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 etc.,

Ravi Balakrishnan's Articles

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  Data Center

  Thunder Down Under – F5 Agility rolls into Melbourne and Sydney

  August 12, 2016 - 0 Comments

  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…

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  Data Center

  F5 Agility 2016 – Next Stop Chicago

  July 28, 2016 - 0 Comments

  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…

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  Cloud

  Red Hat Summit 2016 – A Review of key moments

  July 7, 2016 - 0 Comments

  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…

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  Data Center

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

  June 30, 2016 - 8 Comments

  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…

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  Data Center

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

  June 21, 2016 - 2 Comments

  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…

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  Cloud

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

  June 17, 2016 - 0 Comments

  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…

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  Data Center

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

  June 8, 2016 - 0 Comments

  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)…

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  Data Center

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

  May 18, 2016 - 2 Comments

  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….

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  Data Center

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

  May 11, 2016 - 0 Comments

  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…

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  Data Center

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

  April 27, 2016 - 1 Comment

  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…

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