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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.

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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 […]

March 14, 2017

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Cisco HyperFlex Meets High Performance Requirements of Active Trading Floor

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In the world of finance, trading requires fast decisions and reaction speed is of the essence. So when Bellevue Group started to feel the ping of performance degradation in its VDI environment it knew it had to find a solution. Researchers in the trading department work with sophisticated spreadsheet models and they need to crunch […]

February 1, 2017

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Easily Provision Additional Infrastructure when your VDI Deployment Soars

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Cisco UCS Director delivers new levels of orchestration and automation for Cisco HyperFlex Systems. Last Saturday was the first day of the Chinese New Year when we...

January 5, 2017

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Three key factors for making your VDI project a success in 2017

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The end of the year is usually a time when we reflect on what we’ve accomplished in the past 12 months and set goals for the upcoming year. One resolution that should be easier to cross off your list in 2017 is to bring new life to your VDI projects. VDI, or more broadly desktop […]

September 22, 2016

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Introducing Cisco HyperFlex for GPU-Accelerated VDI at NVIDIA GTC Amsterdam

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NVIDIA is holding the first European edition of its successful GPU Technology Conference next week in Amsterdam. Cisco is excited to participate as a Platinum sponsor. We will have subject-matter experts on hand to talk to you about deep-learning, machine learning, virtualized graphics workstations and the infrastructure needed to support these. We’re excited about introducing […]

August 19, 2016

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Introducing FlashStack 5000-user VDI deployment with Cisco and Pure Storage

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Digital business transformation is driving renewed interest in desktop and app virtualization as a mean to provide secure application and desktop delivery to a mobile, distributed and fluctuating workforce. Keeping the desktops and apps securely centralized in the data center provides many benefits. It eases the headache associated with managing thousands of desktops, keeps your […]

June 27, 2016

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Visualize the Future of IoT at the Esri User Conference

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Guest blogger: AnnMarie Link, Global Strategic Partner Marketing Manager, Cisco  When you think about the future of IoT, can you visualize the impact it will have on the world around us? Picture a world where everything is connected, with data from everywhere organized, analyzed, and acted upon within a fraction of a second. But what really […]

May 16, 2016

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Accelerate your Path to Digital Workplace Transformation with Desktop and App Virtualization

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We’ve all heard that digital business transformation is upon us. Organizations are transforming processes and business models in order to get to market faster and foster innovation. Disruptive business models are replacing established players, from Netflix vs. Blockbuster to Uber and the taxi industry; we’re all familiar with the many proof points. An important step […]

March 28, 2016

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Deliver GPU-Accelerated Virtual Workstations from the Data Center

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It’s that time of year again!  April 4th kicks off NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose California.  If you’ve never heard of GTC or wonder what goes on at a “Graphics Conference”, you might be surprised by the breadth of technology and solutions that surround this event.  With everything from self-driving cars, gaming, […]

March 10, 2016

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Accelerate Large Scale VDI Success with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage

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We are just a few days away from Pure//Accelerate conference in San Francisco. For one thing, I’m excited about going to a San Francisco conference that is not held at the Moscone Conference Center. Pier 48 is a great location, just across from the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark where I spent many a cold and […]

August 31, 2015

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Agile Application Delivery with UCS-Powered VDI

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We’re off to another edition of VMworld with some great technology to showcase. Our theme this year is your data center is everywhere, the center of innovation. And talking about innovation we will be demoing some recent work around our desktop virtualization solution with VMware. We will have demo pods showcasing our UCS solutions for […]