The new Cisco all on premises WebEx Meetings Server design session will cover sizing and designing UCS/UC Manager considerations, end user and network requirements and feature use that impacts design.

This session presents the different Cisco managed and hosted solutions addressing different environments: on premise or hosted, for enterprise or small business, targeting small or large number of business users. It discusses the positioning and deployment of different products or solutions like HCS, UC on UCS, Managed CUCM, BE, UC300 / 500, WebEx and SP TelePresence. It also describes the Cisco and partners management frameworks.

This is an intermediate session aimed at Service Providers and System Integrators who are interested in offering Unified Communication and Collaboration services. This is also of interest to Enterprises who are evaluating Managed UC or Collaboration as a Services from the cloud rather than deploying and managing their own infrastructure. Attendees should be familiar with UC & VoIP technologies to benefit most from this session.

This session provides an introduction to UCS Fabric/Networking components. The session does not assume previous UCS familiarity and is intended as a basic introduction for server, LAN and SAN administrators. The session covers the components, their role in the providing network connectivity and basic configuration tasks for server, LAN and SAN administrators.

The infrastructure cloud is shifting, becoming more flexible and at the same time, more dynamic. The classic static orchestration tools are no longer adequate to meet the demands of new cloud implementations, and new management components are being developed to address this disconnect. Single monolithic cloud systems are giving way to modular systems, providing domain managers with the ability to provide a more dynamic infrastructure based on a policy model, and allowing for more efficient deployment of platform and software services on top of an Infrastructure as a Service Cloud. This session will look at a brief history of cloud management systems, and will then look at the new models and investigate areas that Cisco is providing direct value into the cloud ecosystem.

As the Cloud Compute phenomenon is changing the landscape of IT services globally with technologies such as virtualisation and multi-tenancy; the fundamental ways to access and use applications as well as data are changing. Securing confidential data in accordance with regulatory requirements, fortifying application software, having federated identity management, and ensuring data is not stored or backed-up in an insecure geography really mandates a fresh look building the risk profile in the coming On-Demand world. As enterprises seek to define a clearer understanding and addressing of the security issues in the new On-Demand world, risk management strategy for the enterprise-class or SP IP NGN networks is a top-of-mind item. Clearly identifying risk exposures and mitigation strategies is likely to result in a multi-pronged approach - SECaaS (Security as a Service) and securing other On-Demand IT service offers such as on-demand storage. Security services such as vulnerability scanning, security posture assessment, compliance audits, federated identity services, and such are ideally suited to be delivered as a SaaS for enterprise or commercial businesses. Learn how your business can deploy security as a SaaS or buy only adequate Security SaaS offers from the managed service providers in the marketplace.

The cloud offers the promise of evolving the Data Centre from a static and inflexible architecture into a highly efficient and flexible one, providing users with self-service access to IT offerings with fast, automated delivery. The question has changed from "Should we embrace cloud computing?" to "How can we best use the cloud?" Options abound, but for IT to deliver cloud services, it will need to:

• Create a catalog of standardised service offerings with a self-service portal for users, implement policy based controls, and manage the service lifecycle
• Automate and orchestrate operations, including service and infrastructure provisioning; service change management, metering, billing, and chargeback; and resource management across various aspects of the IT infrastructure, including compute, virtualisation, network, storage, and applications

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud computing is a new service delivery model in which dynamically scalable and virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet, WAN, or Campus. The cloud consists of virtualised applications and services, servers, storage, and networking equipment. The cloud runs applications on-demand through a flexible management system capable of growing or shrinking resources. IaaS Cloud computing enables the Service Provider to offer elastic on-demand services that can be deployed quickly and can easily be scaled up or down based on the end-user requirements. Building and managing the shared infrastructure, rapid deployment of virtualised services, and service assurance are challenging tasks for the provider. This session provides an overview of a validated architecture for deploying virtualised, multi-tenant Data Centres for IaaS Cloud services.

Cloud computing enables on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management overhead. This model provides significant cost savings from resource pooling, reduces operations and maintenance cost of IT infrastructures, and increases business agility with rapid deployment of workloads. As companies embark on their journey to cloud, their top of mind are how to ensure business continuity, security, and standardise operations. The Cisco Virtualised Multi-Service Data Centre (VMDC) architecture for the Unified Data Centre is a blueprint for creating and deploying scalable, secure, and resilient virtualised multi-service Data Centre infrastructure for Enterprise and Service Providers. This session will cover best practises and design considerations in building a multi-service Data Centre, and present new capabilities in our VMDC architecture, including the use of FabricPath, Virtualisation of Services, and LISP.

Service Providers are under severe pressure to deliver an increasing number of advanced video services to compete with rival providers and emerging over-the-top players. This session proposes a strategy to evolve the traditional video headend into a multi-service Video Data Centre which is well positioned for the challenges of the modern era. The Video Data Centre combines the best of the traditional video headend with proven Data Centre techniques. This session examines the evolution of the enterprise/internet Data Centre, and provides an overview of networking and computing requirements that have driven their evolution. We compare and contrast between Data Centre processing requirements and video service requirements. Most modern video headends are rising in scale, growing in interactivity, and supporting an increasingly diverse set of video-capable devices. As these changes occur and video networks expand, the video headend of old begins to resemble a Data Centre that is serving many devices, led by video, to a large subscriber population. Finally, we propose some appropriate Data Centre techniques and best practices that can help video networks more effectively scale to the throughput and performance of next generation video services.

Cisco and their UCS ecosystem partners provide have developed extensive product and services capabilities to support automation of workflows using the UCS Manager XML API. However these tools may offer a lot of capabilities that you don't need and unfortunately they sometimes don't offer a key capability that you do need. It wouldn't make sense to engage a team of mechanics and a fully equipped workshop to change a tyre on your car would it? You're pretty handy with a spanner or you know someone who is and even if you don't own a spanner it's very likely that someone will be happy to loan you theirs. You can look at the UCS Manager API in the same way. The API is simple to use and and very powerful - in fact even the UCSM Webstart GUI leverages this interface to the product. This session will introduce the UCSM XML API, the Management Information Model, API methods and walk through example code that you can use or adapt to fit the automation needs of your Data Centre.

This technical seminar will cover all aspects of the Cisco Jabber Collaboration Solution from the Desktop Clients on Windows and Mac and Web browsers to the Mobile Clients on iPhone, Android smartphones and tablets.

The session will start with an overview of the clients and capabilities and then move into a detailed look at the overall architecture and how it applies to the different Jabber clients, through detailed infrastructure review, to all aspects of the collaboration back-end including functions like secure remote access.