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Frank Palumbo

Senior Vice President

Global Data Center Sales

As Senior Vice President of Global Data Center Sales for Cisco, Frank leads one of Cisco’s strategic architectural sales teams and is responsible for $10B in annual sales for the company. Since joining Cisco more than 20 years ago, Frank has helped to pioneer and expand Cisco into new, adjacent markets, building the foundation for Cisco’s global data center architecture sales with data center switching and compute technologies. And more recently, growing strong market share as Cisco expanded to the software business with SDN and analytics.

Frank has a passion for running and has completed 19 marathons, including Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia – running the NYC Marathon every year since 2004. He has also completed 10 NYC triathlons.

Frank holds a degree in business administration from Rutgers University, and he serves on the board of the Rutgers Business School.

Articles

August 30, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Open Pay: Redefining Financial Flexibility & Unlocking the Growth Potential

2 min read

Co-Authors: Frank Palumbo, SVP, Global Data Center Sales and Kristine A. Snow, President, Cisco Capital Digital transformation is no future state. It’s happening now. In fact, according to Gartner there are 125,000 enterprises in the U.S. alone that are now launching digital transformation projects involving companies of all sizes from nimble startups to global conglomerates. […]

June 1, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Next Generation Data Center: ACI Leads the Way

1 min read

More than 1,800 customers are deploying Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) because they see great value in its ability to automate IT tasks, accelerate application deployments and reduce data center TCO....

March 14, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Reinventing the Data Center for a Digital World: Cisco HyperFlex Systems

3 min read

Successful innovators can sneak up on you. Apple’s iPhone actually followed a string of other smart phones from competitors like Nokia, Microsoft and Research in Motion (Blackberry). Nor were Google, Facebook or Netflix the first movers in their markets- or Henry Ford if you want to go further back. There were already competitors in each […]

February 12, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco and VCE Continue to Lead the Industry

1 min read

A few weeks ago, EMC took the opportunity during their earnings to reaffirm their commitment to VCE and demonstrate the success of the business by staking claim to a US$3B annualized run rate.  I’d like to congratulate VCE on its continued success and reinforce the strategic nature of VCE to Cisco. Cisco and EMC have […]

October 2, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Data Centers: Applications, Networks and Chicken-Salad Sandwiches

2 min read

You’ve seen the data points: 30 million new devices connected to the Internet each week. A whopping 50 billion connected by 2020. This surge of connectivity – driven largely by...

February 18, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

How a Traffic Jam in Hong Kong Gave Me Hope

2 min read

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to travel to China and South Korea to meet with Cisco customers and partners. The meetings went well, but it was clear that these countries share what seems like a universal condition afflicting so many cities all over the world: traffic. I know what you’re thinking, “Traffic? […]

October 28, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Balancing Innovation and Evolution: Cutting Through the Noise

2 min read

Thinking back to how much the data center has transformed in the past ten, five, or even two years is enough to make your head spin. Keeping pace with these...

August 19, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Future-Proofing the Data Center in a World of Accelerated Change

1 min read

One thing that I frequently hear when speaking with our data center customers is how the application landscape is in a constant state of accelerated change. Demands on the IT department have evolved rapidly over the past few years, compelling many customers to transform their operations with virtualization and cloud computing. Today’s challenges include addressing the […]

It’s all about you: thanks for making Cisco’s Unified Computing System #1

2 min read

When we talk about Cisco UCS success, we could boast about how, in just five short years, Cisco has earned the #1 position for x86 blade server sales in the Americas. Or, brag on how we achieved 39% revenue growth in a period where the other top five vendors saw flat or declining numbers, according […]

March 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Market Dynamics and Cisco’s Unified Computing System

1 min read

Innovation.  Change.  Market transitions.  This is the natural order when it comes to IT. Today’s accelerated rate of technological change is disrupting all areas of IT, while at the same time creating new possibilities for our data center customers.  As a CIO, you’re tasked with capitalizing on the benefits of new technologies to enhance operations, […]

July 2, 2013

DATA CENTER

Next wave of data center innovation …

1 min read

From the outset, Cisco Unified Fabric has been ahead of the curve and ahead of the market in its innovation and the value that it brings to Cisco customers. Its introduction brought about a profound shift to data center fabric: unification of the IP and storage networks.  Today it is foundational – a primary building […]

June 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco Achieves #2 Worldwide in the x86 Blade Server Market

2 min read

Nobody thought the ‘plumbers’ could succeed in compute … The numbers are in – across the board Cisco is posting strong results and tracking unprecedented momentum in the server market.  With Cisco’s Q3 financial earnings announcement reporting 77% Y/Y growth in Data Center and now the latest IDC Server Tracker results [view UCS Advantage], Cisco […]

March 4, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cloupia … More than Just Another Cisco Acquisition [VIDEO]

2 min read

I have been with Cisco for more than 20 years and have seen incredible growth and change over these two decades – including hundreds of acquisitions that resulted in varying degrees of success for our business. With this recent Cloupia acquisition being strategic to data center management, I thought this would be an opportune time […]