 Live from Mountain View, California, it's theCUBE. Covering DevNet Create 2019, brought to you by Cisco. Welcome back to theCUBE, Lisa Martin with John Furrier on our first day of two days of coverage of Cisco DevNet Create 2019 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. John and I are pleased to welcome Tony Quavis, the Director of Solutions Architecture and DevOps from Liberty Technology. Tony, welcome. Hi, how are you? Good, thanks for having me. Thanks for having us. So tell our audience a little bit about Liberty Technology before we get into the community, what you're doing, your breakout session. Not a problem. Liberty Technology is a company where at MSP, company down in Griffin, Georgia. And so we handle a lot of our clients are either public sector, cities, all different types of, all different verticals. So if you have a client or customer out there that needs an extra arm into their IT, we're there for that. So you're based out of Georgia, which means that how warm it is in here today outside should be nothing for you, right? I'll tell me about it, right? Well, outside right now, since there's no humidity, I like it, back home it's humidity. Steve, Californians, we're babies. Yeah, so Tony, public sector, we've done a lot of interviews of public sector folks, whether it's towns and cities or schools, municipalities, cities, they're IT-light and then they don't have the DevOps expertise, but Cloud's a perfect fit for them. But they have a lot of certain characteristics, whether it's email, it's very ephemeral, people come and go. So getting people collaborating in these distinct user groups that have different roles and responsibilities is a challenge. How are you guys solving that? Because this is something I know you guys have worked on. And this is a challenge just not only for public sector, it's for enterprises as well. How do you bring people that are distinct user populations that have an application or role or use case into a collaborative horizontally scalable system? We show them, be honest. We go in there and we go in there and we discover as to what they're doing now. What are their pain points? What do they want to change? Where do they want to go? And then we show them the collaboration side of it, we show them like WebEx teams. We show them all of the meetings, the room devices, things like that. And then not just on the collaboration side of it, but also if they're helping with O365, their security, the Maraki, that's how we bring collaboration into the public sectors. Talk about the Cisco dynamic. We've been covering DevNet Creates since it started. DevNet now is Cisco live a couple of years. You're seeing kind of a new vibe and new mojo going on within the Cisco ecosystem of actually coding stuff up. Whether it's slinging APIs together or creating new ones, new capabilities. How has it changed the delivery and performance for the customers? Because this is not just your old school Cisco networking company. Yeah, they got apps, things are connected, data's moving from point A to point B. But these kind of integration challenges, this kind of seamless programmability is the core theme here. What's your reaction and thoughts on all this? Well, first of all, this is my first DevNet Create. I've been to other Cisco lives, I've not been to DevNet Create yet. So far I'm enjoying this a lot. I like the tight niche, the community style of this event. I'm sorry, go back to you. I'm sorry to go over a little bit. It's one of the creations that are going on here. Very community oriented. Kind of reminds me of Open Source Project. Oh yeah. And people are talking to each other, like a lot of hallway conversations. But it's kind of a new kind of collaborative model that customers are now getting exposed to. This is something new. It is, yeah, it's new. And I'm finding a lot of times where a lot of customers and clients, they've heard about it, but they don't know it yet. So it's our job to actually get them to adopt to it. And also adapt to it as well. Yeah. So it's almost like how we have our own community here for DevNet. It's almost how can we take that structure and show it to our clients and customers? Yeah. It's a little translation involved, kind of, kind of tamper down the excitement maybe or keep it up. The question I have for you is, people watching that aren't here at DevNet. What's the vibe here like? What's some of the coolest things you've seen and heard so far? Well, the keynote was great. I thought it was amazing, the keynote, how they actually showed how, especially with the Maraki hat when Mandy Wiley was out there talking about from the Aswalt campus to the festival and then to an actual stadium. That was a great use case. That was a great use case. It's very relatable. I thought it was incredible, especially with like the big stadium and how John McDonough came out and showed about how there was a fight on the field where no one actually saw it. But yeah, then when they went through the actual demo and showed the actual video, we were like, oh yeah, that's just amazing how you can, it's almost like the minority report, where you're like, okay, you're already. You're already. Exactly. Data. It's the data that's out there. It's all that data. And they're just machine learning and AI, just watching people, seeing what they're doing. Kind of almost like predicting what they're going to do. Scary little bit actually. A little bit, I agree with you. I thought they did a great job with that, especially coming off the heels of Coachella and showing how they can enable, Cisco can enable developers, infrastructure folks, to set up secure networks of different sizes and also be able to use in real time machine learning AI to evaluate what's going on at these events. And that was a very cool real world example of what they showed, leveraging machine learning, identifying there's an issue here, there's an altercation. Big surprise that a sports event, right? And deploying those security. Many sports events though. Although I thought it was all that the security was just casually walking up to the fight. That's another thing. Could have also been that the video was slowed down a bit. You don't know how fast. Could be, you're right. There's so many more etiquette rules now at events, whether it's hate crimes or just violent language. Fights are obviously everyone sees those at events, but there's actual now surveillance tech out there. You can tell the guys how many beers he's had, as soon as IOT kicks in. Probably going to have something where they can actually regularly check out someone's like heat signature and they can tell how much they've had. He's got to explode because the Red Sox is going to blow the lead again. Red Sox, they're not having a good year, but last year they won it last year. I'm a Yankee fan, so yeah. Heatmap would be off the charts. Now, Philly fans, it's a whole other story. I don't know, okay, my digress. You've got a breakout session, sorry, Donny. You've got a break out. It's a lightning session. That's tomorrow. Lightning talk tomorrow. What's the title and what you're going to be talking about? Okay, sure. The title is orchestrate the 45%. So... We're going to start at the 45%? Correct. All right, dig into that. I'll dig into that a little bit. I actually have a slide where we, it was actually Susie, we actually did a presentation a while back where she put up a slide where it says, where she talked about how 55% of partners are creating apps and developing their own apps. So, we at Liberty, we saw that and we were like, okay, what about the other 45%? So that's where the idea came out to, okay, I'll do a talk about how do we orchestrate the 45%. So, in Tales, what I'm doing with that is that we actually have a platform called Contuit where that platform has the ability to integrate with multiple business processes. So, we're connecting it. We're integrating with Connectlize, with Maraki, doing Adabot and so that I have it where there'll be a trigger or a webhook from one of my Maraki cameras for like a motion which will trigger, which will create a ticket and Connectlize so this can help out some, help to ask for service desk. And then that, which will also then get thrown into Teams and you can click on the ticket and then also run commands and grab a snapshot from the camera and sends it right into Teams. Where it's Teams. Talk about the Maraki for a minute because we get a lot of, we're hearing a lot of buzz about Maraki. It's not just wireless, it's not just what you might think it is. It seems to be connective tissue. You meant there's a great demo that Adabot is showing around AR with looking at network configuration. Maraki seems to be connecting all this together. What's your view on this? What's the take? I, for one, I love Maraki. I run Maraki at home. So, I have the wireless and switching the cameras and just that it's one point. Really, they have their own platform that connects, that has all their devices connecting into that dashboard and you can do so much with it that they're actually, they're open up now the APIs, the web hooks. There's so much things that you can actually integrate with it. It's just great. And this is the analytics that you get from it. It's amazing. And this is what you were talking about earlier about bringing these Teams together through web hooks or APIs in through Maraki, the connected tissue. Correct. And then allow the apps to be valuable across different groups. Correct. Very valuable. So, then you don't have an engineer doesn't have to touch different applications or devices. They can get it all from one and from that one application, click and go to where they need to go to. Got it. So, we're only on halfway through day one of your first DevNet create. But it sounds like you've already been exposed to so many things that I can see the wheel is turning. What are you guys sort of anticipating that you're going to be able to bring back to Liberty and all that will really help drive what you guys are doing to drive it forward, drive that customer engagement deeply and educate? Well, since it is, it's like half day already on day one. There's still so much to see here. There's so much to see about IoT. There's a bunch of workshops here about for Maraki and the APIs to which I want to join in and see what I can take out of that and bring it back. I know there's a bunch of stuff here that's going on. So, I want to gather all that and just be a sponge and then bring it back to Liberty and say, hey, this is what we can do. How can it fit into our business model? Awesome. Well, Tony, thank you so much for stopping by and talking with John and me on the program this afternoon. Thank you for having me. We appreciate it. Best of luck in your Lightning session tomorrow as well. Thank you very much. Enjoy. For John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching us on theCUBE Live from Cisco DevNet Create 2019. Thanks for watching.