It is but just a year since Cisco announced its acquisition of Insieme Networks and the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) approach for Data Center SDN deployments. The promise was to bring a simpler, highly automated and secure data center taking a policy-driven approach.

Now, with more than double the number of APIC customers, over 900 Nexus 9000 Customers, and nearly 35 Ecosystem Partners, this promise is fast becoming a reality. Nothing can be more real than customers willing to speak of their deployments and of the benefits they are beginning to derive in a tangible manner, or of ecosystem partners willing to integrate into an open architecture and indulge in joint go-to-market activities.

Today we'd like to invite you to a set of special webcasts where you can hear the perspectives of different organizations on how Application Centric Infrastructure transforms IT

1. December 9^that 8:00 AM PT, listen to the session titled "Deutsche Bank and Cisco to Host a Conference Call on Application Centric Infrastructure" with Soni Jiandani, SVP, Marketing, Insieme Business Unit at Cisco. Cisco will be joined by three customers representing E-Trade, QBranch and the University of Qatar during this conference call.

2. December 10, 2014, 1:30 -2:30 p.m. PST:Click hereto register to attend the live webcast: "Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Live Broadcast" with early adopter ACI customers. An online chat with ACI experts will be available for viewers.

3. January 13^th2015, register for the interactive webcast "Is Your Data Center Ready for the Application Economy? Discover the Power of Application Centric Infrastructure". Join Cisco customers from all over the world sharing the benefits they're deriving from embracing the Cisco Nexus portfolio as well as the ACI architecture. CIOs, CTOs, Top IT practictioners and Networking Architects all get together to talk about ACI in their IT environment.

You'll also hear from ACI Ecosystem Partners and how their solutions integrate to help customize and extend ACI deployments leveraging the open architecture, and how joint customers are benefiting from multi-vendor innovation.

Register now!