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Mark Balch

Product Management

Cloud Management Software & UCS Solutions

Mark Balch leads the product management organization responsible for Cisco cloud management software and UCS solutions. Products and solutions include Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, UCS Director, Openstack, and UCS ecosystem integration. The group drives solutions strategy, development, messaging, and go-to-market activities for storage, virtualization, cloud, system management, enterprise applications, data analytics, and vertical applications. His background has focused on data center automation and management solutions encompassing hardware and software infrastructure. Mark has also held product management and engineering roles in data center networking and digital video industries.

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April 6, 2015

CLOUD

Building a Private Cloud: Considerations to Maximize Success

Many enterprises today want to build a private cloud to gain efficiencies such as on-demand service delivery and pay-as-you-go use of IT infrastructure services, all while maintaining control, accountability, and data sovereignty. There are two ways an organization can realize the benefits of cloud.…