Cisco Live Photos: Dress for Success in a Company Onesie


T-shirt for sale in the mall outside the conference hotel. I took photos of several other T-shirts. The humor is childish and smutty. Don't look at the photos here.

Milk chocolate candy bar, flavored with bacon-flavored bits and potato chips. You would not think that would be delicious. You would be wrong.

Jody Lemoine, an independent contractor at networking solutions provider Tishco Networks, participates in #KiltedMonday, a Cisco Live tradition where some attendees wear kilts on Monday. Lemoine shared some thoughts about Cisco's newly announced "network intuitive" strategy.

Cisco does a great job with the rock concert effects at its keynotes. Here we're waiting for CEO Chuck Robbins to take the stage.
Playlist for the warmup to every tech industry keynote ever: You Shook Me All Night Long, Uptown Funk, Party Like It's 1999...? #CLUS
— (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) (@MitchWagner) June 27, 2017

You know what's great about the Internet of Things? Model trains layouts at trade show booths. This one is at the Tech Data booth touting D Smart IoT Solutions.

Another arty photo from my hotel window. Same view, pretty animated GIF.
But it wasn't all onesies and kilts. A colleague and I got to talk with Cisco executives and customers to find out about the company's current and future state. Here's what we wrote:
- Cisco's 'Network Intuitive': A Risky Transition
- Cisco & Microsoft Are Collaborating: Arista Should Be Worried
- Cisco Makes 'Intuitive' Bet to Reconquer Networks
- Cisco, Microsoft, in 'Major,' Mysterious Cloud Deal
- Apple Hugs Cisco in Big Enterprise Push
- Cisco Declares a New Era of Intent-Based Networking
— Mitch Wagner
Editor, Enterprise Cloud News