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Adrian den Hartog

Senior Marketing Manager

Field Marketing US Commercial

Adrian hails from The Netherlands and currently manages strategic initiatives marketing programs in the Americas for the Commercial segment at Cisco.

Prior to joining Cisco, Adrian spent 17 years in various pre-sales technical support, global product, program marketing and marketing management roles - both at a regional and global level in Europe and the United States.

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Articles

December 31, 2013

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City of San Carlos Gets Smart About Parking

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Unless you did all your Holiday shopping online this season, you no doubt experienced the nuisance of trying to find a parking spot. In San Carlos, this was becoming an issue beyond just frustration. Businesses were worried about losing customers due to the lack of parking availability. The city took action using Internet of Everything […]

December 6, 2013

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From Pallet to Production – Big Data in Minutes

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Behind the Scenes: Ready, Set, Go! Don’t make your data center refresh more complicated than it needs to be. Installing the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) is seamless and simple—not to mention advantageous in more ways than one. Cisco UCS is an integrated architecture that establishes one cohesive system for increased business agility – […]

November 12, 2013

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Force the Competition to Reevaluate Their Game Plan

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It goes without saying that to stay relevant in today’s global and ever-increasingly competitive economy, every company and organization needs to bring on their A-game. This means having a solid business strategy, the drive to beat the competition, real differentiation, a team that is willing to go the extra mile, as well as an innovative […]

July 25, 2013

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Step off that old, familiar path

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Venturing off the beaten path may just be the only way to stay ahead of the competition. And while IT-as-a-service and cloud computing concepts are not as precarious as once perceived, there are still a lot of unknowns as businesses and organizations set out to explore new possibilities. Discover how industry thought leaders are paving […]

July 16, 2013

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Risk to Reward

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Be nimble, be agile, take informed risks, and apply innovation to how you’re using data in your business. That’s the strategy of Garry Whatley, VP of IT and business services for Staples Australia, and it’s been paying off. Whatley believes that in the online retail industry, with high volume and large amounts of data, access […]

July 1, 2013

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A Healthy Potential

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Virtacore, a leading cloud services provider, aims to help clients shift to the cloud. But the company was aware that in order to help others, it first needed to help itself—which meant updating its own infrastructure to provide the best IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS)  to customers. By leveraging innovative technology from Cisco, like the Cisco Unified Computing […]

June 11, 2013

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Paradise Just Got a Little Better

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When you think of the Caribbean, you may think vacation. But for Curaçao Technology Exchange (CTEX), business thrives in paradise. Curaçao is growing in importance in the international finance and commerce industry, which is why the island needed the ability to support booming business. Built in a carefully planned location, CTEX chose the island of […]

May 31, 2013

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IT Transformation & Innovation Result in Operational Efficiencies & Better Customer Service

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It is no small task to enforce change within a well established industry and organization, but it’s not impossible. At Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities’ (LG&E and KU) – where operations were inefficient and obsolete – change was needed. With no easy way to obtain data, employees were conducting a lot of time consuming […]

April 29, 2013

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Napkins, Toolboxes, and IT..

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What do these three things have in common? For Lone Star College System (LSCS), the fastest growing community college in the U.S., these items helped build a whole new technology foundation. While at a higher-education conference, CIO of LSCS, Link Alander, and former VP of data center virtualization at Presidio, Steve Kaplan, began hashing out […]

April 18, 2013

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Keeping up with Demand

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How time flies: Cisco and Intel are celebrating their one-year partnership anniversary of Unleashing IT with the launch of the all new, Spring 2013 edition. Available online and in print, this latest installment is once again packed with thought-leadership content and company profiles. Over the past year, Unleashing IT has uncovered and shared many IT best […]

March 25, 2013

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Maximizing well-being through technology

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While many wish to prevent illness and combat health issues, Healthways is proactively promoting well-being through their commitment to “making the world a healthier place—one individual at a time.” Based in Franklin, Tennessee, Healthways has been operating for over 30 years in delivering health expertise to organizations and reducing health-related costs. Customers use a web-based […]

March 13, 2013

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Secure Solutions Delivered Through the Cloud

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Lockheed Martin has a vision for the cloud that delivers reliable and secure functionality, yet is developed to fit customer-specific business models. To do so seamlessly and as efficiently as possible, the IT provider turned to Cisco, Intel, NetApp, and VMware to integrate technologies to enable this vision. Lockheed Martin’s solutions-as-a-service cloud approach is called […]

February 25, 2013

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In control and saving big

Salem Health is a network of hospitals, rehab facilities, and physician clinics located in the Pacific Northwest. The organization was experiencing major performance issues with their IT infrastructure, which was hurting business processes. And in the healthcare industry, that’s not something to be overlooked. Clinicians were experiencing too much downtime to provide top-of-the-line patient care, […]

February 19, 2013

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Transforming Your Data Center with Cisco Domain Ten

Many organizations are getting on board with the cloud. But the transition can be tough. There are many aspects to consider before going virtual, including security, possible downtime, application migration, and ease of deployment. So where do you start? Cisco has the answers and expertise that you are seeking. To learn more about how to […]

February 14, 2013

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Bring IT Together

Unification is a big deal for Adena Health Systems, a medical center with multiple Ohio locations. The company’s data center was running on disparate technology that was causing outages, neglecting incoming calls, and slowing business. With some tough competition nearby, Adena’s aging infrastructure was becoming a burden; not to mention the struggle with supporting important […]

February 14, 2013

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Technology Promotes Education

The saying “you’ve gotta give credit where credit is due” is exceptionally literal for Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Recently becoming recognized as one of the most successful academic institutions in the country, Liberty University can thank its ability to support the huge influx of students, faculty, and staff to the updated technology infrastructure of […]

February 5, 2013

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Here now, preparing you for the future

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You may have heard of the Cisco® Global Cloud Index. From our predictions, the cloud’s future is both promising and daunting. With the forecast calculating cloud traffic to increase sixfold by 2016, you have to wonder if the Cloud is ready to take on the load. Cisco thinks so. We are pleased to introduce the […]

December 3, 2012

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Protection in the Cloud

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Physical servers lend the comfort of knowing where your data is located and having control over access and protection of that data. But from a business perspective, there is a lot virtualization can offer. So what’s the compromise with security, and is it worth the switch to a cloud environment? While the cloud is an […]