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You’re already a big fan of Cisco dCloud, right? You love how the dCloud platform brings relevancy and immediacy to your sale presentations. dCloud demonstrations enable customers to see solutions doing actual work—real software and real data, not some boring slideshow presentation. But itR…

Network programmability is such a generic term, like SDN and the whole Software Defined X paradigm, that it means different things to different people. Not so long ago network programmability was synonymous with Openflow but as time passed and pragmatism kicked in, the industry settled around a comm…

For years, PowerPoint has dominated the solution selling scene, but the age of static slide presentations seems to be coming to close. Today, prospects and customers demand more. They want to see solutions in action. While PowerPoint provides a solid basis for introducing and discussing things like…

For any sales engineer who’s ever known the late nights, long hours, and frustrating hiccups of attempting to demo products for customers using PowerPoint or other slide deck platforms, Cisco dCloud is a game changer. dCloud is a cloud-based, self-service platform that hosts premade demos and lab co…

In the summer of 2012, I was asked to pick up a high profile project with time restrictions for Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (BAML). The brief was to implement a mobile phone recording solution for UK traders to comply with UK’s FSA rules on mobile call recording for financial institutions. Part of…

On August 22, 2016 Chris Dedicoat, Cisco’s Executive Vice-President of Worldwide Sales, took to the main stage at #CiscoGSX in Las Vegas and told the entire Cisco Sales force to “demo with dCloud!”. What happened next? I can tell you exactly what happened next, because I had duty at the dCloud booth…

Cisco dCloud is moderating the #CustomerExperience #CiscoChat on August 22nd – so we spent some time thinking about the Customer Experience and our role in it. With the advent of social media marketing, the line between “customer-facing” and “non-customer-facing” becomes increasingly blurred. Visiti…

The Cisco dCloud team recently got our entire management team on video, and apparently it was one of the scariest things they ever did. Or was it? “Video doesn’t scare me,” says our Business Operations & Project Office Manager, Zina Rambo. (Find her on Twitter here.) I find it a grea…