Cisco
Profile
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com.
Geek Labs Description
Learn how the Cisco Unified Computing System integrates network, server, and virtualization resources into a single seamless system with a single point of management via the embedded Cisco UCS Manager.
Learn more about Cisco’s Nexus family of data center-class switches provides a framework for building, implementing, and operating a next-generation data center using a single unified fabric and a unified I/O.
Breakout Session(s)
Introduction to Cisco’s Unified Computing System
The Cisco Unified Computing System implements the next phase of an industry transition and delivers the next building block of Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 vision. Taking a clean slate architectural approach to data center infrastructure, Cisco’s Unified Computing System unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy efficient system that can reduce IT infrastructure costs and complexity, help extend capital assets and improve business agility well into the future. Attend this session to find out more about this evolutionary new data center architecture.
Technical Solutions Architect
Build a flexible, scalable framework for your new data center network with Cisco Nexus Switches. The innovative architecture of the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches simplifies data center transformation by helping to enable a standards-based, high-performance unified fabric. Next-generation data centers increasingly have dense, multi-core, virtual-machine-intensive servers. As the network foundation of Cisco Data Center 3.0 and the latest addition to the family of data-center-class switches, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series can meet these business, service, application, and operational requirements.
Old Friends
In case you have not heard, Server Centric was acquired by World Wide Technology in August of 2009. Server Centric is now the Virtualization Practice for WWT.
If you miss Scott, Jason and the rest of the team from Server Centric, don't worry-they'll be there with togas on!
New Friends
WWT has decided to keep and expand upon the Geek Day event while keeping the event true to its original form, which is to be the best, free to attend, learning opportunity focused on Virtualization Solutions in the country.
Fresh Ideas
Your favorite virtualization experts will be there, along with some of today's cutting-edge thought leaders.