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John McAbel

Senior Product Manager

Enterprise Solutions on Cisco UCS

Mr. McAbel is currently managing the VDI, Microsoft, and Oracle solutions across Cisco’s Compute infrastructure offerings. His responsibilities cover a wide range of areas including charting solution roadmaps, determining benchmark and proof point focus, providing sales and customer education, leading outbound marketing efforts and being the primary subject matter expert. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. McAbel held a similar position with IBM for their System x server product line, and before that managed the operating system product requirements for Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. He holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and a BS in Business from Oregon State University.

Articles

November 16, 2023

DATA CENTER

On-Premises or Public Cloud? Unlocking the Value of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

5 min read

Intersect360 Research published a detailed analysis comparing a VDI 2,500 desktop deployment on a public cloud to a Cisco compute-based on-premises deployment. The result was the Cisco deployment saved the customer $2 million over three years.

February 8, 2023

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UCS X-Series Powers FlexPod for Horizon 8

3 min read

Cisco just launched a new CVD for VDI Horizon 8 on Datacenter FlexPod with X-Series. This is an excellent design and deployment guide for customers desiring to implement FlexPod with X-Series managed by Cisco Intersight.

April 18, 2022

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Oracle Database 19c on Cisco X210c M6 – WOW!

4 min read

Oracle database 19c performs extremely well running on the Cisco X210c compute node. Testing using Oracle SLOB (Silly Little Oracle Benchmark) and Oracle Swingbench prove excellent scalability for IOPS growth and high transaction sperminute with minimum latency. Details in a new whitepaper just published by Tushar Patel, Principal Engineer, Oracle Solutions at Cisco Systems, Inc.

March 25, 2022

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Cisco UCS X-Series, Solution Test Drives

4 min read

Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System demonstrates excellent I/O performance as a precursor for planned Oracle Database 19c testing to announce in 2 weeks.

April 11, 2022

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Cisco Partners with AMD to set a World Record!

3 min read

Cisco has once again extended its dominance in SQL Server based TPC-H results by posting a new record for the 30TB TPC-H decision support benchmark on SQL Server 2019, gaining 14% over HPE’s best result and 29% better then Cisco’s previous posting.

December 6, 2021

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Cisco® C245 M6 Servers Powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors Deliver Enterprise-Grade VDI Capacity and Performance

3 min read

Using the AMD based C245 M6 server, Cisco is able to document that this server can support up to 400 virtual desktops! This opens doors for lower TCO and server consolidation for customers.

October 18, 2021

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FlexPod Datacenter & SQL Server: A Championship Team Gets Better!

3 min read

FlexPod Datacenter has been enhanced by the new Intel Xeon 3rd Generation Scalable processor based B200 M6. This is the ideal platform to host Microsoft SQL Server 2019 databases and applications. This new Cisco Validated design shows the best practices to set up this Converged Infrastructure to provide the best performance, quickly, leading to a lower total TCO for your organization.

July 26, 2021

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VDI on X-Series: A new ‘car’ you can drive today!

3 min read

Cisco has a new 'car' for VDI solutions, called the Cisco X-Series. This new model has been taken on a test spin to show its ability to handle VDI workloads and can support 33% more users per compute node compared to M5 servers running Login VSI workload.

June 3, 2021

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The rush to cloud based VDI, will customers stay?

2 min read

COVID-19 caused businesses to immediately establish an ability to support remote workers. The cloud offered a quick solution. Remote working will be the norm moving forward and business is questioning this choice. A FlexPod solution to host VDI offers a clear alternative.

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