I would argue, that allows us to get feedback from the field, listen to our customers, understand what's important to them, and reflect that in our product roadmap. And I'll let you know that that's on a weekly cadence, we do that. Now we're not doing that in a reactive fashion such that our roadmap diverts every single week in that, but we hear that constant feedback from the field as to what our customers are liking. So a lot of what you hear today in terms of those six great announcements that we have were a combination of feedback that we've had over the last couple of years I would argue, because it's a dramatic shift to go from what we were previously, which was essentially six individual products that worked really well together. But through the release of Neuralic 1 in May earlier this year and then what we announced today has truly developed this into a true observability platform. So monitoring with six different products to a true observability platform that's open, connected, and programmable is a dramatic shift. And that's a combination of a bunch of feedback from our customers over the years. Yeah, I'm sure it's pretty much feedback from all customers. They're not asking for more tools and more interfaces and more things that they need to learn. In many ways, software can be a unifying, Peter, especially that term platform.  What were your customers struggling with that Neuralic 1 in general is looking to solve as well as kind of the observability piece? What went into that launch that was customer pain points and things that they'd been asking for? Yeah, maybe to stand back a little bit and understand some of the challenges that customers had and then why they were asking for different solutions or evolution of our solution. If you think about today's world, there's this rapid development and deployment of software. Almost got to the point of continuous software deployment. And so your speed of needing to be able to react to problems in your environment, your customer experiences are degrading, et cetera. Being able to respond to that really quickly is essential. Understanding the customer experience is essential. You talked about operational efficiency of reducing the number of tooling sets or data sets that I'm looking at continually. So anything that we could provide to our customers that allowed them to get to answers quicker, understand the why, and then be able to remediate that really easily so that their customers have a greater experience. And at the same time, reduces this friction that's unnecessarily introduced when you're going from one product to another, one tool to another, and you're spending too much time rationalizing data sets across those tool sets. So consolidation is a big theme, ability to get to answers really quickly is a big theme. And that's really been the genesis of being able to create a platform. But not just a platform for consolidation for better visibility and observability, but we believe it's not truly a platform and so you could develop on it. If you think back in technology history of all the different paradigms we've had throughout the history of technology, those who've won the platform wars over the years have been really good at being able to provide tools and ease of adoption of the platform by virtue of being able to build things on top of it. The ability to give people tools that allow them to build technology is really at the essence of the platform as well. Roger, there's a certain trust level that customers have to have if they're going to be building on top of your platform. When I've talked to customers in New Relic, they do talk about a partnership and good back and forth, but there's definitely a certain amount of stickiness once they've built something on your platform. Any concerns from them as to, there's that term lock in out there as to the, how do I know that this is going to work for me and that I'm not going to have my pricing kind of crank up over time and be like, oh my gosh, a year or two later, what did I get myself into? Right, it's a really important point that I'd like to start off by actually re-emphasizing the point you made. I think we pride ourselves on the relationship we have with our customers. It truly is the heart of everything that my organization does. We have this saying that we are because they are. In the realization that if we don't serve our customers really well, they have choices frequently. We're a SaaS vendor. Their contracts come up for renewal frequently. And if you are unable to deliver on the promises that you made in their sales process, once they implement your solutions and try to use those in production, environments, and everyday work, if you can't deliver on those promises, then you're going to break down that level of trust. And trust is at the center of all relationships as you know, no doubt, no, whether it's a personal relationship, you're playing on a sports team, whether you're working with your customers. And so we want to make sure that we can deliver on those promises. Once we've sold them the product. So I haven't heard any specific concerns about lock-in or anything. I think what they regularly come to us though with is they want us to have a really strong point of view. They want us to be opinionated. Tell them how this should work effectively together. What does best practice look like? What's the gold standard? What are some of the artifacts, tools, frameworks, reusable templates that we can share with them that accelerates their time to value? So I think the value statement significantly outweighs the concerns around lock-in or reduction of the number of vendors that they're working with. You know, if I look at really the enterprise space, you've got customers working through their application modernization.  I heard a staff that only about five to 10% of apps are monitored at the app level today. So, yeah, how many of your customers are dealing with the installed state versus, you know, new deployments and what are some of the challenges you're hearing from customers there? Yeah, and I think it's important to pause that number because I think it's, you know, five to 10% or growing to 20% as I think Gartner indicated. If you look at those organizations born in the cloud or born digital, it's a significantly higher percentage of that, which is possibly an indictment of the low level of instrumentation we've seen a lot of legacy software technology stacks. And so, you know, I think in today's world, we're trying to get that level of instrumentation observability up as much as possible. But maybe to link back to your previous question as well, I think there's an important aspect here when we move to a platform. You know, when you're a product company, your differentiation comes through product, comes through the capability of that product, features and functions. And we've certainly found ourselves in a significant number of those battles against competition where it's feature and function based. That's not a great outcome for the customer. I think when you move to a platform, it's very much around the network differentiation. When I say network differentiation, I think it's about getting the users of your service access to third party applications, to third party data sources, be they open source data emitters, open telemetry, open sensors, any of those data sets that we announce support for today, giving them access to those data sets and being able to enrich the experience that we provide them. That creates a network effect. And that's really where we see the opportunity to deliver significantly more value to our customers with the ability to then build your own applications on top of the platform. And that's second to none in the industry, in my opinion. Roger, what's New Relics' role in helping customers as they're really, they're modernizing their workforce? You know, when I talk to so many companies, it's like, you know, they need to retrain and they have to have new skill sets. They need to make sure as, you know, certain cloud and automation changes where they focus on things and, you know, embrace DevOps and new ways of doing things. You know, there are a lot of challenges there. You know, where does New Relics play in that, modernization for customers? You know, I think it's in a couple of ways. There are ways that my organization can help the customer in terms of just share understanding of the capability of the platform, what are best practices, how we can drive better accountability as you move to these new technology stacks and new ways of working much more agile environments. And so I think we can do a combination of that, just share skills development, working really tightly with the likes of AWS. You've heard Dave McCann this morning talking about how when customers migrate the application workloads to the AWS cloud environment, you know, hopefully they're not just doing that by way of compute lift and shift, but they're actually looking at modernizing and refactoring those applications. And when they do that, you heard Dave talk through a number of assets and frameworks and models and reusable best practices that we're trying to work with them on that we can give to our customers that accelerate their journey. Because it's not easy. We were talking to Chris Dillon this morning from Cox Automotive. And when you think of an organization like that, that's 40, 50 years old and has had to transform itself in terms of digital experience for its customer base, it's a significant cultural adjustment quite often to get teams to work in fundamentally different ways. So it's not an insignificant challenge, but that's partly why we've invested so heavily in customer success, taking customers on journey, thinking about their maturity over time and constantly looking for them to get better value from the platform. Roger, there were a number of things that have jumped out at me.  You've already got customers building on top of the platform. You had the Future Hacker event just a couple of weeks ago.  You know, one of the things that's most gratifying for me when talking to customers is when we've been able to see, you know, when you work with older, more traditional companies that are undergoing some form of digital transformation and they're trying to shift a lot of their applications into a more modern stack and environment, become more agile, et cetera. They frequently sort of peel off part of the business and will have a digital division that will build some innovative, typically mobile-based apps. We've seen a number of different retailers that we've worked with, a number of different travel organizations where we've started out instrumenting the mobile application because they've built a new application to give their consumers or customers access to their services. And at some point that application is going to merge into the back end and have to connect back into older technology. And it's been the beauty of being able to connect those two different environments together. You know, starting off with what we would have got is a slightly easier place to start, which is the more modern application environment where we're really well suited to, but then seeing the full value of being able to instrument the front end all the way through to the back end, link that back to the customer's experience and to the impact on the business in terms of funnel analysis from number of people using the mobile application to actually ordering something to once they've ordered it, feeling satisfied and actually receiving the goods that they ordered, being able to instrument all of that and understand the impact of performance and availability on the overall business outcome. That's when it's been truly transformational in working with customers. And that's certainly where we would love to help more of our customers in that fashion. All right, Roger, want to give you the final word. Of course, you bring together a number of customers here at Feud for Stack in the US as well as there's a few of those run in other geographical areas, but throughout the year, any other key things you want to highlight as to how customers can get engaged even more? Yeah, I mean, we've got a sort of a, what I would argue is sort of a tiered approach to customer success. At the very high end of our engagement model, we have a significant number of resources, solution architects, customer success managers that we can deploy directly with our customers. We typically do that in conjunction with them, build out success plans, et cetera. What we're looking at investing heavily at the moment is also having a good understanding of what the ideal customer journey is like. Realizing that a customer can come to an event like this and can learn about our product, but the best way for them to experience that is in the course of using the product. So a heavy focus on product-led growth and how we actually deliver better value through the product itself, remove friction and adoption and getting to better value. We want to automate some of that customer journey so that we know that if you've just signed up and you've configured your, for instance, you've configured your agent and you've done your alerting policy, but you haven't yet configured a custom app dex on that application, or you haven't understood what your key transactions are. We've got all that data in the back end. So we're working really hard to understand how we get that information back out to customers that go, hey, we know you haven't necessarily done this yet. Here's some access to great assets. A short video clip, a self-paced learning guide that somebody can get on demand from an LMS system. So trying to use a combination of direct resource investment, events like this where it's great to make announcements like we did about those six great innovations, and then increasingly using digital through the product, but also through just the general customer journey to say, hey, this is really important content and information. You should look at this now because it's going to add value in what you're doing today. Well, Roger Scott, Chief Customer Officer with New Relic, thanks so much for joining us. Stu, thanks so much. It's been great talking to you. All right, I'm Stu Miniman, back with lots more here at New Relic Future Stack 2019 in New York City. Thanks for watching theCUBE.


The Frankie Shop is not a tall girl brand necessarily, but with a little bit of research, we can make any brand work for us. I wanted to share a few new items that I got from the Frankie Shop. I did mention it in my last video and all items are here and here I am sharing them. It's your girl Coco. Welcome back to my channel. If you like videos about beauty, fashion and lifestyle for tall women, definitely stay tuned to this video. The Frankie Shop doesn't necessarily cater to tall women. However, for me, we can definitely make these brands work for us. These three jackets that I purchased are oversized jackets and a one-size-fits-all. When I see those things on the Frankie Shop, definitely run to the item and grab it and go. Slowly because I have noticed that anything that is one-size-fits-all or oversized at the Frankie Shop fits my frame. Extremely oversized but oversized to where I can still get that look. The first jacket is the tightest cropped moto jacket. It is a fold-leather jacket. It does have shoulder pads in the shoulder area. Each button is real. Sometimes we buy jackets and they kind of get you because the button's gonna be real. The zippers on the jacket are also real as well, meaning you can stick your hand inside of each pocket on here. That's also a plus. Sometimes we buy jackets and it's not a real zipper. The sleeves are long enough for me. I have a 22 and a half arm length. If you are a tall girl and your arms are longer than mine, maybe a 23 will fit. You'll be able to get this jacket. It's cropped. It's a nice cropped fit on my frame. It's also nicely oversized. Back to the point where it's gonna take over my outfit if that makes sense. It's the tightest cropped jacket. It does have three pockets. That's the two at the bottom and then there's the one at the top. In the video, you'll see the jacket on me and how it fits my frame. I absolutely love it. If you are into cropped jackets, definitely give this a try because as tall women, it's really hard for us to find something that is cropped that doesn't look awkward on us. We have to be conscious of the things that we're wearing because we do have a longer frame and certain items just don't look good on us. I mean, it's just what it is and we just have to get used to it. This is why I always promote buying things that work well with your frame as opposed to what everybody else is buying because everything just doesn't look good on us. The lapels are not too big. I am, for reference, a 38D. The girl tried to tell me I was a double D, but I lost some weight. It does zipper up on me nicely. I see telling. I'll link everything below for you guys. If you are interested, now I am going to tell you, it's probably sold out. The Frankie Shop does a really good job at notifying their customers when something comes back in, when you actually put it on your list to be notified. So if you do want something like this, sign up for the notification. As soon as it comes to your email, purchase the jacket. I think this is a good staple piece and a good statement piece, right? I'm probably going to have this for a while. What you want to do is you want to wipe these jackets down because they are faux leather. Now, some of the specs on the jacket would be from shoulder to shoulder on here would be a 22. The bust area is a 37. The length of the entire jacket is a 19 and a half. And that's it. And again, it does have shoulder pads on here. Really, really nice jacket. I'll link everything below for you guys for this jacket. It's actually a little tiny pocket at the bottom, but that one is fake. OK? That one is fake. So I'll get into the next jacket. But let me know what you guys think about this jacket. If you are a tall lady, are you into crop jackets? Comment below. Let's get the conversation started. The next jacket is the Chicago Overside Biker Coat. Now, I already have the Aria Biker Coat from the Frankie Shop, but it is a traditional biker coat because it does have the belt at the bottom. This one does not. This is really, really nice, guys. Like the grain on here is extremely nice. The sleeves are really, really long. If you're shorter than me and you take a look at the model on the website, those sleeves are super long. So if you do have a longer arm, you can definitely get this jacket, guys. I would recommend this jacket for anybody who's tall and who have been wanting a nice faux leather coat. If you don't want to break the bank, this is definitely the jacket for you. As you guys know, a lot of leather coats and stuff now are extremely expensive. I'm going to tell you, I saw a coat that I really liked. I didn't even pay attention to where it was from or who it was by. It was $12,000, guys. Then I looked at it, it was YSL. That's a lot of money for a jacket. But on here, we do have zippers as well. All the zippers on here work with the exception of this one. This one is just for decoration or design. Then there's two at the bottom. Really nice coat. Like, okay, so what I like about this one is that it's kind of long and it's very oversized, but it still has a lot of structure to it. So this one has minimal shoulder pads. I think at first I didn't feel the shoulder pads, but they are in here and they're very light. They're not as big as the other ones, but they are in here. Actually, it's not a shoulder pad. It's kind of weird because it's not a shoulder pad. You can shoulder pads are on top. It's more so in this part of the jacket to make this part of the jacket stand up. So that's pretty cool. Very grainy, like I said, sleeves are really long. And let's get into the specs on this one. To one size for all, from shoulder to shoulder, it's 22. The bust area is 50 and the length is a 28. So it's 28 inches long. That's why it's so long. But the sleeves, I should have brought my measuring tape to measure this for you guys. But this is a really nice jacket. If you are looking for any full leather coats, the Aria, the Titus, and the Chicago, I also have another one from them, but these are more of a moto style. I think that every woman should own some sort of moto jacket in their closet. It does add a little bit of chicness to any outfit. You can wear this dressed up or dressed down. You can definitely wear it with a skirt. You can wear it with sweatpants. I see a lot of men wearing it with sweatpants. You can wear it with dresses. I've done that before with a little edge, like a nice dainty dress. As to all women, like I said, for me, finding statement pieces, I'm always going to do that because the struggle is real.  That's the two fold of the coats that I got from them. And I'll get into the last coat right now. The last coat is the Gaia double breasted coat. Okay. I wore this today in honey. So here's the thing. It says a coat, but I'm going to be a hundred percent honest with you. It's not thick. This is giving me a long sweater, like it's very thin. There is a lining in here, but the lining is only halfway in the jacket. If you are a girl from New York City and you try to wear this in the wintertime, it ain't going to work. So right now is a good time to wear something like this. It's very stylish. It does have shoulder pads in it. It's oversized and I got a size large. This is the only one that I got an enlarge because I can tell by reading the description and looking at the model that this was a really oversized coat. When I talk about knowing your measurements, it's so important because I can easily go online really quick and read something and then purchase it because I know it's going to fit me. That's the last jacket that I got. The buttons are all monochrome so everything is blending in, which is beautiful. Like I said, it's not really thick, but it's extremely long, six feet tall.  I'll pop in another video with me wearing it because you could actually see how long it fits me because I have on a pair of boots. If you are into stuff like this, definitely give this a try. The pockets are real. Now I'll tell you this when I got the jacket. The pockets were sewn together, but I knew it was a pocket here. I had to remove the thread so I can get my hand in the pocket, but it is an actual pocket here. That's great. A really nice jacket. Let me make sure I got a one size enlarge. Yes, I did get a large. This is one of the items that I typically wouldn't buy in a large because they only have medium large and sometimes the medium large is just too small. This case because this was oversized and I can tell by reading everything in the description that it was going to fit my frame. So I took a chance and I bought it. Read those descriptions and know your measurements. Know your measurements ladies.  You will be 100% much more comfortable with buying something online if you know your measurements and you know how to read these descriptions and know what's going to fit your body. Sometimes it always doesn't work out. But if they have enough information for you to read, the item will work just fine. So that's it for this video. These are the three items that I got from the Frankie shop. I absolutely love them. Make sure you guys are liking the video and subscribing to the channel. I would really, really appreciate it so I can pump out more videos like this showing my tall ladies that we don't necessarily have to shop at a tall girl brand to be stylish. So I am going to link each item below if you are interested in these jackets. Definitely check them out. If you're unsure of the size, just order them when they come back in stock. Try them on. If it fits, you love it. Keep it. If not, send it back. At least you know if you can get something from the Frankie shop. I'm also going to link some of my blog posts for you ladies to check out. You guys already know I run a tall blog called Coco Styles NYC. And I'm also going to link my digital products for my styling services. I'm going to link the how to shop high, low, the right way so you can start buying things for your wardrobe that are stylish and not really overspend on things that you actually are not going to wear. If you like videos like this, please comment below. And if you stay to the end of this video, please comment Coco We See You. And guys, don't forget to follow me on Instagram at Coco Styles NYC and Coco Styles NY and my personal style blog CocoStylesNYC.com and my style services CocoStylesNY.com and I'm on Tickety Tickety Talk CocoStylesNYC and I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye guys.


Five months in love with a man that will not have a relationship with me, he says, because he has been hurt two times, he will not do it again. Why can't we just do what we are doing? He says, well, and so this is about you, right? So he's getting what he needs. That's what he's saying right there. When he says, why can't we just do what we are doing? What he's saying is I'm getting all my needs met. Why can't we just stop right here? And so what you need to decide is whether one of your needs is having something more or not, whether it's the label, whether it's the ring, whether it's whatever it is that you feel like you need, you need to decide whether that's one of your needs and whether that's something that you absolutely want or not. And if it is something that you absolutely want, you need to pull away and start seeing other people and kind of let him alone and stop sleeping with him, stop making, getting his needs met, right? Because if he's getting all his needs met and he doesn't care about your needs, then he's not going to do anything about it.  Either one, he's gonna step up and start being a man for you and start actually being compassionate and making sure that you are getting your needs met or he's gonna end up saying, okay, it's not worth it to do this again. I'm too scared, my inner child is hurt too much and I'm just gonna walk away from it, right?  He's either gonna step up to the plate and become the man that you want him to be or he's gonna walk away completely and decide that it's not worth it for him. And that's a choice that he has to make. And if you're coming from a place of power, which is what I suggest and I've talked about in some of these other videos, I think you've been in some of the other live streams and you've probably seen me talk about kind of coming from this place of power instead of the place of force, that's where you need to be coming from. So that there's choice. So that he has a choice and he makes a choice whether he wants to be with you or not.


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Moving from such a high operational tempo and going into a maintenance phase requires a lot of patience and a lot of work. There's so many moving parts that are always changing. Managing diversity and just being patient with the situation. We're excited to get the new upgrades. We're one of the first in the fleet to get a lot of things for this class of ship. We'll be excited to off-test it. My name is I.T.2 Andrews and I'm on the USS Ruffin. Since I've been on the ship, I haven't been in too much of a maintenance-related environment. So I guess I'm learning more about that phase of the ship's life cycle. I'm listening to J.G. Morris on the USS Russell. Normally I'm the navigator. There's not much navigating to do in port. It's different. We're not used to being in port so much. Now we've been in port for the last seven months. It's good seeing the family every night, but we're ready to go back to sea. On the ship we get used to day-to-day operations. I don't want to say it gets easy because it's not, but it gets consistent. This is a good opportunity to see family, see my wife a little bit more than being underway. Education, certification, training. It's an opportunity to become more well-rounded. We're very busy before. We're still busy now. It's just a different kind of busy.


Hello and welcome back. We are here on a set of Corsa So we always talk about having drift prepared cars and fully tuned up cars Whether it be a comp car or a drift prepared street car. What about a non drift prepared car? So that's what we're gonna find out today if we can drive a non drift prepared car But still get sideways and have fun with it. We have this BMW M3 competition G80 And we're gonna go rip it. So make sure you follow me on all social media. Let's get to it So One of the big challenges that we're going to have to accomplish with doing this is We don't have a clutch Clutch is activated with the car because it is Paddle shifters. So we will now have a clutch. So we're gonna be doing this with all basically inertia of the car weight transfers and That's about it. Maybe some power over. So really good for basic beginning Drifting. So we're gonna do it in all kinds of use. We're gonna do it in obviously first person And third. So, uh, let's just try our first Things first make sure we have traction control off So this is basically off the showroom floor M3 competition And we're gonna see Oh, I can already tell the lock is gonna be the hindrance I was gonna try that short. Yeah, this is definitely not uh, it's easy Let's have a good drift prepared car as it gets massive Understeer so we really have to kind of throw the car Oh, we wrecked it. We have to throw the car Because I keep hitting clutch, but it doesn't work. Uh, we really have to throw the car and utilize Power over and the weight of the car In order to like chuck the car in a drift And manage the fact that we don't have a lot of steering angle Okay, we're gonna go this way Do we fit? No, we're not gonna be able to fit. All right, we're gonna spawn back to bits So we do have a bunch of different tracks here where we're at, but This is actually quite challenging just to get the car to Initiate correctly Because this car would not have any type of brake bias control There we go. Now we got a little bit going on Pulled M3 from work and I definitely would not be doing this but It's all about trying to just get the car to rotate So let's go explore some other things that's trying to get the car to oh Get the car to rotate in a matter of just using a little bit of braking maybe You know power over and things like that. So really it would be a very good way to Find a track I don't know where I'm going It'd be a great way to learn some throttle control in the beginning and maybe just some smooth driving because you like I said you are going to have to use Transitions and things like that to get the car to go sideways So Throttle blip there Oh, wait, we have a handbrake. I forgot we do have a handbrake in the car. So that could also help us I've been doing all this with just throttle over and stuff, but we do have a bit of a handbrake No clutch though. See I tried to use clutch there And that angle lock is definitely hindering me We are on a cart track too. So this is a very small track And the problem when we use a handbrake It wants to stall the car out We are managing though to get I keep wanting to do that clutch maybe to get some slides So let's we're going to go ahead to clutch kickers and see if we can't run A full lap at clutch kickers with this situation and see if we can actually run it Without clutch or anything like that. So let's do it So now that we are at clutch kickers We're going to run it and see if we can actually Get some lines here In this m3 A track that i'm a little bit more familiar with I think we can get it Nope when you pull the handbrake the car doesn't really want to Work too well. I'm not sure why my screen is flashing, but Definitely quite challenging in a non-prepared car But we seem to be Managing it somewhat as I said we almost go off No, and there's our angle lock has an issue. So let's change it up And run this thing in first Okay Uh, I realized I lost a lot of traction there So driving a non-drift prepared car definitely something That is very doable But it does take a lot of finesse A lot of good throttle control. So maybe if you are Looking to get the basics of like some throttle control and stuff like that Maybe driving a non-prepared car initially Maybe a good idea Trying to find those paddles. It's definitely hard So I hope you guys found this video a little bit more entertaining We're trying to drive like I said a basically off the showroom floor m3 competition g80 have a little fun with it and uh Realizing how much I really do love my prepared cars because This is this is a lot of work if you can get some people to do tandems in these these cars you guys definitely uh Have some trust in each other and have really My nest of the car because I'm trying to go way more angled see right there I'm trying to go way more angle Then this car is actually capable of getting because of the limit of the steering lock So you kind of got to limit your drift angle A little bit slippery Kind of like all that So I think that's good doing here for this episode here on a set of course a little different take with this m3 I have a question What kind of build would you like to see with this m3 full blown up comp build? Maybe a drift taxi Let me know down in the comments because definitely we're going to be working on this g80 As well since my g80 2 is done So make sure you guys follow me on all social media all it's found in the description box below And as always I thank you guys for coming back and watching. I'm evil rabbit. I'll see you guys on the track