Balaji Venkatraman

VP, Product Management

AI Software & Platform

Balaji Venkatraman is Vice President of Product Management for Cisco Cloud Control within Cisco’s AI Software and Platform team. An accomplished technology executive with extensive leadership experience in network management, enterprise software, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, Balaji previously led the Catalyst Center product team before moving to Cisco Secure Access, focusing on driving product adoption, scaling service provider route to market, and marketing. Balaji holds a Ph.D. in Computer & Information Sciences from the University of Florida and an MBA from Santa Clara University, bringing a strong combination of technical expertise, academic depth, and strategic business leadership.

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Balaji Venkatraman

A new chapter for IT operations: Cisco Cloud Control is now generally available for U.S. customers

4 min read

Starting today, Cisco Cloud Control is generally available for U.S. customers. More than 300 customers are already onboarded, and the global pre-GA waitlist surpassed 5,000 sign-ups. Those numbers reinforce what we heard throughout the..........

Balaji Venkatraman

Inside Cisco Cloud Control: Building the AI-Native Platform of Record for Cross-Domain Operations

9 min read

How we're building the secure harness for the agentic era — converging data, identity, topology, authorization, workflows, and agentic AI across every operational domain.