In today’s show special guest Vice President of Sales & Hybrid Cloud Services at Cisco, Ryan Macban and Phil Calzadilla, CEO of NextNet Partners as they discuss a new and exciting solution from Cisco’s hybrid cloud services group called Metapod. Metapod is a production ready, on-premise, OpenStack-based solution that is engineered and remotely deployed and operated by Cisco 24x7x365 on your behalf. It is stable, secure, and hybrid ready as well as a more cost effective solution than public cloud long-term.

Phil Calzadilla and Ryan Macban discuss examples from industries where the Cisco Metapod has made an impact reducing clients expenses and improving productivity and time to market. NextNet Partners is Cisco MetaPod authorized and MetaPod is a component of NextNet’s Stratosphere strategy to help clients consume and discern cloud, hybrid and on premise offerings.

Here are a few of the questions discussed in today's show:

1. What problems does the Cisco Metapod solve?
2. Where is Cisco Metapod applied? What industries? What verticals?
3. What are some of the client outcomes that Cisco Metapod enables?

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