Todd Brannon is Senior Director of Product Marketing for Cloud Platforms at Cisco. Todd has nearly 25 years of experience in data center technology with a focus on servers, storage and managed services. He has held a variety of product management and marketing roles at Cisco, Sprint and Dell. Todd can’t resist new technology startups: he helped lead the introduction of Cisco UCS and HyperFlex, was a founding member of Dell’s hyperscale computing division, and spent two years in Japan launching Dell’s server business in region in the late 1990’s. Prior to his civilian career, Todd served as Armor branch officer in the United States Army. He’s based in Austin, Texas and holds a B.S. in Electronic Media from the SI Newhouse School at Syracuse University. He bleeds Orange to this day.