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Kiran Ghodgaonkar

Director, Product Marketing

Workplace Technology Group

Kiran is a product marketing leader with expertise in networking, security, cloud, virtualization, and AI infrastructure. He enjoys translating complex technologies into practical insights that help businesses navigate an evolving technology landscape. With extensive experience working with global enterprise customers, product teams, and sales organizations, Kiran writes about multicloud networking, cybersecurity, AI, and go-to-market strategy. His focus is on making technical topics accessible, relevant, and actionable for business and technology leaders. When he's not writing, Kiran enjoys mentoring marketing professionals, exploring emerging technologies, and sharing ideas that simplify complexity and drive innovation.

Articles

February 14, 2017

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NETWORKING

SD-WAN is Mission-Critical – Don’t Leave Critical Functions Shortchanged

2 min read

There is justifiably a great deal of hype around the rise of Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN). Organizations are becoming more digitized and increasingly rely upon a mixture of public and private cloud-based applications for day-to-day functions

January 3, 2017

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NETWORKING

2017 Predictions for SD-WAN (#sdwan)

2 min read

SD-WAN adoption is increasing and the market is estimated to grow to between $6B and $1.24B by 2020. Why? Here are three key trends that will be impacting the branch and WAN in 2017.

November 29, 2016

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NETWORKING

Over 1400 Customers Have Set the Foundation for Their Digital Transformation

2 min read

Just over a year ago Cisco announced the general availability of APIC-EM (#APICEM), a software defined networking (SDN) platform for the enterprise branch, campus and WAN. In just over 12...

October 20, 2016

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NETWORKING

Going Beyond SD-WAN At Open Networking User Group

2 min read

Next week the Open Networking User Group meets for its fall conference in New York City. I am looking forward to learning how the SDN landscape is evolving and...

October 29, 2015

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NETWORKING

SD-WAN and ACI Momentum at Open Networking User Group

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Next week (3rd-5th November) the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) meets at New York University in New York for...

May 18, 2015

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NETWORKING

Cisco Intelligent WAN Delivers on SD-WAN Business Requirements

1 min read

I was excited to attend the Open Networking User Group Conference last week at Columbia University in New York. The Open Networking User Group is a community of IT business leaders who exchange ideas and best practices for implementing Open Networking and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) designs. One of the ONUG working groups is the SD-WAN […]

May 15, 2015

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NETWORKING

Secrets to Ensuring Application Performance at the Branch

2 min read

Ensuring application experience at the branch is a daunting task. IT must look beyond traditional WAN challenges (like bandwidth, transport type, and speed) to applications experience. As time-to-market becomes a pillar of enterprise’s competitive advantages, application experience is key to ensuring fast service and high customer satisfaction. In today’s connected world, users demand instant connectivity […]

February 17, 2015

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NETWORKING

Making it easy to deploy Cisco’s Intelligent WAN

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We continue to see great interest and momentum around our Intelligent WAN solution but there is one thing we are hearing loud and clear from our customers; the...

January 18, 2015

NETWORKING

Security or Hybrid WAN’s? Do you need to choose?

2 min read

Security is hot topic on everyone’s mind and for IT it is a constant challenge to stay ahead of the latest threats and vulnerabilities that their organizations face on a daily basis. Take a quick look at the news and it won’t take you long to find an article talking about the latest cyber attack […]