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Vice President, Data Center Solutions
Data Center Solutions Group
Cisco Systems

Douglas Gourlay is the Vice President of Marketing for Cisco’s Data Center Solutions Group.

Douglas Gourlay leads global marketing for Cisco’s Data Center technologies. As Vice President of Cisco’s Data Center Solutions Group, Gourlay defines and executes Cisco’s global marketing strategy for data center, virtualization, and cloud computing solutions.  This includes the Nexus and Catalyst Data Center Switches, Application and Server Load-Balancing, Storage Networking, Blade Switching, and Wide-Area Application Services product families and their IT solutions.  Under his leadership Cisco’s data center segment has grown from a nascent business to over $5B in annual revenue.

Since 1998 Gourlay has led and contributed to numerous hardware, software, and systems architecture developments across Cisco. He has served as senior director of product management for the Nexus Family of Data Center switches, director of product management for the Catalyst® 6500 Series of LAN Switches, and led product management for Cisco’s Application Delivery product family. Gourlay has filed or holds more than 20 patents in networking technologies.

Prior to Cisco Gourlay was an industry consultant and served as a US Army Infantry Officer.