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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 3, 2021

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

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

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

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

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Redefining the Intelligent Network with Cisco ACI and HashiCorp Consul

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

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Cisco at ONUG Fall 2020: 5 Must-See Sessions

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

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

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

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

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.

May 11, 2020

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Navigating the evolving landscape? Cisco DC Networking Free Trials and Promotions can help!

Cisco is continuing its global commitment to help customers and partners navigate an evolving landscape with the introduction of a new Business Resiliency Program.

May 5, 2020

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What’s new and exciting on Cisco ACI with Red Hat Ansible Collections

Learn how Cisco ACI and Red Hat Ansible can help you embrace the DevOps model and accelerate ACI Deployment.