Hello, my name is Shaya Rakil-Farley and I am the Education and Community Action Coordinator for Garamia Theatre and I'm going to read a land acknowledgement today. We would like to recognize the native people whose ancestral lands are where Garamia Theatre operates. We wish to acknowledge the land of the Kikapu, Tawakoni, Wichita, and Kato people, which is now called Dallas. Comanches in Kiowa have also lived in this region, although it is not often recognized as their homeland. We acknowledge that Dallas is stolen land and that this city was built with stolen labor. Garamia Theatre's De Grove honors the experiences and cultures of black, indigenous, and people of color. We call for the unity and solidarity of all of our peoples in making a better world. Thank you for joining us tonight for a virtual talk by Cristiana Ray Colón, artist of the Vanguard of Revolution. My name is Virginia Grace. I am the Mellon playwright in residence at Garamia Theatre in Dallas, Texas. Garamia Theatre inspires and engages people to uplift their communities through transformative Latinx theater. Garamia has become a cultural resource in Dallas and North Texas. One of the largest Latinx theater company in the entire state, primarily serving the Dallas population, which is 43% Latinx. This evening's talk is about the ways in which we can imagine the possibility of new worlds as artists. And in that way, artists are at the vanguard of revolution. Cristiana's current work explores Afrofuturist media as a catalyst for social change. A foundational premise of her organizing is that artists can be that vanguard. That it is the social duty of creatives to envision, imagine, rehearse, design, and embody our liberated future. We cannot achieve alternatives to the existing harmful violent systems and institutions if we can't first imagine them. First, we have to imagine them and then we must build them together. Through science fiction, Afrofuturism, and speculative media, we have the ability to create opportunities to rehearse the future together. I'm so excited to share the brilliance, the tenacity, the vision of Cristiana Recolón with you tonight. You've got to honor the code. Follow roads that climb. Ascend with intention, get your mission aligned. Mind mountain-sized for quarts that quantum vibrations, but dig yourself gently not to crack the foundation. I said, you've got to honor the code. The hypertext of your self-hood. I hyper-flexed, but it felt good to rise in my power, to ground in my purpose, to shine on my powers, because I never had an enemy. I felt skin on the perimeter, fear in my light will make them dim to me. I honor the code, encrypted me, then grow taller than tails, chiseled on the crypt wall. I was working at the pyramid till I slipped, fall for the scheme. Quit competing with my sisters, now I floss with the beans, diamond, web between stars. I indigo empathy. Ultraviolet, the wicked giggle with their new toys. I feast me with life forms that get tipsy on noise. Ancient rain dance make the sun thunder. I shape-shift in the fissures till the gun wonder what it blasting at.   I flute a swarm of hornets at those suited up to shoot at us. Lights action because we cute and stuff. We shooting moons to ruby dust. No plastic planet ruling us. My granddad had the truth engraved in cola nuts to use as cuffs. Link with all the heirlooms scattered in your snack-tron chatter. The code conduct electric pulse embedded in your laughter. You've got to discipline your energy to rise inside your matter. What's up, y'all? I am Cristiana Ray Cologne, poet, playwright, screenwriter, educator, activist, world-builder, and that was an excerpt from one of my plays, Suspension. And Suspension is a dystopian, Afrofuturist high school rebellion story about some young teens who rise up against their school's oppressive security and surveillance system. And it is no secret that my work, my agenda for my writing is to provoke the collective imagination around freedom, how we can be more free, how we can dismantle oppressive systems, violent systems, and imagine how to build new systems beyond that. And this play, Suspension, specifically looks at the intersections of policing and education. And I wrote Suspension. It first started as a 10-minute short play for a conference called Geographies of Justice that my mentor and good friend of Dr. Barbara Ransby organized at the University of Illinois, Chicago at UIC here in Chicago where I am at home. And the Geographies of Justice conference was intended to bring together artists, scholars, activists from across America, Palestine and South Africa to kind of dream about the resonances of the different things that we are organizing for and struggling to dismantle. And one of those intersections was education and policing. So I am an abolitionist, you know, at my core, I believe that our systems of policing in America need to be completely dismantled. You know, I absolutely believe that defunding the police is a path toward abolition, but that's a horizon-based goal, right? I understand that we need to be building alternative systems alongside dismantling the harmful systems that we're currently embroiled in. And I think that policing shows up in other institutions, you know, often when we talk about defunding the police and we talk about abolition, we are talking about police forces. But policing shows up in all kinds of institutions that are deeply embedded in our lives. And one of those is education. And I think right now the education system that we have is more focused on conformity, more focused on building a labor class, more focused on building a working class, than building thinkers, learners, dreamers, doers. And a lot of the experience that young people are having in the classroom is about control. And I have seen this, you know, I'm a product of public schools, I went to Chicago Public Schools. And when I was in school, there were not police officers stationed at the front desk when you walk in. You weren't immediately greeted by the police state when you came into a learning environment. And I also am a teaching artist. And so when I go into high schools around Chicago to teach playwriting, to teach poetry, you know, the first experience that you have upon walking in the building is being greeted by a CPD officer and putting your stuff through an x-ray belt like you're going through the airport and walking through a metal detector. And I think that those measures like that environment is immediately contradictory to an environment of learning, of liberatory thinking. And so I wanted to write something that sort of explored that, that sort of imagined the dystopian ends to which we might arrive if we continue on the path that we're on of really replacing some of the more nurturing and care-based practices in our schools of, you know, mental health practitioners and conflict resolution and peace rooms and mediation, replacing those measures with policing. And then, you know, along the lines of budget, we are investing in systems of policing that are really contradictory to the care and the environment that I believe are necessary for a liberatory learning environment. I have really been in CPA schools where they have transformed rooms of the schools into holding cells. And so my play, Suspension, is meant to critique some of those intersections. And so the 10-minute version of the play, I mentioned that I wrote for this conference, Geography of Justice, organized by my mentor, Dr. Barbara Ransby. And I started just with this image of a black girl suspended. And so we know that black girls are the group that are most suspended in public schools, the highest rates of suspension. And so I wanted to sort of play with that image along with the resonance of, you know, the word suspension as meaning literally like hung in limbo. And so I started with this image in my mind of a black girl literally suspended from the ceiling. And I imagine like what would the world have to be? What is this dystopian disciplinary system where this could be possible? You know, in this dystopian disciplinary world that I think is sort of a glimpse into like where we could end up if we continue on the path that we're on of emphasizing punishment over repair in our education systems. And I wrote this 10-minute piece about these black girls sort of rising up and rebelling against this system and overthrowing this system. And so that is sort of the flash forward. And then later I was invited by Victory Garden Theater here in Chicago to expand that 10-minute play into a full-length play. And so I then wrote the world that leads up to that moment. And the poem that I opened with is an excerpt from the play where a character named Yonega Yahura is introduced. And so Yonega comes in and she introduces herself at the school assembly with this poem. And the poem is kind of in this realm of double-speak where she's kind of on the surface exalting or affirming some of the language of this new disciplinary code. You have to honor the code. But then she kind of turns it on its head and uses metaphor and really subversive language to invite the young people to dream in sort of like this poetic code that may be the rigid and like linear thinking of the school's disciplinary system and enforcers might not understand. And so for me, the character of Yonega represents that spirit of infiltration, of sort of coming into a system, coming into an institution to which you have access and using that access to really explode some of the more oppressive structures within that system. I am a person that anytime anyone asked me for professional advice, my advice is always infiltrate and pillage. And so I have been afforded the privilege of access to elite education spaces, cultural spaces. And so I'm always trying to really be honest about my positionality and the privilege of having the platforms that I have and the access that I have. And then really using that privilege to return stolen resources to the communities from which they were stolen because I believe by nature, institutions are consolidations of power and consolidations of resources that have been looted from other spaces. So how that looks in schools, for example, my alma mater, the University of Chicago in the High Park, very elite education institution and also like very exploitive of the resources and the communities surrounding it in ways that are not necessarily empowering to the people that have lived in that neighborhood for generations. And so that institution consolidates resources and power and then gets to decide how to meet it out and distribute it. And then that gets looked at as philanthropy or charity. So if you have access to an institution, I always tell folks, it doesn't always have to look like burning down the system from the inside. It could really look like you have access to a copy machine and maybe you make copies of flyers for your local activist organization that needs to pass out flyers for their next upcoming action. So you're really good at baking cookies. So maybe you make cookies for the next, you know, meeting that's happening. Whatever it is, whatever it is that you have access to, whatever resources or institutions that you're able to infiltrate, use that privilege, use that positionality to funnel resources back to the communities from which they were ultimately divested from. Because I really believe that like the systems of oppression that we experience are systems of engineered scarcity. We actually live in a world of abundance, of abundant resources where everyone could be taken care of, where everyone could have all the things that they need. And the violence that we experience is because scarcity has been engineered by capitalism. And so that is part of what this character in this play suspension of Yananga represents. She comes in as sort of the resource coach that is supposed to help the young people get adjusted to this new disciplinary code, this new system in the school called Panoptika, which is sort of an artificial intelligence inspired PA system. So if you can imagine the PA in your high school, the public announcement system being able to spy on you like a Siri or Alexa. And if you're with your friends goofing around in the hallway and you use a swear word, like you are automatically issued a disciplinary infraction. And so that's kind of the dystopian world that I've created. And the character of Yananga comes in, you know, under the guise of being a part of the system and then is recruited to be the cheerleading coach, the coach of the power to your team, some of the primary young people are on and uses that positionality to help the young folks tap into their power of their consciousness to hack the Panoptika system when they are suspended. So one of the pillars of this dystopian disciplinary code that I created is success inversion therapy. So it imagines a world where, you know, the parents all get a notification through the schools, mobile app, they don't really read it. They kind of all click agree. And what they just agreed to is this new disciplinary code that includes success inversion therapy where the school has sort of framed suspending young people upside down as having these cognitive and behavioral benefits. What they learn to do from Yananga, from their power to your coach is to hack the system using the power of meditation and using the power of your minds. And so that, you know, is kind of in that shell like what my work is intending to do. Really like explode some of the systems of oppression that we are struggling against. In this case, the intersection of policing and education to really critique those systems, you know, I use this sort of dystopian lens to point out that like some of, you know, we would think that it would be like unthinkable that a school could suspend young people upside down from the ceiling. But a lot of the things that are actually happening to our young people in these systems are unthinkable. And so I sort of use these metaphoric extreme to point out what is really broken with the system we have. And then use Afrofuturism and sort of African mysticism and a combination of those aesthetics to provoke the imagination around what is possible. What is possible when we give young people sovereignty over their own learning experiences. What is possible when we give communities sovereignty over how they navigate harm and conflict and repair. Because I really believe that we don't need to outsource our sovereignty and outsource our conflict mediation to a militarized armed police force that is literally descended from slave patrol. So, you know, Newsflash, if you didn't know, American policing is literally descended from slave patrol. Our system of policing in America, you know, after the 13 amendment, allegedly freed enslaved folks, you know, the caveat in there is slavery is illegal, except as punishment for a crime. And so what we have is then armed militias going out to return escaped enslaved folks to their plantations and those armed militias evolving into what we know as modern day policing. And then slavery evolving into mass incarceration and a system that systematically criminalizes black and brown folks and having their labor exploited in these penitentiaries and systems of incarceration. And so slavery has been legal in America every day that you have drawn breath in the form of mass incarceration. And so, you know, I really believe that in order to dismantle those systems, we have to return sovereignty to people not turning over their authority, their personal sovereignty to armed folks that are literally descendants of slave patrol. But that means like having uncomfortable conflict and really rooting down inside ourselves to learn how to navigate conflict with love and to learn the skills that we need to not have to call folks with guns when we have disagreements.  I think because we have become so indemnically disconnected from ourselves, from our neighbors and from each other, we've become accustomed to relying on an armed militia to navigate conflicts that should really be within our own power to navigate, our own spiritual power. So that is what my artistic mission is and what I am doing creatively when I say that I'm using Afrofuturist aesthetics and African mystic aesthetics to propose alternate realities and to provoke the critical imagination around what other things we could have other than these systems that we have inherited that are so inherently violent and harmful.  I think these are all really good questions because abolition is not about absence. It's not about just getting rid of something. It's about imagining what we could have in its place. So imagine if you could call 911 and instead of the one size fits all answer of we're gonna send people with guns to your house, you had 18 very specialized options of what you could get instead.  And I think that if we abolish, defunded, divested from this militarized system that is consuming so much of our resources with more and more expensive weapons, more and more expensive surveillance systems, more expensive trainings under the guise of reform. We invested those resources in actually cultivating other types of alternatives and responses. We could really avoid a lot of the deadly encounters that people of color are experiencing in this country through the current form of policing that we have. And so that is what we mean when we say abolition. That is what we mean when we say defund the police. And that is what my creative work is around, is really provoking the imagination around what those other systems are that we could have. Because I think if we don't believe that we could have something else, then we cannot, you know, we have to first believe it and be able to envision it. And I really believe that collective imagination and collective vision is the force that reshapes our reality, is the force that changes the world. And so I am always writing to provoke that collective imagination toward more liberatory possibilities. Because I really believe that through collective imagination, another world is possible. And if you want to learn more about my work and how to get involved in imagining alternate universes and building new worlds, you can check out the Let Us Breathe Collective, which is the organization that I co-founded. The Let Us Breathe Collective is an alliance of artists and activists organizing through a creative lens to imagine a world without prisons and police. We operate the breathing room space, which is a beautiful 4,000 square foot community center on the south side of Chicago, where we host events and trainings and all kinds of good stuff. And we have recently acquired the plot of land adjacent to our space, breathing room gardens, where we grow lots of food. And the food that we grow there is connected to mutual aid programs across the city, where we distribute hundreds of free meals with food grown from our gardens. And so we have programming outdoors in the gardens. We have programming in our recently renovated space. You can check us out at LetUsBreatheCollective.com, LetUsBreathe773 on Instagram. We are also part of the Black Abolitionist Network and the campaign to defund CPD. So you can check out those platforms and organizations as well to get involved in the organizing work. But find a way to get plugged in, because we are what we need. Since the onset of the pandemic, I have returned to the basics of theater, body, breath, and voice. And at its fundamental core, theater is about imagining a new world, about building that world with other people, and inviting others to witness and experience that world with each other. I hope that you'll join us next week for an interview by Priscilla Solis Ibarra with Chaz Jewett and Sharon Day. This last episode of this series will discuss Indigenous art practice and how body, mind, and spirit can become whole through time-honored Indigenous cultures and practice. I'm going to leave you tonight with a quote by Priscilla Ibarra. She says, I dream a world where the birds sing, and the seasons change, and the land, water, and wind are free. And where reciprocity, not competition, is the value that structures our relations. Thank you. Good night.


I mean dude, spammed every fuckin' move in the book. He literally just spammed every move as fast as he could, dude. Like what the fuck? Here's your maddened bullshits, and we can be super bummer, dude.  Oh yeah. What am I doing?  Let's go. Let's get it. We gotta do what we gotta do out here. What is it, freight train? There it is. We gotta take Jalen Hyatt out of the line up. K-Mac?   Oh my god.  You went him, guys. Add on to your order before it's too late. I feel like you're that guy. Add on to your order until it's too late. You could also hit Wendy's if you act now. Oh, you come here, too?   What's up? Jalen, nice to see you again. I mean, dude, what did the other guy do right there, bro? Like, what did the other guy do? What did the other guy do to me, bro?  He literally just spammed every move as fast as he could, dude.  Oh my god. It's so amazing.    How do I make a tackle right there? Oh, how do you get that, dude, to play the fucking?  Does he know something? Duh, like, if you block the tight end, you stop the loop every time. Blocking the tight end, you stop the loop. Like, holy fuck, are we kidding? I mean, this is the worst. Dude, I really don't know. I really don't know how to stop the loop. I really don't.   I don't know, boys. Have you guys got answers for the loop? Please let me know, dude, because I don't have answers to why. Dude, I don't have answers. I really don't. I really don't, dude. That wasn't bad.   Like, are we serious? What's in?   Dude, I really, honestly, I really don't have. I really don't know what to do against dollar loop. I really don't.  Block tight end, sand man in motion. So block my whole team, bot stay. Is that what you want to do? Block, is that what we want to do?  But what am I going to do? Put us two streaks?  Might work. We're getting our RPO pop in here, boys. We just are. He's just got a so bag, bro.  We lost. Like, this is all I got.  Doug, I can't block. I literally cannot block, dude.  I miss West Coast, dude.  Look at what we're doing here. I look at how we're playing the game right now. Now I'm going to delay the game because I'm lagging. Like, Doug, we're so bagged, bro.    I was lucky. I have to step up, though.  I don't know, man. I'm really struggling right now in offense. I really am. Fumble?  Just bringing that guy down. That's just bagged, bro.  I didn't hear why I just tackled right there.   Reed, Chris? Oh yeah, for sure.  Like, I low key clicked off, dude. I mean, I'm just struggling, dude.  I'm not, I don't got my A game right now, boys.   Is it? I think it's giving me good shit, though.   Fumble. Oh yeah, get the ball. Come on, Parsons. Oh! Ramsey, making plays.    I was hitting him. I swear to God, he was not catching that pass. I swear to God, he was not catching that pass.  I don't like, I don't like what he's doing here. Till he doesn't, till he doesn't. Let's go. I can't, I can't bounce off. He doesn't base a line, so it's like I can't. I don't know, I'm learning, bro. Can I learn? Can a man learn in peace? That's all I asked the boys. This is where we outside zone, though. This is where we outside zone because we got Gronk. Gronk will hold that edge. Yeah, well, because that guy didn't have, that guy, it wasn't, I had to give as many yards as I could to one guy who was unblocked. God, I mean, I got a juke behind him and we got shot right there. I juke behind him, we really got shot right there for real. I don't know how, is his X-factor sacked me that much? Is his X-factor really done that much that he should be glowing? Have I been sacked by the D-tack? Well, Tatiya, I was kicking that field goal for sure.  This play is just, I just got a man up the running back, dude. He might've went out of balance, too. Fuck, man. Ah, I just got a, I got a man up the running back, dude.   It really is.  It really is. Fuck, man.  Snap, snap, snap, snap. We got time and a dream.   It's why he's, I'm playing nervous.  Is that like a real person in my chest? Bro, you know what's nuts? I have gambler. There's no way I can throw a pick on RPO now. Or I could just not run it well.  This is what I mean.  Good blocking on that left side there.  Do y'all see this shit? The whole team blocked and everybody came free. Dog, I swear to God, dude.  The whole team just came free. So glad, dude, so glad.  Like, and they all just came free. Put contains in the game. They're great for the game, dude. Just put them in the game. My offense is just so bad, dude. Put dollar in my field, I'm shitting bricks. This is miserable to play. This is, I gotta find something else. I have to find something else.  There is no way I'm this lost on Madden right now. Dog, this is bad right now, dude. This is just bad for me, it really is. It's really bad.    How is this dude just this open, dude? That guy, who is on that guy? I mean, they're not guarding left or right.   This, I don't even know how I'm physically able to play this game right now. Oh, and Ramsey! Dog, nobody wants to chase!  This is just so bad right now. Where did we stop? What did we try to stop? Corner route, post route, corner route, drag route.  Like, what are we doing in a program right now? Should've fumbled that.  Oh, that was the one that honestly should've went crib. The funniest thing is y'all telling me I don't run RPO. That's, I never thought I'd get to this point in my life. Dog, he just like fucking, like... Dog, I just can't block, man.  Like, I had time. I just didn't trust it. I stepped up too far. It's just bad. Just like, I just like, like, I saw a first down right there and he just fumbles, bro. Fuck, man!  That's just the easiest thing in the world to run. It really is just the easiest. Dog, I, I, it's just so bad.  I really am.  I gotta, I gotta re-evaluate everything, dude. Dollars is just, I don't know what to do. I really don't know what to do, dude. I really don't.  That's what cost me that whole drive. I tried to pass one time. I tried to pass one time and we get sacked. Oh, I got a lot of time, UPR.  You know what? I'm old.  I know the time on the thing.  How I gotta step up in the pocket.  I'm sorry, boys.  I'm really not.   Like, are we serious right now? Like, dude, I can't stop none of these dudes in man coverage. I just like don't, it sounds so bad, but like I really don't know what to do, boys. I really don't.  Like, come on! This is just unreal, miserable.    I don't know what tight end to block. I honestly don't know. It's like, there's like no point being in the book as there's no point. I'm not stopping.   Tight end blocked everything, dude. This is just bad, man. I need to do something different, man. I really do. This is embarrassing, man.  It's just dollar.  It's just free, dude.  Can I sub my tight end for an old lineman? Okay, dumbest commentator tonight, right there. There it is. I mean, I didn't play bad on offense.    Anybody in the chat? Oh, it should have been a pick. We had exactly the right call. We just can't block up. We literally just can't block up right there. Come on, man! Just block one time for me.  Damn, man.  Drop it. Oh, come on, Cormarty. Fuck, man. Good play.   Come on!      I just don't like fuck, man.  That's RPO, ain't it?  My God. Like, I got a swat? I got a swat? I had to throw it. He had nothing.  Oh, my God, dude.  Like, oh, my God.  Like, what?      Bo Jackson is just routing Ramsay.   The problem is I just get no pressure. That's just to be honest. I just get zero pressure.  Like, I need to run dollar. I've seen enough, dude. I've seen enough. I'm just completely done with Nickel. I'm done.


Mark, everybody's working on their New Year's resolutions. Just spoke to an analyst in London this morning that said Uranium is just coming up and are a leader, leader for Uranium production in the United States, or what, one of the top two? Well, we have a long history of producing Uranium and over the last 10 years, we've produced a third of the newly mined Uranium in the United States, and Cameco has produced about 42%. So between Cameco and Energy Fuels, 75% of the Uranium produced in the United States came from two companies. So one third over the last 10 years, and that bodes well for our restarts that are happening right now, Tracy, on a number of fronts. You just put out a news release a couple of weeks ago, I think about 10 days ago, that you have commenced production at three of your US Uranium mines. Can you talk to us a little bit more about that? Yeah, we've actually been readying these projects for the last year, year and a half. And now we're going into new Uranium production. And that's at the Pinion Plain Mine in Arizona and what we call the LaSalle Complex in Utah, which is actually a group of about four or five mines. We're back underground mining the ore. So really the preparations, we didn't consider Uranium mining, but we are mining right now. So in 2024, between a combination of newly mined ore, alternate feed and recovering Uranium from some of our rare earth feeds, we'll be having about a million pounds worth of production in different stages of processing in 2024. And building that up to around 2 million pounds the next year or so, which is really the beginning of the flywheel on our Uranium production. I was reading that energy fuels is accounted for roughly two thirds of all US Uranium production over the past five years. I'm going to assume you're going to maintain this position here in 2024 or increase the percentage. Well, the two thirds over the last five years, that's because of the unique capabilities of the company to be able to do what we call alternate feed. So when no one else was producing anything or hardly anything, we were able to recycle Uranium from people like Camico and Converdyne, Union Pacific and produce Uranium at very low costs during low periods, price periods of the last five years. So, no, we plan to do, you know, keep up with our traditional Uranium production and increase that, as I said, from one million to two million pounds. There are some other projects that are going to come into production in 24, including UR Energy. So, yeah, I don't think we'll hold that two thirds production this next five years. But I think we're still going to be, if not the largest producer, we'll be second largest producer in the United States, as we have been for decades. There's a lot of stock promotion going on out there, Bart. New companies, they get themselves an acreage and say that they're going to be producing Uranium. I don't think they appreciate how many licenses you have to go through to actually handle this radioactive material. Would you mind helping some of the investor news audience out there going, hey, we want to get in on this Uranium market, which is just beginning to flourish. Can you share with them some, you know, basic, how this actually works? Yeah. Well, Tracy, I've been in the Uranium business this year for 48 years, and I've mined Uranium all over the world in United States, Africa, Kazakhstan, and Africa. So it is very difficult to get into the Uranium business because of the permits and licenses required, the capital investment on building new projects, and the expertise. So it is not easy. And I can tell you that only a handful will succeed, of new players will succeed. And that is probably being optimistic. So if you look at the last cycle, there were only three or four projects, really new projects outside of Kazakhstan that actually got up and produced Uranium in a successful way. So if I have this right, Mark, we're currently producing. We have three mines, or three additional mines that are commencing production in 2024. Is that correct? Correct. And we're readying some of the other projects. So, you know, it's going to be dynamic as we build up our production capabilities. And as we secure additional new long-term contracts, which we signed three long-term contracts about a year and a half ago. So as we get new contracts, as the Uranium price goes up, we'll continue to turn on and restart other mines in addition to what we already have operating at this moment. And for everybody interested in Uranium, I urge you strongly to go to the Energy Fuels website. There's photographs. There's education, information, and a long list of news releases that will bring you up to speed. Mark, Mark, thank you so much for joining us and happy new year. Thank you, Tracy, and happy new year to you as well.


You know, I just feel like what the Holy Spirit keeps saying is just be here. Just be here and The last few days have been real Hectic for me, and I've just been kind of pulling back and spending some alone time And after class today, I went to the park and just walked around for an hour It's like I just needed to like connect to the Holy Spirit. I feel like I've been in such a mode of doing doing doing And I and that really brings up question for me it certainly in my in my mind seems like it would be the simple thing to do to just Become very focused on the course like get out of nursing And I have to deal with all these outside things and just focus when I'm when I'm just doing the course It seems relatively easy and I know that I use the outside things and it probably wouldn't matter if I was out of nursing or not That I would still find something to run interference with the whole spirit right now because of my fear But I do notice that There it seems like And I know this is because I'm in it in my wrong mind that there's conflict going on if I can't Quote do life unquote and get the course that what I'd like to do is just be able to sit down and Not deal with anything else Yeah, it came in my life that it was kind of like If there's two directions, you know Jesus at one point says you may have noticed how different the goals This course are advocating from the goals who held before it's like, huh. Tell me about an understatement I mean, that's that's putting it mildly. I mean, it's they are totally Diometrically in opposite directions and we've talked about that whole thing of trying to see two worlds, you know I would say of just like you said if I still value the old goal Then I'll value the world that proceeds from The old goal, you know, I'll perceive it as a threat if I even think I have to let go of That old world because I still value the old goal and to me as we keep coming together We just want to get clear on the goals or the purposes in the mind because then it just starts to bring a clarity the ego's goal is death and In all of the different forms it seems to take even the ones that seem attractive to the mind on the surface They're still that and we just want to kind of keep moving towards the center of its thought systems Just to see the insanity of it to let it go Would it be appropriate to read the branching of the road on page 444 it's like about I Think we could but I really think right now we could just go into it and let the spirit move among among us and You know, I am the branching of the road It's not in that book. I Offered right now and to go into it and it's scary. I know because we don't even have a book To shield to go into but I think that can be We the thing we want to do is we want to just try to follow this in as we can't it's much as we can to try to get Some real clarity on it and everything Is these things relating? What was it the issues that you were? I wanted to make sure everybody had a chance to bring up There are issues. I'm sure they all relate There is only one problem and one solution I Just noticed thoughts that I have had coming up today and even yesterday again, it seems like the teaching device is the car and Yesterday it was actually Christa's car and today it has to do with the car. I was driving and I Mean what happens is if not happen is a no consequence really but I the feelings or the perceptions or the thoughts that I had had to do with Feeling like someone else had the upper hand And that I was being taken or had that it was my word against theirs That I was being unfairly treated or misunderstood. I would think all that goes back to the authority problem And I I did I mean I I had a sense of how that might have felt because Because I was kind of identifying With how I would have felt Maybe in the same or have have felt. I don't know Have felt at least in the past when that kind of thing would go on and I just it feels to me like it's a Since it's still in my thoughts. It feels like it's it's something that I want to go into more and get clearer about So that that I cease having those thoughts And just run through them again being taken advantage of being taken advantage of Someone else having the upper hand being had my word against theirs Being unfairly treated being misunderstood But I think the big things are being taken being had my word against theirs and and in the end basically That they have the upper hand that I'm kind of at their mercy this victimization again you have this perceptual world now and There seems to be If we could really get beneath everything that's been raised today, you know, we can start to see that everything rest on Duality in the world it would be no point in talking about a struggle I was feeling when I was talking with Kathy or being taken her head at a from a car taking my car in or Any anything that we've talked about I mean all the things that have been discussed presume a duality in the world Being taken advantage by another my word against their word You can hear it doesn't matter all the different forms, but the underlying thing is that there's duality So we could really boil it down to the most simple terms and say gee all of those are predicated on my belief that there is duality in this world and What we need to start to do is to start another way we could come out is to say points of view There seem to be so many points of view my view their view My friend's view my husband's view what so-and-so is going through how would you what was you do? Would you leave your? Daughter behind you know all these things are predicated on duality. I mean duality is assumed to be Reality and it doesn't matter whether you've studied the course or whether you've studied Hinduism or all the different religions that the core of all the religions point to unity and Even philosophers who have gone into this still come to the point where Okay, so there doesn't seem so that there's nothing apart from mind where did the duality come in and how do you? How did the duality come about and how does it so seem to be so real if unity is the fact of it? So that's where we have to get to this whole thing of is the duality real or Am I projecting a? Conflict that's in my mind out into the world and seeing it is if it's between persons institutions schools of thought you know Forces of nature on and on and on out there in a dualistic world because What I'm going to propose is and what the course teaching is that is as long as we believe in the in a real factual World of duality that is outside our minds and outside our persons That has a reality that as long as we believe that that there is no Alleviation of the pain there is no escape from the conflict until We're really to ready really question everything which is the underpinnings of everything This is not something that comes up usually in casual conversation This is really deep down if my if the fundamental mental way that I've been seeing is Is messed up and distorted then it's no wonder then that I would perceive all these Problems and so-called daily life and that they would seem to recur over and over and over without a seeming end at hand so It's that thing that the fundamental belief to have the world of duality would be that ideas can leave their source I mean where in the world? So figure out where would this world of duality come from? It seems to Be out of control At times it seems to have have a life of its own it just seems to be self Perpetuating we back up for just a moment. How does having a belief that ideas can leave their source create a dual world? I lost you there. Okay? if if ideas can leave their source then There seems to be a way that this Tunis can come about in other words something seems to have left the mind and To have a reality of itself mean duality and conflict is a belief in the mind And if it seems to have a reality out on outside of the mind Then it would have to leave its source another thing is if we relate it back to a more abstract thing of heaven is that God is spirit the son is spirit that The son is an idea in the mind of God and therefore there is no duality or separation in that view so That's basically the premise that ideas cannot leave their source and Christ has not left his father's mind If if ideas can leave their source then that's the whole that's the whole basis of the making of the world I sometimes think of it in terms of breaking apart If ideas can leave their source then they break apart and then you have two things you have ideas here And you have the source here, and that's the duality. That's the Tunis So there's me and my thoughts break away so that those go out in the world and so then it seems like the world against me That kind of thing Like what once the mind accepts that there has been the breaking apart That there is too, you know, there's the idea Broken away from the source to things idea and source then the way that gets played out is the duality And and is perceiving, you know me against them This against that This versus that the other there's always there's always the Tunis and they're always like You know, they're they're not harmony. They don't reflect the oneness. They reflect the conflict that that is inherent in breaking apart and separating Well, it's still seeing me against him his word against my word Which is There seems to be this strong conflict between persons I mean it seems as if in the world that You know, you're given so much time to live on this earth and Sometime or other everyone seems to conflict. I mean even the special loved ones Seem to have be rubbing up and like grating on this Person like the person's like give me a break. Give me some space and there's such a friction that goes on there And the the idea that ideas leave their source is is the belief that that I'm not Whole and eternal, you know, I have left my source in heaven I mean that's the basis of the belief in separation is that I have left heaven So I have left my source there and in only that is that all of these are all the figures in the dream are Apart from the little I now this I'm a little person Sleeping now I'm a little person in the dream world and all of these other persons have separate realities With private minds and private thoughts completely apart from my little mind private You can see where that's a belief that ideas can leave their source because there is that separateness and that duality and also Whenever I have an upset do I in the sleeping sense? Do I think oh, it's just my perceptual problem I can I could forgive and see pieces that of this or Do I want hold on to the reality that this is another person this person at this car dealership or this mechanic is taking advantage of me Or this this friend is attacking me or any of the different things you can see what's beneath that is a belief that I'm not just viewing my ideas like like this whole world this and all these people and everything are just my ideas There would be no threat in that but is but if I believe ideas have left their source and that these people are Have nothing to do with me now It's like there have nothing did all to do that man saying that to me when I was getting my car My friend saying that then you can see where the friction is inevitable from that person


Alright, thanks for listening. As many of those close to me already know, I love Git almost to a fork at running pretty much everything on Git. Apart from regular software engineering related tasks like storing source code, configuration, to ticket tracking, finances, audit trails, personal weight gain and weight loss in also storing Git. And I'm also guilty of storing an entire snapshot of databases in Git, complete with branching and tags. That's a story for another day. I'm not doing it anymore. Anyway, in the course of using Git for almost everything, I realized a large amount of Git commands also happen to be executed over SSH. So this is mostly a talk about running any command over SSH, not just about Git. The problem with running commands remotely is often the very, very first initiation of the connection takes a while. Sometimes it takes up to four seconds.  Your productivity will be affected waiting for the push to complete if you do not have your SSH set up to pre-connect. Each connection takes between four seconds. And in the case of my company, the company I work in, it takes up to 19 seconds to establish a single Git connection to GitHub, to internal GitHub. So the latency issue becomes worse if you are trying to connect to multiple different hosts. And there's also a typing delay if you are connected to a server. I'm sure you have experienced it before. As you type, you see your character slowly appearing in the terminal. Some of you may argue that you use T-Markz and Screen and you are bound by the same problem. So some basic optimization you can do with SSH. You must have a SSH configuration file. At the very, very least, you should have compression set to turn on. By default, compression level is set to six and it's the standard GZ value for compression level. Other things you can do is control master. Who here already have control master set in their local? Control master set in local? Nobody else have set it locally? Okay, you will be interested in this. So setting control master allows you to reuse your connection. Sharing of multiple sessions over a single network connection. So you can connect once and you can reuse the connection over and over again. So in order for control master to work, you need to have a socket path set, which appears on the second line, the control path. Control path follows a user host and a port name format. So if I have a connection, I can show you. So I have a connection currently set up locally and this is what it looks like. Based on the configuration you see on the screen there. It says Charlim at local host colon 22. That's a port number. When you have, if you try to look at the details of this file, you'll see that it has an as prefix, which means that it's a socket file. Okay, there you go. You can see here there is an as prefix, and only you and your user can read it. Nobody else can read it because this is actually, you can, you can hijack it. Control process sets how long you can keep the connection open for. In this case, I've set it up to run for four hours. If you have no activities within the next four hours, it will, it will just automatically disconnect itself. So this is useful because you can reuse the connection over and over again and you'll be able to save time. Other stuff that may help you in productivity is to have a short connect timeout. You don't want to try and connect to the internet when there's no internet and only to find out that 60 seconds later that you're not connected to the internet. The other stuff are just nice to have. You can try it out. Give you an example of how control master speed things up. If I run a, just a purely connection, a pure connection to, to GitHub, you can run, say SSH at github.com dash M basically tells it to not do anything, just establish connection and just disconnect. This job takes 2.89 seconds. On average, it's about three to four seconds. So on a good day, when DNS cache is working and stuff, it will just connect.  Now, in most servers, you will not see a 0.5 seconds additional delay. This is, I think this is something that GitHub set up to prevent people from brute force attack or time attack and that's why there's 0.5 seconds. Otherwise, you probably see something along the lines of 0.011 seconds. The cost to reestablish, reestablish connection is actually very cheap. So with this, you can push as often as you want and if you're always using GitHub, you will be a lot easier and faster. So that solves one problem. Let's keep typing delay and let's look at what we can do with multi-host jump. Often, have you ever had to jump SSH through more than one host to get to another host? The example here shows you how you are at home connected to the internet, but in order to get to host D, you have to connect through bastion and firewall. Firewall only allows connection from bastion and the bastion, the firewall server is the only server that can connect to host D. So what you need to do generally, you do something like this. You first log into bastion. The dash A is to imply a forwarding agent. Then when you're into bastion, you run the second command, which is SSH firewall. This is how you do jambos and the third one. Now, this kind of work. If your authorized keys are set up correctly on each server, you can just pass in the dash A and you can log straight in. So you can also chain these three commands into one line. You can alias this as a shell script or a shell alias and it will kind of work mostly. Another way to do this, and if you know that you're always going to access this bastion server, sorry, this host D server through the bastion and firewall, in exactly the same manner, over and over again, you can just write a configuration file that looks something like this where you declare bastion, you declare firewall with proxy command and the proxy command will establish a tunneling through the connecting intermediate host, allowing you to connect. So what this means is you can just run a single command that looks like this, SSH host D and host D will connect to the bastion server, sorry, connect to the firewall and the firewall will connect to bastion in order to get to your destination host. Okay, so again I was showing the same diagram again. Now this method may work but yuck, you, it's kind of ugly. It also prevents you from doing other stuff like if you want to push a file, you want to ask a file, you want to do something direct, you can do, you can run scpn asking directly. Wouldn't it be nice if you can run something like this? A single command SSH bastion plus firewall plus host D, it will automatically jump through one host after another. So if you run it locally like this, SSH will say no host found because it treats the entire string as a host. And to be honest, this was not my idea. This was something that I discovered on Gen 2 website and this is what it looks like. Oops, can someone, can we all see it back? So it looks like this, which is a fancy sub shell code set here and there and with NC command here. I mean it kind of works. It allows you to pass in a separate username and you can also have a different user at the end of the command. But it requires you to use a percent syntax instead of the add symbol and you can specify a different port number. That one works kind of well but yeah. The good thing about this is it allows you to use to do scp. So you can do scp host one plus host two. So not too bad, kind of work but this is a recipe for disaster. Sorry? The recipe for awesome, yes. So I created my own and this does the same thing, allows you to pass in user and you can also pass in different identity files if you need to. Now I wouldn't recommend you to replace this with your SSH command. It's always good to keep it separate. The P actually stands for prime but because it's originally started as a priming connection so you keep the connection open. And eventually it grew into a way to get into a super secure secret host that you have to go through busier and firewall. So this problem is solved. Let's see. The next thing that I want to address is typing delay. There's nothing you can really do with typing delay unless you construct your entire command locally and send it over SSH. So you type a command on SSH blah, dash t, seed in the command, run your git status and then it works. It's not very elegant. It kind of works. So if you notice here that these two information, the host information and the repository path is something that you can find in your git remote. So why not use the information you have in your git remote to help you push your git command. And again, something that I came out with, the ability to run remote git commands, sorry, git commands on a remote repo. It basically, as SSH servers, automatically seed into that and pass the commands in. So it's kind of helpful. You want to run, you want to push some repo. You don't want to run git hooks. You don't want to run hooks to automatically deploy your files. Especially if it's a local instance, you don't always want to make the hooks do things that you don't want it to do. So you can do git push remote, git SSH remote and git checkout relevant files that you want and run your stuff. In fact, you can directly perform scp command here and it will copy, it will take the same files you have remotely and vice versa so you can copy files from your local to a remote server. So yeah, that's it. That's all I have to share. A little bit of credit to these two links, SSH menu and Gen2 for the multi-hop stuff. Any questions? How would we set up your tool if you wanted to use it? As usual, there's no brews simple packaging install command available at the moment, but you can copy them to your local bin and access a path that is accessible from whichever is at your path. Is it just a shell script or does it have some dependencies? It's purely shell script. It has some dependencies, but it would tell you that, sorry? Did you set it in it? Is there a set in it? Yes, there will be set in it. If you're concerned about a GNU set versus BSE set, I think there is some smart detection inside to detect set differences. All right, thank you.


Live from San Francisco, California, it's theCUBE at VMworld 2014, brought to you by VMware. Cisco, EMC, HP, and Nutanix.  This is theCUBE and we're here at VMworld 2014 inside of Moscone. We are unpacking some discussions with practitioners here. We always like to talk to guys who are actually using the technology and helping drive business value. Mario Angers is here. He's the system manager at the University of British Columbia within the central IT group there. Mario, welcome to theCUBE. It's good to have you. Thanks very much for coming on. Thank you. So VMworld 2014, let's start there. I mean, a lot of action. Very exciting, yeah. A lot of new stuff, a lot of pretty exciting announcements. What I talk to practitioners, they say, I love to come to these shows. I get to talk to my peers, talk about what's working, what's not working, learn about new technologies, talk to the engineers. I presume you're doing a lot of the similar stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's a really, really good opportunity for networking. You get to talk to the people that are actually building the stuff, right? So you can provide feedback face to face. So yeah, it is, it's a fantastic opportunity. You're giving feedback. What kind of feedback you've been giving?  They need to get better, right? So break it down for us. What are you, as a customer, VMworld customer, what are you, obviously happy with the, you know, the first wave of server virtualization, that was a no-brainer. So I think the strategy behind what we're trying to do is trying to decouple the technology from the actual service itself. So the technology, you shouldn't be reliant on a specific technology to provide your service, right? So yeah, VMware, you're kind of married to, right? There's not a lot of, you know, there's not a lot of competition in the marketplace, so there's not a lot of other folks you can look at to provide that, you know, that technology stack, but anything behind it, you know, the important part is having the ability to, you know, to be able to replace those components, compute, storage, network, right, without impacting your clients. So when you're talking about service, you're talking about fundamental services of capacity, storage capacity, or networking, bandwidth, or compute, or underlying services. To me, service is higher than that, right? It's essentially infrastructure as a service, or platform as a service, right? So DR, backup, right? Data protection, data movement. Yeah, things like that, right? Or email as a service, desktop as a service, right? You know, things like that. All right, okay, so you're saying that today there's a tight coupling between the hypervisor, essentially the platform. There can be, depending on how it's built, yeah. Okay, and that's a vendor issue? That's how it's... I think it's a little bit of both, right? Because, you know, of course, if you, you know, for example, you know, we've got a couple different vendors in terms of storage, right? So Coho being one of them, right? And we also have some NetApp, right? So historically, it's been extremely difficult to move workloads from one storage vendor to another, right? For one reason or another. They're sort of locked into that array. Yeah, yeah, to some degree, right? So, but, you know, some of the things that are being done now allow you to do that, to move workloads between those various different vendors, right? Without disrupting the end user or the client. Talk a little bit about your organization. I jumped right into that. So University of British Columbia is the largest in, I would say, Western Canada. So we have roughly about 60,000 students. And, you know, we have roughly about 15,000 staff, right? So we need to support those folks. So we've got a fairly large IT infrastructure to be able to support that. You know, we have roughly about eight petabytes of data, and we've got, you know, 4,000 virtual machines to support the community. And that's growing all the time. And one of the things that we're trying to do now is extend the services that we provide internally to our folks at UBC, to other universities within the province. Okay, now you guys do a lot of Oracle databases, right? Yes, we are. We're a big Oracle stuff. So talk about that a little bit. So in the early days, right? A lot of practitioners were scared about virtualizing Oracle because Oracle was saying, well, you might have to go back to a physical infrastructure if there's ever a problem. They'd get you in a headlock and- A little bit. And their licensing model is really not conducive to virtualization, right? But people said, you know what? There's value there. We're going to do it. Damn the torpedoes. We advise folks in the Wikibon community years ago to do it. The Oracle will support it. And I'd like to hear your thoughts there. So is that what you found? Absolutely. So we went down that road, I think, four years ago, about four years ago now, and we've been very, very successful at virtualizing Oracle. So all of our databases, with the exception of one legacy, are now virtualized, right? So when we run PeopleSoft, we run our student information system. We run several enterprise applications on Oracle that are now virtualized. Okay, and you're providing databases as a service, essentially, or? No, that's not something we provide today, but that's something we want to look at doing, yes. Now, how does the storage fit into that? You mentioned Coho data a second ago. How does the storage fit into that database as a service? So it's really building on what I was saying originally. So to me, you should be able to deploy technology behind the service, and it should really manage itself. So you shouldn't, if you need to, you're always going to need some level of specialization to be able to manage the technology behind the service. But if only one individual in your team is capable of managing the technology, then I think you've done something wrong, right? So and I think what those new vendors like Coho are doing, they're simplifying the process of managing storage and other infrastructure components that specialization that was required a few years ago to be able to manage that technology no longer exists. So as an example, I had two people full-time managing storage all the time, that's all they did. So today I have nobody full-time managing storage. Really? So the entire team can effectively manage storage. You essentially have an arm and a leg and a wrist managing storage. Okay, so. So it's largely set and forget. Okay, so tell me more, why is that? Tell me more about Coho. So the CTO of Coho is also a professor of computer science at University of British Columbia. So we've been working together for, I would say probably two or three years now. So a lot of the things that they do, they come to us to test, right? So they'll come up with a new feature, we'll implement it in our environment, we provide feedback. They change based on the feedback we provide. So it's been a great relationship for both UBC and also Coho. So how is it different than sort of a traditional storage? So I would say, so first of all, it's built with essentially off-the-shelf components. So you don't need, again, it scales very quickly, it deploys very quickly, it's just, it's very, very easy to manage. Compared to some of the other vendors, it's significantly easier to manage. Interface, click wars. Yeah, essentially it's plug and play largely, right? And in order to scale, it's really not much more complicated than that. It's plug and play, right? Okay, and you found these guys because you had the relationship with them, right? And now a lot of companies are nervous about dealing with a small company. How's that been, how's that experience been? So, and I understand why a lot of people are nervous, so you don't understand if they're going to be around for a long time and all that stuff. But from my perspective, I think a lot of the innovation that is coming out of the marketplace today is coming from those small companies, right? The startups, and if we don't foster that, then the innovation that is coming out of the marketplace is going to go away. It was interesting, we just had a CIO on the county of San Mateo, and you're hearing that more and more from organizations and it's not, it used to be, well, if you're in the university environment, you're budget constrained, you know, if you're in government, you're budget constrained, so you're going to be sort of a laggard in terms of technology adoption. We're hearing more and more that actually to drive cost out into improved service levels, organizations are taking sort of be more aggressive with regard to technology adoption. Do you agree with that? Is that a change? I absolutely agree with that. I absolutely agree. So people are taking more risk, so to speak, because they see the payoff as lower cost, better agility, being able to do some of the things that we talked about, for instance, decoupling the technology from the services. I want you to talk more about that. Talk about how you intend and what your plan is to get there. I think the plan for us to get there is really understanding what the clients are looking for and then really designing a service that will allow to deliver what they're looking for while looking at how we maintain a high level of availability without disrupting our client and the ability to shift the technology that we use to provide the workload. As an example, let's use backup as an example. So backup normally it's done behind the scene. People don't understand how it's done. It's just there when it's needed. Well, a lot of vendors, they will actually nail you to their technology in order to effectively do backup. So we took a different approach. So we went to a fairly new vendor in the marketplace, which is Veeam, which is now allowing us to use pretty much any storage as a target for backup. Previously, we were essentially married to one vendor for backup and now that's gone. And we're looking to do exactly the same thing with storage. The need for storage is changing also. So historically it was either you're storing unstructured data, database, blah, blah, blah, and high performance wasn't really a huge requirement. But now based on what is being done in the marketplace, like big data, some of those things, it's becoming very, very, it's becoming impossible not to provide high performance storage to your consumers, right? And a company like Coho provides that. They give you the option to essentially use the various different technology that they're providing. You mean like a flash, for example? Exactly, yeah. So okay, so how are you using flash? You can talk about that. Today we're using flash for some of our databases, like the high transactional database that require a huge amount of IOPS to and from the desk, right? So we'll put those on flash. It's providing better performance. It's providing not just better performance for the database itself, but for the end user as well. We're also offering it as a service to our consumers. So they have the option to select a high performance desk or a flash tier to host their applications on if they do choose to. Now what are you finding? How are they consuming it? Are they saying, okay, I'm going to put the whole database on that flash tier? No, because it's cost prohibitive, right? So what they're doing is they're really being strategic about where the data is placed, right? So if it does require the high performance, then it goes there. Otherwise, they're leaving it on the floor. How does the data get placed? In terms of? So somebody says, okay, I want this sort of data set on flash. Who does that? How does the service handle that? Is it dynamic? Is it quasi? Today, the application owner really decides where the data's going to reside with our help, of course. But you know, those guys understand and know their applications very, very well, right? So they're effectively deciding where the data's going to be placed. And then what? They come to you and ask for assistance. So it's a self-service model. Okay, and what enables that self-service model? So what we've done is we've used vCloud Director in order to enable that self-service model. But now we're moving to vCloud Automation Suite, right? To offer that same, essentially, but with enhanced capabilities. So that simplifies it further. Yeah, the experience will look a lot more now like an Amazon or a Microsoft as opposed to, you know, vCloud Director was an okay tool, but it was really a tool built by engineer for engineers, right? Not for end users. When you say, look more like Amazon, you're trying to create this consumer-like experience. Yeah, a shopping cart experience. Okay, swipe the credit card. Yeah, you select what you're going to want right through a dropdown and then, you know, it just provisions. Where are you in terms of being able to provide that sort of services menu? So we're planning to launch in the next two weeks. Really? Yeah. Oh, so you've been busy? Yeah, very busy, yeah. Now, talk about that project. Did you do it in little pieces or is it one big roll over? So what we're going to do is we're going to launch in September as a pilot, so we're going to have four other institutions outside the University of British Columbia use that service. We're going to do a pilot for a few months, then we'll use the feedback that the guys provide us from the other institutions, you know, to really, you know, fix what we're not doing very well. And our goal is to go production at the end of November, early December, right? And then the intent is we're going to be providing service to every other school in the province. Okay. And so the rollout sort of by the end of this year, you're going to be in a position to essentially go live with this thing broadly. Yes. Oh, interesting. We were talking earlier about sort of some of the complexities of storage. Where do you see that whole thing going? You see VMware doing vSAN, talking about VVOLs, you saw the thing they're doing with EVO rail. Where do you see that whole thing going? Well, I think what they're doing is they're really executing on what we're asking them to execute on. Right? Like we all want simpler infrastructure behind the service. Right? So, cause you're either spending money on technology or you're spending money on people. Right? So it's really a choice you're making. My preference would be to spend on both. But you know, well, and then what I can do is I can redirect the people that were historically working and spending a lot of time supporting infrastructure on a higher value task and project. So another way to say that is you will spend money on technology to save time. Yes. Absolutely. And reallocate that time to higher value activities. Yeah, then we become a lot more strategic. We can, you know, we can essentially provide what our customers are looking for. Which is kind of the opposite of like an Amazon, right? They'll spend time with PhDs. They're trying to figure out, okay, how can we take cost out of this infrastructure? You don't have those type of resources. So this is sort of an example of sort of that mentality of hyperscale coming into the enterprise with a prepackaged solution. Largely. That allows you to free up time so that you can put time elsewhere. Higher up the stack, applications. How do you spend that free time? That freed up time? Well, so we spend time talking to our customers. We spend time understanding what they're wanting us to provide. You know, we also spend time delivering on what they're expecting us to deliver. Right, as opposed to just, you know, we, historically what we would do is we'd provision a virtual machine and then need more CPU, need more memory. All of that had to come through us, right? So we became the bottleneck. Now we're enabling them to essentially do all this themselves. So take the, you said the Coho implementation allowed you to save essentially nearly two FTEs. There's still some arms and legs going on, managing storage, obviously. So let's say it's, I don't know, 1.75. FTEs that you saved. Times they're fully loaded cost, boom. That's the ROI, right? That calculation. And you were able to redeploy those individuals in terms of them spending time on aligning with the business essentially. They had the skill sets to do that. You didn't have to re-skill it. I mean, in some cases we have to retrain, which is fine, right? There's nothing wrong with that. Everybody wants a good challenge. Sure, right. But yeah, certainly this is really one of the problems. What we're trying to do, right? We're trying to give people careers, right? We're trying to get- Go pass. Yeah. Great story. All right, Mario, if we're out of time, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. It was a pleasure meeting you. Appreciate your insights. All right, keep it right there, buddy. We'll be right back after this word. This is theCUBE. We're live from VMworld 2014. We'll be right back.


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