Todd Brannon

Senior Director, Computing
Cisco Data Center Marketing

Todd Brannon joined Cisco in 2009 and is Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Unified Computing System portfolio. Todd has over 20 years of experience in servers, storage and managed services spanning a variety of roles at Sprint, Dell and Cisco. Early in his career Todd served as Armor branch officer in the United States Army and loves the smell of a data center in the morning.

Todd Brannon's Articles

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  Data Center

  All about that BaaS: Cisco UCS and CommVault Simpana

  June 8, 2015 - 0 Comments

  With Richard Jacobick Cisco and CommVault have teamed up on a solution aimed squarely at contemporary data protection challenges. Data is the lifeblood of the enterprise, yet the playbook for how

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  Cisco UCS and Intel Xeon E7v3: bringing the horsepower you need for analytics

  May 5, 2015 - 2 Comments

  I’ve heard it said that CIO’s like their ERP systems the same way they like their cars: big, fast and German. Setting nationalities aside, IT pros craving more horsepower for something

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  Cisco UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale

  September 8, 2014 - 0 Comments

  If you follow the news in the world of data center you probably noticed a small announcement from Cisco last week regarding…

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  The Bases are Loaded for a Cisco UCS Grand Slam

  August 22, 2014 - 0 Comments

  “The innovation pipeline is very strong, and you can expect to see announcements in the fall that will continue to accelerate our momentum with UCS and add to our competitive

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  Cisco UCS Five Years On: The Right Solution at the Right Time

  March 25, 2014 - 0 Comments

  I knew we were on to something good when a customer told me “This is so easy, it’s CTO proof.” Early in the business, I was talking to a front-line

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  New UCS Servers deliver innovative scaling options and record-breaking power

  February 18, 2014 - 4 Comments

  This week we’re announcing new systems at the upper end of the UCS server product line: some heavy-duty iron for heavy-duty times.   These are important new tools for our UCS customers: 

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  WHIPTAIL + UCS = peanut butter + chocolate

  October 29, 2013 - 2 Comments

    Back on September 10th, Cisco announced the intent to acquire WHIPTAIL and today I’m excited to report to our Data Center blog readers that the acquisition has been completed!

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  Tick Tock Goes the Server Clock

  September 10, 2013 - 8 Comments

  Ivy Bridge comes to UCS! As Paul Perez reminds us in his evolutionary metaphor for our industry, time marches on, and today brings another tick of the clock. Many of

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  Introducing Cisco SingleConnect Technology

  August 27, 2013 - 0 Comments

  When customers talk about why they like UCS they often sum it up in very concise terms. “It makes things a lot easier,” is a common refrain. But if you

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  Cisco UCS at EMC World 2013

  May 13, 2013 - 3 Comments

  We handed out a stack of these buttons for the Cisco booth staff to wear this year and that sums up my favorite part of EMC World:  it’s an infrastructure

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