Bill Shields

Senior Marketing Manager
Product and Solutions Marketing Team

Bill joined the Cisco family in November 2010 as a Marketing Manager on the Cisco UCS Product Marketing team. His duties include managing the development Cisco’s UCS TCO/ROI tools; providing sales team and partner tool support; server competitive analysis and positioning; is the marketing manager for UCS B-Series Blade Servers, UCS C-Series Rack Servers, UCS S-Series Storage Servers, and UCS Mini.

Prior to joining Cisco, Bill was with Hewlett-Packard for over 16 years in a number of roles including almost seven years in server options marketing and ProLiant Essentials Software training development and delivery.

Bill’s certifications include a Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) from the American Society for Quality and Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute. He earned his MBA in Marketing from the University of Houston.

Bill Shields's Articles

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  Data Center

  Cisco UCS M5 C-Series Rack Servers – Evolution and Revolution

  July 13, 2017 - 1 Comment

  Tuesday we announced our fifth generation of Cisco UCS servers. Today, I want to take a deeper look at the M5 rack servers. If you are interested in our new

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  Data Center

  More of everything you love with Cisco UCS M5 Blade Servers

  July 12, 2017 - 0 Comments

  Yesterday we announced our fifth generation of UCS servers. Today I want to take a deeper look at the M5 blade servers. Tomorrow, I’ll tackle the M5 rack servers. More!

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  Data Center

  Cisco UCS continues its world record tradition!

  July 11, 2017 - 1 Comment

  Contributing author: Vijay Durairaj Today we are announcing our latest generation of UCS servers based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family and 6 industry standard world record benchmarks. Since Cisco

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  Data Center

  Cisco HyperFlex vs. Public Cloud

  April 17, 2017 - 11 Comments

  Late last year, I compared Cisco’s S3260 Storage Server to Amazon’s S3 service. The results shocked a lot of people and spurred a lot comments on the blog. It’s worth

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  Data Center

  Do you need more storage but fewer servers?

  November 9, 2016 - 2 Comments

  Last week, I discussed the economics of on-premises storage using the S3260 Storage Server vs. the cloud. Net net, the S3260 is 56% less expensive. Today, I wanted to talk

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  Data Center

  Understanding the Cost Premium of Public Cloud for Active Data

  November 1, 2016 - 27 Comments

  If you’ve read any of my past blogs, you’ll know I focus a lot on the economic impact of Cisco UCS. Today I’m comparing the TCO of hosting data intensive

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  Data Center

  Video Transcoding with the Intel Xeon E3-1285L v4 Processor

  May 6, 2016 - 1 Comment

  Intel® recently released a white paper on FFmpeg Linux transcoding performance with Intel Quick Sync Video using the Intel Media Server Studio on the Intel Xeon® E3-1285L v4 processor. This

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  Data Center

  Processor Updates to UCS Mini and M-Series

  April 1, 2016 - 1 Comment

  Yesterday, Girish blogged about the new Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v4 product family and Cisco’s world record benchmark performance. Today, I want to update you on the changes to UCS Mini and our M-Series Modular

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  Data Center

  UCS Mini with StorMagic SvSAN

  March 9, 2016 - 2 Comments

  Do you need a server and storage solution for your remote sites, to ensure that your business critical applications are always available? Cisco and StorMagic have a solution for you.

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  Cool Updates to UCS Mini and M-Series

  February 3, 2016 - 1 Comment

  Tuesday Girish blogged about the new UCS Innovations and at the end of this post there is a list of other blogs with more details on other updates. Today I’ll

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