from the Silicon Valley Media Office in Boston, Massachusetts. It's theCUBE. Now, here are your hosts, Stu Miniman and Dave Vellante. Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman. We're here at the East Coast offices of SiliconANGLE Media. This is theCUBE. We got a special conversation that Stu and I are going to have. Stu has been a big week. He had the EMC acquisition by Dell, actually went through officially and HPE. Did another spin merge. Seems like a popular technique that Meg Whitman and company use. Wait, Dave, I thought we're here to talk about the iPhone 7. Oh, no, CNBC's got that covered. Okay, absolutely. Continuous coverage of iPhone 7. Non-stop Apple all the time, absolutely. Yet another phone for 1200 bucks. But we digress. So yeah, so big week, Stu, and we are entering a new era of enterprise technology. I mean, let's start with the Dell acquisition of EMC. It felt like it took a long time, but actually didn't really feel like it took a long time. If you know what I mean. It was many, many months. It was Columbus Day last year that they announced that huge acquisition. So it's not surprising that it took many, many months, but it happened. It's pretty much on schedule. China delayed things a little bit. We'll talk about that, but what do you think, new era? Yeah, I mean, Dave, I remember when we heard the rumor first, I was actually at Amazon re-invent. So kind of ironic that we were at the Amazon show when we heard it. John Furrier was like, no way. And we were like, well, maybe. And John said, absolutely. He sees where everything's gone now. And less than a year, just as they said, a lot of hurdles they had to go through. I mean, huge financial. I mean, Dave, the industry's looked at this. I know you've dug into it. We've had conversations with Michael Dell and many people. Just a deal of this size has so many pieces. When we did Dell World, I said, the problem is is people are trying to figure out the chess moves and Dell's not showing you their board. So SecureWorks is IPO, things that they're selling off the services piece. There were many major pieces that moved to be able to make that financial stuff go into action. I got a good education on tronching. So how they were doing all the bonds and everything like that. And the geopolitical politics that goes into this. The US need to approve it. European Union need to approve it. And then China was the last one that needed to approve it and the stockholders. So so many pieces to make this historical event happen. And Kudos to that team because it seemed to go, mostly as planned, no major roadblocks. It's not like they had to make any major changes on the deal or no white knight came in and said, oh, we need an extra billion dollars or two to come in there. They moved it along. Well, so to your point, it is a historic deal. And the fascinating thing to me, Stu, is like the brilliance of Michael Tell, he and his partners at Silverlake, they put up only, I'm going to say only, but only $4 billion. Now, Michael's a multi-billionaire. Silverlake obviously has resources, but they had to put up $4 billion of their own cash to get what is now a $74 billion company according to the 8K that Dell filed yesterday. The notes of that $74 billion, by the way, say that's the un-audited figure as of January of 2016, but still, $70 plus billion company, $4 billion in cash for a multi-billionaire. So how'd they do it? Well, they did it with a lot of really interesting, as you say, moving parts, the tracking stock, raising some debt, delevering in the process.  I'm not as concerned. I mean, the core of EMC is intact, but the organization now is interesting. So Michael Dell didn't waste any time. They filed many board actions yesterday with the SEC. They are immediately officially Dell Technologies, Inc. EMC emails have already changed, right? So they're ready for this. But organizationally, it's quite interesting what's going on here with David Goulden in charge of Enterprise. Talk about the organization a bit. Yeah, so David, as you said, they moved really fast on some of these things. I live in Hopkinson. I worked on South Street for 10 years, and there's already Dell EMC signs up. As a friend of mine inside EMC said, well, we had a year to plan this and a long holiday weekend to roll it out. So new signs, new mulch, and David Goulden's in charge.  It's like, no, you know, that's not Michael's plan. He, at VMworld, when we interviewed him, John Furrier and I interviewed him, he said, first of all, you know, VMware, I'm not selling it. It's crown jewel, absolutely huge part of what we're doing. From a Dell's EMC standpoint, Dell EMC is the corporate brand. That's what they're selling to enterprise users. And not only is it all the assets that EMC had, but the traditional Dell server and networking group. So, you know, Ashley who runs the server group, Tom Burns who runs the networking group, they report to David Goulden. So it's interesting, as we've looked at this, there's parts of it that says, wait, who's acquiring who?  David's been running the EMC II, you know, part of the business under Jotucci for the last few years. He was kind of the, you know, heavily involved in the whole Federation piece. You know, you've known Dave Goulden for a while. He's been doing a great job with it.  Marius Haas gets the commercial side of things. Jeremy Burton's the CMO over the whole Dell technologies. And most of the senior leadership people are still in place.  So there's some things moving around and changing, but you know, they all have the Dell email addresses I hear. They can all communicate internally via Skype. And, you know, there isn't a lot of uncertainty internally as to who's running what and where things are going. Well, everything enterprise, my understanding is Dell branded Dell EMC. Billy Scannell will be repping Dell client technologies. Everything consumer and client is gonna be branded Dell. And that's sort of the split.  They still sort of exist as divisions. Pivotal obviously, you know, gonna be spun off at some point presumably anyway to do an IPO and we'll talk about that perhaps in a bit. I want to come back to the deal. I want to talk briefly about, well, let's talk about competition first of all, because you can't talk about Dell EMC without talking about HPE. More news this week. HPE did a spin merge of its software asset basically to a company called Micro Focus, which is a Golden Gate capital rollup of a bunch of different software companies. HPE shareholders will hold 50.1% of the company, but HPE will not own that. So it's sort of one of those interesting, probably highly tax efficient deals. But HPE is getting $2.5 billion in cash and then a 50.1% shareholder is a 50.1% ownership in this entity. Just sort of rough math, so the Rhythm of Tech, HPE probably paid about $20 billion for all those software assets, comprising autonomy and Vertica and Mercury Interactive and ArcSight and et cetera, et cetera. $20 billion down to $2.5 billion in cash, not a good return. HPE software business has not been growing. You know, I've been saying for years they've got to get their act together in software. Looks like they just gave up. So question I have for you, Stu, is HPE now focused on infrastructure? Is that not withstanding Amazon? Is that the main arms dealer competitor to Dell EMC, Dell Technologies? Yeah, I think absolutely it is, Dave. I mean, Meg Whitman was on the financial shows this morning talking about how she believes that they HPE are more agile and focused and have a better solution stack than Dell and Dell EMC do together. Michael Dell and the whole EMC, Dell EMC team, of course, have their sights set on crushing HPE, as they've said. They think they've got the best solution. So we've been watching, I mean, how many decades now Dell and HPE going after each other with server as the core and the foundational layer for everything that goes on top of it? So it's going to be interesting to watch it.  This is the second spin merge that HPE's done. They had the CSC services. Why did they do this as a spin merge? What is that? Why does that make sense? I think they do it because it's a tax neutral move and they maintain ownership in these entities that they spin into. So as a result, they get the benefit of long-term growth or whatever value can be created there and they don't get taxed on it. And they get the further benefit of taking these non-core assets and getting rid of them.  I mean, and it started when Carly Fiorino wanted to buy PWC and she wasn't able to get that deal. IBM ultimately ended up buying PWC. It was a transformative move for IBM at a much, much lower price than Carly was willing to pay, but Carly wanted to go, do a big acquisition. She ended up with Compaq. Now Compaq was okay, but it was very controversial. Members of the board, from the Packard or Hewlett family, I can't remember now, were fighting it tooth and nail. And that set in motion a whole new series of mega acquisitions including EDS, which Herd orchestrated, which was pretty, not a great acquisition, it was a boat anchor acquisition for HPE, Herd thought that they could replace all these IBM mainframes with HP servers and when that ended up happening, his IBM sucked up back all the business that was up for renewal, so that didn't work. So now you're seeing Meg having to come in and clean up that mess and talk about autonomy, I won't even go there, but Meg's just getting rid of all these assets that weren't performing and the way they're doing it is to get some cash, helps clean up the balance sheet and do these spin mergers, which gives them ownership in these new entities. They still own a part of the CSE entity, they own a big chunk obviously of this microfocus entity, so they're very, very tax efficient. Now you're left with an infrastructure company since they've gotten rid of non-core assets, security, non-core, which surprised me, I mean I'm not surprised because they had to get rid of security to get the price that they wanted, the 8.8 billion in value, but it's only 2.5 billion of cash only. So now that we're left with a pure play infrastructure company, I've been saying for years, we've been talking about on theCUBE, and I and John Furrier, HP's got a shrink in order to grow. Well it's shrunk, question is, can it now grow and how? Yeah, that's a great question Dave. I mean we've looked at, and we were talking at VMworld, Pack Elcenger laid out how public cloud is just eating a big part of the market. His numbers were reached kind of the majority in five years, I think we can all argue as to what percentage in what year, but you know, reasonable people understand that public cloud is growing and that is a threat. If you say Dell and HPE at its core, if they're selling less servers, that's a challenge to their overall business, that it's core, that's what they need to do, and the addressable market that they have going forward seems to be shrinking over time, so how do you keep growing if your core business is shrinking? So there's been a 10 year, we talk about this a lot, a 10 year slow motion collapse and infrastructure hardware and software pricing. And it's due to open source software and cloud, so we've seen the difficulties that companies are having, even these open source companies look at Cloudera, look at Hortonworks and others of really driving new market growth, now Cloudera is private and they've got a big chunk of cash from Intel so it's hard to tell exactly what's going on there, but they're not setting the world on fire to the point that we thought they would from let's say five years ago, and Hortonworks is a public company, we see the financials there, so the open source software business has always been very hard, Red Hat's really the only exception to the rule of it's wide by the cow and the milk is free. But so when you look at the effects of that with Amazon and open source software in particular on the infrastructure business, something had to give. So we're now entering this new era of enterprise tech where you've got Amazon as the low cost, high margin provider and you've got Dell with EMC now and HP as the arms dealers to the cloud without a public cloud, ownership of a public cloud strategy other than I guess Virtustream and vCloud Air Redux 3, we'll talk about that in a second.  How do we see you guys at Wikibon, us at Wikibon, how do we see this shaking out over the next five to 10 years? So it's an interesting challenge Dave because well I believe if I look at the Dell EMC and that whole Dell Technologies, they've got pretty clear how they're gonna sell the hyperscale guys, partnership with Microsoft really important, how they interact with Amazon is kind of shaping out. VMware had an announcement with IBM and what they're doing with SoftLayer, don't put them quite in the same category as Amazon and Microsoft, but trying to figure out that whole second tier of service providers and IBM of course has some large cloud revenue, but you've got the hyperscales, you've got your traditional data center and what that balance and that shift over the next couple of years is gonna be really interesting to watch. So I'm comfortable with the strategy that Dell Technologies has, as a matter of fact Lenovo has a very similar strategy to kind of come up, they've got strong presence in Asia and don't have as much of a legacy to try to hold on to, so they can cut costs on the one hand and push into some new markets. HPE, I don't feel that they've kind of cut, they've started to cut down but they don't have as clear of a strategy as to how they go to adopt in the new hyperscale space, how they defend their existing environments and manage that transition. Another wild card is China. Nobody's talking about the effects of China. Huawei in particular, Lenovo as well and it's no coincidence in my view that China slowed this deal down when we talk to executives about it, they say, hey, we got the deal done on time, okay, I get that. That's not the angle in my view anyway. China wants to be self-sufficient, it's gonna have by the end of the decade, it's got its own microprocessors, it's got its own Linux operating system, it claims, I don't know, some large number of the world's top 10 supercomputers. So China wants to be self-sufficient as a technology powerhouse. So my view is that China was demanding concessions of Dell and they probably got them, I'm sure they got them, we don't know what they are. But likely they were designed to slow Dell technologies down. And so we don't hear much about China. There are two wild ways, we've got restrictions in terms of selling to the US government, for example, which is a huge component of the business but everybody's eyeing China, because it's such a huge market, what's your take on that? Yeah, I mean Dave, in my network, the work that China has done on say the latest processors has my network buzzing. So specifically the US government told Intel don't ship the next generation of chips there because we're worried about both competitive and secrecy and everything like that. And China said fine, we'll create our own microprocessors. The fastest supercomputer in the world right now is made with China chips. And I think it's like four out of the top 10 or 20 are Chinese made devices there. So we know China and the ODMs in Taiwan have been taking chunks out of the server market, seeing some of these options with the chips there. Huawei from a networking standpoint, the joke I had is that John Chamberson's last couple of years, he had two things he was trying to do. Number one is that he was doing with the US government. Number one is he was trying to be able to repatriate all of his foreign money. And number two, he was trying to keep China out of the US and our partner's markets. And they did a better job on keeping China out than they did at repatriating the money. But China is definitely a threat to the networking business. And it only makes sense that storage is kind of the third leg of that stool for infrastructure, that China has a huge internal market and they try to capture that. And as well as they want to supply the rest of the world. So Huawei is a huge player. There's a number of other players and the government definitely has interest in controlling that market and keeping out what would be the largest player in the space, which is Dell plus EMC. Strong local demand and strong local competition are two ingredients to global powerhouses. And so China is obviously one to watch and a wildcard. Amazon, I think people are beginning to understand, even though there's more to come. We maybe talk about that some, but China is sort of interesting. I want to come back to HPE. What does HPE need to do now? Does HPE need to make another acquisition? Does it need to buy a Nutanix and acquire them? Or does it need to do some tuck-ins on like an E-Guaz or a Datrium, one of these sort of new wave hyperscale types of companies? What does HPE need to do? Or does it just need to keep going along and investing in Helion? Yeah, so what wave is HPE going to ride? So virtualization, the server division did real well. Driving VMware, they were great OEM. They did a lot there. The storage division's done pretty well, especially with the three power acquisition. But is containers the next wave? Is IoT a big wave? We see Hitachi data systems, big focus on IoT with what they're doing there. Huge impact on infrastructure, and that could be player. I know you've talked with HPE plenty about that. Analytics was one that seemed to make a lot of sense, but now maybe that's non-core as to how they push that. So obviously they have to have, I think the line was HPE's not getting out of software, they're just getting out of the non-core piece. Oh, please, I've never seen that line. It gave up in software. It definitely worried me a little bit because I need that security, analytics, IoT. You got to be at least a couple of those right now. Otherwise, what's going to drive your infrastructure going forward because of the big waves that are driving all the connectivity, all the storage, all the devices? I mean, as I'm saying, HPE gave up on software because we're talking about a software business that is non-recurring engineering costs that you drive marginal economics versus one that's tied to somebody's infrastructure. And if you're saying, okay, well, our software's going to run on standard commodity servers, but we're going to be able to get the kind of margins that we have historically out of our infrastructure software, our SDN and our SDDC, that's going to be a big challenge. That's why the Dell EMC deal to me was inevitable. Amazon's operating profit is in the mid-20s. EMC's, this is non-gap, EMC's lucky if it's in the high teens. So they're more profitable and ostensibly less expensive. So this trend is not going to go away. Amazon's not just going to disappear. They're going to keep, in my view, keep getting stronger and stronger and stronger. Yes, hybrid, I get that, data locality, I get that, but these are winner takes all markets, generally speaking. Does that change? I mean, is it, obviously, big market. There's room for everybody. These guys aren't going to just roll over and say, okay, Amazon, take me to the cleaners, but Amazon is cleaning up. And Azure is in a good position. Google, we can debate. They're trying to get back in the game with Diane Greene at the helm. It's kind of interesting there, but the volumes and the efficiency that those three companies are driving, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, compared to what the enterprise guys can do, it's scary. So as a result, you've got to have lower costs, hence the cost restructuring, the delevering going on at Dell, and then again, you've got China. So how's it all shakeouts do? Does HPE in particular have to make a big move? So, what they don't have that Dell Technologies has is the rest of that, what used to be the Federation, Dave. So Dell Technologies, it's got VMware, it's got Pivotal, it's got a few paths as to where it's going in the future. And I don't see that in HPE, so. But maybe that's a good thing, VMware's legacy. You've been saying that, you guys talked about that. Yeah, VMware might be the new legacy, but it still has, it's still dominant in its market share there. It does not have the applications, but it still pulls you up the stack a little bit beyond just the infrastructure, which is still, if the hypervisor's commoditized, isn't everything underneath it even more commoditized? It's got obviously a big customer base, but didn't VMware capitulate when it basically said, okay, we're going to do this, what John Furrier calls inter-clouding? I know you don't like that term, but basically we're going to be the manager of the clouds, as opposed to we're going to dominate the cloud market. They tried to dominate the cloud market, they failed. They've tried now a couple of times. We haven't talked much about IBM. Actually, let's park that for a second. We've got to know how much time. But so is that inter-clouding, when I'm calling the inter-clouding strategy, going to allow companies to maintain their relevance? Yeah, and- Or are they traffic cops? And HPE has gone that. There's management that they can do there. They tie into, especially, HPE's going to say, we're as good as a partner with Microsoft as Dell is. They're both big importance there and they're going to tie into the big public clouds. I've seen HPE go through even more churn on their cloud than we have kind of the VMware and the EMC standpoint. EMC kind of understands where they sit on the infrastructure. They've still been growing, kind of they're converged and pushing hard into the hyper-converged marketplace.  Might they make an acquisition? There's been plenty of rumors. You mentioned Nutanix, a year ago there was a rumor they were going to buy SimpliVity, but they didn't pull the trigger on it. There's a number of things. Dave, we could be sitting here today saying that HPE finally finished the acquisition of EMC if Meg had pulled the trigger two years ago, like we had done that. It was a small turn, yeah. Okay, other things that we're seeing, we just put out a server-sand report, basically saying the traditional block and file, sand and NAS business is peaked and is going to decline over the next 10 years. I mean, when it first came out, we got some blowback on that. I think there are a lot of people who now kind of agree with that. You're seeing the spending pattern. So this third year we've done this research, Dave, and every year it's, I'm not sure I don't like some of your charts and they dig into the data and they're like, oh, this looks good. Maybe a year or two out looks okay, but forget it, three years from now you guys are way too aggressive. Well, it's the third year that everybody mostly agrees with what we put out this year. So we think we've been pretty active, accurate on the trend as to where it's going. And you got IoT, pushing at the edge, pun intended, you've got virtual reality now, and you got companies like NVIDIA calling into question the ability of traditional microprocessors to keep up. Certainly the big data, while there aren't a ton of vendors making money, a lot of practitioners are doing really well in big data. So that's a huge, huge trend. The mobile wave has hit. So you have all these disruptions wither the traditional enterprise business. I mean, we've got a whole new era here where you've got Amazon and Microsoft, you know, dominating Microsoft, leveraging its estate, Amazon with the new disruptive business model. And now you've got basically HPE and Dell duking it out for arms dealer leadership. Is there growth potential there? So I mean, Dave, how many years have we been saying that, you know, users that want to get control of what they're doing need to get out of that undifferentiated heavy lifting and be able to add more value back to the business. It's been many years of saying that and we're starting to see significant shifts into how IT does things. And that means they're not managing that infrastructure as much. They purchase it, it is more shrink-wrapped, it is more automated, and they're not worried as much about some of the bits and bytes inside. Of course, you still need to have your domain expertise. You need to make sure you understand how your applications work in your environment and where you have competitive differentiation. And we still see people, you know, striving hard to, you know, hold on to anything that they've got that differentiates them, even if they're using things like Amazon. But, you know, it does make a shift as to, you know, where that conversation's happening, where the budget flows, and you know, the relationships that they're having with, you know, tends to be a smaller number of technology partners. We haven't talked about Oracle and IBM, and we don't have enough time, but those guys, to me, anyways, do are largely software companies. They're, you know, IBM with its analytics push, and it's cognitive push, Oracle, obviously, database, and it's SaaS business. That's what's driving their business, not infrastructure. Infrastructure is, you know, something that they're doing to try to, you know, drive down cost in IBM's case, or I keep the mainframe, it's very profitable.  Those are different businesses than what Dell and HPE, what's left of HPE now are in. So that's sort of outside this little core infrastructure discussion that we're having. I'll give you a final thoughts, Stu. Say it's been a big week, although no huge surprises, these were both expected in the case of Dell EMC, and a poorly kept secret in the case of HPE. It's been known for, you know, months now that they're going to be doing this. Yup, the death of the headphone jack, oh wait, we're still not talking about Apple, sorry. But I was having a conversation online and we're talking about, I mean, Dave, you remember the four horsemen of the internet era? It was, you know, Sun, Oracle, Cisco, and EMC. And, you know, Sun's gone, EMC is now Dell EMC, the two's gone, their names after Michael Dell's up on all the buildings on their business cards, and they've got Dell email addresses.  Facebook, Apple, Google, and Netflix, right? A practitioner changing, you know, business, and maybe throw Uber and Airbnb in there. Amazon's there, so. And Amazon as well, yes. Oh, I said Apple, yeah, right. No, but it thought it top of land Amazon, so. Fang, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Netflix, and yeah, throw in Amazon, maybe it's Fang, okay. So, all right, Stu, I mean, you know, there's been some good pieces, Neil Press wrote a great piece on the short history of EMC. Yeah, Dave, come on, you've known EMC since they were getting beyond mainframe and going to storage. You know, what does this mean to you of kind of? Well, you know, a lot of people are nostalgically looking back at EMC. I say it, EMC's gone. I mean, digital equipment is gone. Digital equipment was bigger in its day than EMC. Sun was pretty big in its day. Those companies are gone, they're not relevant anymore, nobody's talking about them. This is Dell technologies. EMC, as we know it, is gone. The Federation failed. It was a great try. You know, I have great respect for EMC and have a historical perspective as well, but to me it's all about looking forward. And this is a new era. And the days of the storage model that EMC invented, both started the mainframe and then moved into so-called open systems and drove 60% plus gross margins and tons of cash flow for years and years and years are done. It's interesting to look back, but frankly I'm more interested in looking forward and talking about how customers should be placing their bets. And customers are placing their bets and they're hedging those bets. And you know, in some respects too, I think it's somewhat easier when the industry is consolidated like this. I think Amazon's a pretty safe bet for the right use cases, even though a lot of people in the enterprise want to scare you. I think that Dell Technologies is a pretty safe bet. I think HPE is a very customer focused company.  You know, sticking with those guys. And obviously Microsoft and Cisco and some of the other big members of the cartel. Now where it gets tricky is okay, what about Google? What about these other clouds that are emerging? Where should I use those? So complexity is still there. And then what about innovation? You know, where's that come from? And still coming from the valley, maybe that's why people are ignoring China. But what EMC means to me is another East Coast mini-computer company. I mean, essentially, that's what they were. They were the progeny of East Coast mini-computer companies failed to survive. And as an East Coast person, that's too bad. Maybe IoT will change that. But Silicon Valley remains the center of innovation in our industry. And that's why I'm happy that we have a bi-coastal company. All right, Stu, again, I'll give you a last word. All right, so yeah, I mean, Dave, we've been saying for years that storage is looking more and more like servers. Well, you know, the biggest storage company is now working for a server company. So, you know, it might be the death of the EMC federation, but you know, I know the people on Tau Street are going to say, long live Dell technologies and Dell EMC. Yeah, that's what they should say. So, and we're excited to have theCUBE bringing you all these trends. We cover the enterprise tech theCUBE is the worldwide leader in enterprise tech coverage and live tech coverage as well. So really appreciate your feedback and your participation as a community. Thanks for watching everybody. Stu and I will be back at Edge, IBM Edge. And we're at- Dell EMC World? And we'll be at Dell EMC World. And Amazon Reinvent. And Reinvent and numerous shows this fall. So look forward theCUBE, check out the at theCUBE handle, go to siliconangle.tv for all the upcoming shows. Go to siliconangle.com for all the news and of course wikibon.com for all the research. Thanks for watching everybody. We'll see you next time.


It's no measure of good health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society. My sons have had a spiritual allergic reaction to the toxic world that we live in. There are no good or bad drugs. There are just good or bad policies. Actually, there's some substances out there that could be part of the solution. One of these solutions could be psychedelic-assisted therapy. Everyone's always talked about of poor drug users. It's this lack of autonomy. It's like, well actually, people are using these substances because they're working. I ended up having, in 10 days, had three ceremonial doses of Iboga. My depression and suicidal ideation had switched off after one evening spent with this medicine. I felt completely blocked. I felt trapped. And after sitting with this medicine, I could see a way forward. Hope returned. She lifted my head and held under my chin and sang in my face. It sang and I felt a change on a cellular level in my body. The tears changed. Something changed from pain to love. I understood then that there's no amount of talk therapy can touch that kind of stuff. But it's magic. These medicines are magic. I would also like to work towards a future maybe way one day. We can go out, we can connect in nature, we can harvest our own medicines, and we can bring them back and use them in legal ceremony in a meaningful way. That's the future I would like to see.


Welcome, everyone. We're going to be talking about how to reuse the energy of an open-stack cloud. So that's what LeaveCloud does. We're going to talk about the why. We are going to talk about the how. And I want to introduce myself. I'm Yugor von Uppdorf. I'll be giving this talk with Stig. Hi, everyone. I'm Stig Telfa. OK, so let's start with the why. So I think everyone knows the problem of the greenhouse gases. And a big chunk of the greenhouse gases that get emitted are caused by power plants.  So they try to mitigate this problem by generating green energy. So they use, for example, windmills. And these are green power plants. But if all that electricity goes straight to data centers, the net result isn't that great. The problem doesn't really change. So how much power do data centers use? That would be about 3% of all the electricity that is used in the Netherlands. Let's put that into a bit of context. So if you look at this, data centers, and you compare it to the NS, which is the Dutch railway, the data centers actually use three times more energy. And it uses more energy than the entire railway system of the Netherlands combined and the city of Amsterdam, which is huge. And it's a huge chunk of all the wind energy that we produce. And we have a lot of wind in the Netherlands. It's a windy country. So a question for you. How much CO2 emissions does an 8-VCPU Kubernetes node cause in one year? Is that 500 grams, 50 kilograms, or 500 kilograms? Just think about these numbers for a little bit. So the answer is it's over 500 kilograms a year. And if you instead look at a GPU node, the number increases a lot. It's five times higher. And you go halfway around the world in a car for that. So where does this emission come from? This is based on an electricity mix. So 70% of this is not renewable, and 30% is. It's a normal mix. And what you actually see in this picture is that most of the emissions actually come from the data center itself, not from the machines inside. So that's the old situations where we build data centers that contain a lot of servers. And you have high power, air conditioning, or chillers, which are very inefficient and polluting. And all the electricity is converted into heat, which is just wasted. But heat is valuable. So in a new situation, what we do is we place the servers inside of residential technical rooms, where the heat is generated for the tap water. And instead of having just fossil fuels being burned to heat up tap water, we actually use green electricity to run our servers that heat up the tap water instead. So the difference that that makes is large, because we are able to use more green electricity because there's less pressure on the electricity net. It's really good for the electricity net itself. We don't have to build data centers because boiler rooms and technical rooms, they already exist. People have these rooms in their residential blocks. And because of our heat reuse, the net result is actually a carbon reduction. So this is the key to what we do. And the way we do it is we move out the compute nodes from the data center into what we call leaf sites. And that's where most of the electricity is used. So we barely need any data center footprint. And most of our energy consumption gets reused as hot tap water. And this distributed data center works as any other data center. It's 60 microsecond distance. We use 100 or 200 gigabit connections between the data center and the leaf. So it works as a single data center. And the reason that we need good connections is, of course, we cut that. We put the computes at the leaf sites. And the storage is inside of the tier three data center together with the control plane. So we deploy OpenStack in the data center. All the controllers are there. And then we deploy all the compute hosts on the leaf sites using KOB and Kala. This is me installing one of our racks at a leaf site. So you can see this is, I think, a heat exchange. I'm not our thermodynamics expert. But this is another colleague that is installing another rack at a leaf site.  And I'm going to give the microphone to Stig. Hang on. I just need, OK. Thanks. Sorry about that, guys. So you might wonder what is the open infrastructure story to doing this. And actually, it's fundamentally everything in here is open infrastructure. In order to make this system we're using Linux and OpenStack is running largely Kubernetes workloads, which are distributed across the Amsterdam metropolitan area. And the OpenStack environment that we're building is based on this KOB Kala and Kala Ansible triplet substrate. And the way that we apply this is to bring about a sort of an infrastructure as code principle, infrastructure as code principles in which we can use the properties of KOB where we have a single version controlled source repo for all of the configuration for the entire leaf cloud infrastructure. That encompasses things like the bare metal configuration of the servers, the storage configuration, the OpenStack service configuration itself, and other things besides. This enables us then under a single repo to manage version control, peer review, and CI verification of all the changes that we're making in order to enable us then to provide a resilient and reliable service, a production service on which the leaf cloud users can depend. KOB and Kala Ansible were chosen for several reasons, primarily because Kala is about the process of putting all of the OpenStack services into Docker containers. And that enables us essentially to think about the OpenStack control plane as being something akin to a microservice architecture. Kala Ansible and Kala also have a very broad range of support for some very sort of useful services for the leaf cloud environments, such as Masakari, so that we can enable the failover and transfer of workloads from one site to another site when that site is getting taken out of service. Finally, the KOB environment brings together this whole sort of infrastructure as code principle to enable us then to manage the whole thing as one coherent entity, which is very important, and enables us also to bring together this thing called the change pipeline. So under this model, we use the kind of DevOps approaches that have an abstract configuration for the OpenStack environments. And a production variant of that configuration and a staging variant of that configuration and developer environments. And they're all representative of the same abstract core setup. And then this enables us then to develop and make changes, move fast and break things, that kind of stuff, in isolation in our own environments, and then bring those changes forward and propagate them into a staging environment in order to actually apply them and bring everything together into one place and run test suites against that, before finally then applying those changes into the production infrastructure in order to minimize the risk for disruption to the users of the end system. I think that was all we had covering today. So are there any questions? Yeah. The question was, how do we do it in very, very hot summers? Well, the question is simple. People still use warm water to shower and wash their hands in hot summers. So it doesn't really change. It's adding that the websites for Leaf Cloud and the website for StackHPC are both generating hot water. So the question was if we need special hardware to do the cooling and heat reuse, I think. So we thought we did. And we did a lot of research on this. So we had iterations with submersion cooling. We had iterations with two different types of submersion cooling. And we had water cooling on the CPU die. And then we went back to the drawing board and thought, can we make this simpler? And we did the calculations. And it turns out that it's actually more efficient to just use a heat pump than to do any of those complicated systems for cooling. Because it turns out that the efficiency is actually higher. And it's easier because you actually can use the normal type of air cooled racks. And this way you get also the peripherals of the machine to contribute to the heat reuse. So what happens in a heat pump is that when you put warm air into an heat pump, the efficiency goes up a lot. And so we do around 40 degrees of air into the heat pump. And then the efficiency of the heat pump is three times higher than if you would go with 10 degrees air into the heat pump. The power consumption of the leaf side depends on the type of hardware at a leaf side. So you have to think between 10 and 100 kilowatts. Any other questions? Yeah. So what we do is we, so he was asking about the temperature in the rooms. So the room itself is not allowed to be at 40 degrees. It has to be livable because people have to do maintenance there. But we run the air directly into the inlet of the heat pump. So the air comes out a little bit cooler. And the extracted heat goes directly into water, which is exchanged with the tap water system of the building. Yeah? The question was what do we do if the heat pump is not operating? So it depends. There are ventilators that can just get rid of the air in case of a disaster like that. A small disaster, but a disaster nevertheless. And if a leaf side, for some reason, is really not capable to run, we fail over to a different leaf side. I think we have to stop. Do we have time for one more question? All right, last question. So the question is about the network architecture. And if it's one network or multiple networks? No, low latency is very important for our infrastructure because of the disaggregated setup. Yeah, and we mount the hard drives directly inside of the data center from the leaf. Yeah. All right, that's it. Thank you. Thank you very much for. Thank you.


So let me show you a couple things I'll be using to achieve this quick and easy twist out. No, that's not what I'm doing. Protective style. Be gracious. Channel thanks so much for tuning back in for another video. For today's video I'll be doing a quick and easy protective style on dry hair. So this protective style is stemming from an old wash and go that I did. Right now my hair is tied up but I do have it nice and combed out and detangled ready to go ahead and get this process started. So what better to do with a wash and go than to turn it into either a twist out or some type of protective style. The temperatures here are dropping and I don't want my hair left out and exposed, my ends exposed to the cold weather to dry it out even more. So I figured let me just go ahead and put this in a protective style, make it quick and easy and also very convenient. So when I'm on the go and I've got to go somewhere I need to be somewhere my hair is already done.  So this is pretty much all I'll be doing in the video today. So I'm just going to show you a couple of products I'll be using and some tools I'll be using to achieve this protective style look for the fall. So without further ado let's get started. From natural apothecary which I hope I'm saying that correctly. I'll be using the smoothing coconut leave in with macadamia oil. It nourishes conditions and prevents tangles and breakage. This product protects against frizz and flyaways leaving hair smooth and soft. It has coconut oil that smooths away frizz and flyaways, macadamia oil that moisturizes and adds shine, and vitamin E that nourishes and conditions for beautifully healthy hair. For my edges I'll be using from style factor the edge booster. And for my accessories I'll be using these hair rings that I got off of amazon. So I'm going to start this style off by creating a middle part. It takes me a moment to get it perfectly straight so bear with me.  I like to make sure that my edges as well as around the perimeter of my part. It's very sleek because it helps me to grip my hair better when I'm doing a flat twist and it just makes for a more flat and smoother look when I'm pulling my edges back. So I'm just going to spray a generous amount of product into my hair and I'm also going to take the time to thoroughly work the product into my hair and also into my scalp. I like for my product to get thoroughly absorbed into my hair before I start the styling process. What I also love about this leave in is how lightweight it is. It's not extremely greasy or oily. It absorbs very nicely into my hair making it feel very soft and condition and manageable. I feel like an easily finger detangle but for this style I want my hair nice and smooth without any lumps. So I'm just going to use my ultimate detangler and smooth my hair down ensuring that the leave in is coating every strand. I'm going to start flat twisting along the sides of my hair and once both sides are twisted down completely I will twist the remaining ends of my hair together roll tuck and pin it down to blend the twist giving it a more rounded look. Stressing very conditioning like everything that it says on here all the product claims definitely true and it's it's really hard for me to find a really good leave in spray. I don't really have a lot. I don't really have any except for the one that's a DIY that I made but as far as the store bought one this is one I would definitely go back and get again and I think this was the only one that was on the shelf. I got it in marshals and my hair just really took to this product and I was oh I'm sorry. I dropped the bottle on Pugli's head. That's not funny but it didn't hurt him anything but but like I was saying it made my hair so soft and so manageable. It was easy to detangle my fingers with this leave in and now as far as frizz on anything that says that it banishes frizz or helps with frizz I don't believe it so I have to use my gel my edge booster gel to kind of combat the frizz so that's what I use for frizz because I just don't trust any leave in or anything that's watery this is it banishes a help with frizz not with my hair but they also have a clarifying tea tree face mist with witch hazel and this product clarifies and tones for balanced skin it helps to toxify and purify it supports clear healthy skin and this is a really great face mist and it leaves it metaphors my skin without drying out my skin and it gives it just the right enough oil and moisture to just last all day whether I put on makeup or don't put on makeup and it's very absorbent and again it just just the right amount of oils from my skin no oiliness no greasiness no dryness of my skin although when you initially put it on it does feel a little dry but after a couple minutes it actually goes away and it feels more moisturizing so I really love this brand I've never heard of this brand before but I got these products in marshals but I really enjoy this clarifying tea tree and you can use it throughout the day how many times a day that you want it's just very refreshing so if you're ever in marshals and you see this particular brand these particular products I would highly recommend them the key ingredients has tea tree witch hazel and peppermint it doesn't burn or irritate my skin so that's one thing that I really appreciate about it and it's also for blemish prone skin so if you suffer with acne and blemishes this is really great for balancing and treating that as well so again I hope you guys thoroughly enjoy watching this video and just watching it's very quick and easy hairstyle that's very quick and easy protective style for the fall so if you don't not fall I'll just say that so if you find yourself having this wash and go that's old and dry you don't know what to do with it you don't feel like putting in a bunch of twists you don't feel like doing another wash and go just do a very simple and easy protective style add a few hair accessories and you have a nice simple and sleek elegant sophisticated style that you can rock for any event and any occasion so again if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like comment and subscribe it does help my channel it's just Janine and I will see you on the next video bye guys


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This is Jessica. We're super excited today to be crafting it up with you. We're going to be doing piñatas for the Manos a la Obra Vida Latina program. We're going to get started and Jessica is going to start talking to us about piñatas and the history of them. So piñatas are a tradition that date back up to 700 years. We first witnessed this as Marco Polo came to China and he saw the Chinese decorating cow figurines with different colorful paper and filling them with seeds. They used this to break the figurines and celebrate the coming of the new year. Marco Polo brought the idea back to Europe and from then they kind of modified the idea of the new year. Instead of celebrating that, they used it to celebrate Lent. The Italians were the first to coin the word piñata as their version of the piñata was made out of clay pot, which is what piñata means. Now, from Europe, the tradition came all the way back to the Americas as the Spanish brought it with them during their colonization. However, they were surprised to see that the assets already had a very similar tradition. Asset priests would take a clay pot at the end of a stick and decorate it with colorful feathers. They would fill this pot with goodies to celebrate the birthday of their god of war, Guido Pochli. So the Spanish saw this, took the opportunity and remodeled by this tradition by placing seven spikes on the clay pot representing the seven deadly sins. So this would help them introduce religion into the asset life. So now Evelyn's done telling us about how we use piñatas today. Thank you, Jessica. So Jessica gave so many cool like facts and history about piñatas. We know piñatas today and she mentioned the piñatas that have the seven sticks that point out and look like a star. Those are kind of the piñatas you think about, but there's endless possibilities today of what piñatas can look like. We're very lucky if you live in the LA area, we have the LA piñata district. If you ever go down there, I strongly encourage you to walk down that piñata district and you'll see rows and rows and rows of different piñatas. It's a really beautiful scene to see, but there's unicorn piñatas, Christmas-themed piñatas when that time comes around. There's so many possibilities and we're very lucky to have this craft and we also, in your kit, you'll be able to make your sandia, your watermelon piñata.  Like we have this hamburger that's not part of the kit, but you can make at home. You can make a cat Halloween's coming up soon, right? You can make some pumpkins, but we're going to get started. You will need your cereal boxes to find, so start looking around your home. If you might have some, you know, you might have finished your lucky charms and you get to now create it into piñata. Jessica is going to start us off on the first steps of this. We do also have our lucky instructions that were made by a wonderful staff member. Shout out to Sheridan, but we're going to get started and she'll show you what's inside your kit as well. So your kit will include some tissue paper, some blue construction paper, ribbon, an activity sheet, the history of piñatas, a trace out for the watermelon, and your instructions. So let's get started. Step one, you get your cereal box. You're going to need two for this whole project. So we're going to take apart our cereal box. There's a little tab here to make it easier to take it apart all the way to the bottom. And here's our first box. We're going to need our second box for the strips. This is going to be for a watermelon shape. So we have our trace out here. Go ahead and cut that guy out. So we're going to use this shape on our cereal box and do it on both sides. It should look like this.  So now we're going to take our other cereal box and line the strips at about an inch to an inch and a quarter. And we're going to cut them that way. Feel free to use another cereal box to measure it out too. It should also look like this. Once you cut those out, you'll have your strips like this. And Evelyn's going to help us with the next steps. Okay, cool. Now we have our watermelon cutouts and you should have some strips. You will only mainly need about two strips for your piñata. But we're going to get started. What I found to be the easiest was to get some tape. You will need a lot of tape. So have that on hand. That'll be your best friend to make this. And you're going to go around and add the tape. So the sticky part will be facing what you want to be the inside of the piñata. So I have it like this. So I added the strip and then I stuck it as I went. And let me show you. So here's the strip and the sticky part is facing this part because we'll stick it inside.  And right here where we added that second strip, it'll need a little extra support. So we'll add extra tape on there. So we'll just keep going around and then we'll do a bend. A bend right here for this curve that we have coming. And you can be aligning it as you go. We need one little piece. I ran out of strips. Jessica, can you hand me a strip from over there? Okay, so we're going to keep going. Well, I can kind of cut this out. I think up to here, right? We're going to cut a line. Try to curve it. I still have some extra. I'm going to cut that out. Perfect. So then this edge looking good, looking good. Okay. I'll add that extra support I added for that middle part here. Kind of like the base. Now we just have to add this kind of like a little box, a triangle box, the lid. And you'll also just go around and add some tape. And you're shaping it as you go. I like to do kind of like the corners and so we can have it set in stone while I then go make it more firm and sturdier. So this does require a lot of tape. If an edge is popping out, usually I'm just going to trim it, have like the shape of it.  I'm still adding a lot because I want it to be really firm. So when I add the tissue paper, it looks really great and sturdy. Now we're using small tape here, but if you were to want to make at home maybe a big size piñata, you might use cardboard paper instead of cardboard instead of a cereal box and maybe duct tape instead of small tape, right? So you would adjust that to make a large piñata. We have the shape of our piñata. Okay, so we're going to move on to the next step. Still adding tape. I like a lot of tape on it. We're going to move on to our next step, which is the tissue paper part, which is really important, right? It makes the look of the piñata. I have here and you should have some green and some red. So how did we get to this fringe? Let me show you. So you have your tissue paper. We're going to fold it in half and we're just going to keep folding and then fold that in half. Okay, and then we're going to fold that. So then you want to put three fingers and kind of measure it. So it should be about three fingers length and cut that. So cool. Leave it folded because we're going to make some lines. Don't go all the way. Just leave a top because we'll be using this to glue. So we'll glue that and then this fringe will be hanging down. So we're just going to keep cutting it. And then when you open it, you should have such a beautiful fringe. And we're going to add that to our piñata. So I'm going to make this my front and we're going to glue it.  Now for the sample that we had, let me grab it actually. We have the green, right? So that'll be at the bottom and we want to always start from the bottom up making our piñata. So we're going to add some green. I added about two, three rows here, but I was thinking it would also look nicer with a couple more greens. But it's totally up to you how you want your piñata to look like. I'm going to start adding some green and show you guys what that looks like. So you have your long strip of fringe and you're just going to... So the thing about the piñata being a watermelon, it curves, right? So you're going to go curving and you'll notice some bubble air gaps. Don't worry about those because we're going to layer another, you know, a line of fringe and that's going to cover it. You won't even notice. It'll all be covered up and it'll look super cute at the end. So we do have the sides. I did fringe the sides and add some there, but I didn't do the back. It's totally up to you if you want to. This is cute to decorate. I'm going to hang it on a wall so you won't be seeing the back. But if you want to, you can totally do that. I think we have enough tissue paper for you to do that. So feel free to do that. But I'm going to do the sides too, right? So let me grab my glue again. We're just going to fold this this way. Yay, it's looking like a piñata. Nice. So then I'm going to, I like to do it either right on top of the green or a little above to add, oh no, my glue. Let's grab another glue stick to add more, you know, more fringe to it. I want it to like fluffy, a fluffy piñata. And then I'll add this on top. Now I'm going to add a row of red to kind of show some, some colors on there, right? And don't forget when you're doing, do your sides and you'll do all the way up, the sides all the way up till you reach the corner. And it'll look like this. And then the back, if you'd like to. But I'm going to add some red. And I got that cut up too. Same way, you'll also fold it. We have the red layer. And then you can see, you can no longer see like those bubble air gaps we saw in the beginning. So that's the same. Don't worry too much about this top part because we're going to go covering it as we go. Cool. So we're also going to talk about, you know, what does a watermelon have? It has seeds. So we added those and you're going to get some black paper, construction paper you have around. And you're just going to cut those seeds up and do it too. However, you know, I added a bunch of seeds, but you could add a few seeds if you like or no seeds. Maybe you like a seedless watermelon. Look at this seed that I just made. Okay, I'm going to have to make some adjustments because this is a weird looking seed. Actually, let's make it a little smaller. But yeah, you're kind of just adjusting as you go. And then you'll just glue it, right? And glue it on there a little bit of glue. I'm going to add another seed, like here. So cute. Just keep adding the seeds. And then same thing, you'll add your eyes and your smile with construction paper.  Oh, don't forget, if you're going to want to be hanging your piñata, you're going to use that string. And your best friend, Tape, will do the job sticking that on. I added a lot of tape, as you can see. But then you'll have a hanging piñata ready to, I don't know, you can even add candy on it. Candy in it. We have some candy. But you could add candy or you can just leave it in your room and decorate your room. Gift it to someone if you'd like. It'll make a great addition to any bedroom, I think. Thank you guys so much for joining us. Please make sure to check out the other Vida Latina programs. For any further information, make sure to go to www.lbpl.org. See you next time. Bye.


Hi, I'm John Michaelides, System Consultant from RealEUK, and I'd like to welcome you to this series of videos, where we'll be taking a look at the Belero Wireless Intercom solution. Now on later videos, we'll be looking closely at the hardware and also configuring a system from scratch, but to begin with, we'll focus on the three modes of operation. These are Standalone Link, Standalone with SIMT-2110, and Integrated with Artist. But before that, let's take a general overview of what the Belero system is. Belero can be described as a point-to-point wireless intercom system. What that means in layman's terms is RealEUK have taken the concept of a talk-back panel with a built-in speaker microphone and a number of keys to talk and listen to various destinations, and they've shrunk it, and they've made it wireless. It works in the 1.9GHz frequency range, so it's license-free, and it's based on DECT technology. DECT stands for Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, and it's the sort of thing that you'd find in a cordless phone in your home. Now a network is made up of a number of antennas, so there's no centralized base station, and each antenna can support a connection with 10 beltpacks, which is the highest possible spectrum efficiency. You can then fit 10 antennas into one RF space, giving you a density of 100 beltpacks. Now of course, RealEUK have taken this DECT standard, and they've made a number of important improvements. One of the main concerns with any RF system is how robust it is in handling interference. Now multi-path interference is what happens when a waveform travels from a source to a destination via two or more paths, e.g. directly or bounced off a reflective surface. These waveforms then interfere with each other, causing audible dropouts and poor RF performance. Now Bolero has two technology layers to tackle this. Firstly, diversity. Within the antennas and the beltpacks, there are two aerials. They are spatially separated and positioned in different planes. Secondly, Bolero uses an advanced DECT receiver, or ADR, which can differentiate between these multi-path signals. Now on top of this great RF performance, what makes Bolero fantastic for the user is RealEUK's high clarity, low latency codec. The BV32 codec offers an audio bandwidth of 7kHz and a system's delay time of 35-40ms. This codec outperforms other common codecs, such as G7L and G722, in terms of speech intelligibility. So now that we're familiar with some of the key concepts to Bolero, let's take a look at the three modes that it runs in. So let's begin by looking at the two standalone modes, starting with standalone link. As the name implies, the network is created by simply linking antennas together, using the link ports on the base of the unit to create a daisy chain or redundant ring. You can have up to 300 meters between antennas on CAT5. So with its plug-and-place simplicity, standalone link mode is ideal for short-term installations. Standalone with 2110 mode works in a very similar fashion, but instead of linking antennas directly to each other, they are all connected to a switch. This means you can use existing network infrastructure to build your Bolero network or distribute it over a wider area using fiber between switches. In both standalone modes, you use an integrated web browser for configuration, and the system will support 12 party lines, 100 beltpacks, and 100 antennas. You can also add an NSA 002A throw-down box for added four-wire and GPIO connectivity. Now the final mode of operation integrates the Bolero network into the artist ecosystem. In this mode, the antennas are connected to a switch, as are artist AES67 client cards. You create your Bolero network using the web browsers before, and the beltpacks are configured in the director software. In this mode, you have the full power of artists at your disposal, and it really is like carrying around a portable talk-back panel with all the extensive wire connections that artists provide. Up to 100 antennas and 250 beltpacks can be added to a network in this mode. So that's it for this introductory video. Hopefully you'll join me next time when I'll be taking a much closer look at the hardware and some of its unique features.


Hey guys, Vladimir here with Desktop Makes. I took a little bit of a hiatus but I am back and glad to be back. I'm going to kick things off with a project I've been wanting to revisit. Back in May of 2017 I had made this automated twist vase kinetic sculpture lamp thing. I wanted to try a different design where the vase twist action still happens but all the mechanics and electronics are hidden in the vase and all you see is this mysterious and hypnotic work of art twisting and moving up and down. It'll look something like this but for real without editing tricks. I'm looking forward to sharing my journey with you and invite you to follow along. In today's video we'll look at designing a small version of the twist vases in Fusion 360. Alright, here's the model we'll be making. You can see our twist vases here and if I grab this and pull it up you can see how it mimics the actual twist of the two containers coming together. So after creating them and probably the next video I'm going to go ahead and show you how we can add the cylindrical joints here in the motion link to make that work. And you know what? We'll also go into motion studies here to set that up. Really cool feature here in Fusion 360 where I can go ahead and just play this as a little preview. Actually let's put that on loop and you can kind of see how that creates that motion. Slow that down a bit. So yeah, we'll cover all of that. Let's just do the designing in this video and then I'll come back with all the cool motion stuff. Alright, we're going to start by creating a new design and we're going to have to approach this with components instead of just some straight up bodies. That's because we're going to add joints and you need components to be able to add joints. So let's dive right in. We'll begin by creating our first component here. I'm going to click right here below our browser where it says unsaved. Since I haven't saved it yet, we're going to name this, we'll start with the inner twist face. I'll just go ahead and call it inner, click OK. And we're going to create a sketch. It will automatically activate that component but if it's not activated you want to make sure that little radial button is clicked. We're going to create a sketch on our XY plane here.  I'm going to position it or the center point right off that origin. I'm going to give it a radius of 25 millimeters and then I'm going to set a horizontal constraint here on that top edge. Finish that sketch and I'm going to come in with another sketch on that front plane there. And here I'm going to grab my line tool, so L for line. I'm going to go straight up 80 millimeters there. Make sure you've got that vertical constraint there, finished sketch. And that is basically it. This is the beauty of these twist faces. They are ridiculously simple to make. I used to make these with the whole different, much more complicated workflow, but this is the way to go here. Alright, so we're going to do our one final step here, which is just to create a sweep. Here we're going to go to create, down to sweep. All we do is select our profiler and then click on path. This line becomes our path. And here we can just give it a twist angle. So if I type 360 or 360 degrees you see our 360 twist. I'm going to back off just slightly and go with 180. And then click OK. Now the reason I just gave me a color there is because I have a component coloring toggled on and that's just a shift N on your keyboard. We'll toggle. We'll just randomly assign colors to your components so you don't have that. Just a gray default look if you want it. Alright, I'm going to click on bodies here. That's on toggle sketches. Don't need to see that. And for 3D printing this, I'm actually going to send this as a solid into the slicer and then I would print it in vase mode. But for just visualization purposes here, I'm going to go ahead and shell this out. And so we'll go to modify shell. I'm going to select the top and the bottom face there and do a 0.5 millimeters. And this will allow us to see how it's going to actually look after it's printed. Alright, that's the first twist face. We're going to come in with our second twist face. I'm going to create a new component for that. So right click new component. I'm going to call this outer. And here I don't need to see that first component. So I'm going to untaggle that visibility there and collapse it. I'm going to begin with the sketch on the XY plane here. And then I'm going to come in with my polygon tool, circumscribe polygon, right under the create menu. I'm going to go with the radius of this time 25.5 because I'm going to leave a half a millimeter gap between the two twist faces there. I'm going to put a horizontal constraint on that top edge there. Finish sketch.  So that ZX plane, L4 line, I'm going to start right at the origin. I'm going to go straight up, making sure it's straight. I see that vertical constraint. I'm going to give it a distance of 80 millimeters. Finish sketch, create, down to sweep, choose my profile, click path, choose my path, give it a twist angle of 180 degrees, enter. And there we have it. All right, that's our second twist face. How simple was that? Let's just add our shell on this one. So modify shell. I'm just going to shell the bottom here. And this time I want to go with an outside thickness. Otherwise, both bodies will interfere there. So you always have to select the direction first. And then I'm going to do my shell thickness of 0.5 millimeters. Now if I toggle both bodies on by clicking the top level of my component here, make sure both bodies are turned on, I can go into the bottom. If you take a look, and I should have a little gap in between them. And I can inspect that distance by clicking on inspect and clicking both of these edges. And it should tell me 0.5 exactly what I want. And that clearance will control basically how smooth or how fast or slow these twist faces will fall when you drop them and let them go. So you can always play around with that. It's going to differ a little bit for different printers. All right, and that is basically it for designing the twist faces. So you can see here I have a mess component so I can move them around. When you do that, you always want to make sure to click here in a revert position to bring them back. You know what I'm going to do at this stage of actually that inner component there? Let's toggle that. It'll print a lot better if we just give this a base. Looking ahead, the reason I took off the top and bottom is because I might want to fit the whole electronics and other 3D printed parts in here. But at this point, it would make more sense to keep the base there. It'll still work, you would just need a brim if you're going to print this without it. You can have the option of printing it with or without. All you have to do if you go back to the shell command here and timeline, I'm going to edit that. And I hold command and I just click back on that bottom, it'll put the bottom there. But that doesn't matter anyway because when I print this, I'm just going to... I can come here and just suppress that shell feature. So suppress feature and it will just send it as a solid body and then I would use the vase command there or the vase option and the slicer to print it. If you want me to show that, I can show that in a different video but at this video, I just wanted to go ahead and show you how to model these twist vases. Let me go ahead and unsuppress that. So go ahead and make your own, follow along. If you have any questions, leave it in the comments below and I'll gladly check them on them, especially like the first few days after posting this video. If you have a 3D printer, definitely print these out. They're oddly satisfying how they come together and slide within each other. Alright, as always, I will upload the Fusion files, the F3D files, to my Patreon page. As a thank you to all my Patreon supporters and if you're interested in supporting the channel, check the link out below. Also have some links to a few other things including my Fusion 360 constraints, cheat sheets and my online courses. So alright guys, I will see you in a few.