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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  3 SDN lessons in 3 years of production – Learn from Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler best practices

  March 14, 2016 - 1 Comment

  This blog has been developed in collaboration with Citrix. Primary Author – Steve Shah, VP Product Management. Secondary Author – Ravi Balakrishnan, storyboard, blog style and content adaptation. Bring out…

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  Cisco ACI and Avi Networks deliver compelling ROI and automation to leading financial management software firm

  March 7, 2016 - 1 Comment

  This Blog has been developed in collaboration with Avi Networks. Primary Author: Chandra Sekar, VP Marketing, Avi Networks.   Outline, Flow, Adaptation  by Ravi Balakrishnan, Cisco Systems. Avi Networks recently acquired a…

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  Cisco Live Berlin 2016, just a week away – A preview

  February 8, 2016 - 1 Comment

  Making a trip to Berlin is always worthwhile. And February is especially notable, as this is when famous movie stars make their way down the red carpet for the international…

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  Enabling DevOps to Succeed: Go Beyond APIs

  February 4, 2016 - 0 Comments

  Bio: Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire software suite with an emphasis on…

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  Network Automation and Programmability for Application deployments using Cisco Nexus 9000 and F5 BIG IP

  January 13, 2016 - 0 Comments

  One of the major burdens in today’s Data Center is the management of complex IT environments. It requires considerable staff time to configure, deploy, and manage application infrastructure. Increasingly Automation…

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  Want to Empower your Digital Enterprise – Join Cisco at the Gartner Data Center Conference 2015, Vegas

  December 7, 2015 - 0 Comments

  The year 2015 has been a very busy year for Cisco Data center Business Units. We are very pleased to end the year on a high note with the Gartner…

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  New FortiGate Connector for Cisco ACI Delivers App-Centric Security Automation For Data Center Agility

  October 9, 2015 - 0 Comments

  Cisco’s open ACI eco-system is gaining rapid momentum in Data Centers with more than 45 leading partners developing joint solutions addressing L4-L7 network and security service use-cases along with application…

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  Cisco ACI – A Hardened Secure Platform With Native, Built-in Security

  September 24, 2015 - 0 Comments

  This blog has been developed in association with  Javed Asghar, Insieme Business Unit The Cisco ACI Platform consists of the Cisco APIC controller and Nexus 9000 series switches connected in…

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  F5 Agility 2015: Next Stop Down Under

  August 11, 2015 - 0 Comments

  In a few weeks Spring season will set in, and it’ll be a Ripper Down Under. For the Data Center technology geeks there is plenty of action in store to…

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  F5 Agility 2015, Washington DC – Exciting week awaits us

  July 29, 2015 - 0 Comments

  Only a few weeks remain for the Fall season to officially set in, and it’s still quite hot in Washington DC. The fast approaching F5 Agility event is further…

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