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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.

Twitter: @gkinghorn

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February 4, 2013

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DATA CENTER

Cisco Launches Nexus 1000V InterCloud – Part 1

3 min read

In a recent post, I previewed some new hybrid cloud market research from Forrester that spoke to the business drivers and technical hurdles to cloud integration, and Shashi Kiran  has recently posted about lowering the barriers to hybrid cloud adoption. Today, as part of a larger cloud technology launch, Cisco is announcing a new hybrid […]

January 29, 2013

DATA CENTER

Nexus 1000V Expands Cloud Network Services Ecosystem with vPath Integration in the Imperva Web Application Firewall

2 min read

We are ramping up another news cycle around our Nexus 1000V and cloud network services portfolio this week at Cisco live! in London. Among the updates, business security solutions vendor Imperva is demonstrating integration of its SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF) into the Nexus 1000V vPath service insertion architecture. This marks the first third party product to participate in […]

January 29, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco VXLAN Innovations Overcoming IP Multicast Challenges

3 min read

At Cisco Live! in London this week, Cisco is demonstrating some enhancements to its Nexus 1000V virtual switch that greatly ease some of the challenges in deploying VXLAN in large scale cloud networks. VXLAN was designed to solve the problem of setting up traditional virtual networks (VLANs) in large multi-tenant cloud environments: the limited ID […]

January 16, 2013

DATA CENTER

ESG Webinar on Virtual Networking and Physical-Virtual Consistency

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Last quarter I had the chance to record a video webinar with Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), where we talked about the basics of virtual networking, as well as why organizations need consistency across their physical and virtual network infrastructures. Bob presents some great research data on virtual network overlays, […]

January 14, 2013

DATA CENTER

New Independent Research Study on Hybrid Cloud Business Trends and Technical Challenges

2 min read

[Join Cisco for a Live Announcement Webinar on Cloud Innovations on February 5: Register Here] A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco on Hybrid Cloud technology trends sheds light on many of the business drivers and technical obstacles to creating a seamless connection from the enterprise data center to cloud service […]