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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 USARavi 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.

Articles

September 7, 2016

DATA CENTER

YRC Freight achieves Business Transformation with Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler

3 min read

YRC Freight, based in Kansas, is a leading transporter of industrial, commercial, and retail goods, specializ­ing in solutions for businesses across North America. In fact, so large is their network...

September 1, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco ACI – F5 iWorkflow Integrated Joint Solution – Talk of the show at F5 Agility US, Europe and Australia

2 min read

In recent weeks, I had the opportunity to attend F5 Agility US and Australia, and meet with several customers and partners of Cisco and F5. It was evident from these...

August 12, 2016

DATA CENTER

Thunder Down Under – F5 Agility rolls into Melbourne and Sydney

3 min read

In a few weeks Spring season will set in, and it’ll be a Ripper Down Under. For the IT technology geeks there is plenty of action in store to celebrate...

July 28, 2016

DATA CENTER

F5 Agility 2016 – Next Stop Chicago

4 min read

Only a few weeks remain for the Fall season to officially set in, and it’s still quite hot in Chicago. The fast approaching F5 Agility event is further adding...

July 7, 2016

CLOUD

Red Hat Summit 2016 – A Review of key moments

2 min read

Red Hat Summit 2016 in San Francisco is an ideal setting to experience the power of open source in enterprise, for customers, partners and community enthusiasts. For me personally, this...

June 30, 2016

DATA CENTER

A quick journey through all the excitement that awaits you at Cisco Live 2016

6 min read

As Las Vegas glows in the intense June summer sun, another glow is appearing on the horizon. The heat is hot and the ground dry, but the air is filled...

June 21, 2016

DATA CENTER

Choice and Flexibility in deploying L4-L7 services with Cisco ACI and Cisco CloudCenter: An in-depth Journey

5 min read

Two weeks ago, I posted a blog highlighting the growing customer momentum for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), particularly in the context of customer successes in ACI-F5 joint deployments. I...

June 17, 2016

CLOUD

Policy-based Cloud with Cisco ACI and OpenStack, Project Contiv and the Open Source Community

2 min read

Just a month ago, I was at OpenStack summit Austin presenting Cisco technologies to our valuable customers. To me it was quite obvious that OpenStack has hit mainstream, particularly after...

June 8, 2016

DATA CENTER

Recent Customer Success Stories: Achieving business transformation with Cisco ACI, F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ

3 min read

To me, there is nothing more satisfying than when a customer gives glowing testimonials publicly to our products and solutions. In the last two weeks, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)...