The Cisco Analyst Relations group sponsors Speaker Series as an ongoing communications forum. The intent is to create a two-way dialog with industry analysts about Cisco's strategic initiatives, business/product strategies and technologies. An invitation by e-mail to the industry analysts precedes the Speaker Series and includes details about the teleconference. If you’d like an invitation to future Speaker Series, please contact
kjohal@cisco.com.
Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing
Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing provides a new, easy, and affordable program for procurement of Cisco Unified Communications applications and services. This web conference will review the strategic importance of Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing, its business benefits, and how it works. It will also include feedback from customers and partners.
Ample time will be reserved for a question-and-answer session right after the presentation.
Presenter: Julie O’Brien
A seven year Cisco veteran with 14 years of marketing experience in video, networking and voice industries, Julie leads the Cisco UC applications team that is responsible for marketing the Cisco Unified Workspace including presence, conferencing, messaging, and mobility. During her tenure at Cisco, Julie led the Microsoft-Cisco UC interoperability roadmap, featuring integration between Cisco UC solutions and Microsoft Live Communications Server / Office Communications Server and Exchange 2007; Cisco's commercial UC marketing team; and the Cisco ISR product introduction.
Presenter: Taylor Collyer
As Director of Product Management for the Unified Communications Business Unit Taylor Collyer is responsible for product management, technical marketing, and business development for applications that help people communicate more richly and effectively. His portfolio responsibilities include Unified Messaging and Voicemail; Audio, Video, and Web Conferencing; Unified Clients and Presence; and Mobility.
Please join Erica Schroeder, Senior Manager of Emerging Technologies Marketing Operations – TelePresence and Digital Media, and Rami Mazid, Senior Director of Emerging Technology IT - TelePresence, as they discuss the accomplishments Cisco has achieved nearly one year after the launch of TelePresence. Erica and Rami will share valuable enhancements that have been made since Cisco TelePresence launched in 2006 and how Cisco has been utilizing TelePresence globally to improve productivity and transform how business is being done.
Ample time will be reserved for a question-and-answer session right after the presentation.
Presenter: Erica Schroeder
Erica runs marketing for Cisco TelePresence and Digital Media System, two of Cisco's emerging video technologies. In this role, she is responsible for helping customers understand the value of Cisco's broadcast and two-way video technologies and products in both growing the business and driving greater productivity in the enterprise.
Presenter: Rami Mazid
Rami is responsible for driving Cisco-on-Cisco strategy, business value, global best practices, communications, deployment and adoptions of Emerging Technology at Cisco. Rami has over 20 years of experience in managing and implementing global IT solutions that help improve business efficiencies and productivities.
In the July launch of our Cisco Data Center 3.0 initiative, we announced VFrame Data Center, an orchestration platform that leverages network intelligence to provision resources together as virtualized services. This industry-first approach greatly reduces application deployment times, improves overall resource utilization, and offers greater business agility. It includes an open API, and easily integrates with third party management applications, as well as best-of-breed server and storage virtualization offerings.
In this presentation we will cover the new VFrame Data Center solution. Ample time will be reserved for a question-and-answer session right after the presentation.
Presenters: Bill Erdman and Krish Sivakumar
Bill Erdman is the marketing director responsible for data center virtualization, orchestration and provisioning offerings within Cisco's Data Center Technology Group. Bill joined Cisco in 1995 and has held senior marketing positions within the switching, storage, network management and IP communications business units. Previous to Cisco, Bill worked for 3Com Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, and General Electric.
Krish Savikumar is manager of the VFrame product within the Server Virtualization Business Unit at Cisco.
In the July launch of our Cisco Data Center 3.0 initiative, we announced new storage area networking solutions that will help customers build cost-effective SANs. In this AR Speaker Series teleconference, we would like to discuss the challenges we see customers facing and bring you up to speed on these new products. These include additions to the MDS family of products, which serve as a cornerstone for Cisco’s overall data center strategy. In addition we will discuss our new fabric-based data migration solution that transfers block data nondisruptively across heterogeneous storage volumes and across distances, whether the host is online or offline.
This data center class solution helps to minimize the challenges experienced in migrating data, such as downtime, the need to add data migration software to servers, and the potential for data loss and corruption. Further, through an open API interface for key management, Cisco’s new Storage Media Encryption (SME) gives customers the flexibility to deploy stored encrypted data solutions that best meet their operational needs.
The presentation will cover:
New Cisco SAN solutions to be covered in this presentation include:
Rajeev Bhardwaj is a Director of Product Management in Cisco's Data Center Business Unit (DCBU). Mr. Bhardwaj joined Cisco in 2004 via the acquisition of Andiamo Systems, a company focused on delivering next-generation SAN products and solutions with multilayer intelligence. He has over 20 years experience in product management and software development in SANs, data networking, and wireless.
Deepak Munjal has more than 15 years of networking industry experience and is currently a Senior Marketing Manager for Data Center Solutions at Cisco. Previously, he was a Senior Systems Engineer and has been actively involved in the design and implementation of end-to-end networking solutions for Cisco's largest Fortune 500 customers.
Please join Cisco as we share our vision for the next-generation of network-based data center infrastructure and the latest developments in Policy-driven Orchestration, Storage Media Encryption, WAN optimization and Best Practice Architectures.
This event will be hosted by Cisco's senior executive in charge of the Data Center program: Doug Gourlay - a 10 year Cisco veteran of field operations, product line management and marketing – and Peter Linkin, senior marketing manager for Data Center Architecture.
They will share their insights on the network's role in the evolving data center, and how Cisco is enabling the next revolution in customer value by developing a new 'data center class' network platform for the 21st century. They will share how customers can embark on this journey by applying the familiar architectural qualities of the network to their existing data center resources through techniques such as Consolidation, Virtualization and Automation.
Presenters: Doug Gourlay and Peter Linkin
Doug Gourlay is the Senior Director of Marketing for Cisco‘s Data Center Technology Group. In this role, Gourlay leads the group responsible for conceiving and implementing Cisco's global marketing strategy for data center products and technologies, including Application Networking, Storage Area Networking, High Performance Computing and Blade Switching.
Peter Linkin brings over 20 years of industry experience in Application Infrastructure to his current role as Senior Marketing Manager for Cisco's Data Center Network Architecture, where he is responsible for driving awareness of the “Network As a Platform” for next-generation data center infrastructure.
Please join Mark Weiner, Director of Product Marketing, Application Networking Services, as he provides a snapshot of the WAN optimization market and Cisco's latest customer momentum. Mark will outline market trends and customer challenges that are driving the growing need for WAN optimization solutions.
In addition, two Cisco customers will share their experience with Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solution and WAN optimization in general, and explain their business requirements. Ample time will be reserved for a lively question-and-answer session.
Presenter: Mark Weiner
Mark Weiner is Director of Product Marketing, Application Networking Services at Cisco Systems, focusing on Cisco application delivery technologies.
Previously, Mr. Weiner was Vice President of Marketing at NetDevices, a startup focused on next generation branch networking products, and Vice President of Marketing at NetScaler, a pioneer in application delivery products that was acquired by Citrix Systems. Earlier in his career, Mark spent several years in the telecommunications sector, serving as Vice President of Marketing at Redback Networks and Director of Marketing at Juniper Networks. Mr. Weiner began his career in the networking market with management roles at early industry leaders Bay Networks and Ungermann-Bass.
Mr. Weiner has a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University, where he is an advisory board member, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Customer Speakers:
- Joe Cremer, State of Missouri Courts
- Chris Thompson, PetroCanada
Strategic Alliances Update: Recent developments and a view to the future
Please join Steve Steinhilber, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, as he shares the strategy behind Cisco's broad-ranging partnerships with Accenture, EDS, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Italtel, Microsoft, Motorola and others. Steve will discuss new developments with Cisco's strategic alliances in the Enterprise and Service Provider market segments and global partnering priorities for this year and beyond.
In addition, his presentation will touch on the criteria Cisco applies when deciding to partner, and when evaluating new potential alliances. Ample time will be reserved for a question-and-answer session right after his presentation.
Presenter: Steve Steinhilber
Steve Steinhilber is Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Corporate Consulting Engineering at Cisco Systems, responsible for driving the development of new strategic alliances and ongoing management of Cisco's top global alliances. These alliances include Accenture, BearingPoint, Capgemini, EDS, EMC, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Italtel, Microsoft, Motorola and Siemens. He also oversees development of technology requirements for emerging markets and advanced technology consulting and systems design.
May 2: Karl Meulema, Vice President, Services & Channels, will speak on the topic of Cisco Service’s strategy.
Please join us as Karl Meulema, Vice President, Cisco Services, Marketing and Channels examines the customer trends occurring in the networking industry and discusses Cisco Service’s strategy for delivering the customer experience. He will provide an overview of Cisco’s plans to develop and scale the intellectual property, tools and infrastructure necessary to delivery a consistent customer experience across multiple market segments. Learn about the methodologies and processes that Cisco Service’s uses that made it the first global networking company to earn the J.D. Power and Associates Certification for Outstanding Technology Service and Support.
Presenter: Karl Meulema Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
