Cisco Cloud Experts

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

In this episode Lax will sit down with us to talk about what the Cisco Multicloud Suite is, why it was needed, and how it plays into other cloud initiatives such as Cisco's partnership with Google.

Ep30: Lax Sakalkale explains the Cisco Multicloud Suite

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.