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Rick Speyer

No Longer with Cisco

Rick is a Senior Marketing Manager for Application Relevancy in the Corporate Marketing Organization. (CMO). Rick has been at Cisco since 2007 and in his current position since 2009.

Rick has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry including owning and operating a computer distribution business for 10 years culminating with 10 offices across the United States, with 160 employees and approximately 50 million dollars in revenue. He spent an additional 7 years at Compaq, the last 3 years as the global manager for SAP Systems.

Prior to joining Cisco, Rick worked at a security software company concentrating efforts in the Federal space.

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January 7, 2015

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Tailored Data Center Integration and Integrated Infrastructure for SAP

TDI and Converged Infrastructure for SAP. The new frontier Join a google hangout on Jan 14th to discover how TDI and Integrated Infrastructure have simplified the installation and support for SAP installations. The link to register is below. Hope to see you there https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/11…

October 22, 2014

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SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) expanded for Networking

Cisco embraces SAP HANA TDI for Networking SAP recently announced that they have expanded their SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) to include networking.   So what does this mean?  It means that if a SAP customer installs SAP HANA, and that same customer has enough capacity on their exi…

July 30, 2014

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Cisco Achieves SAP HANA Certifications for Unified Computing Systems Mission-Critical Servers

Cisco Achieves SAP HANA Certifications for Unified Computing Systems Mission-Critical Servers Cisco has received SAP HANA certification for its Unified Computing Systems (UCS) mission-critical servers with the Intel Ivy Bridge chip set.  All of these products are now listed on the Product Availabili…

July 7, 2014

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How Cisco, eBay and Adobe are leveraging SAP HANA on UCS as a Business Innovation Platform

The ability of companies to innovate is more important than ever.  To respond rapidly to evolving business trends, or change the way they interact with customers, companies need a powerful platform for innovation that can analyze huge data volumes to identify new customer patterns, adapt quickly to…

May 19, 2014

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Cisco at Sapphire 2014 in Orlando June 3-5

It is that time of year again. SAP Sapphire is just around the corner and thousands of CIO’s, Line of Business Managers, Basis Consultants, and Application Architects will be heading to Orlando to see what is new and up the sleeves of SAP. Cisco will again have a major presence at this years event.…

February 6, 2014

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Cisco has entered the mission-critical application business

As you have probably noticed,  the Cisco and SAP partnership keeps growing – Here is some of the recent news []  Unisys, RealTech and others install SAP HANA on Cisco UCS ” Manufacturers are struggling with the provisioning of applications into the infrastructure” In this video, Jo…

November 10, 2013

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Building a Trusted SAP HANA Data Center

SAP®HANATM is a next-generation database platform for real-time analytics and applications. Although the in-memory, columnar relational database debuted only recently (in June 2011), it has quickly become the fastest growing product in the history of SAP AG. Already proven enormously successful for…

October 9, 2013

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Why is Cisco at SAP TechEd

4 years ago, Cisco introduced a revolutionary server platform called Unified Computing System or UCS. Since that time it has become the number 2 blade server in the world. At the same time UCS was introduced, Cisco also elevated their relationship with SAP. Cisco was one of the first hardware pl…

July 6, 2013

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Securing Access to the Network and Beyond

Often when I think about what mobile means, I picture sales people out in the field, inspectors on bridges, repair men high atop utility poles. But in reality, we are all mobile a lot closer to home. I’m mobile when I check email from my backyard. I’m even mobile when I’m in the office, accessing th…