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Gary Kinghorn

Sr Solution Marketing Manager

Network Virtualization and SDN

Gary is a senior solution marketing lead for Network Virtualization and SDN in the Data Center/Cloud marketing organization, including the Nexus 1000V virtual switch and the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE). He joined Cisco in 2010 from HP, which he joined as part of the 3COM acquisition, where he was Sr. Product Marketing Manager for network security products. He has over twenty years experience in product marketing, product management and business development in the networking and network security arena. He has a Master’s in Computer Engineering from USC, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from UCLA.

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April 3, 2014

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Interview with Citrix on the Benefits of NetScaler Integration with Nexus 7000 and RISE

It’s been a busy week at Interop in Las Vegas so far, and we’re getting a lot of interest in our new Remote Integrated Services Engine (RISE) technology for the Nexus 7000 Series switches, which Cisco unveiled earlier this week. RISE integrates service appliances attached to Nexus 7000 Series switches as if the appliance was directly connected […]

March 31, 2014

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New Remote Integrated Services Engine (RISE) Enhances L4-7 Appliance Integration with Nexus 7000 Series

Remote Integrated Service Engine (RISE) is a new protocol being added to the Nexus 7000 and 7700 platforms through NX-OS (software upgradeable to existing devices), that integrates service appliances to be attached to Nexus 7000 Series switches with the same benefits as if the appliance was directly connected to the switch backplane, as if it […]

March 17, 2014

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Best of Interop Awards: Cisco APIC and Nexus 9516 Switch Selected as Finalists

With Interop less than three weeks away, we were doubly excited to learn that

March 7, 2014

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Improve Cloud Traffic Visibility with the New Cisco Prime Virtual NAM

Earlier this year Cisco announced the Cisco Prime Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM), an integral component of the Cisco Cloud Network Services portfolio. While a virtual NAM has been available on the Nexus 1100 Cloud Services Platform (a UCS appliance for virtual services), it has not been available in a generic VM form factor, which […]

February 7, 2014

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Availability of the Nexus 1000V Cloud Networking Platform for OpenStack Unveiled at Cisco live!

Last week at Cisco live! Milan, we announced another milestone in our OpenStack strategy with the availability this quarter of the Nexus 1000V virtual networking platform for Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and integration with the commercial OpenStack distribution from Canonical (Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack). I had a chance to sit down in Milan […]

February 4, 2014

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VXLAN Taking a More Strategic Role in Cloud Networks with Support across Cisco Fabrics and Switching Platforms

There’s been a lot of news and momentum surrounding VXLAN technology in the last several months, and there is no doubt that VXLAN is becoming a...

February 3, 2014

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Cisco ACI adds New Security and Application Delivery Vendors to Ecosystem: A10 Networks and Catbird

Cisco announced last week that its rapidly expanding ACI ecosystem now includes the A10 Networks aCloud Services Architecture...

January 22, 2014

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Is ACI Really SDN? One Point of View to Clarify the Conversation

Perhaps I’m in the minority that is still frustrated by this, but as a marketing person who is tasked with explaining technology and solutions to customers and prospects, I...

January 21, 2014

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Rebuttal to VMware Comments on ACI and SDN Architectures

In a January 13, 2014 NetworkWorld article, VMware executive, Steve Mullaney, compared VMware NSX to Cisco ACI and other SDN architectures. Cisco’s