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Data Center of the Future webcasts with Information Week present best practices from Cisco and Data Center partners. Webcasts are audio presentations that run approximately one hour and cover common data center issues and concerns.

On-demand Webcasts

The New Data Center-to-Branch Architecture

Live Event: October 29, 2009 - Now available on demand

Learn how Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft are working together on a new architecture that is improving the management and delivery of virtualized data center applications.

Consolidating Branch IT with WAN Optimization

Live Event: October 27, 2009 - Now available on demand

Discover the IT consolidation benefits of WAN optimization, including solid application performance for branch and satellite offices.

Energy-Efficient, Green Data Centers; Optimized Infrastructure

Live Event: Thursday, September 17, 2009 - Now available on demand

Data centers operators are constantly evaluating next-generation technologies and methodologies that will address their associated challenges while mitigating unwanted costs and risks. Join Cisco and Panduit to learn how you can optimize the physical infrastructure of your data center through its entire lifecycle.

Cisco San Jose Internal Data Center Efficiency Assessment

Live Event: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - Now available on demand

Continuing a series on data center efficiency, this webcast will highlight a project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a Cisco data center. To meet an internal mandate, Cisco and its partner Emerson Network Power, performed an assessment of the data center that reveals the base conditions and the various options available to reduce energy consumption.

Private Clouds: Extending Your Virtualized Environments

Live Event: Thursday, August 13, 2009 - Now available on demand

Learn the fundamental components and customizable solutions that enable the control and choice needed for future expansion the virtualized data center into cloud providers. Hosted by Cisco, VMware and EMC.

The Difference Between Open and Closed Clouds

Live Event: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - Now available on demand

Learn the advantages of using open clouds to expand, on demand IT capacity, without having to customize applications for 'closed' cloud providers. Hosted by Cisco, VMware and EMC.

How to Maximize Your Virtualization Investment

Live Event: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - Now available on demand

Please join Cisco and APC by Schneider Electric as they address the many myths surrounding virtualization. During this webcast, you'll get real answers based on science, giving you tools to plan for consolidation and future regrowth.

Unlocking the Potential of Virtualization

Live Event: Thursday, July 30, 2009 - Now available on demand

Learn how the revolutionary new Cisco Nexus 1000V switches and Cisco VN-Link technology provide a common management model for both your physical and virtual network infrastructures that enables you to automatically empower virtual servers with the same network configuration, security policy, diagnostic tools, and operational models as physical servers.

Extending IT Into The Cloud with Virtualization

Live Event: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - Now available on demand

Learn the principles of cloud computing with virtualization solutions that will cut operating costs and maximize your return on IT investment. Presented by Cisco, VMware and EMC.

New Data Center Economics: Industry Trends Conspire to Lower IT Costs

Live Event: Thursday, June 25, 2009 - Now available on demand

Several factors have combined to influence the product strategies of major IT vendors and CIOs. These include virtualized servers and storage, high levels of management automation, and the portability of IT resources, allowing businesses to instantly respond to changing application workloads. Find out how these trends can lower costs in this informative discussion with data center experts from Cisco and Oracle.

Unleashing the Power of Virtualization

Live Event: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - Now available on demand

IT teams are faced with the challenge of having to scale, manage and reduce the time to deploy new applications within today’s technology silos. Silos that cannot provide the flexibility and responsiveness needed to keep pace with rapidly changing business demands. Please Join VMware, Cisco and EMC to learn how we have joined forces to bring an innovative and integrated approach to delivering the Unified Computing architecture.

Maximize Your Data Center Today with Targeted Planning, Projects, and Upgrades

Live Event: Thursday, June 11, 2009 - Now available on demand

APC by Schneider Electric and Cisco discuss how to get more space, more efficiency, and lower operating expenses on your existing data center.

A Unified Approach to a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center

Live Event: Thursday, May 28, 2009 - Now available on demand

NetApp and Cisco discuss how the unified storage system design from NetApp in combination with the Cisco unified fabric design allows users to deploy a single, integrated storage and network solution that results in more streamlined IT operations, higher staff productivity, and more.

Accommodating Information Growth While Boosting Efficiency in the Data Center

Live Event: Thursday, May 14, 2009 - Now available on demand

IDC, VMware, EMC, and Cisco discuss how the effective use of virtualization, converged networking, and storage solutions can help you address a range of increasingly critical data center challenges.

Data Center Availability and the Unified Physical Infrastructure

Live Event: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - Now available on demand

Join Panduit and Cisco to learn more about next-generation high speed data transport offerings and the impact on the physical data center infrastructure.

Virtualize Your Enterprise and Lower Your Costs

Live Event: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - Now available on demand

Cisco and Oracle discuss virtualizing the enterprise network with Cisco and Oracle VM server virtualization software.

Accelerating Server Virtualization

Live Event: Thursday, February 26, 2009 - Now available on demand

This session will explore how Cisco and VMware are collaborating with the help of customers to expand and accelerate their server virtualization strategies. The session will explore how server virtualization plays a part in a broader data center virtualization strategy to address concerns such as data center TCO, resource agility, and systems availability.

Data Center Planning Tools and Skill Set Augmentation

Live Event: Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. (ET) - Now available on demand

This webcast with Cisco and Emerson Network Power reviews how vendors, partners and customers are collaborating in new ways with Web 2.0 planning tools, energy assessments, geo-spatial and thermal modeling. Prepare yourself for the operational implications of data center virtualization by learning adjacent technologies areas like energy, next generation design and building the business case for simplifying your operation.