Bill joined the Cisco family in November 2010 as a Marketing Manager on the Cisco UCS Product Marketing team. As a Sr. Marketing Manager, 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 X-Series Modular Servers and UCS C-Series Rack Servers. Additionally, he provides support for Intersight.
In 2025, he went back to his product management roots and is the Sr. Product Manager for FlexPod (converged infrastructure solution with NetApp) and Rubrik solutions.
Prior to joining Cisco, Bill was previously with Compaq/HP in a number of roles including almost seven years in server options product management 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.
Other server vendors offer multinode servers, only Cisco offers you a system: UCS is a fabric-centric architecture with a centralized management model, manageable with a single tool, Cisco Intersight.
When we announced our new M5 servers, we posted six new world record benchmarks. This late last week received confirmation of three more world records. SPECjBB®2015 MultijVM – #1 4-socket server result for critical-jOPS. The Cisco UCS C480 M5 delivered 229,029 – a 78% increase when compared to Cisco’s previous result #1 result.1 […]
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