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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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July 1, 2013

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Cisco ISE and SAP Afaria: Be productive on and off the Network

Reduce the barriers to mobile productivity while making sure the corporate network is secure. Impossible? Seems like it. But that’s what the business continues to demand. SAP Afaria support for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a key component of policies based on conditionality that attempts…

May 21, 2013

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Cisco recognized as a bona fide server platform for SAP HANA by Vishal Sikka at SAP Sapphire

Over the past three years, Cisco has vaulted from the not only the leader in the networking industry, but they have become the number two blade vendor in the US and number three world-wide. This has caused some pause on the part of the top platform vendors in the industry. Cisco is now making an im…

May 7, 2013

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What is Cisco and SAP doing together?

3 years ago Cisco entered the server platform market with the Unified Computing System (UCS). This server platform was built from the ground up for virtualization and immediately started making an impact and gaining market share. Today it holds the number 2 position worldwide for blades. At this sa…

May 6, 2013

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Cisco and SAP inaugurate Co-Innovation Labs in both Singapore and Shanghai

Over 200 attendees were present for the opening of two different Co-Innovate Labs (COIL) recently. The COIL is charged with accelerating co-innovation within the SAP partner ecosystem. This lab is part of the company’s global R&D network and it offers a hands-on environment for SAP, partn…

April 18, 2013

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Cisco continues to invest in SAP providing amazing results

Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) server platform continues to make significant strides in becoming a major player in the mission-critical application space, in this case SAP. UCS just claimed a fantastic benchmark using the UCS B200 on SAP Sybase ASE. Since UCS was built from the ground up for…

November 18, 2012

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SAP TechEd Madrid Wrap-Up

SAP announces support for Virtualized SAP HANA for non-productive platforms at SAP Sapphire/TechEd Madrid On the final day of TechEd in Madrid, SAP announced that they will be supporting virtualization for Non-Productive SAP HANA systems. No other details were given surrounding this announcement, bu…

November 14, 2012

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Cisco’s Day One for SAP Sapphire/TechEd Madrid

Cisco’s Day One for SAP Sapphire/TechEd Madrid Day one was a successful day for Cisco at SAP TechEd Madrid. Our booth was full most of the day with customers looking and discussing the solutions in our booth. We had a FlexPod and VBlock rack in our both which attracted quite a lot of attention. We w…

November 11, 2012

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SAP TechEd Madrid is a showcase for the Cisco UCS Server Platform

SAP TechEd Madrid is a showcase for the Cisco UCS Server Platform Another November and another SAP TechEd in Madrid. Cisco will again be showcasing UCS as a preferred platform for all SAP solutions. SAP is again highlighting SAP HANA in the test drive area in Madrid, and Cisco will have their medium…