Please join us Thursday Sept 24, 2015 11:00AM ET for a WindowsITPro virtual event.

We have an information packed agenda planned for you encompassing:

• The cloud, the hybrid cloud, and the private cloud.
• Software-defined networking and policy-based automation.
• The idea of application policy in next generation networking technologies and how they differ from the networks of today.
• How Next-Generation SDN is impacting the cloud, your applications, and the
  data center.

Join us to learn about how policy helps companies make "bi modal IT" a continuum for IT organizations to support both traditional and cloud native applications on a common infrastructure.  Learn how to reduce TCO, achieve greater agility for the entire IT organization, enhance security for compliance and governance needs and simplify operations when infrastructure itself helps support and enable applications.

Policy Driven Infrastructure to Transform Your Microsoft Cloud, Apps, and Operations delivered by yours truly and a distinguished executive panel including:

• Michael Michael, Senior Director of Product Management at Apprenda, responsible for the vision and product direction of Apprenda's Platform As A Service (PaaS) solution.
• Scott Napolitan, a Senior Program Manager with Microsoft's Cloud and Datacenter Management Organization focused on Network and Fabric Management.
• Jeremy Oakey, VP Strategic Alliances at CliQr for their application-defined cloud management platform for modeling, deploying, and managing clouds, applications, and users.

Evolving Your Data Center to the Next Level delivered by Michael Otey, senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro.

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Microsoft Solutions presented by Tim Cerling, Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco's Datacenter Group, focusing on delivering customer-driven solutions on Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center products.

Understanding Next-Generation SDN: The Complete Integration of your Data Centerpresented by Bill Kleyman, VP of Strategy and Innovation at MTM Technologies.

The Path Forward: Charting a Course to the Networks of Tomorrowpresented by Frank Ohlhorst, an award-winning technology journalist, professional speaker, and IT business consultant with over 25 years of experience in the enterprise technology arena.

The virtual event will include an exhibition with demonstrations, presentations, videos, and engaging subject matter experts who'll be glad to chat with you, answer questions, and provide you with access to even richer educational information.  I hope you will register now and join us next week!

Related Information on ACI and Microsoft Cloud Platform

ACI and Microsoft Cloud Platform solutions webpage

ACI and CliQr blog and interview

Microsoft Ignite breakout on ACI and Microsoft's Cloud Platform

Video: Winning Together with Cisco ACI and Microsoft Azure Pack.