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Chris O'Brien

Sr. Director, Compute Solutions

Cisco Compute

Chris O'Brien is the Senior Director of Compute Solutions at Cisco, where he leads the development of Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) within the Compute Technologist Group. Under his guidance, CVDs empower customers to accelerate IT transformation by providing thoroughly tested, proven architectures that simplify deployment, reduce risk, and optimize performance across Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) portfolio. These validated solutions address critical customer priorities—such as infrastructure and application modernization, support for data-intensive workloads, hybrid-cloud adoption, and advanced AI/ML integration—by seamlessly combining Cisco and third-party technologies. With a background spanning application development, technical marketing, and solution architecture, Chris is dedicated to helping customers achieve faster time-to-value and greater confidence in their IT investments.

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March 19, 2025

PARTNER

Enhancing Day 2 Operations with Cisco Compute and Red Hat Ansible Automation

3 min read

Cisco and Red Hat enhance AI and application modernization with new automation solutions, leveraging Ansible for seamless operations on Cisco UCS. Discover advanced capabilities for efficient infrastructure and data center management.

October 23, 2023

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DATA CENTER

How FlexPod Cybersecure Architecture Helps You Protect, Detect, and Recover Your Precious Data 

4 min read

FlexPod provides a secure IT infrastructure to protect apps and data from unauthorized access, detect threats early to keep data safe, and recover data quickly to eliminate downtime.

October 4, 2022

DATA CENTER

FlexPod XCS Interoperability Compliance – Unique Compliance Check with Cisco HCL & NetApp IMT together

2 min read

FlexPod XCS interoperability feature leverages Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator (ICO) work-flow engine to do the magic here. It collects FlexPod component inventory as discovered by the system, getting compliance data from Cisco HCL and NetApp IMT under the hood, to generating interoperability report for you to consume.