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Jeff Gatz

Manager, Sales Development

Global Enterprise - Business Development

Jeff Gatz, Global IBM Business Development Manager – Cisco Systems, has been in the IT industry for 17 years. His passion for understanding technology and utilizing it to solve complex problems has landed him in a wide variety of roles over his career. Some of those include: Tech Support, Server Admin, Network Admin, Senior Technical Trainer, etc. He is currently responsible for the development of Cisco and IBM joint solutions, offerings, and go-to-market with IBM Global Technology Services.

Favorite Quote: "Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." - Thoreau

Favorite Activity: Mountain Biking on my Borealis Echo

Articles

December 6, 2017

NETWORKING

IBM Simplifies, Automates, Smartens Multinetwork Offering with SD-WAN

Simultaneously, IT operations are becoming more centralized while business operations and company employees are becoming more decentralized, changing the role of WAN to take on an even greater importance.  That importance is hampered by the rising costs of traditional (MPLS) connectivity, the breadt…

September 25, 2017

DATA CENTER

Software Defined Networking and the Cisco and IBM Partnership

IT organizations are constantly looking for ways to streamline operations, take advantage of new capabilities, and adopt technologies that can reduce IT lead-time thus improving service to the business. Many  enterprises are adopting hybrid cloud and virtualization capabilities as a part of overall…