The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This Is Your FBI. This Is Your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community. Now a word to fathers and mothers.  You want them to succeed, right? Then you want to know about an equitable education fund. It's the painless way to pay for a college education. It's the way to make sure that your boy or girl gets the advantage of college training regardless of what happens to you. Interested? Then please listen carefully in about 13 minutes for further details on an equitable education fund. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Bank Robbery. It's title, The Hostage. There have been several recent statements by prominent people concerning what they call the rapid decline of public morality throughout the country. One of them noted that when you consider that more and more people from good home, from areas of promise and opportunity, are becoming involved in crime, you cannot help seeing that this decline involves us all. The philosophy that is too widespread today declares that the evil is not committing a crime but getting caught. That is not the philosophy which helped build America's greatness. And if it continues to spread, it can be the weight which bogs us down. Tonight's case from the files of your FBI concerns a man from one of those areas of promise and opportunity. A man willing to do anything to keep from being caught. Tonight's FBI file opens in a large Midwestern city. It is late afternoon as two customers sit at the bar of a small corner saloon. One of them a good-looking young man fingers an empty glass. Al, another bottle of beer, please? Sure, Jack. Here you are. Two bits, right. Well, you're going to take all day to sell them a beer? You want something? Yeah. Get me with another burp. Sure. That'll be a half. Okay, okay. I ain't trying to steal it. I am a wandering mister. Would either of you sweet souls buy me a beer and I'll sing you a song? Blow, bud. No panhandlers. Give them a beer on me.  Thank you. You're welcome. Wait a minute. You don't get it that easy. You want your song first? No, you drink it down here. Laugh it up like a puppy. Oh, mister, I couldn't do that. You want the beer, don't you? Hey, son. Son, do you think that's fair? No. You stay out of this. I'll buy you a drink. You can have it standing up. Thank you, sir. I said you stay out of this.  I bought him a beer and he's going to drink it. Leave me alone. A strong man, huh? Get off that stool. Hey, no fighting in here. Come on. This ain't going to be a fight. It's going to be one punch. Hey, what a left hook. I am sorry, Al. Forget it. Okay, Doc. Come on.  He just didn't want him pushing me around. Hey, mister. I was a wise guy. I had it coming. Mister. Mister. Is the out cold? Yeah. I'll give you some water for him. I don't know what good it'll do. What do you mean? He ain't breathing. We were supposed to have dinner. Honey, I'm in trouble. What? Well, what happened? I had a fight. With whom? Ah, man. I don't know. I never saw him before. I don't understand. I was in a bar. It just happened. I hit him and I had to run. Look, I'm in a bookstore on 10th and Madison opposite the freight yard. Come over here. I can't. They'll be looking for me. Who? The police. Please meet me at the freight yard. Can the police arrest you for just hitting a man? Mary, I didn't just hit him. I killed him. I think you ought to wait any longer for your girl. I told her to meet me here. Yeah, but there's only one more freight. I want to wait for her. Okay, but you're taking a chance on not getting away from here. I've just been wondering about that. About what? Whether I should run away. You killed a guy. But he started it. That makes itself defense. You got any witnesses? Well, you. Oh, the cops had never believed an old bum like me. What about the bartender? I've told you, son. All he knows is a fight started. He's level to tell anything. I know. I've seen that happen before. You better do like I've been telling you. Go under for a couple of months. Down the road, cop. He won't be by again for 20 minutes. By that time, we should be out of here. Pop, tell me something. What? Why are you doing all this for me?  I don't get many chances to even up things like that. Oh. That last freight's due any minute now. Where's it to go to? Grove City. You ever been there? No. It's a good town. Lots of places to go under. I remember once back in 43, I had a little heat on me. I went to Grove City and I stayed in them. There's someone's coming. It's Mary. No, wait till she gets here. Make sure nobody's following her. Jack. Jack, what's this all about? I told you on the phone. But what happened? She's killed a guy, Miss. But why are you running away? He's given the cops a chance to forget it. That isn't right. Hey, look honey, you don't understand. It's too long to explain. I do understand and you have no right to run away. Son, son, there's our freight. Goodbye honey. Wait, Jack. I, I, I gotta go. Come on. Right. Jack, come back here. Jack. The following afternoon at the local FBI field office, Special Agent Jim Taylor is working at his desk as Agent Fred Mason approaches. Pardon me, Jim. Oh, hello Fred. Jim, this is Mr. Claver. Mr. Claver, how do you do? Take that chair, Mr. Claver, and I'll use this one. Thank you. Mr. Claver's been to see the SAC about a complaint. I'm gonna handle it. No, what's it about? Well, I'm connected with the National Trust Bank at Broadway in Madison. Yes, sir. This morning the bank examiners arrived to go over our books. Normally that's a routine job at our institution. We've never had any trouble with them. Today they found a $12,000 shortage in the account of one of our tellers. Did you question the teller? He didn't report for work this morning, Jim. What's his name, sir? Fenton, Jack Fenton. We called his house and his landlady said he hadn't been home all night. We're afraid he's, well, I hate to say it, but we're afraid he's takin' the money and run away. Yeah, it appears that way. Can you give us a description on Fenton, sir? Yes, of course. Oh, Mr. Claver, and I'll take it down as you dictate. We made it, son. We made it. Huh? Oh, look at it. Skid Row, home. The magic carpet that'll take you to any dream you name. You can breathe it, taste it, smell it. You can sure smell it. That donut piece. That's the perfume of the road. Take a whiff, boy. Come on, son, I'll show you that. See that guy? That's Farmer Adams, the old fighter. Ain't a little early in the day for him to be drunk. He's not drunk. He weaves like that all the time. Oh. Maybe we'll see him tonight. When he's got the 40 cents, he kips at the same flop house we're going to. Hey, hey, watch this guy get tattooed. That's a professor, isn't he? If you're going to get any wiggly girls on your arm, let him do it. He's the best. He is an artist. Uh-huh. You want to wait and get one now? No, no thanks. Okay, we can come back. It's great so far, ain't it, son? Come on, now, be honest. Have you ever seen so much action? No. Morning, man. Morning, morning. Who are they? The only father and son choir on the street. And you know some? They're such good friends you'd never know they was related. Do you like to hit the shooting gallery? No thanks. In back, the God of Police Circus. The greatest trick you ever saw. I don't want to see it now. Okay, we'll come back. Hey, boy, easy. Here, let's put it back. But it's empty. There's enough in it to smell that man'll want it with when he gets up. Hey, you still got that 11 bucks? Uh-huh. Then let's hit this joint. Oh, we better go easy. $11 won't last long. What are you saving it for?  No, but... Boy, this place gives you the best quarter slug of grog on the street. You guys got any money? Yeah, and we're gonna sit at that corner table. Now go bring us a couple of drinks. When you're holding, you can be as tough as any waiter on the road. Uh-huh. Go ahead, son. Sit down. I'm... I'm not so sure I can handle this. Son, wait till you have a couple of drinks. You'll forget you ever lived anywhere else. Anything come in on the bank, Teller, Fred? No, I'm just going over these reports on him. Nobody recognizes pictures at the airport and bus terminal on the railroad station. You check hospitals? Yeah, and I also covered hotels, rooming houses, and the morgue. You get anything? Yeah, and I just broke his. He was found at the bank. I've been contacting the names in it. So far, none of them know where he went, though. You cover everyone? No, there are five names left. I'm going out and check on them now. They all in one neighborhood? No, all three are on the west side. Two are on the other side of the bridge. Why don't I take the west side name? Okay, fine. Here, it's the three on top, Fred. Right. I'll contact the other two and meet you back here. Hey, where is he? Who? The guy I come in with. Hey, where now? Oh, but I ain't supposed to leave him out of my sight. Look, where'd he go? How would I know? I gotta find him. Get in trouble if you don't feel real trouble. Where could he have gone? Hello, Pop. Hey, where'd you go? Down to the station. What floor? To get a paper from back home. Oh, I thought you'd walked out on me or something. Take a look at the paper. You see that? A picture of you. Yeah, well, nothing about my killing anybody. Huh? Well, this picture's here because the FBI's looking for me. They think I stole $12,000 from the bank. Oh, we ought to see that. I looked all the way through the paper for something about the killing. Well, there wasn't a word.  I examined him, son. When a guy ain't breathing, he's dead. But what's this stuff about me and the bank? I think I see the angle. They're trying to trick. What do you mean? This is just a way to get you to come back. I have seen him pull it lots of times. You know what happened? What? You walk in, put up a big beef about not taking any money. Then they say that was a mistake and boom, you're in for murder. We will return in just a moment to tonight's exciting case from the official files of your FBI. Now for a moment, let's listen in on a conversation that may change the whole life of a six-month-old boy named Eddie O'Brien. In the living room of his home, Eddie's father is talking to Fred Barton, his Equitable Society representative. And another thing I wanted to ask you about is this college education insurance. It might be a good thing for me to start from my kid one of these days. I'm hoping you go to my old college in the class of 1972. It is a good thing, Mr. O'Brien. A very good thing. In the Equitable Society, we call that kind of insurance an Equitable Education Fund. Actually, it's an endowment life insurance policy that's paid up when your boy's ready to enter college. The money's there, ready and waiting for him. It's the painless way of paying for a college education. How do you mean painless? Well, it's like buying an audible bill or a home on an easy payment plan. You spread the cost of your son's college education over 15, 16, or 17 years. Instead of taking a beating during the four years, he's actually in college. That's fine, but suppose I should die before the plan's completed. What happens then? From that point on, the policy is paid up in full. No more payments are necessary. The Equitable Society holds the money for your son and pays interest on the full amount every year until he's ready to use it for his education. So you see an Equitable Education Fund is the way to make sure of a good education for your son, regardless of what happens to you. My boy's only six months old now. How soon should I start a plan like this? Well, the earlier you start, the lower your yearly cost will be. The way to do is figure out how much money you can spare to put into a plan like this. Maybe you'll decide that you can now afford one that will pay half the educational cost.  If you have children, get the cost of an Equitable Education Fund from your Equitable Representative. These Equitable Men don't go in for high pressure methods. They give you the information you need and let you make up your own mind. Get in touch with your Equitable Representative or right care of this station to the Equitable Society. That's C-Q-U-I-T-A-B-L-E. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. And now back to the FBI file, the hostage. The attitude and thoughts of the elderly hobo regarding law enforcement officers are a misconception of the duties and workings of not only the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but of every agency. Unfortunately, those mistaken beliefs are held by many law-abiding decent citizens. Let us examine your FBI, for example. Since the Bureau is a group of public servants, it is important for you, the citizen, to know how it operates. Your FBI does not initiate any investigation unless a complaint is made and evidence received of a crime over which it has jurisdiction. Further, all special agents are specifically instructed not to evaluate the information developed by their investigative efforts. The reports they file make no recommendations and set forth no conclusions. Your FBI is not an accuser, a prosecutor, or a judge in any case. Its job is to get the facts. And that is the only job it does. Tonight's FBI file continues that same night at the furnished room of Mary Allen, whose name appeared in the fugitive bank teller's address book. Special Agent Taylor is interviewing her. Miss Allen, I'm here to question you about a man named Jack Fenton. Do you know him? Yes, I do. How well? We were engaged. Oh. Tell me, have you read the story that appeared in the papers today about Mr. Fenton allegedly stealing money from the bank? Yes, I just saw it. I tried to call the bank and it was closed. I know that story isn't true. But he's disappeared. That was for another reason. Oh, what reason? I can't say. Miss Allen, you have a chance to help me and also help him. I'm so confused. But you do know why he disappeared. Yes. Well, then please tell me. Well, I was supposed to have dinner with Jack last night. He didn't appear. Then he phoned about nine o'clock and told me he was in trouble. He said he had to see me. So I went to meet him. Now where? The freight yard at 10th and Madison. He was there with an older man. And did he tell you about his trouble? Yes. He said he went into a bar for a drink after work. He got into a fight and hit a man. He said the man died. But I looked in the papers today, every paper. And I also called the police. And they had no record of anything like that happening. Did he tell you where the saloon was? No. Who was this older man he was with at the freight yard? Well, I'd never seen him before. I gathered he was helping Jack to run away. Can you describe him? No. I just remember that he was shabbily dressed. I presume they boarded the freight car? Yes. Any idea what time? I remember I looked at my watch. It was exactly 9.30. Thank you, Miss Ellen. Oh, if you hear anything from Fenton, will you please notify our office? What's with the map, Jim? Just trying to establish something on our bank teller. Oh, you got a lead? Half a one. What'd you find? I just contacted the dispatcher at the freight yard. The freight did pull out of there at 9.30 last night. For where? Non-stop to Grove City. Well, at least one part of the girl's story could be true. Yeah. I sent Fenton's description to our agent up there. Oh, so did you get over to police headquarters? Uh-huh. They don't have a report on a homicide of any sort yesterday, Jim. I think Fenton took the money and told the girl the fight story. Could be. But I think we should run the fight story down anyway. That's why I've done the map work here. What's that? You know, the X marked here is the bank where Fenton worked. This letter H is where he lived. Now, if he dropped in for a beer after work, it would probably be in a bar between the two points, X and H. I checked the city directory, then put a circle at every point here where there's a saloon. How many did you come up with? Twenty-two. Now, if we're going to run that phase of the story down, I think we ought to cover all those saloons. Sorry, men, we're just closing up. We're from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hear my credentials. Oh. Relax some information, please. Did you work yesterday? Every day I own the joint. This is a picture of a man named Jack Fenton. Do you know him? Sure. He comes in pretty regular. Why? Was he here yesterday? Yeah. Now tell me, did he have a fight with anybody? A fight? Mm-hmm. Oh, the rib, you mean. That was a joke. Oh, what kind of a joke? A guy named Harry West came in day before yesterday and gave me 50 bucks to help him rib young Fenton. Harry comes in yesterday afternoon. Pretty soon, Fenton comes in and sits beside him. Does he know Fenton? No. Well, they're sitting, not talking, see when a bum comes in. He's part of the rib. He asks for a free drink and I turn him down. Harry buys, then some kind of a beef develops, Jack belts him and Harry goes down. Then what? Well, a bum bends over, listens to Harry's heart, turns to Fenton and says he ain't breathing. Then he grabs Fenton and hustles him out. That's all of us to it. Is this Harry West, a regular customer? Well, he used to be when he ran a book around here. This is the first time I've seen him in, oh, I guess, a year. Where can we find him now? Let's see. Try the jungle club. He hangs out there, but they'll be closing about now. Yeah, well, thanks very much. That's you, Jack. Uh-huh. Lay down again. It's no use. What's the matter? I can't sleep. Why not? Don't you hear him? No. And by next week, you won't eat him. Next week? Son, the first night down here is always tough.  You want privacy? Go to the Waldorf. I think I'll go. Where? Home. Okay. I'll see you when you get out. That'll be 20 years. But look, this ain't no picnic, but at least you're free. So lay down, kid. Get a good night's sleep. Fred, I just saw Harry West. Did he talk? Yes. Joe Randolph hired him to do the job. The bookmaker? That's right. Somebody owed Randolph's horsebook $12,000. That's exactly what Fenton's account was showing. Yeah, I know. Did you find out the name of the hobo? Yeah, it's Willie Clay. He used to be a runner for Randolph. What's his connection with Randolph now? Odd jobs now and then. Morning paper says Randolph's being questioned by the district attorney. I know. I called his office after I left Harry West. I guess the DA will keep him busy for quite a while. Story in the Times says they seized his books. Oh? Well, that could be very helpful. Come on. Where? Downtown. If we can examine Randolph's books, we might find out whether or not Fenton really took that money. Pardon me, Mr. Clayburn. Hmm? Oh, hello there. We have some news for you about that shortage of funds. Oh, that's fine, but I'm really not the one to talk to. You see, I came to your office to make the complaint only because the bank's manager was ill. That's his office over there. We know. We just saw him. Oh, yes. He said to tell you about it. Well, if he wants me to handle it, of course, I'll be happy to. Please sit down. Hey.  Our agent in Grove City found Jack Fenton this morning. Good. He was living up there in a flop house on Skid Road. I wish I could feel sorry for him. Mr. Clayburn, Fenton denies any connection with the shortage. Of course. I imagine all thieves do when they're caught. But if he didn't take the money, why did he vanish? Well, sort of a fight was staged on Monday afternoon in a bar down the street. Fenton knocked a man down. He thought the man was dead and he ran, but it's all a trick. Hmm. Someone had a ghouly sense of humor. Someone wanted Fenton to leave town in a hurry. Why? They could cover up a $12,000 loss to a bookmaker named Joe Randolph and make it look like Fenton took the money? Who'd do a thing like that? Well, not many people, I'll admit, but we did find one. Who's that? You. What? We found your name in Joe Randolph's ledger. You paid him $12,000 the day that Fenton disappeared. Come on, Mr. Clayburn. Clayburn was convicted in federal court of theft from a national bank and sentenced to five years in prison. Harry West, Joe Randolph and Willie Clay were convicted of conspiracy in federal court and sentenced to four years. The apprehension of the actual thief in tonight's case from the files of your FBI was of double importance. First, a criminal was removed from circulation and put where he could do you, the citizen, no more harm. The other result, though, the removal of suspicion from an innocent man was more important. The protection of the people is the basic job of every law enforcement agency and the highest function of that job is to prevent any person from being unjustly accused. Your FBI is therefore proud of the fact that of all the people that arrested, approximately 98% were later found guilty. That fact is your guarantee of one thing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is not primarily interested in arresting people but in locating the true criminals. Upon such facts is your freedom based. The freedom of every person in the nation. Now a quick review of the advantages of an equitable education fund. First, it's the painless way to pay for a college education. You've spread the cost over many years instead of taking a beating in four. Second, it's sure.  Ask your equitable representative for full information on an equitable education fund or right care of this station to the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It's subject, hijacking, it's title, the tropical frame-up. The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Life Assurance Society's broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious and any similarity that of to the names of places or persons living or dead is accidental. Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner. The author was Jerry D. Lewis. Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris. Others in the cast were Harley Bear, Tony Caruso, Robert Cole, George Ellis, Gil Stratton Jr., Tom Tully, and Theodore Von Elks. This is your FBI is a Jerry Devine production. This is Larry Keating speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community. And inviting you to tune in again next week at this same time when the Equitable Life Assurance Society will bring you another thrilling transcribe story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The tropical frame up on this is your FBI. Stay tuned for the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. There's fun for the whole family when Ozzie and Harriet come your way next. This program came to you from Hollywood.


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Ni, ddweud â ni, a gweithio gan fân yma ar y trooedd yn yr orafu hyn. Mae'r concept ar y trooedd yn yr orafu hynny yn mynd i hynny ymohon yr ysgolwyr hwnnw. Rwy'n ei gilydd ac yn yr orafu hynny yn yr orafu hynny'n nodi bywyr ar yr orafu hyn yn ymymhygoel. Yn gynghwil yma, ysgol yma yma sefyllfa cael unrhyw hwnnw. Cymru yma yng Nghymru yn Ysgol yma, peirwyr yn y Gwyl Gwyl Llywodraeth, ac mae'n fyddai'r bwysig a'r ffordd i'n fwyllgor i'u ddefnyddio yma. Yr Ardill yn y Gymraeg Ddein yn y Gwyl Gwyl Gwyl Llywodraeth, yn y USA, ac yn ymddai'r ymddai'r Gwyl Llywodraeth yn y Llywodraeth, Adil was the author of the section on climate change in the outlook on the global danger. I'm going to ask him to explain why it's rising up a global danger and more importantly what we need to do about it. It is rising actually because the water is rising and the water is disappearing. We've seen droughts, we've seen floods, we've seen extreme weather rising all across the world. Now that doesn't mean all of it is because of climate change but what climate change is doing and is likely doing is increasing the frequency of these events and is increasing the volatility of these events. So in some ways these extreme weather events are amongst the first important manifestation of climate change that actual people see literally in their backyards. And what do you think would be the best outcome at this summit? We're living in an age of adaptation but it's a problem which is going to get worse. If you can take the universe of multi-stakeholders that we have here, what are you hoping to achieve? And how do you think we can best address this? I think the first outcome I would want and it seems like a small thing but it's actually a very big thing is the realization that we are living in the age of adaptation. We have essentially seen climate change as a problem of the future. Climate is something that will, a bad thing that will happen tomorrow if you don't do something today. Well the news is it's happening today because we didn't do anything yesterday. And if that realization sets in that is important because it brings an urgency. And you start seeing that urgency unfortunately you see it leased in governments. And in many ways business is seeing it much more because they are also being affected by it. So that to me is the biggest thing that could happen is to shake us up that climate is no longer an issue of the future. It's an issue of today. The second realization which I hope can set in is the realization that climate is really about development. How do you deal with disaster? You deal with it by having better development.  Because some people live in stronger houses than other people. Some people can prepare better for it. So the realization should set in that climate and its impacts are really about development. And that I think is where these multiple stakeholders come together. Because development will need all of them. Adol, you're an academic and you're studying this on a full time basis immersed in more than others obviously. Are you seeing any signs of best practice either in terms of adaptation or in terms of emerging models for cooperation that they possibly is integrating and interlinking development with adaptation. Anything you can share that can offer some guidance as to how we may adapt better in the future. One of the good things is we've been adapting forever. The fact that you and I are wearing these jackets is an adaptation to weather device. Sweaters are adaptation to weather's device that have happened historically. So there's a lot to learn from. Countries have been adapting for a long time. The Netherlands for example has adapted to its particular geography. Its particular weather characteristics in particular ways. Through a lot of engineering. Through how it manages water and other things. Other countries are beginning and should be learning things like that. Not just from the Netherlands but from all over. What you are seeing and I think what is the best practice again is linking development to climate adaptation. How do you adapt? You adapt by becoming more resilient. Now that's a fancy word but what it really means is you figure out how you can beat the change by being better prepared for it. That means early warning. Part of that is science. Knowing earlier and better what is about to happen. We can do that for the weather. The second thing it means is doing the type of development what's called sustainable development that is going to reduce the impact of the extreme event that happens. Interestingly there are also a lot of financial mechanisms that we can learn from. For example the whole idea of the insurance industry and how we are going to be doing it. What are we going to be insuring against is changing as we see these new events coming up. So there is a lot to learn. There is a lot to do. The good part of this bad story because extreme events by definition are bad things that cause problems and cost. The good part of the bad story is that there are many ancillary payoffs if you prepare better for extreme events. There is a win-win in that sense. Can you elaborate more on what kind of payoffs can we expect? For example if a lot of what you need to do to build resilience is better infrastructure. Now again better infrastructure has many other benefits. So the things that you can do to build resilience while some of them are very costly also have high development benefits. Absolutely. Can you think of one best practice which you've looked at? We're talking about linking development and climate adaptation. One area, one best practice which is really being successful. Either in mediating an extreme event or preventing an extreme event and saving lives. Information. Information early warning I think is we are still very new in this climate phase of this. So there aren't as many best practices as we would want to have. But amongst the earliest gains are in information, in dissemination of information. Technology is helping there. We have seen, I for example am from Pakistan. Pakistan has seen a series of floods really over the last six, seven years again and again. Much more frequently than it has historically. One of the things we've seen is that the better availability and dissemination of information wherever that happens can actually save many, many lives. One of the things that we often talk about here at the summit is the cross council collaboration. The fact that we have experts from over 80 different areas, walks of life fields of experience. I'm putting them together to solve problems not just in their own universe but problems that together are perhaps greater than any one council could address. You mentioned a couple of areas financing and information technology. What kind of councils is the climate change council talking to at this summit? We were looking at the list of all the councils and one of the things we came up in our, one of the thoughts we came up in our council was that every other council is either has an impact on or is impacted by climate change. That's the nature of our work and of many others. But the one in particular that I am most interested in, especially in terms of extreme events but even generally is water. I think water is the next frontier. In fact it's already the frontier. I think we are going to be talking more and more about water in more and more new ways in the coming century. Particularly about climate. When we think about climate till now we essentially think carbon. As long as you are thinking mitigation you are talking about carbon management.  We still need to do that. That's called mitigation. Carbon management is essentially energy management. As soon as you understand that you live in the age of adaptation you are essentially talking a lot about water. Here is what I mean. Think about the impacts of climate change and think about how many of them are about water. It's about water rising, sea level rise. It's about water disappearing, trapped. It's about water melting, glaciers. It's about water falling from the sky like no one's business, extreme events. So suddenly we have to grapple with the idea that water management is as crucial to the future of climate change as carbon management. A follow-up from me as a non-specialist isn't there? What would be your view on preparedness in terms of water management? It's obviously something people are aware of. But as you're right I think most people's version of climate change is articulated primarily by carbon. What is the state of water management today? I think a lot of people are thinking about water but we are still thinking about water in an old sort of way. What I mean by this is the following. We usually think about water in two ways. Quantity and quality. Do we have enough of it? And is it safe enough and healthy enough? Both of those are extremely important. But we need to think about water in at least one other way. Which is the variability of water. That's what droughts and floods alert us to. It's not simply whether I have enough water. It's a question of when do I have water? Over centuries people have built their livelihoods essentially on a general knowledge of where water will be when. Incomes climate and changes that equation? A whole lot of things go berserk. Think about the farmer. Whether the farmer is in Switzerland or in the US or in Pakistan or in Bangladesh. The farmer is an amazingly complex scientist who's using data over centuries of when is it going to rain, what type of crop grows when and what climate does is it sends all of that topsy-turvy. So we need to think about water not only quantity, quality but now we need to think about it in terms of access and availability. And that will make a big change. My final question. Where have you got to during this summit in terms of your thinking for the remainder of this term? We've just begun a two-year term. It's the first physical meeting of the Climate Change Council. Can you give us an outline of what your priorities will be in terms of driving the climate change agenda forwards? I think it's still evolving. Our own group, but I've also been meeting many other groups. We had a wonderful meeting this afternoon. We included my former vice president of the US, Al Gore. We were talking for example about this climate and water nexus. One of the points I made in that meeting was that water is to mitigation, water is to adaptation, what carbon was to mitigation. But in terms of your question and where we are heading, I'll tell you where I would want it to head and where I think it's heading. Increasingly we are thinking about who are the drivers of the big change and who from the what is a very important distinction. In my personal case, I am increasingly of the view that the future does not only belong to the young, but is going to be driven by the young. That climate change we've usually thought of, you know, governments are going to solve the problem. I think the ones, if it's going to be solved, it's going to be solved by the young because they are in the middle of a lifestyle change that's happening because of technology, that is happening because of different priorities. And if that can be linked to the idea of climate change, then we have a shot at making the scale of decisions that we need to make. Fascinating. I've been enjoying myself too much here. If we have any other questions, please put your hands up. Otherwise, I'd like to ask a question. Would you mind using more of the phone because we are webcasting this. Thank you. I'm not sure if you can address this, but I was wondering some of the climate change challenges since we're here in the Gulf, sort of for the GCC countries, especially given oil production and all the other challenges. Just wondering what are some of the priorities here in terms of climate change. For this region. I think this is a particularly important region. And I'll tell you why. All regions understand their climate. But if this region is a showcase for having had to live through history in what can very often be a harsh climate. And people in this region, I think and I hope, intrinsically understand the value of being able to mold to their environment because the costs are so high. So think of the big issues. Think of energy, both as a producer of energy, but also as a consumer of energy for the type of lifestyle that we need. Think of water, the scarcity of water, the need to find new ways to get water, for example desalinisation. So in many of those ways, this really becomes a laboratory in many ways. Always my one interesting thought when I come to this region is that in many ways you see the type of experiments around the environment happening here that you would sometimes not expect. Including, for example, on renewables. I think it is very striking that the International Agency for Renewables is housed here in the UAE. I think that is symbolically important and I think that is important in a policy way. It is things like that that this region needs to grapple with but is also setting an interesting example. But water again. I used to be a climate guy, I am now a water guy. Water again if any region can and should be thinking about it. This is it. I don't. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. I wish you a very successful summit. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Hello my craft friends. I'm Josh Montgomery the CEO here at what? I'm the CEO here at my craft AI and I'm happy to be coming to you live from our lovely offices in Palo Alto, California where we Raise money and try to run the business operations here at my craft. So I'm glad to have the opportunity to come and speak Today I think the topic is the future of voice Which is a fun topic to talk about So three years ago when we started the project it became clear to everybody involved on the team that There would be an opportunity in the near future to combine technologies that use machine learning to create experience for users that is indistinguishable from a human and and A couple weeks ago or maybe a couple months ago now Google did a demo at Google IO where they demoed their Google duplex technology and Prove the thesis for those of you who haven't seen that demo we'll put a link in the in the below but the Google duplex demo is a Artificial intelligent voice assistant making outbound phone calls to restaurants to book a table and to a Hair appoint a hair salon to book a hair appointment and Interacting with the person answering the phone so naturally that the Representative of the restaurant or the hair salon wasn't aware that they were talking to an AI Now these demos that demonstration was really narrow and by narrow I mean it didn't have a broad domain. They weren't going to discuss the application of Nietzschean philosophy to the Trump administration The only thing they were talking about was setting a hair appointment or working with the restaurant and booking a table and When you see that demo you can very clearly see what the future looks like Across the entire domain for voice and I would argue that it's the same for video that if you I recently saw one where I think it's peel or key key or peel whichever one it was voiced over the the An avatar that was based on a video from about President Obama Where when you looked at the at the video it was mimicking his actions and because the the artist was able to mimic the voice It sounded all it sounded just like the prior president of the United States And it was kind of a demonstration of what artificial intelligence is moving towards in terms of being able to mimic a human being and That's really where we feel the voice assistant space is going Both in voice and then of course also with video rendering The ability to combine those two things into an experience that when you get a video call it might be me with my with my ukulele or It might be a complete artificial intelligent assistant and you won't be able to tell that the person on the other end of the computer isn't I'm not gonna say not a real person because if you can't tell it's a person it actually is a person, but not a human person and So we saw this about three four years ago when we started looking at speech synthesis when we started looking at voice recognition speech recognition we started looking at a variety of other different pieces of technology and We set out to build an artificial intelligence that runs anywhere and interacts exactly like a person The idea being that you could run a full artificial intelligence stack on anything That's powerful enough and not network connected or that's low power and network connected with a lot of the intelligence operating in the cloud run it anywhere run it on your your Audio amplifier right for your guitar run it on your car run it on a laptop run it on a mobile device and be able to have a conversation just like that My Assistant and I have a conversation. So, you know in my case I pick up the phone and I say hey, I want to meet with my good friends at Mozilla Next week. Can you reach out and send them an email and schedule a meeting for me? And that's all I really have to do my assistant Johnny Some of you may have interacted with him Has access to my schedule has access to my email has access to my contacts list He reaches out in some cases It'll be directly to the person involved if it's maybe a developer in the case of maybe the CTO Sean white he would reach out to Anna Sean's assistant and offer up a couple of times they would go back and forth and schedule a meeting But the important thing there is that my interaction with Johnny is totally natural And I don't have to tell him every step of the way exactly what to do He has enough intelligence and he has enough access to my life to be able to schedule that meeting on my behalf And that's really where this entire space is going And it's going to dramatically impact business certainly and and that's the I think that the business is maybe the least Creative application of of this technology. I think that there's a ton of really cool things that are coming down the pipe But let's start with the least creative most obvious, right? So in google's case they built this duplex technology and when they brought it to stage the idea is that the google duplex Then calls a real person at a restaurant and schedules a table Okay, that is not the long-term application for this technology The obvious application is that the person answering the phone is an ai And in some cases it'll be an ai calling But in many cases it'll be a human calling and that the person at the other end of the phone the person who initiated the call Doesn't know that it's an ai on the other side Um certainly for inbound calls now admittedly I think telemarketers are going to make Wide use of technologies like duplex to trick you on the phone I'm sure that scammers will use some more technologies in the future But the obvious business application Is being able to accept thousands and thousands and thousands of inbound calls using an artificial intelligence Without having to pay people to sit at a desk and answer The same questions over and over and over and over again all day long Other business applications include building technologies like cars building technologies like electronics that you can speak to naturally In some cases those electronics will have the personality of the brand that built them One of the things we learned during our integration with jaguar land rover was that our friends at jaguar Were really interested in having a voice assistant that represented their brand So a voice assistant with a british accent I think the exact quote that I got from jaguar was They wanted it to be sassy and sarcastic Right. So something that is truly british like think uh john cleese right and could represent their brand globally And I think that that jaguar is one of Thousands or tens of thousands of companies They really have an opportunity to build a voice assistant or build an ai That represents their brand and interacts directly with their customers Reduces their costs their personnel costs associated with with having a relationship with those customers And then of course improves the customer's experience that when a customer calls in and says hey, you know, I just bought a I just bought a car and You know, I'm 3 000 miles into it and I need the oil changed. Can you schedule an appointment? Um, that's all they have to do that the voice assistant has access to their calendar has access to jaguar's calendar schedules of time maybe A jaguar rep comes out and picks up the car, but the user experience is you know, you say what you want and it just happens yes and That's going to happen across a variety of different industries call centers Obviously automotives of big industries smart speakers are a big industry I think that voice assistants integrated into individual apps are coming certainly My guess is is that brad and his team over at google are working on how To pass voice queries into applications and how to query those applications in a way that google's assistant Can act as a front end to any application now I would also suspicious Suspicious in a guess that they will design that system in a way that favors google and not necessarily the person who wrote the app but I think that that type of integration is definitely coming in the business world and That's going to cut costs. It's going to eliminate a lot of jobs that Are low value and let me let me really careful how I say that because I want to make sure that the people understand All labor has value if you go to work and you work hard by definition it has value because people pay you for it But it's important all work is important whether it's you know work to create dignity for the worker whether it's work that Provide services for end users when I say low value work What I mean is work that doesn't fully engage human intelligence The voice assistants that I see in the near term. So I define near term as between now and the time My daughter reaches 30. So my kid's 10. So the next 20 years or so Will be very limited. I think in terms of their ability to creatively solve problems so And there's some really good examples of this so x.ai is the company that creates a An assistant that provides a support for email scheduling. So going back to that task that I talked about with johnny where i'm simply trying to schedule a meeting with with Sean over it at at mozo In that case When people use x.ai for tasks like that many many become frustrated. So that's a very simple narrow application With it doesn't involve a lot of creative problem solving I mean you're effectively trying to match to schedule something that you can do with a pair of arrays and maybe three lines of python But because of the complexities of human language because of the complexities of availability because of the complexities of geography It's very difficult to solve that problem comprehensively in a way that provides an excellent user experience to every person who's engaged in the activity, right So given that you know the idea that a voice assistant is going to be able to solve a problem Like congress can't get anything done is ridiculous and the idea that some of these technologies will be able to to Be creative so create art write music Um, it performs some of the other actions that the humans are are good at and engage in and and are successful in Um is also I think far too Right. Uh, they already have a i that can write music. They already have a i that can write poetry But they don't have a i that can write music like well They can write music that's as creative and new and novel as the opening bars of star wars In 1977 You know something where john williams just blew the audience away with a melody that's familiar to everybody today Because it is so unique and powerful That type, you know, yes an ai could write something that sounds very similar to that write 50 different versions that sound similar to that But to create it in the first place is something that's uniquely cute And so I see the future of voice at least in the next 20 years as filling out this void in the in the current job market in the current labor market and certainly in the current You know in services that are provided for just regular everyday folks As reducing redundancy Reducing the amount of low value work. So non creative work that needs to be done by people And freeing those people to engage in work that is higher value that is more creative that allows them to Spend their time doing what humans are best at which is inventing and solving problems And so You know, we're at the very very beginning of this You know, I I think that that one of the things when I hear people who are critical of Voice technologies today and and say thing. Oh, that's not natural or whatever Look back four years and none of this stuff even existed at all Like the the voice assistant stuff was this simple voice command thing that That misunderstood almost everything you said right in many cases The voice companies were running these technologies on chip And because they didn't have access to or weren't using the latest and greatest machine learning models It was very difficult for them to create a user experience that was in any way realistic And over the last four years last five years since I would argue Siri was the first widely adopted version of this But of course it was followed very quickly by a google's assistant and then by amazon who took the lead By embedding it into a very capable smart speaker Over this time over the last four or five years, it's really improved substantially to the point where Individual users of the technology Really can have a fairly natural experience for a limited tasks So the question becomes is where does it go from there? And the answer is it becomes more and more natural and more and more customized And then finally more and more capable of solving real problems. I think is the third stage so And in terms of making it more and more natural That's primarily a function of data you know these technologies are based on Huge data sets that are fed into machine learning systems that spit out models that are able to solve problems using this very modern approach to data processing And the more data these systems acquire about end users how they're using it the types of questions that they're asking The more capable they will become And so You know since these technologies are fairly new. I mean google. I think just started shipping the google home less than two years ago You know today they don't have Huge value the huge volume of data that they eventually will have about how these customer interactions function They're just now for example beginning to put in place the ability to call and respond. So, you know Set it to you know a microsoft set a timer Okay, how long would you like for that timer to be that's a a call and response with me asking a question Minecraft asking for clarification me providing clarification That level of interaction is just beginning to exist now And of course there are much more complicated human interactions that may involve three or four people in a conversation That type of interaction and that type of natural ability to carry on a conversation I think is where a lot of the initial work Is going on is going to with The next piece is making the technologies more useful And I think that xai is a really great example here of a company that's doing really great things In a very narrow space that will work extremely well with future voice assistants So in xai's case their their ai one of them is named Amy I don't remember what the other ones are called That schedules meetings Would be able to plug into your calendar on one side and your voice assistant on the other and become the default destination for queries about your schedule. So you would say Hey, my craft set me up a meeting with Sean white at mozilla. That would trigger x.ai Right, which would reach into your ad address book and say, oh, I have Sean white's information. Hey, it turns out Sean white Has an assistant named Anna and I'm going to contact Anna instead of Sean And so there the voice assistant has made or the x.ai's technology Has made a decision that the best way to contact this person is through their assistant and not through Sean, right? Um It reaches out and touches touches Anna's email and says hey Anna, you know josh will want to come every once A meeting can we set something up? There's a back and forth in terms of availability and then the meeting gets scheduled on Sean's schedule Provided he approved it Without any interaction from me as the initiator or in this case Sean is the the person I'd like to meet with Now admittedly if it went straight to the person I was having the meeting with they would have to have some interaction But in this case the voice assistant and x.ai system end up as a buffer between me as the user And Sean is the as the person I want to meet with and from my perspective. That's a very very natural interaction, right? I say hey You know my craft set me up a meeting with Sean white sometime next week And then you know a couple hours later a day later on my calendar boom is a meeting with Sean Another step for that interaction might be an x.ai importantly there would be the intermediary We at mycroft don't have to develop all of the artificial intelligence surrounding Interacting with the calendar systems accessing contacts like coming up with the logic surrounding when to connect To the person's assistant as opposed to when to connect to that person We simply provide the voice front end and x.ai is a plugin that adds intelligence to the voice assistant and so I see the future of this as various different companies providing utility across all of the voice assistants not You know, I would argue that mycroft is probably most people's not most people's first Choice for you know the front end for their voice assistant today Now I I think that might change over the course of the next five or ten years if we're successful and continue to grow But today, you know most people probably start with amazon alexa Or google home, you know, if they're in the chinese market, they might start with genie over it over at alababa And so or viv over at samsung If I don't know if this is customizable I would get hazard a guess that viv viv to the one they're working on and say how ze will be but Which is kind of set that aside People will go and build a skill for one of these voice assistants and then hopefully You know, we can end the platform wars at some point and start making these things interoperable So the idea would be that if you provide a scheduling skill, you know, it works with alexa It works with assistant. It works with mycroft. It works with viv. It works with genie and you as a Is basically an intelligence provider as a service provider Are able to focus on just what you do and in this in the case of this example It's x.ai scheduling meetings, right? And the platforms become a way to distribute your product or distribute your intelligence to the end users and And you know, there's probably some way to get you paid to do that Whether it's, uh, you know, you charging the users directly or some kind of an app store sort of integration But but that's the whole idea and so You know, the first step becomes the naturalness of the integration The second step becomes utility so stuff like Scheduling meetings certainly tons of iot stuff like lights and locks and heat and you know All of the things that people are beginning to build into their home and connect to boys And then I think the final step is creativity right and And I think that the first versions of the creativity for the voice assistant will be very similar to Uh, the type of creativity that our good friend will Wheaton Brought to the the book ready player one Right, so for those of you who I love the book personally love the audio performance, you know Will Wheaton, you know went into a studio and read that book and and if you listen to it you can hear That as an actor, right? He changes the tone of his voice. He changes the inflection of his voice He changes the pitch He does, you know, kind of pseudo imitations of the characters that are speaking so that When h is talking about, you know, killing bad guys and first person's A first person shooter and Parcival is talking about pursuing the egg Those two characters have different voices within the book depending on whether they're quoted and so, you know Will and a and a voice engineer probably spent significant amount of time in a studio somewhere With will developing voices and developing imitations for various different quotes and the voice engineer processing the audio and putting together what's effectively a very creative performance of uh earnest client's novel and That's the type of creativity. I think that will first come to voice So the ability to drop a book into a voice assistant and spit out a Audible quality performance of that book I think is something that's coming in the future now. I don't think it'll be here next year I don't know. Amazon spent 23 billion dollars on research. Maybe it will be here next year but I think it is coming in the next five or five or ten years I think that you will be able to drop text in whether it's from a news article or whether it's from a complete novel And these voice assistants or these voice rendering technologies will be able to render them in a very creative way Uh, I also think that avatars are coming to this space And I could be proven wrong. I mean, you know, the one of the things we always talk about here is don't be clippy Right, like don't be clippy like we we actually are very much in danger of that because we do have the cute little mark one device that could be clippy if we if we do it wrong and uh You know, I thought that Microsoft's experiment with that avatar Um, I don't know. I think there are probably people who liked it But you know, if you listen to the wait wait, don't tell me performance where clippy suggests where to dig the grave you can Definitely understand what a lot of the public thought about about clippy on windows xp. I think is when it was launched You know the the But I think avatars are an important part of the future and I think that that key and peel Uh demonstration where they showed, you know, they track the facial motions of the actor They voiced over because voice technology isn't ready to do that type of thing yet. It's getting close Uh, and we're able to make an avatar of president obama say whatever he wanted to say, right? Um, I think that is coming with the entire interaction being synthetic So the ability to create a photo realistic rendering of the user With a voice that sounds totally natural with an interaction. That's very very natural I think we'll have a lot of value for a lot of folks and and the original applications there might be Sales videos. It might be like customized nightly news from your nightly news anchor I think that there's certainly an aspect of assistance there So being able to go to my computer and say hey my craft and have a little british Guy pop up on the screen and you know, what do you need me to do and and that type of thing? Don't be clippy, right? I think that that is coming and you know, I think that people like to see Who they're talking to and I think voice is just the first step towards these virtual people Right that we will be interacting with all the time. Some of whom will be experts for their brands Some of whom will be your representative on the internet Some of whom will be uh, you know generic brands that that are generic assistants that encompass the entire internet And uh, I think that those interactions will begin to get fairly natural And then I think that the final step of this is creativity I think that soon um, I think before I die certainly well unless I'm destined to die tomorrow um I think that the these voice assistants And the technologies that underpin them will will start being able to create and truly creative endeavors Be able to make new music right being able to improvise and work together with musicians to play music that Is new and novel and to create the types of experience that professional jazz musicians can create on stage I think that it's relatively actually, you know what like like Hollywood already has I think it's called um something about a squirrel But hollywood has a book on how to write screenplays that's formulaic Like you're going to spend one minute here and one minute I mean, that's why all the movies seem the same right like I want act two act three We already have a formulaic method of creating scripts for movies um, I think that the ability to add avatars that are photorealistic along with Voice experiences that are very realistic along with creativity mean that 30 years from now You may be able to render an entire movie just by building a bullet point script Right like here's 12 bullet points Render the movie for me and have a have a have a two-hour movie drop out of the Out of the computer with all of the background scenes and everything all cut. I think that that's coming Um, certainly it's coming. I don't know if it's coming in 20 years or 30 years or 100 years But it's definitely coming Unless the world ends which is a real possibility. Um, I for one welcome our robot overlords if anybody's indexing this for the future Uh, so that's really where I see things. I see, uh, a really bright future for the technology I see a lot of jobs where people aren't able to Engage an activity that takes advantage of their full human potential I see a lot of those jobs changing substantially in the future so that when An actual human is on the telephone for a company. They're not Running through the security verification. They're not doing some of these other low value activities They're really helping you to solve problems or creating deeper relationships with their customers um, I certainly see improvements in The overall stack getting to the point where people are having difficulty Telling whether or not they're talking to a person that's already happening And it is I think that that trend is certainly going to accelerate And then long term. I see these things being integrated into avatars. I see creativity I see these things being hyper hyper natural and how they interact with other people to the point where We as a society or we as a as a species achieve our goal, which is At least our goal here at microsoft, which is a voice assistant that interacts naturally and And runs anywhere that it's a voice assistant that's so natural or it's an avatar or it's an ai That's so natural that when you speak to it, you can't tell whether you're talking to a human or a machine That's where we're headed with this and And unlike some of the other technologies out there We're trying to do this in an open way The idea is that anybody can pull down the stack Put it to use for business put it to use personally put it to use as In a classroom put it to use in a movie studio put it to use anywhere that they choose to use it in a rocket ship, right? And create a user experience that's hyper natural so that the people the humans around them that are using the technology can focus on Doing what they do best being creative and problem solving. Well The ai and the voice assistant deals with the mechanical every day every day of human life, so anyway, if that type of Goal excites you. I encourage you to join our community. You can always Find us on our website We have Very active forums where people are engaged. We have a very active matter most channel Where folks are always online talking about Minecraft talking about the voice space talking about all of the things that are happening here We currently are raising money on start engine Where you can become an investor in voice We're one of the only as far as I know voice platforms that's created a mechanism for average everyday people for people who are contributing to the stack to become investors and then of course you can buy a mark one and Join the Minecraft community as a developer or just as somebody who's donating data to the system so that we can improve it over time We'd love to have you. We're always looking for more folks and we really appreciate You engaging with us and engaging with Minecraft AI. So thank you so much for your time today and I will will I'm sure be online soon. If you have any questions feel free to to reach out to me directly through the my matter most channel or Certainly post on the forums. I'm happy to happy to engage in a conversation. Thank you so much


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is a CUBE conversation. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and we're digging in with the VMware cloud on AWS update. Of course, an important solution set we've been talking about for a couple of years. If you see, we've done interviews with some of the VMware and AWS executives. We did a deep dive on some of the technology and now we get to dig in with one of the users of the technology. Of course, the executives talk about the proof of how many customers have been using it. So happy to welcome to the program. I have two guests from PLM Insurance. First sitting right next to me on the screen is BJ Gardner, who's the lead system architect. Next to him is Dave Zigenfuss, who is a senior systems architect. BJ and Dave, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. All right, so BJ, just for audience that does not know Pennsylvania Lumberman's Mutual Insurance Company, give us a little bit about the company, 125 years in history, obviously with the name, it's in the insurance business, but help us understand what your business is and what you and Dave do for the organization. Sure, so Pennsylvania Lumberman's has been around for under 25 years. We just celebrated the under 25th year, this February actually. We are a commercial insurance company, property casualty, and we specialize in the wood niche. So we cover everything from lumber yards to auto fleets that have anything to do with moving wood, selling wood. So we're pretty niche, we're pretty specific in our brand, and we're a mutual insurer. We're one of the few, if not only one left that does lumber insurance on into mutual space. So. All right, BJ, give us a little bit of snapshot from an IT standpoint. Obviously you're using VMware, because you're here that talked to us about, what data centers and cloud usage looks like for PLM? So I've been with Pennsylvania Lumberman's for about 15 years, and we were operating in full on-prem with bare metal servers. By 2007, 2008, we started with the VMware product set. And since then, we've been moving little by little to the cloud, we have many of our core applications are sitting with vendors in the cloud as of right now. We have a small data center in Philadelphia that's an on-prem. And then we have, which we'll talk about, we have cloud data center as a service model with a VMware certified cloud partner called Faction. And then we also now have our disaster recovery as a cloud product. Excellent, since we're talking about the VMware cloud on AWS, bring inside a little bit, that DR use case that you're using, that hybrid model, help tease that out. PJ, we'll start with you and I'm sure, Dave will have some color to give after you share. Sure, I mean, when you're talking about disaster recovery in general, the need to maintain business continuity while keeping a lean IT staff and with no extended downtime and data loss, it's just, it's not an option. You can't afford to be down. You can't afford to lose data. So having a cloud service now for disaster recovery or at least the concept of that helps a small IT shop in the way of resources that we just don't have on hand on staff. So that's pretty much the biggest goal for us is to maintain business continuity and with our lean staff at the same time. And echoing PJ a bit, having an on-prem solution, you know, really to PJ's point about our lean staff, it made things quite cumbersome for us with maintaining backups, replications and such. There was a lot involved. It was very time consuming. So the handoff to utilizing VMware cloud for our disaster purposes really helped benefit our team as a whole. All right, you mentioned your partner on this solution is Faction. Help us understand, you know, how you made the decision to go down this path. So I can give you a quick rundown here how Faction came to be. So we're located, our corporate is in Philadelphia. We occupy two floors in an office building. Our data center was on the one floor. We were consolidating and we moved up to just one single floor. So we basically lost the footprint of the data center. So I went out hunting for a co-location type vendor and hooked up with Faction. And yeah, so we've been with Faction since 2015. We've had their, I'll call it Iconocolo plus data center as a service model, you know, since then, since 2015. And we've been with them doing different initiatives here and there over the years. And disaster recovery as a service is now one of them. Great, Dave, you've maybe supply a little more color on that piece. Yeah, sure. Yeah, the use of VMware cloud with site recovery manager, again, from a technical standpoint, it was second to none as far as the flexibility it gave us to grow our workloads, to maintain them. Recovery point objective was what really sold me. It allowed us to get extremely granular from a business continuity perspective. And yeah, I'm a fan. I just, I really like VMware cloud with SRM. It's proven to be top notch. Yeah, maybe follow up on that. You've been a VMware customer for a number of years. You're familiar with the tooling and everything else like that. So how long did a solution like this take to roll out? So I will guess, absolutely. There was a good portion from when we started. So you have to kind of put in a perspective because we had a data center in Atlanta, Georgia that was our disaster recovery site with faction. So we had a two-fold project. We were going into a contract year, a renewal year and faction pitched the AWS of VMware and AWS service. So we were decommissioning a data center at the same time as we were rolling it out. So I'll just give you the quick timeline. So November of 2018 was basically the contract negotiations. We finalized everything kind of in February of 2019 as far as kicking off the call on how we're gonna actually do the project. The work began around April of 2019. Faction went ahead and set up the AWS as CDC environment in early May. Faction builds out the environment for the rest of May. June, we did some non-disruptive load testing on the environment in AWS. We set up the replication and recovery group build out throughout the summer of 2019. And then we had a full sign off in September, September 17th actually 2019. So I'll just kind of highlight though in that process that it took roughly about four months to do the full build out testing and the Atlanta data center decommissioning. Okay, and PJ, after having done this, we've now got DRR as a service. What are the hero numbers? Is there cost savings along this? How do you report up the success or results of what you've done so far? Yeah, so speaking to that, so when we did the contract negotiations sorry, in November of 2018, one of the things we realized when we were pitching this cloud disaster, sorry, the cloud disaster recovery as a service model, we saw roughly about a 20% annual savings in moving to this cloud service. So a breakdown of what kind of the savings is pretty much in Atlanta we have some resource costs because we were running basically on a solo type environment with action.  So we had a point to point line that would run out to actually to New Jersey and then down to Atlanta. So we had that cost as well. So we saved basically where we ripped out the circuit, the point to point circuit and we all floated some resource costs. So like I said, about roughly about a 20% cost savings. All right, so that's some of the hard figures.   Automation has been hot for years but even more so when you talk about cloud environments. So how has this deployment changed what the workers are doing and beyond that? Well, it's simplified things quite a bit just by the partnership with Faction and in conjunction with VMware Cloud for our disaster recovery solution. It's offered many benefits. For one, we had a primary engineer who left the company. We found some benefits to not having to fill that staff resource. So that was also a positive from a money aspect. But as far as a day-to-day functioning way of going about doing things, it really took things off my plate off the rest of the team's plate and just really gave us a peace of mind as it pertains to our infrastructure and our data being secured. All right, well, I want to give you both the final word. What learnings do you have out of this? Any best practices you would share? Or there's also some updates coming taking VMware being able to take advantage of the latest bare metal offering from Amazon. I'll let you choose. Maybe BJ will start with you and wrap with you, Dave, as to those final words that you would share with your peers. Yeah, I'll certainly start it off. I mean, coming from my perspective as kind of the manager of the team here, our goal as a company, our goal as an IT shop, our goal as an operations team is to ensure the company's technology needs will be met after an event of a disaster. And that is the key. You want to protect itself, you want to protect the data, you want to protect the customers. So in the case of the cloud for us is maintaining business continuity while producing physical footprint and keeping the IT operations lean like I had stated before. And one of the most important things, and this is not just about disaster recovery but establishing good partnerships with vendors is absolutely imperative because I don't care how big your shop is. And again, we're on the small side, obviously, but you can't do it alone. So you need really good strong partnerships and good relationships with vendors. And I would say, make sure you identify your critical business workloads. Know your environment, absolutely. It's imperative, yet you have to plan efficiently. And by all means, test, test, test, test. You can't test the solution enough. So that's really about all I have. All right, well, Dave and BJ, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate you sharing your journey along and wish you the best of luck with the solution going forward. Thank you so much. Thank you for having us here. And thank you for joining us for this update VMware cloud on AWS. Be sure to check out the cube.net for all the rest of the coverage we have both in the VMware and AWS ecosystems. I'm Stu Miniman and thank you as always for watching theCUBE.