#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we're talking about ACI and OpenStack with Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer, Lauren Malhoit.

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Cisco SME
Lauren Malhoit, Technical Marketing Engineer

Cisco Champion Guest Hosts
Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) Developer Evangelist at Splunk
Raymond Hicks (@raymhicks) Founder of 5thColumn

Moderator
Lauren Friedman (@lauren)

Highlights

• Benefits
• Why use OpenStack with ACI
• OpenStack adoption
• OpenStack projects and drives
• Best use of ACI
• Demo Great way to get started. D cloud https://dcloud.cisco.com/.
• Not just cisco participating in open base projects looking on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GroupBasedPolicy.
• Others are finding value
• Great resource: https://acidev.cisco.com/
• Recommended Reading: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/wordpress/wp-content/themes/netmit/papers/texcp-hotnets04.pdf

Questions and points of discussion:

• Curious as to what problems are solved by ACI?
• With ACI we want to become more application centric
• The problem is application presentation to customers being slowed by traditional network provisioning...
• Also, traditional network model is broken from a security standpoint
• Moving from a blacklist model to a whitelist model in a fundamental shift in the way business is done, but the administrative overhead has always been prohibitive....it has to be automated.

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