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Jim McHugh

Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing

Unified Computing Systems

Jim McHugh has over 20 Years of Experience as a Marketing Executive and Leadership Positions with Start-Up, Mid-Sized, and High-Profile Companies, including Sun Microsystems and Apple pior to joining Cisco Systems, Inc..

Jim is the Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing for Unified Computing Systems at Cisco. He leads and drives Marketing initiatives for UCS and partner solutions marketing (including EMC, Intel, NetApp, SAP, Microsoft, and VCE.) Jim is focused on buildling a vision for organizational success and executing marketing strategies measured by achievement of UCS revenue, market share, and growth.

He has a deep knowledge and understanding of business drivers, market/customer dynamics, and technology-centered products. Managed a multi-discipline teams delivering; Brand, Demand Generation, Social Media, Strategic Planning, Customer Intelligence and all Integrated Marketing Communications functions.

Jim holds an International MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

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June 5, 2015

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Join Us for Datacenter Innovation Talk at Cisco Live

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Digital transformation hinges on the performance of the datacenter. Cisco would like to share how digital transformation is turning traditional business models on their heads, enabling new innovative customer experiences. This is creating new business dynamics where speed is vital for organizations to stay competitive. Want to learn more? Make sure not to miss “The […]

June 4, 2015

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Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 3: Big Data and Analytics Changing All Aspects of our Lives

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I am so glad that Todd is next up in our Why I Love Big Data Partner Series, because he is definitely excited about the potential ways Big Data unlocks the value of IoE. Please come by CiscoLive and see Cisco, Cloudera, and Tableau use data-driven, predictive insights to help medical teams improve quality of […]

June 3, 2015

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Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 2: Reduced Downtime, Happier Customers and Improved TCO with SAP, Hortonworks and Cis …

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Following the Hortonworks Blog, we are lucky to have James Gold from SAP as next blogger in the Why I love Big Data guest partner series. James explains how customers experience is greatly improved via predictive maintenance in a connected factory. James Gold, Director, Global Technology Partner Marketing, SAP SE Jim is an enterprise software veteran who’s […]

June 2, 2015

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Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 1: Leverage Big Data at Scale, with Cisco and Hortonworks

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As the first in the series of “Why I love Big Data blogs” with our Big Data and Analytics partners, I am pleased to have Cecile...

May 29, 2015

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Cisco and Big Data and Analytics Partners unveil vertical solutions at Cisco Live

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Why do I love Big Data so much? It’s because there are endless possibilities to deliver on the Internet of Everything (IoE) opportunity that will create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunities for businesses, countries, and individuals. Analytics is an enormous part of that value creation and is estimated to drive $7.3T of the $19T IoE opportunity over […]

May 5, 2015

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Cisco Innovation Highlights Microsoft Ignite

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Today at Microsoft Ignite, Cisco continues to prove out our commitment to delivering the best data center and networking infrastructure solutions for the Microsoft portfolio. The proof comes in the form of new Cisco innovations that we committed to deliver as part of our joint multi-year go-to-market agreement with Microsoft in July 2014. Building on […]

February 27, 2015

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Oh, The Things You Learn After Hours!

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks for us in big data land. One thing that struck me is how much we learned about the big data and analytics space after hours at Strata Hadoop, and sometimes that can be just as exciting as what we learn during the sessions. I have a couple of […]

February 5, 2015

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On February 12 Partners Learn How Cisco Big Data Analytics Transforms Business

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In an Internet of Everything era, enterprises and public sector organizations have developed an insatiable appetite for data. Data is being gathered from an increasing number of sources, and—from an analytics perspective—the more data your customers have, the better the insights they can gain. We recognize that analytics represent a truly transformational business opportunity for […]

November 3, 2014

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Cisco and Red Hat – All In with OpenStack for the Enterprise

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When it comes to driving innovation in next generation data center architectures, open source is clearly at the forefront. A perfect example is OpenStack, which is defining the future of cloud computing across private, public and hybrid clouds. This innovation is being driven by a strong and vibrant community that is taking place in Paris […]

October 6, 2014

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VCE Refreshes Vblock Portfolio with New Cisco UCS servers

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Five years ago, VCE was created with the goal of providing a simple, efficient solution to deploy and run IT infrastructure. VCE’s Vblock Systems have enabled customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure. It would be an understatement to say VCE has been successful.  Last year, Vblock Systems, […]

September 4, 2014

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Cisco UCSO – A solution whose name length is second only to the list of customer benefits

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Open source software is driving innovation in mobile devices and platforms, cloud services, big data and social technologies, as it continues to shape next generation data center architectures.  Specifically, interest in OpenStack has been growing: IT organizations are looking for new ways to increase efficiency and have expressed preference for a more agile, modular and […]

August 27, 2014

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The Next Wave of Innovation: Cisco UCS Fall Launch Sept 4th

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In 2009, the course of data center technology changed forever with the introduction of a groundbreaking architecture designed for IT innovation and business acceleration.  With the Unified Computing System, Cisco answered the needs of customers embarking on the industry transition to data center virtualization and cloud.   This innovation led Cisco to becoming #1 blade server […]

July 15, 2014

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Cisco and Microsoft: Radically Improving I.T. Effectiveness Together

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Today at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC 2014) in Washington D.C. we entered into a new phase of our Microsoft relationship. Together Cisco and Microsoft announced a multi-year, worldwide sales and channel program focused on driving infrastructure solutions for Server Migration, Private Cloud, and SQL Server engagements. Based on key technologies such as UCS, Nexus, Hyper-V, and […]

July 8, 2014

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UCS Integrated Infrastructure and New EMC VMAX3

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New applications and cloud computing are placing new demands on IT infrastructure. The infrastructure needs to be capable of quickly responding to dynamic business priorities and changing market conditions.  Customers require an IT infrastructure that brings the scale, agility, and mission-critical availability the business demands, both today and tomorrow. Hence, the industry is witnessing a […]

June 4, 2014

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Cisco UCS is #1 in Integrated Infrastructure

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What is integrated infrastructure? Major analysts firms differ slightly on the taxonomy and makeup of the various integrated systems that comprise this market segment. However, they do agree that these systems include a combination of servers, networking, storage systems, and management.  Cisco realized that bringing together industry and market leading technologies would help accelerate IT […]

November 29, 2013

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Cisco expands the SAP Competency Center in Walldorf in a big way

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The Cisco SAP Competency Center expanded its presence at the SAP Partner Port in Walldorf  Germany on November 11, 2013. Watch the video of Padmasree Warrior, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cisco and Vishal Sikka, CTO and Executive Board Member for SAP as they welcome those that attended the opening of the Competency […]

September 17, 2013

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Cisco and VCE: Infrastructure Will Always Matter

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I recently had the opportunity to meet with Trey Leyton, VP & CTO for VCE, to discuss VCE’s momentum and how they use Cisco technologies to deliver a truly converged infrastructure and an incredible customer experience. http://youtu.be/mfb4j74QaWI Last year, VCE achieved a $1 billion per year run rate with the VblockTM Systems portfolio. Customers have […]

September 4, 2013

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Cisco Solutions for EMC VSPEX: Collaboration Helps Build Momentum

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Cisco and EMC continue to partner closely to speed our customers journey to the cloud via our “three paths to the cloud’ strategy. The strategy enables customers to implement custom-design infrastructures with best-of-breed products, validated reference architectures via Cisco solutions for EMC VSPEX, and pre-integrated converged infrastructure from VCE. In the last year, Cisco solutions […]