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#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco’s Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This week Dominick Delfino, VP Systems Engineering at Cisco, joins Cisco Champion and Senior Pre-Sales Engineer Ahmad Manzoor. The topic is the Value of the Partner Eco-System.

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Cisco Subject Matter Expert:
Dominick Delfino, VP Systems Engineering Cisco (@domdelfino)

Cisco Champion:
Ahmad Manzoor, Senior Pre-Sales Engineer (@AhmadManzoor1)

Highlights:
Delivering robust customer solutions through partnerships
Putting customers first
The future of the Partner Eco-System and Infrastructure Architecture
How an effective Cisco Partnership works

Transcripts:
GideonTam Wow, Dominick Delfino is here! Exciting!!!
RickVanover @Lauren is here – We can start!
LaurenFriedman @rickv  no mocking. I know where your twitter lives
CommsNinja Okay everyone–get your questions ready!
CommsNinja Like “Will Amy get anyone’s name or title right ever?”
RickVanover Speaker, Dominic is on Twitter at: @domdelfino For those on the line
RickVanover “Co-Opetition”
RickVanover Frenemies
CommsNinja Good questions: who else has one?
CommsNinja In about 10 minutes, I’m doing a group unmute. Be prepared! I will call on you by name.
daspader Pondering questions
RickVanover API is the new Open-ness
RickVanover agreed 100%
CommsNinja Good point
CommsNinja Okay, I am unmuting everyone in a minute. Brace yourselves.
RickVanover :)!
daspader Oh noes!
RickVanover of course I go off mute then 3 tweets come in all at once
CommsNinja And I sent all of them.
daspader @rick didn’t hear them, no worries
RickVanover ha ha
RickVanover got a follow up q
daspader @rick preparing to send you tweet
CommsNinja Let’s test his focus by tweeting @rickvanover right now
daspader lol
CommsNinja Who else has questions? Looking at you Bill and Rob
CommsNinja Also chat questions welcome
RickVanover (That’s the vSphere vs. Hyper-V life I live btw)
RickVanover Sometimes I put 5 O’s in Hadoop
CommsNinja We are about 10 minutes from concluding–get your questions ready!
RickVanover Incredible journey on UCS in the market 0 to #2
RickVanover server platform is a very ‘religous’ issue in the data center
LaurenFriedman @rick  I hear it is the year of linux on the desktop
RickVanover HA HA, What’s Linux?
LaurenFriedman D
woharrow Well done Dom.
RickVanover Thank you Ninja!
daspader Thanks, I’m off to another call
RickVanover later!
aconaway Just in time to end the show



Authors

Rachel Bakker

Social Media Advocacy Manager

Digital and Social