What are the business drivers around Software Defined Networking (SDN)?  And learn how Cisco and Application Centric Infrastructure will help.

Join us for lunch at Churchill's Steak House.

In today's data centers, digitization is disrupting businesses and reshaping IT.  For example: 

• 180B mobile apps downloaded in 2015
• 30M new devices are connected every week
  
• 4.2B web filtering blocks per day

The reality is the network needs to be more responsive to new applications; these are the business drivers, not the network, and so the network needs to change to support those applications. How do you enable IT agility to meet the Lines of Business (LOBs) demands for efficiency, speed, and security at scale?

To address these challenges, please join us to learn how you can standardize on an open platform, reduce the risk of vendor lock-in, and integrate an ecosystem of solution partners supported by a common policy framework. 

We will cover:

• How and why DC environments are changing
• The Software and Hardware approach
• Overview of Cisco ACI
• Security Problems Addressed by ACI
• Services and Ecosystem integrations