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Ken Spear

Sr. Marketing Manager, Automation

UCS Solution Marketing

Ken is responsible for marketing the Cisco UCS automation, operations and the IaaS software portfolio.

He has over 20 years experience in enterprise product management and marketing roles with software development and operations management software.

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September 26, 2018

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Cisco Intersight: AI-Driven IT Operations Strategy

3 min read

Cisco launched our cloud-based platform for AI Operations, Cisco Intersight, last September. It already delivers significant benefits to IT operations, and we intend to take it to the next level...

August 28, 2018

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Alaska Airlines Uses Infrastructure Automation to Stay on Top

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The Alaska Airlines IT organization believes infrastructure automation with UCS Director has been one of their keys to keeping their end-users happy and achieving a #1 rating for customer satisfaction*....

June 26, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – Implementing Our Open IaaS Ecosystem

2 min read

Cisco demonstrates the potential of the Intersight RESTful OpenAPI ecosystem, introducing new intent-based automation functionality and a connector that supports a third party system.

May 21, 2018

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DevNet Sandbox for UCS Management

2 min read

The UCS Management Sandbox provides a safe environment for IT administrators, DevOps teams, and application developers to learn about and test the power of UCS for automating your data center.

May 7, 2018

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Cisco Intersight and UCS Director: Executing on Our Strategy

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Here’s the latest update on Cisco Intersight, our cloud-based management platform that revolutionizes systems management, and on our continuing efforts to enhance our private cloud platform, UCS Director.

May 1, 2018

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UCS Director: Simplify Infrastructure Automation Anywhere

3 min read

The latest release of UCS Director includes new functionality to enhance orchestration and make it easier to use workflows to deliver infrastructure automation across compute, network, storage and virtualization from the...

April 2, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – Benefits for Edge Computing and ROBO

2 min read

Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers are experiencing significant benefits from the cloud-based systems management in edge computing and remote office branch office (ROBO) environments as well as in the data...

March 13, 2018

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Programmable Infrastructure and the Cisco Intersight API

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Cisco Intersight includes a RESTful API that supports the OpenAPI standard to provide full programmability and deep integrations with third-party tools and systems. Now partners and customers can begin to...

February 21, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – Automating Standalone Rack Servers

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Customers want the ability to automate the configuration and deployment of rack-mount servers without the need for fabric interconnects. Intersight Essentials provides policy-based configuration management for Cisco UCS standalone C-series...

January 29, 2018

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Cisco Intersight – The Benefits of Essentials

2 min read

A primary goal of Cisco Intersight is to simplify and automate IT operations. Cisco Intersight - Essentials delivers on this objective with significant new advantages to Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers.

December 4, 2017

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UCS Director – A Strategic IaaS Evolution

3 min read

Cisco is committed to enhancing UCS Director, our private cloud platform for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and a key component of our converged infrastructure solutions.

November 14, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – Designed To Be Secure

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Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical Marketing Engineer Our new cloud-based systems management platform, Cisco Intersight, leverages our expertise in security and cloud hosted management. It delivers secure management...

October 19, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – Enabling Management of Edge Computing

4 min read

The requirement for Edge Computing is increasing as enterprises transition to cloud-native applications and implement IoT initiatives. Cisco Intersight is an excellent platform for addressing the management requirements of core...

October 5, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – Analysts and Partners Respond

2 min read

Cisco Intersight is a transformative cloud-based management platform. It delivers new levels of simplicity and actionable intelligence to achieve significant customer benefits. Industry analysts and partners affirm Cisco’s strategy. Embracing...

September 26, 2017

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Cisco Intersight – A Transformative Evolution

2 min read

Cisco recently introduced Cisco Intersight, a revolutionary cloud-based systems management platform. Intersight was designed to deliver significant benefits while being easy to use and simple for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers...

September 5, 2017

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Project Starship – Starting The Journey

3 min read

Starship is an innovative, cloud-based management platform for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex systems. We introduced a Tech Preview of Starship a few weeks ago, so users could begin to try it...

July 18, 2017

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The Customer Demand for Pervasive Simplicity

3 min read

Last month Cisco introduced our latest platform for realizing Cisco's vision of "intuitive infrastructure". This initiative is another step forward in the Cisco UCS strategy to provide customers with greater...