Kapil Bakshi
Chief Solutions Architect, Cisco Systems Inc.

First of all, we have crafted an engagement model that embodies the fact that, over the next five years, you are going to see these technology-enabled business processes become more and more fluid, not just within a single data center but also across the spectrum of cloud delivery models, like private, hybrid, and community clouds.

What Cisco brings to the table most particularly in that regard is the deep understanding of what it takes for the network platform to perform as expected and enable the mission. If you look back at the evolution of the Internet and networking, a tremendous amount of the intellectual property involved with that came from Cisco. Carrying that forward over the next few years, you are looking at the continued acceleration of convergence across the technology silos, and a convergence of the network, storage and compute elements.

We have expertise all the way from business strategy, to data center architecture services, implementation and migration, and finally to operation and management services.