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I have had the pleasure of serving as an Individually elected member of the OpenStack Board of Directors during 2017. Prior to my current work, I served OpenStack to lead the development of and deliver innovative software building blocks for OpenStack in concert with over 28,000 other individuals in…

How many times have you wondered: Should I automate this task? What about the end-to-end process? How many times do I need to use the automation to justify the work needed to set it up and maintain it? As an engineer myself, I have asked these question many times. Can I write a script to do repeti…

In the last year or so I had more than a hundred meetings with our customers and partners and experienced a very diverse spectrum of cloud needs and readiness. Nearly everybody understood how Cisco could help with their private cloud and data center needs, but few appreciated how Cisco could solve t…

I have been at Cisco for 22 years. In that time, I’ve never felt a transition of this magnitude. We are moving our customers to the cloud and changing the way we do business with you – two radical transformations that promise enormous benefits. You get better user experiences and easier deployment o…

Cisco Live is a great platform to learn new technologies, trends, talk to experts about several topics from a technical or business perspective and leverage some of the greatest minds in the IT Industry. You’ll have the opportunity to meet peers from several industries that somehow, share similar ch…

Joel Parks, Alicia Davis, and Nick Wallace were all involved in putting together DevOpsDays Nashville this year—which makes them interesting to us right out of the gate—but they’re also the kind of people you just really enjoy sitting down and chatting with if you work in the tech industry. DevOpsDa…

Public cloud has been around for about a decade; during that time we’ve gone through a very rapid evolution from skepticism, to experimentation, to a great debate about private versus public cloud and which is best. Through this debate, it’s become evident that the vast majority of enterprises will…

Welcome to Cisco Live Cancun 2017! If this is your first time at Cisco Live; fasten your seat belt and be prepared for an information overload. You’ll be able to meet with friends and peers, have fun, and learn from some of the brightest minds in the IT industry. You may be having a hard time schedu…

In the previous post we described the benefit of using Application Automation in conjunction with Network Analytics in the Data Centre, a Public Cloud or both. We described two solutions from Cisco that offer great value individually, and we also explained how they can multiply their power when used…