Live from Las Vegas, it's the Cube. Covering IBM Think 2018. Brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to Las Vegas, everybody. IBM Think, the inaugural IBM Think. This is the Cube, the leader in live tech coverage. My name is Dave Vellante, and I'm here with Ed Walsh, the general manager of IBM Storage. Ed, always a pleasure, my friend. Good to see you again. As always. Wow. What a show. It's amazing. It's fantastic. 30,000, 40,000. As I said to John, too many people to count. Hard to get through places, right? Just to get here, it was hard to get here. So we're going to get into your business. You're not a newbie anymore. 18 months, right? Second time at IBM, so you really know the ropes. But let's start off with Ginny's talk. Sure. You heard our riff, John, and myself at the top. I really like her style. I was poking at some things. But what was your take on her message to the audience? Well, just consistency. So as an outsider to come to IBM, the power of IBM to actually change the environment is pretty good. But putting smarter to work and really focus on business is where we're core. I think it's powerful. But it also allows you to have the overall message of IBM coming. Innovative technology. Now we're going to talk about data and cloud. Innovative technology. An industry split on things. And then really the trust and security piece. That comes together. Now, what we talk about is how do we in a data era move people forward? And I think it's a powerful message of, I heard you earlier, especially about the power of the incumbent. If you look at this, global 2000 clients that we deal with are looking to user data in a more aggressively in advance themselves. And that's where we're perfectly positioned. Even as storage, and we'll get back to storage in a second, but it all comes back to data, which I can include as storage. But it's leveraging the data for their competitive advantage. And doing what they maybe were slow to do. The early, the phase one of the data era was really the consumer companies really taking over, right? We'll talk about the good tech versus bad tech. Really, now we believe it's the rise of the incumbent, which you messaged pretty well. Because they do have all this data. Maybe they're slow to adopt how to use that data with the right partnership with IBM. We can do that. And that's where we're getting the most traction with clients is how do you actually get data driven in your business? It's not as easy as you want it to be. And it is about technology, but it's also about human capital as well. You talk to a lot of customers you have for years on both sides of the fence. You've been talking to customers about disrupting companies like IBM.  The reason why I was poking at that a little bit is because it is all about the data. And if you like I mentioned yesterday, look at the five top companies in the U.S. in terms of market cap. Six, $700 billion companies. We know who they are. The Amazons, the Facebooks, the Googles, et cetera. The premise that I have is they have data at the core of their business. And they've organized human expertise around that data. Whereas historically, we was talking to Peter Verst about this the other day, he said historically people have organized humans around their assets which might be plant and equipment. It might be the bottling factory or whatever it is. And so how do companies go from that distributed, bespoke silo data model into this core data model? That's a cultural change. It's a technology change. It's a people and process change. What are you seeing? Now we saw some examples today, RBC. We saw Merisk. We saw Verizon. I'm a little more skeptical on Verizon. Big telcos have a lot of infrastructure. But what are you seeing with companies? How receptive are they? Are they sort of sidecar-ing their digital transformation? Or are they jamming it right through the center of the heart of the company? So everyone's on a different maturity curve for sure. So we see the leaders and the laggards, right? And people in between. But everyone desperately wants to do it. So we spent a lot of time saying with the clients, let me show you how others are getting more data-driven. On-prem, we focus a lot on private clouds in my division, but also how that's multi-clouded nature. Because you do have to look at the overall environment and how to look at it. And everyone has their own vision. But how are they going to go from where they are to where they may get to? To get them there in the right steps takes actually the girth of an IBM with their technology, with their consultant or capability to do that. It does take innovative technology. But to get clients is really sharing, we come with this, really we see three patterns on premises that are people leveraging to get to a multi-cloud. But really, how do they modernize and transform their current environment to do it? So we spend a lot of time explaining what other people are doing so that they're, because some of them are laggards, everyone wants to be data-driven, they've tried different areas, and now how do we make it easier to do that? We're also making investments to make it easier to do that, right? So little things like machine learning, deep learning, you know, that can be hard stuff. You can wrestle with a lot of the tools in building models. So we're doing simple things like Power AI would be an example. In the environment where we bring these open source tools and make it very easy for you to get your team to start focusing on business value, not the technology components. That's just making it easier, allowing maybe you'd say the slower, right? So phase one is the largely consumer disruptors, disrupting it because they're moving just much faster than maybe the incumbent was. But we can make the incumbent get nimble, which they can with the right technology, but also it's human capital as well. We can get there. So we're doing a lot, not only in the infrastructure side, what you can do in public cloud, but private cloud. But leveraging that system record data is kind of hard. So it's all about tools and being more agile. But also it's about making it really simple to do some complex things. I gave you the AI. I'll give you another one. People want to do app modernization or native cloud apps. They want to refactor applications. They want to go to containers and microservices. Yes, someone, how's that going? And you'll say it's pretty hard. So what do we do? We come out with IBM Cloud Private. What is that? We've taken the challenge out of putting all these tools together. It's a Docker Kubernetes Cloud Foundry, but also our operational layer to make it easy for you to deploy that. And then now you have complete portability between different clouds, multi-clouds, including IBM's cloud, but you can do it on-prem as well. But now what you can do is you're not focusing on getting all the components together. You're driving your value, which is where typically all these things, they focus so much on building a data lake and actually getting, how do I get the data lake up running compared to how do I actually make sure I'm doing the right data, the right business? So that's where I think you see IBM focus a lot of innovation. It might not seem like, you know, that doesn't sound like storage to me, right? But it allows us to help our clients move forward, and those are the things holding them back. And then storage is about having, you know, API-based automation, which you're not thinking about storage that way, but you need to do it to fit into this new world. But you're going to see us do more and more. So when you're talking about putting smarter work, we're trying to make it dramatically easier to get value even for the incumbent, which maybe you could say they were slower than all the right skills or they had to do some things. I think we're going out of our way to build the right things. Well, my takeaway is you're allowing the incumbents to get value out of their existing advantages. Right. And they're existing, they're talking about app modernization. I mean, they're making a lot of money on those apps, and if they can modernize, they can use that as a competitive weapon. I want to talk about your business. Oh, sure. You know, people, the people don't know you.   You really understand deep technology.  Oh, okay. You're demanding. You know what it takes to win. IBM Storage, four consecutive quarters of growth. And not just like 0.05% growth.  And the market's growing at whatever, two, three percent. You're gaining share in a very large market. So, give us the update on your business. How are you doing it? So, you nail it. So, a lot of people highlight, you know, after years of not keeping it on market. We went for not only growing, but we grew all four quarters. But more importantly, we grew seven percent year to year, which the market's grown about 0.9%. But it's really, you know, it's also broad-based, so it wasn't a particular product. If you look at the portfolio, every reported segment we have internal externally grew for the year. If you look at geographies, 6,000, 7,000 geography grew. The only jerry that didn't grow for us was China. And that's not, it's growing on software. It's just not growing on hardware because of some of the unique instances dealing with, you know, business in China. But if you look at broad-based, it's not a particular thing. Our portfolio's doing well. It's really how we're approaching the customer and it's resonating with clients. And then it pulls together the whole portfolio. So, we have the broadest portfolio, which, you know, we talked about early on. Is that a, are you going to simplify that? Or is it too much? I actually think it's advantage because if you're trying to help people, and this is where the advantage is, all our clients are challenged. We're talking about being data-driven. Now that's a big challenge, but also they're challenged with budgets and other things for efficiency. How do you get from where you are, where you need to do, or you get to, and then make the right steps? You need a proper portfolio to do that. So, I think the biggest value is we help people get more data-driven. A lot of that is showing what other people are doing, walking forward. And it's very into modernizing and have the right agility and infrastructure. But that's where it's really resonating with the market. And then we're focusing on offerings. So we're probably the most competitive offerings we have, hardware and software, but also the right go-to market. How do you have the right messaging? We talk more about modernizing, transforming, helping clients free up critical dollars but resources so they can transform and do that in a concrete way. That's what you need to do so they can actually transform. And then we help them with how to be truly data-driven. That message really plays because all of our clients, big and small, are just challenged that way. And what our competitors are, to be honest, more pure storage players. I think I've told you a couple of times the reason I'm happy to be here is you think of what IBM shows up can do to help you. And I think storage and helping people into the next data-driven era is a big boy, big girl game. You have to bring a lot to bear. We're going to talk about analytics, machine learning, different tool sets. It's not about the next array. But underneath my portfolio, we'll go toe-toe with everyone, product by product. And that was just a lot of offering-by-offering work that had to be done. But we're in a much better shape now, and then you're going to see continued innovation through this year. Well, I have to bring in the competition because you're stealing share from the competition. If I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying, Joe Tucci used to say we'd rather have overlapped in gaps. And that's a philosophy that you seem to be taking. EMC now under Dell's ownership, taking a different philosophy. They seem to be consolidating their portfolios. They seem to be going for more volume plays, which is consistent with how Dell would operate. So I wonder if you could compare and contrast those sort of two philosophies. Am I right that you'd rather have a broad portfolio with no gaps than have gaps and not being able to meet market demand. Is that fair? Yeah, I think you'll see us be disciplined in the portfolio, but my point is someone's really trying to, you're trying to really help someone get from A to B in their environment. One product doesn't do it. A couple products don't do it. You do need the full solutions that do it. And I also think it's out, not only what we can do with storage, what we can do with systems. You know, you talk about data-driven. I bring in the overall group analytics. We're number one in analytics, et cetera. That's where you start to get, where we show up, it's a different value proposition. That's where we're winning. Now, we also still get involved with, hey, I'm going to, it's U-verse, EMC, array by array, you know, winner takes all. So we do that all the time and we'll stand by every product. But you said, well, you use Tucci, so conversation with Tucci has been reported, but he said to me, which was, you know, what do you fear most is, if IBM ever got to act together, he said, it'd be scary. All we're basically doing is getting IBM's act together and then from clients are responding to it because they're actually getting a bigger value and that's changing some of our relationship with the clients because they still want to focus on this product and that product, but I think that's really what's affecting the change in the overall business direction. Well, getting your act together involved a lot of blocking and tackling and still does, I'm sure, but it also involved a focused effort on taking R&D, pinpointing that on what the clients needed, getting products out. I mean, when we first did theCUBE with you guys years ago, it was hard to see a rapid cycle of new product innovation coming out. My sense is that's changed. I see more announcements. I see a lot more announcements. That makes products that people can buy. It drives revenue, it drives transactions and it brings partnerships. Is that a fair assessment of what you guys have done? It comes back to team, right? So we'll go to the high level team offering and go to market, but you don't have the right team. So basically, the first thing you do, you get the right team. The right team will make the right call. So I built inside IBM. The team I have now is not the team I started with, but it's really getting the right people that are knowing their business cold, inside, outside, that know storage, that can really drive that. And then the decisions become pretty easy. You've got to have the right vision. So the vision is all about having a dynamic vision that people understand and can get feedback to and it does outside in. It's what's going on with the customers that really matter to us. We get everyone around that. You have an open culture that that feedback loop down to every IBM, right? I need to ignite the IBM. I'm talking about like a third party, but it really is an amazing culture that if you give them the right direction, they'll walk, they'll drive for walls. It was probably my easiest turnaround I've ever done with a right vision. And then also at this size, companies a lot about having very agile operations. So I spend a lot of time on things that you're not going to talk about in the queue, but what we're doing cost and quality and all the different things we're doing is serviceability that really do show up as far as MPS. So we do a lot of things on a net promoter score or every time we sell something or service something, we get feedback from clients. And they're filling in these verbatims. Boy, that is rich information that is going directly in a product. I can give you a couple of examples. That goes directly into it. So what we did is, so one of our products is Spectrum Protect. Again, I'm not going to try to go to it, but might as well. One particular offering that I have is a great offering, but it's been around for a long time. TSM turned Spectrum Protect verbatims from clients. I just need it with simplicity, agent listening. And they came up with three or four different things that had to be done on a particular environment. So guess what? We deliver that. And literally, do this, get that. You listen to clients. We deliver that with quality. You put it as part of the overall Spectrum Protect. All of a sudden, transaction revenue goes up by 6%, which is a big revenue stream to just pop in a very single quarter. So we're going to do that, but that's like an offering by offering work that has to be done. And you have to have the right team to do it. So I would say the credit goes to the team and the IBM team that really responded to it and lifted it. I mean, 10 years ago, that would have taken a year and a half or more to actually get into the product flow, right? It is fast. Yeah, so, okay. But the other thing I would observe, I've been hearing from companies like yours for decades that, well, we're going to use the adjacencies in our other business to compete with the leaders. And it's never happened. It's starting to happen now. And presumably because people don't care as much about the speeds and feeds as they do about transforming their business and digital business and all that stuff. So it seems like you're able to leverage that. So let's talk about some of those other trends. Cloud. That's the other big competitor, the public cloud. You've got a cloud option, but private cloud. We've talked about true private cloud. I think you're familiar with our research there. How is that going? Is it a tailwind for you guys? Is it working? So your research on true private cloud, I use it a lot, by the way. That's the idea. And I'll play it back as having all the agility, flexibility, but also cost models of in the public cloud that they want to do on premises with any time being on leverage of public cloud resources, APIs, resources as business demands. And that's where my clients are looking to drive it. They want to have all the flexibility. They want to be able to go to cloud for particular things, but it's not that it's lift and shift. So we spend a lot of time. That is where we're getting the most traction. And we spend a lot of time saying, this is what we're seeing on premises with true private cloud. And this is how they're going to multi-cloud it. We do show them all of our solution sets are now available in not only IBM, but you can sign the other major clouds because we do believe it's truly multi-cloud. But the biggest thing is helping clients understand what they can do along that maturity curve. And I think that's where clients really get the benefit of engaging. And the conversation does always come to something outside just storage. It comes into a new server or machine learning, deep learning, how to be data-driven, what we're doing as far as containers. We're not just saying our storage works for containers. Hey, are you wrestling with that? Let me give you a distribution. I'll give you IBM Cloud Private, which is a distribution and allows you to literally in a matter of 40 minutes be up and running and then focus on getting a value. But that's my storage message. You're saying it's not storage, but that's exactly how the clients are responding. And they need a partner to help them do that. It's not only having the vision of where they are and where they need to get to data and cloud vision, but then they need someone to actually help them get there. And some things that don't seem like hard storage things really make a difference if a client's can get the value out of the data. Well, as Tom Rosamilia says, infrastructure matters. It's interesting to see IBM's financials. It's the Z power in storage. I think a lot of the momentum. It's hitting the market where it needs as far as the capabilities, right? You think about security on what we're doing in the mainframe. It's just, it's amazing the capability you can accomplish there, right? So same thing on power. The ability to do what we're doing on AI. You can do things on our infrastructure you just simply can't do. And in analytics, speed actually really does matter. Bandwidth does matter. And of course storage fits in all that. Well, for 30 years I've been hearing how hardware's dead and infrastructure's dead and it just keeps bumping along. And sometimes you see a little spike. You know, you have to have infrastructure for AI and this cognitive world as you guys call it. So Ed, great talking to you. Thanks so much for coming to theCUBE. I wish you continued success. Thank you very much. Appreciate the time. All right, keep it right there, buddy. We'll be back with our next guest right after this short break. You're watching theCUBE live from IBM Think 2018. We'll be right back.


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We'll begin with member statements. I recognize the member for Markham Unionville. Thank you, Speaker. Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise today to share my recent work that aims at enhancing the well-being and engagement of our cherished senior population. Our government's unwavering commitment to seniors' welfare is evident through initiatives fostering inclusion and community involvement, facilitated by a range of grants. To empower senior organizations in accessing this opportunity, I recently hosted a hybrid workshop at my community office in Markham Unionville. This session was designed to equip participants with the knowledge and tools for navigating the grant application process with the Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility. I'm grateful to the dedicated organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this workshop, whether attending in person or virtually. Their active participation underscored the collective determination to uplift our seniors' quality of life. I'm also grateful to the Ministry for Seniors and Accessibility, particularly Mr. Resava, Director of Policy, who shared his invaluable insights and practical guidance with our participants. With the success of the workshop, I look forward to differing deeper to topics of interest in stakeholders in Markham Unionville and organize more workshops of similar nature in future. Their contributions to our community are invaluable, and it is our collective duty to ensure our senior continued well-being and prosperity. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the Member for Waterloo. Thank you very much. Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the International Women's Day Celebration with the Coalition of Muslim Women of KW. The event brought together a diverse group of women to celebrate and learn from each other. Founder and Leader of the Coalition, Faizia Mazur, shared with me how she dreamed of building this community since 2010. It was wonderful to witness her dream come to life and share that experience with her. Faizia's story is truly remarkable. She arrived from Pakistan in 2000 and gave so much of herself to others to ensure bonds were built both within her home as a mother and in her community as a leader. Then in 2019, she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. In 2022, when she had finally recovered, she was involved in a near-death collision. The impact caused life-threatening injuries to her head and spinal cord leaving her in a wheelchair, but that did not stop her. Faizia's leadership and dedication to the community are truly inspiring. She has brought together some amazing female leaders and our community is stronger because of them. Her work in promoting gender equality, cultural diversity, and women's rights is commendable. The celebration was a reminder of the strength and resilience of women, especially in the face of challenges and discrimination. Faizia's efforts are making a significant difference in the lives of women in Kitchener Waterloo community and these women, the coalition, their work is a shining example of the positive change that can be achieved through advocacy and empowerment. Thank you, Faizia, and thank you to the coalition of Muslim women. Thank you very much. Member statements. The member for Sault Ste. Marie. Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker, and it's with some excitement that I'm here this morning to provide some words of congratulations to our Sault Ste. Marie Sault College Cougars, women's hockey team who on Saturday, March 16th, won their second national title in consecutive years with a three to nothing victory over the Cinnaboyne Community College Cougars at the American Collegiate Hockey Association, women's division to national championship in St. Louis, Missouri. During the championship game, Emma Lee paced the offense with two goals with Materia Land adding an insurance marker in the third. The Cougars goalie, Farstad, stopped 22 shots for the shutout. There's a history between the Cougar squads as the Brandon-based Cougars team had handed Sault College their only loss this season and a 4-1 setback at the Northern Community Center in Sault Ste. Marie on January 20th, breaking the team's one and one-half year winning streak. That is correct. They had a one and a half year winning streak and the Brandon-based team did defeat them and break the winning streak, but ultimately our Cougars still managed to come out on top in the finals and won their second national title. The Cougars had gone 31-0 in winning their first ACHA title last season and started this season with 16 wins and a tie through 17 games until that loss that I referenced. The Cougars went 3-0 in division pool D with wins over Merckhurst University, United States Naval Academy, and Northeastern University and I just want to offer them great congratulations for their second year in a row victory. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Kiwetnau. Miigwetsa, speaker. Good morning. Last week I participated in one of my favorite events of the year, the Northern Bands Hockey Tournament in Dryden, Ontario. Year after year, this tournament brings hockey players, families, friends and fans across the North together to share their love of hockey. People in Kiwetnau, they face challenges, barriers, just to even play hockey. While artificial hockey rinks and hockey leagues are the norm across Ontario, most of the communities in Kiwetnau do not have organized hockey leagues because they do not have artificial ice and rely on outdoor rinks to play. But hockey is an important role. Hockey plays an important role for many people as we fight the ongoing mental health and the suicide crisis in the North. Hockey supports our physical health and wellness. It is a lifeline for our mental health. Hockey is suicide prevention. Also, Northern Bands Hockey Tournament brings our nations together through sport. We reunited with each other. We are united with each other, celebrated, cheered for all the hockey talent from the North. There were 44 teams participating. And at this time I want to congratulate the A-side champions of Michigan Lake Mavericks, the B-side champions, KI native wings and the C-side champions, Cut Lake Snappers on their championships and to all the teams. Make sure you get them shaped for next year. Miigwets. Thank you very much. Member Statements, member for Quarthalakes, Halliburton. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. It is my pleasure to stand today and congratulate Team Canada for earning a silver medal at the 2024 World Wheelchair Curling Championship. The annual tournament took place from March 2nd to 9th in South Korea and featured a total of 12 participating countries. From the round robin to the playoffs, the team fought hard but fell 6-2 to Norway in the championship round. This is the second straight silver medal for the team and their third in the last four years. I wanted to give a special shout out to two members of the team that hail from my riding of Halliburton, Quarthalakes Brock. John Thurston from Dunsford and Chrissy Mollner from Bob Cajun. Thank you to my friend and home coach, Carl Rennig for recruiting John and Chrissy to the team. Carl has been a wheelchair curling coach since 2006. John Thurston made his fifth appearance for Team Canada in the World Wheelchair Curling Championship and represented Team Canada at the 2022 Beijing Paralympics where the team took home a bronze medal. As for Chrissy, this was her first ever appearance in the World Wheelchair Curling Tournament after taking a break in 2012 to have her third child. Congratulations on the hard fought tournament and thank you both for being strong representatives for our area and for Canada on the world stage. Thank you very much. Member State makes the member for Ottawa Center. Thank you, Speaker. I rise pride this morning to thank colleagues at the federal level last night in a historic vote of 204 to 117, voted for a motion that was called Peace in the Middle East. Now, Speaker, I know on social media this morning there will be people scrawling points, talking about how this was a vote against certain people. I want to remind the members of this house that human rights is inter-jurisdictional and seeing the value of every person to have peace and security is inter-jurisdictional. And I want to thank people from the Blocke-Bitcois, from the Green Party, from the Liberal Party and from my party, the Democrat Party, who stood up last night to tell our government that we need to be a voice for peace. This is what Canadians have been calling for for months. And it's not easy, Speaker, to march in the rain, to march in the snow, to feel like you're not being heard, to feel like your humanity is not being seen. But it was seen last night at the House of Commons, Speaker. And I want to thank MPs Heather McPherson and Matthew Green for leading that. And I want to end, Speaker, on a note of great pride from Albert Dumont, Algonquin Elder, poet laureate of our city in Ottawa, who told me when I got elected, Joel, you can use your platform to tear other people down or you can use it to heal your community and to heal our country and heal our world. So I want to thank the parliamentarians last night who sent a clear message to the government of Israel, who sent a clear message to all those involved in a horrifying war at this moment, the war has to stop. The war has to stop and we need peace. Thank you. I'll find the members to make their comments through the chair. Member Statements, the member for Flamborough, Glandon. Thank you and good morning, Mr. Speaker. It's my pleasure to rise today to recognize the achievements of a young student from my riding. Mitchell Clapperton from Watertown is a winner of the Shulik Leader Scholarship. This $120,000 scholarship is awarded to high school graduates who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership, charisma, and creativity. Recipients have enrolled in a science, technology, engineering, or math program at one of 20 partner universities across Canada. Mitchell is beginning his first year studying electrical engineering at the LaSance School of Engineering at York University. Mr. Speaker, Mitchell is a four-time gold medal winner at the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair. Three of his projects went on to win medals in Canada-wide competitions and won qualified for an international competition. He is always looking for innovative ways to solve problems. His first invention in grade seven was inspired by speaking with a family friend who worked at a pharmacy and developed carpal tunnel syndrome from opening pill bottles. To help the situation, he created an automated pill bottle opener. Scholarships, such as the Shulik Leader Scholarship, allow students to enhance their knowledge and provide them with tools for after graduation. Mr. Speaker, I look forward to seeing the positive impact that Mitchell will bring to our society. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Haldeman-Norfolk. Speaker, this morning I want to give a huge shout out to South Coast Special Needs Kids and the Norfolk County OPP on yet another successful Sledge Hockey matchup last weekend in Waterford. South Coast Kids is a nonprofit organization providing recreational sports programming for children with special needs. Activities include baseball, basketball, golf, and of course, Sledge Hockey. Mr. Speaker, I was honored to play in the game. My first Sledge Hockey game ever and I couldn't wipe the smile off my face. Sledge Hockey is fast paced and it takes a great deal of skill. I was on the Norfolk County OPP side and well, we were severely outplayed by some very fierce competitors on South Coast Kids. The final score, five-one. The game helps raise awareness for the organization and also collects donations for local food banks. Ron Guthrie is the president of South Coast Special Needs Kids and at the end of the game, he told the crowd how important this event is for the athletes. It's like their Stanley Cup, he said. More than a dozen athletes between the ages of seven and 33 were part of the South Coast Kids team. Thank you to the Norfolk County OPP officers who participated and I'd like to specifically mention Constable Jeremy Renton, who organized the game. Renton said it's all about giving back to the community. It's giving a showcase to amazing athletes that are there every Sunday practicing their skills. It shows the community focus of Norfolk County OPP engaging with their community. It's a great day, Renton said. Speaker, it was more than a great day. It was a terrific day and I can't wait until next year's puck drop. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Scarborough Aging Court. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, last month was the best month of the year. Not because it was the Super Bowl, but because it was Lunar New Year. Asian communities across my riding of Scarborough Aging Court had the opportunity to celebrate the year of the dragon together with their families. Mr. Speaker, Lunar New Year is a time when we remove the bad and the old and welcome the new and the good. It is an opportunity for quality family time and to show gratitude and love towards those who close to you. It is time when families and cultural organizations come together to show unique and beautiful cultural performances and have feast together. I have to say, Mr. Speaker, that this year the celebrations were fantastic and marvelous. I had the opportunity to attend over 35 different Lunar New Year celebrations. I would like to thank the various cultural seniors and business associations for organizing this event.  It is events like these that makes Ontario a truly multicultural and vibrant province. Mr. Speaker, I also had the opportunity to organize my first Lunar New Year celebration in my riding, where over 400 people attended. It was truly heartwarming for me to see the community come together and people from different cultures come to celebrate the Lunar New Year together as one big family. Thank you. Member Statements, the member for Sarnia Lampton. Mr. Speaker, I'm pleased to rise today and update the members of this House on the historic success of the Lampton College women's basketball team, who this past weekend captured the silver medal at the Canadian College Athletic Association's national championship in Lloydminster, Alberta. Described by their coach, Janine Day, as a team of firsts. This year's team delivered a season for the ages for Lampton College, including finishing on top of the Ontario West Division, standing for the first time, securing home court advantage for the provincial championship for the first time, defeating the number two ranked team in the country and winning the provincial championship for the very first time, earning a birth in the national championship for the first time, and playing in the national championship game for the first time. Mr. Speaker, on many occasions I stood in the House and spoke about the best in class education and experience that students receive at Lampton College. And in turn, those students are using that education and experience to do amazing things right across the country. Lampton College is truly a center of innovation and excellence within our province. Congratulations to everyone at Lampton College on such a fantastic season. Let's go, Lyons. Here, here. Thank you very much. That concludes our member's statements for this morning. Introduction.


So the topic that I want to talk to you about is the need for mentors the need somebody say the need for mentors, I don't know if that Grammarly if it's correct or not, but it makes sense to me. So hope it does to you You know as you see Before I get into the message you see that a lot of young people are The youth is coming up to able to speak we believe in raising a young generation as they're going to take over You know the ones this service we want them to to practice to speak more and this is going to be their their their day that they're going to to impact a generation so as you see you know as Elizabeth as Eric as Zaki as Pablo as all the young the youth begins to come up here to begin to Speak support them pray for them. These are the people. They're going to raise your kids So as you pray for them as you ask God to anoint them you're also praying for your own future Amen, so just believe that pray for them right now me my wife, Sylvia We decided to take on Sundays right now to be able to mentor them to be with them to Support them to raise them up because that's what our pastor did for us, you know our pastor You guys don't even know you know 15 though, you know 10 to 15 years ago, you know He invested to us. He carried us. He was there. He was you know Laugh with us cried with us because the things that we said on Sunday, you know He supported us and today we are who we are because of our pastor. Amen, you know The stuff that we've done Jesus have mercy We thank God for for the life of our pastor. Amen, and today we're here So that's what I want to talk to you about the need for mentors in our lives Believe in our youth pray for them and believe that God's gonna take them to a place The we dream of a man church that they're gonna take over schools. They're gonna raise a standard raise a banner They're gonna make a difference in our city and in our country for the name of Jesus Christ. Amen Let's put our hands together for Jesus one more time you know Mentorship goes for me long ways back to the days in Africa and you know, I remember it now and You know our pastor has a vision, you know to to to To see what God is doing all over the world.  I'm like, yeah, you know me. I don't have wife kids or whatever sent me And I remember as I went there And we have agreed with alien Vlad. We're like, hey, you know what?  I can do that. It's no problem So I don't know who decided why we recorded video here, you know, hey, you know, we're going we preach here We're gonna come and learn from you and stuff. So I'll get to Africa and I'm like, man, I'm gonna learn mentorship.  I'm like, dude, this is hard. It's not easy right rice, you know humidity Sweating like crazy. I'm like, man, it's not easy Come to the office of problem.  Oh, no, we're not even coming You know, no, you know, just do it. I'm like a little like my heart my heart sunk like to the I was on the second floor. I felt like to the first one and I remember there and you know, that's when I came back. It took me like six months to be there rejection And you know, and I understood from that point on the mentorship is not fun in games It is it is not something easy if you want to go to the top Mentorship will cost you if you believe that you will be mentored by someone and it's going to be easy They're going to pat you on the back every they're going to say, oh good job But everything that you do you are totally wrong And for somebody to become a successful person for somebody to come and under a mentor and to become who god wants them to To become you have to go through thick through thin you have to go through weeping you have to go through rejoicing You have to get a phd and good and the bad you got to get phd and blackmail and hardship and rejoice in every area of your life You will gonna have to master that You ask any great hero of faith and don't tell you the mentorship comes with a price Every single person in this place you may say, you know what?  Why he understood that if you walk on your authority You will also walk with authority amen church. So There's quite a few scriptures that I have when it comes to mentorship I just want to read a few of them first peter first peter 2 17 18 says Respect everyone and love the family of believers fear god and respect the king You who are slaves must submit Submit to your masters with all respect Do what they tell you not only if they are kind And reasonable but even if they are cruel second Timothy 2 2 says the things Which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses and trust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also Proverbs 27 17 says iron sharpens iron So one man sharpens another Proverbs 22 verse 6 says train up a child in the way he should go Even when he's old he will not depart from it So we see bible talks about mentorship talks about you know being under somebody who can train you that later on When god wants to use you that you'll not just depend on luck or you're not just depend on Oh, hopefully life will just be nice to me No, you will have the character of god to sustain the position that god has for your life Many people who are sitting here will become doctors will become NBA players soccer players They'll become you know millionaires they'll become business owners They'll become you know, maybe mothers that will raise great children But that takes character And how is character developed under somebody at some mentor some anointing man of god Maybe it's under your parents. Maybe it's under your pastor Maybe it's under your leader your home group leader that god has put you in not by accident But for a purpose the one at time comes you ready to maintain the position that god has for your life I meant church Ask your neighbor who's your net who's your mentor? Turn to your other neighbors ask him who mentors you There's there's actually I want I want you to there's top mentor relationships that I want you to guys to see This is actually very very interesting if you can pull up the first one top mentor relationships So top mentor relationship Oprah Winfrey was mentored by Celebrate Arthur and poet the late Maya Angelo That one Angelo come on now Former Apple CEO And the late Steve Jobs served as a mentor to facebook co mark zuckabug Kobe brine Kobe brine was mentored. This is this actually pretty interesting. Kobe brine was actually mentored by michael jordan and michael jackson How do you guys didn't know that let's go to the next slide? former Morehouse college president dr. Benjamin maize was an outspoken critic Of a surrogation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement and a mentor to dr. Martin Luther king jr. The first woman to co-author cbs evening news and the second woman to anchor one of the most america major network newscast Connie chung was a mentor to fox news reporter kyeong be young I'm just trying to help you guys out here Barcelona superstar leo messy if you guys know for uh was mentored by ronal diño. I can go next slide Former super bowl champion, uh, daryl green was mentored by his middle school football coach Astronaut and former u.s. Uh senator john glenn was mentored by his high school civics teacher mother teresa committed to a life of helping others and was Recognized as one of the most admirable people of the 20th century. She laid remarkable and re Revered life, but many may not have achieved all that she did if it weren't for her mentor father michael Van der pietz And I think there's one more bill russell played center of boston seltex from 1956 to 1969 His mother was his greatest mentor then fashion designer christian dior mentored his fellow designer That one. I don't know that how do you how do you pronounce that young vess laren't Warren buffett is often considered the most successful investor of the 20th century. He mentored microsoft co-founder bill gates musician ray ray charles Mentored music industry legend Quincy jones So if you see these statistics you'll be able to see that people who become great don't become great By mistake or by luck Somebody comes into the life and begins to shape and begins to form begins to say you can't do this Hey, don't do that.  Hey, don't do this. Hey, good job or not continue doing it There was a mentor somebody who spoke to them and say, you know This is what you need to change in order for you to maintain the position that god has for you It could be in any era. You don't have to say that oh if i'm going to come to the church I'm going to have to become a pastor because pastor lat is mentoring me. No, we're talking about character We're talking about things of your character something that god wants you to work on it's you know, you you you're getting angry easy You know, you know trying to rush all the time, you know not being patient not being loving You know these things the skills that god needs for you to become an influential person in the community for jesus christ Who is your mentor this morning this evening? First point. I want you to to write down is this that you don't choose if you get mentored you only choose Who mentors you? You don't choose if you get mentored you only choose who mentors you you'll either Be mentored by success or by failure. There's only two options You don't choose.  No success is painful Success is not fun If you're being mentored by by success by maybe maybe your home group leader Maybe your parents or maybe somebody it's it's they tell you to do the things which you don't like You know, it's it's one of those things that it's not fun. You know for me, you know, it's Pastor Vlad it's Ilya it's my dad, you know, there's you know audio books different passing Oh back then was profit and all these people and when they begin to come to me and they didn't tell me Oh, good job.  It's it's poisonous. Hey that habit cut it off You know lately I've been coming work late to work and they were like hey stop coming You know and I'm trying to play it off with the joke and inside. I'm like, ah You also come late the other day Taking coffee. I know you I know you you know, it's like and and inside of you comes up But but in same time I'm like if I want to be better if I want to have the character That god has for me to maintain the position whatever it may be I need to submit to my mentors. I just say you know what? Yeah, I'm wrong Maybe I'm not I'm not admitted by deep down inside. No, I'll become better I'll become stronger because I know they're going to become a time where god's going to require Of my character to hold the position that god has for my life You see joseph joseph begins to be to be betrayed begins to be sold into slavery But at all times there was somebody over him and he was faithful. He was committed when people looked at him He saw that god is with him. Why he was willing to submit himself It was they weren't christians. There were heathens. They didn't know god He walked we got he had dreams he had all these things So you gotta say no, you guys don't even know what you're talking about But god shaped this character under heathen rulers in praise and slavery in prison until the throne came His character was ready to maintain a blessing How many how many times god wants to give the blessing to people?  He actually runs away, and it just keeps going So it's it's it's one of those things.   Oh come on right over, you know, it's like really They begin to go from hard. They begin to try to bounce mentors bounce the people that god has sent their way To avoid correction to avoid mentorship so they could have an easy life Well, let me tell you something easy life never leads to success That is that is just plain truth easy life Never let somebody to the throne the road to the throne a full of it's it's full of scorpions as snakes It's thorns this all it's it's hard But those who make it will enjoy the reward that it brings and my church Your home group. I want to really stress the importance on your home groups We we in the church were privileged as you're coming to to a large congregation You're also can become a part of a small group that can speak life into you that can pray for you There's a weakness in your life that it can build you There's you know, not the home group that you attend They those people have to be a your mentor could be somebody else outside that but you must Attend a home group because that is where you're shaped. That is where you're built That is where god speaks his word into your spirit and you begin to grow But if you begin to avoid these things and you just come to church once a week and expect god's blessing Where it doesn't go it doesn't work like that Whom god loves he prunes whom god loves he chastising and i'm not trying to you know, say the life will be hard I'm just saying there's a great reward coming but you need to prepare You need to prepare There's a reason why a church went through such a time of you know criticism of blackmail people saying different things Because god knew there's a time where god's gonna pour out his blessing But he needs the people who will be able to maintain the blessing have enough character to sustain what god's going to pour out For the youth, you know as the youth begins to rise up right now There's some young people like, you know, I want to do my own thing Well, let me tell you something a lot of people at your age paid a price of saying I do what I want Until this day can't recover from the mistake that they made and early you need to pay a price In order to receive a mentor Who's your mentor it's not somebody that always pats you on the back that you know that uh, oh good job You know it don't worry it's not gonna be no that one that gets up in your face says five in the morning I want to see your morning prayer. Hey sunday. I want to see your home groups. Hey, there's volunteering You got to get involved stop being lazy. You've been coming to church for a year now get involved in church Start volunteering. There's many things to do they get up in your face and they begin to tell you the things That you don't like that's how we grow number two Obedience to your mentor is more important than sacrifice Before david goes before david goes and fights Goliath he begins to come to to solve begins to ask him for permission to go fight him david proved his life under authority imagine when when a prophet Comes to your house and says call all your kids To a party i'm gonna anoint a next key in your house. This is this celebration a prophet of israel comes to your house And says to your dad call the kids to the house. We're gonna party God's gonna anoint somebody and david does not get called because he was appointed to shepherd the sheep He was obedient There was an instruction given david you have to you need to stick with the sheep while we go enjoy and david said You know what? I'm gonna obey whoever god put over me. It was his parents He david goes so you know you don't even know god is with me. I slay lines here bears fall on my feet You're telling me to to stick with the sheep the prophet is coming. No, he obeyed the instruction of his dad When it could have even cost him the next potential king But god saw the obedience and god says no The king the king is not in the house. He's somewhere else God began to search him out god begins to find him at that place. I'm telling you may god has sent You know some people like oh my parents are this my parents don't know god has put you in a family for reason To build and to shape your character because there's comes a time where god says I have the blessings for you But you need to have character enough to maintain to what's about to come Come on. Let us put our heads together for jesus christ We see even the greatest example jesus christ he begins before he starts his whole ministry He becomes under the obedience under mentorship under the authority of his parents I mean if anybody on earth needed an excuse that would have been jesus christ Yet for 30 years of his life. He was under submission and under the authority of his parents Your parents could be your authority could be your your home group leader could be your pastor when they begin to speak into your life It is the same time where holy spirit is speaking to your life And he wants to prepare you for the blessings to come. I'm not trying to say that look you need to suffer I'm saying god wants to bless you That's what i'm trying to say god wants to bless you But for the blessing to take place you need the character to maintain every high place is a slippery place Every high place is a slippery place So you need to have the character enough to sustain what god is about to give you the fame the greed the fear The emotions do not rule you out when god brings the blessing into your life. Amen church Sometimes, you know, I come I come in contact with some people, you know, some new people come to a church and You know, I love helping out people, you know, they come like hey What is something I can help you with some people like yeah, I need a lie Some people like I need money this and that, you know So I begin to you know Genuinely trying to help these people out and then it comes to a point where I'm like trying to help them out Try to help them out At the end of the day, it's like I want them to succeed more they they want to succeed themselves It's like what is wrong with this picture? I want you to succeed and you know you want to succeed But hey, man, I want to help you to to to do this to accomplish this Maybe next week.  I don't need to tell you again what life will do But we have the opportunity In in this place to be mentored by home group leaders But but in the in the area of yogi bear in the area of camera crew of ushering to become to a part of a church Or maybe even parkour or whatever it is god can use any foolish thing To shape your character so that when blessing comes you're able to maintain a man church A lot of people they you know, they they turn spiritual and I've heard this many times and they said, you know what? These people are sinners.  Like how can you? Be mentored by something that you don't see Which should be much harder for you but something you see it's hard for you to obey like how does that make sense? There they can't listen to to earthly obedience and they're willing to to say, you know, I'm I'm being obedient to spiritual obedience, it's like, how does that work? You first need to to be obedient to your parents You need to be obedient to your pastors to your leaders to your boss in your work job Whatever it is god has put you there for a reason so you as you begin to elate Joseph was put in the house where they betrayed them If if you think that's bad, no, I mean we live in America you can sue all you want But you know, Joseph had it bad, but yet god used that betrayal to prepare for his throne You might be thinking oh, I'm gonna quit this job every job I get there always after me No, maybe god's want to build your character and you're always running away from it Holy spirit begins to choose certain events and certain things in your life He wants to say, you know, I want to work on that thing even though it does not make sense to you But I want to build your character. I want to build your character this morning God was building my character. They towed my car. Jesus have mercy 250 bucks I park I come from morning prayer park my car there tons of cars there. I walk out whole parking lot is gone.  She's like honey, you know down there and I'm deep inside.  There's certain things that and I know I have you know, sometimes I want to say things But you know that day today a word straight out of church shirt because I'm like, dang it I can't say anything bad So when I was there was like this you guys are And walked away. I'm like swiping the card of faith You know, so God chooses foolish things in this world to begin to mentor you to begin to shape your care God knows There's a time that is coming where it's going to be so hard and when you have that character when you have that soil because A time a trial a time of trial is a soil where a man of faith flourishes It's it's for you when when the hard times come it's a soil for you that the man of faith begins to flourish Begins to force become better than you were yesterday and that is who god wants us to be a man church number three, holy spirit The best mentor Holy spirit the best mentor Yeah, write this down. This is very important your relationship with your mentors Affects your relationship with the holy spirit Your relationship with your mentors affects your relationship with the holy spirit If you can't be obedient to your mentors, you will not obedient to the holy spirit If you could not submit yourself to authority You will not submit yourself to the holy spirit Holy spirit begins to use authority. They might be good. They might be even cruel Holy spirit still can use them to shape you.  This is not fair yet david said i'll never raise my hand against the anointed one Can you the power of men's trip even if it's a cruel one? Even if it's a cruel place some people begin to you know, they I've met some people they they come from They they come from other churches, you know this oh that church, you know, oh, they're like this at this and the one thing I know if they're talking about that church sooner or later They'll say same thing about the church and just kept going.  I want to prepare you for your throne Yeah, I want to prepare you for your throne You know when I lived in Africa, I'm telling you A lot of unfair things were done to me I look back and I thank god for every single one of them I literally look back and I just thank god. I'm like god I see where where my character was shifted in that place and it was unfair I look I look at certain things that happen take place now It's like god those things were unfair, but I look back and I'm like god now I'm at a place where I only dreamed of because you took me through that place In order for you to enjoy blessing you have to get a phd In criticism In blackmail and in unfair treatment phd of oh, they lied against me phd and oh, they backstab me Oh phd and oh, they talk bad at me. You have to conquer that place So when you sit out of throne god can look and you say god this is this a man after my heart Because even in the wilderness he chased after me even when it did not make sense He said god. I'm gonna use this foolish thing. I'm gonna turn it for my good Holy spirit wants to mentor us He wants to work He wants to take you to a place of your glory of your throne But you have to choose to mentor the the parents that god has put you in god is using them to shape you for the destiny He asks for you How many doctors how many how many professional basketball players soccer players Musicians people who will make history sitting here tonight But they're in a place of decision Do I submit to authority to mentorship or I run away from it? Do I submit myself or do I run away from the holy spirit is knocking Holy spirit's like I want to take you to a place where where I begin to guide you Why don't begin to whisper to you begin to to you say you know what this this person pray for him and god begins to move I want to take you to a place where where you're you're you're uh Out of the lunch or whatever god begins to give you a word of knowledge You begin to prophesy but god's like if you can't obey the people I put over you How can you listen to me with something that is there's so much more harder to do? How can you do that? And I believe us as our pastor has a vision of you know sending us to a place of mentors of people who have Who have great influence where god is using them mightily to give us a point the look chase after mentorship Even though it costs you everything Hold on to what is right because one day god will prove himself faithful You know even some of the men of god that we follow today prophet shippard brashiri his mentor even claims that this even sunday service His mentor prophet angel was there You know apostle gen chi that came here his mentor prophet tb josh.  He begins to be mentored begin to sometimes It's like we don't like sometimes. Hey, you don't do this thing. You know, it's like it's so hard to listen to But we know one thing to come to a place of the throne You have to go through a place of chastisement come to come to a place where it's not easy But it's god you make all things work together for good for those who serve him. Come on Let us put our hands together for jesus christ sacrifice moves people But holy spirit has moved by obedience sacrifice moves people But holy spirit has moved by obedience The holy spirit wants to have such a close relationship with us To be able to to talk to us to be able to lead us to a place where he begins to use us to begins to give you dreams Ideas holy spirit is longing for that for that relationship with he wants to know you It's it's not that you are like a holy spirit. No, he wants it more than you want it He wants to walk with you. He wants to give you revelation. He wants to prepare Maybe he wants to talk to you and just begins to fellowship with you. He's your companion. He's your friend He's your partner in life by yet the obedience first flows flows from your mentors from your parents and from from your authority Yes, a lot of unfair things gets done to us a lot And but the holy spirit's like I use those things remember one time I did uh I did a black song here My desire by Kirk Franklin. I don't know. I got inspired. I'm just like man And my team was like my team was very young.  We're doing kirk franken song my desire Everybody's like, you know, sorry. I'm like you guys listen.  It's bad I'm like, no I got him piano and like my desire and I even started pronouncing some of the words the way You know kirk franken does black and after that, you know, latimer everybody came out to me like don't ever do that song like Okay, sometimes I do these, you know songs up here and I I said that and then the next day passed like, you know Don't you ever do that song?  He's speaking through you right now.  I'm gonna stick forward because there's a crown Delays for me crown of glory There's a time where it's gonna come where people begin to you don't plot. Oh, how did you get to the place obedience? obedience obedience Ask your neighbor who's your mentor?


How's it going everybody? This is Chronicles hangar one box break number 33. We're gonna first randomize all 30 teams all 38 customer names and do the box of Chronicles hangar and then at the end of the break the very end we'll randomize all 30 customer names with a new dice roll Number one and number two will win a spot in the Pelicans and all the other team full case obsidian random number block I think there's like 15 16 teams in there or something crazy like that So that is that'll be done at the end of the break. This is just for the pack break here after Something times give me a number and or acting slow Cardinal sign Kelvin Benjamin. Wow breaking news All right, come on random. Or give me a dice roll here. I see you're spinning. There you go two and a three Five times remember give way for the obsidian number block spots will be done at the end Random down our work is pretty slow right now. So this might be the longest Chronicles hangar one pack break ever might switch to psychic science after this break. I need a Jeopardy music or something Three four These were only one five times two to three five times Let's let's load it. There you go Matthew down at Diane. This is just for the box Font there five times on the list of NBA teams One can do a phone call in the middle of this random order. It's so slow There's one There's two Three for there we go Celtics down to the Hornets So I'll probably do the Give way on ram.org, but then we'll switch to psychic science for the next one if it's still slow I can't that was like five minute random All right, there you go. There is the list of NBA teams and customer names job the same problem Yeah, random.org was down a little earlier today and so was our website actually like a bunch of servers in the US or something Went down power power outage. I don't know All right, maybe some Luca rookies in here Trey young. Let's see what we got Josh Richardson green Microported junior marquee. There's a Luca. Was that Phoenix? That's nice And a Trey young crusade Jackson another Trey young Not bad another porter. Wow third Trey young. This one's a Luminance Nice Not a bad chronic hanger there. All right, let's go back to the list of 30 customer names Top two are gonna win spots in obsidian number block All we needed to do to fill up obsidian now is Chronic anger 34, which I think Stephen K. So it was pretty close. So let's do it five times top two one Two that's going a little quicker three four and five Top two names Matthew Shira and Sean Congrats to you too. Sorry to everybody else, but I appreciate you giving a shot obsidian number block number two pretty close to filling up Let's fill up that chronic hanger 34


Good morning, Mr. President, and I'm the Secretary of the Air Force here, Professor Arthur. Good morning, Mr. President. Nice to see you, sir. Just great. Nice to see you. I'm honored to be here, sir. We're honored to have you. It's nice to be aboard. The last time I was here, you presented and had presented to you your jacket from the Air Force Academy when that tough team came in. Were you a little bit surprised at their height? I thought when they came in, I, morning, John, I played freshman football at Maryland and when I was there in 1951, you know, they were just great big tanks, all from West Neutrona, Pennsylvania, and the Pittsburgh Iron Mills and so on, and I thought we were going to see this gang of tigers come in and for them to have gotten as far as they've gotten when they're no bigger than you or me, and some of you are smaller. It's a great credit to them. Well, aren't there some physical limitations? There are. Oh, yes, sir. I wondered about that with football. Oh, sure. End of basketball. I want to see Navy do as well as they've done at being ranked 15th and 17th in some polls where they can't have, you know, the seven-footers and they get boxed out in the middle. So these chaps are great. Come on, Matt, please. You've got to be able to grab a little pocket. Come on, John. I know. Come on. You've got to be fit to see them. You've got to be fit to see them. Of course, you see, I'm very pleased to see that happen because having 75 pounds in a large college, I always had a feeling that some of that poke resulted in a little slowing and particularly in defense when you could use your hands and you could handle the big fellows very well. Well, I got knocked out, Mr. President, seven times in our freshman year, and a big gym tatum was our coach at the time, and he advised me that for the insurance policies of the school and for the future, I might want to take up something else that was that. We had nine of the starting eleven, the Mojolesky brothers and Bernie Filoni, but nine of the starting eleven wound up playing pro ball on our offensive team for at least nine years, which was a great record.  Well, of course, you know, in all of the guys who are trying to make the game somehow fairer and safer, you played under the new rules. I was in about the last of the era in which on defense, you could use your hands and you could hit with your open hand as long as you did not hit the face. And this made all the difference in the world, because I played opposite two men who later went to pro ball. New Soul, who with the bears eight years old, our attack of the L-800 guns, and Tony Blazing and Nagursky called him the specialist man in football. He weighed 245. Oh, what? I'd get as low as possible in the line on defense. And when the ball was snapped, that's harder than the fist. My first blow was aimed for the headgear, right over the ear. And when you get that out here, how big he was, you could get a knee through there. The offense was a little different, then. We just had to charge with a shoulder. Now, please, please. Thank you very much, Ed. I want to touch Kaufman and Senator Thurman. This is Stuart, the other distinguished members of the commission. And thank you for coming to the White House today. And since the commission expires on April 1st, and nobody will say April Fools' Day, I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to thank all of you for your work over the past two and a half years. I know that you're aware of the high priority that the Attorney General and I place on fighting in one day eradicating organized crime. And I'm sure the Attorney General will agree with me when I say that your work is bound to be a crucial factor in our efforts. I guess so again, thank you very much for all that you've done. Now, Judge Kaufman, I would be pleased to receive the final report that I understand is ready today. Thank you, sir. I hope I can keep the President waiting for a moment until I get through with my remarks. All right. The podium is yours. President, I give you a seat. I don't know what to do. Stand here, please. I'm sure this is going to show off. You haven't just become chairman of this. I want to begin by thanking you, Mr. President, and the Attorney General for his gracious remarks before you came into the room. And certainly, and he's doing it for greasing us with her presence here today. I want you to know that I think the most sterling achievement of the commission is that we are probably the only body of government that is really going out of business about March 1st and certainly before April 1st in accordance with Graham Rudman. So we have that distinction. It has been 32 months since you appointed this commission and you designated me as chairman. In that time, we've tried to carry out the ambitious mandate you gave us to explore the nature, scope, and extent of organized crime in the United States. By appointing an independent commission, you recognize that the changing nature of organized crime required a comprehensive new inquiry, the first of its kind, over 30 years. Organized crime remains a potent parasite feeding off the people and has continued to grow and occasionally to thrive despite periodic attempts to eradicate it. Organized criminal groups form a head-to-head monster, maintaining institutional survival even as individual members or leaders are apprehended and incarcerated. Moreover, new organized crime groups are emerging to follow in the footsteps of their more widely publicized predecessor. Throughout the month of March, we will be releasing portions of our final report. We hope to have more before you by April 1st. The section we are issuing today on the subject of drug trafficking calls for a nationwide campaign to reduce the demand for narcotics and you turn the channel and spoke about that before you came into the room thereby depriving organized crime of its largest source of income. There has to be a change in attitude, I believe, on the part of the American people. They have to consider it. They have to begin to think of it as quite anti-social to accept the use of drugs. Your wife really has been in the forefront in the fight to combat drugs and we commend her for that. But unfortunately, not too many citizens adopt that attitude. Law enforcement alone cannot achieve this result. You can pour millions of dollars into this effort to stamp it out either to interdict drugs or to go to the source countries. You make some impact, but the impact won't be the sort that you will be satisfied with, Mr. President. Let me just throw some statistics at this group. There are approximately 500,000 heroin addicts in the United States. There are 25 million people who have tried cocaine at least once and 6 million people are actually hooked on it. There are 20 million regular marijuana users.  As a judge, you can understand, a judge of almost 37 years on the federal court, it's a very hard argument for me to accept. Now, we recommend vigorous governmental efforts against organized crime, but we believe that all the citizens of this country have a role to play in destroying the power of criminal organizations. And, Mr. President, a statistic given to us recently indicated that almost half of the income of organized crime comes from drugs. Quite an impact on our economy, I think that. I cannot let this occasion pass without noting what I did before you came into the room, Mr. President. And that is that I know of no administration, and I've been around for a while. That has made the concerted effort to combat organized crime that you and your associates have. Other administrations have tried, but they give up, they abandon. And not so with you, or in these, or Bill Smith. They continue on, and this constant cry that you hear, oh, you will never stamp it out. Why are you wasting your time is just such a nonsense. What do we do? Cutting under to these gangsters? We just can't do that. So, as chairman, I can say that the commitment to common goals displayed by members of this commission was heartening to observe. And I want to commend each and every member of this commission. I've worked with groups over the years. For ten years I was involved in the Juvenile Justice Project for the American Bar Association. All of their very spirited people, every one of them. And they all have a view, and they all disagree. And many a time I said, what did I ever get into here? But I wouldn't want it any other way. They were all individual thinkers, and they all contribute to the final consensus that we have. Hard, working, and dedicated men and women, and I do want to say to you, Mr. President, we owe them a deep debt of gratitude. I can pick out a lot of individuals like Judy Hope and Barbara Rowan and the others here, but I'd better stop here before I go through the entire room. 32 months ago, we stood in the Rose Garden and accepted your assignment to help devise ways to remove this malignant cancer from our society. The commission, with the help of Jim Harmon and Rodney Smith, appointed a very, very able staff. Our investigators, most of them are FBI people, are known to us. I don't think the public realizes how effective we were and the kind of investigations that were going on quietly behind the scenes. You have taken a personal interest. I know of your background. I know of the work you did when you were head of the screen, I was Gil, and I remember those two characters, Brown and Beoff, in Hollywood. You were, in this thing, way back before many of these people ever heard of it. And so therefore, you've had a great interest and therefore you're a strong backing, Mr. President. So, I conclude by saying no administration has made a greater effort to combat organized crime. The challenge is a great one, but it's important that our society is greater, and as we conclude our work, it is my hope that we have made a contribution to meeting the challenge. So, if you'll come forward with the report at this point. Is that one? Mr. President. If I had been used to carrying a budget around for this, I would have been an animal. Well, is that for the change? But again, I think you're worrying for this. And in case you don't lose your interest and continue along the line contributing where you can to the health of the fight, I have to agree also that much as we must have the interdiction efforts, and we won't let up on that, but the only real way that it's got to be stopped is that we take the customers away from the drugs instead of the other way around. We have a little experience with that in California, and we learned something. I'll just give you as a tip if you remain active in anything of this kind. We found that all us good citizens could stand in front of, say, those kids in school, in a high school and talk to them about drugs, and they weren't listening to us any more than they did to the teachers. But you put somebody up in front of them that says, I was there. I was one. I know what it's like. I did this and I did that. Those kids come forward like this and listen, and the most effective missionaries we can find are to find those that have been turned off and are willing to stand up in front and admit to it. So we won't overlook anything and try to make this work and come true. I must say it's just the forearm that you gave me when I got to the part of an organized labor. I began to think that maybe the Screen Act is good. It's the only clean union in the universe. Mr. President, we can impose on your schedule for one more minute. We promised the members of the commission a group photo. I was still going to ask them to come up here. And the UN will be pretending to block you, and I said, what do you mean pretend? You could take these chairs out from here. Mr. President, do you have that? Thank you very much.


Okay, so so so David maybe you know we got a chance to talk to Tintry this morning It gives a little bit of background. Sure. Well, they're they're just out of startup just literally come out of stealth in the last in last week and They have a number of customers, which is really good to hear They are philosophy that what they're providing is is an appliance. It's a storage appliance It's not huge But they are focusing it in one one specific area, which is to solve the problems of Virtualization people with VMware and they've got some very nice technology. Excellent, and we're gonna hear about it Hey, this is Chris Bennett. Good to see you. Hey, David. Hey, good to see you again, Chris All right So, uh, this is Stu Miniman of Wikibon. We're here at storage networking world and SNW the hashtag on Twitter is SNW USA here with David Fleuer co-founder and CTO of Wikibon and joining us here in the Cube is Chris Bennett Marketing VP marketing. Yeah of Tintry. Yes a new hot startup. So welcome to the Cube. Thank you. Glad to be here Great. So your gate crashing is what I understand here. Yes Well, I mean our focus is on virtualization not on not on storage. Okay, so so yeah, absolutely So can you give us kind of the thumbnail? What is Tintry? You guys came out of stealth last week getting a little bit of buzz.  Yeah, so we were founded three years ago by Kieran Hardy Who was the executive vice president at VMware from its inception through the acquisition by EMC Yeah, so basically he invented a lot of the software along with a couple other people His team basically delivered all the products that people are used to in terms of virtualization both the desktop and the and the server stuff and while he was there he He realized that people I mean he had just observed the people were getting lots of benefits on the server side. Yeah, and And yet there was this pain it was sort of this amorphous but growing Pain on the storage side and so he left and became an entrepreneur in residence at NEA And set about to figure out how to address this issue and he considered lots of different sort of lots of Several different approaches to this problem software Hostside tools bunch of different stuff and eventually came to the conclusion that an appliance purpose-built for VMs was was the most elegant cost-effective and Efficient way to address this issue. So what we're well the product we have the century VM stores is the output of that Three-ish years of stealth development effort, and we're just So you're out of stealth now. Yes Our website no longer says go away. Yeah, so what was the trigger point to pull you guys out of stealth when we had three customers that would say