As a long standing advocate and voice of cloud management at Cisco, Joann’s domain knowledge and technical expertise have contributed significantly to the strategy, development and adoption of Cisco’s cloud management and data center automation software solutions. She is currently the marketing leader and voice for Cisco’s latest and broadest enterprise software offering in the category. During a distinguished career spanning two decades Joann has held major product management and product marketing positions at BlueArc/Hitachi, Netapp, Parallels, and HP, successfully launching and establishing many technologies that are industry standards today. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and computer science, having graduated with honors in the field.
Everywhere you look, the industry is talking about applications. They generate revenue and run your business. Assuring your applications’ performance requires stable data center resources allocated in just the right size to meet demand. How does your business allocate resources? Most over provision for peak demand which leads to higher capex and idle resources once […]
Cloud and software-defined technologies continue to reshape traditional data centers. Companies turning to cloud to deliver consistent services and processes have found that they can deliver elastic, safe and flexible services at the speed and expectations of their customers. They have also discovered that cloud is extending the life of their on premise environments. Is […]
On July 10, 2017, Cisco introduced the next generation of UCS servers,UCS M5; that deliver simplicity, performance and a future-proofed design. But along with new servers, Cisco also announced enhancements to its data center and cloud portfolio. Data centers are complex environments and forecasts indicate that the complexity will continue to grow. Workloads are growing […]
Workloads are forecasted to grow 26% over the next three years. Yet the business is only funding increases of 3% to IT budgets. How will your business address this gap?
Application performance is vital to your business success. Assuring application performance requires that the right amount of infrastructure is delivered to the right workload, at the right time. How do you currently allocate resources to assure performance? Do you guess? Overprovision for business peaks? Many organizations use both of these methods then rely on alerts […]
It’s all about customer experience in the digital world and that experience depends on the performance of your applications and their supporting infrastructure. At a time when applications and technologies continue to increase in volume and density, how can you be sure your applications are running at their best? IT teams are faced with a […]
Your company lives or dies by the applications you provide to customers and employees. Their expectations on how they access these applications have changed. Go Fast with Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite.
Digital transformation has created a sense of urgency to adopt “as a service” business models, such as hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud delivers speed and agility. Users are empowered to deploy workloads across multiple cloud platforms. Your business stays compliant and safe. Business and development teams can use their platform of choice. Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud […]
We live in a world dominated by digital. As consumers, it is second nature to expect instant access to data, on demand ordering and fast service delivery. But when we change from consumers to employees our experience is quite different. Offering a consumer-like experience requires conversion from manual processes to automated delivery providing your organization […]