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Francoise Rees

Marketing Manager

Customer Solution Marketing, Cisco Intersight

Francoise is a Solutions Marketing Manager in Cisco’s Cloud & Compute Marketing team. She looks after Cisco Intersight Service for Terraform & Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator. Prior to this role Francoise was in charge of solution marketing for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) as well as big data analytics. She previously drove Marketing for Cisco’s VDI solution.

Francoise was born and raised in France and has been living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area all her professional life.

Articles

May 14, 2020

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NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU Maximizes AI Infrastructure for Cisco Customers

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As AI workloads mature, the need for greater granularity and flexibility in accelerated compute resource allocation has increased. With support for the new NVIDIA A100 GPU Cisco UCS and HyperFlex will deliver performance and versatility for running AI at scale.

May 14, 2020

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Accelerate Distributed Deep Learning with Apache Spark

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The Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with NVIDIA GPUs will provide Hadoop and AI customers additional options to run their AI workloads on Hadoop or a Kubernetes farm natively using Apache Spark 3.0.

March 3, 2020

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Inferencing at the Edge with HyperFlex

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Cisco HyperFlex, together with Intel’s Xeon Scalable Processors, provides the compute power needed to perform inferencing at multiple retail locations.

November 14, 2019

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Cisco UCS powers HPC clusters for student competition

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Wake Forest and NC State Universities have been selected to participate in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at SC19, the premier HPC conference, which will take place in Denver on Nov 18-22.

September 23, 2019

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Cisco Data Intelligence Platform Gets Real

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Data scientists constant search for newer techniques and technologies that can unlock the power of their data is leading them towards artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools and...

June 7, 2019

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Announcing Cisco Data Intelligence Platform

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Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (CDIP), a cloud scale architecture, brings together big data, AI/compute farm, and storage tiers to work together as a single entity, all with centralized management.

January 23, 2019

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You CAN secure your IP with Cisco GPU accelerated virtualization

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A key challenge facing all CIOs is securing the organization’s intellectual property (IP.) How are your systems protected against data loss or theft by your own employees?

January 7, 2019

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Speed up virtual desktops deployment with hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud delivery services

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Desktop and application virtualization have long been a practical solution for supporting a mobile, distributed workforce that desires to work anywhere, anytime, using any device. While providing a lot of...

June 11, 2018

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Cisco Brings AI/ML Workloads to Hyperconverged Infrastructure

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Our AI/ML ecosystem partners are supporting us by validating their solutions on HyperFlex, hence providing customers with great options for creating and deploying AI/ML workloads.

March 19, 2018

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See Innovations in Cisco GPU Accelerated Data Center at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference

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The NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference is happening next week in San Jose. Visit booth 415 to see what the Cisco GPU accelerated data center can do for you.

January 25, 2018

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HyperFlex Multicloud Platform is here and coming to Cisco Live Barcelona

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Cisco just announced the new HyperFlex Multicloud Platform: an adaptive platform to power any application with the simplicity of hyperconvergence. Next week the HyperFlex Multicloud Platform comes...

January 4, 2018

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What’s the Latest with Cisco and Veeam: New CVD Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployment …

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Authored by Brandon Copeland: @bhcopeland Over the past year Cisco and Veeam customers have seen tremendous value from the Cisco and Veeam partnership. The Cisco HyperFlex™ Systems solution together with Veeam Availability Suite gives customers a flexible, agile, and scalable infrastructure that is protected and easy to deploy. This validated solution allows IT teams to increase […]

November 2, 2017

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Accelerate and protect your data transformation with Cisco and Commvault

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Digital transformation is driving explosive growth in unstructured data from IoT, video, mobility, collaboration, and analytics. Emerging applications are bringing data closer to compute, demanding a marriage of capacity and performance in infrastructure. Software Defined Storage and object storage platforms on x86 compute are becoming a destination for a lot of this data. So now […]

October 25, 2017

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Commvault introduces ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS: Resilient, scalable data protection architecture

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At Cisco, we’ve enjoyed a long relationship with Commvault, working together to combine expertise and provide better, smarter solutions to customer data protection challenges. We collaborate closely to help organizations ensure business continuity and uninterrupted operations more simply, more effectively, and more cost-efficiently. Our latest solution is called ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS: It’s a new […]

August 17, 2017

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Cisco UCS delivers industry leading GPU density on blade servers

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GPUs are becoming ubiquitous in the data center. On one hand, if you’re running virtual desktops you know that modern apps and newer operating systems such as Windows 10 make use of a lot more graphic power than their predecessors. Which means that you need to provide more graphic power when you deliver these apps […]

May 23, 2017

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Cisco HyperFlex Joins Citrix HCI Workspace Appliance Program

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Today during Citrix Synergy’s Technology keynote, Calvin Hsu – Citrix Vice President of Product Marketing - announced Cisco’s participation in the Citrix HCI Workspace Appliance program....

May 5, 2017

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Look Who’s Virtualizing Architectural Design and Graphic Workstations at the GPU Technology Conference

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Written by Mike Brennan – @CiscoVDIguy – Product Manager, Desktop Virtualization and Graphics In my role at Cisco, I am fortunate to have the opportunity to meet our Customers who do absolutely amazing things with Cisco UCS and our partners’ technologies.  One shining example is CannonDesign, who set out on a journey to implement their Single […]