Cloud smart in a complex world

Today for most businesses, the Application is the business. The acceleration of digital commerce and digital transformation requires Application centricity for IT and Business teams. The Cloud makes a lot of this possible. In this session you’ll hear from our Cloud, Infrastructure and Software leaders about how Cisco can enable and accelerate your cloud journey.

Cisco Data Center and Cloud Innovations

Modern applications exist as a mesh of services that run across on-premises data centres as well as public clouds. Operating applications across these disparate environments can result in operational complexity for IT organisations. Cisco’s cloud experience vision is enabled by five integrated capabilities that simplify operations and reduce complexity: Business continuity, Real-time insights, Agile connectivity, End-to-end security, and a Cloud operational model.

Breakout 1: Multicloud networking with AI Operations Deep Dive  

Connecting Workloads across the Multicloud

As organizations adopt and expand their multicloud footprints, they are forced to confront challenges surrounding security, compliance, cost and control. Learn how Cisco and its ecosystem partners are: 

• collaborating to accelerate customers’ cloud transformations
• helping to improve their value propositions without compromising security
• creating new paradigms in managing the issues 

Reactive to Predictive DC Operations through AI

This session will cover how, as businesses accelerate their cloud expansion, there are immense opportunities for IT ops to:

• accomplish tasks more efficiently, with lesser resources
• deliver new services and innovations
• leverage AI and automation 

Who should attend: Infra Managers, Network Managers/Architects/Engineers, IT Directors, Cloud & Solutions Architects

Breakout 2: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Deep Dive

Imagine a single cloud operations platform that enables IT, DevOps, cloud architecture, and application teams to collaborate without restrictions. In this session you will learn why Cisco Intersight is that platform that can help you:

• simplify the management of your infrastructure, workload, cloud, and application layers
• manage your on-prem compute, storage and virtualized infrastructure 
• optimize applications that are running across your hybrid cloud landscape

Who should attend: Servers, Virtualisation and Storage adminstrators/architects

Breakout 3: Multicloud Innovations Deep Dive

This session will present use cases that have succeeded in reducing cloud complexities and that have accelerated digital transformation. We will cover strategies on:

• delivering a consistent, modern application platform in any environment
• connecting and securing workloads and applications across cloud environments 
• enabling infrastructure as code 
• automating application resource management

Who should attend: Cloud and Devops Administrators/Architects