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Renee Yao

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Renee Yao is a Product Marketing Specialist in the Cisco's Data Center Marketing team, focusing on the Microsoft solutions on UCS and the Cisco Data Center Portfolio. She also helped grow Cisco data center social media activities and is an active supporter of influencer marketing.

She holds a BS degree at Haas School of Business from University of California, Berkeley. When she has free time, she enjoys dancing, golfing, jogging, and spending time with friends.

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September 19, 2015

DATA CENTER

The Value Cisco Brings to Tableau

Guest Blog by Ron Graham  Ron Graham had served as a Data Center Architect and Systems Engineer for some of the largest IT companies in the U.S. including Cisco Systems, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. He is currently working for Cisco Systems as a Big Data Analytics Engineer. What is Data Vi…

April 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco at Microsoft Ignite 2015. We’re getting the cloud back together…

Cisco and Microsoft’s relationship is growing stronger year over year. Our technologies, products, and integrated infrastructure solutions continue to provide an optimum Data Center for your Microsoft workloads. Now, this isn’t my first time going to Tech Ed, ooops I mean Microsoft Ignite, however,…

April 9, 2015

DATA CENTER

Road Trip! Cisco and Microsoft are going on a world tour!

We will be in Dallas, London, New York, Paris, San Jose, and Toronto the next two months. If you are in the area, register and come learn more about transforming your data centers to take advantage of the newest Cisco infrastructure solutions along with Microsoft’s Cloud OS and workloads. Yest…

April 8, 2015

DATA CENTER

FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Private Cloud — A Premier Integrated Platform for Mission Critical Microsoft SQL …

This guest blog was authored by Frank Cicalese and contains summarized content from various articles that can be found on Cisco and NetApp’s sites.  Frank Cicalese is a Technical Solutions Architect with Cisco’s Data Center Architecture Team helping customers globally with their Microsoft solutions…

February 25, 2015

DATA CENTER

SQL Server 2005 End of Support on April 12, 2016 | Cisco UCS is here to help.

SQL Server 2005 end of support is on April 12, 2016. Many of our customers agree that it’s time to think about migrating/upgrading to something better and faster soon. If you are still using SQL Server 2005, here are some points to consider. SQL Server 2014 New Features This is a major upgrade packe…

October 29, 2014

DATA CENTER

Delivering Network Function Virtualization (NFV) on OpenStack Hangout

We had our first OpenStack Hangout, “OpenStack as a NFV Platform” on Tuesday Oct 21st. If you are excited about the potential of NFV, this hangout is for you. Our expert panel discussed NFV fundamentals, NFV momentum, the Neutron NFV subteam, and the new Linux Foundation OPNFV project. What I liked…

October 24, 2014

DATA CENTER

My Favorite Demo at Microsoft TechEd Europe: Data Center Modernization

  After the SQL Saturday event this week I will be staying in Barcelona for a few more days to attend the Microsoft TechEd Europe from Tuesday Oct 28th to Friday Oct 31st! As Gary Serda laid out in his blog, Cisco has a lot of great demos to share with you. See details: http://blogs.cisco.com/…

October 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

OpenStack Juno: The Basics

Guest Blog by Mark Voelker, Technical Lead, Cisco http://blogs.cisco.com/author/MarkVoelker/ Today, the OpenStack@Cisco team is in a celebratory mood: OpenStack 2014.2 (“Juno”) has been released!  The 10th release of OpenStack contains hundreds of new features and thousands of bugfixes a…

October 20, 2014

DATA CENTER

SQL de Dissabte (SQLSaturday Barcelona)

Of the more than 300 SQLSaturdays around the world, I am lucky enough to represent Cisco at the one in Barcelona on October 25th. If you’re attending TechEd Europe we encourage you to also join us at this one-day free event for IT professionals to learn more about SQL Server and the Cisco Unified Co…