The Cisco Data Center team recently wrapped up a great week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2013. Cisco's VP of Unified Computing Marketing, Jim McHugh took the opportunity to interview Cisco experts about how Cisco UCS provides an optimal platform for Microsoft oriented data centers and creates opportunities for channel partners to drive new customer engagements and increase sales.

Special thanks Renee Yao for producing these videos as part of her summer internship at Cisco. Renee is a rising senior at UC Berkeley and has done a great job for the UCS marketing team this summer.

Check out our WPC 2013 video collection to learn about joint channel programs and solutions from Cisco, Microsoft and our partners.

Empowering Cisco and Microsoft Partners in the Data Center

Listen as Brian Allison, Cisco Director of Partner Solutions discusses how the Cisco Microsoft Alliance is creating business opportunities for channel partners.

https://youtu.be/kpf-aYDQeq0

Integrated Data Center Solutions from Cisco and Microsoft

Cisco's Michael Joffe discusses how the Cisco and Microsoft engineering teams are delivering a full portfolio of integrated solutions and validated designs.

https://youtu.be/UHw4lQNFilM

Cisco UCS Solutions | FlexPod and VSPEX| FlexPod and VSPEX

Bill Shields provides all the details on Cisco's Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 3.0 reference architectures and how they provide the best customer TCO.

https://youtu.be/uUHbGp1tNmk

Cisco UCS for for Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange

Watch as Marc Buraczynski discusses the advantages of adopting Cisco UCS as your platform for Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange Server.

https://youtu.be/kKHAESXZJUo

Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V

Cisco's Appaji Malla outlines how the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch use the Microsoft Hyper-V extensible switch framework to bring advanced virtualization-aware networking functions to the hypervisor layer.

https://youtu.be/dlyut0xrz_c

Cisco UCS Advantages for Microsoft Oriented Data Centers

Bruno Messina uses the Kaon 3-D virtual server system to demonstrate the benefits of Cisco UCS for Microsoft oriented data centers.

https://youtu.be/j4zjh-PURRg

Cisco UCS Manager and Microsoft System Center Integration

Ranjit Nayak details how Cisco UCS Manager integrates with Microsoft's System Center management portfolio to deliver end-to-end management of data centers that run Microsoft applications on UCS.

https://youtu.be/MnrbZ6eufr4

We hope you enjoy our video collection from Microsoft WPC 2013. For more information on the Cisco-Microsoft alliance, please visit cisco.com/go/microsoft.

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