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Berna Devrim

Former Senior Manager of Marketing

No Longer at Cisco

With more than 17 years of technology experience, Berna Devrim currently leads Cisco’s Unified Fabric data center switching and storage marketing team. In this role, she defines marketing strategy and leads the successful execution of the marketing plan for the Nexus 7K/5K/3K/2K/1KV and MDS 9K switching. Prior to her current role, Berna led Cisco’s Catalyst fixed switching marketing team and Cisco EnergyWise sustainability/green solution and partnership activities.

Berna brings rich technical understanding as well as customer and market knowledge of LAN Switching. Throughout her career, Berna has held engineering, product line management, marketing, and sales positions with companies such as Juniper Networks, Nortel, Extreme Networks and IBM.

 

Prior to joining Cisco, Berna was a Product Line Manager at Juniper Networks, responsible for putting together the Enterprise Switching portfolio, with a focus on EX 4200/3200 products as well as portfolio technology differentiators. Previously, she has held Product Line and Product Marketing Management roles at Extreme Networks and Nortel Networks responsible for BlackDiamond 8800 and ERS 8600 modular product lines respectively. Having worked as an Advisory Sales Specialist at IBM for X Series Servers, Berna also brings strong customer driven point of view.

Berna holds a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from California State University.

Articles

February 12, 2014

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DATA CENTER

…And The Momentum Continues! New Nexus Data Center Innovations AND Customer Deployments!

3 min read

You probably have already heard that during CiscoLive Milan, we have unveiled the new additions to our Data Center and Cloud networking portfolio: New Nexus 7706 and a high density F3 Series 1/10G module for Nexus 7700 provide increased deployment options for data center interconnect, core or aggregation. The next generation Nexus 5600 family offers VXLAN […]

June 26, 2013

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DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco Unified Fabric Innovations: Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation, Nexus 7700 Switches, and F3 Modules

5 min read

Cisco today introduced Application-Centric Infrastructure as the vision for Next Generation Data Center architecture, built for both today’s physical and virtual workloads as well as tomorrow’s highly dynamic Cloud-based, and performance-intensive big data application environments. Please check out Padmasree Warrior’s blog or Cisco Unified Fabric to learn more.   What I would like to share with you […]

April 24, 2013

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DATA CENTER

Introducing MDS 9710 Multilayer Director and MDS 9250i Multiservice Switch – Raising the Bar for Storage Networks

5 min read

The data center landscape has changed dramatically in several dimensions. Server virtualization is almost a defacto standard with a big increase in VM density. And there is a move towards world of many clouds.  Then there is the massive data growth. Some studies show that data is doubling in every 2 years while there is […]

April 9, 2013

DATA CENTER

Mega Trends are Reshaping Storage Area Networks. But Are You Ready?

1 min read

The data center landscape has changed dramatically in several dimensions. Server virtualization is almost a defacto in our customers’ data centers with a big increase in VM density. They are also moving towards world of many clouds.  And then there is the massive data growth. Some studies show that data is doubling in every 2 […]

February 5, 2013

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DATA CENTER

Introducing First Services Module on Nexus 7000 Series

Cloud computing is part of the journey to deliver IT as a Service which enables IT to change from a cost center to a business strategic partner. Forrester Research recently published a report that concluded, “Cloud computing is ready for the enterprise… but many enterprises aren’t ready for the cloud.”1   Yet Cloud deployments are happening […]

February 4, 2013

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DATA CENTER

Introducing Nexus 6000 Series – Industry’s Highest Density Layer 2/3 40 Gigabit Fixed Switch

The evolution of the applications environment is creating new demands on IT and in the data center. Broad adoption of scale-out application architectures (i.e. big data), workload virtualization and cloud deployments are demanding greater scalability across the fabric. The increase in east/west (i.e. server-to-server) traffic along with the higher adoption of 10GbE in the server […]

January 17, 2013

DATA CENTER

CLOUD COMPUTING IS READY FOR YOU. BUT ARE YOU READY?

2 min read

Previously I talked about the growing demands and how the role of IT has to change from a cost center to a business strategic partner.  And we also looked at the journey you need to take to deliver IT as a Service. Cloud computing is part of this journey and it is happening – and I mean […]

November 14, 2012

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DATA CENTER

What Is Cisco UNIFIED FABRIC? Why Should You Care?

3 min read

Is your network ready to help you transform and be the strategic partner that you can be? Let’s face it… Today’s data centers are challenged with siloed resources and facilities… Limited scalability… Poor resource utilization… Growing complexity…Perhaps the biggest challenge is time.  When 80% of your resources are dedicated to “keeping the lights on” and […]

January 8, 2013

DATA CENTER

The Journey You Need To Take To Deliver IT As A Service

3 min read

Previously I talked about the growing demands and how the role of IT has to change from a cost center to a business strategic partner.  It’s important to acknowledge that getting an organization to the point where it can implement IT as a Service isn’t easy, nor does it take place all at once.  Every customer has […]