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Gary Kinghorn

Sr Solution Marketing Manager

Network Virtualization and SDN

Gary is a senior solution marketing lead for Network Virtualization and SDN in the Data Center/Cloud marketing organization, including the Nexus 1000V virtual switch and the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE). He joined Cisco in 2010 from HP, which he joined as part of the 3COM acquisition, where he was Sr. Product Marketing Manager for network security products. He has over twenty years experience in product marketing, product management and business development in the networking and network security arena. He has a Master’s in Computer Engineering from USC, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from UCLA.

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May 23, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco Ramps Up Microsoft Momentum at TechEd North America, June 3-6

Cisco is making a big splash with our virtual networking portfolio at Microsoft TechEd North America 2013, running June 3-6 in New Orleans, Microsoft’s premier event for IT professionals and developers. There will be over 7,000 attendees and there is still time to make plans to get there yourself if…

May 6, 2013

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Argentina’s IPLAN loves the Nexus 1000V virtual switch

Nothing makes a product marketeer’s job easier than when customers send in their own video testimonials about how successful they have been using our products. Today’s video comes all the way from one of my favorite cities in the world, Buenos Aires. Martin Cabrera and Fernando Vicens, D…

April 9, 2013

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Vive la Nexus 1000V on Microsoft Hyper-V!

At Microsoft Management Summit 2013 in Las Vegas this week, Cisco is showing a host of new technology innovations and integrated solutions for the virtualized data center. By bringing Cisco virtual networking and UCS solutions together with Microsoft cloud solutions, we are expanding the market for…

March 20, 2013

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Luxembourg-based CETREL Uses Nexus 1000V to Ease Virtual Network Administration

For today’s post, I’m very pleased to introduce our guest blogger, Vincent Rosolen, a Cisco Sales Engineer in Luxembourg, who developed a brief Nexus 1000V case study of his customer, CETREL, the largest PCI payment card services vendor in the country. CETREL speaks highly of the ability…

March 7, 2013

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Public Beta of Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Microsoft Hyper-V is Now Available

If you missed our webcast on the upcoming Nexus 1000V release for Microsoft Hyper-V, you missed the announcement that we are now making available a beta version to the general public, as of March 6. (Note: Everyone asks, so, no, we haven’t announced the availability date for the GA version yet, but…

March 1, 2013

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Upcoming Webcast with Microsoft MVP Will Shed Light on Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V and SCVMM Integration

[Register here for the webcast: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 9:00 AM Pacific Time] If you are running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 in your virtualized data center (or plan to), you’ll want to join us for a detailed webcast on Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Hyper-V and the integration with Micros…

February 26, 2013

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Nexus 1000V InterCloud… And Now Here’s the Demo

There’s been a great deal of excitement, interest and certainly follow-on questions after we announced our new hybrid cloud integration solution, Nexus 1000V InterCloud. My earlier three-part blog consisted of Part 1 on the architecture and features, Part 2 on the hybrid cloud management speci…

February 7, 2013

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Cisco Launches Nexus 1000V InterCloud – Part 3

Today we wrap up our three part introduction of Cisco’s new hybrid cloud infrastructure, Nexus 1000V InterCloud. In Part 1, we provided an overview of the architecture and the components that make up Nexus 1000V InterCloud. In Part 2, we looked a bit more closely into the single pane management of t…

February 5, 2013

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Cisco Launches Nexus 1000V InterCloud – Part 2 (VNMC InterCloud)

This week, as part of a major cloud launch that also introduced the Nexus 6000 series and updates to our Cisco ONE portfolio, Cisco unveiled its Nexus 1000V InterCloud solution, which provides a seamless and secure extension of virtual networks from on-premises data centers to cloud service provider…