This document discusses strategies for data center and cloud transformation over the next 5 years. It outlines key digital business trends like data growth, cloud adoption, and security threats that are driving organizations' IT initiatives. These include managing increased data and applications, optimizing cloud strategies, addressing disruptive business models, and securing distributed data and applications. The document advocates adopting flexible consumption models, automation, and supporting edge/IoT applications. It positions Cisco as uniquely able to enable digital transformations through its portfolio of networking, compute, storage, automation, analytics, and security solutions.