#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists, hosted by Cisco's Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja). This weekDominick 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.

Listento the Podcast

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:
GideonTamWow, Dominick Delfino is here! Exciting!!!
RickVanover@Lauren is here -We can start!
LaurenFriedman@rickv  no mocking. I know where your twitter lives
CommsNinjaOkay everyone-get your questions ready!
CommsNinjaLike "Will Amy get anyone's name or title right ever?"
RickVanoverSpeaker, Dominic is on Twitter at: @domdelfino For those on the line
RickVanover"Co-Opetition"
RickVanoverFrenemies
CommsNinjaGood questions: who else has one?
CommsNinjaIn about 10 minutes, I'm doing a group unmute. Be prepared! I will call on you by name.
daspaderPondering questions
RickVanoverAPI is the new Open-ness
RickVanoveragreed 100%
CommsNinjaGood point
CommsNinjaOkay, I am unmuting everyone in a minute. Brace yourselves.
RickVanover:)!
daspaderOh noes!
RickVanoverof course I go off mute then 3 tweets come in all at once
CommsNinjaAnd I sent all of them.
daspader@rick didn't hear them, no worries
RickVanoverha ha
RickVanovergot a follow up q
daspader@rick preparing to send you tweet
CommsNinjaLet's test his focus by tweeting @rickvanover right now
daspaderlol
CommsNinjaWho else has questions? Looking at you Bill and Rob
CommsNinjaAlso chat questions welcome
RickVanover(That's the vSphere vs. Hyper-V life I live btw)
RickVanoverSometimes I put 5 O's in Hadoop
CommsNinjaWe are about 10 minutes from concluding-get your questions ready!
RickVanoverIncredible journey on UCS in the market 0 to#2
RickVanoverserver platform is a very 'religous' issue in the data center
LaurenFriedman@rick  I hear it is the year of linux on the desktop
RickVanoverHA HA, What's Linux?
LaurenFriedman D
woharrowWell done Dom.
RickVanoverThank you Ninja!
daspaderThanks, I'm off to another call
RickVanoverlater!
aconawayJust in time to end the show