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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 25, 2019

DATA CENTER

The Countdown Starts Now: Cisco Live Melbourne, 2019

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

DATA CENTER

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

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

DATA CENTER

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

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

DATA CENTER

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

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

July 25, 2018

DATA CENTER

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

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

DATA CENTER

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

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

DATA CENTER

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

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

DATA CENTER

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

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

DATA CENTER

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

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.