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Scott Whitright

Data Center & Cloud, Marketing Mgr.

Global Partner Marketing

Scott Whitright, is the Data Center & Cloud, Marketing Mgr. in Cisco's Global Partner Marketing organization. He recently joined from Rackspace where he led marketing and GTM efforts for a number of cloud services and products: Critical Application Services, Rackspace Digital, Adobe Experience Manager, Oracle Commerce, OpenStack Public Cloud (Compute, Storage, Networking & CDN) during their rapid growth phase (from an $800M to $2B public business).

Prior to Rackspace, he spent 7 years with Microsoft honing his global, B2B marketing skills within the Worldwide Partner Marketing group and Core Infrastructure Marketing team producing “Better Together” solutions with industry partners.

Scott, wife Rayna and daughter Sydney Anne, are originally from Seattle (Go Seahawks!) but, currently reside in San Antonio, Texas. Outside of work you can find him exploring the great state of Texas.

Articles

February 24, 2017

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Check-In…to a IT Service Broker Model

On a recent trip to Silicon Valley, I stayed at a Marriott near the office. Although it was my first time at this particular hotel, I generally knew what to expect; comforts of the room, consistency of friendly staff, pervasive wireless internet access, and a simple bottle of water upon arrival, hav…

January 26, 2017

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Top 5 Reasons to Assess Your Cloud Adoption Maturity in 2017

As highlighted in IDC’s recent CloudView Survey post, almost 78% of organizations use some form of cloud today, yet only 3% of the companies IDC surveyed have optimized cloud strategies in place. The most mature cloud organizations are defined by their use of DevOps, hybrid and multi-provider clouds…