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Scott Ciccone

Sr. Marketing Manager

Global Marketing

Scott Ciccone is a Senior Marketing Manager within Cisco’s Global Marketing and Corporate Communications (GMCC) organization. Scott has over 20 years of professional experience including various Sales Engineering, Product Management and Product Marketing roles, with over 8 years at Sun Microsystems working in the SPARC Volume Server space. He has earned his MBA in Marketing at Babson College in Wellesley, MA, and his undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Computing from Rochester Institute of Technology. Scott joined Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) product marketing team over two years ago and his primary responsibilities include development of core UCS messaging, focusing mainly on the Cisco UCS Blade and Rack Server portfolio of products.

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December 9, 2014

DATA CENTER

Building an Enterprise Data Hub, Evaluating Infrastructure

  Want to get the most out of your big data? Build an enterprise data hub (EDH). Big data is rapidly getting bigger. That in itself isn’t a problem. The issue is what Gartner analyst Doug Laney describes as the three Vs of Big Data: volume, velocity, and variety.   Volume refers to the ev…

November 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

Elasticsearch ELK + Cisco UCS turn massive data into massive insights

The Internet of Everything continues to gain momentum and every new connection is creating new data. Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data is helping customers convert that data into powerful intelligence, and we’re working with a number of new partners to bring exciting new solutions to…

September 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

Unlock The Value of Big Data with Cisco Unified Computing System

Big Data is not just about gathering tons of data, the digital exhaust from the internet, social media, and customer records.  The real value is in being able to analyze the data to gain a desired business outcome.   Those of us who follow the Big Data market closely never lack for something new to…

June 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

How Cisco Helped Solutionary Boost Security and Improve their Hadoop Performance

Every day, security threats continue to evolve, as cyber attackers continue to exploit gaps in basic security controls. In fact, the federal government alone has experienced a 680% increase in cyber security breaches in the past six years, and cybersecurity attacks against the US average 117 per day…

May 20, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS and ACI Infrastructure Innovations for Big Data at Hadoop Summit

Big Data remains one of the hottest topics in the industry due to the actual dollar value that businesses are deriving from making sense from tons of structured and unstructured data.  Virtually every field is leveraging a data-driven strategy as people, process, data and things are increasing being…

April 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco, Cloudera and The Future of Data Management – on Display at Cloudera Sessions

  The Cloudera Sessions Roadshow helps companies to navigate the Big Data journey.  As Hadoop takes the data management market by storm, organizations are evolving the role it plays in the modern data center. This disruptive technology is quickly transforming an industry, the value it adds to t…

March 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Maximizing Big Data Performance and Scalability with MapR and Cisco UCS

Huge amounts of information are flooding companies every second, which has led to an increased focus on big data and the ability to capture and analyze this sea of information. Enterprises are turning to big data and Apache Hadoop in order to improve business performance and provide a competitive ad…

October 15, 2013

DATA CENTER

Get More out of your Data with Cisco at Strata Hadoop World October 28 – 30, 2013

  With enough hype to rival even the most popular of Superbowl’s, Big Data experts will converge on New York City in just a couple weeks!  But big data has good reason for all the hype as businesses continue to find new ways to leverage the insights derived from vast data pools that are c…

October 3, 2013

DATA CENTER

Design Zone Webinar: Unlock More Value from Big Data with Cisco UCS

    Big Data has become mainstream as businesses realize its benefits, including improved operation efficiency, better customer experience, and more accurate predictions. However, companies are often challenged by the complexities of traditional server solutions. In this webinar, learn how…