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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  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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  Software Defined Networks with L4-L7 ADC Policy Automation

  January 9, 2015 - 0 Comments

  It appears only a short time ago we introduced Cisco ACI to the market, but it is already the one-year anniversary time. In this one-year period, we have seen…

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  Take One small step with the ACI Simulator, Make a giant leap in ACI Fabric deployments

  December 2, 2014 - 1 Comment

  Cisco ACI is gaining momentum and mindshare in the industry as testified by the 160 plus licensees for the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), and 900 plus customers for…

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  Transform DevOps with CA Release Automation and Cisco ACI

  November 11, 2014 - 0 Comments

  DevOps is gaining momentum in many enterprises today. Customers are increasingly realizing the benefits of DevOps and how it helps in breaking down barriers and helps application agility. DevOps enables…

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  Cisco Live Cancun – Hi-Tech visits Vacation Paradise

  October 30, 2014 - 0 Comments

  Cancun in November is not your ideal spring break destination, but it feels that way as many of us are heading there next week as part of a big contingent…

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  Cisco ACI Policy Model spans Physical, Virtual and Container based environments

  September 16, 2014 - 1 Comment

  I find Linux containers among the most fascinating technology trends of recent past. Containers couple lightweight, high performance isolation and security with the ability to easily package services and deploy…

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  Citrix NetScaler Device Package for Cisco ACI goes FCS

  September 8, 2014 - 0 Comments

  The Cisco-Citrix partnership has expanded significantly in recent years from UCS-XenDesktop based Desktop virtualization solutions to span Mobility, Desktop as A Service (DaaS) and most recently ACI-NetScaler joint solutions. I have been…

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  F5 device Package for Cisco APIC goes FCS

  August 19, 2014 - 0 Comments

  Recent few weeks should have been exciting if you are a customer of ACI.  First, we announced the shipment of ACI to Data Centers worldwide. Then, F5 announced that…

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  Cisco at F5 Agility – From Copenhagen to New York

  July 31, 2014 - 1 Comment

  You are probably thinking I have the most exciting job in Silicon Valley. In June 2014, I was leading Cisco ACI at the EMEA (Copenhagen) edition of F5 Agility….

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