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Harry Petty

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Data Center and Cloud Marketing

Harry is Director – Data Center and Cloud Marketing at Cisco Systems. He focuses on solutions for networks, SDN, cloud, and Applications Centric Infrastructure. When he isn’t talking about technology disruption and content marketing, Harry enjoys cycling, hiking, and oenology with family and friends.

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June 5, 2018

DATA CENTER

An ACI Case Study in Healthcare to Protect EMR System and Automate Operations

In a case study presentation Monday June 11th at Cisco Live, you can learn how a large non-profit hospital group with over 17,000 employees rolled out a new electronic medical records (EMR) system (Epic) on an ACI fabric in an application-centric design.  The most widely used electronic health recor…

October 24, 2017

DATA CENTER

Secure, High Availability for Epic EHR Systems with Cisco ACI and Tetration

Are you an IT professional trying to address next generation healthcare application requirements across your complex environments and applications? Let me share why Cisco’s policy driven infrastructure, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), has been selected and deployed by many healthcare…

July 19, 2017

DATA CENTER

Policy Driven Automation Enables Innovation or Why Customers Adopt Vscale Architecture

Some of our largest enterprise customers are deploying the next-generation of data center networking.  They are delivering automation and intelligence with programmable hardware and software – deployed with application centric models that work best for their workloads.  Their IT leaders have focused…

December 12, 2016

DATA CENTER

Unleashing IT – Evolution of the Data Center

We are pleased to share this newest edition of Unleashing  IT  which talks about how next generation data centers are drivers of business transformation, orchestration, and success.  It contains 6 thought leader  articles and 2 customer stories providing unique perspectives on business challenges an…

July 26, 2016

DATA CENTER

Network Automation with ACI – a NetOps Example

I’d like to talk about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and focus on one of the most important steps that Data Center IT teams take on the journey to achieve full automation and deliver agility, security, and efficiency deploying and managing applications.  This step – Network A…

July 6, 2016

DATA CENTER

Must See Cool New Things for App Developers and Infrastructure Operations

For me personally, this year’s Cisco Live will be the most exciting event ever!  It comes after our Tetration Analytics announcement, the introduction of Cisco CloudCenter, and the showcasing of the latest generation of Cloud Scale Nexus fabric switches for Application Centric Infrastructure (…

June 20, 2016

DATA CENTER

Developer Productivity, PaaS, Compliance, and Policy Driven Infrastructure

If you are heading up an application develop team or are running an IT organization and you are looking at your developers initial steps to developing cloud native applications, I want to share some experienced insights gained from PaaS customers.  For me it is a view of the path many of you may be…

June 14, 2016

DATA CENTER

Accelerate Hybrid IT Deployments with Cisco Data Center Innovations

Cloud is now a fundamental part of IT landscapes.  Enterprise and IT executives deal with large numbers of applications that are being versioned faster than ever before. Running IT is increasingly challenged to support line-of-business needs. To learn how to simplify application lifecycle management…

April 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Bring Application Intent to Networking Containers

Yesterday, Mike Cohen’s post Networking Containers: Policy Finally Comes of Age appeared on the Open Networking User Group blog site.  He talks about the tremendous interest among application developers to use Linux containers to develop, deploy, and operate applications.  Containers and micro…