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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.

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May 18, 2016

DATA CENTER

What is in store at Citrix Synergy 2016 – A quick tour de force

3 min read

Las Vegas, double-headers and technology events hold a special attraction for me. Early in May, I blogged about my back-to-back events in Vegas covering EMC World and Interop 2016....

May 11, 2016

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F5 Agility Vienna | Welcome to ‘The City of Dreams’ where Hi-tech Meets Tradition

3 min read

It is spring time in Vienna now, the music is pervasive, and the Stadtpark is transforming into a place of epicurean delights. I vividly remember my student days when “Ich...

April 27, 2016

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Interop and EMC World – A double header in Vegas next week

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If it is May, it must be raining conventions in Las Vegas. I am heading for a double header the first week of May to be part of the excitement...

March 14, 2016

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3 SDN lessons in 3 years of production – Learn from Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler best practices

4 min read

This blog has been developed in collaboration with Citrix. Primary Author - Steve Shah, VP Product Management. Secondary Author - Ravi Balakrishnan, storyboard, blog style and content adaptation. Bring out...

March 7, 2016

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Cisco ACI and Avi Networks deliver compelling ROI and automation to leading financial management software firm

3 min read

This Blog has been developed in collaboration with Avi Networks. Primary Author: Chandra Sekar, VP Marketing, Avi Networks.   Outline, Flow, Adaptation  by Ravi Balakrishnan, Cisco Systems. Avi Networks recently acquired a...

February 8, 2016

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Cisco Live Berlin 2016, just a week away – A preview

4 min read

Making a trip to Berlin is always worthwhile. And February is especially notable, as this is when famous movie stars make their way down the red carpet for the international...

February 4, 2016

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Enabling DevOps to Succeed: Go Beyond APIs

3 min read

Bio: Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5's entire software suite with an emphasis on...

January 13, 2016

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Network Automation and Programmability for Application deployments using Cisco Nexus 9000 and F5 BIG IP

2 min read

One of the major burdens in today’s Data Center is the management of complex IT environments. It requires considerable staff time to configure, deploy, and manage application infrastructure. Increasingly Automation...

December 7, 2015

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Want to Empower your Digital Enterprise – Join Cisco at the Gartner Data Center Conference 2015, Vegas

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The year 2015 has been a very busy year for Cisco Data center Business Units. We are very pleased to end the year on a high note with the Gartner...