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Rene Raeber is a Datacenter Technical Architect in the Central Consulting Team, working on the Theater level for the Emerging Markets region at Cisco. This region covers more than 130 countries in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, the Middle East and Africa. The Emerging Markets region represents a $4 billion business for Cisco.
Rene’s function covers Datacenter Strategic Accounts and Key Project support in the Commercial, Enterprise, Public Sector and Service Provider market segments. In addition, Rene is responsible for a gateway function towards the Datacenter Business Unit divisions, in order to ensure that Cisco’s customer requirements are represented and fulfilled in product development.
His span of responsibility also covers internal field engineering education, partner technical readiness,and representation of Cisco’s Datacenter technologies in key marketing initiatives; technical seminars, press and thought leadership writing datacenter publications.Additionally, Rene is an official and voting IEEE member, actively representing Cisco, and develops new Datacenter standards, such as IEEE-802.1Qbh (Virtual Bridge port Extension).
Rene is one of the Key Datacenter Architects in Cisco, having been recognized for excellence awards
on several occasions.
Rene recently received the Worldwide Quarterly Excellence Award, which recognizes him as the Architect of the Quarter, where he is memorized on the ‘System Engineer Wall of Fame’ within Cisco.
Rene has been exposed to various technical and managerial roles within Cisco. He built and managed the Swiss Technical Organization, in his role of Regional Sales Manager for Business Development in Advanced Technologies and was also the Technical Advisor for the Swiss General Manager.
Rene has more than 20 years experience in the Datacenter and telecommunications industry. He joined Cisco more than fifteen years ago coming from a Financial Customer environment, where he was responsible for the IBM Mainframe SNA and Storage Business. He was also responsible for some of the very first SNA over TCP/IP implementations within the Enterprise environments.
Rene holds a degree in IT Engineering, as well as a Masters in Business IT Security from HSW University in Lucerne. He is a Security Auditor for BS7799-2, ISO 17799 Information Security.
