Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. My name is Philip Banks III. I'm the deputy mayor for public safety. Thank you for joining us today to hear about the coordinated efforts by law enforcement at the city, state, and federal levels to prevent attacks on the Jewish community this past weekend. Teamwork. Something that the mayor has been stressing since day one of this administration. Can you imagine what we can accomplish if we work together as a team? Today, you are seeing an example of that teamwork. Multiple entities coming together in a short period of time to coordinate, communicate, develop an implemented plan, a plan that saved lives, teamwork. I'd like to start by thanking all of those standing behind us today, including representatives from the NYPD, State Police, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the MTA, the MTA Police Department, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the Office of the Prevention of Hate Crimes, and the Community Security Initiative, as well as numerous Jewish organizations, including the United Jewish Association, the Federation of New York, Central Head Zola, and the Flatbush Showroom Patrol, Safety Patrol. We also have numerous several religious leaders from the Jewish community here, including New York City Council member Eric Dinovitz, who is the head of the New York City Council, Jewish Caucus, where Rabbi Liebowitz, Rabbi Steinmetz, Rabbi Miroxnik, Rabbi Rothman, Rabbi Fink, Rabbi Tessa, Rabbi Irins, and Rabbi Bernard Freilich. With our further delay, I'd like to introduce the Mayor of the City of New York, Mayor Eric Adams. Thank you, Deputy Mayor, and I too join. I'm not as tall as you, so I'm going to move the stand over. I too join the Deputy Mayor in acknowledging the work of our partners this past weekend. Both the Police Commissioner and I were notified of a credible threat on Jewish New Yorkers, and immediately communicated with our teams to take appropriate action. The potential attack on Jewish New Yorkers because of that coordination was averted. It was due to the heroic actions of the MTA, Police Department, Officers Ryan Fakner, and Officer Kana Kallersurdo. Both responded appropriately based on the information that was disseminated. In a dedicated efforts of the men and women who we are here today, the leadership is represented throughout those who are standing by. Both officers arrested two suspects at Penn Station on Saturday morning. After one of the suspects was flagged by making anti-Semitic and threatening posts online, including references to perpetrate an armed attack on a synagogue. Thanks to the exceptional investigative work of the FBI and NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force, the NYPD Intelligence Bureau, and the MTA Police Department, the suspects were apprehended before they could act on the alleged plan to murder members of the Jewish community in our city. This was not an idle threat. This was a real threat.  A Nazi armband in New York City in 2022. Think about that for a moment. Over 77 years ago, after Allied soldiers liberated Auschwitz and exposed the full extent of the horrors of the Holocaust, haters on the rise in America, a dark cloud over our nation. It has become normalized by politicians and celebrities, amplified by social media and cable news, and weaponized by the easy availability of guns in this country. This was a ghost gun that adds to the already oversaturations of guns in our city and cities across America. This is a toxic mix with frightening implications for our society. From the massacre of black shoppers in Buffalo to the killings at an LGBTQ plus nightclub in Colorado Springs over the weekend, we see communications and communities across the nation being targeted for their race, their beliefs, and their way of life. This hate cannot be allowed to take hold and build and gain further ground. America must defeat the rising threat of domestic terrorism. It is real, it is here, and we must have a formidable approach to it, and we must reject the hate and division that drives it. This this time, thanks to thorough coordination between multiple agencies at numerous levels of government, we were able to assure to avert this threat. Law enforcement was able to prevent an attack like the shocking stabs that took place at Rabbi's home in Muncie, New York during the Hanukkah in 2019. But it's clear there's others who share anti-semitic beliefs and hateful ideas. We must and will be vigilant in the weeks leading up to Hanukkah and this holiday season, and the NYPD will do its part. And I want to say thank you to everyone that's here that participated in the coordination over the weekend and the coordination during this holiday season. I'm going to salute the leadership of Commissioner Kishansu for a quick action in coordination with the men and women of the police department to avert this threat. There are a lot of critics out there, but I hope today they can and understand what the NYPD does every day for the city of New York. Protecting communities, families and New Yorkers of very faith from the violence as some, some want to inflict. Keeping our Jewish communities and other communities safe in the face of rising threats and anti-semitism. Getting dangerous weapons off our streets and fighting the rise of violent domestic extremism in this country. As the mayor of the largest Jewish community in the United States, it is my sacred duty to protect Jewish New Yorkers and this entire community from anti-semitism and bigotry. And in my administration, we know this is one of our highest priorities, is to protect all New Yorkers from violence and crime. We will continue to be vigilant and protect the communities involved in general, but specifically the Jewish community with every resource that's necessary. Because hatred and anti-semitism will not take foothold in our city. No one should feel threatened walking down the street or traveling on the subway. No one should ever feel threatened walking into their synagogue or place of worship. We want to fight the rise in anti-semitism and extremism and continue to support our law enforcement communities. Again, we want to thank all who were involved. Thank you very much. Next, we'll hear from the commissioner of the city of New York, Commissioner Kishon Sol. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good morning. Thank you all for being here. In addition to our partners, I am pleased to be joined by Deputy Chief John Hart of our Intelligence Bureau who was a big part of this investigation from the very beginning. The focused collective efforts of the NYPD and our partners were able to uncover, investigate, and most importantly stop a threat to our Jewish community. This was an urgent multi-agency operation to address danger that was developing in real time. This is a clear example of public safety being a shared responsibility. It takes all of us working together to effectively safeguard the people we serve. And these partnerships that we are highlighting today are at the heart of that effort. We have to remain vigilant and monitor threats of any kind, symbols of hate written online or posted on social media every day. The job of the NYPD and our colleagues here is to put public safety first and protect the people of this city. We coordinated with our partners. We communicated, organized, and established a plan. And the result was a high level of committed collaboration that averted a threat of targeted violence. It is important that our communities know that we will never tolerate hate or violence in New York City. We will use our resources and partnerships to stop, investigate, arrest, and hold accountable anyone who threatens the safety of the people of this city. Deputy Mayor Banks? Thank you, Commissioner. Now we're going to hear from Mike Driscoll, the Assistant Director of the FBI New York Field Office. Good morning. Thank you all for coming. I appreciate the invitation from the Mayor's Office and the Police Commissioner to speak to all of you today. On Friday evening, the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force received information regarding an individual believed to pose a physical threat to an unidentified synagogue. With significant sense of urgency, members of the JTTF set about identifying the individual or individuals involved. As you have heard, we along with our law enforcement partners began an investigation of one possible subject, Christopher Brown of Aquabog, New York. And then during that investigation, a second individual, Matthew Maurer of Manhattan, was also identified as an associate. Through close coordination with law enforcement across the region, both Maurer and Brown were located Friday night and taken into custody. At the current time, we have no information to indicate there is any continued threat to the Jewish community or to any community here in New York associated with this case. Both subjects are both facing state charges. No decision has been made yet regarding possible federal charges. That investigation continues. I want to thank the many law enforcement partners for their assistance in this matter and to helping quickly ensure that the safety of our city was preserved. The JTTF and NYPD Intelligence Bureau were in close coordination throughout the investigation. And I'm grateful for NYPD's partnership and collaboration. I also want to highlight the outstanding work by the MTA Police in support of this case. Port Authority Police likewise were extremely helpful in the safe resolution of this matter. And most importantly, I want to thank the members of the public for the information already shared in this case. If anyone else has information regarding these individuals or any threat to the Jewish community, I would ask that you reach out to the FBI or NYPD as soon as possible. This is still very much an active investigation. The FBI can be reached at 1-800-CALL-FBI. The support of our community partners and private citizens is crucial to preventing violence in instances like this. The old adage of see something, say something, remains very, very true and extremely important. So again, thank you all for being here today. Thank you, Assistant Director Driscoll. Next we're going to hear from the Manhattan District Attorney Albright. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Thank you, Mayor, Commissioner, Director, and to all of our law enforcement partners. Local, state, and federal agencies working collaboratively swiftly stopped a horrible threat. The NYPD, the FBI, the Task Force, the MTA, and members of my office, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office worked together to intervene, execute search warrants, and ultimately have two people arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court. While we can't get into the specifics of the matter, as it is an ongoing investigation, and I can't go beyond the court filings, the allegations in the court filings are stark. Possession of a firearm, a high-capacity magazine, an eight-inch long military-style knife, a swastika arm patch, and a Twitter posting about shooting a synagogue. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office will be using the full resources of our counterterrorism program and our expanded hate crimes unit for accountability and justice in this matter. We do not tolerate illegal guns in this city, we do not tolerate hate and anti-Semitism in this city, and we do not tolerate violence in this city. Thank you, District Attorney. Next, we're going to hear from the CEO of the MTA, Jan O. Lieber. Okay. Thank you, Mayor Adams. Thank you, Police Commissioner Sewell. For all you do every day, every day, to keep New Yorkers safe. And to our MTA men of the hour, MTA PD officers, Ryan Fakner and Connor Colosserto, two dangerous, hateful individuals are now in custody because of you and your quick action on the intel developed by the JTTF and the NYPD. The story could have ended in tragedy but thankfully did not. Attacks like the one that were planned by these individuals are especially repugnant to New Yorkers who treasure diversity and tolerance as central to our city's history and to our identity right up to today. And this is a little personal for me. My father came to this country in 1941 as a refugee from Nazism and lost his mother, my grandmother, and other relatives in the Holocaust. So you can imagine my reaction when I heard from City Hall late Friday night that there were people with Nazi swastika armbands using our MTA transit system, which I'm privileged to oversee, using our transit system on route to planned attacks on synagogues. Imagine. Thank goodness the law enforcement agencies represented here today are among the very best at intelligence gathering. And thank goodness they've already developed incredibly effective procedures for coordinating action on intelligence. This is how it should be. Agencies working together smoothly to keep New Yorkers safe. I speak for Governor Hockel as well when I extend thanks to everybody in the law enforcement community who was involved with this, especially, as I said, the MTA PD officers, Fackner and Colorado. The governor would have been here today herself, except as everybody knows, she's grounded in Buffalo due to the epic snowfall.  In light of this incident and the attack in Colorado Springs on the LGBTQ nightclub, the governor has directed our state police, who are represented here today, to increase surveillance and protection for communities like the Jewish community that are at risk of hate crimes. That's an action that was already taken. We will continue to work closely with our partners at the NYPD, the state police, and all local and federal law enforcement to keep our people safe. The MTA has never had a better relationship with City Hall and Albany, and that's because of the leadership at the top, Mayor Adams. Thank you and your police department for everything you are doing to keep New Yorkers safe. Thank you, CEO Lieber. Our final two speakers represent our Jewish community who are very vital in stopping this potential attack. First, we'll hear from Eric Goldstein, the CEO of the United Jewish Association Federation of New York. Thank you very much, Deputy Mayor, and let me begin by thanking Mayor Adams. The Jewish community could not have a better friend. I want to acknowledge the incredible work of NYPD, the FBI, MTA, and our own community security initiative. Thanks to their collective expertise, commitment, and cooperation, what might have been the next Pittsburgh or Poway synagogue massacre was averted. Specifically this past Friday, our community security initiatives shared our community security initiative professionals, shared a lead with NYPD and FBI New York, and they immediately sprung into action. Within hours, their efforts led to the apprehension of two dangerous, fully armed men preparing for an attack on our Jewish community. New York City is home to 1.6 million Jews, the largest Jewish population of any city in the world. In 2018, in the aftermath of the heinous 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, we at UJA Federation understood the need to invest in increasing security for the more than 2,000 vibrant Jewish community institutions in New York. We launched the community security initiative with JCRC New York, headed by Mitch Silver, the head, former head of NYPD Intelligence. Mitch and his now 12-person team spend every waking moment working across the community to ensure our safety, and they work hand-in-hand with the volunteers at CSS and our friends at ADL and this critical work. Just this past Saturday, the director of the FBI said that the Jewish community is under threat, quote, from all sides, and that they, quote, desperately need further support from law enforcement, declaring that addressing growing anti-Semitism is a national priority. Here in New York, we need to ensure that everything possible is being done to address the rising threat. That means every element of city and state government working in coordination from intelligence and profession to arrest and prosecution. But let me be clear, the Jewish community of New York will continue to live proudly Jewish lives. We're immensely proud to live in this great city of New York and will remain vigilant and undaunted as we work together in the weeks and months ahead to do all we can to ensure that anti-Semitism and hate have no home in New York. And again, thank you, Mayor Adams, for your incredible work. Finally, we will hear from Stephen Weil from the Flapper showroom, Safety Patrol, which was vital in getting the word out during Shabbat about these two suspects. Good morning. Thank you all for coming. Just two quick points I want to make. The first is that when we talk about teamwork with the community, the teamwork did not start this Saturday night. This teamwork did not start a week ago or two weeks ago. Probably a week after the mayor took office, he came to Brooklyn, he sat down with us, he sat down with Hatzala, he sat down with Shomrim, and he has a deep understanding of what we do. And he definitely reached his hand out and said any help that we will need at all at any time, he will make every resource available. And we've had many, many anti-Semitic attacks that have happened. Not everything hits the news, but in each case, somebody from the mayor's office was involved, gave us guidance, the police department got involved, and this is an unprecedented relationship that we have right now with the mayor's office, the Jewish community, and the police department. And the information that flows is incredible that we can get such sensitive information and that they can have the trust in us to relay that to the community in a calm manner and a professional manner. My second point, which is just to talk about the actual incident, on Friday night I got a call from the inspector, Richie Taylor, and he advised me that there was a credible threat to the community. Within minutes we came up with a plan that we were going to implement at 6 a.m. just in case. We didn't want to alarm the community, but we put a plan in place where hundreds of trained volunteers would reach all the synagogues and all the houses of worship in the areas and warn them. But we waited because we figured the agencies that are standing right here know who these suspects are, and hopefully they will apprehend them by then, and we would avoid alarming the community. And that's exactly what happened. So I just want to say thank you again to the mayor and to the police department for all their support, and we consider ourselves eyes and ears of the police department. We get a lot of sensitive information which we pass on, and this teamwork is really what makes New York a special place. Thank you. Thank you, Steve. Now we'll kick it to Fabian for on topic Q&A. And we just want to just keep in mind this is an active investigation, and so we're not going to go into the details of any investigation, and my staff just updated me the gun that we had was a serial hidden serial number, but it wasn't a ghost gun. Let's open for any on topic, take a few on topic. Governor Kathy Horkel says that she's providing resources to communities to help combat any potential threats like state police. Are you guys working with her and how is that, what does that look like here in New York City? Complete coordination with the governor's office. As we stated throughout the year, she has been an amazing partner of identifying the resources we need to combat all forms of violence. You know, thus far this year we've removed over 6,500 guns off the street. This is one of them. This was a fully loaded gun. And so it's imperative that whatever resources we need, we communicate with the state police, and she has been forthright forthcoming in making sure we receive those resources. Any given day you see them on taking the pressure off our New York City police personnel at the highways dealing other forms of law enforcement. And so the numbers could vary on who's exactly assigned in the New York City area. When you received the tip, when you were contacted and when the two men were apprehended and arrested? I was notified immediately by the chief of the department of the FBI immediately of when they determined that the threat was credible. It was sensitive information. They immediately notified our agencies and both the police commission and I were notified immediately. And the police commissioner directed the deployment of police personnel. Our number one priority was to apprehend the suspects as quick as possible. So it was probably, you know, sometimes I didn't see my exact watch. Could have been probably 15, 20 minutes after the NYPD was notified. It was immediately after, it was during the evening hours. I know we were out at different events. No, not at this time. Well, we're not going to go into if the individuals were known or not known as the FBI and the DA office stated it's still an active investigation and we don't want to do anything that's going to jeopardize that. But we will respond to the role of social media. We've talked about this often. The social media must become more responsible in the spreading of hate and organizing and allowing their platforms to be used as an organizing tool. We saw what happened in Buffalo. The individual involved was radicalized, not by his parents, not by his family. They were radicalized by this new community that is really giving life to social media. And it is time for social media to come to the table and reckon with the role that social media unintentionally is playing in the spreading of hate and organizing of this. People are using their platform to organize these hate campaigns. Well, one what we're doing is what we did today and that's why we're here. It's coordination and dealing with specifically anti-semitism is not just a law enforcement issue. We need to stop the feeders of anti-semitism. That is why we've partnered with the ADL and other organizations, the Anti-Defamation League and other organizations to say how do we create environments where hate cannot grow in our cities? We're doing it in the Department of Education. We're doing it in collaborations with some of the organizations that are mentioned here with Partnership Rabbi, the Board of Rabbi, Rabbi Pataznik and others. We know we have to stop the feeder of hate in our cities, in all the different groups in the city. And then we must have a real law enforcement response. The Commission immediately put new leadership over at the hate crime unit because we wanted to be clear that if there are those who are using hate to target people in the city, we want those cases investigated, we want the people apprehended and we want to make sure that they're prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Jeff, it would appear, Mayor, that this was a very close call from the Jewish community. We cannot take these cases lightly. Who would have thought what happened in Buffalo? An individual will take a weapon and walk into a supermarket. These are real threats. I want to really take my hat off to the FBI. They did not take any chances here. They immediately notified the agencies in the city and allowed us to kick in gear of the communication network that we've already had in place that included some of the local security patrol because we know during Jewish religious observance it is difficult to get communications out. And so to have the local security patrols able to put a plan in place to immediately notify before synagogues open, that was a huge undertaking or something we can't miss. But to have a person armed would have the means, the hate, and the desire to carry out a crime of this magnitude is serious. We've averted that step. Can you just give us a little more detail about the arrest in Penn Station? The bottom line is that we were notified by the police department and by City Hall that this was underway, that this intelligence had been identified, and we put it out through what they call a BOLO, be on the lookout, with a specific description of the suspects, notified based on the intel from the JTTF and the NYPD, notified our staff in Penn Station that they might be using the MTA transit system, especially the Long Island Railroad, and officers were deployed and ultimately acted on the description that had been provided through that BOLO, the be on the lookout information that came from NYPD and the JTTF. They had full descriptions and they were able to identify them from what they received from the other law enforcement. Mr. Mayor, you mentioned negative rhetoric by celebrities. In the past two days we've seen Kyrie return to the Nets. We've heard about Kanye being allowed to return to Twitter. Do you think either of these celebrities should have been allowed to return to the respective platforms? I don't own these platforms and I don't want to specify particular cases because it's broadened in a specific case. Social media, intentionally or unintentionally, social media has become a platform that is assisted with the organizing and the growth of hate in our country and on the globe and they need to become more responsible. No, I didn't say that either. I said I was not going to do a specific case. I'm talking about social media because social media is being used as a tool to spread hate. The young man in the Buffalo, he was not an athlete, he was not an entertainer, he had access to a gun and he took the lives of innocent people in the supermarket and so I think we need to focus on the larger issue in that social media. On social media, given what you just said, do you think it was a good decision that Twitter made to reinstate Trump? I don't know, Mike, are you at the same press conference? That was the question he asked. You know, I think I don't control neither of those platforms.  It has left a point of just spreading hate. It has now been used as a tool to spread violence and they need to reckon with that. He mentioned that leading up to Hanukkah will be done to secure his presence or what else can happen? Well, there's a combination of things we do around the Hanukkah season normally and around the holiday season from securing safety of our parades to securing our houses of worship but when you have an increase in attacks, what we saw in Colorado with the LGBTQ community and what you're seeing with threats like this, we're always concerned about copycats and so there will be an increased presence and the police commissioner will put out some clear directives through the chief of department on how we're going to secure our synagogue and other houses of worship. Matthew Maher is Jewish and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor? No, that's part of the investigation and I'm sure the DA's office and others will determine how that plays into this whole encounter. We were just on patrol at Penn Station like everybody was just repeating up here. It was a joint task force. They put out the Bolo for the individual Chris Brown and they said he might have been traveling to the subway to Penn Station to take the Long Island Railroad. We were up at 34th and 7th, 34th Street and 7th Avenue. When we saw him actually walk in with his friend, they both walked in through the entrance. We followed him down the escalator, stopped him and made the arrest. No, they were completely compliant. Mine? Ryan Fakner. Ryan Fakner.


We have Wikibon, and we're here with Laz Vecuretis from Dell and Equalogic, and Rich Rayther, who is with a law firm, Quarles and Brady, and is a Dell customer, and we're going to talk a little bit about virtualization, how you guys are deploying, your iSCSI arrays, what you're doing with VMware, so welcome gentlemen, Laz. Welcome back, I saw you in June, a CUBE alum. That's right. Rich first time on, so welcome. Thank you. How's the show going for you guys? So it's really been exciting for us. Dell, we have a whole bunch of really interesting things going on, so first of all, the relaunch of the Equalogic arrays, we have a brand new platform that's showcasing our booth, lots of big improvements on the hardware side there, so we've basically gone to the next gen, really good stuff, and it seems to be generating a lot of excitement. So we are also rolling out the first show with Compellent integrated in, so the booth has been super-sized. So tell us folks out there, what's going on, because we were at the Dell Storage Forum, SiliconANGLE and the CUBE, Dave was there, I couldn't make it, I was stuck there in Vegas, but with Dell, I always had a presence in hardware and software, I had the Equalogic, Compellent comes in, what is the current situation? Just really summarize quickly, where's Dell at? You guys are got a lot going on, a lot of cool products, good technology, just quickly give us an overview of where you guys are at. Well, so we're in the process of really integrating the Compellent technology into the overall product portfolio, one of the things that everyone should remember that it's only been about six months since we closed that deal, I know everyone is really impatient, but we've made a lot of progress. We don't want to hear any complainant from you guys. So, scar tissue. But, you know, we are basically aligning Compellent for the fiber channel market and for more of the super high-end storage capabilities that they can provide and the mid-market and low-end continues to be the Equalogic, and we are rolling out a number of other complementary technologies which are more horizontal, things like file services, things like deduplication, they're going to basically cover the entire base storage platform, whether it's Equalogic or Compellent. Common services across that platform. Yeah, exactly. Now, Rich, you're a VMware practitioner, an IT practitioner, why don't we start with the VMware piece, we're at VMworld. First of all, where are you at with VMware, tie it into what you're seeing at the show, give us an update and paint a picture for us of what you guys are doing with VMware. Sure, sure. From a customer perspective, you know, the show has been amazing so far, the topic, the content, new vSphere 5 features coming out, really looking forward to all that. We've been a VMware customer for about seven years, we started with GSX, so we've been in the family a long time, and currently today we're almost 80% virtualized, so we have a large virtual deployment. We've got about 350 servers, about 280 of those are virtual, and we run everything on VMware, all of our core business applications, exchange, SQL, our document management system, which in a law firm is our lifeblood, and we also have a VDI deployment as well, about 450 desktops. How about your applications, what percent of your apps are virtualized? We have over 500 apps in a law firm, law firms are generally application heavy, and almost all of those, with the exception of the core office suite, all of them are virtualized. It's exchanged as well. Correct. Yeah, so, pretty sizable shop, for a small company. Yeah, we are, we're a AMLAW 200 law firm, which in the legal vertical is kind of like our Fortune 500, so we have 1,000 employees, we've got seven offices, we are international, so pretty good footprint, and from an IT perspective, it's a decent side shop. You mentioned vSphere 5, are you gonna be moving to vSphere 5? Pardon me? You mentioned vSphere 5, are you gonna be moving? Right, absolutely, yeah. I'm really looking forward to some of the features, especially some of the storage features, really looking forward to storage DRS, and some of the impact that's gonna have in our environment. Can you talk a little bit more about what's exciting in the storage area to you about the recent announcements? Wow, you know, storage, it's really interesting how virtualization across the board has changed technology, and storage is no different. The impact that virtualization has had in the storage market, and from a customer perspective, all of the features that are out there today allow us to take storage and look at it in the view of being modular. You know, it gives us the ability to grow our storage infrastructure, just like our switching infrastructure and our server infrastructure, and build it the way that our business needs it, and so it's really been a cool place, you know, just interesting to work with over the course of the last couple of years, and I'm really looking forward to the next year with some of the announcements coming out, especially from Dell, with some of the recent acquisitions with Ocarina. Are you 100% Ice Guzzi shop? We are. Yeah, so, I don't wanna get into a big religious debate, but, you know, a lot of people say, oh, I can't really take it too far. What's your experience been with that whole platform, the ecologic platform, Ice Guzzi? It's really been fantastic, and we were a fiber channel shop, so we had fiber. Oh, you went from fiber? We had fiber channel in place. Got a legacy infrastructure. Correct, yep. And rather than investing more into fiber channel, which is expensive, we started basically playing with the Ice Guzzi platforms, and, you know, we were skeptics like everybody else. We had our doubts on whether or not it would work, and performance has actually been fantastic in our environment, and moving now to 10 gig over Ice Guzzi, you know, the playing field is level now, and with 40 gig on the horizon, in my opinion, it's gonna surpass fiber channel. So you've got your pretty much 10 gig-y, you're in the process of migrating? Correct, actually our VDI deployments today, and portions of our SQL environments are 10 gig today. How are you using VDI? We use VDI, we originally implemented VDI as a replacement solution for remote access, and over the course of the last, you know, 18 months ago I would have said, or six months ago I would have said, we're probably 18 months from really deploying VDI mainstream. We're actually here today, and we have about 50 users in our environment that use VDI on a day-to-day basis, and these are power users, you know, these aren't help desks, this isn't a call center, these are secretaries and attorneys that, you know, we have secretaries that type 130 words a minute, and so with a VDI deployment in thin clients, they would always out-type the interface. With the recent technologies and advancements in VM where, you know, it has come full circle and we're here, we're deploying a mainstream. Was it a real pain going to VDI? Was storage a big issue? Initially, boot storms, I always hear these nightmare sizing, you know, IO activity. Absolutely, and one of the things that we dealt with was a boot storm, you know, we had that issue where a lot of our users come in between eight and nine in the morning, and we experienced boot storms. One of the things that helped us combat that was one of the offerings from Ecologic, which was a 6,000 XPS, it's a hybrid array, with solid state and SAS drives within the same box, and that really alleviated our boot storms. Not only that, but it really improved our performance as well, so. Excellent. Last, we talked a lot about this week about integration, and we talked at the Dell Storage Forum about integration as well. Now, we've done some work, as you know, at Wikibon, and Ecologic actually scored very, very high. And I suspect, like a lot of the other companies that had highly virtualized system 3-par would be an example. The year ability to integrate with VMware APIs was accelerated. And I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit, because Compellent, on the other hand, smaller company, you guys were part of Dell, so you had that advantage. Compellent wasn't, so they got sort of pushed to the back of the line, so you could see Ecologic is substantially ahead of Compellent in terms of that integration. Will that change now, as it was, first of all, talk about that integration and why your platform, why you're able to accelerate that, and will the Compellent side be able to catch up? Okay, so let's start with the first question. A little bit about the integration. So, as you know, virtualization in general is sort of the fine art of lying from one perspective of another, so vSphere is lying to us and telling us as an array that there's only one host there, where in fact there's a number of virtual hosts, and on the other side, we're sitting there lying to them and telling them that we look like one disk, when in fact that's just not the case. And so, we spend a lot of time trying to make sure that we're not caught in the lie, so to speak. And so, you basically have these two curtains, veils of virtualization, and sometimes it helps to know what's going on on the other side of the curtain. That's really the mandate for integration, right? For example, it would be really nice to know which virtual machines have really demanding workloads, even though we actually have no idea what's going on. We'd like to know the block ranges or maybe some description of the VMDKs that define those virtual machines so that we could do something about it. You know, when a customer wants to create a snapshot, it'd be really great that instead of having the host go off and do something in order to do the snapshot, the array, which is highly virtualized and also highly optimized for these types of storage operations can do that work for the end user and offload the ESX host. So, you know, this is sort of the integration mandate. And we've been talking about this with VMware for a very long time, back in the early days of Equalogic, I think middle of the last decade. And we've actually created this relationship with a lot of the key players inside VMware, just by chance, and just like us, everyone's grown up, everyone's in big positions now, but we sort of have the ends.  When VAI was being rolled out, we were one of the first partners and we actually were one of the design partners. We were in there helping to design the way this thing should work. Vasa, which was just released this week. It's a very important technology and it's going to grow into something very big over the next few years. That is something that we co-developed with them. How does that work? Are you like in there side by side with EMC and NetApp co-developing this stuff or do they sort of silo it out? Well, we silo, you know, it's siloed out. So they come to each company individually.  It's not a SNEA committee meeting. No, no, it's not at all. And actually, that's actually a fundamental difference between the way integration is done at this level versus how it's done in standards committees. Somebody has the final say and can just go. Exactly, exactly. It's, you know, someone is basically going to tell all the children to stop messing around and get things done and you'll notice things get done more quickly in those environments. So let me answer your second question. Compellent, as I mentioned before, has only been around for six months, but we are already in the process of getting them more and more involved and ramped up in this kind of development.   Back in the old days with Equalogic, when we were just a small company, our QTRs were kind of a ruckus. We'd be sitting there having really lively discussions about various things. And it was actually a lot of fun to have my Compellent colleagues in the room because we actually created another ruckus. Yeah, I don't know if you know this, John. Equalogic was a New Hampshire-based startup. Very cool company. Awesome. Well, I mean, this has been coming up on theCUBE this week is the idea that co-engineering has been a negative for some of the other late-comers with VMware. So the co-engineering that you guys are doing, that's a great advantage for you guys. So the question is, has it translated to product value? So let's talk about how it renders itself. So my final question is to the customer saying, you know, is it transparent? Like, it's all invisible to you, but are you seeing the benefits there? Absolutely. I think, you know, as I said earlier with some of these acquisitions that Dell has made, they do an exceptional job, especially on the Equalogics platform. Let me ask it differently.  Talk about the difference when you do the bake-offs and what Dell's come out with. Well, I'll give you the example of why we chose Equalogics in the first place. We did a bake-off between a lot of the major vendors, you know, of some of the ones mentioned here already. And we started looking at these products and really the choice was easy for us. And it was simple. It really came down to two major factors, but there were many others. The first one was ease of management. I mean, the interfaces for the Equalogics platform, it's just simply to manage. You can dish up a volume in two to three minutes versus provisioning lawns, keeping an Excel spreadsheet, you know, tracking all your disks. And it takes you 45 minutes to serve up a volume to a server. The second was really cost. And that is where, again, Equalogics does a really good job of this. You know, we looked at these other products and we said, okay, we want to replicate that storage array from one site to another. A lot of the other vendors said, whoa, time out. You know, this is an extra license. It's going to cost you a little bit more to do that. Well, we want to replace our backup systems and we just want to do snapshotting. Whoa, time out, that's another license. That's going to cost you a little bit. And Equalogics, it's one-stop shopping. You have two line items. You have the cost for the array and then you've got support and maintenance. And everything, when they come out with something and release it, it's all baked into that support and maintenance, which is, you know, from a customer standpoint, it's nice. Okay, we're here inside theCUBE. Dell's got a lot of action going on. Changing, growing, new technology deep with VMware. Dave, good story there, let's wrap this up. Yeah, Lads and Rich, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. We appreciate you guys making the time. Thank you. Thanks for your time.


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