Cisco Data Center Solutions
Why should you attend?
To understand how Cisco can help you solve your top/pressing challenges in the data center:
- Power and cooling
- Inefficient resource utilization
- Performance requirements and operational complexity
- Increasing demands for availability and security
- Building a more efficient end-to-end virtualized infrastructure
At CiscoLive! 2007, Cisco introduced Data Center 3.0 focused on transforming the data center and enabling virtual IT. Over the last year, we've delivered on this with innovation across our broad data center portfolio, including the introduction of a new product category: the Cisco Nexus platform. Join us to learn more about how we are integrating services into the virtualization of data centers - helping our customers increase the value from investments in their network.
Who should attend?
CIOs, data center architects, directors of IT, storage architects, server architects, network LAN administrators, and application architects, large enterprises, Enterprises who are building a new data center, high performance data centers and service providers.
Keynotes
Informative and entertaining Keynotes open and close Cisco Live 2008 and frame important Super Sessions on emerging technologies and data center, mobility, and unified communications solutions, and the over 400 breakout sessions.
Kicking off this year's program, CEO John Chambers will share his views on the industry, the changing global economy, and the future at Cisco. This important Welcome Address will be followed by a variety of educational breakout sessions and Super Sessions on The Power of Collaboration, The Evolution and Transformation of the Data Center, and Cisco and Intel Mobility Solutions.
Closing this year's conference, actor and writer Ben Stein will give his unique perspective on technology and the world.
Cisco Live 2008 Keynotes and Sessions will have something for everyone - view Keynote and Session links for more specifics.
Specific Session Highlights
The Data Center: Evolution and Transformation
Wednesday, June 25, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Data Center IT Insight Sessions
Extend your knowledge of Data Center and related topics by enrolling in the following IT Insights Sessions featured this year at Cisco Live:
- (BRKITI-1010) Building the State-of-the-Art Branch Network
- (BRKITI-1025) Energy Efficiency in the Data Center
- (BRKITI-1026) IT Transformation: Aligning IT with Business Demands
- (BRKITI-1031) Cisco Data Center 3.0 Strategy and Business Impact
- (BRKITI-1032) Impact of Server Virtualization for the Evolving Data Center
- (BRKITI-1033) A Unified Fabric for the Data Center
Data Center Discover Program
The Data Center Discover Program is an invitation only program offering peer-to-peer and Cisco interaction focused on top-of-mind data center topics such as:
- Considerations of new data center builds and retrofits
- Architectural shifts in the data center
- Driving a broader deployment of virtualization: making virtual machine portability a reality
- Power, facilities and space constraints supporting denser environments
- Mapping applications and services according to the cost of operations while ensuring high availability and service levels
Go to MyScheduler to review the descriptions for the following activities and add them to your personal schedule:
- (DISCDC-1001) Data Center Discover Program:
Solutions Insight Luncheon - (DISCDC-1002) Data Center Discover Program:
Beer and Brains Meet the Engineers Behind Cisco's Data Center Innovation - (DISCDC-1003) Data Center Discover Program:
Customer Executive Roundtable - (DISCDC-1004) Data Center Discover Program Lunch and Learn:
The Evolution of Data Center Architectures
Exclusive Access to Cisco Data Center Executives
Attendees of the Data Center Discover Program will also have the opportunity to interact directly with Cisco leaders during Data Center Discover Program Solution Insight Luncheon (Session ID: DISCDC-1001). This session focuses on the operational benefits of newly-introduced technologies designed to drive value back to your business. Sign up for this exclusive activity through MyScheduler while there is availability.
Cisco and VMware Virtualization Services Kiosk
Learn more about virtualization benefits, challenges, and how the joint Virtualization Services from Cisco and VMware can help you get more out of your data center.
Book Signings
Learn more about deploying and designing Cisco Application Networking Services solutions at the Data Center Solutions book signings. Cisco experts, Zeeshan Naseh , Zach Seils and Silvano Gai, will answer questions about their latest books. And best of all, the first 50 attendees at each event will receive a free book signed by the author.
Zeeshan Naseh
Designing Content Switching Solutions
ACE design options, soft virtualization
Tuesday, 3-4 p.m.
Zack Seils
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services
Wednesday, 2-3 p.m.
Silvano Gai
Data Center Networks and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Wednesday, 3-4 p.m.
Meet the Engineer
Talk with Cisco Data Center experts about getting the most out of your data center.
Data Center Solutions Team:
- Rob Aldrich - Marketing Manager, CMO - Data Center Solutions
- Ed Bugnion - Founder, Nuova Systems
- Doug Gourlay - Director, Product Management, CMO - Data Center Solutions
- Soni Jiandani - Senior Vice President, Marketing
- George Kurian - Vice President and General Manager ADBU
- Deepak Munjal - Manager, Marketing - CMO - Data Center Solutions
- Dante Malagrino - Director, Product Marketing - CMO - Data Center Solutions
- Mario Mazzola - Founder, Nuova Systems
- Rajiv Ramaswami - Vice President and General Manager DCSTG
- Faiyaz Shahpurwala - Vice President Data Center Advanced Services
- Mark Wiener - Director, Market Management - CMO - Data Center Solutions
- Zeeshan Naseh - Cisco Distinguished Engineer, Data Center Services
