 Survived another day of the Microsoft Ignite conference, which was interesting So, you know, it's been some more time back talking to the vendors. I couldn't really take the camera and interview him Which is noisy crazy But what was fun was talking to the server people as you know It's all the cloud that runs everything and that's cool But it the cloud is physical hardware its computers So I visited the Lenovo booth and Adele booth and They have the hardware running there and specifically they're running something referred to as Azure Stack and it's a On-premise hybrid cloud system. Yeah buzzwords right away But we actually interviewed the guy who it came up with and as the lead architect and all this Jeffery snowver look him up The guy is amazing. He's done some really cool stuff He's you get some alert at us and I'll look for our build podcast and you can he look for our interview with Jeff snowver And he's one of our people we're interviewing you today So I wanted to explore the hardware to talk about it because it was a released as a you know part of the keynote address at the build conference and now it's a Production thing going out now and it's really cool. What the concept is this So if you are using the Azure portal system It allows you to have both on-premise and the cloud and so to speak the Azure Hosted services at the same time and move things between them So you have this local stack and the way they spec this is different So in order for you to run the same platform as they're running in the data center in your office there's a very specific spec and That's what makes this kind of interesting. So they're not saying just pick some hard room We'll give you some software on it's not like it just runs Windows Server when you're running the Azure Stack it actually has to Build a copy of it running locally with the same portal same dashboard and everything else Then you can develop your virtual machines and all of the services that you're going to use and you can move them between a Running locally or running in the cloud or duplicate them and you can do live movements between them And this is a lot of this is very important for places For example that have trouble with internet connectivity and they were talking about one of their larger clients That has stores across the world, but at any given time eight percent of their stores don't have connectivity Due to the area. It's just you know internet goes down things like that. So she we start thinking globally In the manufacturing space and they just lose connectivity But losing connectivity they don't want that to disrupt business, of course So the solution is this they put in these Azure stacks So you deploy the common thing the common application across your entire Network across your entire global network with it hosted there with it's sinking there But if it goes down the high availability side of it is You know the internet connection that doesn't cover high availability So the high availability is it duplicates one copy internally so they can keep working gathering data Running their applications on the Azure Stack locally and as soon as it comes back online Everything sinks back up and that's a lot of what this hardware was designed for was that Now besides that it's just really cool server hardware the way these Lenovo design their servers the way the fans drop in and service ability They designed a server that doesn't require any The lids to be opened up a best way to describe it so it can be serviced on the front in the back when slide out You don't have to actually take it out of the rack and lift the lid up And if you've seen service decks that are in racks it the lifting the lid up usually means you got rails You slide it out in a rail so you can have access to things and so there's a lot of engineering that went into hardware design and It also gets really cool because these all have 23 NVMe drives Solid state arrays of data. It's just a really cool stuff This is the thing the cloud's running on you know This is the other computer that it actually is so it's really cool seeing and You know they put the engineers out there to talk about their equipment So when you get to talk to these people they give you a lot of information about it because they're the engineers that designed it They're not just somebody hired to stand around a booth and hand you a flyer on it They're the people who you know understand the engineering behind it So they're able to speak to it and it's just really cool. It's it's neat seeing all of it physically Because you know even they they kind of I was joking with them about the buzzwords and things like that So like yeah the the cloud and they're like this is what it is and they're you know showing us the servers directly So that was a really cool thing The sunrise is not quite happening because it's really cloudy here in Florida this morning So I don't have that cool sunlight coming in like I did yesterday But I'll keep posting some of these videos and some of that but today is exciting for us because the days We actually record the podcast And I probably will bring my camera down for some later at least post some photos and tweet them out The podcast booth is pretty cool. They have set up. It's a whole studio. It's very professional It's really cool. And so we're gonna be there doing the podcast today and getting our guests lined up and Producing some content which we'll be scattering around on the smlr.us site So look for that if you're interested in the podcast where we you know take our deep dive in the Linux and everything else And I will see you guys later. I'm Keep producing videos. I know these are a little short But that's hard to produce really long content here But if I can line up some interviews and find a good spot to interview someone Who's we're talking a red hat solar winds a few others and seeing who we can get interviews for the Microsoft people I talked to a couple of them and they just like we have to get it approved from PR So if they're not someone like who's already on our guest list, they have to I guess I'm not the clearest But I get the idea. It's corporate policy. They really want to talk. They really like their job So there's like we've got rules and we got to you know have some things that you know That makes sense for corporate companies. I understand that The great stories that are the off-camera ones Just that you know hanging out with all these people spent a lot of fun and you learn a lot and you just meet people So once again, thanks for watching if you like the content here like and subscribe