#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we're talking with Cisco Principal Engineer Shannon McFarland, about OpenStack for Enterprise. Lauren Friedman (@Lauren) moderates and Jeremiah Dooley and Patrick Swackhammer are this week's Cisco Champion guest hosts.

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Cisco SME
Shannon McFarland, @eyepv6, Cisco Principal Engineer

Cisco Champions
Jeremiah Dooley, @jdooley_clt , Cloud Architect at Solidfire
Patrick Swackhammer, @swackhap, Network Engineer

Highlights
What is OpenStack
Why Enterprises care about OpenStack
Common misperceptions of OpenStack
How OpenStack works with other solutions
Biggest challenges for Enterprise day 2 operations

Transcripts
CommsNinjaIs this a dumb question: "what does itmean for something to be project based... as opposed to not project based?"
JDooleyNot dumb at all.
Ken HuiThe term called comes from open source's heritage in the tech research arena. It speaks to the collaborative nature.
Swack_ thx Ken
aconawayGreat question, Swack.
CommsNinjaAh, most of my recent open source knowledge comes 2nd hand from someone who wrote and maintained his own project.. "egocentric based" v. project based
CommsNinja'Let's use open source because it is cheaper" = "I can lose weight by cutting off a limb"??
JDooleyBingo
eyepv6@commsninja -LOL!!
CommsNinjaHey all.. who has questions?!
Maher me
CommsNinjaPossible Q: What things should enterprises do to prepare for OS deployment?
MaherThere is a concern that OPenStack development is leading to unix style fracture and it won't be as stable as AWS because it has to meet the requirement of so many contributing companies. what's your opinion about this?
CommsNinjaPossible Q: OpenStack -DC vs Ent -how should we think about them differently?
scottm32768Fragmentation!
CommsNinjaPossible Q: Do we need to think about security differently for OpenStack deployments?
JDooleySecurity? What's that?
CommsNinja@jdooley Shh! The bunnies will hear you
CommsNinjaQ: Is forking a natural development of project-based activities?
Ken HuiForking is actually a good thing if code is contributed back upstream 2 the community. Fosters innovation and fixes.
CommsNinjaWelcome @loyevans
loyevanshowdy @commsninja
CommsNinjaBtw open call for questions @loyevans
CommsNinjaPossibly too simple: What things should enterprises do to prepare for OpenStack deployments? How shoudl they deploy? Small or across the board?
loyevansWhat are the biggest challenges for an enterprise for day 2 operations? Do i have to buy up a bunch of py guys just to be productive?
CommsNinjaQ: In educating customers... what are common misconceptions you have to overcome?
loyevanswhat about down market commercial customers who buy vmw for the "out of the box" supportability option? how can we bring openstack to mass market?
CommsNinja@Swack_ @JDooley Check out @loyevans questions too
MaherI think we'll need another episode for OPenStack, we still have so many Questions
Swack_ good call Maher!
CommsNinja@Maher -you got it
eyepv6Do you want me to take these other questions via chat
loyevansdo you see a convergence of things with openstack and other platform emergents, such as containers and what not for a multi-faceted virt platform?
JDooleyIT IS NOT FREE!
Swack_ Is this the "Don't Fork It Up" article you were talking about @eyepv6? http://robhirschfeld.com/2011/09/12/openstack-needs-community-collaboration/
Josh_AtwellDay 0 is easy
Josh_AtwellDay 730 is hard
loyevansyes to that one @Josh_Atwell
CommsNinjaBut ZeroDay isn't usually easy
CommsNinja:p
JDooleyDay "In-place version upgrade" is the most fun.
Ken Hui4 a lot of sales guys, nothing matters after day 91 when commissions have been paid out.
VMTylerGoes back to the forking discussion-further you stray, harder it is to upgrade