(upbeat music) We're here at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, Nevada here in the Cisco Live NOC where all the action happens. This is where we power everything for Cisco Live. The NOC or the Network Operation Center is basically the brain for Cisco Live. Everything from wifi, security, all the virtual machines, they come in and build an entire infrastructure to run the show. FlexPod itself houses the virtual machines that run all of those different applications. FlexPod is a partnership between Cisco and NetApp and it allows us to have the kind of confidence that everything that's in it has been tested and ratified before we use it. All of the services that people use when they're on the network, all of the monitoring applications that we see on the NOC wall, everything is basically living on that NetApp. Everything that's going on at Cisco Live can be displayed here. Performance, connections, interfaces, the backbone, the wifi network itself, it's all in one place. If the FlexPod goes down for any reason whatsoever, the MetroCluster configuration will click over to the other one immediately. The entire show would go on, everyone would remain connected. In Cisco Live Europe, they physically set up two data centers and set them across different concourses at the convention center. Another conference was leaving the other concourse and so the electricians had finished their job, they just shut down the power and left. The NOC team was working and they realized something happened, everything's failed over to the secondary data center. The great thing about that story is not one byte of data was lost because the MetroCluster failed over immediately, FlexPod did its job. Now everyone you see here in the NOC is either a Cisco employee or a NetApp employee. And they're working together to make sure that we keep everyone completely connected here at Cisco Live. As the issues come along they are troubleshooting them and handling them in real time. NetApp and Cisco work together very closely to ensure that all the technologies that run in the FlexPod in this case, are ratified, they work strongly, they're tested so thoroughly that you have the confidence when using it that it should function very,well and for a long time. Being able to work with a partner such as Cisco allows us to build solutions for our customers to meet them where they are today and wherever they wanna go. We bring technical solutions together that bring people together, and we think that that's the most exciting part. Solving customer challenges, but really technology with a purpose in bringing people together. (upbeat music continues)