Okay, so welcome to the bookmap platform details webinar risk disclaimer trading equities and futures involves substantial risk of loss It's not suitable for all investors past performance is not indicative of future results For more information you can go to bookmap.com You can get a free trial there as well 14 days Become a member or do that free trial and then you have access to a lot of the free resources One of those resources being the webinar that follows up here in about 28 minutes And that is the advanced Analysis webinar. So there's these two webinars that we do every day The first one is about going through just the platform the functionality what book map is showing you How you might want to use it and engage it and just questions on on the functionality What are the components are and how to access them? and then the second webinar is all about just jumping right in and we look right at the live market and We we look for at the order flow. We read it You learn how to read the order flow and then you'll you'll apply it regardless of what your methodology for trading is You're you're gonna understand the order flow at your specific levels and then Then you're up and running using bookmap. All right, so That is the the process here If you're interested in that second webinar, you do need to be in trial That's the kicker. The reason being is that Those that are either in trial or current customers They don't want to go through any of the platform questions. Okay, so that's why we make the distinction between the two alright so Let's see here. If you have any questions, you can always reach us at support at bookmap.com And let's go through the website here. Okay, so top of the page First you can explore here. There's a couple of intro videos I would recommend watching these if you're new here if you don't understand what bookmap is they're very short a couple minutes and Then let's go down to connectivity Okay, so bookmap is a true platform We Are not a data provider though Okay, so you will need to have a data provider or broker and this this is how you connect bookmap All right, so what you will need one of these data providers or Brokers to be able to connect bookmap to the live markets Okay, now note that most of these are for futures. However, there is dev experts and NASDAQ here And this will allow you to access bookmap equities All right us equities only All right, this is an excellent data feed. I'll get more into that in just a second So down here is the pricing. This is where you can find bookmap For the 14-day trial. There's two versions of bookmap basic and advanced 49 per month for the basic 99 per month for the advance. They are billed quarterly And then you get that 14-day trial the difference between these two versions The one-click trading right from the chart As well as these add-on indicators here Hey, if you want to see complete comparison, you can click here And get the full list of what bookmap offers here. So let's take a look here All right, so it's actually There is a different version to for the web. It's through trade of eight It's you can see and you know just to compare the different versions here There also is a Some quant features. Hey, it's basically the same bookmap with just different features All right, so those of you who are quants and looking for something very robust Do you want to hook it up to your own? data feed that If it's with nano tick or if it's with you know data that you already have set data You know from the calendar that you want to study in particular Well, then you can do that with this with this quant version here. All right, so Let's see the bookmap portal. Okay, once you be become a member Then you'll have access to the portal. This is where you'll find a lot of the the videos here for features And and for education as well. However, you can also find many of those on the YouTube page Here's our Twitter page. This is the most up-to-date. You can follow us here. Just gives you information on The most most recent information on what's going on and a lot of examples and retweets of other users So follow us there on Twitter. This will help your education and then the YouTube page here This is where you find all of the videos I Would recommend watching a few of the features components start with the 6.0 overview And then the order flow video snippets are are excellent. They're very concise two to three minute videos and In here we cover Much of what we go over in the advanced webinar. So watch some of these and They're very short and you'll understand some of the phenomena that bookmap very clearly Visualizes for you and this will allow you to make more informed trading decisions if you want to watch some of the recorded webinars They are all here Well, these are the selected webinars. I should say you can watch some of these And you can also get a sneak peek into the advanced webinar Okay, so there's a couple of the advanced advanced here advanced and advanced here And here's the platform details one and there's another platform details here. Okay All right, and Then futures trader 71 expert trader Veteran in the market if you want to watch how professional of this Level how he uses book map and reads order flow with his with his trading. Okay, so let's jump into book map now all right as you can see there's a lot going on here and So I'm gonna simplify this we do this process every day Just so that you guys understand what it is you're looking at here because this can look very very foreign and it looks like it's a lot and it It really isn't it's actually pretty streamlined and is very very objective data. Okay There is no indicator here. I mean we have an iceberg indicator. You see with these numbers, but And that comes with the advanced version, but this is just market data And you're getting a complete picture of it. So That's why I'm gonna go through this process and we're gonna go through each a bit of data so that you understand exactly what you're looking at and This is going to help clarify it for you Okay, so here we are looking at the S&P E-mini and we're looking at a five-minute candlestick chart Okay, this is a view. Most of us are accustomed to Okay, we can see the 930 open here five minutes after we see a nice move to the upside And we can see that kind of struggled here a little bit of sideways action And now we might be going down and testing the low here on this candle Okay, so I'm very curious to see what the order flow is going to look like at this level And we'll get to it in just a minute And we have the potential maybe coming down and testing the the open here So we'll see anyway Problem with the candlestick chart There are only four data points here per candle open high low close and that's it There's a lot of market transparency here. That is just it's not available And you're making financial trading decisions based on this data and it's just Not going to give you the insight that book map or you know something that Gives you much more information regarding the order flow So for example the traded volume. Okay, we have a volume sub chart here. We can see that But we don't understand a number of things We don't know what kind of volume it was. Was it aggressive buying or aggressive selling? We don't know where it took place on what price level We don't know microstructures within here and We don't know Exactly when it took place within this five-minute candle. Okay? That's really insightful information, right so We want we want to to look at that and let's just gonna turn on the best bid and offer here And that'll be the first thing now you can see that here We have the historical best bid and offer Overlaid on top of the candlestick chart. Okay, so Already, yeah, we're getting more insight just with this alone Reason being is you can start to see some of the microstructures Okay, so for example, I can I can look right at this right here And I can see that there there was a movement up And then we base sideways for a bit and then there was another movement up and then it retained that level up here Okay, all of that is really, you know, this this little microstructure here was kind of the key and We don't we don't see that in the candlestick chart. It's just not there So we're already getting a lot more insight Compared to this five-minute candlestick chart. So now let's turn on the volume Okay, and the way we display volume is on the historical best bid and offer with these dots Okay, a green dot Represents an aggressive market buy so let me zoom in I'm going to click on the hand tool the move tool I'm going to hover over this area and you can you know left-click hold and drag back and forth But a quick way of zooming is just use your center mouse wheel one hovering over this area when using the move tool Okay, so I'll just zoom in reposition it and zoom in again with my center mouse wheel And now I can see exactly what occurred. So look at this little area right here Okay, just for clarity's sake. I'm just going to zoom into this area. Here's our historical best bid Here's our historical best offer. Okay a green dot represents an aggressive market buy someone hit the market buy button right here And they took liquidity off of the best offer And they wanted in and this is considered aggressive because they paid up the spread And they didn't provide liquidity. They took liquidity All right, so that's an aggressive market buy. Here's an aggressive market sell with the red dot and You can see that there are many transactions that take place very quickly in this high frequency environment Okay, this is just how these markets trade So we can see here that we have a pie display of the volume and in this pie here We can see that there's more green than red Okay, so very clearly we already know that there's more buying here opposite here We see there there's more selling than there is buying If you want to know exactly what these numbers are in terms of volume well, we have sub columns here That that will display the volume, but we can also use this tool tip Data tool tip and you can hover over a little dot and it tells you you get the date The time and it's it is based on you know millisecond or microsecond depending on your zoom level And then what was on the ask? Okay, so this is the liquidity where there's 510 contracts here At this very moment At this price level of 80 and three quarters and then the volume was one Okay, here's another one for volume of 10 Okay, so if I zoom in here, we're gonna start to You'll note how this was actually just one trade for 10. All right, so let me zoom out again But the Okay, so you can hover over also this dot here that has both both of these trades Both both aggressive buying and selling and we can see this was for a volume of 375 Okay, if I continue to zoom out note how I kind of consolidate this This data and that volume into a bigger dot Okay, so this is just happening visually though just graphically okay, we Are doing that so that you have the overall sense of what occurred at this time and the size of the dot Represents more volume and then the color tells you the delta or what type of volume it is right, so With very very quick visualization You can understand if you want to look at the numbers you can use a data tip tool and you can also use combination with these data columns here All right, so now is I continue to zoom in I pull apart all that trade activity Okay, and watch how I continue to zoom in here to this big red dot okay note how we I've pulled it out here and continue to zoom in and This is what really occurred All right, this was a flurry and cluster of volume that took place very quickly And we're down here at the middle of our microsecond level Okay, so millions of seconds and we can see start to understand algorithmic activity here little cluster here Looks very similar to this cluster here. Okay, so most likely an algo selling and You can start to piece all of this together, but what I'm trying to get across here is If you are trading algorithmically You have access to every single market event that took place In fact, there's basically unlimited zoom here in bookmap. We're zooming now and we're at the nanosecond level Okay, now we don't trade off of billions of seconds, right? So this doesn't apply to most of us. However, if I zoom out We give you the overall shape of that volume here with this bigger red dot Okay, so now you have both and and now as I zoom out here, and let's See here Let me change the size of these dots. I'm gonna make them a little bit bigger. Okay That's a little too big. All right So now on this on this candlestick chart, we can see the volume Okay, and we can see what type of volume it is where it occurred in the structure the microstructure that it occurred and Who might be winning the battle here? And all of that information is missing from that candlestick chart Okay, this is very much like a footprint chart You can you can see the the aggressor who's winning the battles here. Look at the little breakdown right here Okay, so we held the structure up here for a bit and then we actually saw this breakdown when we first started the the webinar here, so I Was curious to see what the order flow look like down here. Well, this is what occurred. Okay, they They hit the bid pretty hard on the sell side and and price dropped down to this level here Just at this swing. Okay, that's what actually what I was kind of eyeing and wondering what what this would look like Looking for a target at that swing. Okay And now we're looking for insight like who's winning the battle now Okay, did the did the buyers give up or not or are the sellers in control now? And it's looking like it's kind of going both ways right now just based on the dots and the color and the volume here all right now Knowing the volume is is important However, there's a whole other side to the order flow and you're not seeing it here And and that is the liquidity. Where's the liquidity? Where are the traders that are? willing to Engage in this market on the on the buy side and the sell side Most of us will turn to the dome for that current market snapshot and this is the dome and book map Okay, we can see the the liquidity here on the bid Okay, below the the green box here and you can see the liquidity on the offer up here Okay, this is your lit book right now. Okay, and We want to know that information we want to know where these traders are lined up We want to know if they want to get filled here or not or is this fake liquidity? Are they going to pull that liquidity as soon as price comes up and test them? Now the problem here with the dome is that these numbers change and that that data is lost You're gonna have to remember it.  That's a lot of information to retain And it gives you a lot of insight. So although the dome is good for the current snapshot You don't have any historical reference and that's where book map solves this issue. So let's click on the heat maps here Okay, and let me explain. Okay, so this dome here is the lit book All right here is the also the lit book You can see the best bid and offer currently right now with the green dashed and green Or red dash lines here. This number is the last traded volume Okay, let me zoom in just a little bit more and let's click back to the current market. Okay, so What we've done in this window here And this is reflection of the current market the dome is we we paint these Levels of liquidity in a heat map. Okay, so you can see 1200 contracts is bright white here Okay, 30 almost 13 under contracts is also bright white here. This this is the highest liquidity in the book right now Okay, you can see these guys pulling here at 80 and a quarter so When these numbers change the heat map will change Okay, now and that's insightful to get this graphical representation because if immediately I know Without looking at the numbers. I know where the high liquidity is Okay, I see on the bid down here at 78 on the offer up here at 81. Okay, we're just like that I also have insight here that at 80 and a quarter. They're pulling. Okay, so they don't want to trade here Did they have intent to trade here? No, they did not And now they're now they're jumping back in but As price came up one tick away They pulled and now they're coming back and they're pulling again Okay, so do these people really want to trade here and the majority of them? No, they do not Okay, because they're pulling and They're if they wanted to trade they'd stay in the book All right, and we'll see if these guys at 81 as soon as we come up into this area. We'll see But anyway, that's the current market The historical market all of this data here is recorded and then transposed onto the historical chart So along with the volume, we also now have an understanding of the liquidity We have an understanding of the auction that took place here Okay, so look at these striations here at this level at 80 and a quarter Okay, we can see the heat map got it was dark and then it got brighter and then it got darker and then brighter again and and that's happening right now as well so All of this information is recorded transposed and now we can understand With a glance Where they're bidding and offering and their intent Okay, and what about the other areas around it?  Okay, so very insightful information is the other side of the order flow here and It gives you an edge up in In your trading look how we can see that we drop down below This area right here. Okay, we see the aggressive selling Then they flipped over here. They're they brought down the their offer more aggressively here at this area and You know, so are we going to trade now down and accept below this level? Okay, this is that structure. We were looking at right? This is where that that structure changed right in this area here Okay, this is where we broke from and now we can't seem to get back up into this structure from previous Okay, so and we can see why because there's high liquidity here, right?  Is it are the bulls gonna win or the bear is gonna win and you know, we're reading our Liquidity here and the intent of these traders and we already know that these guys at 80 and a quarter Do not have intent to trade. Okay, they've been pulling Okay, and look where they're adding. Okay, they're adding actually up higher. So this is bullish You know is is bullish to see them adding up higher in this structure. Okay overall structure like You know, it we're still holding down below the line. I just drew in here. Okay, so But we but we know though that they don't really Want to to sell here? Okay, so it will this structure hold well If we need the aggressor to come in here and pull price up into it, but their intent to trade is not here Okay, so we know that we know that much. This is just factual information And we're putting the pieces all together. So if the bulls Want they can Take these guys on at 80 and a quarter. They'll probably pull and we'll come up into 81. Okay, that is a potential scenario here All right, if the bears start to step in here. Well, what we're going to see is another leg down Okay, and we're going to see them hit the bid pretty hard We may see very very aggressive action here on the on the offer with the liquidity Okay, not only will they have the intent to trade. They'll be jumping in front of each other front-running and Getting aggressive at lower levels and that would be bearish Okay, and where would we target where would the where would price go? Okay, well, we'd be looking here at the 78 level This is where they were previously and they pulled but you know, you can see that the action is here at 78 so I Anticipate if we can break down Lower this will probably be the one of the critical areas that we might see a Another bounce Okay, so that's another scenario here as well Okay, and here here's this here's the scenario that is playing out right at the moment. Look how They they are starting to bid a little bit higher here Okay, 79 and a quarter and they're pulling here at the 80 and a quarter I'll all the thing that all that's lacking here is the the aggressive buyer Okay, and we can come up and test into some of these areas here Okay, it's a little bit of a battle right now Going back and forth because as soon as we go tick away these guys jump right back in Okay, now we come a tick further or closer to them and they jump out okay, so at some point something's going to give here and I Thought we were just going to see it here when we saw them lining up here at 79 and a quarter and then them pulling This is the recipe we look for right and then we look for the aggressor to come in lift the offer up into 81 Okay, and it's starting to shape up again here We need a little more activity here on the bid and we need the aggressor to show up Okay, look at the areas up here in the volume. Okay, we see little green dots We want to see bigger green dots. We want to see more aggressive vine that need that's what's required to lift the offer higher Okay, any questions on this? This is a just The basics we're going through Starting to understand and read the order flow as well This is the process we go into a lot more detail and depth In the in the webinar that starts in in just a few minutes. Okay, so Anyway You can see that you're getting a lot more information here compared to your traditional candlestick chart. You're getting a complete picture of the market It's just it's like I said, this is not an indicator It's a this is just really a very objective view of What's occurring in the market and what did occur? Okay Okay, here's our second scenario right so we didn't see the aggressive buying here now the aggressor the sellers jump in Okay, and and now these guys are here at you know that we're pulling at 80 and a quarter Well, they're back in and they're they're staying for the moment, but but prices moved away What we're looking for now is them to lower that offer Okay, and then look at them down here now at seventy seven and a half. Okay, so 78 I still think we that'll be a An area here that we'll see we'll see some action But now the liquidity is here at at seventy seven and and a half Okay, 78 starting to show a little bit of interest now, too okay All right, so anyway Let me know if you have any questions if not then we will Wrap it up and continue on tomorrow with the the same process and I Can go through a lot of different features and components There is so many to go through that I don't even know really where to begin. I mean we have an API. We have automated strategies here That can work with bookmap. You can write your own strategies as well There are Several add-on indicators that give a lot of information. There's a cumulative volume Delta That is down here in the sub chart There's all sorts of things But if you don't understand the basics on what bookmap is displaying and how to start reading that Then it's not it's not really worth it to go over some of the other other features at this moment. Okay, so Let me know what kind of questions you have and happy to answer them Okay Anyway, yeah, thanks for coming and we will catch up with you tomorrow same time. Okay. Bye. Bye


The Empire gives people the illusion of fighting the power without ever endangering real power. The one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has seen countless emotional news segments and heart-string plucking articles, wall-to-wall social media posts, and public demonstrations decrying the evils of Vladimir Putin throughout the western world. For what's probably the first anti-war protest of many of their lives, American Liberals gathered together at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. over the weekend to bravely condemn the leader of a foreign government thousands of miles away. There they were joined by empire managers like the virulent warmonger Samantha Power, who spoke at the rally opposing Russian warmongering at the capital of the most war-like nation on the planet. For the last year, mainstream Westerners have been using this war to act out their fantasies of being courageous, up-punching anti-imperialists, fighting powerful bloodthirsty tyrants in defense of the needful, all while living directly under the thumb of the most tyrannical regime in the world. They mindlessly regurgitate the propaganda of the most powerful empire that has ever existed, parrot the same lines that are already being said all day every day by the most powerful institutions in the western world, all in service of the hegemonic agendas of the largest and most murderous power structure on earth, while pretending to be standing in opposition to the powerful. The way the war in Ukraine allows mainstream liberals to play act as rebellious anti-imperialists is a good illustration of how the empire gives people the illusion of fighting the power without their ever opposing the empire. We saw this same trend take place in the US throughout the Trump administration, where mainstream liberals branded themselves the resistance like they were socialist revolutionaries or insurgents opposing Hitler in Nazi-occupied France. In reality, Trump's presidency had little actual impact on the comforts of their lives, because beneath all the narratives, Trump was a fairly normal US president, whose most heinous crimes were all of the customary variety we see in all US presidents, including his predecessor and his successor. Democrats just spent four years larping as brave revolutionaries, and then he left office and the game ended. In exactly the same way, Trump's presidency allowed right-wingers to pretend they were part of a movement against the establishment, despite Trump never actually challenging the establishment in any meaningful way. They believed he was fighting the deep state even after he imprisoned Assange. They believed he was ending the war as even as he ramped up aggressions against Russia, which helped bring us to where we are today, killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans with starvation sanctions, vetoed attempts to save Yemen from US-backed genocide, worked to foment civil war in Iran using starvation sanctions and CIA ops with a stated goal of affecting regime change, occupied Syrian oil fields with the goal of preventing Syria's reconstruction, greatly increased the number of troops in the Middle East and elsewhere, greatly increased the number of bombs dropped per day from the previous administration, killing record numbers of civilians, and reduced military accountability for those airstrikes. They believed he was draining the swamp after packing his cabinet with establishment swamp monsters. Trump supporters are just George W. Bush supporters, larping as Ron Paul supporters. They role play a fight against the empire that is never actually happening anywhere except in their imaginations. For four years this went on, with Democrats acting like they were fighting the power because Trump was the power, and Republicans acting like they were fighting the power because Trump's enemies were the power, and the entire time real power went completely unchallenged because the empire always marches forward regardless of the imperial puppet who's sitting in the White House. And as the war drums with China heat up, we're seeing Trump supporters turn into the mirror image of the mindless Ukraine flag waving liberals we're seeing today, swallowing every narrative their media feeds them right down their throats without the slightest twinge of critical thinking gag reflex. Now we're seeing the same people who used to spew vitriol about Muslims in the Middle East suddenly metamorphose into heroic human rights champions for Muslims in Xinjiang, and the same people who've been shining the bright light of truth on propaganda about Russia suddenly switch it off because they believe Biden is a Xi Jinping puppet. Imperial narrative managers actively foster these delusions of revolution and up punching among the mainstream herd because it's a great way to kill the possibility of any real revolutionary zeitgeist. If you can give people the illusion that they are fighting the power without they're ever actually fighting the power, then you can always remain in power. It doesn't take much. Just a few trusted voices in their ideological echo chamber posing as passionate opponents of tyranny and abuse and people's natural desire to oppose those things does the rest. It naturally feels right to oppose the depravity of the powerful on behalf of the weak and defenseless. All they have to do is divert that healthy human impulse into something illusory. Here's hoping enough of us learn to see through the illusion one day.


Okay, trying to hold it together. I was just typing a note. This is the exclusive coverage of SiliconANGLE.com here at the Opus Dex Summit, and it's been a really tough day today. Obviously, we saw the news about the Boston tragedy, and we're wrapping up day one, and it's really kind of hit us hard here. Jeff Frick and I both were talking off camera. I have family there, and this is a marathon. Many times in that spot, I know exactly where it is. And it really is a tragedy, and it's been taking its toll on us all day today. We try to do our best to keep our chin up and get you some great coverage here from the Opus Dex Summit. Jeff, real tragedy in Boston. It's really horrible, the horrific videos, the chaos that ensued just reports of eight-year-old boy dead. It's kind of affected us. It's affected me here in theCUBE today. And I really, really want to send out my prayers to the families and the people involved, and the tolls rising, the injured are rising. Pretty horrific. Yeah, it's really too bad, and what we're doing here is exciting, tech is exciting, and that's all fine and good, but it's a horrible thing that happened, and people are getting killed and hurt, and for whomever did it, obviously it's bad news. So our thoughts go out, and hopefully you've been able to get in contact with your friends and loved ones, and hopefully they're okay. Like New York City, obviously smaller scale than the World Trade Center, but terrorist attacks like this are brutal, and I know Boston's a tight town. There'll be some angry people and a lot of anger there, but you know what, they're going to come together. Boston's a great town, and I'm really heartfelt by it. But here, we're going to follow through, stay finished strong here at theCUBE, day one of three days of coverage, exclusively at the OpenStack Summit. I want to thank the OpenStack Foundation for letting us come here. They picked up the cost for the connectivity, which allows us to broadcast all the signal from the noise here. Not a lot of noise, a lot of signal from the OpenStack Summit. Want to also thank Service Mesh. Go to that company, check them out. Really like this company. They stepped up, they supported us. They sponsored us here. They're also going to sponsor us. Also going to the Amazon events as well, AWS Summit and AWS Invent. If you're interested in sponsoring theCUBE and want to underwrite and help us get more signal, get more resources to get on the ground coverage, always contact us. We're always looking really to get that underwriting to help us bring the independent coverage of these events where no one else is covering it. And that's what we want to do. We go where the action is, Jeff, and the action here is OpenStack Summit because of the inflection point. We heard from our guests today from startups, entrepreneurs, to folks on the OpenStack Foundation that this is an inflection point. You're seeing the maturization of the cloud no longer about the hypervisors and the technology on the bare metal of the servers. Bigger picture, it's about corporate enterprises, it's about service providers. It's about a new modern infrastructure and a new mindset. DevOps, scale out commodity, industry standards, servers and storage with software being the key. Linux, virtualization, a lot of technology and a lot of innovation. Yeah, and I think it rolls up a lot of technology trends that are happening right now. First off, just the whole developers are king again and the fact that they were enabled by an AWS to spin up an environment for very low cost and very little time to take their projects forward and how that has fundamentally transformed the way that large companies have had to work now to support that type of development effort. And clearly mobile has a lot to do with that because there are a lot of cool little apps that people put together to get after the mobile platform. I think it's amazing that you see this synergy between open source and commercial enterprises and using really open source as a fuel for innovation but obviously when it gets into the enterprise they want people to put it in, they want people to support it, they need training, they need kind of all the the enterprise-y things that go around it so that's synergy. The fact that we've got really large companies, as you said, the biggest whales of the whales are here and they're excited about OpenStack and at the same time, we had Alessandro here who off camera when he left, he's going crazy, he's so excited, I said, how many people do you have in your company? He said, 10, he's gonna grow to 50 by the end of next year. So the fact that, and I've been in an HP and Alessandro with his 10 guys who's working on big Microsoft projects are so excited at the same time. I think it's pretty interesting. Jeff, hit the nail on the head. What's really happening here is massive growth and to me the macro big picture in the marketplace is that the investment coming into the sector for cloud related investments, IT investments specifically is now on top of a generation of anemic investment where over the past 10, 15 years you talk to anyone at IT outside of the emerging areas like financial services and some specific industries has been cutting, cutting, cutting, do more with less cut to the bone and now all of a sudden the tsunami of investments happening in that space is just overwhelming. It's affecting one personnel decision making, how they're hiring, vendor relationship suppliers and all the different constituencies that take place for IT and it's all about speed. The speed game is can I get applications out fast enough? This is a transformation because the stakes are high. Okay, the stakes are high because it's a competitive advantage. Applications are now being written specifically for business value. That top line revenue driving IT environment is here and that has been the holy grail that everyone's been chasing for the past two decades making IT drive revenue. Not just in niche, obvious verticals, all verticals. So to me, very compelling. Obviously the whales are voting with their actions and their commitments with code, IBM, HP, VMware. You name it up and down, NetApp was on today. Amazing story that those guys instantly are positioned perfectly for this market. Their little filer, their NetApp systems actually are well positioned as an ingredient in the overall equation for this new model. So the economics are one picture but it's really the wealth creation where a startup of 10 can compete with the big guys. To me that's an exciting story. And the other part I think is fun with Diane who's our tech developer who got us. And she said and you could see it in her voice and you could see it in her expression. She's excited about developing again because basically the inhibitors have been removed that makes it easier for developers to build cool things and to deliver value. And then you compare that with Sean that came on from Service Mesh. And I found this company, he's already talking about kind of the next order. I mean we have private clouds and we have public clouds and we've got AWS clouds and we've got on-prem and off-prem private clouds and now he's already talking about another generation where based on your project and the parameters of your project and the authorization of your project and the secrecy of the data, you'll just get the cloud and then behind the scenes it'll provision it to one of these different cloud options as the best fit. So I mean the pace of innovation is bananas. Sean Douglas is a rock star. I'll tell you that right now. He's on the queue and I've been following his career at EMC and him going to Service Mesh to put Service Mesh on the agenda for me because I started looking at, so they're one of the hottest companies out there that is not being fully recognized in the mainstream because they're working on stuff that's ahead of the curve. They're looking around the corner for the next big curve and you don't want to drive 90 miles an hour around that next curve. Service Mesh is doing things like hybrid cloud for the enterprise, self-defined data center, converged devices, cloud brokering DevOps and they understand the competitive landscape.  Another great guest, Piston Cloud. Josh was fantastic, laid out the 101 of OpenStack, nailed that question and then just overall there's real, real deal here. And what I think I'd share with the folks out there that you can't see because you're not here in the interviews is the crowd here is not a hyped up crowd.  They're the fault leaders, they're making it happen. So although there's a little bit of grandstanding in the PR side of things with these companies because they have PR departments, it's really a lot of meat on the bone, it's meat and potatoes, they're doing some solid work. And I think when OpenStack shifted from a marketing program to delivering code and reference implementations, you saw the credibility and they put governance around it, they did a good job, I got to have props for the OpenStack Foundation, Rackspace, NASA and the group of people that came together. So I got to say this is a really good community, it's smoking hot and I love it. Yeah, I just poked my head in the analyst briefing room and one of the comments coming out of there and we heard it from Randy and Josh, some of the pioneers of this thing is as an open source project, the way that OpenStack has developed really leveraging all of the learning from all the prior open source projects before and the rate of development and maturity and the governance that they put in place that's allowed for this innovation to happen so quickly is just phenomenal. I mean, you can't see, as John said, who's here but you can see on the Twitter feed, everyone is just talking about there's not enough space in these rooms, there's not enough space in their rooms for people that are interested in learning, sharing information and driving this thing forward. And it's a really exciting time. I think they said it's the fifth year but I think as everyone said, when we have 3,000 people, it is really at a turning point and really set to run. The battle is done, they've won in terms of this alternative and they're going to run. Some notable comments on theCUBE today. Obviously, Randy Bias was kind of really, he trashed some of the fine data centers, there was overhyped beyond all recognition, there was a foobar situation there. I disagree with him. I think, I know where he's getting his cynic from but, you know, and I respect Randy a lot and he's awesome and Cloud Scaling is a company that's really that modern provider. But I do think it's a reality. I think software defined data center or SDDC as they call it, the acronym is a moonshot. It's a vision. No one has it yet, it's evolving. It's certainly not defined. This whole software defined is what we call software-led, Jeff. It's not defined yet. So that's what's exciting. The infrastructure actually is being retooled on the fly while the app market up on top of the stack is exploding in growth. So the combination of massive market opportunity growth, the tsunami of mobile development or edge of the network devices, internet of things is forcing the infrastructure to retool. That's not how it used to work. It used to be infrastructure enables up top of the stack, not in this market. Yeah, it's fun and I'm looking forward. I think we had a full slate of guests for tomorrow. So I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, so just some trending items here on our dashboard. We're monitoring now 3,000 unique individuals on Twitter. We have our algorithmic tool here interested in our vFinder product. We have the ability to track the communities. Obviously open stack is number one. Cloud services is number two. Private cloud is number three. Cloud infrastructure is number four. VMware is five. AWS CloudStack which came up only once today. It was an alternative to open stack. Diane brought it up. Some are saying it's dead. Open stack has won. That's a whole nother debate. HP Storage made the dashboard. And above that was network virtualization. These are the top trends and that's going on. The other vertical that we track is self-defined networking. And in that vertical, open stack is the number one trending item. So open stack really, in my opinion, made their bones from the work in the community. But it was the Nasir acquisition from VMware and the work in the network virtualization area, the network level that pivoted open stack to being real. And that's really a big deal. So tomorrow we have, we're going to have HP on. We're going to have Big Switch, RightScale, SolidFire, David Cahill from SolidFire. We're going to have Adrian on from a real, real hot company that's going to be announcing a big product tomorrow. We have NewAge, HP again, Hortonworks. A lot of great interviews. We're here three days live. This is Silicon Angle and Wikibon's theCUBE, our flagship program where we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. Three days wall-to-wall coverage. Our mission in our fourth year now of theCUBE is to go out to the events, go where the action is. If there's action in tech, emerging tech or enterprise tech, we want to be there. With this interview, we'll do it. If it means interviewing all day, to extract the signal, we'll do that. I'm John Furrier with Jeff Frick, wrapping up day one coverage here at the OpenStack Summit. This is Silicon Angle and stay tuned for tomorrow, all day wall-to-wall coverage.