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 Voted Top Platinum Sponsor – JDE Summit 2015

  February 9, 2015 - 1 Comment

  The JD Edwards Summit brings together over 700 business partners from around the world for a week of product updates, industry discussions and intense training.  A number of vendors were

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  Data Center

  Cisco UCS Mini Wins infoTECH Spotlight Award

  December 18, 2014 - 0 Comments

  Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) announced the winners of the 2014 infoTECH Spotlight Data Center Excellence Awards today. Cisco is honored that UCS Mini is one of the recipients! To quote

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  Data Center

  The Economic Impact of a VersaStack Solution

  December 16, 2014 - 0 Comments

  I’ve written a number of blogs on the economic value of Cisco UCS and how it is changing the economics of the datacenter. Now, for the first time we performed

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  Data Center

  Cisco UCS Mini – Edge-Scale Computing

  September 4, 2014 - 1 Comment

  Cisco’s Unified Computing System, originally designed for the datacenter is now optimized for Branch Office / Remote Office (ROBO), point-of-sale, and smaller IT environments with the announcement today of UCS

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  Cisco UCS PowerTool Scripting Contest – Winners Announced

  May 30, 2014 - 1 Comment

  To highlight the power and ease of use of the UCS PowerTool SDK and XML, a Windows PowerShell scripting contest was run from March 27th to May 11th. Championed by

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  Data Center

  Cisco UCS Power Scripting Finalist & Update #4

  May 14, 2014 - 0 Comments

  The UCS Power Scripting Contest closed on May 11th and the five finalists were announced at Microsoft TechEd today. They are: Alberto Yanes New UCS Domain Config UCS Manager LDAP

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  Data Center

  Cisco UCS at Microsoft TechEd 2014

  May 8, 2014 - 0 Comments

  If you are coming to Houston next week for Microsoft TechEd, please set aside some time to stop by the Cisco booth (#701) and attend our sessions to learn how

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  Data Center

  Cisco UCS Power Scripting Contest Update #3

  May 2, 2014 - 0 Comments

  Many IT organizations use Microsoft PowerShell to automate and accelerate data center management tasks. The Cisco UCS PowerTool module for PowerShell provides users a comprehensive list of cmdlets to manage all components of Cisco

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  Cisco UCS Power Scripting Contest Update #2

  April 25, 2014 - 0 Comments

  A number of useful scripts have been entered in the UCS PowerTool/PowerShell contest. Here is what’s been happening since the 11th. Email UCS Fault One-Liner Joshua Barton won the 2nd prize for

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  Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter at Cisco Live!

  April 21, 2014 - 0 Comments

  For those of you who follow the Cisco Data Center blog in general and my blogs in particular, you’re probably thinking it is time I updated you on this topic.

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