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In this interview, Cisco's VP of Cloud and Platform Services, Kip Compton, describes the changes in what customers are asking for when it comes to cloud, lists the benefits of consistent management across hybrid IT environments, and explains why it's important to keep learning no matter where you are in your career.

Ep03: Harnessing the Innovation Potential in Cloud Platforms, with Cisco's Kip Compton

As the director of a product management team in Cisco’s cloud group, Dave Lively is up to his neck in cloud technology. And he has been for a while. So he’s got fantastic insights into the value cloud provides, the impact it can have on organizations, and the role of the network in making it all work. Tune in to this episode of Cloud Unfiltered to hear Dave’s thoughts on the impact of technical debt on your ability to implement cloud, the evolution of how containers are being used, cloud adoption trends among service providers, and much much more!

Ep04: The Role of the Network in the Cloud, with Dave Lively

He's a security pro disguised as a cloud operations engineer. Worked for NASA, the TSA, and the Navy before he came to Cisco. So he's got interesting insights on the challenges around protecting data. He also provides a great summary of the competing interests in the net neutrality debate, and he talks about how and why companies are using orchestration tools like Ansible to make the cloud workable in today's enterprise environments.

Ep09: Security, Net Neutrality, and Ansible with Branson Matheson

This week Cisco’s CTO of Cloud Native Platforms, Ken Owens, weighs in on the benefits of containerization, security in the cloud native space, the divide between infrastructure and apps teams, and more.

Ep11: Cloud Native, Containers, and Adopting New Technologies, with Ken Owens

Got questions about VPP? Dave and Ed have answers. In this episode they explain what it is, how it works, why it’s such a big deal, and which technologies will leverage it in the near future.

Ep13: Vector Packet Processing and FD.io with Dave Barach & Ed Warnicke

The best kind of cyber security is the kind that allows you to predict and avoid attacks in the first place! And that's exactly what Cisco Umbrella does. Today we talk with Chris Riviere, Consulting Systems Engineer for Cloud Security about how Umbrella (formerly OpenDNS) works and who's using it to protect their businesses. He's also got quite a bit of knowledge about cryptocurrency, so if you've got an interest in Bitcoin or Ethereum, settle in to hear what he's go to say about that.

Ep18: Cloud Security and Crytpocurrency with  Chris Riviere

As Internet Security Advisor to the White House in the late 90s, he helped the U.S. government avoid catastrophe with Y2K. Today, Dr. Rand Morimoto runs a technology consultancy and speaks to audiences around the world about technology, entrepreneurship, and successfully securing your data. 

In this week's Cloud Unfiltered, Rand applies the "psychology of cyberspace" to hacker activities, explains why Azure took off so quickly, and makes a strong case for being part of the change when it comes to cloud rather than a victim of it.

Ep19: Securing the Cloud with Dr. Rand Morimoto

Bryan Doerr was formerly CTO at Saavis and CEO of Observable Networks, a company acquired by Cisco in July of 2017. In this episode, @vallard and @nikiacosta ask about the state of security how Observable Networks -- now called Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud-- helps create intelligent, actionable alerts based on identifying and observing device history, access, data flow, and more! Free Stealthwatch Cloud trials available here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/stealthwatch/stealthwatch-cloud-free-offer.html

Ep22: Stealthwatch Cloud, Equifax, and Protecting Your Personal Info, with Bryan Doerr

Patrick was a "dyed-in-the-wool" deep packet inspection guy until the day he had an epiphany and realized that pretty soon existing security approaches were going to run into unsolvable problems. His response to that ultimately became Observable Networks, which Cisco acquired last year. In this episode Patrick explains what sustainable security technology looks like (hint: a lot like Stealthwatch Cloud), how it works, how it fits into the larger Cisco security portfolio, and how it protects "the time and attention of its users."

Ep49: Sustainable Cloud Security, with Patrick Crowley

Cloud Unfiltered is a series of interviews with the people that are working to move cloud technology and implementation forward. This includes everyone from software engineers and open source project leads to IT executives and cloud users. In these interviews we talk about different cloud architectures, management models, and deployment strategies. We discuss platform compatibility, the culture changes required for cloud success, and the complimentary technologies that are making cloud more powerful with each passing day.