KYC number five, know your channel to keep your channel safe. Today we go over three new rules that we've learned have caused YPP suspensions. We will go over specific channels explaining what we feel is right and wrong about them, which ones we've unlinked and which ones YouTube has suspended from YPP so that you can learn from these practices and keep your channel safe. Let's go. What's wrong with this video behind me? Well, if you ask a typical male, probably nothing. Let's zoom in a little to get the deep... No, I'm just kidding. The issue with this channel is he's uploading a variety of music and music videos that don't belong to him. This is a full music video that's uploaded to the channel. And if we look at the video description, it simply reads promotion only not for sale. This is not being used with permission for commercial purposes. Here is another video. This one seems okay. It's just gameplay, which is a little strange to be mixed in with all the music videos. Here is another music video, a full length video. And if we look at the description again, it says promotion use only not for sale. All material in this video is strictly for promotional purposes only. All rights are reserved to the artist and their respective record labels. This is not permission. And if you are doing this on your channel guys, stop. And here's why. Here are the three new rules behind me that we will focus on in this episode. Which of these applies to the channel you just saw? Is it misleading titles or metadata to increase views? A channel is out of compliance, which means there is a good chance it will be YPP suspended or terminated. If it's using titles or tags or stuffing keywords into the video description in order to increase views, don't do that. The YouTube team will not ever share specifics about your violations, but they do recommend you follow the best practices for metadata as outlined in the Help Center article. The links to all these are down there in the description below. Or was this channel guilty of video spam? A channel is out of compliance due to video spam means it's not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted, or repetitive content in videos, comments, private messages, or other places on the site. This deals not just with uploading videos that are boring and repetitive and the same content over and over again, but as well just commenting on other people's channels. Hey go watch my channel here. That's called spam guys. YouTube is now flagging that as an offense and that may get your channel suspended or terminated. Or is it duplication? A channel's out of compliance due to duplication when in most cases you can't re-upload someone else's content unless you get permission first. Remember it's not enough to credit the content owner or state no copyright infringement is intended or only for promotional purposes only. Learn more about copyright and fair use and here's some examples that are subject to copyright. This channel was guilty of duplication. Now DJ Stefky, if we made a mistake and you actually have written permission for commercial purposes meaning to monetize these videos then email support at freedom.tm and we will fix our mistake. Right now from all we can tell in your video description is you're uploading these videos to promote the music but you don't have that permission from the original artist or the record label. What's wrong with this channel Zalan? Well obviously the channel has no videos. It has 6,773 subscribers and if we look at the about page and translate it to English then it says I'm 14 years old I do all sorts of videos. We had to unlink this channel guys because we don't see the content we don't know if this is a good or bad actor and if we don't know we have to err on the side of caution and unlink. So again Mr. 14 year old if we've made a mistake and you do have good content just email support at freedom.tm. What about this video behind me from the Breaking News Today channel let me play a clip. Okay now have a look at this link the source link if I go there wedding from hell queens dire warning after Megan pulls last minute nasty surprise now let's see if that's just a title they're reading so this article starts with the big royal nuptials has turned into the wedding from hell let's play the video the big royal nuptials has turned into the wedding from hell thanks to Prince Harry's famous fiancee queen Elizabeth the second was forced to issue a dire warning so you get the idea this is plagiarism also a form of duplication what this channel does is they take articles from other websites and simply use a text to speech converter with some relevant imagery it's not the imagery that's the issue it is the copy of the text that is being read youtube actually suspended this channel giving them a ypp suspension abuse event and the reason was because of duplication what about this channel behind me Babado TV the issue is the upload frequency nine hours ago nine hours ago 10 hours ago three days ago these are burst uploads and we unlink the channel because we felt it is doing video spam where it's posting large amounts of content now is it untargeted unwanted is it repetitive content let's see roll it so this is another text to speech converter similar to the previous channel we feel he is simply copying someone else's text and reading it through these videos if we made a mistake mr channel owner email support at freedom.tm and we're happy to correct it but we do believe this is video spam and duplication what about this video behind me on the disney pixar cars channel roll it at first glance looks okay it's just gameplay with kids toys the issue is a little harder to spot let me fast forward so you can see what i mean doesn't look familiar the point of this video is they're trying to teach colors and they're doing so by repeating the same models with this time yellow pins from bowling and at the beginning it was red blocks this is called templated content youtube does not want repetitive templated content we're using the same models just changing colors and calling it teaching colors for kids we actually thought initially this was okay but youtube told us that it is not and any kids channels that are uploading templated content it's something you can't do anymore why is that remember youtube's focus in 2018 is content quality is repetitive templated content good quality no that's why youtube is now decided that this kind of content is no longer loud on the platform and channels need to clean it up delete those videos or they run the risk of being suspended and we will unlink channels for this kind of content what about tobias daemon behind me this is another example of a channel that uploads a lot of videos look 21 hours ago 22 hours ago 22 hours ago there is so many uploads and if you look at the videos themselves what are they they're very similar gameplay videos with no commentary and just showing what looks like mobile games this is another example of repetitive unwanted content that doesn't have any unique value between each video so we unlink the channel it hasn't received an abuse event from youtube but we believe it is only a matter of time now in the past i know people uploaded many videos for example in a let's play but not like five an hour you need to spend some production time creating videos even if you're doing a live stream and you cut it up into like 30 minutes segments you're not going to be uploading them this quickly so it's okay to upload good content a lot of it as long as it isn't repetitive templated or basically the same kind of video over and over again i hope the tips in these kyc videos help keep your channel safe click that i in case you missed any of the other episodes of the kyc series and tell me down there in the comments below what you think are there any specific channels you would like us to review send us links do you have any specific questions about what is considered okay or not okay 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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question says solve the inequality 6 into x minus 3 the whole plus 4 is greater than 2 into 4x plus 7 the whole and graph its solution. Let's start the solution now. We are given this inequality and we have to solve it. So the given inequality is 6 into x minus 3 the whole plus 4 is greater than 2 into 3x plus 7 the whole. Now we will open the brackets. So this implies 6x minus 18 plus 4 is greater than 8x plus 14. This implies 6x minus 14 is greater than 8x plus 14. We will now add 14 to both sides. So this implies 6x minus 14 plus 14 is greater than 8x plus 14 plus 14. Since we have added same number to both sides so the sign of inequality remains the same. This implies 6x minus 14 and 14 get cancelled is greater than 8x plus 28. Now we subtract 8x from both sides. So this implies 6x minus 8x is greater than 8x plus 28 minus 8x. Since we have subtracted same number from both sides so the sign of inequality remains the same. This implies minus 2x is greater than 28 since 8x and minus 8x get cancelled. We now divide both sides by 2. So this implies minus x is greater than 28.2 that is 13. Now we multiply both sides by minus 1. So this implies x is less than minus 14. Since we have multiplied both sides by a negative number that is minus 1 so the sign of inequality changes. So this is the solution of the given inequality. We will now wrap the solution set on the number line. First we will make the number line. So this is the number line where the numbers to the right of 0 are all positive real numbers and the numbers to the left of 0 are all negative real numbers. We have to draw the graph where x is less than minus 14. Now this portion on the number line which is to the left of minus 14 contains values which are less than minus 14. Also minus 14 is not included in the solution set. So we draw an open circle at minus 14. Now we shade the portion to the left of minus 14 on the number line. The shaded portion contains values which are less than minus 14. We know that there exist infinitely many real numbers which are less than minus 14. So the shaded continues indefinitely to the left. So the shaded portion on the number line represents the graph of solution set. And this open circle at minus 14 means minus 14 is not included. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


My name is John McWalker, but before I get into my talk in a minute, I wanted to take a minute or two and let the speakers introduce the topics that we'll be talking about later today.  So, Tycho. Okay. Tycho, do you want to stand up and just sort of tell everybody what you're going to talk about? Sorry, I didn't know this part would be recorded. I'm going to talk a little bit about AlexD, which is a project that we announced.  So, I think gentlemen up there, raise your hand. Oh, there we go. Perfect. Thank you.  So I'm going to be talking about the challenges and solutions to some problems that we had while we were building a containerized architecture at LIFX. And what is your name again? Daniel Hull. Thank you. Any other speakers for today? Come on down and introduce yourselves. That's okay. We'll give you a chance to get later. All right. Thanks. Okay. So, like I said, my name is John Mark Walker. We're going to be talking about hybrid cloud management and in particular what we're doing around the ManageIQ project to address the problem of how do you control all the things? How do you automate across multiple cloud platforms? How do you orchestrate across multiple cloud platforms? And how we're addressing that with ManageIQ. The concepts behind this, well, really this talk is in two parts. The first part is sort of the reason and impetus for why we're doing ManageIQ. And then the second part is what we're doing community-wise to address to create a larger and more dynamic community around ManageIQ. So, there's a technical part and a community focus. But first, let's get along, let's go into who needs management. Management is such a loaded term. Everyone hates word management, at least I do. I don't know about you, but usually it's used in negative connotation. Either it's used to talk about some large, enterprise-y piece of software that nobody likes and hates to administer, or it talks about, you know, management, food chain, and how everyone, you know, dislikes the management they work for. Regardless, the term is kind of overloaded these days. So, on one hand it's needed and necessary, on the other hand, you know, no one likes to use it. So, who needs management? Well, unfortunately, as we go forward, especially when we talk about all the different components that make up the modern data center, the different public clouds, the private cloud platforms, the containers, the virtualization platforms that we all have to use. Unfortunately, that requires something extra above, sitting above that, to be able to bring it all together.  And then, you know, everyone likes a good fluffy mascot, so I figured why not a sheep? Because, you know, sheeps need shearing. The sheep has kind of become the default mascot for Managed IQ because there's a story behind that, because one of our features that we like to talk about is called virtual machine fleecing. We talk about virtual machine fleecing as in sitting on the hypervisor and taking all the information out of the guest that's sitting on the hypervisor, and we call that fleecing ergo sheep because fleecing, anyway. So, there you go. I didn't say it was a good story. I just said there was a story. So, when we look at, this is a very bad diagram to describe what I've noticed over the last 15 years I've been involved in open source software of how things follow a certain pattern. And there are two aspects of this pattern. There's the initial technology thing that it's cool that everyone likes and becomes ubiquitous. And then there's the need to bring that thing under control and integrate it into the systems that we all use and enjoy every day and make some sort of, make it something that has clarity that we can all manage and use appropriately. And then the second part of that is the management tools we use to bring these initial disruptors under control, those things also follow the same pattern.  They first started to make the headway into data centers. Later on, virtualization started to become a very big thing. These days, we're talking about, you know, Docker and containers. They become this hot new technology that hobbyists, developers, leading edge people, start to play around with and start to use seriously in some way. But they're not, you know, initially, at least, they're not something that you do core work with. Over time, though, they get adopted more widely, a lot of times as part of Skunkworks projects that aren't officially blessed by management, but they make their way inside the data center anyway. Linux and open source in general followed this general pattern for many years. For many years, Linux and other open source tools flew under the radar, as everyone in this room knows. But then they start to proliferate. And over time, they become a problem if you're, say, a CIO type or an administrator who likes to keep things under control. It's a problem for you because you can't control it. These things are under your radar until they're not. And then how do you address them? Chaos and then control. And control is usually when some IT guy says, I need to have a management tool for this thing. So you have the technology that follows that cycle, and then you have the management tool comes in. And for a while, you had the open source technologies that followed this cycle, and then you had proprietary management frameworks that sat on top of them to bring some cohesion to the whole story. But now we're coming to a point where this cycle happened so quickly and with so many pieces of technology, how do you keep up with it all? If you had the old proprietary large behemoth frameworks, you could do that, but recently, it's become even more problematic because just the sheer amounts of technology and the speed at which they flow. So how can you control that with a proprietary management framework? Well, you can't really. And that's where something like Managed IQ comes in. And now we're introducing Managed IQ as an open source manager of managers, and it's going to follow the same cycle. And now we're ending up with a set of management tools that follow the same cycle that was usually reserved for these early stage technologies, where you're looking at OpenStack, you're looking at all the different open source virtualization management platforms, you're looking at things like Managed IQ. These things are starting to follow the same pattern, but they're used to manage other open source components. It's kind of completing the circle. I understand that this diagram really poorly illustrates the concept of trying to get across here. So if you have, if you know any designer friends who could do this much better than I did, please do contact me after the talk. And so why are we doing this open source? Why are we doing an open source management tool? Why is that important to everyone? And the way I like to talk about open source is it's the revenge of the customer. It's the revenge of the end user. Open source is about the end user rising up to the same level as the vendor or developer. And it's this kind of shift that's come about because the freedoms that are granted by open source and free software that allows everyone to sit at the table on equal terms. And this is kind of the biggest shift that's happened in computing over the last 15 years. Just another word on this. It's, this is what makes things like OpenStack, like Linux, the open source virtualization tools that we all know and love, the containerization. It's what makes it all possible and used. That's why we have the need for open source management tools in addition to all the other stuff. So now back to the kind of main topic at hand, hybrid cloud computing. First of all, the question that is obvious is, who needs it, who uses it? There's obviously an interest in it because no one wants to have one platform to rule them all. Everyone has multiple things that they have to use, managed because of whatever decisions have been made in the past that are impossible to remove completely. No one's going to go in Greenfield, remove, rip and replace and have this one thing that everyone uses. People will talk about migration to public clouds, but frankly, no one is going to be using Amazon 100% of the time. No one is going to be using a single OpenStack distribution 100% of the time. No one is going to be using a single version of anything 100% of the time. So therefore, if you're using virtualization and cloud products at all, you're going to be using them in a hybrid environment. Whether you're talking about VMware and the vSphere and public cloud tools or OpenStack or some other virtualization platform, you're going to have to be using them together. You're going to have to build applications that talk to all of them. You're going to have to have administrative tools that speak to all of them. You're going to have to create some sort of coherent interface that users, admins and developers can speak to without too much trouble. And it's a bit problematic. To further continue the questionnaire that is illustrated on this chart, a lot of the issues around clouds and hybrid cloud management, a lot of them are technology problems. They can be solved by technology solutions. Some of them can't. You'll notice that some of the challenges have to do with culture. And I'm sad to say that there is no technology solution for culture problems. But a lot of these things do have some technology solutions at hand. When it comes to management and operational processes, there is a solution to that in the form of better administrative tools that can help you deal with that. Better security models, there are things that you can do to architect better security in your data center across all your platforms. There is no cure for politics. What is it? The eighth layer of networking. And so when you think of cloud, you think of all these different things that come together. Everyone thinks about self-servicing. Everyone thinks about workload management, application deployment, lifecycle management, all these pieces make up a cloud. When you really think of all the different components together, it's impossible to use a single platform to manage them all, at least from a central location, without kind of the manager of managers, without some kind of abstracted framework that sits above it all, that allows you to manage it in one place. So let's think of, from the administrator's point of view, they have several different applications running on several different stacks. How do they address them all? How do they deal with them all? You've got your open stack-based applications and virtual machines over here. You've got your public cloud-based applications and services over there. It's kind of problematic for an admin to have to deal with each one of those individually, and it becomes, frankly, a waste of time. The same can be said for developers or end users. If an end user just wants to pull resources to do part of their job, where do they go to do that? If a developer wants to write an application to do something that is deployed internally at work or wherever they need to do, which platform do they use? How do they actually access it? What kind of service catalog lets them do their job without having to worry about what sits behind that? And let's not forget the fact that I have five logos here. Each of those represents a different API. Each of those represents a different administrative interface, a different dashboard, a different set of workflows. There is no cohesive workflow in this situation. And so hence the need for a cloud manager, hence the need for something that sits between the end user, developer admin, and the set of services you want to use, deploy, manage, et cetera. There is clearly demand for this. There's clearly a need for the ability to abstract one top of an existing set of frameworks. But it's more than just deployment. It's also about how do you delegate which parts are accessible to which people? Which parts do your developers need? Which parts do your admins need? How do you influence our backs? How do you implement a service catalog? How do you make it completely self-service so that it's as easy to use as possible? So when you dive into this a little bit more in detail, it's more than just how do I create a template that deploys a VM on Amazon? Or how do I create a template that allows me to deploy in our VMware instance? Again, it's about workflow management, quota management. How do you integrate into your financial systems? How can you convey to everyone from management to end users how much of the quota you're using, how much money each of these pieces is costing?  How do you implement this in the context of a hierarchy of people that have different access levels, our backs? And so there are many pieces to this puzzle. And as much as I'd like to say that there's one tool rule of the mall in the form of Managed IQ, the fact of the matter is it's extremely complicated. It's not an easy problem to solve. As many of you know, who have to administer this sort of thing, it's not easy to get beyond. And now with the arrival of more and more people moving to the microservices model, more people moving to the container model, there's yet another layer here that needs to be managed and sort of brought under the fold. Just a quick survey of people here. How many of you today use public cloud services, whether it's Amazon or some other? Yeah, okay, that's kind of what I thought. How many of you have VMware instances that you have to manage somewhere? Okay, open stack, docker. Nice. So yeah, no one's going to use in one of those 100% of the time. And some of them are going to be used to manage others. I mean, VMware isn't making a play to have container management be part of future products. Everyone seems to be jumping on the container train. So yes, it's a complex beast. And there are different trade-offs when you want to abstract away above the individual platform, the trade-offs between usability and finer grained features and functions that inevitably have to be made. But we're confident that managed IQ as a tool is useful to admins who have to do multiple platforms at the same time. So when you think of cloud operations, how am I doing in time? Oh, okay, good. When you think of cloud operations, a lot of people think of just provisioning. If cloud operations were just about provisioning, this problem would have been solved five years ago because it's much more than that. There is a history of cloud brokers being used to deploy different applications and services on single or multiple clouds. That's been done many times. It's much more nuanced and complex than that because after you deploy, what then? How do you deal with security exploits that inevitably come about? You've got these massively scaled-out applications and architectures that encompass multiple platforms. How do you deal with the fact that, say, half of your virtual machines could now be vulnerable to a specific attack? How do you architect around that? How can you do that without suffering a service outage? These are all things that inevitably come up. How do you end of life a service without disrupting the delivery of that service? How do you deploy or provision based on specific parameters that are designed to enhance the experience of the person who has to use those services? They're all part of the same puzzle. And this is where a tool like Manage IQ is built, is what it's built for. Of course, it's not without some work. There's a little bit of customization that has to be done. But out of the box, this is the problem that it's designed to solve, which is the complete lifecycle management of cloud and virtualization platforms. So, any questions so far, any comments or anything like that? Otherwise, all. Sorry. Yeah. The guy behind it, there you go. Just to make it more okay. Hi. Go ahead. We're looking at sort of cherry picking some of the features across some of the different cloud providers using cache servers based on Amazon, database servers hosted elsewhere. So, do you see this sort of blended operations console helping someone like my organization? So, I'm sorry, I didn't catch that last point. We're using services from different cloud providers. Right. Cloud Foundry from Amazon. Okay. Front-end caching and stuff. Database servers in other areas. And then our own private data center stuff. So, we have this mesh of nodes running in different physical locations in different cloud operation facilities. Do you see this technology working in that way? Consumably, yes. There are certain, in the managed IQ space, we call anything that offers a service a provider. And so, it comes with certain built-in providers that let you deal with compute and storage from say AWS or vSphere or some other platform. In the PAS space, we have not yet built specific connectors to any specific PAS. Although, as you can imagine, we are all working on that, especially in the context of containers and those who want to manage Docker at a very large scale. So, I guess the answer is not yet, but frankly, today you could create that if you wanted to. One of the things we're working on right now, and I'll get into this more and why I get into the community portion of this, we're working on a way to make it easier for people to create providers, new providers for the managed IQ dashboard so that if you want to fit in new providers, it's much easier to do that. It's not there yet, but the code is being developed as we speak and should be at least ready for initial consumption in say a month or two for the next release. And I'll get into that in a bit. But yeah, that's precisely the thing we want to solve and for a lot of different services and providers we're there and for some we're not. And that's one of those we'll be working towards providing. So let's go to the community vision. Why are we doing this? For one thing, open source is what Red Hat does. We've done it an entire existence. Managed IQ was something that we acquired in late 2012. It was the only proprietary piece of software that Red Hat had until this past June when we finally open sourced it. Our customers expect us to open source things and if we don't, they start to ask why because we've conditioned them to expect open source products from Red Hat. But also because we open sourced Managed IQ because there was no single player in this space that had really had a large market share. We looked at it as something that had significant demand and that there was no one really at the moment meeting that demand. And so thus the reason for open sourcing Managed IQ. One thing we wanted to do was we wanted to make sure it wasn't open core. Let me get a little bit short on time so I'll breeze through these.  We don't like that model. We look at the open source community as a place for people to have the freedom to fail where any idea can be presented, anything can be done. It's up to the user or developer to implement it and make it happen. If it works great, if it doesn't, well, so be it, we can all learn from that. But the important thing is to make it accessible to everyone in the community so that if someone has an idea, anyone can bring it forward and actually work on it and collaborate on it with other developers. But really it's about making that open source upstream as dynamic and active as possible because that's how the software improves and that's how we all learn from and grow from it. And so we went through this process and there was a, frankly it was kind of a, if you've never actually taken a proprietary product open source, I highly recommend you start because you learn all sorts of things that you didn't know previously. All sorts of things that need to be replaced because they're licensed by third parties, things that can't be open sourced and so you have to rewrite them. It's a very instructive process to go through. In particular, if you're talking with the same developer team that built the proprietary tool and they've never dealt with open source before, that adds another dimension to the whole thing. I wrote an article about it on opensource.com if you wanna search my name there. So what we've done today, we open sourced it in June. The first release, we had the first major release in August, it's the Anand release. We're naming our releases after chess grandmasters, so the first release is Anand, named after Anand Vishwanathan, which I probably just butchered. The next one's gonna be Botvinnik, which is named after a Soviet chess grandmaster from the 50s. We went to market with about nine different partners. We've added a couple more since then, a couple of them based in Australia. And we wanted to be clear that this is for, again, getting back to one of the previous slides about open source being about the revenge of the customer and the end user. We want this to be a community that's useful to both end users as well as developers. We want people to be able to use it to do real work, whether or not they pay us any money. And we want developers to feel that this is something that they can contribute to you openly and something where all ideas are given credence if they're good. And the ultimate plan is, we can only do so much as with a core team. We wanna grow that core team to include others, particularly non-red headers. We want to basically create something that's greater than the sum of its parts, depending on the traction that we get with different partners, depending on how much other organizations and institutions want to contribute to the project. Because we went from being this tiny little startup to being a red hat acquired company. At each stage, we added resources and now we're open source and we're looking to really make an impact on the cloud management space. Because frankly, when you look at the pain that people have to deal with, systems management used to be about, we've got these bare mill machines and we've got these software installed in each one and that was bad enough. But now systems management is about that even to the extreme, where it's not just your bare metal pieces but all these other pieces that sit anywhere around the world and frankly you don't even know where they are at any given time around the world. But you still have to make sense of it and you still have to make reliable applications based on that that stay up at all times. And when we look at developers we want to work with, we're thinking in terms of how can we fill the gaps? What are things that we need to work on? How can we tie all this stuff together in a way in some sort of cohesive narrative that makes sense to end users and developers? How can we make their lives easier? How can we make life easier for developers who want to write to a RESTful API, just one RESTful API without having to worry about 10? How can we make life easier with a comprehensive dashboard for admins? How do we make it easier for users just pick and choose the things they want without having to worry about all the things that go underneath that? A little bit on roadmap so before I wrap up here. Like I mentioned we had a non-release in late August early September. The bot Vinnick release is coming up in March slash April, somewhere around that timeframe. Some of the features we're working on include better support for Hyper-V. We're looking at a better RBAC security model. We're looking at another thing here that I didn't mention. We look is the part about making providers more pluggable. So if you want to create, if you want to allow access to different service providers you can do that more easily. That could be coming online, like I mentioned, in a month or two. And then it'll be part of the next bot Vinnick release. Oh there we go. So the other thing we've done recently is we've, for about five years, we had this really good SOAP API. We always like to brag about our SOAP API. Not many people talk about SOAP APIs anymore. So we wrote it, replaced it with this Russell API that is hopefully something that people can use to script things together across all their different cloud platforms. And we've also looked at adding more support for cloud formations, pieces of orchestration, like heat, being another obvious example. We're looking at ways to work with, integrate with Tosca. Different things that make it easier for people to deal with orchestration across multiple platforms. We had our first design summit in October. We had representatives from 17 companies, seven countries and three continents converge on lovely Mawa, New Jersey, which is not a place that people go to do anything, frankly. But we had over 70 people come to talk about the NGIQ and the development roadmap for the botvinic release. It was pretty well received. There was a lot of enthusiasm for it. We're looking at hosting the next one in April and in Washington, DC. For those of you who are US based, great. If you're not, start planning now and save your dates. One of our partners, Booz on Hamilton was instrumental in putting this together and they'll be hosting the next version in April. So we'll look forward to that. These are the founding partners. Since this time, since I put this slide together, we've added two more. So I'll have to throw them in the next version of the slide deck so that they don't go unmentioned. And that's essentially it. I think that takes up my time, but I can field I think one or two questions before I roll it to the next speaker. Is there anyone with any questions or? One, okay, two. Try and squeeze two simple ones. First, what language is it written in? Ah, it's Ruby. It's a Rails application. Okay. Second, to manage lots of different virtualization systems, you'd need a lot of different, you'd have to, I mean, is it possible to be genuinely useful across many kinds of systems that have, you know, very different kinds of aims and purposes and, you know, to cover them all? Or are there big gaps? And that's why I mentioned that there are trade-offs. What you're getting for ease of use, you're giving up, say, some features and functionality that are unique to an individual platform. Yeah, you can't cover everything. So that's really up to the individual as to whether it's a trade-off worth making. Having said that, you know, obviously there are tools and places in Managed IQ that you can compensate for that. It just requires some customization. So it really depends on which project you're working on and what exactly you need to do. Hi, yes. I'm curious about what you say, the removal of the proprietary libraries. I'm sorry. Yes. Further down, okay. Removal of proprietary libraries. Oh, proprietary libraries, yes. That's what I say. Oh, yeah. So did you follow any specific process or you just say, okay, we need to get rid of everything? We, I mean, I think initially, we tried to work with the vendors, those libraries to see if we could talk to them about open sourcing it. And when that failed, we said, okay, we have to rewrite it. And that's why it took us probably, you know, over a year from the time that we decided to open source it to the actual release, a lot of it was just, a lot of them had to do with like the UI components. Like a lot of those UI, you know, JavaScript libraries were proprietary and we had to just rewrite them to do the dashboard. So a lot of it was dashboard specific. This stuff that was underneath the dashboard was pretty much all stuff that we wrote. So open sourcing them was, you know, not an issue because we owned the licensing, the copyright. But the third part of libraries, I think there were three of them and they were all sort of dashboard UI focused. And those are the parts we had to rewrite. We used a couple of different things. And there's one in particular that we, an open source tool that we used developed out of Hungary and I'm missing the name, but if I can think of it all, I'll tell you. Thanks. I'm forgetting. Oh, ah, okay, excellent. All right, thank y'all.


Happy August everyone! August has now arrived and if you're anything like me this means that your clients have seemed to have gone away for a while. In fact if you have clients or potential clients or if you're located in well pretty much all of Europe, Latin America and let's face it you know the US and August is just a month where not much happens. You know it's a month where most of my clients the people I deal with are in Switzerland and Italy. August 1st is Switzerland's national holiday. August 15th is Ferragosto in Italy which is you know the biggest holiday and pretty much all of August anyone. Anyway everyone is going to the beach or they're going somewhere where they can get some sun anyway so you're not going to find anyone during August. Right now I'm in the States and it seems like it's sort of like that too and I'm reminded because I'm dressed like this because I had a meeting today but it's pretty much the only one I have scheduled for August. You know this is a period where not much is going on and so you might feel like well you know maybe you're frustrated because not much is going on. On the other hand you're thinking well it's August so I might as well take it easy relax like everyone else is doing until September or you could not I think you know where I'm going with this so I've said it in a couple other videos. Let me just tell you my example and tell you what I do. August is a time for me to regroup and to start planning. August for me is when I can decide what I'm going to start doing in September so I can hit the ground running and so what I've been doing here I'm in a new city so I'm you know exploring and not knowing what's going on so if you're in a place that you know well then it's even better what you can start doing is looking to see what will be going on in you know basically any time after August. It's a great time to schedule meetings. I've been looking up at conferences going on that I can attend and you know where my clients are likely to be meetups and internations stuff like that chambers of commerce you know here like I'm looking at the European Chamber of Commerce and stuff like that because you never know I deal with financial translations so I see what's going on the finance world again nothing's happening in August but starting September a lot will be happening so right now I'm trying to get in as many of these as I can find as many of these as I can and trying to schedule all these meetings around here. Some of these are in different cities or I have to go somewhere so I'm trying to see if I can schedule also other meetings with people you know while I'm in that area. Suffice it to say this is a time when you should be trying to plan ahead and the only reason I say this is because everyone else is relaxing so this is your chance to actually get ahead of the competition this is your chance to kind of be doing something while they're not and you can start seeing results because of this right because you can relax like everyone else but then you're going to start over like everyone else you know you're going to be basically in everyone else's shoes and this kind of gives you a chance to go a step further ahead so for me it's a great time to plan all these meetings and these face-to-face meetings. Now I've been asked a couple times if face-to-face meetings are necessary now this could be because maybe you're in an area where there are no other people around or it's very hard to meet other people or it's very hard for you to go and meet other people you don't have a car there's not public transportation around or maybe you really just don't like meeting people face-to-face so here's my advice for you first of all if you're not comfortable with it go out and do it I'm not comfortable with it I hate and I've hated it you know and I've tried to find all these other ways to get around it at the end of the day I figured okay it's one of those things that I have to conquer and I have to go so for a while what I would do what I kind of still do is every for every business card I get I try to treat myself with something right so it could be anything you like an extra glass of wine or an ice cream but decide I have time okay I'm going to treat myself for yeah every business card I get or every meeting one-on-one meeting I can set up or anything along those lines just as a motivation to to to go to these meetings to try to network a bit you should really try to meet face-to-face however some of you still won't or can't because it's just physically impossible or your clients aren't around where you live or you're somewhere else but you can still take this month to plan ahead for example once again something that I'm doing is an email plan I'm trying to target people I can try to do business with like I said I'm in a new place I'm in a new area I don't really know what I'm going to be targeting around here so I have a set number of emails that I send one is an introductory email and and then a couple other emails that I send why do I do this why do I send a couple emails because I want to be a bit different unfortunately a lot of people receive unsolicited emails and I can say this as someone who's setting up a translation agency I receive a ton of emails like every day I receive multiple emails from people saying hey I'm a Swedish-English translator here's my CV hey you know I do great Russian to German translations here's my CV something like that so my advice to you is I mean sure you can do that basically there you're working the number someone needs your language combination soon enough and they're going to hire you unfortunately everyone that comes to me I respond to them and I like to have them in my database but I don't have that many opportunities going on and most unless you're a huge agency that has all this stuff going on you don't have that many opportunities unless face of the huge agencies they already have plenty of translators so they're not looking for new translators so it's very hard to get in the door that way and to differentiate yourself and so what I've been trying to do is contact potential clients with something that can help them now I say this and I'm not sure exactly how to go about it as a freelance translator when you're targeting agencies but try to put yourself in their shoes I can tell you as an agency I mean yeah you always want good translators obviously you want good reliable trustworthy translators who are very good at their job but you also need them when you need them there might be the best translator out there a Swedish to German translator out there but I can't use him or her unfortunately because you know I have no need for that what I always need and what I can always use as clients oh actually if you could contact an agency with a potential client I mean yeah then they'll definitely be interested I'm not saying you'll have a potential client but maybe you can spot opportunities for them or you'd say hey look these people haven't translated their website into any different languages I can translate it from Swedish into English but if you can find other translators to do the other languages this could be a great opportunity for you so how about we work together on this and we figure something out anyway this is really just off the top of my head but if you can contact translation agencies and you have something to offer them more than you're a great translator if you can contact them with something else that you can offer as well then that would be great another thing you could do is say hey I'm a great Swedish to English translator but I work with this other French to English a German to English and Italian to English translator and we work together so if you need me or if you need these other languages we'll be happy to work with you that also can be really attractive to a potential client so anyway just try to think outside the box try to find ways and this is the time to do it take August obviously don't bombard them with email after email after email because that never gets you anywhere but something like that just so you stand out so they remember you would would probably be very good and then anyway that's just an idea but this is a time to formulate a strategy like that take August to do that because this is a great time to do that in essence what I'm saying is that you take August to prepare so you can hit the ground running come September this is either for face-to-face meetings for email marketing or for whatever you might have just so you can keep going of course you should not forget that jobs do happen in August of course so you should be on the lookout for potential jobs in August one good thing is that you'll have less competition let's face it most the translators are out there with everyone else on the beach right now or they're up in the countryside or anyway they're taking August off they're taking it easy in August they're relaxing chillaxing chilling out doing whatever they do during this time so you can kind of like get a leg up by actually keeping track of who needs translations and when also remember people who need translations in August they probably need it a bit more urgently than someone in in September they need something done in August it means they're in the office and they kind of need it done now obviously this depends from the situation to situation but chances are you're going to have less competition and maybe you could even charge a bit more and or anyway do that at your own risk I don't know it obviously it depends on a myriad of details but August is a great time to keep an eye out for potential jobs but also just for preparing so that come September you can get going like I said I love what I do anyway and so this to me is a great time to try different strategies to try to you know experimental let's try this like the email marketing strategy the meeting face to face to this that and the other and I can formulate a whole precise plan and then come September I can see if it works out or if it doesn't and so it's pretty interesting anyway I hope you find this useful and I hope it's useful to me I'll let you know how it works out for me and if you did find this useful please don't 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Hello there! It's Sandy Alnok and today I have a really simple forest scene to show you with a fun technique for this background. I've had my watercolor pencils out in what feels like ages so I thought I would color up this cute little gnome from Trinity called Hello There. They do have another gnome in the series that's just been released so you can check that out. I will link both of them in the doobly-do supply list because you might be a gnome person and collect all of the gnome stamps. I love that these all have giant beards, like beards that are so long they take over everything really cute. The background that I'm going to be doing with this is taking my Albrecht Dora watercolor pencils and running the tip of the pencil through a t-strainer. You may have seen me do this technique with colored pencils but it also works with watercolor pencils. It's gonna stick wherever the water is as long as I don't go messing around with the areas that are not so don't spray after you do this. But I'm going to take a brush and move the color around in a deliberately uneven fashion. That's the beauty of this idea is that you don't have to be able to paint well in order to make this work. So I'm just throwing in color lighter, brighter green up at the top where the sunshine is coming from and darker green down at the bottom just going carefully around the image and then dry it completely including blowing off any excess pigment, little flecks of anything that may have gotten onto the image itself. So then it comes time for coloring everything else. The color list by the way is over on the blog if you want to know what colors they are. These are the Albrecht Dora watercolor pencils that I'm using and I'm using three colors for the beard and I use three colors sometimes. Part of it is that I'm just used to doing that with my Copics. You can get away with putting a dark color down in the shadow area and then using water to move the rest of the color or you can get really intense color by filling the image with a lot of color. So I'm using three colors to really saturate it and even one of them is a bright yellowish color which means it's going to have lots of sunshine hitting it as well. The background even though it looks a little washed out because of the camera is relatively intense and I wanted to make sure the colors on the image were way way way more intense so that the background falls back into the distance a little bit more. So I am using my silver brush. The first one that I had used for the background was the number 12 round and this one is the number eight round. So if you're looking for the size brushes those those two show kind of the sorts of things you can do with them. Larger brushes tend to use for larger things when I want to get loose and washy. The leaves down at the bottom I actually ended up painting over when I did the background so then I can just add a little bit of a shadow with the dark green color and then I wanted a blue green hat for it. I want to leave some white highlight on the top and when I went into this at first I wasn't sure how much color that I wanted to put in and I did want more than this. I could have done the strainer thing and added more color to it but I decided to just wait until it was dry and add another layer to it in a little bit. But in the meantime at least have the first layer of color down here so got some color building up. While I'm sitting here working on this I'll let you know that this month August of 2020 the sale classes over on my teaching site are all the watercolor pencil and color pencil classes. So if you're interested in learning more about using them that's a great place to start and there'll be a link in the doobly-doo. You can always check that anytime of year though I'll always have different classes on the sale page just to keep things exciting and give you a little discount if you need that in order to get some art training into you. So with the flowers I have a bright yellow that's on the top of each petal and then I put an orange toward the bottom and a very tiny bit of a very dark orange to increase that contrast. So I really wanted the feeling of the sunshine flowing in from the top of the picture and so having some bright sunshine colors is helpful. The set of pencils has a little bit of a flesh tone color in it so I've colored the skin with that and here I am adding the next layer of the watercolor pencil onto the hat and just kind of smoothing those things out little by little. Pretty satisfied with how this flower and gnome is coming along so far. He is very tiny but he's sitting on a very tall in my mind, a very tall flower and I was trying to figure out what I was going to do with the background and I love what I ended up doing with it but I also thought I'd let you know I had some other ideas. I was thinking about doing some doodling down the left and right side to add a whole bunch of flowers and vines. You could stamp other flowers and stuff and give it more of a wild jungle kind of look but what I ended up doing is so simple. Just taking a sharpie which is waterproof so I can watercolor right over top of it and I'm just going to make lines up and down. They're not straight lines, they should be a little kitty wampus to indicate that it's wood. You could even make some knots which would be swirling around in a long tall oval and make some sort of a knot in the tree and I have my image stamped a little bit off to the left. I tend to not put things right in the center either so the tree on the left hand side is going to actually go a little bit behind this gnome so that the flower sticks out into it and that's going to make it look like the tree is behind him rather than being out in front of him or beside him. It just adds a little bit more interest design wise into the scene and if you start at the outer edges you can kind of just keep making lines until you're satisfied with how wide your trees are. You could make really really wide trees or you can make tall skinny tree trunks whatever kind of ports with your design might depend somewhat on the image that you're using and whether or not you need big trees or small trees but as you can see he ended up being like he's in this really super tall forest so he's on a flower that's really really tall because there are no tree trunks on this so you have to have an image that would suit something like that where it would feel like he's uh he's flying high up in the air. If you have any flying fairies they might be especially good images for something like this but this sweet little gnome certainly works and the coloring of the trees is so very simple it's just one color and you could go with several colors in it and merge several colors together but on something like this I wanted the gnome to be the big thing so I wanted the background to fade into the distance and these trees to mostly be a frame I love contrast and I love how after this was all dried and the colors all settled in that it just felt like a nice rich image with really strong contrast and I decided I was just gonna put the sentiment on it from the other gnome set that I thought was really cute and leave it at that and not do anything else to it just put it on a card all by itself no embellishments no nothing just stamp it and go and put that it's a really fun little card that you might enjoy so I hope you enjoyed this if you did click the like button share it with your friends and if you're interested in taking any watercolor pencil or colored pencil classes the link is in the doobly-doo as well as all the supplies see you guys later bye bye


XP, something else to grind for, Battle Passer levels, additional artifact levels, they both require a ton of XP to level them up. Today we'll discuss the fastest ways in earning XP. How's it going guys? My name's DP Jenner, I'd like to thank you for stopping by and checking out the video. If you do enjoy it leave a like, truly help me out and subscribe if you want to see more daily Destiny 2 videos. Okay so the one strat I am seeing many people use, which is super efficient is the Moon, Eris Morn, Bounties, being spammed out in lost sectors and so forth, at least one teammate, which alone gives you an XP boost when cashing in said Bounties. This strat is super effective for sure and does indeed reward you some great XP gains. Obviously depending on the Bounty she has I mean they can be done pretty quickly and the fact she has 5 additional Bounties, which you can constantly pick up and spam out, this indeed makes for a super efficient XP farm. Now the other method which I think might even be quicker is PvP. Now I know not all of you like PvP, but if you do, grinding PvP rewards a ton of XP. Now I ain't the biggest fan, I won't lie, but PvP within season 8 feels a ton better for some reason, besides the annoying Erion as well. But if you can live with that I mean you earn serious XP, for a loss within quick play you gain 6k XP, winning almost 10k and this isn't including the XP you can earn within the game getting kills and assistance off. Plus guys there are daily and weekly Bounties you can pick up and easily complete and then there are the constant 5 you can keep grabbing from shacks, which consist of super easy requirements for even more XP. Now either one of these two strats will earn you a ton of XP, there's no two which ways about it, it just depends at the end of the day which you prefer to do, PvP which isn't as bad as it was, so running PvP, cashing in Bounties, ranking up, earning even more XP, playing with teammates, stacking that XP gains or constantly running Eris Morn Bounties in that lost sectors and so forth. I know which one I'd rather do, but that's just me people, I'd rather play PvP. Now we'll state the XP gains I'm talking about with me just playing Clash, you could earn even more for playing Survival 3v3 competitive, I do not know, but playing PvP having fun at the same time, completing Bounties, cashing them in, ranking up Evalu as well, I mean you do gain a ton of XP, but either way guys I'm pretty sure sooner or later another method will be found which consists of even easier requirements, but right here right now this is all we have, we know the battle pass gives additional XP bonuses, but at the end of the day it's still going to take quite a grind to level up, and with every artifact level it seems that the XP just goes up a massive amount. So yeah guys do what you gotta do, but in my opinion these are the best two methods in levelling up and gaining the XP at the moment, and on that note we have come to the end of the video, if you guys enjoyed it leave a like really helps out, if you are new around here and want to see more daily Destiny 2 videos be sure to subscribe, and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button, but guys thanks as always for stopping by, hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next, one.


Gwbodaeth yma Sam Taylor ac yw'r cyllidol yn ôl i'r oedd yn gweithio'r tynnologiaeth yn fawr o Cranffordi Gwbodaeth, ond mae gennych nôl dw i'n stymlu. Mae yna'r cyfnod yn wneud o'r wath fyrdd o'r sgwrs ac mae'n gweithio'n cyfnod o'r gweithio. Mae gennyddiad Moodle ac Mahara. Mae gwaith y cyfrifioedd ymateb o'r cyflwyno sy'n gweithio. Rwy'n gweithio'n cyfrifioedd Moodle, oedd y gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. ac oeddiwch, a bwyddolch. Felly rydym yn cael ei bwysig. Mae'r mwyaf yn ôl o'r sgwmwysig yn dechrau, ac mae'r medriyr yn llunio'r mwyaf mwyaf, ac mae'r dweud o'r modiwch. Wel, mwyaf o wahanol yw'r modiwch yw ddydd yn mwyaf ar y llwyddiad. Y modiwch weithio'n oedd yma yw'r systeimlau o'r digwydd Llywodraeth. Ym hyfforddol yw'r systeimlau o'r systeimlau o'r llwyddiad. The, as part of the students brief, they are building many robots out of Lego to detect threat packages and supply packages and it's all made out of Lego so they're looking at the systems design and actually hands-on designing Lego robots as part of the module. If you want to find out more, the academic who delivers the course has created a page ac yn ei fod yn gallu gweld i'r bydd. Felly mae gennym ei lliwyddiadau meddwl o'r gweld. Ymddangos ymddangos, y cadym gwirionedd y modiul yw'r cerddordeb. Mae'r bwrth o'r portfoliw. Mae'r ddim yn ymddangos i fynd i'w gael i'ch hefyd. Roedd y modiul yn ei gael i'ch gael i chi? Mae'r byddai'n ei gael i'ch gael i'ch gael i'ch gael i'ch gael i'ch gael i'ch gael i'ch gael i'ch modiul. Felly, we looked at how we can use an online collaborative space as opposed to just where documents submitted to 1018 assignments, which were flat and inspiring. There you go. So, we completely, we started from scratch, we looked at the assignment brief, we looked at the existing content and we thought, okay, how else can we do this? So, there's the three different environments that we looked at for this module. So, obviously we've got Moodle, it is the linchpin, it is the springboard where all the resources sit. So, very much the academic is in control of this Moodle platform. So, the pre-course activity, so the students get six weeks access before the module starts. So, they have things they have to do in Moodle before they come onto campus. There's the single sign-on links into the Mahara environment. There's the submission points used internally, and there's hidden links to each students portfolio page. And then the Mahara side, and this is pretty much the student space. So, it's the student group where they can come together and see all the bespoke resources that we as learning technologists have built for them. They have their own special separate group spaces to work together in. They're each given a template in their Mahara, and the resources were created for us specifically for that course as well. And then, of course, turn it in, we use it the same as pretty much everywhere else. However, in this instance, the students would submit one portfolio on behalf of the rest of their group. So, just very quickly, the timeline of events and the way the different systems work together. So, the pre-course activity, so this is the six weeks prior to the week-long module working. The students carry out pre-course activities that are provided to them via Moodle. They go into Mahara and they do a little bit of work. The reason why we get them to do this is because we're single sign-on. The student Mahara accounts don't get generated until they go into Mahara, which means we can't allocate them groups until they've generated their accounts. It's a bit backwards, but it's the only thing we've got at the moment. So, we put them into their groups. At the very beginning of the module, so they come in, so it's only a week, they are given a 15-minute sort of Mahara demo, what you're expected to do. However, it was meant to be a 50-minute hands-on induction, but the IT in the MOD is not very reliable. So, we couldn't run an induction, so it was just a very quick demo. So, Moodle was used as the hub where all the staff resources are, all the lecture slides, and then Mahara was used as the workbook within the group. Then, at the end, the students would save their Mahara page as a PDF, export it and submit it to turn it in for grading, and then the academics would grade the papers and provide the feedback, and then the students could download the grade mark forms and then share that within the Mahara forum. It's the page that we created to have the whole of the group, so at the bottom you can see all the members of the students as part of the group. They were added during the pre-activity, so we managed to get them all to do the pre-activity during the six weeks, added them to this page, and then added them to their individual group pages. On here, we've got the links to the forum for the course, but also the Get Started Now page, which is basically the help files that help page. This is what it looks like when I click on that green button. It's a bespoke support page that Sam created for this module. It includes a downloadable checklist with what they need to achieve to build their portfolio, and examples of live pages as well. It has steps to compiling their page, so it's got expandable sections with help they can dip into when they need, and how to export the Mahara portfolio as a PDF so they can submit as well. This page here is one of the groups which is to show you. It's got, again, the students at the bottom. They've got their task detailed with quick links as well, and a forum to communicate when they're not face-to-face, because they've got a lot of face-to-face time during the group, but they also have the option to use the forum. Finally, here is the template that we gave them. We gave all the groups the same template, and they chose to customise all not the template. This is what they started with. Each group had a completely different approach to using the e-portfolio. To begin with, they all have the same incident room. Each of the three groups had a classroom. You go in there, there's a logo in one corner, there's wires and cables in another corner, there's all the IT in another, and they used it as their incident room where they could test everything and record everything. Every group had their Mahara page open on the main projector, so everybody could see all the aims and objectives in front of them, and they knew exactly what it is they were trying to achieve in that session. All students said that they were able to contribute to it in lots of different ways, which was really, really great. However, when it actually came to using the Mahara platform, they had different approaches. One group had just one Mahara editor that sat at the computer and typed everything up and uploaded all the pictures for everybody. Another group had two that would do tag teams, so one would go and play with the Lego as they play. They're building robots, it's not playing really, they're learning. One would be on the computer, the other would be the Lego, and they'd swap, and then the other group, they all jumped on to the computer as and when they had an idea, and it was very, very exciting to watch, actually, as you go around the rooms watching them. Just so you can see, these are the three different robots that they made. They're very, very pretty, they're really cool, and they had a lot of fun, but they were learning. It's a master's programme. So you remember the template we showed you? Yeah, no. They didn't like it at all. They thought it was too constrained. But what they wanted is to have a long, continuous Word document. But at least it's a Word document. They can edit themselves, it's live, it's there, they can access it on lots of different platforms at the same time. They can embed video, they can do all sorts with it, but pretty much every single group had a long, long-sprawling page of death like this. What they did like as well is that they could actually embed their videos so that you couldn't do that in a Word document, you couldn't do that in a paper file to hand, so it gave them an opportunity to share other types of media. So if you're not used to Mahara or no Mahara, you can embed PDFs into the page, you can upload files, all those sorts of things in an actual page. So the students, when I actually spoke to them, so I went round the different incident rooms and spoke to them, they felt that the pre-task were too easy, that they didn't need a demonstration at the start of the module. They would be very happy if I just gave them an hour activity where they could go in, construct a page themselves, they'll know then how it all works, so they didn't actually need me at all, which was a shame. I quite enjoyed mine. They found it really, really easy to add text and images. If you've never used it, it's just a drag and drop, really simple. And they loved the files area in a group because they could all upload their content and then at the end they can review and add all the stuff that they wanted into the page. And they're also very grateful to be able to show videos and other media captured during the testing phase. So they get their phones out, record everything, chuck it up there, which you can't do on a bit of paper. Five minutes? We need four, that's all right. They found that a group review was easy because it was there open in front of them, they could all contribute and add to it, whereas before they'd all have their own laptops, write up their own notes, print it off, chuck it into a folder, and it just looked like five different people's bits of work rather than one piece of work. The Atto editor, there was a couple of issues, but it's probably to do with our system rather than the editor because it does work in other places. But we know about that so we can fix it. They asked, can they not use Turnitin? Because... Please. Yeah, and we'd love it if they didn't have to use Turnitin. So they felt that they were restricted to that one page. They would love to be able to use the functionality in Mahar like the different pages in the collection. They'd love to be able to add more media and build their own HTML blocks to put in there, but you couldn't do it. They could have done it. They were concerned that their lecturers wouldn't bother looking in the live one. They'd only look at whatever has been submitted to Turnitin. So it's not an option yet, but we'd like it to happen. The feedback from staff was very positive. They believed that the output was of better quality from all the students. They liked the fact that they had the secret URLs to look at the actual pages, which was the fear of the students. So there was no fear to have for the students, but obviously it was the first time they used that. They found some issues with the embedded PDF and videos, obviously because in Turnitin you can't open links and videos, so they have to go back to the URLs. But we've had a brilliant email from the member of staff actually saying we managed to do something which wasn't possible before. So thanks to the integration of the three systems, we actually managed to improve the collaborative work of the students, which is brilliant. So that is it. That's us. That's also us. You can find us on Twitter. Obviously questions aren't now, but we know that this is the Moodle conference, not Mahara one, so we don't want to bog down the questions with questions about Mahara, but we are very happy to answer them afterwards. Thank you.


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Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering IBM Think 2019, brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to Moscone Center, everybody. The new improved Moscone Center. We're at Moscone North, stop by and see us. I'm Dave Vellante, he's Stu Miniman. And Lisa Martin is here as well. John Furrier will be up tomorrow. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. This is day zero, essentially, Stu of IBM Think Day One. The big keynote start tomorrow. Chairman's keynote in the afternoon. Jamie Thomas is here. She's the general manager of IBM's System Strategy and Development at IBM. Great to see you again, Jamie. Thanks for coming on. Great to see you guys, as usual. And thanks for coming back to Think this year. You're very welcome. So I love your new role. You get to put on the binoculars, sometimes the telescope, look at the roadmap. You have your fingers in a lot of different areas and you get some advanced visibility on some of the things that are coming down the road. So we're really excited about that. But give us the update from a year ago. You guys have been busy. We have been busy. And it was a phenomenal year, Dave and Stu. Last year, I guess one of the pinnacles we reached is that we were named with our technology, our technology received the number one and two supercomputer ratings in the world. And this was a significant accomplishment, rolling out the number one supercomputer in Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the number two supercomputer in Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. And Summit, as it's called in Oak Ridge, is really a cool system. Over 9,000 CPUs, about 27,000 GPUs. It does 200 petaflops at peak capacity. It has about 250 petabytes of storage attached to it at scale. And to cool this guy, Summit, I guess it's a guy. I'm not sure if the denomination actually, it takes about 4,000 gallons of water per minute to cool the supercomputer. So we're really pleased with the engineering that we worked on for so many years in achieving these world records, if you will, for both Summit and Sierra. Well, it's not just bragging rights either, right, Jamie?  I mean, number one and number two, that's not easy. And not easy to sustain, of course, so you got to do it again. Right, right, it's not easy. But the good thing is the design point of these systems is that we're able to take what we created here from a technology perspective around Power 9 and of course the partnership we did with NVIDIA in this case and the software storage, and we're able to downsize that significantly for commercial clients. So this is the world's largest artificial intelligence supercomputer. And basically we're able to take that technology that we invented in this case because they ended up being one of our first clients, albeit a very large client, and use that across industries to serve the needs of artificial intelligence workloads. So I think that was one of the most significant elements of what we actually did here. And IBM has maintained a lot of, despite you guys selling off your microelectronics division years ago, you've maintained a lot of IP in the core processing and the design. You've also reached out, certainly with open power, for example, to folks you mentioned in NVIDIA, but embracing that alternative processor mode as opposed to trying to jam everything in the dye, different philosophy that IBM's taking. Yeah, we think that workload specific processing is still very much in demand. Workloads are going to have different dimensions and that's what we really have focused on here. I don't think that this has really changed over the last decades of computing. And so we're really focused on specialized computing, purpose built computing, if you will. Obviously using that on premise and also using that in our hybrid cloud strategies for clients that want to do that as well. What are some of the other cool things that you guys are working on that you can talk about? Well, I would say last year was quite an interesting year in that from a mainframe perspective, we delivered our first 19 inch form factor which allows us to fit nicely on a floor tile. Obviously it allows clients to scale more effectively from a data center planning perspective. Allows us to have a cloud footprint, but with all the characteristics of security that you would normally expect in a mainframe system. But really tailored towards new workloads once again. So Linux form factor and going after the new workloads that a lot of these cloud data centers really need. One of our first and foremost focus areas continues to be security around that system. And tomorrow there'll be some announcements that will happen around Z Security. I can't say what they are right now, but you'll see that we're extending security in new ways to support more of these hybrid cloud scenarios. Yeah, it's so funny. We were talking in one of our earlier segments talking about how the path of virtualization and trying to get lots of workloads into something and goes back to the device that could manage all workloads, which was the mainframe. So we've watched for many years system Z, lots of Linux on there. If you want to do some cool container, global Z, that's an option. So it's interesting to watch while the pendulum swings in IT have happened. The Z system has kept up with a lot of these innovations that have been going on in the industry. And you're right. One of our big focuses for the platform, for ZN Power, of course, is a container-based strategy. So we've created, you know, last year we talked about secure container technology and we continue to evolve secure container technology. But the idea is we want to eliminate any kind of friction from a developer perspective. So if you want to design in a container-based environment, then you're more easily able to port that technology or your applications if you will, to a Z mainframe environment if that's really what your target environment is. So that's been a huge focus. The other, of course, major invention that we announced at the Consumer Electronics Show is our Quantum System 1. And this represented an evolution of our quantum system over the last year. When we now have the world's really first self-contained universal quantum computer in a single form factor where we were able to combine the quantum processor, which is living in the dilution refrigerator, you guys remember the beautiful chandelier from last year, I think it's back this year. But this is all self-contained with its electronics in a single form factor. And that really represents the evolution of the electronics in particular over the last year where we were able to miniaturize those electronics and get them into this differentiated form factor. What should people know about quantum? When you see the demos, they explain it's not a binary one or a zero, it can be either a virtually infinite set of possibilities. But what should the lay person know about quantum and try to understand? Well, I think really the fundamental aspect of it is in today's world with traditional computers, they're very powerful, but they cannot solve certain problems. So when you look at areas like material science, areas like chemistry, even some financial trading scenarios, the problems cannot either not be solved at all or they cannot be completed in the right amount of time, particularly in the world of financial services. But in the area of chemistry, for instance, molecular modeling, today we can model simple molecules, but we cannot model something even as complex as caffeine. We simply don't have the traditional compute capacity do that. A quantum computer will allow us, once it comes to maturity, allow us to solve these problems that are not solvable today. And you can think about all the things that we could do if we were able to have more sophisticated molecular modeling, all the kind of problems we could solve, probably in the world of pharmacology, material science, which affects many, many industries, people that are developing automobiles, people that are exploring for oil, all kinds of opportunities here in the space. The technology is a little bit spooky, I guess, that's what Einstein said when he first saw some of this. But it really represents the state of the universe, how the universe behaves today. It really is happening around us, but that's what quantum mechanics helps us capture and when combined with IT technology, the quantum computer can bring this to life over time. So one of the things that people point to is potentially a new security paradigm because quantum can flip the way in which we do security on its head. So you got to be thinking around that as well. I know security is something that's very important to the IBM Systems Division. Right, absolutely. So the first thing that happens when someone hears about quantum computing is they ask about quantum security. And as you can imagine, there's a lot of clients here that are concerned about security. So in IBM research, we're also working on quantum safe encryption. So you got one team working on a quantum computer, you got another team ensuring that the data will be protected from the quantum computer. So we do believe that we can construct quantum safe encryption algorithms based on lattice-based technology that will allow us to encrypt data today and in the future, when the quantum computer does reach that kind of capacity, the data will be protected. So the idea is we would start using these new algorithms far earlier than the computer could actually achieve this result, but it would mean that data created today would be quantum safe in the future. Kind of in your arms race, internally. But it's very important, both aspects are very important. To be able to solve these problems that we can't solve today, which is really amazing, right? And to also be able to protect our data should it be used in inappropriate ways, right? Now, we had Ed Walsh on earlier today. You used to run the storage division. What's going on in that world? I know you've got your hands in that pie as well. What can you tell us about what's going on there? Well, I believe that Ed and the team have done, made some phenomenal innovations in the past year around flash, NVMe technology and fusing that across product line in the state of the art. The other area that I think is particularly interesting, of course, is their data management strategy around things like spectrum discover. So today we all know that many of our clients have just huge amounts of data. I visited a client last year that, interesting enough, had one million tapes. And of course, we sell tapes, so that's a good thing. But then how do you deal and manage all the data that's on one million tapes? So one of the inventions that the team has worked on is metadata tagging capability that they've now shipped in a product called spectrum discover. And that allows a client to have a better way to have a profile of their data, data governance, and understand for different use cases, like data governance or compliance. How do they pull back the right data? And what does this data really mean to them? So have a better lexicon of their data, if you will, than what they can do in today's world. So I think that's very important technology. I would imagine that metadata could sit in flash somewhere and then inform the serial technology to maybe find stuff faster. I mean, everybody thinks tape is slow because it's sequential. But actually, if you do some interesting things with metadata, you could... There's all kinds of things you can do. I mean, it's one thing to have a data ocean, if you will, but then how do you really get value out of that data over a long period of time? And I think we're just the tip of the spear in understanding the use cases that we can use this technology for. Jamie, how does IBM manage that pipeline of innovation? I think we heard very specific examples of how the supercomputers drive HPC architectures, which everybody's going to use for their AI infrastructure. Something like quantum computing is a little bit more out there. So how do you balance kind of the research through the product and what's going to be more useful to users today? Yeah, well, that's an interesting question. So IBM is one of the few organizations in the world, really, that have an applied research organization still. And Dario Gill is here this week. He manages our research organization now under Arvind Krishna. An organization like IBM Systems has a great relationship with research. So research are the folks that had people working on quantum for decades, right? And they're the reason that we are in a position now to be able to apply this in the way that we are. The great news is, along the way, we're always working on a pipeline of this next generation set of technologies and innovations. Some of them succeed and some of them don't. But without doing that, we would not have things like quantum. We would not have advanced encryption capability that we pushed all the way down into our chips. We would not have quantum safe encryption. Things like the metadata tagging that I talked about came out of IBM Research. So it's working with them on problems that we see coming down the pipe, if you will, that will affect our clients. And then working with them to make sure we get those into the product lines at the right amount of time. I would say that quantum is the ultimate partnership between IBM Systems and IBM Research. We have one team in this case that are working jointly on this product, bringing the skills to bear that each of us have in this case, with them having the quantum physics experts and us having the electronics experts, and of course the software stack spanning both organizations. It's really a great partnership. Is there anything you can tell us about what's going on at the Edge? The Edge computing, you hear a lot about that today. IBM's got some activities going on there. You haven't made huge splashes there, but anything going on in research that you can share with us or any directions? I believe the Edge is going to be a practical endeavor for us. And what I mean by that is there's certain use cases that I think we can serve very well. So if we look at the Edge as perhaps a factory environment, we are seeing opportunities for our storage and compute solutions around the data management out in some of these areas. If you look at the self-driving automobile, for instance, just to design something like that can easily take over 100 petabytes of data. So being able to manage the data at the Edge, being able to then to provide insight appropriately using AI technologies is something we think we can do. And we see that. I own factories based on what I do, and I'm starting to use AI technology. I use Power AI technology in my factories for visual inspection. Think about a lot of the challenges around provenance of parts as well as making sure that they're finally put together in the right way. Using these kind of technologies in factories is just really an easy use case that we can see. And so what we anticipate is we will work with the other parts of IBM that are focused on Edge as well and understand which areas we think our technology can best serve. That's interesting. You mentioned visual inspection. That's an analog use case, which now you're transforming into digital. Well, Power AI vision has been very successful in the last year. So we had this Power AI package of open source software that we pulled together, but we made it, we drastically simplified the use of this software, if you will, the ability to use it and deploy it. And we've added vision capabilities to it in last year. And there's many use cases for this vision capability. If you think about even the case where you have a patient that is in an MRI, if you're able to decrease the amount of time you stay in the MRI in some cases by less fidelity of the picture, but then you've got to be able to interpret it. So this kind of AI and then extensions of AI to vision is really important. Another example for Power AI vision is we're actually seeing use cases in advertising. So the use case of maybe you're at a sporting event or even a busy place like this where you're able to use visual inspection techniques to understand the use of certain products. In the case of a sporting event, it's how many times did my logo show up in this sporting event, right? Particularly our favorite one is Formula One, which we usually feature as the Formula One, folks here a little bit at the event. So you can see how that kind of technology can be used to help advertisers understand the benefits in these cases. Got it. Well Jamie, we always love having you on because you have visibility to so many different areas. Really thank you for coming and sharing a little taste of what's to come. Appreciate it. Well thank you, it's always good to see you and I know it'll be a exciting week here. Yeah, we're very excited. Day zero here, day one, and we're kicking off four days of coverage with theCUBE, Jamie Thomas of IBM. I'm Dave Vellante, he's Stu Miniman. We'll be right back right after this short break from IBM Think and Moscone.