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Todd Brannon

Product Management Senior Director, Cisco Compute

Todd Brannon leads the product management team for Cisco’s computing solutions portfolio. He loves working with customers and partners to shape their data center strategy, and brings over 25 years of experience in products and managed services for IT. He has led teams in a variety of product marketing and product management roles around compute, storage, networking and cloud at Sprint, Dell and Cisco. Early in his career Todd served as an officer in the United States Army and earned his commission at Syracuse University. He bleeds Orange to this day.

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September 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale

2 min read

If you follow the news in the world of data center you probably noticed a small announcement from Cisco last week regarding...

August 22, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Bases are Loaded for a Cisco UCS Grand Slam

2 min read

“The innovation pipeline is very strong, and you can expect to see announcements in the fall that will continue to accelerate our momentum with UCS and add to our competitive advantage.” Those are comments from Cisco’s earnings call last week, and on September 4th I hope you will join us for the unveiling of the […]

March 25, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Five Years On: The Right Solution at the Right Time

3 min read

I knew we were on to something good when a customer told me “This is so easy, it’s CTO proof.” Early in the business, I was talking to a front-line server admin who had found that Cisco UCS made server deployment so reliable, automated and simple that he was convinced even his CTO could pull […]

February 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

New UCS Servers deliver innovative scaling options and record-breaking power

3 min read

This week we’re announcing new systems at the upper end of the UCS server product line: some heavy-duty iron for heavy-duty times.   These are important new tools for our UCS customers:  the digital age is accelerating, IT needs more horsepower to keep up, and there is a lot at stake. Cisco UCS Servers with Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 […]

October 29, 2013

DATA CENTER

WHIPTAIL + UCS = peanut butter + chocolate

2 min read

  Back on September 10th, Cisco announced the intent to acquire WHIPTAIL and today I’m excited to report to our Data Center blog readers that the acquisition has been completed! Paul Perez has laid out Cisco’s vision for this technology and the crucial role that solid-state memory plays in the next evolution of UCS.   If […]

September 10, 2013

DATA CENTER

Tick Tock Goes the Server Clock

3 min read

Ivy Bridge comes to UCS! As Paul Perez reminds us in his evolutionary metaphor for our industry, time marches on, and today brings another tick of the clock. Many of you may be familiar with the development cadence that Intel maintains to carry forward the exponential burden of Moore’s law. By way of explanation for […]

August 27, 2013

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco SingleConnect Technology

3 min read

When customers talk about why they like UCS they often sum it up in very concise terms. “It makes things a lot easier,” is a common refrain. But if you ask a Cisco technologist what’s good about UCS you’ll get a much more lengthy reply, probably more than you wanted to hear. 🙂 That’s because […]

May 13, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS at EMC World 2013

2 min read

We handed out a stack of these buttons for the Cisco booth staff to wear this year and that sums up my favorite part of EMC World:  it’s an infrastructure party.  This is a place where you’re going to talk with people at the heart of the data center and IT, and the conversations all […]

March 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

Delivering the Madness: remember to thank your servers and the network

1 min read

March Madness is here and in full effect.  If you’re reading this post you probably aren’t paying close enough attention to the results pouring in from the round of 64.   Today and tomorrow will make or break your bracket!  Take appropriate action.  As soon as I hit “publish” on this post I promise you that […]

February 28, 2013

DATA CENTER

The server business isn’t a popularity contest, but if it was…

…here are the type of votes contestants would love to receive.   We recently saw two items that speak well on the progress of UCS against the most important yardsticks:  how IT professionals and our partners rate Cisco as a computing systems vendor. First up is CRN’s Annual Report Card.   This is where IT solution providers […]

January 24, 2013

DATA CENTER

More of a good thing: Cisco and NetApp open the next chapter for FlexPod

2 min read

FlexPod, by any measure, has been a great success.   2,100 customers worldwide have adopted the architecture and it stands today as one of the leading converged infrastructure solutions in the industry.   IT organizations want to modernize their operations, but they need to do it in a way that mitigates risk and lays down a solid […]

December 4, 2012

DATA CENTER

UCS: Foundation for Cloud

2 min read

A story came out today showcasing the platform built to power Xerox Managed Print Services (MPS), and it’s hard to describe better example of how Cisco’s data center technology comes together to help unlock the full potential of cloud computing.  In the lead-up to this release and the webcast that we’re airing this Thursday, I had […]