Cisco Live Melbourne

May 20, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

A Baby Goes to Cisco Live Melbourne: How Cisco Lives its Dedication to Flexibility

Yes, I brought a baby to Cisco Live Melbourne. And no, to answer the #1 question I received throughout the 5 days I spent in Melbourne for the Digital Summits (a side event to Cisco Live) it wasn’t just some random baby I found in the convention center. A year ago, I reluctantly missed out on the ch…

April 24, 2019

SECURITY

Five Hot Button Cybersecurity Conversations that Dominated Cisco Live Melbourne

Last month, I attended our biggest-ever Cisco Live Melbourne that saw over 8,300 people registered. It was an action-packed week filled with partner and customer meetings, media engagements, analyst dialogues, and coffee, lots of coffee. They say it takes a village to pull something this incredible…

March 18, 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ICYMI: Cisco Live Melbourne

After a week packed with amazing experiences at Cisco Live in Melbourne, all I can say is… this event was absolutely worth the trip. My first visit to Australia proved to be an incredible experience, complete with koalas, delicious food (thanks to great local recommendations), and, above all,…

March 13, 2019

PARTNER

Become a Future-Proof Marketer

In my January blog, I talked about many of the tools we provide to help all of our partners increase their marketing effectiveness. I heard a lot of feedback from you on that particular blog, and I promise to always share the most up-to-date information on how Cisco can help you with co-branding, de…

March 12, 2019

INNOVATION

Cisco Live! Melbourne Abounds with Co-Innovation Opportunities

With record-setting attendance of nearly 8,400, Cisco Live! Melbourne opened up new vistas of digital opportunity for our co-innovation teams across Asia Pacific, Japan and China (APJC). Throughout the week at the Co-Innovation Pavilion, we hosted a steady stream of inquisitive customers, partners,…

March 11, 2019

CLOUD

The Business Benefit behind ACI and Multicloud Networking

I had the chance to spend some time with some of our customers at Cisco Live Melbourne this past week where they asked me about ways to justify the migration to a Software-Defined-Network approach with ACI, by providing hard evidence that this is a game-changer for any industry. I joked with them (s…

February 27, 2019

INNOVATION

Cisco Live! Melbourne’s Innovation Pavilion Showcases Digital Future

Next week kicks off Cisco Live! Melbourne, and four of our inter-connected Co-Innovation Centers in the greater Asia Pacific region—in Sydney, Perth, Tokyo, and Singapore–will showcase some of the world’s latest digital solutions co-developed with customers and partners. Please join us along w…

February 21, 2019

DEVELOPER

#CiscoChat LIVE! DevNet Down Under

Links and videos from the Down Under Cisco Chat: Start with a curated list of learning content with DevNet. Python Network Automation Security Dev Center IoT Dev Center Cisco Live Melbourne 2019 Retail Solutions and Technologies Learn network programmability basics Discover code repositories related…

February 19, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco DNA Center Plug and Play (PnP) Freewheeling – Part 6

Background In my previous blog post, I wrote about the changes in process when using Cisco DNA Center to on-board a network device.  At the heart of the PnP process are two key concepts.  One is the serial number of the device, which is used to identify it, the other is a template file which is appl…