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Francoise Rees

Marketing Manager

Product & Solution Marketing, Desktop Virtualization

Francoise is a Solutions Marketing Manager in Cisco’s Data Center Marketing team. She looks after Cisco compute solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) as well as big data analytics. She previously drove Marketing for Cisco’s VDI solution.

Francoise was born and raised in France and has been living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area all her professional life.

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March 3, 2020

DATA CENTER

Inferencing at the Edge with HyperFlex

While at this year’s Cisco Live! Barcelona, our staff interviewed many of the amazing thought leaders who joined us to demonstrate their work with Cisco. We’ll be sharing those interviews, and short blog post summaries, for the next few weeks. The first interview is about how Vispera, which makes vi…

February 5, 2020

DATA CENTER

Cisco Data Intelligence Platform Powered by Cloudera Data Platform

Author: Siva Sivakumar – Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is accelerating and Hadoop is emerging as one of the most common way of managing data for AI. We announced Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (CDIP) in June, paving the wa…

November 14, 2019

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Cisco UCS powers HPC clusters for student competition

In the rolling hills of North Carolina, two renowned universities, Wake Forest University and North Carolina State University (NC State), engage in a friendly academic rivalry. This relationship is about to get tested as both universities have been selected to participate in the Student Cluster Comp…

September 23, 2019

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Cisco Data Intelligence Platform Gets Real

Author: Siva Sivakumar – Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Data scientists constant search for newer techniques and technologies that can unlock the power of their data is leading them towards artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools and methods. Consequently, this evolution…

June 7, 2019

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Announcing Cisco Data Intelligence Platform

Author: Siva Sivakumar – Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Data scientists are constantly searching for newer techniques and methodologies that can unlock the value of big data and distill this data further to identify additional insights which could transform productivity and provide bus…

January 23, 2019

DATA CENTER

You CAN secure your IP with Cisco GPU accelerated virtualization

This blog was written by Mike Brennan, Product Manager, Virtual Client Computing and Graphics Solutions, Cisco – @CiscoVDIguy A key challenge facing all CIOs is securing the organization’s intellectual property (IP.) External threats to IP are top of mind in most enterprises and rightly so. Bu…

January 7, 2019

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Speed up virtual desktops deployment with hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud delivery services

Desktop and application virtualization have long been a practical solution for supporting a mobile, distributed workforce that desires to work anywhere, anytime, using any device. While providing a lot of benefits such as keeping data safely in the data center instead of on end devices and simplifyi…

June 11, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco Brings AI/ML Workloads to Hyperconverged Infrastructure

A few months ago at NVIDIA GTC we discussed how you could run your AI/ML workloads on Cisco infrastructure and get the benefits of integrated management and solve your data gravity problem. At the same time, we introduced our collaboration with Google to bring Kubeflow deployments on-premises. Now w…

March 19, 2018

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See Innovations in Cisco GPU Accelerated Data Center at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference

I always get giddy about going to NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which is happening next week in San Jose. Just looking at the catalog of sessions gets me dreaming about what artificial intelligence will make possible and more importantly the business benefits that can already be derived fr…