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

  Are you ready for F5 Agility next week – Edinburgh gets ready to play host to this exciting event

  May 17, 2015 - 3 Comments

  It is a back-back, double-header for me this weekend, as I head from an action-packed week in Orlando to exotic Edinburgh,…

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  Looking for Action? Cisco ACI at Citrix Synergy 2015 or Disney World – or Both

  May 10, 2015 - 4 Comments

  What attracts me to Orlando In the hot and humid month of May this year? There are numerous synergies from the Disney World to Orlando’s pristine nature that enhances my…

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  Cisco APIC wins Best of Interop 2015 award in SDN category

  April 28, 2015 - 6 Comments

  The Best of Interop Awards for 2015 were announced today at 5.30 PM, at the Interop Theater. Cisco APIC won the Best of Interop award in the SDN category.

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  Cisco ACI and Radware – From Point Solutions to Application Centric Services

  April 17, 2015 - 2 Comments

  Radware’s Alteon ADC and DefensePro integrated with Cisco ACI fabric enable IT managers drive greater value from their Cisco ACI deployment with automated tenant-based application delivery and security services. For…

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  Cisco APIC Makes Best of Interop 2015 Finalist

  April 9, 2015 - 8 Comments

  With Interop less than three weeks away, we are excited to learn that Cisco APIC, the SDN controller for…

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  The Power of the ACI Toolkit: The “Snapback” App

  April 6, 2015 - 0 Comments

  I recently wrote in my blog about a partner, WWT, that quickly developed a network replication solution across dual DC using the programming interface on the APIC.  Our own…

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  Federated ACI Fabrics for Dual Data Center Deployments – A Disaster Recovery ACI use-case

  March 26, 2015 - 3 Comments

  Wins, Accomplishments, Fast Action, welcome to the world of Cisco ACI. In this blog, I want to take you closer to the core of ACI excitement. Cisco Insieme Business…

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  New Cisco APIC Software allows stretched ACI Fabric across long distances

  February 15, 2015 - 4 Comments

  In the world of Cisco ACI, there is never a shortage of excitement and action. Today, we are pleased to bring to your attention news about the latest Cisco…

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  Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 Activities at Cisco Live Milan 2015

  January 25, 2015 - 0 Comments

  Interested in learning more about Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and Nexus 9000? We are hosting a myriad of activities here at Cisco Live Milan 2015! With Meet the Expert…

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  Cisco Live Milan 2015: Hi-Tech revisits City of Tradition and Fashion

  January 22, 2015 - 0 Comments

  When I first visited Milan last year in January, the occasion was Cisco Live and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Alpine city is known as much for…

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