Technology|has| always|been|an|enabler in challenging the status-quo but turbulent market shifts have accelerated the journey to becoming digital businesses for traditional enterprises.

There are many forcing functions but enterprises are striving for the intelligence that can be gained by ever increasing data proliferation to find better ways to engage with customers while thwarting the challenges posed by disruptive new entrants.

Speed wins: We all have seen the disruption in last few years that new entrants have created in different markets and while technology is the driver if we peel the onion one layer, we find the key is their ability to deliver software applications at speed unmatched by traditional incumbents. We have seen disruption even in the industries that have higher barriers to entry.

It is imperative to lay the right infrastructure foundation giving you the agility and speed for your digital business.

Choose Containerized Infrastructure and Cloud-Native Architecture to gain speed

Directly or indirectly, containers enable several key tenants of digital transformation. Portability across different platforms by standardizing packaging of applications reduces friction in deployments. It also accelerates adoption of DevOps, which is key in delivering applications faster. The rise of microservices architectures has further propelled container adoption. Containers are at the center of technology and process evolution that digital companies have embraced. While the benefits of containers are clear, the production deployment has lagged. Lack of unified security, networking, monitoring, observability and management across hybrid deployments are often cited as primary inhibitors to broader adoption.

Containers and Microservices at Ciscolive!2017, Berlin

Whether you are just starting your journey to cloud native or are already well ahead on maturity curve, we got you covered at Ciscolive!Europe in Berlin. Following are just a sample of exciting learning opportunities -sessions, hands-on workshops, demos, meet the engineers and much more. Reserve your spot today!

1. Bridging the cloud gap -Cisco solutions for hybrid cloud

Learn about Cisco's cloud strategy and cloud-native innovations.

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2. Operationalizing Containers -a perspective from the trenches

Join a power-packed panel of experts from Cisco, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and SAP Ariba, an early practitioner of running containers in production at scale. Get any top of mind questions answered and hear panel's perspective on best practices to operationalize containers

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3. Container Networking -Deep dive into Project Contiv

Contiv is completely open source, production grade networking fabric for your containerzied applications.This session deep dives into various differentiating features, networking and security considerations with an example 3 tier application deployment.

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4. DevOps with Cisco Datacenter and Cloud Solutions

Learn how Cisco Datacenter and Cloud portfolio can help accelerate your DevOps practices.

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5. Best of Breed Container Solutions from Cisco and Docker

Want to move your containerized workloads beyond dev/test and into production? Learn the latest co-innovations by Cisco and Docker to accelerate your journey to cloud native architectures

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6.ContivInstallation and integration with ACI

In this instructor-led, hands-on workshop, you will go from 0 to 100 on all things Contiv -install, configure as well as deploy microservices-based application in an ACI environment with Contiv as container networking.

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Visit Containers and Microservice Booth

Containers and Microservices booth, in theDatacenter and Cloud area, is your one stop destination to know all the innovations that Cisco is delivering in this space.  Hang out with us and share tips, tricks, insights or stories from your cloud-native journey. Of course, don't forget to load up on cool Cisco Cloud swag!

DevNet Zone 

DevNet Zone is Cisco DevNet brought to you live. Members from our container and cloud teams are ready to network and connect with you at DNZ. We will have guided hands-on tutorials, in-depth product sessions, and workshops. Add following DevNet sessions to your calendar:

 Container Networking with Project Contiv

 Demystifying Container Networking

 DevNet Workshop- Container Networking with Project Contiv

Looking forward to seeing you at Ciscolive!Berlin. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any question.