The Huuuuuge Lab List

Started off day 2 (Tuesday) by hitting the Hands-on Labs.  There is a HUGE list of labs that you can do and these aren’t simple labs…  They are extremely complex, involved, and well built.  Disclaimer:  I know a lot of the vSpecs that build these labs but the praise is well deserved.  The two labs that I did were ProSphere and the new VMAX Enginuity showing Unisphere and other new features.   Both were very well done….when I say complex and involved the ProSphere lab is a great example.  You had access to a good list of arrays, components, hosts, and switches so that you really got a feel for the product.  It wasn’t just a simple walkthrough of the interface but a great “use case” of the product.

Lab Attendees

I don’t think most attendees really understand how much work goes in to building, operating, and supporting these labs but it is a MAJOR undertaking to make those happens…so if you get a chance check them out and thank the guys in the lab for the work they’ve done.

Over 200 Seats for Lab Attendees

Later in the day it was back to more sessions.  Packed!  If you don’t get there early you may not have a seat….

Technical Sessions Bring the Crowd

Also spent more time in the expo hall to check out some of the demos.  Lots of stuff!

Craig Chapman (Pink headband – @VirtualChappy) EPOing a Vblock for a VPLEX demo

VCE was doing a good demo where they hard downed a Vblock for a VPLEX demo.  Ballsy.  I like it.

Area 51 Session

In the afternoon I went to the “Area 51″ session which may have scored high on the cheese-factor but was pretty entertaining.  It showed some ways you can use big data and data analytics.  A highlight was Scott McNealy ”appearing” on the game show Who Wants to Be a Storage Millionaire showing the use of crowd sourcing by using his TwitPoll technology to sample the audience and compete against Scott.  The audience was right 2 out of 3 times, which supported the fact that the audience in the original game show was more accurate than the contestant who was often an expert.  I think my favorite moment was Scott stating something to the effect of “I just realized I’ve been reduced to a game show contestant….  I used to be important!”.

Best Thing All Day – Angie (My Wife) Flew In

 That was it for the day!  Tomorrow (Wednesday) is a big day.  I’ll be doing a quick presentation at the EMC Global Services booth on Varrow’s Cloud Transition consulting offerings and then appears ON STAGE at Chad’s World Live.  Wow!

Good Job with Twitter Names on the Badges

Back in Vegas!  And back at another conference at the Venetian.  It’s beginning to be like Groundhog Day for me but I’m pretty excited to be at EMC World.  It’s the first one that I’ve ever attended and so far it’s been great.  I flew in to Vegas yesterday…got in a bit late.  Due to the circumstances of me coming to the conference I booked later than usual and both the Venetian and Palazzo were completely full..bummer.  My wife is flying out tomorrow (Tuesday) so I decided to stay a little further away at The Cosmopolitan since I’ve heard good things.  So far it’s been great.  Service is excellent, they even upgraded my room for free.  I can’t say that the view sucks at all….

Thank You Front Desk Guy for Winning Me Big Points w/ My Wife!

After checking in and getting situated we (Me plus Dan and Jeremiah – Varrow Founders) and a good friend/customer had a really good meal at Tao (as usual), and then I crashed at 3am east coast time.  I’m fully in the belief that you make yourself stay up that first night…unfortunately after today I’m BEAT.  But we’ll see….  Dan is already talking about going out and playing craps tonight.

An Awful Pic of Joe Tucci During the Keynote

Throughout the day I want to several sessions on VFCache, FAST Cache, and vSphere Storage Performance.  Doing what I do, it was a good bit of review scattered with some interesting things to think about.  I won’t go in to too much detail on the sessions here but the bottom line is that it’s all about flash and it’s all about putting that flash in the places where it is the most effective and cost efficient.  We’ve been deploying FAST Cache enabled arrays since it shipped and have been nothing but happy.  VFCache is the new kid, and to be honest, it’s not being adopted very quickly yet.  I suspect with the new features in VFCache 1.5 like automated vMotion we’ll see more interest.  Being the UCS person that I am I also need to see it in some new M3 blades too….

Terrible Pic of Pat Gelsinger in the Captain’s Chair (I need to stop trying)

The big keynote with Joe Tucci and Pat Gelsinger was good.  It started out pretty rough as the method used to get people actually in the room and to their seats was just awful.  The idea was to herd 15K people in one big line to the center aisle of all seats and then fan out just wasn’t scalable.  Finally they relented and it was a big rush to get seats…but thankfully using my ninja Twitter skills I had won priority/VIP seating right up front so I had a great second row seat.  The theme was space and Megalaunch II.

During the keynote Joe talked about the evolution of IT and the future.  Nothing too shocking, but always good to hear from him and what he sees as the future for IT in general and EMC.  Pat was more specific and kicked off the big launch of 42 new products.  Some are really new and some are evolutions of existing products.  Many things you’ll be hearing more about this week.  A lot of it is really good stuff..not just hype but things we’ve been waiting on for a while.

A Mediocre Picture (the picture, not Amy) of Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja)

Later in the afternoon I sat down with Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja), Brian Gracely (@bgracely), and Ronald Valente (@ronaldvalente) to do a Cisco Data Center Blogger Tech Minute that should go up tonight or tomorrow.  We talked about the show and trends while dodging expo floor construction and distractions…

Distractions and Construction

Other parts of the day were spent hanging around the blogger lounge.  I like this new trend of having a blogger lounge…I won’t lie.  Usually they are comfortable, quiet, have coffee, and power.  It’s a nice place to sit between commitments and either relax or get some things done.

Blogger Lounge

So with that we end the first day of EMC World 2012.  It’s crazy..it’s fun.  It’s getting bigger every year (so they tell me…first one for me).  Back for more tomorrow!

Oh yeah!  This evening the vSpecialists released their latest song/video..Cloud Freaky 2012!  Check it out!  Awesome!

Some lessons and topic covered in the training:

• Review and primer on vSphere networking
• In-depth discussion on vLANs, use cases, tagging (and who does it), gotchas, and Private VLANs
• Security considerations with vSphere networking
• Physical connectivity including best practices, topology recommendations, 10Gb, physical switch configuration, and load balancing and teaming.
• Deep dive on the distributed switch
• How to migrate a production environment to the vDS with no or minimal disruption
• How to use traffic shaping and network resource pools
• Troubleshooting network connectivity and performance

Day 2 (Wednesday) at Partner Summit is the day where we dive deeper in to individual programs, practices, and announcements.  For me the day centered primarily around data center.  The theme for today (in the morning general session) was innovation.

Padmasree Talking Future Trends

The general session was handled by Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco.  Honestly, this keynote is usually my favorite as I love to hear her speak about future trends and what she sees coming.  As usual she has some interesting statistics that make you think…and make you worry.

Some of these included:

• The Internet will double every 5.32 years
• Video will Quadruple all IP Traffic by 2014 – Majority on mobile devices
• Two-thirds of the world’s mobile data will be video by 2015
• Cloud technology (it’s broad, I agree) will be used by 70% of Enterprises by 2012
• 56% of orgs want VDI (As I’m fond of saying, it’s the third annual year of VDI)

Working in the Collaboration Lounge Between Sessions

The big session for Wednesday for me was The Unified Data Center Practice.  There was a lot of really good information, updates, and program evolutions.  One major announcement for partners was the creation of a new Cisco Data Center Architect Scholarship.  This announcement was made by John Growdon (Sr. Director – Channel Business Development – Data Center) as a want to help partners solve our largest constraint on growing our business….the lack of good talent in the market.

John Growdon Announcing the DC Architect Scholarship

When discussing the challenges in growing a data center business he made some very good points.  The key people driving solutions and opportunities in that business are “Data Center Architects”.  They are people with deep knowledge and understanding of the technology as well as how it helps customer business.  The problem is that these people just are not available.  Employment is at 100% for them and they are usually very happy at their current partner.  So what do you do?  You create them and Cisco wants to help by funding the training and growth.

At Varrow our experience mirrors this.  We can’t find enough good talent in the market…even in a really bad economy.  We are working on processes to grow and mature our own people and I fully expect to take advantage of this new offering from Cisco.  And..if you’re a Data Center Architect type person and want to join the Varrow team PLEASE contact me.

Other topics discussed was the new CIAC ATP (Authorized Technology Partner) program for partners.  This is a way for partners to work with Cisco and ramp up on CIAC and build their own internal organization.  It takes a significant investment and underlying capabilities (such as business process consulting) and it is not for all partners but we are VERY interested.  Another new program was the Master Cloud Builder speciality which combines unified fabric, compute, infrastructure (Vblock/Flexpod), and cloud management capabilities under a Master specialty.  Again, that’s what we do and are very interested.

A Terrible Picture of Padmasree

Throughout the day we have the opportunity to meet with executives and do round table discussions.  In the afternoon I took advantage of that and sat in with a discussion with Padmasree.  Excuse the awful picture.  I thought it would be rude to take a straight shot….  What amazed me is that the room was only half full.  These should be taken advantage of as the questions were great, the answers truthful and direct, and it was an open forum.   The questions asked at this session centered on security, competition, cloud automation, and R&D/engineering.  Very informative.

My final session of the day was centered on VXI and virtual desktop.  The majority of the session was VDI basics for partners just entering the market and reasons to enter that area.  Cisco is starting to ramp up VXI and provide an integrated, media rich VDI offering.  One of my largest complaints is around the VXI program.  Cisco requires partners to have several competencies with one being Advanced Collaboration (Voice/Video).  While I understand the goal there are many partners with deep VDI capabilities that do not do voice and video, like us.  While we can offer VXI and the VXC clients to customers through an exception due to our data center capabilities, I still think it’s short sighted by Cisco.  While deep VXI may be the goal, many orgs are still working to deploy “basic” VDI.  Isn’t it better to leverage deep partner VDI capabilities to put the foundation down for later VXI media rich offerings?  I think so.

And that’s it for my day!  Most of my fellow partners went out on the USS Midway for a party but I had been fighting a headache all day and did not make it.  Instead I had a nice steak and caught up on some work…it’s not all glamorous.

Tuesday was my first actual day at the Partner Summit since I had no meetings scheduled for Monday and there are no normal sessions.  The first full day at Partner Summit is full of general sessions…basically large sessions for the general partner community in the morning and then sessions broken out by geography in the afternoon.  Being in the Americas geo I’m in the big rooms almost all of the day.  I won’t lie….at the end of the day I was pretty tired of sitting in this metal chairs…

The theme for Tuesday was Opportunity with the motto for this conference being In It to Win It.  The first session started off with a nod to the upcoming London Olympics, comparing the network capabilities Cisco is deploying there compared to Beijing, and a show of the number of worldwide partners attending.  In Olympic fashion this was displayed with partners carrying flags from all of the different countries.  And Cisco..if you’re listening…I’d love to win some of those tickets to the London games.

Usually John Chambers is the last keynote speaker but this year he was the first.  Personally, I like that better.  I love to hear Chambers speak and I’d rather hear that early in the week than later in the week.

Sat in the front row all week but hard to get good shots of the speakers.

John’s focus was on services, differentiation, and competition.  One excellent quote on competition was:

John Chambers: “I got soft on competition … never again”

At these events Cisco usually has very good theme-based entertainment.  By theme I mean location or a tie-in to a conference message.  Last year in New Orleans they had amazing local musicians and singers.  For today it was based on competition and the Pentatonix, who won NBC’s “The Sing Off” performed.

As a partner I think that’s (John’s competition remark) a true statement and something that is changing within Cisco.  Cisco is moving to leverage their breadth, R&D capabilities, and integration options to really push out competition.  While some would say that’s a big gorilla using muscle it really allows for much better overall architecture creations…and that’s another major message and push this year.  It’s about the overall architecture, it’s not about the component products and that couldn’t’ be more true, especially in the data center space where Varrow is a major player.  My discussions these days are not usually around new storage or servers or management…it’s about how we deploy, provision, manage, and support the environment…not the components.

Much of the messaging on the future was similar to last year, but that’s expected.  Cisco is currently executing on the three primary areas of focus:  Data Center, Mobility, and Video.  The interesting point about this is how these are really a single strategy.  Mobility and video go hand in hand but they depend on the capabilities of the data center.  We are often working on data center refresh projects to help support communications projects.  Those two business models are quickly starting to merge.

Good VCE Vblock Placement for Collaboration Demo

As always there was a technology demo.  It was a collaboration, mobile device, integration demonstration using a tablet and infrastructure hosted on a Vblock.  There was some pointed discussion around Vblock and VSPEX.  We have seen lately the re-invention of VCE in the partner channel aided by the major players (Cisco, VMware, and EMC) so it was good to see that continue here during the keynote.

Next up was Edison Peres, SVP of Worldwide Channels.  His talk was on new efficiencies and offerings to the channel community.  Cisco has invested a lot in streamlining tools and the quoting/ordering process.  We are a big fan of the new CCW tool that has made our jobs easier both internally as well as with working with our Cisco sales team counterparts.

Edison Peres Discussing “Smart” Services

He and Nick Earle (SVP of Worldwide Services) also talked heavily about new “smarter” services that Cisco and partners can deliver to customers.  As networks and organizations continue to grow the traditional methods of analyzing, maintaining, and standardizations have to go away and smarter tools and processes need to be created and deployed.  Some interesting statistics from his talk are that 37% of IT services will move off premise by 2013 and private cloud infrastructure is growing 33% faster than public cloud infrastructure.  Without a doubt I agree on the latter statement.

Cisco is also revamping their Cloud Builder partner certifications and expanding it to a Master Cloud Builder offering.  I expect to hear more on that on Wednesday.

And more!  Andrew Sage (VP, Partner Led) discussed new programs and focus not he SMB market.  There are a lot of SMB organizations that don’t realize how much they can do today.  They feel that many of the advanced collaboration and compute services are only for the larger enterprise and that just isn’t the case.  Cisco along with partners want to help close that gap and remove those misconceptions.

And then finally…  Tiffani Bova from Gartner gave an excellent short talk on the future of partners and how they interact with customers.  This presentation was way too short.  Dan (Varrow CEO and with me at the conference) said he had seen her do a similar talk but much longer at VMware’s Partner Exchange.  I’d love to see that.

She hit on a number of crucial points.  One was the changing skill set required in the IT profession.  It’s less and less about pure technical aptitude and more and more about being able to interface and understand the business challenges.  Another was how partner sales interacts with customers…and who they interact with due to the changing landscape of how services are consumed.  It’s getting far more common for LoBs (Lines of Business) to procure their own infrastructure, cloud services, and applications.  We, as partners, need to work more closely with them along with the organizational IT group.  This is a topic that has been discussed at very long lengths within Varrow and talks directly at our future.  I agree with someone from Gartner?!  Maybe those Mayans were on to something…

Collaboration Lounge

Once the sessions were over for the day it was time to meet and mingle in the Collaboration Lounge.  After some drinks and appetizers it was time to go to a gathering for the South area Cisco partners.  At these you get to talk with peers in your area.  While we often compete we’re also good friends and share information.  During this mixer Cisco also gave out the South area awards.

We’ll Get the Pretty Award Later

Varrow won the Data Center Partner of the Year (South Area) award and I honestly couldn’t be prouder of us.  Those that know Varrow know we aren’t a traditional Cisco partner but we have really worked hard to become a leader in the Cisco Data Center space.  My goal last year was to grow our business in that practice by at least 100% and we went well beyond that.  It was an amazing team effort by all at Varrow and it’s nice to be recognized by Cisco for this achievement.

So that was day 1!  Wow!  It was a long day but a very good one.  I’m looking forward to day 2 where we’ll dive more in to Cisco’s announcements on Data Center and Virtualization.

Last year the conference, for me, was about Cisco’s move in to the cloud and their still fairly new Cisco UCS server offering.  This year I’m curious to see how they mature those ideas, programs, offerings, and messaging.  We, Varrow, are not a traditional Cisco partner.  That’s not a bad thing.  It’s what makes us awesome.  We are the data center.  That’s what we do and if you’ve read some of my other posts about Cisco Live and Partner Summit you can see that we are an outlier in many cases but times are changing.  Cisco is changing.  That change is heading straight in our direction so I’m very anxious to hear what the people at Cisco have to say.  My big day will be on Wednesday when the major data center and virtualization sessions happen.  I missed one that I’d like to have seen this evening on Cisco, EMC, and the VSPEX announcement but our CEO, Dan Weiss, is there and I’m looking forward to debriefing him on what was said.

Don’t believe me?  Here is a link to the agenda and some highlights:

• PowerCLI by Alan Renouf - Hard to beat Alan when talking PowerCLI.
• vCenter Orchestrator by Cody Bunch – If you haven’t seen vCO this would be a GREAT opportunity.
• vCloud Director Deep Dive by Chris Colotti – Chris is about the best period when it comes to vCD plus he can help get you in shape!
• Presentation by Scott Lowe – Well..we don’t know the topic but Scott very rarely (if ever) disappoints!
• Eric Siebert talking about non-EMC storage (Okay, fine…HP
• Morning keynote by  Satyam Vaghani (Principal Engineer at VMware)  and Vijay Ramachandran (Storage Product Management at VMware)
• Afternoon keynote by Jake Howering, Product and Solution Manager – Data Center Interconnect and Hybrid Cloud at Cisco
• Me – Deep Dive on vSphere vDS

There will be five groups of breakout sessions throughout the day.  Along with the breakouts are two lab rooms running all day.  eGroup is doing one set of labs and we (Varrow) will be doing another.  We will be running similar labs to those we had at Varrow Madness.  So if you couldn’t make those or Madness this would be a great time.  They are self-paced so they do not need to start and stop at set times.  We expect to offer the following:

• Intro to vSphere  5
• Cisco Nexus 1000v Virtual Distributed Switch
• UIM 3.0
• VSI Plugins (Storage Plugins for VMware)
• VAAI for VMware
• VNX for VMware
• VNXe for VMware
• Avamar Backup for VMware
• RSA Security for VMware

First, all previous M2-based bundles were extended until July 28th!. If you don’t remember what those offerings are you can check my post here (original bundles) and here (refreshed B230 bundles). For the most part those stay the same…same SKU numbers and same list price. The expansion packs will probably end up being a little cheaper due to some changes there…so if you’re looking to add more blades check those out.

The real meat of the new offerings are in the new M3 bundles.

Once again the B-series bundles are available with and without hard drives. The vast majority of our deployments are BFS (Boot from SAN) and do not have drives, but you can get them if you wish. Just realize that there is still some constraint on hard drives and that can delay orders.

The most popular bundle has been the B200 Value with (4) blades, (12) cores, and 48GB of RAM. This now equates to the B200 M3 Value with (4) blades, (16) cores each, and 64GB of RAM. If you do a side-by-side you’ll see that with the old blades using the 2.53GHz E5649 CPUs you got a raw 30.36GHz of CPU. Now you get 32GHz CPU. More cores, just a lower clock speed. You also get more RAM. The downside is that the price has gone up a bit but again, you can still get the B200M2 bundles so you can decide if the price premium is worth the new E5 CPUs from Intel and the new M3 blades from Cisco. If buying today it’s hard to argue against future proofing those blades.

Along with these new base bundles Cisco has new M3 expansion packs.

These allow you to quickly add more blades with standard offerings that reduce the cost. It’s very common for us to do an initial UCS deployment using a combination of the base bundle and the expansion packs. Keep in mind there is technically a limit on the number of bundles a customer can buy per quarter. Right now that limit is:

• Smart Play Base Bundles – 5 per quarter (Resets on 4/30/12)
• Expansion Packs – 10 per quarter (Resets on 4/30/12)

Once again Cisco has also released some updated B230M2 and C260M2 expansion packs.

Those just build upon the ones we’ve had before.  It makes pricing and ordering a much smoother process so I’m a fan of these packs.

There are also other offerings called Solution Packs.  These are built around vWAAS and UC-on-UCS.

And…

These are very simple and easy ways to get both in your environment.  It helps you leverage the UCS infrastructure as appliances for some applications.   There is a limit of 10 Solution Packs (I refuse to use the term Pak, btw) per quarter.  Those reset at the end of April as well.

BTW:  Cisco, it’s VMware, not VMWare.  Everybody drink.

I think that’s it!  If you want to see the advantages of the M3 offerings I have a post on that here.  Cisco has been REALLY good at taking feedback on the bundle offerings and it continues to show in these.  If there is something you think is missing or you feel is a good idea please shoot me an email and I’ll get that feedback up the chain and we can discuss some options.  My address is really simple…just jason@varrow.com.  Happy to answer any UCS related questions you have.

Today I’m flying off to San Diego for Cisco’s Partner Summit.  If I get time while there I want to do a summary post on these bundles as the extensions and mid-quarter additions have caused some blurring of what’s available…especially on the expansion packs.  I want to work on a good summary to lessen that confusion.

More great news! Two more of my Varrow brothers are on the list too. Joe Kelly made it for the third year and Andrew Miller is the rookie vExpert at Varrow. Very proud! Not many partners have three people on the list and I think it shows the work and passion of those at Varrow.

What this means for me is…I need to get off my butt and blog more. I say that constantly but this is yet another reminder…

Wow!  Varrow Madness 2012 was AWESOME!  I’m a bit late on my post-Madness post here but last week was crazy catching up along with the end-of-quarter crunch.  It’s amazing how much work goes in to an event like this….WAY more than I would have thought.

The Varrow Madness “Command & Control” Center

Much of the planning for this year started right after last year’s Madness.  Sponsors, speakers, venue, logistics, labs, abstracts..on and on have to be done well before the event.  We also wanted to take any feedback from last year in consideration for this year.  But then…it was time.

The registration tables

The turnout for our second annual event was VERY good and exceeded expectations.  At one point we had to fall back to manually signing people in and creating badges.

Charlotte Lady Cats welcoming guests (Trip Smith..Varrowite)

The Charlotte Lady Cats greeted the attendees and helped validate parking..which can be worth a lot in downtown Charlotte!

The calm before the storm in the main room

The venue for this year was the Westin in downtown Charlotte and it looked GREAT.  The main room for the keynotes and booths was very well done with our logo as well as the logos of many sponsors projected on the walls.  The event began with the morning keynote….but before that a flash mob burst out.  My video of that is here.

Flash mob to open Varrow Madness 2012

Once the dancing was done it was time for the kickoff and morning keynote.

Jeremiah (Left) and Dan Weiss (Right) kickoff Varrow Madness

Jeremiah and Dan, the two Varrow founders, started off Varrow Madness and welcomed all of the attendees and thanked the sponsors.  If you haven’t met Jeremiah and Dan they are great people and you quickly see the foundations for the Varrow culture and our engineering-focused mentality.

Jeremiah giving the opening keynote

Jeremiah gave the opening keynote and I think he did an AWESOME job.  Very unscripted…very unPower Point.  It was about some lessons Jeremiah had learned and things he observed while participating in one of the Startup Weekend events.  It was based in things that Jeremiah did and experienced in his youth…and it was the start of the Varrow Cloud Innovation Contest.  I’m going to post a lot more on that here VERY soon.

After the keynote and throughout the day attendees could go to sessions, labs, or visit the sponsor booths.

vSpecialist Labs

The EMC vSpecialists ran a lot of really cool labs throughout the day.  They were “cloud hosted” and worked very well.  The list of labs included:

• Intro to vSphere 5
• Nexus 1000v
• UIM 3.0
• VSI Plugins
• VAAI for VMware
• VNX for VMware
• VNXe for VMware
• Avamar Backup for VMware
• RSA Security for VMware

During lunch Chad Sakac from EMC gave the afternoon keynote.  Chad did a really great job last year with the morning keynote and we were thrilled to have him back.  I’ll be honest here.  I didn’t see one second of Chad’s keynote…  Sorry Chad!  I really did try but I got stopped about 15 times between checking in on the UCS labs and getting to the main room.  I hear it was great, though!

Varrow Managed Services table

Many great sponsor booths!  Attendees could also enter to win NCAA tournament tickets by getting their “bracket” stamped at different tables.  One thing we try to do is limit our sponsors to those that offer technologies, products, and services we believe in.

Attendee checking out the VCE booth

What else?  Well..keynotes, labs, sponsor booths…flash mobs…Lady Cats…oh yeah!  Sessions!  We had four different rounds of breakout sessions on all different cloud, storage, virtualization, security, management, etc topics.  This is one area that I focus heavily on when planning Madness.  My primary goal is to make darn sure that Madness is educational and informative.  It’s not a place to sit through 45 minute marketing slide decks.  We’re looking at ways at making it even better next year and if you attended, or just have good ideas, please let me know.  No Power Points?  Whiteboard only?  General discussion sessions?  Group chats?  Let us know!

Varrow Madness breakout session

Then finally, at the end of the day we gave away a bunch of NCAA tournament tickets and other sponsor gifts.  I even gave away a copy of my Cisco UCS course to someone that attended the lab.

I fully admit that after grabbing some Redbull & Vodka and a bite to eat I went home and SLEPT for the first real time that week.  Many went out and celebrated a job well done.  I’ll let them post their own pics.  And yes…I’ve seen many of them…