live from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California it's the cube covering Devon that create 2018 brought to you by Cisco hey welcome back everyone live here at dev net create Cisco's event here at this Museum in Mountain View California art a Silicon Valley I'm here with Laura Cooney we here for two days wall-to-wall coverage breaking down Cisco's move into the DevOps Wow developer world separate from the dev net community which is the Cisco Developer Program and we've been breaking down Lauren great to have you this past two days so we talked to a lot of the Cisco folks a lot of the practitioners let's analyze it let's discuss kind of what's going on first of all Cisco creates a new group almost a year ago next month called dev net create to get out of the Cisco bubble and go out into the cloud world and see if they can't connect the cloud ecosystem cloud native kubernetes all the micro services goodness is going on the application side on infrastructures code and bring that with the Cisco network engineering community who are plumbers network plumbers their network engineers they deal with provisioning gear routes well I think it's interesting because you have this CCIE number that has been decreasing over the past couple of years and that's that's not because the network is less important it's actually because new skill sets are emerging and folks need to take on these new skills to learn and to really flourish in their careers so I think what definite is doing is just tremendous in terms of enabling developers to move up stack to look at things like kubernetes to look at things like you know cloud native to look at new applications you can build new things that you can extend to API integration into you know new types of applications you know we had folks here that we're learning to code in Python for the first time and I think that's awesome I think that's great and the timing is perfect I mean I got to give credit to Susie we and her team at Cisco they have they doing they're doing all the right things I think the way they're handling this is they're not overly aggressive they're not arrogant they're humble they're learning they're listening and they're doing all the right things are bringing a lot to the table from the Cisco table to this community and they've got you know this is very cool but the timing is critical if they tried to do this four years ago how hard would have it been you know you've been there okay I mean they pull this off four years ago I think there was the the goal was always there four years ago but I think the timing was you know you you have to kind of put the the mission in order and get things up and running first you can't just you don't launch a community you build one and I think we you know Cisco really needed to build that core community first and that was that was super credit but even four years ago let's just go back and rewind the clock we was cloud then so it was still the purest DevOps culture it was certainly hard-charging was definitely flying but still even like a lot of the on-premise enterprise folks we're like still kind of poopoo in the cloud you even saw it four years ago Oracle just made their move a couple years ago to the cloud and they're still trying to catch up so you know these legacy vendors and Cisco is one they've pivoted nicely Cisco into this because now the timings there as kubernetes there's enough code to get glued in plugged in with the stack so I think timing has also been a tailwind timing was critical I mean back then we were talking about software-defined networking and you know new services that you could deliver to the cloud and new ways and then DevOps came in is like really the glory child right saying like this DevOps was gonna solve world hunger and and what she came what it came down to basically is you know it is a critical part but there are certain piece parts that needed to come together especially in the open source world to make these things happen I mean to me if I had to like point out I'm just riffing here but you know to me the seminal moment for a cloud and you know agile was happening that's a key driver but it was the fact that was horizontally scalable tech unstructured data the roles of databases software that was becoming this new lightweight glue layer control planes or moving up and down the stack so there wasn't one thing combination of these awesome things were happening that made people go whoa holy-holy we could do more if we think about scale differently skill differently and really how do you bring this you know and this is where you get to edge computing it's how do you actually bring these to the masses how do you go where the people are how do you store data where people are how do you extend security in new ways I mean that's that's gonna be super critical I think the other thing that's also pretty evident is that when you start having new entrants into a market start eating some of your breakfasts then they start eating some of your lunch then you go wait a minute if I don't do something my dinner is gonna be eaten I mean you starting to see people see their business at risk yeah this is a huge thing that that lights up to see XO the CEO the CEO o CDO CIO now it's like okay we got to make a move definitely I think that's that's the way that it has to be and in terms of Cisco I want to get your thoughts because I've always been talking about this and I'm a big Cisco fan I know a lot of people who work there been a big admirer of the company from day one and what they did in the internet generation they did bought a lot of cubbies which create a little bit of a mash mash but that's nothing I issue they really ran the networks what a great culture however we're now seeing applications driving a lot of value and the network needs to be programmable and the challenge that cisco has always been how do we will if the stack as a company and all the little scuttle butts and conversations and parties have been to hallway conversations francisco executives employees is that's been the internal debate how does cisco should cisco move up the stack and if so how so it's been kind of this internal thing good timing now to start moving up the stack because the automations here I think it was great timing four years ago to move up the stack to be honest I think that there were efforts then I know that I was engaged in some to do that rather quickly you know those turned into things that you know went one way or the other I think that there are the right people in the right places at Cisco now to make that actually happen I think you know we're a little early on that I think Suzy Zephyr is just tremendous in terms of driving the users up stack to have them learn these new skills and as they learn these new skills they're learning it on Cisco and that's gonna be really critical that's gonna have the pull power yeah I think this is got a chance a real great chance to and it's not a far reaching of a accomplishment either for them to do this is they can now actually build a developer program now because before they didn't have enough software but what Suzy's doing if I'm Chuck Roberts CEO of Cisco I'm doubling down and what's going on with definite definite create and I can take that def net component and almost kind of expand it out because Cisco has a developer option you look at what they're doing on the collaborative software side the stuff with video they have a total core confidence in video I mean they were early on so many things but now with I got WebEx they're still and so for video conferencing but still beyond that IOT is a video application well huge opportunity in these these communities that pop up and right now you don't have a product if you don't have a supporting community and so salutely be doubling down on this they need to double down on that they probably need to invest more in it than they are now I see it as absolutely critical as they move forward because you know Cisco wants to be one or two in the market for all their products all their solutions to have that they need to have the supporting community dude yeah we did two days here and you know and in terms of events it's not the big glam event it's really a early stage the only the second event within the it hasn't even been 12 months since the first dev net create what I'm impressed by what I love about the cube is we when you get at these early moments when you see it magic happening you get into the communities and you realize wow this is a team that could pull it off and I think Cisco's a company at Cisco live in Barcelona you know it really became apparent to me that Cisco's really pulling in the right direction on a couple things I feel that the big company thing that gotta kind of clean that up a bit just make it more nimble but they got their eye on the prize on video they could really crush the IOT opportunity and the leverage of the network is a huge asset and if they could make that programmable with an open source community behind it man this could be a whole nother Cisco almost bring back that look at the glory days I fully agree Lauren what are you up to these days I mean you got a new gig I do care about your new company and what you're working on you guys write in code you do Advisory do consulting actually stuff I mean you know I like my hands and lots of things so I think it's important to say that you know I've taken my experience at IBM and Microsoft and juniper and Cisco driving new innovation to market faster and new revenue channels and I've taken that and I've started a consulting firm called spark labs and what we do is we use new models like Minimum Viable Product and business model canvas to actually drive you know whether it's product whether it's service whether it's these you know new channels whether it's partner or whether you're just trying to kind of pull together your team in a new way we actually take this and and help you do it in a faster way and you know we've got the models we've got the background and you know we're working with companies that are big and small what kind of engagement you working on what kind of problems you saw so you know we have a larger company that we're working with and one of the things that they ran into is they had just changed around kind of their leadership and we've gone in and worked with their leadership team to kind of establish what this new team needs to look like what are they going to deliver on what are the metrics what are the you know kind of success things that that people are really trying to achieve and how do we empower this new team that has this new leader and you know how do we make sure that everyone's aligned I think that's part of it and the line that's critical alignment is you know you don't if you don't it's it's great to have an amazing vision but if you don't have the execution you're just not going to get there yeah Andy Jesse one of my favorite execs that I've interviewed he's pragmatic he's strong went to Harvard Law hold it against him but great super great guy but he's got a great philosophy I think I come from the Amazon culture is you argue all day long but once a decisions made you align behind it yeah so bring some constructive discourse to the table yep but once it's done they don't tolerate any you know yeah a dysfunctional aggressed passive-aggressive behavior okay say and if say your piece fuck a lot that's exactly it I mean we pull people together for a day or a day and a half and actually run them through the business model canvas which will align with like what their goals are what their mission is how their how their you know being seen in the market and lots of other things but the real goal there is to pull the team together on on you know what exactly those things are and the value that their organization has because if you can't deliver on that message you can't deliver on much more so you do need that alignment and teams are so all over the place often when you're running fast you kind of forget and so sometimes they need to be reminded what's your take on dev net create this year what's your thoughts I think it's great I mean I love the fact that you know there's folks from so many different backgrounds and so many different you know kind of technical areas here I love you know muraki's giving away 1.2 million dollars of equipment and software licenses I think that's phenomenal I'm impressed by a Cisco folks here not too overly overboard and and give them too many compliments because you know they'll get cocky no but still serious dis Cisco people that are here are kicking ass they're doing a great job they're got the microphones on they're doing the demos they're doing a lot they are jazz and they're they're not mailing it in either doing a great job and I think that's that's authentic genuine I think that's going to be a great you know seed in the in the community to grow that up again still they got a lot of work to do but I don't think it's too far of a bridge for Network guys to be cloud guys and to kind of find some middle ground so I think it's the timings perfect I think I'm super impressed with the team and I think this is a great path a Cisco to double down on and and really invest more in because it's definitely got legs and a big fan of the camp thing too we talked about the camp create where they had competitive teams hacking and spending two days on so you know love it love the culture but again early let's see where they go with it I mean if they can get the network ops go on there's DevOps for networks concepts yeah and bring it up and make it programmable couldn't ask for a better time with kubernetes all the coolness going on that microservices good time definitely a great time well great to host with you and we're here live at dev net create wrapping up two days of wall-to-wall coverage of the cube 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