One of the key themes at Cisco Live Berlin last week, as well as across the tech industry, is "disrupt or be disrupted". One of the most exciting aspects of my role at Cisco is working with customers and hearing how Cisco's ACI and SDN technology comes to life through their voices and success stories -and how they are disrupting in their industry.
At Cisco Live Berlin last week, I had the great opportunity to meet with customers and hear them share their stories on and off stage about how ACI was disrupting and transforming their business models, IT organizations, and their networks. What's more, customers are so excited to share their ACI successes and innovations that they took to Twitter to share their "wow" moments with ACI at the#CLEUR Tuesday evening ACI Customer Reception, which was attended by packed room of 260 customers. Some of my favorite tweets were from @ThomasRaabo:#ciscoaciwow missing my fabric...See you soon#aci and @Martin_Lipka: CiscoACIWoW: when our non-network engineers started to design, test and configure hybrid cloud and data centre networks on their own!
The buzz continued Wednesday morning as 8 customers including Shutterfly, Keylane, University of Dresden, Sainsbury's, Halkbank, Pulsant, NBCUniversal and SAP took the stage with Soni Jiandani, SVP of Insieme Business Unit at Cisco, during her iTalk keynote, "Driving Innovation: A Path to Digitization, Speed, and Visibility Into an Application-Centric World." Each customer representing a different vertical market shared how Cisco's SDN solutions were a game changer in their organizations -and breathing in innovation, speed and efficiencies to move at the speed of business.
At the 10,000 ft. viewpoint, here's what each of these customers are doing to digitize their business; increase value to their customers; and create new revenue streams with their networks and infrastructure powered by Cisco Nexus and ACI innovations.
Behind the scenes, these customers are dynamically changing their IT organizations and simplifying complex infrastructures -changing people, process and things along their digital journeys. That's the power of Cisco ACI and SDN solutions.
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