Welcome
As a Grande Sponsor of Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Cisco had many valuable activities planned. We hope you were able to connect with Cisco at the booth, in the sessions, and virtually through the social media activities. If you missed any of these activities or would like to obtain a recap, you can access the session and theater presentations and watch interviews by clicking on the corresponding tab above.
One of the highlights of the event was the Cisco executive solution session on Cisco Innovation: Business Solutions Delivered in Proven Secured Clouds. You can access the video now on the Oracle OpenWorld event site.
Cisco Innovataion: Business Solutions Delivered in Proven Secure Clouds
Click here to go to the Oracle OpenWorld event website to watch the video.
Paul Perez, CTO, Data Center Group, Cisco
Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Oracle
To learn more about secure cloud infrastructure solutions, read Paul Perez's interview with Oracle:
Empowering Your Innovation
Cisco Unified Data Center provides simplicity, agility, and financial efficiency to customers and partners. Join us at Oracle OpenWorld, where you can learn how the Cisco and Oracle partnership is empowering your innovation.
With faster applications, fewer complications, and smarter servers, Cisco is more than the worldwide leader in networking. Cisco provides the data center servers and solutions that support innovation and help enable applications and databases for success.
At Cisco, we are the strategic technology and business advisor that empowers our customers to succeed in the evolving world. Our customers rely on the power of our intelligent servers and networks to be more competitive, deliver better services, and create new possibilities.
Our collective strengths–commitment to customer success, the breadth and depth of our intelligent products, and our talented people–help us solve our customers' important business challenges. The measure of our true value is not just what we make, it is what we make possible.
Together, we are changing the way that the world works, lives, plays, and learns.
Thank you for joining Cisco at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco.
Videos
Cisco and NetApp at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 
Cisco and Netapp discuss the relevance of the UCS and Flexpod platfoms highlighting the latest announcements in terms of features and performances for Oracle customers.
Speakers:
- Girish Kulkarni, Sr. Marketing Manager, Cisco
- Vaughn Stewart, Director of Cloud Computing, NetApp
Stay connected with Vaughn and Girish. You can follow Vaughn on Twitter (@vStewed) and read Girishs' blogs.
Cisco, EMC, and VCE at OpenWorld 2012
Cisco, EMC, and VCE talk about the evolution of performances in the Data Center provided by technologies such as Cisco UCS, EMC flash storage, and VCE Vblock.
Speakers:
- Raghunath Nambiar, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
- Jeff Browning, Oracle Community Web Master, EMC
- Michael Tovish, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, VCE
Stay connected with Jeff and Raghu. You can follow on Jeff on Twitter (@oracleHeretic) and read Raghu's blogs.
Interviews
Interviews Regarding Cisco and Oracle Solutions
Cisco and Oracle Solutions on UCS Grow Bigger
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews John McAbel of Cisco
John is definitely a subject matter expert at Cisco when it comes to the relationship with Oracle. He talks here about the state of the union depicting the great progress achieved over the past 12 months to strengthen the partnership with Oracle.
More details can be found in his presentation which is available on SlideShare. It includes the 5 major benefits for the Oracle customers.
Oracle E–Business Suite Benchmarks: Cisco UCS Leadership
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews Greg Blotter of Cisco
Greg is a Cisco Engineer specialized in benchmarking. You can view his presentation on SlideShare. In relation to this, you can also check out Girish Kulkarni's blog regarding Oracle E-Business Suite Performance Results on Cisco UCS.
Oracle Solutions Cost Reduction with Cisco UCS
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews Danny Dunn of Cisco
Danny is a seasoned Cisco Architect and an expert on Oracle application deployment. You can view his presentation on SlideShare.
Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression on Cisco UCS
Chip Lawson interviews Bob Handlin of Oracle
Bob is an expert in storage for Oracle. Oracle's ZFS storage just got certified for Cisco UCS and comes with an amazing algorithm to compress databases providing additional performances to the Cisco UCS environment. You can view Bob's presentation on SlideShare.
Interviews Regarding Big Data
Big Data Performance Delivered: Oracle NoSQL Data Base on Cisco UCS
Ramesh Chitor interviews Ashok Joshi of Oracle
Ashok is an Oracle Senior Director. He talks about the benefits of choosing commercial grade solutions and NoSQL. You can find the presentation on SlideShare. You can also reference Girish Kulkarni's blog for more information.
Big Data at Diginome with Oracle NoSQL on Cisco UCS
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews Diginome CEO, Harry Van Wickle and CTO. Paul Bertucci
Enthusiastic customers, Harry and Paul, talk about Diginome and how the combination of Oracle NoSQL and Cisco UCS allow them to deploy customer services and grow on the nascent Bog data market. You can obtain more details on this customer success story on SlideShare.
Transform Big Data into Usable Data with Workload Automation + Oracle NoSQL
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut), Cisco, interviews Andrew Blaisdell, Cisco
Andrew is a Cisco expert in workload automation. At OOW he presented an amazing proof of concept called Cisco Big Emotions Engine exploring NoSQL features and real data from Twitter. View this proof of concept here.
To obtain a better understanding of the benefits of the integration of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler with Oracle Business Applications, you can view Andrew's presentation on SlideShare.
Cisco Solutions and Partnerships for Big Data Deployment
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews Sean McKeown of Cisco
Sean is a Cisco Technology Architect dedicated to Big Data. He talks about NoSQL, Strata /Hadoop, and our partnership with Cloudera and Greenplum. You may also want to read Sean's blog on Big Data
Intel's Pauline Nist: Accelerating Big Data Adoption with Cisco UCS
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews Pauline Nist of Intel
Pauline, General Manager of Enterprise Software at Intel is a very well–known and respected spokesperson in the industry. You can view her presentation, "Big Data – Intel Vision," on SlideShare.
Interview Regarding Cisco and EMC
Cisco and EMC Bring a New Level of Simplicity and Flexibility with VSPEX
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews Daanish Ahmad of EMC
Daanish is an EMC VSPEX Specialist who gives a great overview of this Cisco and EMC integrated platform.
Interview Regarding TCO Reduction with Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS: TCO Redefined
Didier Rombaut (@drombaut) interviews Thomas Cloyd of Cisco
Tom, a Cisco UCS expert, talks about the work he is doing to analyze the true value to the business that the Cisco Unified Computing System is providing to more than 1500 customers who already implemented this new breed of servers. In relation to this, check out Bill Shields' blogs on how Cisco UCS reduces operating, administrative, and management costs
Interviews Regarding RISC Migration
RISC Migration : Transitioning to UCS
Didier Rombaut(@drombaut) interviews Carl Fijat of Cisco
Carl is from the Cisco Advanced Services team and masters the RISC migration process. Read Didier's blog which also includes Carl's presentation, "Pragmatic Approach to Transition to UCS."
RISC/UNIX Migration to Cisco UCS: Application Modernization
Didier Rombaut(@drombaut) interviews Tim Stack of Cisco
Tim is the lead of the RISC Migration Program and gives us a quick overview of the success and progress of this critical effort to move customers away from the RISC server architecture, promoted by Sun, IBM, and HP in favor of the Cisco UCS with Intel® Xeon® processor platform. Read Tim's blog on RISC Migration
RISC Migration with Intel® Xeon® and Cisco UCS
Didier Rombaut(@drombaut) interviews Matt Taylor of Intel
Matt is an Intel WW Sales Business Development Manager who works relentlessly in favor of the adoption of Cisco UCS. He talks about the benefits of the Intel platform for our customers. You can view Matt's presentation, "Data Center Modernization and RISC Migration," on SlideShare.
Blogs
For additional content and assets related to Cisco's participation at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 and the partnership with Oracle, check the following blogs:
Cisco Announces Four World-Record Oracle E–Business Suite Performance Results on Cisco UCS
By Girish Kulkarni, October 8, 2012
Cisco Announces Industry-Leading TPC-C with Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One on Cisco UCS!
By Girish Kulkarni, October 8, 2012
Big Data Performance Delivered: Oracle NoSQL on Cisco UCS
By Didier Rombaut, October 4, 2012
RISC Migration at OOW2012 : Pragmatic Approach to Transition to Cisco UCS
By Didier Rombaut, October 2, 2012
Are you at Oracle OpenWorld or Interop this Week?
By Carolina Fernandez, October 1, 2012
Cisco at OOW 2102: Empowering Your Innovation
By Didier Rombaut, September 27, 2012
Introducing the World's Fastest 2-Processor Server
By Raghunath Nambiar, September 27, 2012
What Cisco Makes Possible
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Cisco Unified Data Center
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