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Ken Spear

Sr. Marketing Manager, Automation

UCS Solution Marketing

Ken is responsible for marketing the Cisco UCS automation, operations and the IaaS software portfolio.

He has over 20 years experience in enterprise product management and marketing roles with software development and operations management software.

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September 26, 2018

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Cisco Intersight: AI-Driven IT Operations Strategy

Cisco launched our cloud-based platform for AI-driven IT operations (a.k.a. AI Ops), Cisco Intersight, last September. It already delivers significant benefits, and we intend to take it to the next level with artificial intelligence and machine learning.  Guest Blogger: Gautham Ravi, Director, UCS P…

August 28, 2018

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Alaska Airlines Uses Infrastructure Automation to Stay on Top

The Alaska Airlines IT organization believes infrastructure automation with UCS Director has been one of their keys to keeping their end-users happy and achieving a #1 rating for customer satisfaction*. Delivering Infrastructure On-Demand Applications and IT infrastructure are critical to the succes…

June 26, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – Implementing Our Open IaaS Ecosystem

New orchestration functionality and a connector supporting a third party system demonstrate the potential of the open ecosystem Cisco is developing with our partners. Guest Blogger: Anand Louis, Senior Product Manager Open, Cloud-Based Infrastructure as a Service Cisco Intersight is more than a clou…

May 21, 2018

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DevNet Sandbox for UCS Management

Cisco UCS and HyperFlex are fully programmable infrastructure. The UCS Management Sandbox provides a safe environment for IT administrators, DevOps teams, and application developers to learn about and test the power of UCS for automating your data center. Cisco UCS – Programmable Infrastructure Prog…

May 7, 2018

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Cisco Intersight and UCS Director: Executing on Our Strategy

Cisco unveiled our strategy to revolutionize systems management last fall with our cloud-based management platform, Cisco Intersight. We are also continuing to enhance our private cloud platform, UCS Director. Here’s the latest update. Revolutionary and Easier When we announced Cisco Intersight last…

May 1, 2018

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UCS Director: Simplify Infrastructure Automation Anywhere

The latest release of UCS Director includes new functionality to enhance orchestration and make it easier to use workflows to deliver infrastructure automation across compute, network, storage and virtualization from the data center to disaster recovery (DR), ROBO, and edge environments. It also pro…

April 2, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – Benefits for Edge Computing and ROBO

Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers are experiencing significant benefits from Intersight’s cloud-based systems management in edge computing and remote office branch office (ROBO) environments as well as in the data center. Extending IT Operations to the Edge In the past three months we have in…

March 13, 2018

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Programmable Infrastructure and the Cisco Intersight API

Cisco Intersight includes a RESTful API that supports the OpenAPI standard to provide full programmability and deep integrations with third-party tools and systems. Now partners and customers can begin to leverage this capability using the Intersight Python SDK. Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical…

February 21, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – Automating Standalone Rack Servers

Customers want the ability to automate the configuration and deployment of rack-mount servers without the need for fabric interconnects. Intersight Essentials provides policy-based configuration management for Cisco UCS standalone C-Series servers. Guest Blogger: Greg Wilkinson, Technical Marketing…