Today, we're here with General Michael Nogada, director of strategy at the National Counterterrorism Center. And previously, General Nogada served as the commander of Special Operations Command at SICCOM. Welcome, General. Thank you. We were talking just before. And I was speaking to you here at the occasion of the U.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit. And I was noting that there was a quote from Ms. Elizabeth Sherwood Randall, an advisor of the Homeland Security, who said, nowhere is the evolution in the global terrorism landscape more vivid than in Africa, where terrorist groups from Al Qaeda branches to ISIS affiliates now collectively occupy vast swaths of territory and extract benefits from millions of suffering people. And it is this evolution of global terrorism that I'd like to first ask you about. How do you see this terrorism landscape and how it's evolved since 9-11, and how would you characterize the threat today? I am quite worried about the trajectory of this landscape, while it is inarguable that in some places and some cases, whether it's the United States or the international community, we have made elements of progress against a variety of different extremist elements around the world, particularly the violent ones. But I personally believe, I believe this when I was the strategy director at NCTC, I still believe it today as a private citizen, the overall arc, the overall trajectory of violent extremism in all its forms around the world continues to get worse. It is getting worse at different rates, but globally I would argue it is getting worse. So whether it is in Africa or elsewhere, unfortunately I believe that to be true. Regarding Africa, several things immediately come to mind. I used to do counter-terrorism operations in Africa when I was on active duty. But while it is certain, it is true, that both African nations and countries like the United States and other European countries that have attempted to assist Africans with their growing violent extremist problem, those efforts have borne some fruit. Certainly we have been able to interdict some serious threats. We have been able to remove a pretty significant number of senior leaders of a variety of terrorist groups. The movements themselves, however, as a general rule continue to thrive and in too many cases continue to expand. So I agree with the quote you just read from. But the other thing that comes to mind is that countries like the United States, even European countries that are far closer to Africa than America is, we don't generally put African violent extremism at the top of our strategic priority list. We tend to prioritize other threats as being more dangerous or more important. Frankly, I think there's a little bit of a willful attitude that Africa just isn't that important, that I've seen both in the U.S. government and in foreign governments, and I think that contributes to the problem as well. But at the end of the day, the problem is absolutely getting worse. Throughout your career, I know that you've had a lot of experience as an expert in countering these types of threats with the kinetic response. But I know you think a lot about the non-kinetic responses to terrorism. And the idea that they need to join up, that these things are not mutually exclusive, that there needs to be both a military response and a civilian response. How do you see that, and what is your thinking on the needs there for this encountering violent extremism? That is a great question. I have come to believe because of the experiences I've had, both in actual counterterrorism operations, but also having to wrestle with strategy and policy issues that flow from counterterrorism, both in my own capital as well as other international capitals. I very strongly believe that the use of kinetic power, whether it's military or law enforcement, is absolutely necessary. But I think we too often assume that the use of kinetic power can achieve more than it actually can. What I mean by that is, in my judgment, the use of force, whether it's law enforcement or military against a terrorist or a terrorist movement, is useful really for two reasons. One is to save lives. If you have the opportunity to prevent or preempt a lethal operation, you should absolutely do it if you have the ability. We've certainly grown our ability to do that in the last 20 years. Or to bring people to justice.  And those are two very important objectives. But here's what kinetic counterterrorism cannot do. It cannot prevent people from becoming terrorists. And in some cases, I think any veteran of places like Iraq or Afghanistan has seen them for themselves. If you make too many mistakes in the use of kinetic power, you'll inadvertently create more terrorists. But regardless, kinetic power cannot solve the problem of why do people become terrorists. That requires a non-kinetic approach. That requires addressing everything from societal ills to economic corruption to political malfeasance and a whole raft of other things for which law enforcement or military power is not particularly useful and in many cases quite counterproductive. But I'll guess I'll finish by saying these other things, which I am certainly not an expert in as a military officer, but one thing I have observed in more than two decades of counterterrorism is as hard as kinetic operations can be and often quite dangerous, they pale in comparison to how difficult solving societal, economic, political, cultural issues that are the fountainhead of terrorism. Is there a whole of continent approach that may be missing or what are your thoughts on that? I don't think I've ever seen any country have a whole of government or whole of Africa governmental approach. And there may be at least a few good reasons for that. I mean it's such an enormous land mass and it is so diverse in every imaginable way that a single approach to the continent may not be achievable. But whether or not that's true, of course African populations wherever they may be on the continent, they of course will care a great deal about the emergence of a terrorist threat within their own country. It's a totally rational reaction. But countries outside of Africa, whether it's Europe or the Middle East or the United States or others, they pick and choose what parts of terrorism in Africa they care about. Now that's not irrational. Again it is an enormous continent, but I think it's important that we be honest with ourselves speaking as an American and I believe what I'm about to say applies just as much to my European colleagues, my Middle Eastern colleagues that worry about counterterrorism in Africa. Rather predictably we prioritize the things we care about in Africa based on things like do they produce petroleum, do they influence or could they potentially hinder the commercial maritime flows in the Mediterranean, in the Gulf or elsewhere?  And I think one of the unhappy consequences of the huge migrant crisis several years ago that flowed out of Africa into Southern Europe, preventing that from happening again. So these are not irrational reactions, these are not irrational calculations, but what it does mean is there's a mismatch between what Africans care about in terms of terrorism on their own continent and what other nations tend to prioritize. I mean Libya is a very good example. Libya is an oil producing country that has significant influence in the Mediterranean, could become a launching point for another migrant flow into Europe. So it is completely rational that European countries and the United States would worry a great deal about Libya.  The answer, again, rather rationally from these non-African countries will be, well we don't care as much about those other places. We care about Libya because of its geographic location, it's an oil producing country, it could influence maritime traffic in the Mediterranean, so that's why we're going to care and the fact that it's untethered from what Africans care about isn't particularly important. Another question is you speak about Europe and it just strikes me in thinking about Africa and Europe and counter-terrorism, the French and their work in Mali specifically but in Francophone Africa. And they're sort of pull out from the counter-terrorism approach, especially in areas where now we see Wagner's forces. Is this a call to action for the US to sort of step in? I'm not saying it's the French call to action, but does this call us to action to try to step in and what are your thoughts about that? The answer to your question in my judgment depends on as the problem continues to deteriorate which I am convinced it will particularly with the substantial withdrawal of French forces. Nature abhors a vacuum and that vacuum will be filled by something and it's probably going to be at least partially filled by the terrorist movements they went to fight. The answer depends on how much do we care about that. I personally believe the answer is eventually we'll get so bad we will have to care about and we will have to do something because that part of Africa is a part of Africa that for mostly for economic reasons but also for some political reasons the United States has to care about and if it starts going to hell which it might with the French withdrawal it'll get so bad we'll have no choice but to do something which of course we've done before. This is a little bit of rinse and repeat. We apply kinetic power or in this case the French apply kinetic power it diminishes the problem to a degree but as I've already indicated kinetic power can only achieve so much. There are other things that have to happen in terms of political, economic, societal reform which mostly have not happened in that part of the world. So as Western efforts to suppress through the use of force these violent extremist groups once that pressure is lifted and these other non-military arenas get worse the result is pretty predictable. And then as far as American interest I know you've also thought a lot and written about strategic rivalry issues and it comes to bear when you speak about West Africa and Western Sahel I think more about the literal states and our friends in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire and Benin and part of ECOWAS. Do you think that our concern particularly in the literal states and China's interest in Equatorial Guinea this might be one of the reasons why we'll look to try to quell these terrorist threats on the borders and the literal states? It should to a degree it has but in my judgment the United States and Europe were very slow in both anticipating and effectively reacting to the penetration of what I would characterize as malign actors in Africa whether it was the Chinese or the Russians. We saw it happening and in my personal opinion there was a lot of wishful thinking in Western capitals about how important this was, what it might lead to and so now it's a very large penetration. The Chinese and the Russians have to one degree or another in many African countries either eroded our traditional influence or in some cases supplanted our influence. Now there were some steps being taken while I was still on active duty to try to deal with this problem but this is a little like taking medicine after you become terribly sick as opposed to having a healthier lifestyle so that you never get sick in the first place and that's what we're doing. We're now trying to triage a malign actor penetration in Africa that we absolutely saw coming. It was absolutely predictable but we did so little as a collective not just the United States as an international collective we were so slow and hesitant and engaged frankly in my view and so much wishful thinking that one day we woke up and realized we had a hell of a problem that now we have to undo. I would just leave you with one last question in regard to the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit and what would you hope that we can get the administration and can get out of this great initiative with African leaders from all over the continent what are your hopes for the next few days? My hope for both the conference itself as well as for any international community consideration of the challenge of violent extremism in Africa lies in two related areas. One is just the general truth that I think is broadly accepted internationally at this point but we often struggle to translate it into action but that is that the single most important driver of violent extremism is a loss of confidence between the population of a given area and their own government. Unless and until the international community and African nations can find a reasonably successful formula for first halting the erosion of confidence and then ultimately reversing the erosion of confidence violent extremism in Africa as a strategic threat will remain with us forever. The second one perhaps a little more hopeful but anyone who's ever studied African realities knows it is the fastest growing population on earth the median age of Africans is astonishingly low there are many potential benefits for the world for that one being it is an enormous market and if we can turn it into a globally effective market it would not only do good for all the countries that wish to do business in Africa it would be good for Africans themselves because their lifestyle their ability to pursue their own futures would be enhanced by having a much stronger economic basis upon which to live but none of that is true none of that will be true so long as the world's collective efforts to deal with violent extremism in the continent continue to get the result we're getting which is that it keeps getting worse thank you so much for being with us today thank you I enjoyed it


و أقولوا في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزل و أقولوا قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأولوا لأننا نقولوا وولدا ليلة رجلون لأن اليوم يجب أن يكون عظيما جلاله وما ترجل عظيما جلاله فقال رسول الله فقال فإنها لا يرمى بها لموت أحد المصطف الهدي ولا يجب أن يفعل with the birth of a person ولا لحياته the death of somebody or the birth of somebody لا يجب أن يفعل with that ولكن ربنا أتبارك وتعال اسمه ولكن الله يقضى إذا قضى أمرًا إذا كان يدفع أماته سبه حملة العرشي الانجل who are carrying the throne يقضى الله سبحانه وتعالى قال فا يستخبر بعض أهل السماء بعضا وما يحدث؟ بعض الانحبتن of the sky inform others حتى يبلغ الخبر هذه السماء الدنيا حتى الانجل يأتي الوصول على أهل السماء فتخطفوا فتخطفوا جن سبعه جن سبعه فيضفون إلى أولياءهم وهم ينطلقوا لذلك لما يأخذون من هذه السؤال من هذه الأمر is that الأشياء of the shooting stars لن يفعل with the birth of the death of anybody ولذلك فالفصال الله عليه وسلم يأتي the shooting stars was multiplied but it didn't end at his time ولذلك عمر رضي الله عنه أثر أحمد مريتن في المسلمة في المنحبان في الصحيح أن شعيبر أرناوط رحمه الله is that عمر said to غيلاني برسلمة he said to him when he divorced his wife إني لأظن الشياطين he said I think some of the narrations of the shaitan and some of the narrations of the shayateen makes it plural فيما يستريقوا من السمع سمع عبي موتك from these things that they steal is that they heard of among the stone the information among the news pertaining to your death فقدفوا في نفسك and he threw it into your heart placed it into your heart so عمر رضي الله عنه is informing him that the hearing of the jinns will take place even after what after the Prophet ﷺ's death عليه الصلاة والسلام but what happens is that the scholars they confuse the coming of the jinns the jinns they came many times in the time that they came were different situations ولذلك one of the mistakes that إبنو سعاد and إبنو سعاد fell into which is that إبنو سعاد mentions in his seara and إبنو سعاد mentions in his طبقات الكبرى which is that التقاهم بالنبي ﷺ هو يقرأ القرآن لأول مرة كان بعد رجوعي ﷺ من الطائف بعد وفات أبي طالب وخديجة رضي الله تعالى عنهما رضي الله تعالى عنها وهذا فيه نظر إبنو سعاد that إبنو سعاد that the Islam of the jinns and the meeting of the Prophet ﷺ when he was reading the Qur'an the first time that he was after the Prophet ﷺ came from what? from طائف after having met and the death of Abu Talib خديجة رضي الله تعالى عنها as well وهذا فيه نظر حافظن حجر حافظن مكتير they mentioned there is a look to this matter that إبنو his haq mentions and إبنو سعاد so the jinns they came to the Prophet ﷺ many different times and the hearing among the shooting stars has nothing to do with the Prophet ﷺ's birth nor is it related to do with the Prophet's death nor does it have anything to do with any individual today إن شاء الله تعالى we're going to move on to مقدمات introductions things that occurred نظور الواحي when the revelation came down things that occurred when the revelation started the latest stages of the Prophet ﷺ's days before he became a prophet things started to occur to him ﷺ things started to happen to him signs الله سبحانه وتعالى started to give the Prophet signs علامات the first of them is number one الرؤية الصادقة the Prophet started to see dreams that will really happen and the revelation the first things that the Prophet was started with the Prophet ﷺ was that he would see a dream and the dream that he would see it will happen like a bright sunny day كفلق الصبحي و لذلك رور الشيخان بقال المسلم بوتن ريتن في صحيحة يهبع من حليت عائشة من حليت عائشة رضي الله تعالى عنها قالت she said أول ما بدي أبيه رسول الله ﷺ من الواحي الرؤية الصادقة the first thing that the Prophet was started with but the first thing that happened to the Prophet ﷺ من الواحي from the revelation is الرؤية الصادقة the Prophet would see real dreams take place فينومي انه يسريب فكان لا يرى رؤية he would not see any dreams إلا جاءة مثلا إكسب دري و لك like فلق الصبحي it will happen in the morning حفن حدر سنفتح الباري المراد بفلق الصبحي ضياءه و خصة بالتشبيه لظهوره الواضح الذي لا شك فيه that he said that the hadith mentions that the statement فلق الصبحي which means the brightness of the day and the reason why it was it was said فلق الصبحي is because the way that the Prophet would see the dream and its occurrence was that clear it was like daytime عليه الصلاة والسلام the second thing that the Prophet ﷺ a sign that happened to him was حب النبي ﷺ the Prophet started to love للخلوة he loves to be alone he wanted to be alone and not be with anybody when the Prophet reached the age of 40 عليه الصلاة والسلام حبب الله تعالى إليه الخلوة الله plays it in the heart the love of wanting to be alone seclusion and not be with anybody فلم يكون شيء لحب إليه من أن يخلوه وحده ويصبح كذلك يصبح one of the traits that he became known to is that he wanted to be alone and not to be with anybody the Prophet ﷺ he would leave Makkah he would get away from Makkah every year so he can spend the month of Ramadan in غار حلق which is now called جبل in نور which is known as جبل in نور it's a small mountain من جبال مكة it's a small mountain from the mountains حافظ إبراه كثير في كتابة البداية ونهاية يتكسب عرق موه in his first volume page 362 so the Prophet ﷺ the month of Ramadan he would go into the mountain وكان ذلك من تحنة بقريشة في الجاهلية and this was the place that before Islam قريش would go there and what they would do is they would worship Allah in that place this was something قريش would do قريش would go to this mountain and they would do that so the Prophet ﷺ it was something he used to do but here is a مسألة أفائدة لطيفة a very beneficial point which is a مسألة أصولية that is called as أصول الفقص في كبارت which is هل كان قبل أيوحة إليه متعبدا بالشريعة our messenger ﷺ before he became a prophet was he worshipping Allah on a previous legislation ربي الله محمد before he became a prophet was he worshipping Allah upon a previous legislation now I am going to read the كلام of حافظون الحجر from his كتاب فتر باري the light volume page 736 he says رحمه الله وهذا يلتفت يلتفت اما يلتفت إلى مسألة أصولية هو أنه صلى الله عليه وسلم كان قبل أن يوحى إليه متعبدا بالشريعة نبيا قبله قال الجمهور the majority of scholars they said لا لأنه لو كان تابعا because if the Prophet ﷺ was a follower لاستبع عدة أن يكون متبوعا then he would be far-fetched for him to be one who is followed if he was one that was following then he would be far-fetched for him to be a leader and others follow him ولأنه لو كان لنقل من كان ينسب إليه and if it was the case that the messenger was following somebody before he became a prophet then he would have been transmitted to us إبن حجر says وقيلة and some scholars they said yes he was worshipping Allah on a previous legislation there was some scholars they said that and the ones who said that they differed amongst themselves واختلفوا في تعيينه they differed okay who is it that he was following على ثمانية أخوان 8 different views the first of them is أحدوها آدم عليه السلام the first one was he was worshipping Allah upon the way of آدم عليه السلام that was some the first group they said the second they said نوح عليه السلام the third they said إبراهيم عليه السلام and this a large amount in this opinion that this is the strongest among the most in number and they used the ayah of صورة النحل the ayah of صورة النحل ayah 123 وعلى الله تبارك وتعالى say to the prophet واتبع ملة إبراهيمة حنيفا follow the religion of what أنت تبع ملة أنت تبع أنت تبع ملة إبراهيمة حنيفا follow the religion of نبي الله إبراهيم والرابع the second view is that he was upon the religion of نبي الله موسى والخامس عيس بن مريم and the fifth one is عيس بن مريم والسادس بكل شيء بلغه عن شرع نبي من الانبياء the sixth is that every single prophet in which he reached him his legislation he would do it and the evidence that they used is the verse of Surah Al-Baqarah and the verse of Surah Al-An'am sorry verse 90 says أولئك الذين هدى الله فبهداه مقتدي أولئك الذين هدى الله فبهداه مقتدي this is the verse of Surah Al-An'am this is a look Allah says after he mentioned the stories of the prophets Allah says أولئك الذين those who have been mentioned to you محمد الله has guided them سبحانه وتعالى فبهداه مقتدي and in their guidance follow on Muhammad so they said that the Prophet ﷺ he followed all the prophets the seventh is that they said you know we don't know yes there was a previous legislation that he was upon and he was following but what was it they would held from it and the إبنة حجر رحمه الله he mentioned حافظ إبنة حجر says and the third one the power in it the strength in that one is very great حافظ says رحمه الله now what is in the third opinion which is that Ibrahim was the one he was told he says that seems to be the fact that it's the strongest it seems to be the case especially the fact that the Prophet ﷺ in the issue of what the Tawaf and the Sa'ee and we do together and a Hajj الله is taken from whom رحمه الله إبراهيم he says ونحو ذلك من ما بقي عنده من شريعة إبراهيم ﷺ and many of the legislation of Ibrahim remained in Quraish they had it a lot of his way and that's what they used to believe our messenger ﷺ يتزود لخلواته he would take provision and prepare for the times in which he would be alone لبعض العيار الشهري every a specific designated night in the month in which he would prepare he would equip himself to go what to be alone فإذا نفذ ذلك أزاد whatever provision he took with him and means if it finishes from him رجع إلى أهلي he would come back to his family يتزود قدر ذلك and he would then do the amount that he needed عليه الصلاة والسلام فيقيم في حراء and he would stay in a place the mountain of حراء من كل سنة in every year ويقض وقته في التفكير فيما حوله من مشاهد الكوني and what he would do is the Prophet would contemplate and he would ponder on the things that were around him the universal signs he would ponder on them عليه الصلاة والسلام وفيما وراءها من قدرة مبدعة and he would also look at these universal signs the things that are behind it he would take time and do that عليه الصلاة والسلام حتى وصل من الصفاء والإشراقي إلى مرتبة العالية العكست فيها أشيعة على صفحة قلبه المجلوة فأصبح لا يرى رؤية إلا جاء كفلاك الصحي and he صلى الله عليه وسلم the issue became much more the way that he would contemplate and ponder it would not go with him to his sleep and so when he slept he would dream and when he jumped when he would wake up in the morning when he saw in his dream would be a reality in front of him عليه الصلاة والسلام and I mentioned to you the famous hadith in بخاري المسلم أول ما أبودي أبيه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من الوحي الرؤية الصديقة في النومي ثم حبب إليه الخلاق وكان يخلو بغال حراء فتحنته فيه ووتعبد لألّيال دوات العدري وكان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أن the prophet also إذا قضى جواره if the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he would complete جوار here means he is a itikaf if he would finish it من شاري ذلك كان أول ما يبتده به إذا صرف قبل أن يدخل بيته الكعبة when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم would finish his itikaf and the night which he would spend in غال الحراء he would come back to Makkah and the first place that he would start with is not his house he would go to the ka'bah he would go there فيطوفوا بها سبع and he would go around the ka'bah seven times Oh Masha Allah تعالى من ذلك Oh he would do what he wanted the amounts that he wanted عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم ثم يرجع إلى بيته and then he would go back to his house وظل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet remained that way على ثلاثة سنوات in three years إلى الجاء الوحي وهو في إحدى خلواتي تلك the prophet was like that the situation was for him like that he would spend his night in غال الحراء he would remember Allah he would ponder over what he sees he would contemplate this was what he became three years he was doing this for one day from the days in which he was alone and he was there what happened was this is when the revelation came to him the third sign about the third thing that were introductions to the prophet's prophecy before he became a prophet does anyone remember the first thing that I mentioned who was the first مقدمة yeah he would see a dream and he would take place what was the second خلوة he would be alone the third thing that was تسليم الحجر والشجر على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم the mountain sorry the rocks and the trees would greet the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم الإمام المسلم narrated in his صحيح من حليثي from the hadith of جابل بن سمرح ربي الله عليه وسلم عبه he said that the prophet said عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم إني لا أعرف وحبرا بمكة the prophet said I know a rock a stone a rock in مكة كان يسليم عليه that would greet me قبل أن أبعث before I would send out as a messenger and a prophet I know a rock that was in مكة that greeted me إني لا أعرفه now I know until now the prophet said عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم الإمام المسلم is a stone a punishment بسند which is ضعيف it's a weak narration that I was with the prophet بمكة المكة فخرجنا في بعض نواحيها we went to its outskirts فما استقبله جبل the prophet didn't come into contact to a mountain ولا شاجر وإبتداؤه بالنبوه. الله wanted to start him with prophecy. كان إذا خرج لحاجتي أبعدة حتى تحسر. The Prophet ﷺ, he would go far. He would leave خرج لحاجتي. If he came out to do his call of nature, أبعدة he would go as far. حتى تحسر. أبعدة تحسر. أي إنكشف. The Prophet ﷺ, he would he would go as far حتى تحسر عنه البيوت. until the houses would hide him. عليه الصلاة والسلام. ويفضي إلى شعاب. And he ﷺ, he would go towards شعاب our valleys between mountains, the roads between mountains. من مكة وبطولي أوديتي. It's valleys. فلا يمروا رسول الله بحجره. The Prophet ﷺ would go by a rock ولا شجره or a tree. إلا قاله. السلام عليك يا رسول الله. He would greet the Prophet ﷺ. ألمام السوهيليو روضة الأنف. He mentioned that these greetings were they literal or were they metaphorical. He says كما خلق الحنينة في الجدع. He says that it was literal that Allah made them speak to the Prophet ﷺ. Just like the just like the tree cried when the Prophet ﷺ moved from it. Remember when he moved from his دخود بذاء. And the Prophet ﷺ moved from it. It cried. And it made a crying noise. So the Lord that made it speak is the Lord that made it silent. So it would be anything for him سبحانه وتعالى to do so. Not to mention the Hadith is in what? The Hadith is in صحيح مسلم. For us بخاري المسلم عوات. The most authentic book عراقي سيز وأول من ألف وأول من صنف في الصحيح محمد وخصة بالترجيح ومسلم بعده وبعض الغربي مع أبي علي فضلوا دلون فع ولم يعماه ولكن قلما عند ابن الأخر منه قد فاتهما ورد لكن قال يحل برو لم يفت الخمسة إلا النزل وفيه ما فيه لقول ينجع في أحفظه من عشر ألف ألف دا بخاري المسلم عوات And then which one comes next? دا المسلم. So the Hadith in مخاري المسلم عوات The authentic. The overall Hadith in مخاري المسلم are authentic. So sometimes the disbelievers will bring doubt regarding these things and try to be shubhati This argument of whether the rock spoke or not is a farah of do you believe Allah تعالى أولا صح Because those who believe in Allah تعالى believe in miracles صح They believe in it Like an atheist doesn't believe in Allah تعالى's existence Talk to him about The Prophet ﷺ took a burrak The night of Islam صح That will make sense to him That will make sense to him at all So the first discussion is Before we speak about miracles We speak about Allah تعالى's existence The Prophet ﷺ he stayed like that That was the third sign of his prophecy Things like that were happening around him The fourth thing is سماع النبي ﷺ The Prophet ﷺ heard his noise ورؤيته الضوء And he seen ﷺ The الضوء What does this mean? An Imam Muslim narrated to him صحيح عن ابن عباس From Abdullah ibn Abbas ربي الله تعالى عنهما He said أقام رسول الله ﷺ That the Prophet ﷺ He stayed in what? He stayed in Makkah خمس عشرة سنة Fifteen years يسمع الصوته with his noises Sound ويار الضوءة And he would see ﷺ الضوء What does ضوء mean? القاضي عياض النشرح صحيح مسلم He says اي صوت الهاتف به من ملال ملائكة He would hear the noise of an angel ويار الضوءة اي نور الملائكة And he would see the light of an angel ونور آيات الله And he would see the signs The light of what? الله تعالى النور The light of Allah's signs سبحانه وتعالى حتى رأى الملائكة بعيني until he saw the angel with his own eyes وشافه بوحي الله تعالى And he spoke to him with the revelation So this is what the Prophet ﷺ the angels ابن عباس also narrated as Imam Ahmad narrated his Muslim على شرطي مسلمين That عبد الله بن عباس الرضي الله تعالى عنهما He said that the Prophet ﷺ he said to Khadija اني ارى ضوءا I see light واسمع صوتا And I hear a noise sound واني اخش ان يكون بجلون And I am scared that this is that I have come I've come to become crazy اي جلون I've become a crazy person فقالت رضي الله تعالى عنها او مضى خديجة She said to him لم يكون الله ليفعل ذلك بك يا ابن عبد الله She said الله is no one to do that to you The son of Abdullah ثم اتت ورقة تمنى نوفل Then she took him to ورقة تمنى نوفل فذكرت ذلك لهم She told him this فقاله He said اي يقص صادقا If what this man is saying بله محمد is truthful فإن هذا ناموس This is ناموس ناموس means صاحب سر الخير It's a person who has the secret of good And before they used to call ناموس a jibreel That's the name they knew of jibreel And jibreel the reason why they called him ناموس is because he held the secret which is a revelation صح jibreel's job was to keep the revelation اي يقص صادقا If he is truthful فإن هذا ناموس This is the jibreel It's like the jibreel that came to Musa فإن بُعثا وانا حيول If this man نبي الله محمد is sent out And I'm alive at that time فهي سأعززه What I'm going to do is فأعززه Sorry I will give him help and aid And I will support him in his cause and his efforts تعزيره It means I will give him aid and support And I'm going to give him توقير I'm going to honor him venerate him And I'm going to give him النصر مرة بعد مرة That's what the word means سأعزره وعصره وؤؤمنه به And I will believe in him But they say ورقا died Some of the ulama actually did say that ورقا is a believer from the believers of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Some of the scholars said that Now we're going to go into the events that took place منزول الواحي from the events that happened from the revelation coming down until the migration of the Prophet ﷺ to Medina The revelation coming down on the Messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام When the Prophet ﷺ reached 40 years of age and he went out to غار وحلع as we mentioned كما كان يخرج في شهر العمضان as he would always do The Prophet ﷺ would go out there That was part of his schedule جيبريل came to him on one of the events on one of the occasions that he used to do this جيبريل came down on him بأمر الله عز وجل with the command of Allah وبعثه سبحانه وتعالى رحمة للعالمين نبي الله محمد was sent out as a what ماسطة منكائل وكافة للناس بشيرا ونذيرا And he was sent out all of mankind as one that brings good news and glad tidings and one that warns the people of a punishment that awaits them if they go against الله تبارك وتعالى كمان بخاري نريتني الصحيح on the authority عبدالله العباس رضي الله تعالى عنهما That he said بعث رسول الله لاربعين سنة The Prophet was 40 years of age الله سنتبعت as a messenger فمكة بمكة The Prophet remained فمكة بمكة he stayed in Makkah 13 13 سنة 30 years he stayed in Makkah يوحى إلي رباليشن was being sent on him ثم أمرا And then he was كمان بالهجراتي to migrate فهجر عشرة سنينة And then he went to what? He went to Mamadina Stayed there for 10 years وما تسأل He died وهو أبنو ثلاث وستين سنة The Prophet died at the age of 63 We're now going to go into the Prophet's life as a Prophet now All of that which we spoke about for the last couple of months the last 5-6 months that we've been doing this year was all before the Prophet was born Now we're going to go into the Prophet's bed The scholars they divide the Prophet's life and they categorize into two The life of the Prophet categorized into two The first one is what is known as the Makkan period where the Prophet he stayed in Makkah He was a resident in Makkah and he lived in Makkah And the second is the Madanian period which is when the Prophet migrated to what when he migrated to Medina The Madanian period sorry the Makkan period the scholars they categorize it into what they categorize it into three the Makkan period they categorize it into what into three The first of it is what when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was made into a prophet and he just became a what? a prophet Okay The second the time when the da'a was made private was made public and open was told to make it private And the second one was when he was told to go out and to call to the message and propagate it And the third is that when the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was told to go outside Makkah he didn't migrate yet but he went da'a so he didn't just speak to the people of Makkah he actually went out to the neighboring cities of Makkah and talked to other tribes other than Quraish Are we all together? Those are the three main categories we can divide the Prophet's life in Makkah in شاء الله تعالى How many years did the Prophet stay in Makkah? He stayed there for 13 years عليه الصلاة و السلام And he stayed in Madina for how many years? for 10 years And he became a prophet when he was at what age? 40 So he died at what age? He became a prophet when he was 40 He died at what age? عليه الصلاة و السلام at 63 years of age و الصحيح And now صلى الله عليه وسلم What is authentic and correct? Because there are other views Is that the Prophet became a prophet at the age of 40? هذا هو المشهور الذي أطبق عليه العلمة This is the view that the scholars have mentioned And all the overwhelming majority of them have mentioned This is the Calamah of Imam al-Nawih In شاء الله الصلاة و السلام ابن قيم says In his great book He mentions He says فلما كامول له أربعونة When 40 became complete for him When he became 40 أشراق عليه نور النووة The light of prophecy was split for him و أكرمه الله تعالى برسالته And Allah honored him To give him the message و بعته إلى خلقه And Allah sent him to his people The creation و اختصه بخرامته و جعله أمينه بينه وبين عباده And Allah made the prophet And he was between the creation and the creator صلى الله عليه وسلم So what year And what year was he when he became a prophet As we mentioned He was what فوتي Also جمال الدين أبو زكرية يحيا ابن شرف يحيا ابن يوسف الصر صري رحمه الله He mentions رحمه الله He says و أتت عليه أربعونة أشراقات شمس النووة منه في رمضاني And 40 years of age came to him And this is when Allah He bestowed upon him Allah gave him سبحانه وتعالى The right of prophecy In the month of Ramadhan So we learned two things He became a prophet at what age 40 And what time of the year Did he became a prophet In the month of In the month of Ramadhan عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم And what day was it يوم الإثنين It was on a Monday السابع عشب من رمضان It was on the 17th of Ramadhan And the evidence for that Is a statement of Allah شهر رمضان الذي أنزل فيه القرآن هودى للناس و بيناتي من الهوداء والفرقان That the Quran Was sent down As guidance to mankind But Allah mentions in the ayah شهر رمضان In the month of رمضان الذي أنزل فيه القرآن Which the Quran was sent down And it was sent down as what هودى and guidance للناس for the people و بيناتي It was also sent as a clarity And to clarify for the people من الهوداء والفرقان To clarify for the people And to be clear to the people In terms of guidance And in terms of distinguishing What is right from what is wrong The evidence that it was on a Monday Was that مسلم narrated in his صحيح On the authority of what The noble companion أبي قتادة He said that the Prophet ﷺ has said When he was asked about The fasting on Monday He said فيه وولدتو I fast on Monday Because I was born و فيه أنزل علي And on that day The revelation was sent on me Was on a Monday We're going to I'm going to now mention The hadith of our mother عائش رضي الله تعالى عنها In which she speaks about The story of how it happened That the Prophet became a prophet We should leave that from now إن شاء الله تعالى And take some questions and answers بإذن الله الكريد So I'll conclude it بإذن الله ده Anything which I have said That was wrong and incorrect It is from me, Shaytan And Allah is Messaged أعفى from me سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد بلا إلهي الله أستغفرك و أتوب لي


These early spring months make us think of renewal and regrowth, and according to the latest figures from the European Commission, many of Europe's regions and cities are beginning to see the green shoots of economic recovery. However, despite forecasts that each member state is expected to return to growth this year, unemployment remains high and the investment environment weak. The European Committee of the Regions will therefore assess the investment plan for Europe from a local perspective. This will take place during an event with Commissioner Joachim Katainen on the 15th of April. The discussions will be centred on how to strengthen Europe's competitiveness and stimulate investment in the regions. Getting Europe back to growth and providing the right environment for innovation will also be at the heart of debates in the EPP Group meeting on the following day. Manfred Weber, Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and Michael Lesterinder, President of the Wilfrid Martin Centre for European Studies, will join the debates in this pre-plenary group meeting. During the plenary session on the 16th and 17th of April, the EPP Group will take the lead on five opinions. Following a request from the Latvian EU presidency, Marek Vozniak will present his views for improvement in the territorial agenda of EU 2020. He would like to see a set of indicators to measure the territorial dimension of EU policies. Looking at the enlargement strategy, Franz Schausberger will argue that the so-called period of consolidation cannot bring preparations to a standstill, rather it should be a phase of intense preparation for potential EU membership at a later stage. Spiro Spiridon will call for targets to evaluate the 2011 White Paper on Transport in terms of the progress of implementation, and he will call for faster adoption of legislative proposals. Turning to cultural heritage in Europe, Christina Maza Spiridon's OLEGA will propose measures for a more integrated approach, and she will call for culture to be part of the reworked EU 2020 strategy. And last on the agenda, Zaba Borberli will look at resource efficiency opportunities in the building sector. He will stress that local and regional authorities have much to offer when agreeing on common European standards. Throughout the month, the EPP Group will be playing a leading role in determining the political priorities for the COR over the next five years.


here's a very compact projector here with a port or and it's got some nice ports and everything hi so who are you hi everyone this is Joe from portal and we are in the Hong Kong edition and the portal is doing a whole bunch of new smart Pico projectors this is another new design you have right here so what's the resolution here the resolution of this one is FWVJ right 850 854 by 480 yes and the lumen the lumens is 170 so it's very bright if you put it here you can see the screen is a big screen right now it's like a hundred inch up to a hundred inch yeah even bigger right this puzzle all right and there's a good price on this okay let's see the specs okay so these are all the specs what kind of prices for this one so as a RK3218 octa core a 53 FWVGA resolution native 170 lumen with a battery life is like two or three hours I guess maybe on a 7000 milliamp battery and so it does HDMI input you can input any HDMI source you want you can use a USB port also to use the mouse keyboard input and you can have the speakers and it's running full Android right so if you if you go with a remote control then we can go so the whole UI is based on the Android with basically as a smart protector and then you also have a new one here what is in China we call it male TV actually male TV yes and then it has a lot of ports no HDMI and this is the volume focus the sound volume focus focus adjustment and you can connect the power here and this is maybe also part of the Wi-Fi antenna and then you have a whole smart user interface and you can do wireless display with that right and what's kind of pricing the specs on this one let's check this back as you can see by this is 100 ansi lumens and it's also using the RK3218 CPU also system and then you have one like this is this the special one yes it's special because it's the best seller in our past two years it was launched on the main last year 2000 says it 2018 product yes 2018 and best-selling so how many you sell around more than more than 100,000 pieces at the best modern 100,000 pieces you have an HDMI input so you can input anything you want it's also FW VGA let's check the specs okay on that one so it's right here also running in a smart Android system octa core cortex a 53 3368 70 anti-lumen and all these are DLP LED projectors Pico projector with 4,000 milliamp battery so it's hopefully enough for one one movie in a battery life and it even has a little speaker right built-in but you can use them you can use your external speakers for best sound which is very recommended I think also Bluetooth nice but not the stereo Bluetooth just mono Bluetooth right I guess and you can power it with a type-c so that's very very nice and it even has IR IR remote controller and this is the focus yes so it's very cool to have a F VGA resolution pocket projector and price price is 185 for a sample but you know if people make a big order then what is MOQ for big order 20 200 pieces for MOQ 200 pieces yes and then you also have a small one like this is this a cheaper one smaller it's called and it's very small but no HDMI input and the type-c doesn't do HDMI input it's just for power and headphones so you have external speakers and you have designs also like this design like that how much is one of these and this is how much lumen so it's also bright the same brightness as the other one yeah 4300 but then now you have also a new one coming out yes and this is the M21 full HD 400 NC lumen and this is it so this is gonna be very bright is so far as mock-up how soon is ready I think it's coming in the next quarter and let's check you have the specs on this yes so the specs are like HDMI input to USB running also a 3 3 2 8 octa core Android system but oh it says this 720 time are you sure it's not it's not a full HD native on the on the board over there it says full HD native but okay so this is going to be how much the simple price for this is 300 340 $342 and this is going to be a very bright maybe full HD maybe not all right so you're just doing lots of projectors and the market is booming everybody want a projector yes it's like so they are going up yes we hope so and according to our sales data in the past two years we have seen passing the potential of this market and in this period we focused on this kind of product we are having more and more mode and then we have a more and more longer and longer product line and feedback from our end users and customer in many countries sure it was mostly selling China in the first year is mostly selling China and then the second year since this year we have a more and more foreign country and uses and like Europe like Europe like you say yes like Australia all right even in the some other Asia countries yeah Southeast countries they yes in Japan like Japan like South Asia all right and you just any distributor can contact you and talk about big order right yes yes we welcome all distributors and who won't sleep this kind of product and we came not only offer OEM service but also ODM services and the quality is good for sure we're sure cool this depends on our sales volume in the past two years that's why we sold it for more than 100,000 pieces for only one model


Live from the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, covering VMworld 2016. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem sponsors. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Stu Miniman. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're here live in Las Vegas for VMworld 2016. We're here at the Mandalay Bay in the hang space at VMworld. This is theCUBE SiliconANGLES flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-student Miniman. Our next guest is Yen Bang Lee, who's the GM and SVP of the Storage and Availability Division. Did I get that right? Is that right? Welcome back. Thank you, John. Thank you, Stu. Great to be back here again. You know, I was here just yesterday, so to make this a little bit more fun, I actually have a surprise guest. You know, sitting next to me, our principal architect, Raleza Rivera. You know, he is one of our technologists that's most loved by our customers. So I think he's going to make this segment great. I try to crash all the parties I can, you know. Well, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. First of all, let's just get it out of the way. What's going on with the big party tonight? Well, we do this little shing dig, which has become the best party of VMworld every year, ever since we launched Vsand, the greatest thing ever created, period. And it's pretty good. So you guys are more than welcome and invited to make it to the party. Please join us. So what's new?  A lot of great positive vibes and comments on Twitter. Obviously, Stu knows very much about Vsand, wrote the seminal work on the paper. He writes in the research, but it really is becoming the real, you know, kernel of the innovation engine around a lot of different parts. Can you break that down? Let's spend a minute to talk about what's so important about Vsand in particular and how it brings everything together. Well, sure. So one of the things that Vsand does today is that it's just a key component of the software-defined data center. And it ties everything together now because everything has to be stored somewhere, right? So when you have a suitable, reliable, and performing that everything delivers everything that you want from every aspect that is part of that stack in software, it doesn't get any better than that. So now we enable that true vision completely in that aspect. And that's why Vsand is so big and the way it's architecting where it lives is something that's pretty important. So Yan Bing, maybe you could explain Vsand almost every announcement I've heard this week when you dig down into the components, it was like, oh, what's in Cloud Foundation? Up, yeah, Vsand's in there. How's it working with NXX? Vsand seems to be just a core fundamental piece of what's going on here. Can you talk about the strategic importance of it? Absolutely. I think if you think about what Vsphere, how that transformed compute, Vsand is doing the same to storage. And if you think about the relationship of Vsand and Vsphere, so if you have a virtualized environment, Vsand is really becoming that very foundational layer of your modern virtualized infrastructure. So the tight coupling of Vsphere, Vsand providing the most basic building block and converging your storage and compute together. So I think it's becoming the foundational element and filling all these other innovations that we're going into, whether it's extending it to a much fuller Cloud Foundation, the whole STDC stack with smart life cycle management or the cross-Cloud architecture. What I've been saying is everything, whether it's private, public, Cloud, today's application, tomorrow's application, powered by Vsand. Rawlinson, I've seen you throw down some epic demos in the past. I was a little disappointed, I didn't get to see you up on stage for a keynote this morning. So show us what you've been working on to tell us, is it face melting? Is it awesome sauce? Absolutely. So the keynote that Yan Bing delivered this morning was pretty awesome. And then the demo there, so we tied into the whole story that we're trying to position, obviously as of today, and with a couple of items that were tech preview, what we showcase in this demo is achievable today, for the most part, right? Some of the items that are not there are some of the things that we tech preview, but being able to go across Clouds from a private Cloud to a public Cloud, by changing a policy, if you remember, Vsand was the solution, the technology that introduces policy-based management framework that allows us to have the better life cycle of the infrastructure in that case. And those are some of the things that we showcase in that demo, which are amazing. I mean, if you think about the amount of work, the effort that it takes to do that, right? In terms of just trying to achieve that, it's several clicks, there's a lot of risk in some of these things that have to be done. And then on top of that, very quickly, we transfer, I mean, truly transfer, this was not a replicate this or that, this was a storage, a next promotion, as we call it, across a private Cloud and a public Cloud. And what makes that possible is the Cloud Foundation, the stack of products and features and technology that are there. It's what makes it possible. We are the only company that can do this today, and that's all because of the way all of our components, including with Vsand tied together, specifically in the network side with Vsand and NSX. Yeah, so, one more, yeah, yeah, please. So, Stu, can I inject one comment here? Sure. The real reason why Rolison was not on stage is actually the following. He just made it ridiculously simple for me to do. I only needed to do two things.  He just made it too simple. As Chad Stack would say, it's the easy button. Basically, to be honest. So, what's the big deal? What's the big aha moment in Vsand? I'm trying to get to the heart of it, and why people are so excited about it. Is it workload mobility? Is it performance with Flash? Is it the data opening up the data? What is the big key issue around why it's so popular? Why is Vsand doing so well? If you can narrow it. So, I think a lot of our customers bought Vsand because of the incredible cost savings they see. This tend to be a strong driver for procurement, and everybody is looking to do more with less. But what customers truly fall in love with Vsand is how simplified, and how it really brings V-Sphere and storage together. Again, that just speaks to the heart of V-Sphere, it means. So, I see that's- So, simplifying the complexity, is abstraction? Yeah, simplifying, you're essentially seeing your compute and storage at the same time. Simplifying a lot of the complexity away. And there is also much more unified management on top of it, because it's not just V-Sphere with V-Center, but there is, we realize automation, there is we realize operation. All these management capability integrated, bringing everything into one integrated stack. So, simplicity is what customers fall in love with V-Sand for. So, a tweet I'll read here, it's interesting, it says that VMware is creating great gravity around V-Sphere, NSX, V-Sand, V-Realize, Workspace One, great individual products, but all great together. Is that kind of the sentiment that people are feeling around it, all of them working together? But yet, individually good, I mean, great. Well, we definitely want to build individually differentiated product, but more importantly, bring them together. If you think about this morning's demo, I was doing a V-Sand segment, but what I demoed is Cloud Foundation working in your private data center, working in your public data center, and connected together. So, Rollins is going to his session at three o'clock. So, I have a session basically going around that, and the deal is this, V-Sand is an essential, key pillar component of that stack, but it's about how well we integrate with the rest of the stack, but integration doesn't necessarily mean the dependencies are one another, right? Because the way we can cooperate and deal with NSX and V-Sand, the values that are there, those products within themselves stand on their own, but together they become much more powerful. And the whole stack is, you know, a bridge between them. That seems to be the key. Correct. The key value proposition. And I think even as we all want to win the hyper-converged marketplace, I do think from a competition point of view, it's really hard to compete on just basic set of product functionality. You know, you win one round, you know, your competitor win the next round. I think for VMR, I really see the power is how we bring the entire stack together, and how we put it in the context of CrossCloud. And I do think what we've demonstrated today on stage, only VMR can do that. It's a fact, only we can do it. All right. So, CrossCloud is coming with, Pat's going to come out on three, we're going to drill them on that one, but this seems to be enabling that. But, yep, some people were saying, five years as Pat laid out for CrossCloud, it's kind of a way out there. We've only been doing the queue for seven years. It seems like everything's changing. Steve Herrods of VC, Chad's the president of a division. You know, things are really moving fast. So, timing is critical. So, can you share your thoughts on what's shipping and where it's, what's going to be in market, kind of where the headroom is, and set the expectation for customers that are really excited by this? Okay, maybe let me start with VCAN. So, like Ronlinson said, most of the capabilities we demonstrated today are already available. There are a couple of pieces of tech preview, the VCAN performance analytics, that's a tech preview, and it's coming soon. Unfortunately, we are not yet at a place to be able to give a specific timeline. In Cription, we are already announcing the beta of that feature. Again, indicating it's really around the corner. You know, but the other capabilities are available today. And if you look at the broader umbrella services of, you know, cross-cloud services that Guido showcased yesterday, they're all in tech preview, and we will definitely be sharing the availability time with our customers. Sure. So, Ronlinson, you talked about how VMware, you think you've got the best stack out there. I know you also spent a lot of time with your storage partners out there. I mean, many of us spent, you know, more than the last decade, there's all the plug-ins and, you know, many years working on V-Vols, which is one of the underpinnings of VCAN. Can you talk about that relationship about, you know, there's V-SAN and then there's all the other storage pieces and some of the great things you're doing with the ecosystem? Yeah, absolutely. So we've done a lot of work in terms of obviously enabling, you know, probably the best storage platform for our own technologies within. But we also, within our ecosystem, enable the same sort of capabilities. So it's not just something we all, we hold on our own. So the behavior that we've developed and delivered with V-SAN, we've also exposed that to our external partners because now the same sort of logic technology, APIs and all that stuff is available in the form of virtual volumes. Right, so they're able to kind of leverage some of the things that we're doing as we evolve the ecosystems to kind of get to that point. If there's one thing that we have, out of all the things that I've done in storage, you know very well, for the past 20 plus years, storage is storage. The features are the features, there's different implementation, things change in performance improvement, but that's it. What have we done here, what we're trying to introduce in our software defined storage stack is, if there's one thing that you'd ask me, what is the one differentiator between what we're doing and applies to our core storage stack and all V-SAN and virtual volumes is our policy management framework. No one has that. And that fix is not just a feature we're trying to address an operational inefficiency problem. This, what you saw today in the demo was triggered by a policy, not by human carrying, you know, complete action. The system can now tell you based on requirements, storage requirements, takes an action, right? Those are the things that help us and kind of makes us kind of stand out on some of the things we do in terms of technology with storage specific. Okay, so just a quick follow up on that. If I'm a customer and, you know, I love VMware and I'm running V-Sphere, but let's say today I don't buy V-SAN, can I still participate in all of this?  Or, you know, what flexibility and choice is there? So, if you think about V-SAN, as excited as we are about the momentum and we continue to see, you know, this big tidal wave coming at us, you know, 5,000 customers, that's really just 1% of VMR's customer base. So clearly we still have vast workload and customer basis that is on the traditional form of storage where we're trying to help them modernize with V-Vol. And so, like Ronin said, a lot of our value add is really in the management layer and that does not have to depend on the storage underneath. So a lot of those capabilities will be able to be leverageable to those customers. Is the growth rate surprising you that it's not growing faster? I mean, you're doing what, 100 customers a week? I mean, that's pretty phenomenal.  I mean, only 1% of the ingest install base. Yeah. So, you're looking to put the pedal to the metal coming up or are you expecting to see some growth? I think we got, we have a, you know, pedal all the way down to the floor. I think the challenge is that we have something that is very unique and it changes not just the technology, it's the operational impact in a data center and for a customer. When you have to adopt this new model of operating functions, it's very different to just shift immediately to that and then kind of leave the other one, right? Yeah. I'm very excited about, you know, the growth potential. And I think even though we're starting to see this acceleration several months ago, I do think it continues, you know, certainly HCI even through you guys' research, you recognize this is by far the fastest growth storage market. And we feel V-SAN is positioned really well given how we're integrated with V-Sphere, you know, how, you know, VMware's broad ecosystem and customer-based support us. So, a lot to look forward to. Yeah, and just to give our audience a little bit of quantification on that, that's over 100% year over year growth for the industry and of course V-SAN, we added at 155% just for your product line. Congratulations on that. Thank you, Stu. Great research, by the way. Thank you. So, what's next? So, you guys are pedaling to the metal right now, pedaling as fast as you can, if you want to use that analogy. I mean, there's a lot of action going on in the software-defined data center, as it's been called. This seems to be fruit that's coming off that tree, if you will, for that kind of policy automation. I mean, that's basically DevOps kind of mindset. That is what people are looking for, that kind of scale. We're going to see more automation and we're going to have, how's this policy thing going to evolve? Where's this going to end up going? Actually, the growth is there in this demand. Where's the functionality going to take, where's the V-SAN going to go? I think there are multi-layers of technology that we're working on, Stu, at the core of the storage data pass, things like encryption, or how we keep up the innovation with all the greatest hardware innovation, that curve of IOPS and performance improvement, the next generation NVM hardware is going to bring. So there's continued vibrant innovation at the data layer. Now at the management layer, we talk about policy, intelligence, analytics. Then you go up to the service layer, think about data management and all the cross-cloud services. So, you know, our engineering is quite busy working across the stack. Yeah, I think we have a lot to do and a lot to look forward to. And Michael Dell feels comfortable with you guys growth and he's happy with the performance, now they've got a date September 7th, is the big close of the transaction? Yeah, I think Michael is following all the storage people on Twitter. He's coming to the party. He's coming to the party. He's come to our HCI Zoom, where he really interacted not just with the team also with the customers and especially I appreciate Michael's commitment to the open ecosystem. Because in the HCI Zoom, we have the HP, the Lenovo, the Cisco and he spent time with all of them. So, that commitment to maintaining this independent open system for VMware is extremely important for the success of VCEN because our ambition is to address all use cases that vSphere address today. Not limited to what Dell or EMC is about. Yeah, and that's the big positive message. Yeah, John, I mentioned this morning, I was talking to a customer who was, you know, sorting out what he was going to do for Hyperconverge and he got a call from, he didn't know who from Texas and there's Michael Dell saying, I want you to feel comfortable with Dell and what you're buying from the HCI marketplace there. So, you know, definitely top of mind for Michael, one of the key synergies for kind of Dell buying EMC and VMware, you know, control is part of that. Yeah, thank you for coming on theCUBE again. Great to see you back, Ronaldson. Thanks for sharing the news with the party and also the great knowledge and success you're having at the technical level and the stack. Congratulations and again, simplifying things is always a good business model, you know. So, congratulations. Well, thank you, John, thank you Stu. You guys make tech so sexy and interesting. Thank you for having us. Thank you so much. We're theCUBE here live at Mandalay Bay in the hang space at VMworld 2016. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. You're watching theCUBE.


Everything's set now for the lentils. They all just collapsed and one has fell onto the rip saw and done it in. Extra weight we didn't realise. Yeah, you had all this to take up all the cavities to clean out, the cavities are cut out. He's still not done, he's going to get all the screw tests put in there yet. And we're back for day two on the French door job. So, make this quick. This is what Alex is getting on with. A much different thing. Everything's set now for the lentils. Seating's ready. Like we said, the back lentils go in high because we're putting the concrete lentil up to the existing lentils. We're going to enable the cavities to show up to the underside of the timber lentils. Then, get them in as quick as we can because it's forecast bad weather again. And then it's just a matter of soaking this out. And having a bit of a side up. So, there's a lot to do. You can see here we've formed it from the... That is the old window there. We've got a lot to do. I'm really busy today so let's get cracking. First error. I've got to save for record. We've just got that rascal up. 2100 concrete. What we've got to do is, because the acro's, and that soil pipe, we have to bring it inside and back through that way. So now we've got to lift it up onto this inside skin. First, we just need to denail that, at least at the front edge, and get this cavity to train our look. And get this thing up. Get it up into position and then point above the top. Yeah, that's it. That's the plan.  Are you filming for me? Yeah. It's nailed. I've got them here. It doesn't need loads in, it just needs tacking in place. It's going to get pointed in. I've got a nice line to follow. We've got to fix the wall. Big hoisting. It could stand on there now. I can't figure out where I'm doing that. Right, we need a hammer. Any description just to deal. There we go. We need to send that on. Time lapse. Concretely entle in. One fifty-seating. The cavity train ready. Which is above that, like that. That pack is there just to take the twist out and entle. So we've got that hole to break up. We've got to put the angle iron in now, which is going to sit lower. Like I say, we've got to raise this up to get this, to get the height for the hole to come over the top. It's just got to be winky. It's got about one inch upstand on that. Nice big upstand. It was quite wide here. So we're all ready to get this in now. Get this on.   I've brought some clear weak vents, which we're going to put in loose, so that the renderer can either put them wherever he wants, or take them out all together. Like I say, it's a bit of a thing about, do you need weak vents with render? Obviously, because normally, I've been doing that from home there. Anyway, let's stop waffling and get this one through. Just after break now. Alex is cracking on with the air too, as you can see, it's in hand. I've got the bricks up. We've really purpose in these bricks for that. That's in the good ones. Now let's have a quick detour, and not the rest of this wall out down to DPC, so that we can get this lintel propped. Similar problem I had in my window job a while ago. I needed to prop the lintel, but the wall was in the way. So that's dropped the wall down to DPC. I can prop it, and I can leave that in now. So later on, when it's all done, stilly down there, stitch drill this on the inside there, and there, and stilly down there and there, and then just pile up that side. That's what the customers have to do with it, because they're getting shut off of it. And then try and take out the rest of that later on. So as of nearly 11 o'clock, that bit works through above the lintel. Point up above there, patch that. That's done that end, Alex has already done that. So just a bit on the back. Chop, chop, chop, chop. Door out, door step out. Replacing the lintel in bits. And we've got the cavity back. Door out, cavity opened up. Rest of the blocks are in the van. And here's what we've got left on the outside. You can see this end is finished. The vents are going in loose, as I've explained already. I'm going to put those in. That's the fit first. And that way, once that's done, we can get all this dropped.  We don't need any of that out there. So here, let's see the... We'll use the aluminium tower brace as a prop. It doesn't have to be. It's not holding all the weight.  And then munch around here. It looks a bit higher that, but there's soldiers and then an event of all that. So all the bits of stuff are coming out and then that's going to break down. So do you want this camera there? If you're not using it. That was knackering with this.  It's done. There was a very unfortunate casualty. The bloody... As these soldiers were coming out, they all just collapsed and worn as fell onto the rip sore and done it in. So...  My fault for buying and setting up the cordless one. You can blame everybody for everything. It's my fault for not being careful. But that's all ready now. So I'll take you inside. This is ready for brexen blocks now. As you can see, it's an iron wall. So no where cavity needed. And I think if we... If we measure it right, this just works. A nice block. So that'll work out nicely. Just sliding a block in and obviously this side it's got a bit of a... English guard moor bond. Dad has a very cleverly propped up the input with some scaffold that the customers have over there. And... Yeah, we're... Dad's finished. What will do? And Dad's done with the outside lintel. As you said before, then... Then we venture in loose in case the people of Render want to move them or take them out. Nice job. So that's that done. Now it's just the inside lintel needs pointing up still and then this door needs blocking up. So we've still got a quite bit of thought. There's progress to be seen at least. So we'll have a quick tidy up and sort it out and we'll catch up to lunch. Update, so... It doesn't look like much, but we have made some progress. Dad's, as you probably saw has got the cavity still out. So much work involved in that door. Extra work we didn't realise. Yeah, you had all this to take up all the cavity to clean out. The cavity to cut out. He's still not done, he's going to get all the cavity to, but that will come into that. I've finished off the stitch drilling on both sides on the back, so the back can be fully empty out. The front is going to get still soared. So that's that. And got this completely ready now. Got the screw ties in ready.  Put some strength back into it. And Dad's loaded some block in. Tracels are down as you can see, so piece by piece. Police looks a bit different when I was last filming. So there's much to get one side in and I've managed to do my full block. What pretty do. Bit of a contrast, doesn't it? Now, I'll just show you up here closely as well. The reason it's like this is because as you can see, it works perfectly block. So we just threw these in, they're getting rendered on. And I'll take you around back. So just cut this bit one right here block. And then re-cut it to here. And as you can see they've got me tie-wising and the screw ties in this course. So this one is tied in as best as possible. Four tie-wires, two screw ties, that's what you really need for a little window patch up. And what's left here obviously is the brickwork. And we've got some good brick for there. I hope that's going to take a bit longer than the usual because I've got that big little pyramid at the top. And if the fact that it's got an English garden robot in it too, so it can do. So that's all still on water and we're just going to job and knock. Dad's going to job and knock it in this up and I'm just going to try and get some stuff tidied up while we can. So we'll come back tomorrow for this because it's like half full now and we can't put another mix on now so we're back here tomorrow so I'll get you set up so you can watch Dad get started and catch you in a minute.


Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming. Last day of OpenStack. Glad you're here. And Mike Day and I will be talking about how some of these communities connect. So you're here to OpenStack conference. We're going to talk a little bit about a few of the communities, in particular about where KVM plays, where the Overt organization plays, and how that relates to OpenStack. So I'm Jean Staten Healy. I run Cross IBM Linux for the IBM Corporation Linux strategy and also Open Virtualization strategy. And Mike Day is our chief architect for Open Virtualization. He's our distinguished engineer on the topic. So he'll take the second half of the presentation. I'll take the first half of the presentation. We're all in a good place today because a survey that IBM does every two years and has done since 2004 talks about what's top of mind for CEOs. We also do a CIO study. But typically, during those surveys, the results have come back, saying that market factors were the most important. And this year, the most recent survey, it came back that technology factors were the most important. So I think that's one of the reasons that we see the explosion of an organization like OpenStack to over 8,600 members so quickly. So you guys are all here for that reason. Technology factors are obviously top of mind for you. You'll look on the charts back there and you'll see several communities that you're probably very familiar with. I just want to ask, how many of you are members of one of these communities or one of the open communities? Your company, what about your company? So we don't quite have 100%, but we almost have 100%. So that would be typical here. Sometimes I'm sure that you wonder how these things all connect to each other and how you can engage and how you can leverage the communities. And hopefully we'll talk a little bit more directly about that today. But what I want to start with is just what these communities can do. And there's some very well-established communities up there. OpenStack is a newer community, but some of the more well-established ones like the Linux Foundation, Apache, Eclipse, Hadoop. Very familiar to, I'm sure, all of you. These communities actually help speed innovation. They help companies to market. They help address those technology factors that are top of mind. So IBM has a very long commitment to open source, but not only open source, but also open standards. And we know that it's very important to be a contributor to the community, not just a user of the technology that's available. So when we talk about the benefits, we talk about the contribution, the growth, the enhancement, the pervasive support. So the enhancement, the pervasive support are very focused on what our clients are needing. And all of the things that the community does is that the standards that are out there, the speed of innovation, and the flexibility it offers our clients in the data center. That's really important. That comes from the community. So those of you who are not part of a community afterwards, I would love to talk with you to just understand what you're thinking is around it if you're thinking about joining a community, but maybe why you haven't joined one. And I'd like to address that with you. One of the things that we are focused on in the IBM corporation right now is open virtualization. So we know virtualization is the on ramp to the cloud. And we also know that OpenStack is a focus cloud. Virtualization can't really talk about one without the other. And our focus on open virtualization is KVM. We chose that. We've been working on that very steadily for the past five or six years. That's been the one that we've chosen to focus on. Some of the statistics from the analysts, I'll show you in a second, we'll talk about the pervasiveness of open virtualization, especially KVM. You'll see that in OpenStack. Some of them are saying it's 95%. That's IDC. Whatever it is, it's a large majority that KVM is being used on. But one of the things that's really important is that as you go and build a cloud infrastructure, we're looking at building that infrastructure with open software, open services, and we've made an announcement and commitment to that. So that's our Platinum membership in the OpenStack organization. But I also wanna say that we look at three real priorities up here when we talk about Open, and especially as it relates to the cloud, that it needs to be user-driven. So one of the organizations that we have what actually helped found was the cloud customer services organization. It was really built on giving recommendations from clients and customers to build clouds and make it a little bit more accessible. So it's more user-driven. So that's a really important aspect in terms of these open source communities. So a cloud support, a customer council. The second one is that it has to be proven in practice. It can't just be theory. So one of the other aspects of reasons to join OpenStack is that it's, well, you've got 8,600 plus members. So somebody's doing something right. And also the technologies of the openness and the community contribution just really enable it to be more ready for the enterprise, the code being ready for the enterprise. And this is really important today. It may be more important than ever because the rate of innovation that is expected from companies is accelerating to the point that if you aren't on the cutting edge, you really don't have the differentiation that you need. So open communities are allowing for that differentiation to also stand out with companies. So that's the second one. The third one is that you need, when you're talking about a cloud, you need a standard architecture. And IBM contributed a cloud computing reference architecture through the open group to, you know, it was really kind of the basis for some of the cloud architecture. So we're quite committed to these open communities. We believe in these communities. And we're looking forward also to working with you, a very large community such as OpenStack, continuing to work as a major contributor and also a user in our products and services. So as I said, this talk will kind of tie together for you where we are focused on virtualization and with OpenStack. KVM is, as I said, is our choice for the open virtualization hypervisor. It's got some great performance benchmarks. The TPCC benchmarks just came out not that long ago as the highest ever on the x86 machine. We also have the top seven benchmarks for specvert benchmarks that are published. You can go look at these out on the web. So the performance is there on an open hypervisor. The scalability is there. The security is also there, which is important. It takes from SE Linux, has EO4 plus evaluation, common criteria evaluation certification. So that's also critical to have an enterprise ready hypervisor. So KVM is enterprise ready, it's out in the enterprise, it's deployed. We're finding that those who have proprietary hypervisors are also looking at a second hypervisor. So the analysts support this as many as two thirds, according to some analysts firms, have KVM as a second hypervisor. It's not necessarily primary yet in production, but I think there's a lot more experimentation going on right now with workloads, new workloads, white space. The rate of virtualization in China, for example, is a lot of white space, but the rate of virtualization and adopting it is significant. I said that I would show you a couple of quotes from analysts that talk about percentage of KVM usage. So you see the IDC one there, it's saying the 95%, is their estimate, and then Gartner is also talking about the high levels of open virtualization. Another organization or community that we formed to really gain more market awareness of KVM. We formed it in May 2011, so it'll be two years. We announced it at OSBC a couple of years ago. We'll also be back at OSBC, so if any of you guys are at OSBC at the end of the month, it would be great to see you, and please say hey, I was an open stack. But we formed that to really gain more market awareness of KVM. And I just wanna ask you guys, how many of you are at least experimenting with KVM in your data center? Okay, I would expect that from this crowd. So that's great, very high percentage. Not all of you, but very, very high percentage. Very few hands were not raised. Anyone have KVM as primary? That actually surprises me. There's several here who have KVM as primary. So definitely would be interested in talking with you afterwards, and also if you don't have it primary, we would like to understand what it would take to make it primary, so what you think the inhibitors are, and I think this would be great feedback for the community too. But we started the OVA, the Open Virtualization Alliance with about seven members. It grew to 250 quickly. I think what that really said is that people wanted to learn more, and also we've now changed it so that it's a place where if you have, if you're a member company, you can actually, I think I hit two of them, you can actually post blogs there, you can put your white papers up there, you can put your customer references up there. So it's really meant to be a community place where people can say, hey, this is what I'm doing with it. Here are some real live customer examples. That's always important to gain adoption. So we want to accelerate adoption of KVM through this particular open community. Now, a sister community to that that was formed not too long afterwards is overt, and Mike is going to talk more specifically about overt and how that relates again to OpenStack KVM, but overt was really formed to have an open stack around virtualization, starting with the management layer. So it's formed with several of the same companies that you'll see, seven companies up there, you'll see that we're on the open virtualization alliance. So it's more the technical side of it, whereas the open virtualization alliance is more of the awareness, you can get your stories out there. And we like to leverage the community for that. So we do a lot around the stories of the members of the community to do webcasts, if you wanna do a webcast. If you want to publish something out there, you're welcome to do that. So I'm going to turn this over to Mike who's going to talk and do a little bit deeper dive into how overt itself is leveraging KVM and leveraging OpenStack. Mike? Thank you, Gene. All right. All right, I think you can hear me now. Good. Okay, thank you for your time. It's a privilege to speak with you this afternoon. And it's been quite a journey in just a couple of years with Overt. And the process of seeing OpenStack get a lot of mindshare and it's been really great. OpenStack is a great community and it's been good for Overt as well. And a lot of you may not know very much about Overt. Some of you know a lot about Overt. And by the end of this presentation, I think you'll probably know a little bit more. You might learn a few things about what we've gone through as community members and community leaders and KVM developers. So the first thing I wanna talk about a little bit is technology that does projects that do the same thing or communities that do the same type of technology. Is it a waste of energy to have two projects that do the same kind of thing? What if we're talking about file systems, for example? How many file systems are in the Linux kernel? We have more than one clustered file system, for example. And for example, what, I heard people say that we don't need butter FS because we've already got the X3 file system and then later they said we don't need the X4 file system because we've got butter FS. There's always examples of things like that. But the fact is that if people need something and if developers need something, they're going to do that development and work on that technology because it's providing value. And so technologies might appear to be redundant or overlapping, but if they're providing a unique value, they'll get done and people will support them. So with Overt, Overt provides virtualization management, VM life cycle deployment, a VM image repository, VM storage services, sound familiar? That's a lot of what OpenStack does. So we actually had more than one person within IBM who in OpenStack Mania took hold within our corporation tell us to stop working on Overt and then not only that, but convince Red Hat to stop working on Overt and RevM at the same time. So that was kind of a difficult thing, but it turned out that we had to justify our existence to not only ourselves, but to the rest of the corporation and we couldn't just say, well, this is different, we need to work on it. Had to have a good explanation. So another way to look at it is what if open source projects were guitars? Any guitar players? Okay, so I hope you don't get upset with this or I hope you enjoy it. So there's more than one type of guitar there's many different types. This is an acoustic guitar and it's got a hollow body and kind of a nice warm tone. People can play it in all kinds of different ways. And originally when Fender came out with their solid guitar, a lot of people were just dismissing it as real crude instrument. This isn't the original one that they came out with but it found a lot of people, a lot of people found it useful and this particular one is different in some specific ways, it's very popular and it has a real bright tone. It really comes through a lot of the noise. This is the Les Paul guitar.  A lot of people like it. A lot of classic rock and roll you'll hear has this guitar tone and if you put them all together, they all sound better together and if you go back and look at a lot of the best music people my age listen to, you'll notice that they try to put different guitars together in the same band that they get guitar players that they play different guitars together. They try not to pair the same guitars because when they put them together they just don't sound as good. And I like to think that Overt and OpenStack kind of fit that analogy because they're really complimentary technologies. They solve similar problems in different ways. So to back that up, I'm gonna talk a little bit about the history of our OpenStack and Overt development from the perspective of the Linux group and IBM Linux Technology Center and IBM is a big company of course and we're just one part of IBM. And then what happened recently and how we reacted to the emergence of OpenStack as a major force in the industry and a major strategic goal and major strategic technology for IBM and then a few closing thoughts about how technology changes can affect open source projects for good or bad and how open source projects should react to technology changes. So OpenStack and Overt, in the LTC we started working with OpenStack back in 2010 we had a few engineers who were working on the KVM hypervisor to go down to the OpenStack Summit in San Antonio. They were very impressed and they wanted us to start working on OpenStack and use that as our management infrastructure. And it didn't work out very well. One of the things was that some of our executives didn't like the governance model but the technology was kind of neat. Engineers have always, every engineer that's ever looked, excuse me, at OpenStack has just really loved it and loved working on it. These guys weren't the only guys within IBM. I think there were pockets of engineers within IBM all over the company about the same time looking at it. In August of 2011, we worked with Red Hat and we recruited some other companies with Red Hat to start the Overt community. Now Overt is based on an open source management infrastructure for KVM and it's the upstream source code for the RevM management infrastructure. It's a significant product. So it's aimed at the vSphere type of use case, use model and it's got a lot of functionality. So this was a major undertaking and a major community that we stood up with Red Hat. So it's not something that we could just walk away from once we got this started and Red Hat of course has a business unit around this community, around the upstream community and the downstream product support model and everything. And then in 2012, IBM, Red Hat and many companies formed the OpenStack Foundation and we at IBM and also at Red Hat just literally went nuts over OpenStack and every product group has an OpenStack strategy and I say that, that's good. It's good but there might not be the right level of understanding about the open source process and how you can use OpenStack in your products and what that really means. So there's all over the map in terms of how OpenStack can affect your development process and how you can use OpenStack in your products and one of the things that happened to us in Overt is we started getting pressure to stop working on Overt and so that's where we're back to the comment I had in the earlier slide. So to justify our existence, we needed to go and really show what the focus of these projects are. Why Overt as a project needs to continue existing if OpenStack is strategic, which it is, which I support 100%. So Overt's charter is to exploit the KVMI provider and at the time we were having difficulty with management infrastructure for KVM. We were having a hard time. We were developing new features for KVM faster than Lib Overt could expose them and there was no easy way for users to take advantage of new KVM features. Lib Overt is a multi-hypervisor management library. It was frustrating and so at the time we decided that the Overt project would be a KVM first management infrastructure. It's going to exploit KVM. It's going to expose every KVM feature and we're going to use it so that KVM is always the best, you know, has the most features and it's got the management interfaces immediately when a new feature is ready. So that contrasts with OpenStack, which is a multi-hypervisor environment and it uses abstraction so that it really doesn't want to know too much about the hypervisor and it uses that abstraction of the virtual resources and the hypervisor to achieve massive scalability. Now Overt is not that scalable and because of the detail that it knows about and will continue to know about, it's difficult for Overt to achieve the level of scalability that OpenStack does. OpenStack works best with a few types of hosts and VMs deployed on a massive scale and this has been confirmed or reconfirmed to me at least when I've been listening to some of the discussions, the development discussions this week going on. I think it's a founding principle of OpenStack to delegate a lot of the detailed management or the hypervisor specific management when you get into an area that is specific to a hypervisor to let the hypervisor handle that. So that is for KVM, that is the job of Overt and so that's why Overt exists. Now yes, there is duplication. So what do we do about that duplication? That's an opportunity for the Overt community to integrate and to add value to OpenStack and so the following few slides are a few ways to suggest how we may be able to do that as a community. One thing that I didn't mention that underlies everything that we've been doing since 2005 when we started working on Zen, 2007 when we started working on KVM is we need to have an open hypervisor and open source management APIs and open published code to manage the hypervisor. Now I've tried several times to download the VMWare management API and every time I get to the download screen it sends me to a customer login. So at that point I just closed the tab and we don't ever want that to happen for KVM. If you want to manage KVM and you want to use the APIs you can get the published APIs from the web without signing a license agreement or becoming a customer of anybody and it's always going to be like that for as long as we're working on it because that's why we're working on KVM and we're working on Overt. So at the most basic level, layering and redundancy start off with OpenStack of course doesn't actually create a virtual machine. It invokes a hypervisor specific library to create a virtual machine. So that's layering. Layering is technically not redundancy and so this is what it looks like if you want to generalize it for KVM and for Zen and for PowerVM as well. So that case is pretty clear. Now Overt has distributed block storage services that have traditionally been pretty advanced with VDSM that's a distributed cluster file system that's good for work group size clusters. It's not enterprise level storage but it's a really neat cluster where each host provides its block device, integrates it into the cluster. It gives you shared storage resource. VDSM does that. Now with GlusterFS you have some pretty sophisticated shared storage that's provided by Overt and we've worked on some translators that give you storage offload and some other things. So by supporting the Cinder API for both block and LVM on the Overt node we can provide Cinder storage services to OpenStack and at the same time those storage resources are available natively to other Overt nodes. So that's an example of something we could do to add value. Remember if we don't add value we won't exist. So these are some things that we might be able to add and this is not the only way that we could add high-speed snapshots for example to OpenStack. There are other technologies obviously that can do that like filers and things like that but this is valuable. So image scheduling and placement for example. There's a lot of information available from KVM and from the Linux kernel that is useful for filter schedulers. So we could provide a set of filter schedulers that provide information that's important for KVM that probably doesn't apply to other hypervisors but could be very important for placing VMs and this is an example of a way to add value. It might be important to have information from Cilometer that only applies to filter schedulers for KVM and I'm not sure how that will work or if it'll even be standardized but it's something to explore and it's an example of the way that as over we should look at this. There's a way to live in the OpenStack world. So for Glance, it's pretty simple. Over it has an image repository and Glance is an image repository service. Glance is pretty simple right now. It serves some block images and it was an interesting discussion on Tuesday afternoon about should there be a canonical format for image services and in OpenStack image files or not and I think right now it's going to stay as a block image for a while but that's okay because it's an opportunity for Overt to provide images as block files to OpenStack via the Glance API and also to consume images and bring them into the Overt world using this type of model and it provides a benefit to both sides if we could do that. So these are the kinds of things to look at and I'm pretty sure people are already looking at doing this kind of work and then finally within an OpenStack cloud you're going to have workloads that are different from those workloads that you deploy en masse. They might be high performance. You might configure them with SRIOV hardware. They might be partitioned instead of sharing resources. You might need to manage some specific parameters that OpenStack doesn't know about. They might be HPC. They might be extra secure and they'll exist as clusters of Overt managed nodes within the OpenStack data center. So a way for Overt server to share information with OpenStack so that you can use OpenStack to manage these clusters or islands within the data center. So to wind it up, OpenStack communities will only exist as long as they provide value to users and developers. For Overt, our original goals were to create an ecosystem for KVM ISVs to also provide a unified management infrastructure for KVM and to expose and support KVM features in a timely manner. Now it's probably true that OpenStack has fulfilled that first goal to create an ecosystem. But Overt is really continuing to fulfill the infrastructure and feature goals so it's continuing to provide value for us. And there are new opportunities for Overt to provide value to OpenStack data centers. So I think that's an object lesson to OpenStack communities that when new technologies come along that you could perceive as a threat, they also might be opportunities. And if you are using the right technologies and you are using the right license and you have the right culture among your developers, then you can react and persist as a community. So hopefully that's what we'll be able to do with Overt. I know it's important to IBM. I know it's important to Red Hat and the other companies who are working on it. We can't manage KVM the way it needs to be managed without Overt. We can't deploy KVM on the scale as required by our large customers without OpenStack. So that's the reality. Thank you.


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