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Joann Starke

No Longer with Cisco

As a long standing advocate and voice of cloud management at Cisco, Joann’s domain knowledge and technical expertise have contributed significantly to the strategy, development and adoption of Cisco’s cloud management and data center automation software solutions. She is currently the marketing leader and voice for Cisco’s latest and broadest enterprise software offering in the category. During a distinguished career spanning two decades Joann has held major product management and product marketing positions at BlueArc/Hitachi, Netapp, Parallels, and HP, successfully launching and establishing many technologies that are industry standards today. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and computer science, having graduated with honors in the field.

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February 22, 2017

DATA CENTER

Fuel Faster Application Delivery with Cisco Hybrid Cloud

1 min read

Business is all about applications.  They run your business. Capture new market opportunities. Drive revenue. What if you could accelerate delivery of new applications? Deploy them across any on premise or public cloud quickly? That’s exactly what you can do if you are using Cisco CloudCenter.  Part of Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, this solution […]

February 8, 2017

DATA CENTER

Real Business Outcomes with Cisco

1 min read

Digital transformation is everywhere.  Read any technical site, blog or conference agenda.  You get can’t away from it.  But all the discussion has lead to one simple fact. Organizations that start their journey to digital position themselves to not only capture the benefits but regularly outpace industry peers.[1] For many organizations, their digital journey begins […]

October 31, 2016

DATA CENTER

Reduce Risk with Subscription

1 min read

The software market has changed radically over the last three or four years.  So have software license models.  Big Data, cloud and mobile have forced changes.  One of the most significant is the sun setting of the standard – the perpetual license. Perpetual licenses redirect scarce resources to negotiate pricing.  For both you and the […]

October 24, 2016

DATA CENTER

Monday Morning Sure Looks Fine

1 min read

You’re the head of IT facing the start of another week.   Another set of challenges.  Application teams going around IT.   Business teams expecting near-instant service.  Your company is growing fast.  Way beyond your ability to plan — let alone respond. You may think this is far-fetched.  I speak with a lot of customers and this […]

September 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Transform Your Business Engine

1 min read

IT is caught in a perfect storm of far-reaching changes.  It’s all about the user experience.  It is NOT about IT technology. Getting out of this storm takes transformation.  Transformation requires automation.  You can fight it and risk falling behind.  Or begin your automation journey.  Studies[1] indicate adopting automation delivers value back to the organization.   […]

August 30, 2016

DATA CENTER

Deliver Simplicity and Freedom

2 min read

Digital transformation is happening NOW.   Your smartphone is your bank branch.   Your mouse and PC are quickly replacing brick and mortar stores. As consumers, we have the tendency to seek alternatives when we don’t get want we want, when we want it. If you’re in IT, you are already feeling the pain. The modern […]

July 25, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco Simplifies Business Transformation

1 min read

There has been a revolutionary change in the conversation over IT’s role within your business.  Once centered on reducing costs, today’s conversation centers on how IT can move with greater speed and flexibility.  Why the change? The answer is simple– the digitization of business.   You don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to notice that […]

July 20, 2016

DATA CENTER

Up Close with Cisco CloudCenter (CliQr)

1 min read

Cloud platforms are increasingly a viable option for a growing set of enterprise applications and workloads.   Application teams are uncompromising in their desire to build and deploy new applications into public cloud environments that deliver speed and choice. Industry analysts tell us that almost 50% of enterprise organizations are starting to build private clouds which […]

July 6, 2016

CLOUD

Business Outcomes with Cisco CloudCenter

1 min read

Every day I talk with customers who comment how they need to move with greater speed and flexibility. Automation is required to decrease time-to-market and provide flexible workload placement into hybrid environments.   One technique to deliver speed and flexibility is to transform the modeling, deployment and life cycle processes to deliver applications. Cisco CloudCenter (CliQr) […]

July 5, 2016

CLOUD

Hybrid Cloud Delivers Best of Both Worlds

2 min read

When talking with customers, it is rare when I encounter one who is “all in” with private or “all-in” with public cloud.   Customers have come to realize that a single platform cannot deliver all the capabilities required by application, business and IT teams.  Developers want self-service and fast access to cloud infrastructure.  IT needs control […]

June 14, 2016

CLOUD

Not Everything Stays in Vegas!

1 min read

It is nearly impossible to miss the business transformation taking place in every organization.  Multiple industry trends are combining to create a perfect storm where IT organizations need to manage...

May 25, 2016

CLOUD

And The Winner Is…….

2 min read

Customers are gaining market power and they want to interact with your organization using digital technologies.   As a result there is a plethora of automation solutions on the market.   Did you ever wish for guidance on these solutions from industry peers? Since 1986, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has recognized software and digital […]

May 23, 2016

DATA CENTER

Industry Recognition for Cisco Hybrid Cloud Solutions

1 min read

It is nearly impossible to miss the business transformation taking place in every organization.  As consumers, our smart devices have trained us to expect delivery of information or services at near instant speed.  But when we move from our consumer to business roles, we find service delivery anything BUT instant. Cisco has two solutions that […]

April 27, 2016

CLOUD

Hybrid Cloud: It’s Here!

2 min read

We are living in the digital age and the effect it is having on the way we work and live are continuing to grow. IT professionals have never felt as much pressure to help their organization to move with speed and agility than today.  In response, large number of organizations are implementing private cloud.  But […]

April 21, 2016

DATA CENTER

Hybrid IT: It’s a Strategy Not Something You Build

2 min read

What do you think when you hear Hybrid IT?   Does your mind go to a 3rd kind of not quite private, not quite public cloud that your team needs to build? Fear not.  Hybrid IT is not another type of cloud but rather a strategy for your organization to quickly and cost-effectively deploy technology across multiple […]

April 20, 2016

CLOUD

Flexible Service Delivery with Hybrid IT

2 min read

Data center professionals are under incredible pressure to help their business move with greater speed, offer flexible solutions and win new customers.   To achieve these business outcomes, cloud has become a core component to every organization’s strategic agenda. Cloud is not like other technology trends of the past. First, it is moving at logarithmic speed, […]

April 13, 2016

CLOUD

Bridging the Great Cloud Divide

1 min read

For developers, it’s all about the experience. Easy.  Fast.  Predictable. And that’s why they are attracted to public cloud. Let’s face it, the developer experience with traditional IT is pretty miserable.  When you have a request, IT needs to make sure they have the resources, then your request goes through the corporate approval process and […]

April 29, 2016

CLOUD

Infographic: Why is private cloud automation so hard to achieve?

1 min read

Private cloud automation is on the agenda of the majority of organizations today because it delivers the speed, flexibility and agility required to be competitive in today’s business environment.   There is a perception that private cloud is hard to achieve and with some solutions that may be true. Cisco has been in the cloud […]