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Cisco Plus Composite Opportunities and Synergies

Summary:

We plan to use the first session to educate the BBBT members on Cisco including Cisco’s overall business and strategy, the role of the Services division and the Integration Brokerage Technology Group (IBTG), and the logic behind the acquiring Composite. We will use the second half as an interactive forum to brainstorm with BBBT members the “possibilities and what if’s” that can come from combining the world’s leading networking and data virtualization companies.

Presenter(s):

Mike Flannagan – Senior Director & General Manager, IBT Group

Mike Flannagan leads Cisco’s software platforms that enable Managed Services capabilities for Enterprises and Service Providers, with a focus on intelligent automation. Mike joined Cisco in 2000, from a consulting start-up, where he served as a Senior Consultant to large healthcare and pharmaceutical firms. He previously held IT leadership positions at Clear Channel subsidiaries SFX Entertainment and SJS Radio Network, and founded several start-ups. Mike is a Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer, attended the University of Texas – San Antonio as an undergraduate, and earned a Masters in Business Administration from Auburn University. Mike maintains involvement with Auburn University, serving as an Advisory Board member for the College of Business and also serves on the Managed Services Advisory Board for the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA).

Bob Eve – Data Virtualization Marketing Director

Bob’s experience includes executive level marketing and business development roles at leading enterprise software companies such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Mercury Interactive (Kintana), as well as management roles at Ernst & Young and Intel. Bob help establish the data virtualization category and is the co-author of Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility. Bob holds a MS degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Company Profile:

[From Cisco Composite] Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. On July 30, 2013, Cisco announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held Composite Software, Inc., a market leader in data virtualization software and services. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Composite provides software technology that connects many types of data from across the network and makes it appear as if it’s in one place.

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Data and Analytics at Cisco

Summary:

Beyond its acquisition of Composite Software’s data virtualization business, Cisco’s portfolio of Data and Analytic offerings has expanded dramatically in the past year. In this BBBT session, Cisco will introduce this growing portfolio as well as share it strategies for the Internet of Things data reference model and next generation data virtualization.

Presenter(s):

Mike Flannagan, General Manager, Data and Analytics Business Group

A fourteen year Cisco veteran, Mike guides Cisco’s data and analytics strategy and execution.

Jim Green, CTO, Data and Analytics Business Group

Former CEO of Composite and Active Software, Jim guides Cisco’s data and analytics technical vision and strategy.

Kevin Ott, General Manager, Data Virtualization Business Unit

Kevin follows Jim Green as the head of Cisco’s data virtualization business after many years guiding Composite Software’s R&D.

Bob Eve, Director, Data Virtualization Business Unit

Following eight years as the head of marketing, today Bob is Cisco’s data virtualization evangelist.

Company Profile:

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. Cisco data virtualization is agile data integration software that makes it easy for companies to access business data across the network as if it were in a single place.

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Data and Analytics at Cisco

Summary:

Data, Data, Everywhere, and a deluge coming as we digitize the physical world in the Internet of Things era. With data more distributed than ever, who will lead the next generation of data and analytics? Who better than Cisco!

Presenter(s):

Bob Eve – Director, Data Virtualization Business Unit

Following eight years driving the data virtualization market category, today Bob runs selective evangelism and go to market programs.

J.D. Stanley III – Global Director of Strategy and Integrated Solutions, Data and Analytics Business Group

J.D. has global responsibility for pioneering data and analytics research, integrated solution design, and insight services. Earlier in his 17 years at Cisco, JD led the Consulting Services Global Analytics Practice. And was a CTO across numerous applied research areas.

Company Profile:

Cisco is the worldwide leader in helping companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by delivering the amazing results that come from connecting the previously unconnected. Cisco is empowering countries, cities, industries and businesses around the globe to move faster in order to keep pace with digital transformation and the move to the Internet of Everything (IoE). With approximately 70,000 partners, Cisco is very well positioned to provide our customers with next generation networking, security, data center, and collaboration products and solutions that help them achieve their desired business outcomes. For ongoing news, please go to http://thenetwork.cisco.com.

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Cisco Data Virtualization Replaces Denodo

Data Virtualization Enhances IoT Analytics

Data Virtualization Powers Agility at Pfizer

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Data and Analytics at Cisco

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Cisco Delivers a “Time Machine for the Data Center”

On January 22, 2010, Kenny Sargent of Compassion International was the first end user customer to ever present to the BBBT. In that session, Kenny outlined Compassion’s information strategy, including their innovative use of data virtualization, toward the goal of quadrupling the number of impoverished children served. Today Kenny returns to the BBBT to describe their current use of Cisco Data Virtualization, lessons learned along the way, as well as future plans, all in the service of children in poverty.

Presenter(s):

Yogesh Kaushik – Senior Director in Networking & Security Business

Yogesh leads the product management for Tetration Analytics; an open and scalable platform designed to dramatically improve data center operators’ ability to tackle their most complex security and operational challenges by using analytics and machine learning technologies.

Yogesh has diverse international experience working and studying in UK, US, France, India and South Korea. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science and an MBA from INSEAD.

Kenny Sargent – Technical Lead, Enterprise Data Products, Compassion International

A 20 year IT veteran who attended the University of Oregon, Kenny Sargent has been on the vanguard of Data Virtualization adoption since 2009. Kenny joined Compassion in 2005 as a DBA and has since advanced to lead enterprise data products serving myriad internal and external communities.

Bob Eve – Product Management Director, Data and Analytics Software

Bob drives new initiatives and provides thought leadership for Cisco’s Data and Analytics Software organization. Bob was the EVP of Marketing at Composite Software for seven years prior to its acquisition by Cisco in 2013. There Bob established data virtualization as a category and Composite as the market leader including co-authoring the first book on Data Virtualization, Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility. In Bob’s long career in enterprise software, he has held executive level engineering, marketing and business development roles at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Mercury Interactive and Informatica. Bob holds a MS degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Company Profile:

Cisco is the worldwide leader in helping companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by delivering the amazing results that come from connecting the previously unconnected. Cisco is empowering countries, cities, industries and businesses around the globe to move faster in order to keep pace with digital transformation and the move to the Internet of Everything (IoE). With approximately 70,000 partners, Cisco is very well positioned to provide our customers with next generation networking, security, data center, and collaboration products and solutions that help them achieve their desired business outcomes. For ongoing news, please go to http://thenetwork.cisco.com.