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Rex Backman

Senior Marketing Manager, Big Data Solutions

Data Center and Cloud

Rex is a member of Cisco’s Data Center marketing team and focuses on the Big Data ecosystem. He has spent the last 10+ years developing or marketing solutions for Microsoft enterprise environments. Prior to Cisco, Rex worked at Microsoft were he helped to develop the System Center management family as well as Windows Server. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from California State University at Chico.

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March 30, 2017

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Cisco and SAS Software. Trusted. Powerful. Comprehensive.

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‘…It takes a big village…’ so to speak when it comes to bringing enterprise-class big data & analytics solutions to the...

March 27, 2017

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Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits

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  Splunk is one of our key Cisco UCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the...

January 18, 2017

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Solid State Speed. Cisco and Intel Publish World Record Performance for Big Data Systems

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Cisco continues to lead the industry in performance for Big Data systems, this time smashing the previous TPCx-HS benchmark world record by over 14% while simultaneously reducing cost by 5%. The TPC developed the TPCx-HS benchmark several years ago as Big Data systems grew from a curiosity to one of the fastest growing segments in […]

November 22, 2016

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Cisco and Intel on Hyperconvergence and HyperFlex

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  Cisco’s UCS portfolio has grown significantly over the past few months. Just recently we announced our new storage server brand, the S Series. Before that, a few months earlier, we brought to market HyperFlex Systems, Cisco’s complete hyperconverged infrastructure offering engineered on Cisco UCS. Intel has been by our side for each of these […]

November 15, 2016

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“P” is for Performance… The new Cisco UCS S3260 has plenty of it!

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Earlier this month we introduced our new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers, with the S3260 being first in market. The S Series is a new storage-optimized server category in the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) portfolio designed specifically to address the needs of data intensive workloads such as Big Data, and for deploying software-defined storage, […]

October 26, 2016

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The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change. Big Data Trends and Directions Webinar

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The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the source of the phrase “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change”.  His saying is totally applicable to today’s world of Big Data and Analytics. Our industry landscape is constantly changing, no doubt about that! Think about it a bit from a technology point of view: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, […]

October 10, 2016

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.conf2016 – Beyond Machine Data. Cisco and Splunk Pave the Way for Digital Transformation

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  Guest Blog: Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer Karthik Karupasamy highlights his experiences from Splunk's recent .conf2016 event in Orlando, FL....

October 6, 2016

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Business Insights Driven by Speed: An Olympic Size Example of Big Data

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Last week the Big Data and Analytics world was focused on New York City as the annual Strata+Hadoop World event took place. Cisco, as is the norm these past few years, was one of the many sponsors of the event. With our sponsorship came various opportunities, one of which was the ability for us to […]

September 27, 2016

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Strata+Hadoop 2016 New York City. Top 10 Reasons for Visiting Cisco. Booth #833

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  In honor of David Letterman… we hope we did him proud: 10 –       Come Fly the Friendly Skies of Cisco. Hey, we are raffling off a drone end of day on Wednesday and Thursday. These are not just any old white box drones. These are custom Cisco branded drones. It’s a super limited […]