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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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May 11, 2020

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

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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

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

April 22, 2020

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Why Cisco ACI with HashiCorp Terraform really matters

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Learn how Cisco ACI and Hashicorp Terraform can help you increase productivity while reducing risks for your organization by managing infrastructure as code.

January 22, 2020

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Cisco Live EMEA 2020 – Barcelona gears up to host industry’s premier tech event, third year in a row

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A week from now, Cisco Live EMEA 2020 will be ready to sizzle at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via. From a Cisco Data Center standpoint, Cisco ACI, NX-OS, and NAE technologies and DevNet continue to grab the headlines.

November 13, 2019

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ACI Takeover session Sizzles in DevNet Zone, Cisco Live, Cancun 2019

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Cisco DevNet was the talk of the town in Cancun during Oct 26-31, the week of Cisco Live LATAM. What drives this excitement with DevNet? Find out...

October 17, 2019

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Cisco and Splunk Technology Innovations Showcase at Splunk .Conf19, Vegas, 2019

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Cisco-Splunk partnership is growing at a terrific pace. Recently, Splunk showcased Cisco as one of its top 4 partners. As a testimony to our growing momentum, Cisco is a Peta sponsor this year at Splunk .conf19, Venetian sands, Las Vegas, Oct 21-25.

June 3, 2019

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See Cisco ACI in Action in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live

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Cisco ACI and its object model enables customers to integrate network deployment into management and monitoring tools, and deploy new workloads programmatically.

June 5, 2019

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Cisco Live San Diego 2019 – Data Center Networking Sneak Peak

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Join Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, and Engineering leaders David Goeckeler and Amy Chang as they share Cisco’s vision for the future and how innovation will transform our industry and businesses.

May 15, 2019

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Atlanta Buzzing with Tech Talk as Citrix Synergy 2019 Moves In

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See what Cisco has planned for Citrix Synergy 2019. Highlights include demos featuring HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud,  Cisco ACI and Citrix ADC for Multi Cloud, and Workspace of the future.

May 6, 2019

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Knowledge 2019: Cisco and ServiceNow Joint Innovations Showcase

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Cisco and ServiceNow have been co-innovating on operations-focused apps to address diverse use cases in dependency mapping, incident management, and visibility - all on show during Knowledge 2019.

May 9, 2019

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Cisco and F5 Team Up to Address Continuous Deployment Integration Challenge

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Most of us are familiar with Newton's Laws of Motion. The Third Law is about actions and reactions. The Second Law provides the mathematical formula for determining force. And what's incredible to understand is Newton's first law of DevOps. Read this blog to unravel more.

February 25, 2019

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The Countdown Starts Now: Cisco Live Melbourne, 2019

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Read how to best utilize your time at Cisco Live - Melbourne 2019! See what's in store for Data Center, the DevNet Zone, and all things Cisco Live!

January 21, 2019

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Cisco Live EMEA 2019 – Barcelona gears up to host industry’s premier tech. event, second year in a row

7 min read

A week from now, Cisco Live EMEA 2019 will be ready to sizzle at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via. As a Cisco Live attendee, you benefit from the opportunity to interact with your peers, Cisco staff and partner technical experts in both structured and informal settings. Our Welcome Reception and Customer Appreciation Event are the highlights of the week’s social calendar.

September 26, 2018

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Cisco at Splunk .conf18 – A broad data center and security technology showcase

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Introduction: It is a double-header this month-end for me at Orlando, with back-back technology events. I had a terrific Microsoft Ignite...

July 31, 2018

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Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited improves banking services availability with Cisco ACI

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DBBL turned to Cisco ACI to establish an active/active data center that can withstand both scheduled and unexpected downtime

July 25, 2018

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Grifols Increases IT Efficiency and Builds Global Data Center Network with Cisco ACI

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Cisco ACI enabled Grifols to define application and security policies upfront, with simplified administration and implementation. Also, ACI’s centralized management and comprehensive visibility across end-to-end network, simplified the troubleshooting process. Further, ACI’s multi-site capability allowed Grifols to connect all its four data centers (two in US and two in Spain), all running the same configurations, policy and security.

July 16, 2018

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Germany’s largest IT provider Bechtle extends Cloud services with Cisco ACI

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ACI enabled Bechtle to look at endpoint groups, contracts, etc. as a holistic service. Instead of old school practice of IP-addresses, subnets, etc. ACI is scalable and helps Bechtle manage their growing infrastructure needs with future-proofing. ACI became the foundation to host more cloud services.

June 14, 2018

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BMC Remedy ITSM – Cisco ACI joint solution delivers robust and agile IT operations

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BMC Remedy ITSM solution for Cisco ACI is a fully-automated policy-based enterprise service management solution that provides single console visibility into your data center and delivers business-aware IT operations.

June 12, 2018

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Cisco ACI and BlueCat DNS Integrity empowers customers to implement Enterprise DNS strategy

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With an enterprise DDI strategy, network teams can deliver flexible infrastructure to developers, reducing operating costs and security risks. Here, we review highlights of the BlueCat Cisco ACI joint solution that we announced this week at Cisco Live Orlando and how it empowers network teams to implement an enterprise DDI strategy.

June 4, 2018

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Double Your Excitement in Orlando Next Week – Cisco Live 2018 and Universal Studios Experience and More

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Cisco Live is Cisco’s annual customer and partner conference where you build the foundation for your digital future. Transform your outlook, career, and potential through learning direct from Cisco’s best and brightest. From technical education to future-focused thought leadership, 1:1 meetings with Cisco experts to connecting with Cisco partners, networking with your peers to having fun at the Customer Appreciation Event, Cisco Live Orlando is the place to have it all.

June 1, 2018

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Logicalis enables predictive and proactive data centers with Cisco ACI

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Logicalis is a worldwide systems integrator whose customers span industries and geographical regions; and their focus is to engage in the dynamics of their customers’ vertical markets; including financial services,...

May 21, 2018

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Conscia delivers secure, programmable turnkey data center to customers with Cisco ACI

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Henrik Moll, Acting CTO of Conscia, a systems integrator in Europe, discusses how Cisco ACI has helped deliver value to their respective customers through a secure and automated data center.

May 8, 2018

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Cisco ACI and NetBrain: Delivering Application-Centric Network Operations

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Announcing the new Cisco ACI-NetBrain joint solution that extends NetBrain core capabilities to Cisco ACI, allowing customers to transition to an Application-Centric Datacenter and optimize Day-2 data center operations.

May 3, 2018

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Cisco at ServiceNow knowledge18, Vegas – Discover how we elevate customer experiences to the next level

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Find us May 7-11 at ServiceNow Knowledge18 in Las Vegas and Citrix Synergy 2018 in Anaheim to see our award-winning ACI, Tetration and Cisco Network Assurance Engine (CNAE) technologies.

May 2, 2018

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Citrix Synergy Anaheim, 2018 – Sneak preview of Cisco innovations for the secure workspace of the future

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Look forward to two premier Cisco partner events, ServiceNow’s Knowledge18 in Vegas, and Citrix Synergy 2018 in Anaheim.  Both are scheduled for the same week, May 7 - 11.

February 22, 2018

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A Trifecta of Technologies for Cloud-Native Applications: Cisco ACI, Kubernetes, Apprenda

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Cisco ACI, with native Kubernetes cluster support, integrates with Apprenda's container management platform to simplify ACI fabric configuration, create secure containerization, and automate network isolation of cloud-native, legacy and mixed applications.

February 15, 2018

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Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler solution wins Digital Secure Perimeter Leadership award at Citrix Summit 2018

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Citrix Summit 2018 global alliance awards were announced last month in Anaheim, California. The award winners were announced at both Global and Geo events held on Jan 9.  Read awards...

January 24, 2018

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Cisco Live 2018 – Barcelona gears up to host industry’s premier technology event

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Barcelona is Europe’s greatest city to visit in winter. And February is especially notable with azure blue skies and moderate weather. It is also the time when the cultural calendar...

January 31, 2018

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Cisco ACI-Cherwell solution brings enhanced automation and visibility to IT Services

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Today we are pleased to announce ACI-Cherwell joint solution to address growing customer needs in IT Service Management. Cisco ACI is industry’s market-leading SDN network technology and has fast established...

November 13, 2017

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Nordic company Tieto deploys Cisco ACI platform for fast, customized service integration and delivery

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Introduction Tieto, a leading Nordic software and services company is growing rapidly and plans to continue fueling growth through new services and capabilities. Tieto’s growth strategy is built on a shift from providing mere services to delivering an outstanding experience to its customers. This requires the ability to deliver services quickly and make it possible […]

October 27, 2017

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SDx Central Moderates Cisco and Citrix Webinar on Software Defined Networking and Data Center Agility

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Join Cisco and Citrix on November 2 for an SDx Central moderated webinar to learn how trusted innovators, Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI joined to meet the rapidly changing needs of users and new applications using software-defined networking to modernize data centers. Discover how you can achieve business agility by building a secure, policy-driven architecture […]

October 17, 2017

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First Oktoberfest, and now Tufinnovate EMEA 2017 – Festival continues

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Frankfurt, Germany in October transforms into a city of festivals, catering to all tastes and ages. Just two weeks ago Oktoberfest got over and last week we saw the city play host to the famous book fair. This October, Frankfurt gives techies in Europe an extra delight with a hi-tech event, Tufinnovate EMEA 2017, Oct […]

September 25, 2017

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Cisco Tetration and ACI debut at Splunk 2017 conference

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Cisco's Insieme Business Unit is gearing up for the 2017 Splunk Conference in Washington DC, to demonstrate how customers are benefiting from the ACI & Tetration solutions with Splunk.

September 20, 2017

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End-to-end Security Management for the Next-generation Data Center with Cisco ACI and AlgoSec

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Guest blogger: AlgoSec Exec Anner Kushnir, VP Technology, AlgoSec This blog is authored by Anner Kushnir, AlgoSec. Anner Kushnir has over 20 years of experience in various research, development and executive management positions. Anner joined AlgoSec in 2006 as head of R&D, leading the research, design, architecture and software development of the AlgoSec product suite. […]

August 14, 2017

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Cisco ACI Ecosystem Brings Digital Innovation to Dutch Healthcare

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To meet the growing demand for applications and the network loads in its data center, VECOZO chose to deploy a joint solution based on Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) and Citrix® NetScaler as a next generation foundation

July 25, 2017

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F5 Agility 2017 ready to rock Chicago – Countdown starts now

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Chicago in August is known for film and food festivals, music events and many more fun stuff.  And this fall season, we have the F5 Agility event further adding...

June 28, 2017

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Automated App Services in Cisco ACI – F5 Private Cloud Solution

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Henry Tam is Sr Product Marketing Manager for F5’s Cloud Solutions and BIG-IP application delivery controller (ADC) platforms (hardware and software). Henry is responsible for the outbound marketing and go to market strategy of these solutions. We are publishing this Blog on behalf of Henry. Today’s software-defined economy requires businesses to move faster than their competitors. […]

June 19, 2017

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Cisco Live 2017 – Las Vegas gets ready to play host second year in a row

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Cisco Live US 2017, Cisco's premier education and training destination for IT professionals worldwide, kicks off next week in Vegas. More than 25,000 customers and partners converge to network and share their experiences, and potentially meet new peers onsite.

June 7, 2017

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Recent innovations in Cisco ACI – ServiceNow joint solution

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Cisco ACI and ServiceNow joint solution provides a fully-automated policy based enterprise service management solution to address these challenges. This blog provides a walk-through of the key use cases and innovations.

May 25, 2017

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Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler win Best of Citrix Synergy 2017 Award

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The Best of Citrix Synergy 2017 award was announced today at Citrix synergy, Orlando. Read awards related Blog here. Check winner’s slideshow here. Winner: Storage, Networking and Infrastructure—Cisco Network Automation Solution with Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler from Cisco I want to extend my congratulations to the entire team at Cisco Insieme Business Unit and recognize […]

May 24, 2017

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Cisco ACI and Vnomic bring Agility and Simplicity to Lumen’s Cloud Managed Services

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Traditional infrastructure, even in managed private hosting environments, doesn’t provide the speed and agility that a cloud hosted solution provides. Vnomic, and Cisco ACI powered FlexPod joint solution provides speed, agility and scale that a demanding Centurylink operating environment requires.

May 16, 2017

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Double the Excitement with a Disney Experience at Citrix Synergy 2017

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Citrix Synergy 2017 brings technology excitement and entertainment fun in equal measure next week to all its attendees. After four days of immersion in latest hi-tech innovations in Networking and Desktop virtualization, customers can experience an evening of memorable Disney world fun ranging from Live Reggae to Karaoke.

May 9, 2017

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Explore New Cisco ACI and Splunk Innovations

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Many Cisco ACI Customers are excited to learn about the robust and customizable Cisco ACI App for Splunk Enterprise. This blog takes you on a tour of recent innovations of the Cisco ACI App for Splunk, the key use-cases, and how the joint solution addresses Datacenter operational pain-points.

April 26, 2017

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Cisco ACI and Fortinet Joint Solution Enables Business Agility at Axians AB

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With customers demanding more application agility, Axians is providing orchestration with Cisco ACI and Fortinet as a key foundation to meet enterprise-wide objectives.”

April 19, 2017

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Why the Cultural Side of DevOps Matters to Networks Facing Containerization

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Containers. Even though the technology itself has existed for many years, you can't venture onto the Internet today without seeing an ad, article, or tweet about the latest technology.