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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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January 25, 2018

DATA CENTER

HyperFlex Multicloud Platform is here and coming to Cisco Live Barcelona

Cisco just announced the new HyperFlex Multicloud Platform: an adaptive platform to power any application with the simplicity of hyperconvergence. Next week the HyperFlex Multicloud Platform comes to Cisco Live Barcelona! HyperFlex Multicloud Platform is ready for any app, on any cloud, at any scal…

January 4, 2018

DATA CENTER

What’s the Latest with Cisco and Veeam: New CVD Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployment …

Authored by Brandon Copeland: @bhcopeland Over the past year Cisco and Veeam customers have seen tremendous value from the Cisco and Veeam partnership. The Cisco HyperFlex™ Systems solution together with Veeam Availability Suite gives customers a flexible, agile, and scalable infrastructure t…

November 2, 2017

DATA CENTER

Accelerate and protect your data transformation with Cisco and Commvault

Digital transformation is driving explosive growth in unstructured data from IoT, video, mobility, collaboration, and analytics. Emerging applications are bringing data closer to compute, demanding a marriage of capacity and performance in infrastructure. Software Defined Storage and object storage…

October 25, 2017

DATA CENTER

Commvault introduces ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS: Resilient, scalable data protection architecture

At Cisco, we’ve enjoyed a long relationship with Commvault, working together to combine expertise and provide better, smarter solutions to customer data protection challenges. We collaborate closely to help organizations ensure business continuity and uninterrupted operations more simply, more effec…

August 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS delivers industry leading GPU density on blade servers

GPUs are becoming ubiquitous in the data center. On one hand, if you’re running virtual desktops you know that modern apps and newer operating systems such as Windows 10 make use of a lot more graphic power than their predecessors. Which means that you need to provide more graphic power when you del…

May 23, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco HyperFlex Joins Citrix HCI Workspace Appliance Program

Today during Citrix Synergy’s Technology keynote, Calvin Hsu – Citrix Vice President of Product Marketing – announced Cisco’s participation in the Citrix HCI Workspace Appliance program. The Citrix HCI Workspace Appliance initiative enables hyperconverged infrastructure appliances, such as Cis…

May 5, 2017

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Look Who’s Virtualizing Architectural Design and Graphic Workstations at the GPU Technology Conference

Written by Mike Brennan – @CiscoVDIguy – Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics In my role at Cisco, I am fortunate to have the opportunity to meet our Customers who do absolutely amazing things with Cisco UCS and our partners’ technologies.  One shining example is CannonDesign,…

May 1, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco GPU-Accelerated Data Center

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC, is around the corner and it is a good time to reflect on the rise of GPUs in the data center and what they make possible. When I first attended GTC four years ago, machine learning and deep learning were barely on anybody’s radar outside academic circles an…

March 14, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco HyperFlex Meets High Performance Requirements of Active Trading Floor

In the world of finance, trading requires fast decisions and reaction speed is of the essence. So when Bellevue Group started to feel the ping of performance degradation in its VDI environment it knew it had to find a solution. Researchers in the trading department work with sophisticated spreadshee…