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Kip Compton

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Kip Compton is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Cisco Networking, Cisco’s largest business. Kip leads the teams responsible for strategy, portfolio management, and M&A. He and his team lead strategic cross-company programs, strategic technology partnerships, and drive a focus on how engineering at Cisco can build products for a more sustainable future. Kip has over 20 years of senior leadership experience driving innovation in cloud, video, the Internet of Things, and networking. His areas of expertise include video, distributed systems, IoT, cloud, and digital media security. He has held leadership roles with technology companies as well as service providers. As a senior leader, Kip is inspired by technology innovation and its impact on people and the world. He is passionate about building sustainable organizations by mentoring the next generation of technology and business leaders. Kip believes that bringing diverse backgrounds and experiences to the table leads to the most compelling innovation and the best solutions to the most challenging problems. Previously, Kip served as CTO and Senior Vice President, Strategy and Operations for Cisco’s Enterprise Networking and Cloud organization and has also held senior leadership and general manager positions for Cisco’s Cloud Platforms, Internet of Things, and Service Provider Video Software and Solutions groups. Kip also held the position of Chief Technology Officer for Cisco’s Video and Collaboration Group, and Vice President of Strategy and Product Management for the Service Provider Video Technology Group. Before joining Cisco, he was with Comcast as Vice President of Video and Media Engineering, responsible for development of Comcast’s digital cable, content security, video on demand, and streaming media infrastructure and services. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an MBA degree from the Wharton School. He holds multiple patents in the areas of digital video, security, and networking.

Articles

January 22, 2019

CLOUD

What’s Ahead for Cloud in 2019

4 min read

Cloud, a major catalyst for change in the emerging global digital economy, shows no signs of tapering in 2019: helping businesses deliver applications and innovate faster than ever before.

November 8, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco and AWS Collaborate to Accelerate Innovation

3 min read

Cisco is introducing a new solution built for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes running new containerized applications simple.

October 3, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

My Day with Some of the Greatest Minds in Tech at GHC18

2 min read

I am thankful for the opportunity to attend this year's Grace Hopper Celebration where I could learn from and lean in with some of the greatest minds in tech.

October 2, 2018

CLOUD

Modernizing On-Premises and Hybrid Cloud SAP Landscapes without Disruption

3 min read

Cisco came together with SAP to realize our common vision to help customers modernize infrastructures without disruption, and take advantage of flexible, innovative cloud architectures.

September 7, 2018

CLOUD

The Promise of the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud, Delivered

2 min read

With Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud, businesses can accelerate on-prem app modernization, ease services management, and quickly secure on-prem workloads in the cloud with integrated support.

July 30, 2018

CLOUD

Why Hybrid Cloud Makes Sense for Developers

3 min read

Cloud is one of the ways many companies will future-proof business, deliver applications, and innovate faster than ever before.

June 28, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Insights from Customer Zero: Enabling the Next Generation of Hybrid Cloud

3 min read

Cisco’s own IT organization is one of the largest customers of Cisco technologies, often acting as Customer Zero when new innovations are being rolled out. I recently chatted with Mike...

June 11, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Power a Multicloud World – Enabling Next-Generation Hybrid Cloud with Google Cloud

2 min read

The pressure to innovate has never been greater to compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Hybrid cloud offers one of the biggest IT transformations of our generation.

June 7, 2018

CLOUD

Unlocking the Power of Enterprise Applications

2 min read

Cisco is doing a lot to unlock the power of enterprise applications, not only through our own development activities but also with important technology partners.

May 23, 2018

CLOUD

Getting to the How of Multicloud

2 min read

We’re beyond defining what multicloud is, when it’s coming (it’s here!) or why it’s accelerating. Customers need to know how to navigate complexity for the next wave of multicloud initiatives.

Setting a New Standard for Production-Grade Kubernetes

2 min read

Cisco's CloudCenter 4.9 and AppDynamics for Kubernetes illustrate our commitment to open source technologies that help our customers adopt at scale, in production, on premises, and in cloud environments.

April 25, 2018

CLOUD

Delivering On the Open Hybrid Cloud Promise with Kubernetes

2 min read

When it comes to multicloud, containers are among the most compelling technologies to emerge over the past few years, allowing applications to start faster, use less memory and run anywhere.

February 13, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco’s Global Cloud Index Study: Acceleration of the Multicloud Era

3 min read

Cloud is fueling massive growth in multiple dimensions. Cisco’s GCI study helps us get a sense of how this opportunity and traffic diversity is likely to play out over the next few years.

January 29, 2018

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

ngena: Creating Next-Gen Global Business Networks

2 min read

Multinational, global enterprise growth continues to rise, and these businesses require reliable, agile, and seamless connectivity with end-to-end global SLAs. Many of the global companies we talk to are banks,...

December 18, 2017

CLOUD

Reaching for the Next Level Hybrid Cloud

1 min read

In a hybrid IT world, applications live everywhere, and it will take more than just connecting clouds to be successful.

October 25, 2017

CLOUD

Cisco and Google: Enabling Breakthrough Open Hybrid Cloud Innovation

3 min read

Cisco and Google Cloud are working together on an open hybrid cloud solution that enables applications to seamlessly span on-premises and cloud-based environments, delivering cloud speed wherever needed.

October 2, 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Think Fast: The Impact of Automation in Today’s Hybrid World

2 min read

Customers want it fast. They don’t want to wait for human intervention to get what they want, when they want it. They want resolution at the click of a button. The pace of change is increasing and customer behavior is pushing significant transformation in business models. 10 years ago, who would have imagined that Amazon […]