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Ravi Balakrishnan

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Datacenter Solutions

Ravi Balakrishnan holds a MS in Computer engineering and MBA in Marketing from USA

Ravi has more than 20 years of server hardware and software middleware experience at Sun, HP and Oracle and 5 years of server, virtualization and networking hardware experience at Cisco where he is employed currently – Ravi has acquired rich experience in datacenter infrastructure solutions encompassing Unified Computing Systems, Unified fabric, Energy Efficient Datacenters, and other emerging datacenter topics such as Cloud computing, dynamic provisioning, and the like.

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October 10, 2022

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Cisco DevRel makes Cloud Networking Automation Easy

3 min read

Cisco Developer Relations (DevRel) is committed to making sure that we continue each BE’s design and engineering ethos forward when we create labs, sample code, and sandboxes. 

July 15, 2022

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Cisco Secure Automation with RedHat Ansible

2 min read

Automated provisioning of Secure ADC services using Ansible enables rapid application deployment in addition to the horizontal scaling of ADC resources during periods of peak demand.

June 1, 2022

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Cisco Live 2022: Top 5 Cloud Networking

6 min read

Cisco Live 2022 is all set to sizzle at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. From a Cisco Cloud Networking standpoint, Cisco Nexus Dashboard, Cisco ACI, and Nexus 9000 Series switches are showing up in a big way.

May 20, 2022

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Cisco Innovations showcase at ServiceNow Knowledge 2022

1 min read

Join us at the Knowledge 2022 Digital Experience for the latest innovations in Cisco’s Nexus Dashboard (ND) with ServiceNow.

May 16, 2022

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Cisco DevNet: Helping You Make Cisco Cloud Networking Integrate with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

4 min read

Infrastructure as Code can be a wide and complex topic, especially when bridging between public cloud and on-premises resources. DevNet’s website is designed for all levels of users and can provide you with resources to help you today and in your future automation endeavors.

April 5, 2022

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Cisco Secure ADC and Secure ADC Multicloud: Application performance in a cloud-first world

3 min read

Cisco Secure ADC® is an industry-leading application delivery controller that continuously monitors and intelligently manages application traffic, ensuring the efficient use of network resources and optimizing application performance.

February 14, 2022

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New innovations in F5 – Cisco ACI ServiceCenter App – Exciting showcase at F5 Agility 2022

2 min read

For those of you who have been following our development effort with Cisco ACI, as well as those haven’t been watching that closely, the F5 Agility 2022 event next week brings together and showcases the latest ideas and innovations around adaptive applications.

January 28, 2022

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Application-centric Security Management for Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO)

3 min read

The AlgoSec solution with NDO brings the power of intelligent automation and software-defined security features for ACI. We explore multiple use cases, enabling application-centric operation and micro-segmentation, and delivering integrated security operations workflows.

December 8, 2021

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New F5 ACI ServiceCenter App Release

2 min read

Over the past 2 years, we’ve been working on enabling F5 ADC services within the Cisco ACI fabric using the F5 ServiceCenter App. This App is an agile development effort. driven by field and user input and has evolved in multiple releases which are available from Cisco’s DC App Center.

December 1, 2021

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NCR accelerates towards zero-trust with Cisco ACI and AlgoSec

2 min read

The AlgoSec Security Policy Management Suite and Cisco ACI enable NCR to manage application connectivity end-to-end across their network -- including public cloud, Cisco ACI and physical firewalls -- achieving zero-trust security and a reduced attack surface.

September 8, 2021

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Multi-tier automation and orchestration with Cisco ACI, F5 BIG-IP and Red Hat Ansible

4 min read

With applications transitioning into the cloud, businesses need to automate infrastructure and application deployment in order to stay ahead of the game. F5 and Cisco make programmability and automation inherent parts of operational IT processes, and Ansible provides BIG-IP and ACI users a simple, yet powerful, multi-tier automation and orchestration platform.

July 29, 2021

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Avoid sinkholes with F5 Simulators: Evolution of the F5 – Cisco ACI joint solution

3 min read

Getting the best understanding possible of deployment options is certainly the key to successful technology deployments. So spending the time and visualizing, in advance, the benefits of our rich integration between BIG-IP and ACI collaboration is the latest positive evolution we can bring you.

June 28, 2021

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F5 & Cisco ACI Essentials: ServiceCenter — One stop shop for IP address facts

1 min read

Debugging a network issue can be daunting, involving 100's of IP addresses spread across your entire deployment. Imagine having a tool that can get all the information you want from an IP address with a click of a button. The F5 ACI ServiceCenter is designed to do exactly that, and more.

June 17, 2021

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Enable faster, more secure application deployments with Network Infrastructure Automation by Cisco and HashiCorp

2 min read

HashiCorp and Cisco are lighting the way to Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) with Cisco ACI and Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS), accelerating application delivery by automating networking related tasks.

May 25, 2021

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F5 and Cisco ACI Essentials: Automate, automate, automate!

4 min read

This blog will focus on automation support by BIG-IP and Cisco ACI and how automation tools, specifically Ansible, can be used to automate different use cases

April 26, 2021

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F5 & Cisco ACI Essentials – Dynamic pool sizing using the F5 ACI ServiceCenter

5 min read

When dealing with the Cisco ACI environment you may have wondered about using an Application-Centric Design or a Network-Centric Design. Both are valid designs, and you can read more on this topic in this blog.

April 14, 2021

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Cisco Innovations Showcase at F5 Agility 2021

2 min read

Cisco and F5 collaborated and successfully announced the F5 ACI ServiceCenter App, a multi-function and operations focused solution, covering its key L2-L7 operational use-cases.

March 3, 2021

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Enable Consistent Application Services for Containers

4 min read

F5 CIS and Cisco ACI together offer unified control, visibility, security, and application services, for both container and non-container workload. The solution offers a seamless developer experience intended to maintain the simplicity of Kubernetes while still enabling advanced capabilities within the Cisco ACI fabric, and maintaining application availability, security, and visibility across the infrastructure.