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the main thing that I heard in the keynote was the notion of making the on-prem and off-prem transparent. Unification was a key message.

As Jeremy said, there was a nice focus on apps at the keynote. Also on the idea of Run/Build/Deliver/Secure any app

I think we can all agree it's good that we're heading towards and application centric view of the data center

It was definitely a kool-aid injection. I see lots of work to truely unify the infrastructure

@malhoit applications are the new disruption forces bc that is what all customer are looking to do so the #infra has to be smarter

Apps have been the heart of our mission with SDN. That's why we called it Application Centric Infrastructure. It's great to talk about customer challenges with Apps

The overall focus of cloud technologies to enable applications is good to see. There are many creative solutions out there that are maturing nicely to provide more agile and secure use of cloud, both public and private

@malhoit so YES on application centric focus; that is a winning strategy

And it's not only about virtual machines, it's about containers, bare metal, the entire data center needs to be policy driven.

@malhoit It's something we've been advocating for at CliQr for a while and using that application focus to instruct great infrastructure like Cisco ACI on how the network should behave starts to provide the promise of cloud technologies.

@jeremy_oakey the moving workloads is huge; the tooling and architectures need to be consistent across both private & public is that I hear from customers. How? That's another big question

I think we got drenched in kool-aid this morning. Not sure there was much meat on the bones.

I don't see how that's possible. The fundamentals are different.

@dahowlett yes an "injection" for sure; the market is voting for hybrid but the underlying infra needs to be solidified fast imho

that can seem difficult indeed. An application profile or blueprint that can contain the definition of the application stack, how to deploy it and manage it makes it work. Then deploying it is a business decision - data locality, security, etc.

Use @ to replythis is very useful guys - I am doing a presentation today at cisco theater at 5 PM, on how L4-L7 NW/Security services can be inserted in ACI's policy framework

Not sure the market is voting, more like it doesn't have app choice or need.

@dahowlett Dennis what is you're take on customer needs to make Hybrid a reality

and speed up application delivery

I'm only going to do this as a priority IF there are massive savings to be had.

@dahowlett a. Similar to Cisco IT, customers can leverage ACI to achieve combined 41.0% savings on initial capex costs and IT staff costs related to technology provisioning and network operations over three years

@dahowlett IT staff will reduce the time it spends on areas such as datacenter access, access control, and load balancing requests by an average of 58.1%

Cisco has a large number of service providers deploying Cisco Cloud Architecture which uses application policy as a foundation to automate and control infrastructure. Enterprises can take advantage is Cisco powered clouds for their private cloud

a) Kit was most interesting to me. b) candid message was - for cloud native we need a new "devops" friendly platform (photon). That's vmware taking its medicine.

Another full house this year. With great message in the keynote around the focus on applications

@hpettyiii Applications are why we build data centers isn't it?

we are tweeting live in Moscone north looking to bring in lots of folks who are not here..

Yes. Sometimes IT gets lots in the tech of the infrastructure so it's always good to remember the reason of the data center

The discussion about running any App anywhere should resonate with many customers trying to build hybrid clouds here

Hi Ravi, yes, with 23,000+ attendees here, we have a lot of Cisco customers here too

lots of good demos, and presentations to kick off yesterday. Looking forward to more today

Use @ to reply the standout conversation for me yesterday - running software overlays on physical purpose-built underlay is appealing to customers