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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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January 29, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – The Benefits of Essentials

A primary design goal of Cisco Intersight is to simplify and automate IT operations. Cisco Intersight – Essentials delivers on this objective with significant new advantages to Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers. Guest Blogger: Gautham Ravi, Director, UCS Product Management Pervasive Simplicity…

January 26, 2018

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Deploying HyperFlex Anywhere with Intersight

The latest updates to Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 deliver a hyperconverged platform that adapts to enterprise applications with industry leading performance. Cisco Intersight empowers you to deploy and manage these systems anywhere – simply and consistently. Guest Blogger: Jonathan Gorlin, Product Manager M…

December 4, 2017

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UCS Director – A Strategic IaaS Evolution

Cisco is committed to enhancing UCS Director, our private cloud platform for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and a key component of our converged infrastructure solutions. The product roadmap is designed to complement Cisco’s long-term infrastructure management strategy that includes Cisco Inters…

November 14, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – Designed To Be Secure

Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical Marketing Engineer Our new cloud-based systems management platform, Cisco Intersight, leverages our expertise in security and cloud hosted management. It delivers secure management of your Cisco UCS and HyperFlex systems. Building on Our Expertise Cisco has seve…

October 19, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – Enabling Management of Edge Computing

The requirement for Edge Computing is increasing as enterprises transition to cloud-native applications and implement IoT initiatives. Cisco Intersight is an excellent platform for addressing the management requirements of core data center infrastructure as well as Edge Computing environments. Drive…

October 5, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – Analysts and Partners Respond

Cisco Intersight is a transformative cloud-based management platform. It delivers new levels of simplicity and actionable intelligence to achieve significant customer benefits. Industry analysts and partners affirm Cisco’s strategy. Embracing the Transformation In a previous blog I explained how Cis…

September 26, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – A Transformative Evolution

Cisco recently introduced Cisco Intersight, a revolutionary cloud-based systems management platform. Intersight was designed to deliver significant benefits while being easy to use and simple for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers to transition. Non-Disruptive Transformation Great innovations need to…

September 5, 2017

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Project Starship – Starting The Journey

Starship is an innovative, cloud-based management platform for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex systems. We introduced a Tech Preview of Starship a few weeks ago, so users could begin to try it out for themselves. Here’s an update.…

July 18, 2017

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The Customer Demand for Pervasive Simplicity

Last month Cisco introduced our latest platform for realizing Cisco’s vision of “intuitive infrastructure“. This initiative is another step forward in the Cisco UCS strategy to provide customers with greater simplicity, automation, and intuitive computing. Guest Blogger: Gautham Ra…