Cisco Keynote, Tuesday, September 16, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Ed Bugnion, VP/CTO, Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit, Cisco and Dr. Stephen Herrod, CTO, VMware

This session will describe how Cisco is further evolving the data center to become virtualization-centric, where virtual machines, together with all of their primary attributes and features, are reflected transparently in the network.

Cisco Guest Speaker on EMC Panel, Wednesday, September 17, 11:00 a.m.

EMC has invited Cisco to participate as guest speaker in EMC’s Super Session, which will be a panel session.

"Designing the Next-Generation Data Center"

Cisco speaker: Ed Bugnion, VP/CTO, Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit

In addition, Cisco speakers will present in the following VMworld 2008 technical breakout sessions:

Tuesday, September 16

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. (session ID TA3720)

Optimized Virtual Desktop Delivery for Higher Performance, Robust Security, Availability, Scalability, and End-to-End Manageability

Cisco speaker: George Kurian, VP/GM, Application Delivery Business Unit

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. (session ID 2280)

Virtual Switching in a VMware Environment

VMware Session with Cisco guest speaker Paul Fazzone, Senior Manager, Product Management

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (session ID EA2270)

Running Real-Time Application on VMware Infrastructure

Cisco speaker: Keith Chambers, Technical Marketing Engineer

Wednesday, September 17

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (session ID TA3720)

Designing Data Centers with VM-Level Granularity

Cisco speakers:
Paul Fazzone, Senior Manager, Product Management
Omar Sultan, Solution Manager, Data Center Switching, Data Center Solutions
Dan Hersey, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Thursday, September 18

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. (session ID TA2763)

Unified Data Center Virtualization with Cisco and VMware Exploring Technology and Architecture

Cisco speaker: Simanta Chakraborty, Director, Data Center Practice, Cisco Advanced Services