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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 USA

Ravi 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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February 17, 2021

DATA CENTER

Win with Cisco ACI and F5 BIG-IP – Deployment Best Practices

4 min read

Use PBR functionality on the Cisco ACI fabric to direct return traffic from the application servers back to the BIG-IP. This will help in having to avoid to re-write your application or to make changes to your BIG-IP configuration and still achieve a symmetry traffic flow with minimal changes.

February 11, 2021

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Building self-healing networks with Cisco Network Assurance Innovations and ServiceNow ITSM

2 min read

Cisco Network Assurance Engine (NAE), a key pillar in Cisco’s Intent based networking, is built on a strong foundation of open APIs that has enabled a broad ecosystem of partner-integrated solutions for automated, closed-loop incident resolution use cases. One such marquee solution features Cisco NAE with ITSM leader ServiceNow that boasts hundreds of customer deployments across the globe. Cisco IT on its own is a stellar example of such deployments.

February 3, 2021

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First Multi-vendor NETCONF/YANG inter-operability testing: Proven Openness

4 min read

With the growing complexity of the modern network, automation is becoming more important. NETCONF is one of the widely adopted protocols by networking vendors and customers among all programming interfaces. Alongside NETCONF, YANG provides a powerful, standardized modeling language to complement the NETCONF protocol. In practice, interoperability between service orchestrator and network devices provides flexible mix-and-match solutions based on customer's deployment choice.

January 12, 2021

DATA CENTER

Streamline your Infrastructure Automation Workflows by going beyond Infrastructure-as-Code?

4 min read

Infrastructure-as-data guarantees that your automation process is easily repeatable and will likely provide consistent results in terms of performance and reliability.

December 4, 2020

DATA CENTER

Redefining the Intelligent Network with Cisco ACI and HashiCorp Consul

2 min read

From definition to deployment, application services could define networking and security requirements at the infrastructure layer, in an automated and fully synchronized way. Learn about the Consul App for Cisco ACI and join us on December 9 for our webinar, Redefining the Intelligent Network with Cisco ACI and HashiCorp Consul.

October 12, 2020

DATA CENTER

Cisco at ONUG Fall 2020: 5 Must-See Sessions

3 min read

Cisco is a Digital Innovator sponsor this year at ONUG Fall 2020 virtual event. Prepare to connect, ask questions and gain a better understanding of how to successfully deploy, connect, secure, and operate the Cloud Native Enterprise.

October 9, 2020

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Cisco Data Center Networking makes a stellar debut at HashiConf Digital 2020

4 min read

Don't miss the Cisco Innovations showcase at the HashiConf Digital 2020 conference, a series of lightening talks where Cisco SMEs discuss innovative joint solutions brought to you by Cisco and HashiCorp.

June 26, 2020

DATA CENTER

All things Data Center Networking at Cisco Live and DevNet Day 2020

3 min read

Cisco Live US 2020, Cisco’s first-ever and largest digital event, was a super success, with over 124,000 viewers from across the globe. Take a quick tour of key Data Center Networking highlights from the Cisco Live broadcast and DevNet Day.

May 18, 2020

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Dell EMC PowerStore and Cisco MDS for SAN – A win-win pair to transform IT

4 min read

The combination of Dell EMC PowerStore systems and Cisco MDS 9000 enables the scale, performance, visibility and operational excellence needed for efficient deployment of all your next-generation workloads.