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Bill Shields

Senior Product Manager

UCS Solutions Product Management

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.

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November 1, 2016

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Understanding the Cost Premium of Public Cloud for Active Data

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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 workloads on-prem vs. in the public cloud. What started out as a 2RU rackmount consolidation discussion (more on that next week) turned into a public cloud […]

May 6, 2016

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

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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.

April 1, 2016

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Processor Updates to UCS Mini and M-Series

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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 Servers.

March 9, 2016

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UCS Mini with StorMagic SvSAN

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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.

February 3, 2016

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Cool Updates to UCS Mini and M-Series

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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 go a bit more in-depth on what’s new for UCS Mini & M-Series Modular Servers.  

December 7, 2015

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UCS M-Series and Citrix XenApp Bare Metal Deployments

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If you are one of the 330,000 organizations using Citrix XenApp (or if you are considering it) you need to consider Cisco’s UCS M-Series modular servers. What are M-Series modular servers? M-Series servers are composable infrastructure that disaggregates storage and networking from the CPU/memory complex allowing workloads to be optimally matched to resources. An ideal […]

November 2, 2015

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Cisco UCS Mini Customer Success Stories

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When we launched UCS Mini, it pushed us into new territory with an exciting offering that bundles servers, storage and networking into a single solution — much like the traditional UCS — but in a smaller form factor and lowered the cost of entry to a UCS solution. It allows customers of any size (SMB, […]

August 11, 2015

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Latest additions to the Cisco UCS M-Series Modular Server Portfolio

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Cisco UCS M-Series Modular Servers deliver exceptional value for online content delivery like gaming, web serving, transcoding, and HPC. Built around Cisco’s virtual interface card (VIC) technology and the policy-based management of UCS Manager, this new design brings the award-winning architecture and management of Cisco Unified Computing to the world of parallelized workloads.

June 5, 2015

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Find and Fix Problems Faster with New Splunk Integration for Cisco UCS

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IT infrastructures are increasingly complex and include a broad range of technologies and platforms hosted in physical, virtual and cloud environments. Cisco UCS has become a world leading server platform in large part because the unique UCS architecture enables organization to harness the power of virtualization and dramatically simplify infrastructure management. Splunk is a great […]