In our classrooms we actively engage our students in the planning, organisation and evaluation of their learning. Our programs cater for a variety of learning styles; developing curiosity, collaboration and problem solving.
Visit our classroom links to learn about the variety of engaging, relevant and active integrated units designed to support our strong literacy and numeracy focus. Four major units are studied each year. These units provide a balance of scientific and historical studies as well as health and safety, technology, economics and geography. The work also has elements of civics and citizenship, personal and interpersonal skill development along with developing good work habits.
At EEPS we commence the year with a program of "start-up" activities which contribute to the building of friendly, safe and productive learning environments based on our school values of Respect, Teamwork, Enjoyment, Resilience and Learning. As well as setting the tone and culture for our classrooms the program has the added benefit of enriching students vocabulary, literacy skills and higher order thinking skills. We discuss our class norms, which are the behaviours that normally happen, for example we normally put our hand up to leave the room however if you are going to be sick you would leave quickly. Each class produces a class agreement which puts into writing the normal behaviours all members of the class will use to achieve a wonderful working environment. The end product is a school community that understands the expectations for behaviour, building positive relationships and creating a harmonious environment in which to learn. The class agreements take pride of place both in classrooms and in the EEPS hall surrounding the school song.
Every Face has a Place at EEPS.
Along with the four major units studied across the year, mini units relevant to specific classes covering topics such as the seasonal changes, democratic process, Olympics and other major sporting events, Bike Education, Road Safety, Chess, Maths Olympiad, Robotics, film making, literature and author studies. Our teachers are always keeping abreast of new programs and activities that meet the needs of our children.


125 years ago, Vincent van Gogh died, on 29 July 1890. The Dutch artist fascinates, delights and is one of the greatest painters. Not only his works, the vibrant colors and the symbolism, impress his fans. It is also his short dramatic life.
The Van Gogh Museum has on its website some highlights of their collection, information about his life and work, exciting multimedia based background stories and interesting answers to about #125questions.


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Lyrics ► Artist profiles: Ettore Stratta
About Ettore Stratta
Conductor, Producer. Born in Cuneo, Italy, in 1935. Died in NY, USA, on July 09, 2015.
Chiefly during the 1990s, conductor/producer Ettore Stratta built a recording career out of recasting various brands of popular music in symphonic-style orchestral arrangements. Sometimes that meant dabbling in Latin American music (as with Symphonic Boleros, Symphonic Tango, and Symphonic Bossa Nova) and sometimes that meant choosing compatible standards from the jazz and pop worlds to create records with consistent moods (as with A Sentimental Journey and 2000's As Time Goes By: Great Love Songs of the 20th Century). He's also done more specific collections, including a tribute to sci-fi film soundtracks (Music From the Galaxies) and, oddly enough, to Elvis Presley (Symphonic Elvis, recorded -- of course -- with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra). Stratta has recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Fantasy Strings, among other groups, and showed no signs of slowing down following the turn of the millennium.
Ettore Stratta songs
Free Again
The Brothers Four
When Evrything Was Green
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Ettore Stratta discography
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More Lead Roles For Octavia Please: 'Ma' & 'Luce' Prove Octavia Spencer Has Always Been A Headlining Lady
The star is showing her acting chops and controversial edge.
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*Minor spoilers below*
When the trailer for Ma dropped back in February, I couldn't help but be excited.
I was equally part thrilled, part disturbed, and part humored. For two and a half minutes, I wanted to suspend any race and gender analysis I had and just enjoy Octavia Spencer terrorize these kids in a scary and slightly hilarious way.
After seeing Ma this past weekend, however, I left the theater feeling conflicted. On one hand, I couldn't shake the fact that Spencer was playing a grown woman who abused minors as a way to get back at her high school bullies. But on the other hand, I was thrilled that Spencer was playing someone who wasn't a maid, the funny fat Black woman, or the emotional mule used to carry a White person's burdens.
With Ma, I witnessed Spencer's full emotional range — from joy, to rage, to sadness — in a role that's usually reserved for White women (Kathy Bates in Misery comes to mind). Even the things that disturbed me about the film led to a great discussion with my friend about the themes of the movie, the role of the horror genre, and what worked well vs. what didn't.
More roles like this for Octavia please.
Done are the days where the Black woman of size is relegated to the supporting role and then she gets a pat on the back with a few Oscar nominations. Spencer continues to prove she's ready for the spotlight in the trailer for Luce, which dropped on Tuesday.
In the flick, Spencer plays Ms. Wilson, a teacher who calls a star athlete student into question after she makes a shocking discovery in his locker. With the trailer, Spencer seems to be taking on another psychological thriller where the moral lines are blurred and the intensions of Spencer's character are up for debate.
Once again, Spencer seems to be playing a character not intended to make people comfortable. This can be a big deal for Black actors, especially in a world where we're already criminalized, over-sexualized or considered crazy (especially Black women). Why take on roles that can further enforce these narratives or worse, disrupt the work being done to advance Black equity.
However, Spencer's decision to grab these roles allows her to delve deep into the dark spaces for a tale that could be cautionary, revelatory or just plain fun to watch. Controversy might follow in the end, but Spencer is a brown-skinned Black woman of size leading a movie.
She's already controversial.
Let's find out where she takes us and we'll talk about it afterwards.
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10 Years of Change: Urban scene evolves in Downtown Tampa, St. Pete
St Pete EDC March 12, 2019 Affordability, Community, Opportunity, Quality of Life Leave a Comment
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BY: CHRISTOPHER CURRY
In Tampa Bay's two largest cities, times have changed, to say the least.
St. Petersburg's reputation as a retirement haven, the city of green benches, and downtown Tampa's status as a ghost town after 5 p.m. appear gone for good.
Curtis Hixon Park attracts locals and tourists day and night.
Today, Tampa's downtown hums with activity at night and on weekends. On sunny Saturday afternoons, 20- and 30-somethings descend on the Tampa Riverwalk to bask in the weather and participate in the latest festival while foodies head to new food halls at Armature Works and on North Franklin.
Across the bay, St. Petersburg has transformed into a nightlife and arts hub that stretches from the waterfront miles west to the Grand Central District.
"If you walk around downtown on any night of the week, but especially a Friday or a Saturday night, you are blown away by the density," says St. Petersburg City Development Administrator Alan DeLisle, who lives downtown. "That density goes from Beach Drive all the way down Central Avenue for blocks and blocks and blocks."
These downtown rebirths have not happened by accident.
Local leaders say focused efforts to improve and revitalize the urban core attract a younger population to live and work there. In turn, the growing population of younger professionals helps produce the energy now coursing through the hearts of the Tampa Bay Area's largest cities.
"We are overrun by millennials and young professionals of all ethnic strata, which is a really good problem to have," outgoing Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn says. "It's what we set out for eight years ago when we were exporting talent to Atlanta, Charlotte and Nashville."
In Tampa, public investment in the Tampa Riverwalk, Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, and Waterworks Park, private construction of new apartments, condos and restaurants, and a shared public and private sector campaign to recruit companies all contribute to the rebirth that's attracted a younger demographic.
The Durkin family walks along the Tampa Riverwalk downtown.
"It's activated our downtown in ways it was never activated before," Buckhorn says.
The draw for young professionals
Raechel Canipe came to Tampa to attend the University of South Florida. She liked the city during college but truly fell in love with it after graduation, when she landed a job with DEX Imaging and became active in the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Emerging Leaders of Tampa Bay program.
Canipe, 27, says the live, work, play attraction of the city offers ample job opportunities, a "booming downtown" and a cost of living that makes Tampa one of the most affordable metro areas in the country, according to the 2018 Cost of Living Index.
Beyond that, there is the draw of the beaches in Pinellas County, and three major professional sports teams (the Lightning, the Rays, and the Bucs), and the sight of construction cranes that show the city's growth spurt will not tail off anytime soon.
The St. Pete Pier under construction.
Canipe says young professionals are also becoming more connected and involved with the city by joining networking organizations like Emerging Leaders of Tampa, which she chairs. Through these groups, they are rubbing elbows with government officials, getting the inside scoop from business leaders and advocating in support of issues, like the All for Transportation sales tax referendum that passed in Hillsborough County and will help determine the long-term direction of the city.
"In the groups I am involved with, I see a lot of transplants who moved here for a job opportunity and the low cost of living, and now they're looking to grow their network," Canipe says. "They're looking for ways to get connected and our program offers opportunities to get involved with Tampa in a much deeper, more meaningful way. When I was in school, I was pretty sure I liked Tampa, but I've really fallen in love with the city seeing behind the scenes everything that is going on. We feel we are able to influence and shape our community for the future."
Entrepreneur ecosystem grows
Across the bay, Reuben Pressman grew up in the Bay Area, graduated from the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg with a degree in entrepreneurship, and stayed in the city to launch his career as an entrepreneur.
"Most of my friends or other founders of companies were leaving, or at least that was the current trend," Pressman says about the trend a decade ago. "It was easier to build a company in other cities like Silicon Valley, New York, Austin, Boston or Chicago. But I grew up here, had already built a very strong network and wanted to build my company here, where I've had so much opportunity. I wanted to be a part in helping grow the eco-system here. I love the place, between the arts, community, people, food, weather, opportunities to get involved, growth, events, and activities. It has everything you could want without the millions of people crowding it all. It has the feel of a smaller city."
Today, Pressman, 29, is the founder and CEO of Presence, an education technology platform used by more than 100 higher educational institutions to increase student engagement, graduation rates, and workforce readiness. He's also active on the board of multiple nonprofit organizations and civic and economic development groups. He says, as much as the weather and the cost of living, many young professionals decide to stay in St. Pete or move here because of those opportunities to get involved in civic and professional groups and make a positive impact in the community.
There is also the explosion of things to do in and around downtown.
"For the young professionals moving here, I definitely think it's culture," Pressman says. "At the risk of sounding like a TV ad, you
can live, work and play downtown. Although it's getting pricier for St. Petersburg and this area, it's still nothing compared to other cities with amenities that do or don't even match up as far as food, arts, and community engagement. There's also the quality of people, with loyalty and love for this place, unlike many other places you could go. From new restaurants opening weekly, a brewery in shouting distance from anywhere, hundreds of outdoors parks, especially for dogs, and venues, an engaged city government and endless open jobs and opportunities at amazing companies doing meaningful things for ranges of talent, it's easy to see why young pros are moving here."
Numbers reveal change, challenges
In some ways, the data belies the notion that Tampa and St. Pete are growing younger - at least from a citywide perspective. The median age of St. Petersburg and Tampa have both increased moderately since the 2010 Census, according to U.S. Census Bureau numbers. In St. Pete, it is 44.6. In Tampa, the median age rose from 34.5 to 35.6, which is still below the statewide average of 41.8.
But numbers for key demographic groups show that there's more than anecdotal evidence that the cities are growing and that their urban cores are indeed growing younger.
Main dining and bar area of the new Blind Tiger in South Tampa/Hyde Park.
Research by the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation shows the total population of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan service area rose by 7.7 percent from 2014 to 2018, with a significant 12.3 percent increase in the key 25-34 age group.
For St. Petersburg, the long-term trends show a younger, more educated population with rising income. The city's annual State of the Economy report shows that, while the city's median age remained above the national average, it had declined by 3.3 years since 1970, while the national median age had increased by nearly 10 years.
More recently, the city's population grew by 3.7 percent from 2014 through 2017, accounting for nearly 37 percent of the population growth in Pinellas County, and the median household income grew by 19.7 percent, city numbers show.
DeLisle attributes that to the city's Grow Smarter economic development strategy, which focuses on marine science, life sciences, financial service, specialized manufacturing, design and art as target industries.
He says an uptick in population growth for the 30-45 age range is due to the fact that "the jobs we're attracting now pay more and you have to have a little bit more experience."
At the same time, the percentage of St. Pete's population in the 20-39 age range most associated with labor pool availability trends down from 28.6 to 26.9 percent from 2016 to 2017, a sign the city still needs to recruit and retain more young talent.
As for the impact on local government operations, officials on both sides of the bay say a younger population in the urban core affects transportation, particularly improving bicycle and pedestrian facilities and public transit to meet the needs of a younger population.
In St. Pete, that includes the addition of bike share, the new looper system downtown, working toward bus rapid transit on the
Affordable housing is another issue.
A recent report conducted by RCLCO real estate advisors, The New Geography of Tampa Bay's Urban and Suburban Neighborhoods, shows that, while urban areas are younger than the suburbs and growing younger, wages are higher in the suburbs, while the cost-of-living is more expensive in urban areas.
DeLisle says a partial solution is a condition on all requests to redevelop city properties, such as the old police station, that any residential construction must include housing for a variety of income ranges, including market, affordable, and workforce housing.
Looking ahead, the Tampa Hillsborough EDC projects the region's population will grow 6.3 percent from 2019-2023. The population in the 25-34 age range is expected to increase by a more moderate 4.4 percent, while the 35-44 group is projected to rise by 9 percent.
Of course, the deep dive into the area's demographics will come next year with the 2020 Census. The U.S. Census Bureau will have 15 field offices across the state to serve as management centers for home-based census takers and supervisors, and provide working and meeting space for managers and support staff, a spokesman says.
The St. Pete and Tampa offices are slated to open in July.
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Musk Sells Richest Man Title to Bernard Arnault as Tesla Crashes Investing.com
Investing.com – Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: ) shares fell 6.27% yesterday, ending the day at $167.82, the lowest close in about two years. Since the beginning of 2022, TSLA has now shown a decline of more than 56%.
Keep in mind that Tesla shares have been hit this year due to risk aversion associated with the rise in central bank interest rates, but also due to the takeover of Twitter (NYSE: ) by Elon Musk, Tesla's boss.
In fact, investors fear that the accumulation of responsibilities from Musk (who also runs Space X) will prevent him from fulfilling his mission at Tesla.
But this increasingly pronounced mistrust is directly affecting Musk's wealth, whose wealth consists mainly of his roughly 14% stake in Tesla.
Yesterday's drop in Tesla stock cost Elon Musk his place as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes ranking, which estimates that Musk's fortune fell by $7.4 billion in the stock market alone yesterday, reaching $181.3 billion.
Musk ceded the top spot to LVMH ( EPA: ) CEO, Frenchman Bernard Arnault, who owns just over 60% of LVMH's voting share class, according to SEC filings. His fortune at yesterday's close was $186.2 billion, according to Forbes. LVMH shares, which closed up 0.57% yesterday, lost just 1.5% in 2022.
Finally, note that the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which uses a different method of calculating wealth, still ranks Musk as the richest person in the world with a fortune of $168 billion, compared to Bernard Arnault's $167 billion.
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Abandoned Upstate New York by Nicholas Long
Accompanied by the faint hum of crickets and the sounds of wind whistling through shattered glass, photographer Nicholas Long ventures into complete darkness in order to shed light on how remarkable life once was. With only a camera and flashlight in hand, he travels fearlessly through underground tunnels, scales ladders caked in rust, and squeezes through narrow passages in search of obsolete technology and relics to share with the world. Many of his works, included in this book, provide a raw and nostalgic insight of the past, all the while revealing just how unsettling it can be traveling alone through the ignored and forgotten territories of Upstate New York. From abandoned houses and shops, to the monumental factories of St. Regis Paper Mill and Abbass Food Corporation, Nick has only scratched the surface of what lies secluded from public eye. Follow Nick as he wanders through these desecrated locations that have been buried in time, in search of a more vivid understanding into abandoned Upstate New York.


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Q: Need help trying to undo a VIM mistake So I'm practicing Ruby on Codeacademy and to save the work that I'm doing I copied and pasted my code onto my cmd prompt using VIM.  However, I noticed that each line of code was commented with the '#' symbol and I wanted to remove them.
To be productive,  I searched online how to use regex to search for all the hashtags and remove them with this command:
:%s/#//gc

Then this popped up:
replace with  (y/n/a/q/l/^E/^Y)?

I pressed y every time until the message disappeared and now I'm stuck with all hashtags characters being replaced with a yellow rectangle. So instead of having this:
#

I have this:
[] but shaded in yellow for every time I use a hastag.

Any help would be much appreciated!

A: The yellow rectangle represents the characters that matched your expression. To clear the last search highlighting, use:
:noh
To uncomment the lines of code, I would just do this:

*

*Use V to select each line, then

*:norm x

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State Theatre Centre of Western Australia
Housing the Heath Ledger Theatre, named after late Perth born Hollywood actor Heath Ledger, this 575 capacity theatre is part of a defining architectural landmark in the city; home to the Black Swan State Theatre Company, Barking Gecko Theatre and Co3 Australia.
Designed by award-winning Kerry Hill Architects, the State Theatre Centre's design delivers a building that not only provides a functional and inspiring venue for performers and their audiences, but has also become an instantly recognisable part of the city. Two interactive, visually and audibly stunning artworks 'Falling from heaven to earth, the shooting star' and 'Interval' are part of the physical structure using current technology to connect the history of the site with its present and future.
The Centre hosts contemporary performing arts, such as theatre, dance and music with a focus on distinctive professional and contemporary work produced locally, nationally and internationally.
Spaces within the State Theatre Centre are available for hire.
174-176 William St
https://www.ptt.wa.gov.au/contact/
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when i started blogging i told myself i'd be good about posting regularly.
hmm…does every 2 weeks (or so) count?
anyway, it's been really busy around here, in my personal life. i posted early on that my husband and i were hoping to buy our first house. well, it looks like we're well on our way! if all goes smoothly, we should be in our new – own! – house by the time the new year starts. (can't believe there's a new year around the corner!) i don't want to jinx it by sharing too much, but it's very exciting – please send positive vibes & prayers our way!
i'm having a great time tormenting the husband about what i'll be able to do when we move into our own home. i'm pretty sure the scariest thing (for him) is that i want to draw a huge wall mural with my beloved black Sharpies. i CAN'T WAIT. seriously. i can't wait to have our own home where we can the rooms any color we want, create a garden however we want, and answer to no one but ourselves. yay!
i have been trying to stock more items to the Etsy shops – both the art shop and the supply shop. i hope you'll check them both out and consider doing some holiday shopping with me! you'll be getting 100% handmade and unique work.
remember, you can also find my work on the website we share with 3 other artists – www.artedenuestrocorazon.com. you'll find beautiful Mexican folk art, Day of the Dead art, stationary items, beaded jewelry, and so much more.


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Q: Hibernate FlushMode is set to Manual for multiple transactions Here is my code :
HibernateUtil.pushFlushMode(FlushMode.MANUAL);
getCurrSess().beginTransaction();
try {
    for(i=0; i<list.size(); i++) {
        Obj dummy = list.get(i);
        // Here Multiple things can happen like selects, save, update and deletes of different objects which are related to dummy object....
        if (i > 0 && (i % 10 == 0)) {
            getCurrSess().getTran().commit();
            getCurrSess().beginTransaction();
            if (i % BATCH_SIZE == 0) {
                getCurrSess().flush();
                Thread.sleep(20);
            }
        }
    }
} catch(Exception e) {
    getCurrSess().getTran().rollback();
} finally {
    HibernateUtil.popFlushMode();
}

Flush happens for every 10 committed transaction(i=100). This is part of a background job which takes up lots of processing. Number of objects vary around 20,000 and I cannot clear the session until the whole process is finished because I end up in Lazy initialization exception. My code works fine but here I'm bothered about the sequence of flush and commit in manual mode. Can this be done in a better way ?

A: I worked on an application where we often got OptimisticLockExceptions during this kind of operation and to fix it we just reran the batch.  The downside is that you could still get a corrupted database if, for example, your database went offline halfway through the batch.
HibernateUtil.pushFlushMode(FlushMode.MANUAL);
try {
  int batchIndex = 0;
  int numAttempts = 0;
  while (batchIndex < list.size()) {
    listEnd = batchIndex+BATCH_SIZE;
    if(listEnd > list.size()) {
      listEnd = list.size();
    }
    ArrayList<> sublist = new ArrayList<>(list.subList(batchIndex, batchIndex+BATCH_SIZE));
    getCurrSess().beginTransaction();
    try {
      for(Object obj : list) {
        //Here multiple things can happen like selects, save, update, and deletes
      }
      getCurrSess().flush();
      getCurrSess().commit();
      batchIndex += BATCH_SIZE;
    } catch (Exception e) {
      getCurrSess().getTran().rollback();
      numAttempts++;
      if(numAttempts == MAX_ATTEMPTS) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Exceeded maximum number of attempts for batch operation, database is corrupted.");
      }
    }
  }
} finally {
  HibernateUtil.popFlushMode();
}

If you absolutely can't tolerate a corrupted database then you have to use a single transaction:
HibernateUtil.pushFlushMode(FlushMode.MANUAL);
try {
    getCurrSess().beginTransaction();
    try {
      for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
        Object obj = list.get(i);
        //Here multiple things can happen like selects, save, update, and deletes
        if(i % BATCH_SIZE == 0) {
          getCurrSess().flush();
        }
      }
      getCurrSess().commit();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new RuntimeException("Error occurred during batch.  Batch aborted.");
    }
  }
} finally {
  HibernateUtil.popFlushMode();
}

But obviously this is not going to give you great performance if you have 20,000 objects (in fact, even the first approach isn't going to be great).  If you do have 20,000 objects then the ONLY way you'll be able to improve performance is if you flush AND clear with each batch.  This means you will have to closely manage how you operate in order to avoid lazy initializer exceptions.

A: What's the reason why you used constant 10 in modulo?
You should always want to do something for a reason :-) What I mean?
If you want to provide better throughput or you have small amount of RAM, I would provide cache flush&clear every cycle within iteration as small transactions bring this feature.
If you do not have this requirement depends on size of your list whether to commit at the end or during the iteration how you tried to design yourself. Be aware of constant 10 as sometimes it can be enough, sometime little, sometimes too much. I would prefer to decide when to flush according to other important sign, like count of objects in session or occupied memory etc. Note that you should not care only about size of hibernate cache but also about database transaction log.
If you take care about performance, look at stateless session, I've made some performance test before years (.NET)


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Starkey takes on J'can beats
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL
Observer senior writer
Trojan Jamaica, a new record company co-owned by musician/producer Zak Starkey, was launched last week. It will focus on reggae projects by Jamaican artistes, with the first releases expected by May.
The label, which has a distribution deal with BMG, is co-owned by Australian musician Sharna "Sshh" Liguz. She and Starkey co-own a recording studio in Ocho Rios, where most of Trojan Jamaica's music will be recorded.
Fifty-three-year-old Starkey is a drummer/guitarist who has played with The Who and Oasis. He is the son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Starkey and Sshh performed at the Peter Tosh tribute concert in Kingston in 2016 and 2017.
Wayne Jobson, who helped put the Trojan Jamaica albums together, said the label's first album is titled Red, Green, Gold and Blues. It features musicians including Sly and Robbie, Toots and The Maytals and Freddie McGregor doing reggae interpretations of American blues songs.
The second venture is a tribute album and documentary about pioneer deejay U Roy, with songs by Ziggy Marley, Shaggy, Steel Pulse, and Tarrus Riley. Both projects will be showcased during the official launch of Trojan Jamaica in April.
In an interview with the Jamaica Observer in January 2018, Starkey said Red, Green, Gold and Blues is an exciting mix of his two favourite genres.
"I find both reggae music and American blues to be similar with a different approach. Very cleverly, Jamaican music is 'up' music with a serious message," he explained. "US blues has a very similar message in the words but the music can be harder or more 'down', but both rock just as hard."


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Wasabi scores $112M Series C on $700M valuation to take on cloud storage hyperscalers
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Taking on Amazon S3 in the cloud storage game would seem to be a fool-hearty proposition, but Wasabi has found a way to build storage cheaply and pass the savings onto customers. Today the Boston-based startup announced a $112 million Series C investment on a $700 million valuation.
Fidelity Management & Research Company led the round with participation from previous investors. It reports that it has now raised $219 million in equity so far, along with additional debe financing, but it takes a lot of money to build a storage business.
CEO David Friend says that business is booming and he needed the money to keep it going. "The business has just been exploding. We achieved a roughly $700 million valuation on this round, so you can imagine that business is doing well. We've tripled in each of the last three years and we're ahead of plan for this year," Friend told me.
He says that demand continues to grow and he's been getting requests internationally. That was one of the primary reasons he went looking for more capital. What's more, data sovereignty laws require that certain types of sensitive data like financial and healthcare be stored in-country, so the company needs to build more capacity where it's needed.
He says they have nailed down the process of building storage, typically inside co-location facilities, and during the pandemic they actually became more efficient as they hired a firm to put together the hardware for them onsite. They also put channel partners like managed service providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) to work by incentivizing them to sell Wasabi to their customers.
With a $50B run rate in reach, can anyone stop AWS?
Wasabi storage starts at $5.99 per terabyte per month. That's a heck of a lot cheaper than Amazon S3, which starts at 0.23 per gigabyte for the first 50 terabytes or $23.00 a terabyte, considerably more than Wasabi's offering.
But Friend admits that Wasabi still faces headwinds as a startup. No matter how cheap it is, companies want to be sure it's going to be there for the long haul and a round this size from an investor with the pedigree of Fidelity will give the company more credibility with large enterprise buyers without the same demands of venture capital firms.
"Fidelity to me was the ideal investor. […] They don't want a board seat. They don't want to come in and tell us how to run the company. They are obviously looking toward an IPO or something like that, and they are just interested in being an investor in this business because cloud storage is a virtually unlimited market opportunity," he said.
He sees his company as the typical kind of market irritant. He says that his company has run away from competitors in his part of the market and the hyperscalers are out there not paying attention because his business remains a fraction of theirs for the time being. While an IPO is far off, he took on an institutional investor this early because he believes it's possible eventually.
"I think this is a big enough market we're in, and we were lucky to get in at just the right time with the right kind of technology. There's no doubt in my mind that Wasabi could grow to be a fairly substantial public company doing cloud infrastructure. I think we have a nice niche cut out for ourselves, and I don't see any reason why we can't continue to grow," he said.
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By Ron Miller
Amazon S3 Storage Lens gives IT visibility into complex S3 usage
Posted on November 19, 2020 November 19, 2020 by DREAMTECH
As your S3 storage requirements grow, it gets harder to understand exactly what you have, and this especially true when it crosses multiple regions. This could have broad implications for administrators, who are forced to build their own solutions to get that missing visibility. AWS changed that this week when it announced a new product called Amazon S3 Storage Lens, a way to understand highly complex S3 storage environments.
The tool provides analytics that help you understand what's happening across your S3 object storage installations, and to take action when needed. As the company describes the new service in a blog post, "This is the first cloud storage analytics solution to give you organization-wide visibility into object storage, with point-in-time metrics and trend lines as well as actionable recommendations," the company wrote in the post.
Image Credits: Amazon
The idea is to present a set of 29 metrics in a dashboard that help you "discover anomalies, identify cost efficiencies and apply data protection best practices," according to the company. IT administrators can get a view of their storage landscape and can drill down into specific instances when necessary, such as if there is a problem that requires attention. The product comes out of the box with a default dashboard, but admins can also create their own customized dashboards, and even export S3 Lens data to other Amazon tools.
For companies with complex storage requirements, as in thousands or even tens of thousands of S3 storage instances, who have had to kludge together ways to understand what's happening across the systems, this gives them a single view across it all.
S3 Storage Lens is now available in all AWS regions, according to the company.
Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B
Dropbox shifts business product focus to remote work with Spaces update
In a September interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston talked about how the pandemic had forced the company to rethink what work means, and how his company is shifting with the new requirements of a work-from-home world. Today, the company announced broad changes to Dropbox Spaces, the product introduced last year, to make it a collaboration and project management tool designed with these new requirements in mind.
Dropbox president Timothy Young says that the company has always been about making it easy to access files wherever you happen to be and whatever device you happen to be on, whether that was in a consumer or business context. As the company has built out its business products over the last several years, that involved sharing content internally or externally. Today's announcement is about helping teams plan and execute around the content you create with a strong project focus.
"Now what we're basically trying to do is really help distributed teams stay organized, collaborate together and keep moving along, but also do so in a really secure way and support IT, administrators and companies with some features around that as well, while staying true to Dropbox principles," Young said.
This involves updating Spaces to be a full-fledged project management tool designed with a distributed workforce in mind. Spaces connects to other tools like your calendar, people directory, project management software — and of course files. You can create a project, add people and files, then set up a timeline and assign and track tasks, In addition, you can access meetings directly from Spaces and communicate with team members, who can be inside or outside the company.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the pandemic forced the company to reevaluate what work means
Houston suggested a product like this could be coming in his September interview when he said:
"Back in March we started thinking about this, and how [the rapid shift to distributed work] just kind of happened. It wasn't really designed. What if you did design it? How would you design this experience to be really great? And so starting in March we reoriented our whole product road map around distributed work," he said.
Along these same lines, Young says the company itself plans to continue to be a remote first company even after the pandemic ends, and will continue to build tools to make it easier to collaborate and share information with that personal experience in mind.
Today's announcement is a step in that direction. Dropbox Spaces has been in private beta, but will be available in public beta starting today. It should be available publicly at the beginning of next year.
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Qumulo update adds NvME caching for more efficient use of flash storage
Posted on November 9, 2020 November 9, 2020 by DREAMTECH
Qumulo, the Seattle-based data storage startup, announced a bunch of updates today including support for NvME caching, an approach that should enable customers to access faster flash storage at a lower price point.
NvME flash storage development is evolving quickly, driving down the price with higher performance, a win-win situation for large data producers, but it's still more expensive than traditional drives. Qumulo CEO Bill Richter pointed out that the software still has to take advantage of these changing flash storage dynamics.
To that end, the company claims with its new NvME caching capability, it is giving customers the ability to access faster flash storage for the same price as spinning disks by optimizing the software to more intelligently manage data on its platform and take advantage of the higher performance storage.
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The company is also announcing the ability to dynamically scale using the latest technologies such as chips, memory and storage in an automated way. Further, it's providing automated data encryption at no additional charge and new instant updates, which it says can be implemented without any down time. Finally, it has introduced a new interface to make it easier for customers to move their data from on premises data storage to Amazon S3.
Richter says that the company's mission has always been about creating, managing and consuming massive amounts of file-based data. As the pandemic has taken hold, more companies are moving their data and applications to the cloud.
"The major secular trends that underpin Qumulo's mission — the massive amount of file-based content, and the use of cloud computing to solve the content challenge, have both accelerated during the pandemic and we have received really clear signs of that," he said.
Qumulo was founded back in 2012 and has raised $351 million. Its most recent raise was a hefty $125 million last July on a valuation over $1.2 billion.
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Dropbox begins shift to high efficiency Western Digital Shingled Magnetic Recording disks
Posted on October 26, 2020 October 26, 2020 by DREAMTECH
Last year, Dropbox talked about making a shift to Shingled Magnetic Recording or SMR disks for short because of the efficiency they can give a high volume storage platform like theirs. Today, Western Digital announced that Dropbox was one of the first companies to qualify their Ultrastar® DC HC650 20TB, host-managed SMR hard disks.
Dropbox's modern infrastructure story goes back to 2017 when it decided to shift most of its business from being hosted on AWS to building their own infrastructure. As they moved through the process of making that transition in the following years, they were looking for new storage technology ideas to help drive down the cost of running their own massive storage system.
As principal engineer James Cowling told TechCrunch last year, one of the ideas that emerged was using SMR:
What emerged was SMR, which has high storage density and a lower price point. Moving to SMR gave Dropbox the ability to do more with less, increasing efficiency and lowering overall costs — an essential step for a company trying to do this on its own. "It required expertise obviously, but it was also exciting to bring a lot of efficiencies in terms of cost and storage efficiency, while pulling down boundaries between software and hardware," Cowling said.
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As it turns out, Dropbox VP of engineering Andrew Fong says that the company has been working with Western Digital for a number of years and the new SMR technology is the latest step in that partnership.
Western Digital says that these drives deliver this cost savings through increased storage density and lower power requirements. "When considering exabyte-scale needs, and associated capital and operating cost of the data center, the long-term value in terms of lower cost-per-TB, higher density, low power and high reliability can help benefit the bottom line," the company said in a statement.
Time will tell if these disks deliver as promised, but they certainly show a lot of potential for a high volume user like Dropbox.
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Egnyte introduces new features to help deal with security/governance during pandemic
The pandemic has put stress on companies dealing with a workforce that is mostly — and sometimes suddenly — working from home. That has led to rising needs for security and governance tooling, something that Egnyte is looking to meet with new features aimed at helping companies cope with file management during the pandemic.
Egnyte is an enterprise file storage and sharing (EFSS) company, though it has added security services and other tools over the years.
"It's no surprise that there's been a rapid shift to remote work, which has I believe led to mass adoption of multiple applications running on multiple clouds, and tied to that has been a nonlinear reaction of exponential growth in data security and governance concerns," Vineet Jain, co-founder and CEO at Egnyte, explained.
There's a lot of data at stake.
Egnyte's announcements today are in part a reaction to the changes that COVID has brought, a mix of net-new features and capabilities that were on its road map, but accelerated to meet the needs of the changing technology landscape.
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The company is introducing a new feature called Smart Cache to make sure that content (wherever it lives) that an individual user accesses most will be ready whenever they need it.
"Smart Cache uses machine learning to predict the content most likely to be accessed at any given site, so administrators don't have to anticipate usage patterns. The elegance of the solution lies in that it is invisible to the end users," Jain said. The end result of this capability could be lower storage and bandwidth costs, because the system can make this content available in an automated way only when it's needed.
Another new feature is email scanning and governance. As Jain points out, email is often a company's largest data store, but it's also a conduit for phishing attacks and malware. So Egnyte is introducing an email governance tool that keeps an eye on this content, scanning it for known malware and ransomware and blocking files from being put into distribution when it identifies something that could be harmful.
As companies move more files around it's important that security and governance policies travel with the document, so that policies can be enforced on the file wherever it goes. This was true before COVID-19, but has only become more true as more folks work from home.
Finally, Egnyte is using machine learning for auto-classification of documents to apply policies to documents without humans having to touch them. By identifying the document type automatically, whether it has personally identifying information or it's a budget or planning document, Egnyte can help customers auto-classify and apply policies about viewing and sharing to protect sensitive materials.
Egnyte is reacting to the market needs as it makes changes to the platform. While the pandemic has pushed this along, these are features that companies with documents spread out across various locations can benefit from regardless of the times.
The company is over $100 million ARR today, and grew 22% in the first half of 2020. Whether the company can accelerate that growth rate in H2 2020 is not yet clear. Regardless, Egnyte is a budding IPO candidate for 2021 if market conditions hold.
Egnyte unifies its security and productivity tooling into single platform
Pure Storage acquires data service platform Portworx for $370M
Posted on September 16, 2020 September 16, 2020 by DREAMTECH
Pure Storage, the public enterprise data storage company, today announced that it has acquired Portworx, a well-funded startup that provides a cloud-native storage and data-management platform based on Kubernetes, for $370 million in cash. This marks Pure Storage's largest acquisition to date and shows how important this market for multi-cloud data services has become.
Current Portworx enterprise customers include the likes of Carrefour, Comcast, GE Digital, Kroger, Lufthansa, and T-Mobile. At the core of the service is its ability to help users migrate their data and create backups. It creates a storage layer that allows developers to then access that data, no matter where it resides.
Pure Storage will use Portworx's technology to expand its hybrid and multi-cloud services and provide Kubernetes -based data services across clouds.
Image Credits: Portworx
"I'm tremendously proud of what we've built at Portworx: an unparalleled data services platform for customers running mission-critical applications in hybrid and multi-cloud environments," said Portworx CEO Murli Thirumale. "The traction and growth we see in our business daily shows that containers and Kubernetes are fundamental to the next-generation application architecture and thus competitiveness. We are excited for the accelerated growth and customer impact we will be able to achieve as a part of Pure."
When the company raised its Series C round last year, Thirumale told me that Portworx had expanded its customer base by over 100 percent and its bookings increased by 376 from 2018 to 2019.
"As forward-thinking enterprises adopt cloud native strategies to advance their business, we are thrilled to have the Portworx team and their groundbreaking technology joining us at Pure to expand our success in delivering multi-cloud data services for Kubernetes," said Charles Giancarlo, Chairman and CEO of Pure Storage. "This acquisition marks a significant milestone in expanding our Modern Data Experience to cover traditional and cloud native applications alike."
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By Frederic Lardinois
Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt today, said that COVID has accelerated a shift to distributed work that we have been talking about for some time, and these new ways of working will not simply go away when the pandemic is over.
"When you think more broadly about the effects of the shift to distributed work, it will be felt well beyond when we go back to the office. So we've gone through a one way door. This is maybe one of the biggest changes to knowledge work since that term was invented in 1959," Houston told TechCrunch Editor-In-Chief Matthew Panzarino.
That change has prompted Dropbox to completely rethink the product set over the last six months, as the company has watched the way people work change in such a dramatic way. He said even though Dropbox is a cloud service, no SaaS tool in his view was purpose-built for this new way of working and we have to reevaluate what work means in this new context.
"Back in March we started thinking about this, and how [the rapid shift to distributed work] just kind of happened. It wasn't really designed. What if you did design it? How would you design this experience to be really great? And so starting in March we reoriented our whole product roadmap around distributed work," he said.
He also broadly hinted that the fruits of that redesign are coming down the pike. "We'll have a lot more to share about our upcoming launches in the future," he said.
Houston said that his company has adjusted well to working from home, but when they had to shut down the office, he was in the same boat as every other CEO when it came to running his company during a pandemic. Nobody had a blueprint on what to do.
"When it first happened, I mean there's no playbook for running a company during a global pandemic so you have to start with making sure you're taking care of your customers, taking care of your employees, I mean there's so many people whose lives have been turned upside down in so many ways," he said.
But as he checked in on the customers, he saw them asking for new workflows and ways of working, and he recognized there could be an opportunity to design tools to meet these needs.
"I mean this transition was about as abrupt and dramatic and unplanned as you can possibly imagine, and being able to kind of shape it and be intentional is a huge opportunity," Houston said.
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Houston debuted Dropbox in 2008 at the precursor to TechCrunch Disrupt, then called the TechCrunch 50. He mentioned that the Wi-Fi went out during his demo, proving the hazards of live demos, but offered words of encouragement to this week's TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participants.
Although his is a public company on a $1.8 billion run rate, he went through all the stages of a startup, getting funding and eventually going public, and even today as a mature public company, Dropbox still evolving and changing as it adapts to changing requirements in the marketplace.
Posted on July 16, 2020 July 16, 2020 by DREAMTECH
Qumulo, a Seattle storage startup helping companies store vast amounts of data, announced a $125 million Series E investment today on a $1.2 billion valuation.
BlackRock led the round with help from Highland Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Kleiner Perkins and new investor Amity Ventures. The company reports it has now raised $351 million.
CEO Bill Richter says the valuation is more than 2x its most recent round, a $93 million Series D in 2018. While the valuation puts his company in the unicorn club, he says that it's more important than simple bragging rights. "It puts us in the category of raising at a billion plus dollar level during a very complicated environment in the world. Actually, that's probably the more meaningful news," he told TechCrunch.
It typically hasn't been easy raising money during the pandemic, but Richter reports the company started getting inbound interest in March just before things started shutting down nationally. What's more, as the company's quarter closed at the end of April, they had grown almost 100% year over year, and beaten their pre-COVID revenue estimate. He says they saw that as a signal to take additional investment.
"When you're putting up nearly 100% year over year growth in an environment like this, I think it really draws a lot of attention in a positive way," he said. And that attention came in the form a huge round that closed this week.
What's driving that growth is that the amount of unstructured data, which plays to the company's storage strength, is accelerating during the pandemic as companies move more of their activities online. He says that when you combine that with a shift to the public cloud, he believes that Qumulo is well positioned.
Today the company has 400 customers and over 300 employees with plans to add another 100 more before year's end. As he adds those employees, he says that part of the the company's core principles includes building a diverse workforce. "We took the time as an organization to write out a detailed set of hiring practices that are designed to root out bias in the process," he said.
One of the keys to that is looking at a broad set of candidates, not just the ones you've known from previous jobs. "The reason for that is that when you force people to go through hiring practices, you open up the position to a broader, more diverse set of candidates and you stop the cycle of continuously creating what I call 'club memberships', where if you were a member of the club before you're a member in the future," he says.
The company has been around since 2012 and spent the first couple of years conducting market research before building its first product. In 2014 it released a storage appliance, but over time it has shifted more towards hybrid solutions.
NetApp to acquire Spot (formerly Spotinst) to gain cloud infrastructure management tools
Posted on June 3, 2020 June 3, 2020 by DREAMTECH
When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its original name). We had no idea how big at the time. Today, NetApp announced plans to acquire the startup.
The companies did not share the price, but Israeli publication, CTECH, pegged the deal at $450 million. NetApp would not confirm that price.
It may seem like a strange pairing, a storage company and a startup that helps companies find bargain infrastructure and monitor cloud costs, but NetApp sees the acquisition as a way for its customers to bridge storage and infrastructure requirements.
"The combination of NetApp's leading shared storage platform for block, file and object and Spot's compute platform will deliver a leading solution for the continuous optimization of cost for all workloads, both cloud native and legacy," Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager for public cloud services at NetApp said in a statement.
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Spot helps companies do a couple of things. First of all it manages spot and reserved instances for customers in the cloud. Spot instances in particular, are extremely cheap because they represent unused capacity at the cloud provider. The catch is that the vendor can take the resources back when they need them, and Spot helps safely move workloads around these requirements.
Reserved instances are cloud infrastructure you buy in advance for a discounted price. The cloud vendor gives a break on pricing, knowing that it can count on the customer to use a certain amount of infrastructure resources.
At the time it rebranded, the company also had gotten into monitoring cloud spending and usage across clouds. Amiram Shachar, co-founder and CEO at Spot told TechCrunch in March, "With this new product we're providing a more holistic platform that lets customers see all of their cloud spending in one place — all of their usage, all of their costs, what they are spending and doing across multiple clouds — and then what they can actually do [to deploy resources more efficiently]," he said at the time.
Shachar writing in a blog post today announcing the deal indicated the company will continue to support its products as part of the NetApp family, and as startup CEOs typically say at a time like this, move much faster as part of a large organization.
"Spot will continue to offer and fully support our products, both now and as part of NetApp when the transaction closes. In fact, joining forces with NetApp will bring additional resources to Spot that you'll see in our ability to deliver our roadmap and new innovation even faster and more broadly," he wrote in the post.
NetApp has been quite acquisitive this year. It acquired Talon Storage in early March and CloudJumper at the end of April. This represents the 20th acquisition overall for the company, according to Crunchbase data.
Spot was founded in 2015 in Tel Aviv. It raised over $52 million, according to Crunchbase data. The deal is expected to close later this year, assuming it passes typical regulatory hurdles.
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Wasabi announces $30M in debt financing as cloud storage business continues to grow
Posted on May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 by DREAMTECH
We may be in the thick of a pandemic with all of the economic fallout that comes from that, but certain aspects of technology don't change no matter the external factors. Storage is one of them. In fact, we are generating more digital stuff than ever, and Wasabi, a Boston-based startup that has figured out a way to drive down the cost of cloud storage is benefiting from that.
Today it announced a $30 million debt financing round led led by Forestay Capital, the technology innovation arm of Waypoint Capital with help from previous investors. As with the previous round, Wasabi is going with home office investors, rather than traditional venture capital firms. Today's round brings the total raised to $110 million, according to the company.
Founder and CEO David Friend says the company needs the funds to keep up with the rapid growth. "We've got about 15,000 customers today, hundreds of petabytes of storage, 2500 channel partners, 250 technology partners — so we've been busy," he said.
He says that revenue continues to grow in spite of the impact of COVID-19 on other parts of the economy. "Revenue grew 5x last year. It'll probably grow 3.5x this year. We haven't seen any real slowdown from the Coronavirus. Quarter over quarter growth will be in excess of 40% — this quarter over Q1 — so it's just continuing on a torrid pace," he said.
He said the money will be used mostly to continue to expand its growing infrastructure requirements. The more they store, the more data centers they need and that takes money. He is going the debt route because his products are backed by a tangible asset, the infrastructure used to store all the data in the Wasabi system. And it turns out that debt financing is a lot cheaper in terms of payback than equity terms.
"Our biggest need is to build more infrastructure, because we are constantly buying equipment. We have to pay for it even before it fills up with customer data, so we're raising another debt round now," Friend said. He added, "Part of what we're doing is just strengthening our balance sheet to give us access to more inexpensive debt to finance the building of the infrastructure."
The challenge for a company like Wasabi, which is looking to capture a large chunk of the growing cloud storage market is the infrastructure piece. It needs to keep building more to meet increasing demand, while keeping costs down, which remains its primary value proposition with customers.
The money will help the company expand into new markets as many countries have data sovereignty laws that require data to be stored in-country. That requires more money and that's the thinking behind this round.
The company launched in 2015. It previously raised $68 million in 2018.
VAST Data lands $100M Series C on $1.2B valuation to turn storage on its head
VAST Data, a startup that has come up with a cost-effective way to deliver flash storage, announced a $100 million Series C investment today on a $1.2 billion valuation, both unusually big numbers for an enterprise startup in Series C territory.
Next47, the investment arm of Siemens, led the round with participation from existing investors 83North, Commonfund Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Goldman Sachs, Greenfield Partners, Mellanox Capital and Norwest Venture Partners. Today's investment brings the total raised to $180 million.
That's a lot of cash any time, but especially in the middle of a pandemic. Investors believe that VAST is solving a difficult problem around scaled storage. It's one where customers tend to deal with petabytes of data and storage price tags beginning at a million dollars, says company founder and CEO Renen Hallak.
As Hallak points out, traditional storage is delivered in tiers with fast, high-cost flash storage at the top of the pyramid all the way down to low-cost archival storage at the bottom. He sees this approach as flawed, especially for modern applications driven by analytics and machine learning that rely on lots of data being at the ready.
VAST built a system they believe addresses these issues around the way storage has traditionally been delivered."We build a single system. This as fast or faster than your tier one, all-flash system today and as cost effective, or more so, than your lowest tier five hard drives. We do this at scale with the resilience of the entire [traditional storage] pyramid. We make it very, very easy to use, while breaking historical storage trade-offs to enable this next generation of applications," Hallak told TechCrunch.
The company, which was founded in 2016 and came to market with its first solution in 2018, does this by taking advantage of some modern tools like Intel 3D XPoint technology, a kind of modern non-volatile memory along with consumer-grade QLT flash, NVMe over Fabrics protocol and containerization.
"This new architecture, coupled with a lot of algorithmic work in software and types of metadata structures that we've developed on top of it, allows us to break those trade-offs and allows us to make much more efficient use of media, and also allows us to move beyond scalability limits, resiliency limits and problems that other systems have in terms of usability and maintainability," he said.
They have a large average deal size; as a result, the company can keep its cost of sales and marketing to revenue ratio low. They intend to use the money to grow quickly, which is saying something in the current economic climate.
But Hallak sees vast opportunity for the kinds of companies with large amounts of data who need this kind of solution, and even though the cost is high, he says ultimately switching to VAST should save companies money, something they are always looking to do at this kind of scale, but even more so right now.
You don't often see a unicorn valuation at Series C, especially right now, but Hallak doesn't shy away from it at all. "I think it's an indication of the trust that our investors put in our growth and our success. I think it's also an indication of our very fast growth in our first year [with a product on the market], and the unprecedented adoption is an indication of the product-market fit that we have, and also of our market efficiency," he said.
They count The National Institute of Health, General Dynamics and Zebra as customers.
Storj brings low-cost decentralized cloud storage to the enterprise
Posted on March 19, 2020 March 19, 2020 by DREAMTECH
Storj, a startup that developed a low-cost, decentralized cloud storage solution, announced a new version today called Tardigrade Decentralized Cloud Storage Service.
The new service comes with an enterprise service level agreement (SLA) that promises 99.9999999% file durability and over 99.95 percent availability, which it claims is on par with Amazon S3.
The company has come up with an unusual system to store files safely, taking advantage of excess storage capacity around the world. They are effectively doing with storage what Airbnb does with an extra bedroom, enabling people and organizations to sell that excess capacity to make extra money.
It's fair to ask if that wouldn't be a dangerous way to store files, but Storj Executive Chairman Ben Golub says that they have come up with a way of distributing the data across drives on their network so that no single file would ever be fully exposed.
"What we do in order to make this work is, first, before any data is uploaded, our customers encrypt the data, and they hold the keys so nobody else can decrypt the data. And then every part of a file is split into 80 pieces, of which any 30 can be used to reconstitute it. And each of those 80 pieces goes to a different drive on the network," Golub explained.
That means even if a hacker were able to somehow get at one encrypted piece of the puzzle, he or she would need 29 others, and the encryption keys, to put the file back together again. "All a storage node operator sees is gibberish, and they only see a portion of the file. So if a bad person wanted to get your file, they would have to compromise something like 30 different networks in order to get [a single file], and even if they did that they would only have gibberish unless you also lost your encryption keys," he said.
The ability to buy excess capacity allows Storj to offer storage at much lower prices than typical cloud storage. Golub says his company's list prices are one-half to one-third cheaper than Amazon S3 storage and it's S3-compatible.
The company launched in 2014 and has 20,000 users on 100,000 distributed nodes today, but this is the first time it has launched an enterprise version of the cloud storage solution.
Dell spent $67B buying EMC — more than 3 years later, was it worth the debt?
Dell's 2015 decision to buy EMC for $67 billion remains the largest pure tech deal in history, but a transaction of such magnitude created a mountain of debt for the Texas-based company and its primary backer, Silver Lake.
Dell would eventually take on close to $50 billion in debt. Years later, where are they in terms of paying that back, and has the deal paid for itself?
When EMC put itself up for sale, it was under pressure from activist investors Elliott Management to break up the company. In particular, Elliott reportedly wanted the company to sell one of its most valuable parts, VMware, which it believed would help boost EMC's share price. (Elliott is currently turning the screws on Twitter and SoftBank.)
Whatever the reason, once the company went up for sale, Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake came 'a callin with an offer EMC CEO Joe Tucci couldn't refuse. The arrangement represented great returns for his shareholders, and Tucci got to exit on his terms, telling Elliott to take a hike (even if it was Elliott that got the ball rolling in the first place).
Dell eventually took itself public again in late 2018, probably to help raise some of the money it needed to pay off its debts. We are more than three years past the point where the Dell-EMC deal closed, so we decided to take a look back and see if Dell was wise to take on such debt or not.
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Posted on February 18, 2020 February 18, 2020 by DREAMTECH
Egnyte announced today it was combining its two main products — Egnyte Protect and Egnyte Connect — into a single platform to help customers manage, govern and secure the data from a single set of tools.
Egynte co-founder and CEO Vineet Jain says that this new single platform approach is being driven chiefly by the sheer volume of data they are seeing from customers, especially as they shift from on-prem to the cloud.
"The underlying pervasive theme is that there's a rapid acceleration of data going to the cloud and we've seen that in our customers," Jain told TechCrunch. He says that long-time customers have been shifting from terabytes to petabytes of data, while new customers are starting out with a few hundred terabytes instead of five or ten.
As this has happened, he says customers are asking for a way to deal with this data glut with a single platform because the volume of data makes it too much to handle with separate tools. "Instead of looking at this as separate problems, customers are saying they want a solution that helps address the productivity part at the same time as the security part. That's because there is more data in the cloud, and concerns around data security and privacy, along with increasing compliance requirements, are driving the need to have it in one unified platform," he explained.
The company is doing this because managing the data needs to be tied to security and governance policies. "They are not ultimately separate ideas," Jain says.
Jain says up until recently, the company saw the data management piece as the way into a customer, and after they had that locked down, they would move to layer on security and compliance as a value-add. Today, partly due to the data glut and partly due to compliance regulations, Jain says, these are no longer separate ideas, and his company has evolved its approach to meet the changing requirements of customers.
Egnyte was founded in 2007 and has raised over $138 million on a $460 million post valuation, according to Pitchbook data. Its most recent round was $75 million led by Goldman Sachs in September, 2018. Egnyte passed the $100 million ARR mark in November.
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Yesterday, X17 had a video of Lindsay saying that Paris threw a drink at her. Now The Sun has a video of Lindsay and Paris getting in a huge verbal argument. The new video shows the two having a screaming match outside Hilton's Hollywood mansion on Saturday night.
Lindsay yells stuff like: "Paris Hilton is crazy" and "Paris is a cokehead." Then you hear Paris screaming: "firecroctch" over and over again.
It's probably not as exciting as I'm making it out to seem, but I usually exaggerate everything. I honestly go to bed at night praying that some good Samaritan will drop a bee hive on Paris Hilton's head and kick her into a pit of wolverines. Please God. Please!


On Friday, January 25, 2019, the Creative Commons and Internet Archive celebrated A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco. To help commemorate the event, they ordered a beautifully illustrated sticker sheet from designer Comunasunidas that highlights famous images through history helps promote the story.
The event featured keynote addresses by notable internet luminaries Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow, lightning talks, demos, and multimedia displays. The sticker sheet has some very notable characters and stories on it, including the Mona Lisa, Excalibur, Van Gogh, Rosie the Riveter and Happy Birthday.
What is the public domain? Well, it's our shared cultural commons, a "near limitless trove of creativity that's been reused, remixed, and reimagined over centuries to create new works of art and science." What's great about content in the public domain is that it may be reused in a limitless capacity without any penalty, and in the United States, January 1, 2019 marks the date at which works will resume entering the public domain. Take for instance Katsushika Hokusai's "Under the Wave off Kanagawa," which is part of the public domain.
Ever since the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, no published works have entered the public domain (well, none due to copyright expiration), and now a whole bunch of these various works of art are entering into our cultural commons to add to our shared history and future. We love that these stickers are now part of the conversation around art and how it's part of our culture. With eleven total peel-offs for this glossy sticker sheet, attendees at the event will have plenty to share and remix with the world as they take their stickers with them. Bold colors and simple line drawings really help make this sticker stand out, and it's sure to help these works of art live an even longer life in the public domain.


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L'antiquark u (amunt) és l'antipartícula del quark u. Això vol dir que comparteixen la mateixa massa amb càrrega i nombre bariònic oposats i que, si els dos es troben, es desintegren completament.

Es pot agrupar per a fer partícules compostes:
 2 antiquarks u i 1 juntament amb 1 antiquark d, componen un antiprotó.
 1 antiquark u i 2 antiquarks d, componen un antineutró.

Antipartícules
Quarks


Loved the vault room.. great experience had fun with my fiance and friends . The Staff was awsome , they where so nice and helpful. Great experience overall I would go back and try the jail one next ..
Imprisoned in Alcatraz and driven almost insane with the inhumane conditions, you want nothing more than to break free from this fearsome fortress. In a nearby corridor, a violent riot has just broken out, and all prison guards have been summoned to restore order. Unguarded, you remain locked down inside the jail cell. You have one hour to uncover clues, solve puzzles and work with the other inmates to find the way out before the guard's return. Do you have what it takes to escape?
This escape game was so much fun!! When we got to the place (walking distance from angel city brewery I might add) we were greeted by the owner who was very energetic and excited to get us started. I definitely don't want to give anything away to anyone that hasn't played an escape game, but this was not my first experience with interactive escape puzzles and I can confidently say it was my favorite that I've played.
The Alcatraz theme was very well thought out and and after a short briefing of the rules and laying of the settings, our group was in for an intense ride. Our group managed to escape with just minutes to spare only adding to the build up of anxiety of being trapped for life.
The owner had mentioned adding another game into the mix in the coming future. He mentioned something about a Bank, so I can't wait until this one opens to play. If you are ever looking for a team building event I would highly recommend this place to any group (or works as a fun date night gentlemen). Had so much fun and it's been the talk at my work for the past week.
So much fun. First time doing anything like this and I loved it.


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