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Brian Ferrar

Enterprise Marketing Manager

UCS & Data Center

Brian Ferrar currently manages marketing for Cisco’s SAP Solutions portfolio. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Ferrar was the CMO of a leading SaaS-based emergency notification firm, and co-founded a network management firm acquired by AT&T.

Mr. Ferrar has over 20 years of experience in software and services and had lived and marketed in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Articles

October 1, 2018

DATA CENTER

Enterprises choose Cisco HyperFlex for SAP Application Modernization (Part 2)

SAP customers have found Cisco HyperFlex responds faster to the demands of their production workloads and improves business services with agility, flexibility and simplicity.  SAP data centers around the world are already using Cisco HyperFlex to run HANA and to modernize their infrastructure, unloc…

October 1, 2018

DATA CENTER

Enterprises choose Cisco HyperFlex for SAP Application Modernization (Part1)

There’s a new sheriff in Tech Town: Cisco HyperFlex.   IT teams across every industry and geography are transforming enterprise application deployments with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).  HCI consolidates compute, networking and storage into a single system.  And Cisco HyperFlex is the fastes…

September 24, 2018

DATA CENTER

Modernizing SAP Landscapes: A Complete Portfolio ensures Gain without Pain

Fall is upon us, which means once again it’s time for SAP TechEd in Las Vegas and Barcelona, twin cities which couldn’t be more similar. Legend has it that Hercules founded Barcelona when one of his ships wrecked on the site during his search for the Golden Fleece. Since then, it’s convenient locat…

June 3, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco Demonstrates the Magic of Hyperconverged Infrastructure for SAP

SAP Sapphire in June in Orlando can be a magical experience…a hot, humid, magical experience.   This year Cisco is showcasing a number of new SAP solutions. Our Sapphire magic starts with a big reveal:   Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for SAP.  Cisco has emerged as the experience leader fo…

December 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco & MapR set a Software Defined Storage World Record

This post was co-authored by Rajesh Shroff  66 years in the making! It sounds like a long time, but first we had to wait for a few milestones to precede us: 1951 – UNIVAC pioneers use of magnetic tape for storage 1993 – Severe Tire Damage is the first band to live stream 2007 – Ne…

September 19, 2017

DATA CENTER

Top 10 Considerations for SAP Big Data and Analytics

It’s that time again: SAP TechEd in Las Vegas!  Local temperatures have cooled to a balmy 150 degrees outside the convention center and 10 degrees inside, reminding us that SAP Data Center refresh season is once again upon us. This year at TechEd, Cisco will focus on securing critical SAP data and s…

August 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

CenturyLink Solutions for SAP with Cisco UCS and NetApp

Intent-based Data Center Solutions for SAP Simplify Business Processes and Expedite Digital Transformation. CenturyLink and Cisco have partnered to create Intent-based Data Center Solutions for SAP.  Based on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco/NetApp FlexPod, our unique converg…

May 15, 2017

DATA CENTER

IDC survey: SAP HANA users say Cisco UCS is the #1 Converged Infrastructure

“Mission Critical” is a term bandied about far too often in our industry.   But in the case of SAP HANA it’s a fair description; if your core business operations backbone is not “mission critical,” what is? That’s why Cisco is excited to be a major sponsor of SAP’s SapphireNow user conference in Orl…

February 16, 2017

DATA CENTER

The “just right” tool for the job: Applying the Goldilocks Rule to your SAP Data Center

For any workload, SAP included, most of us would agree selecting the right tool depends on the task you’re performing.     Knowing which tool, or how much capacity or resource to apply is usually defined by your objective.   Great motivators understand this.  Humans become bored if tasks are too eas…