We released all five shows that we had pre-built for the big launch that finally went live yesterday...just in time for Cisco Live. Now I am chomping to get to a few of the topics we didn't get to: Encrypted Threat Analytics and the Network Data Platform.
Details and links to all the shows went into the blog.
We pulled off our first TechWiseTV LIVE AUDIENCE format for the HyperFlex launch complete with a live band, and 4 simultaneous media streams on YouTube, Facebook, Cisco.com homepage plus our own registered site. We hit a number of records with this both for ourselves and for Cisco.
We set out to drive a fun experience for our audience and to tell a simple story around the success of HyperFlex. We had the opportunity to do this with customers sharing their stories, CTO of Citrix, our engineering teams, live demos and an energetic audience of at least 200 people.
Watch the show now: http://bit.ly/techwisetvLIVE
As with all TechWiseTV shows, our objective was to both entertain and educate with a tone that implied we were talking amongst our peers. This show needed to resonate with a broader audience however and be compelling to the c-suite as well.
To make it interactive, we built much of the show around actual customer stories that we could then use as a base for showcasing a ‘how’d they do that’ point in our lab set. We would go out to the audience, engage, and then send a key point back up to the demo team.
Our third trip out was to engage with Christian Reilly, CTO of Citrix. As planned, he started answering his question from his seat but asked if he could just jump up on stage and use our whiteboard to explain further. This allowed more surprises for the audience who never had to feel like they were settling in for a long corporate droning.
We teased some third-party testing numbers up top and finally revealed at the end showing proven architectural value for how our definition of simplicity affects anyone’s bottom line. The bulk of the show was built around some carefully crafted live whiteboard and animation. Our goal was to show simplicity through automation on a cluster install, the logical beauty of the Unified Computing System as well as the short and long term benefits of a purpose built, log-based file system.
Liz Centoni covered how the need for simplicity has lead Hyperconvergence to become such a hot market opportunity. Kastoubh Das (KD) revealed the four foundational pillars for Cisco HyperFlex and introduced the all new flash arrays, 40GB networking integration and the new HTML5 interface.
Big Thank you to...
First, Eugene Kim for his leadership of this launch. Robb Boyd for being the driving force behind the show. Our new and talented TechWiseTV co-host, Lauren Malhoit who made an outstanding debut and Chris Nichols, the storage specialized, white-boarding powerhouse. Liz Centoni put in the right messaging foundation at the top of the show and Kaustubh Das (KD) came in with several technical beats that tied it all together. Big thanks to the faith and perseverance of Justyna Przygoda and Francoise Rees for working through the creative, the timing and logistics with customers. Vicky Arafa and Dan Pavlik from CiscoTV operating like a well-trained orchestra through all the cues and steps needed to pull it off. Chris Winger’s streaming expertise on the social media outlets. Sara Miller and Tawni Unite for their expertise in getting us on the new Eloquoa registration system, promo integration and of course the live Q&A. Gary Serda and Lisa Vera for coordination with customers and partners to fill the room and tell their stories. And to the social media team for driving engagements and amplification with our audience.
Amazing and ambitious technology debut featured in this show. This first iteration of technology is a hardware based solution made up of a very full rack of UCS servers offering a DVR for the Data Center. The first real time monitoring and playback of any flow anywhere in the data center. I am hoping we continue to bring this technology down market...ideally making it some kind of 'software as a service' since it seems quite valuable for just about anyone trying to grapple with how fast things are moving these days.
Dig into the official stuff for more information. Or also, I always enjoy anything Joe Onisick does for explanations:
This project was a one-off that was originally going to be an internal video explaining part of Cisco's digital transformation story to a broad base of employees. It was all scripted quite fast as we developed visuals within just a few days. Not my preferred way to work but I was pleased with the balance of rushing it and maintaining a low budget. Much credit to Dave Isaacs and team at ACG Multi-Media in Ohio for turning it around so fast.
Great show
This is a new style for the fundamentals series as we go just a little more clean and simple. Ideally this will come across well. The goal of sharing complex topics in a short focused space is still the goal here.
Enjoy Fundamentals of 802.11ac Wave 2
Robb
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We covered all of this from Cisco Live Milan but lost some footage during the initial back up process. UGH! We re-shot stuff as you can hear in the studio but thankfully did not lose our interviews and demos.
This is an audio only version of the show. You can SEE the show here.
We cover an intro to the APIC Enterprise Module & Open Daylight and then dig in with Phil Cassini covering demonstrations with Security, QoS and VDI. Plus, a subject we will come back to in more detail later, iWAN or 'Intelligent WAN.' Bill Reilly handled that one with us beautifully. Hope you enjoy!
-Robb
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