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Thomas Scheibe

Vice President, Product Management

Data Center Networking

Thomas Scheibe is currently Vce President Product Management for Cisco’s Nexus & ACI product line. Thomas has 20 years experience in the networking industry working with customers and partners in various roles for Cisco, Juniper, and Insieme. His main area of expertise are cloud, datacenter, and optical interconnect technologies.

From 2006 to 2010 Thomas served on the Board of Directors of The Ethernet Alliance. Given his background Thomas is a frequent speaker at optical, Ethernet, and data center industry events and conferences.

Prior to Cisco, Thomas worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Thomas holds a MSEE from Technical University Chemnitz (Germany) and a M.B.A. from Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley.

Articles

January 21, 2020

DATA CENTER

Transforming Day-2 Operations with Cisco Data Center Network Assurance and Insights

The challenge of operating a data center has never been greater. But the opportunities have never been larger. Today, data-driven businesses (which is to say, most businesses) are changing rapidly to stay competitive. There are more applications than ever, and more different classes of people and ma…

December 3, 2019

DATA CENTER

Automated Cloud Infrastructure: Extending ACI and AWS integration

It’s the time of the year – AWS re:invent 2019 is happening this week. Cisco and AWS customers deploy workloads and applications in both their own data centers and the AWS cloud today and look forward to even better integration to achieve their infrastructure automation goals while maintaining a con…

September 23, 2019

DATA CENTER

Setting the Record Straight: Confusion about ACI on VMware Technologies

Most of my days are spent talking to customers about network automation, application segmentation, and how to transition to a multicloud world. The vast majority of those customers have both Cisco and VMware products and solutions in their environments. Recently, we’ve seen an uptick in confusing in…

September 10, 2019

DATA CENTER

Future Proof SANs with Enhanced Performance, Analytics, and Automation

Cisco introduced the MDS 9700 Switches in 2013 as the foundation for next-generation data centers transitioning to flash storage – now deployed in over 80% of our customer environments. Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) technology played a key role in this rapid adoption as it unleashed the full po…

August 23, 2019

DATA CENTER

Groupe T2i Streamlines Operations, Leverages Cisco Data Center Anywhere with IBM and VMWare solutions

Today in day 5 of our 10 Customers in 10 Days series, we look at how Data Center Anywhere is helping Groupe T2i build an agile, extensible service delivery platform. Groupe T2i develops innovative software solutions and offers a variety of IT services that help companies accelerate their digital tra…

May 28, 2019

DATA CENTER

Cisco ACI Is Architected for Portability

Any Platform. Any Location. Any Workload. Speed and agility are vital for IT organizations to keep up with today’s fast moving, compressed business cycles. Businesses demand rapid deployment of applications and services without platform or infrastructure limitations, as workloads today span traditio…

May 17, 2019

DATA CENTER

Nexus 9500 Turnes Five Building on 25 Years of Experience and Expertise

Albert Einstein once said “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Captured in that self-effacing comment is an insight that applies to the common lineage of Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 9500 switch product lines. Cisco’s continous focus is to solve customer prooblems thr…

November 27, 2018

DATA CENTER

Increase Flexibility with Cisco’s Programmable Cloud Infrastructure

Today, Data Center Networking customers look for the latest innovations in both hardware and software, wanting flexibility to consume them at their own pace.  The combination of Cisco’s CloudScale ASIC technology and NX-OS is the right choice for the majority of customers. Cisco is committed to offe…

October 31, 2018

DATA CENTER

The Next Frontier for Cloud Networking: 400G Done Right

Network capacity today is constantly challenged. Ever-expanding data, a proliferation of apps, and increasing user mobility needs flood enterprise data centers.  And, every new app and new user demands more speed, more agility and more efficiency from network infrastructure. Meeting modern data cent…