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Liz Centoni

Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer

General Manager, Applications

As Chief Strategy Officer and GM, Applications, Liz Centoni partners with the Executive Leadership team, other General Managers, and functional leaders to drive the company’s overall strategic direction, and leads a team incubating emerging solutions to create new markets and businesses for Cisco. As the GM of Applications, Liz is responsible for Cisco’s portfolio of solutions that power optimized experiences for our customers' applications, which are increasingly central to their businesses in today’s digital, cloud-first world. Liz is a voting member of Cisco’s Investment review board which directs the company’s efforts with startups and the global venture community. Prior to this role, Liz was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Cloud, Compute, and IoT business where she drove the business and engineering strategy for this global portfolio. Previously, she led the Service Provider Access Group as Vice President and General Manager, responsible for strategy, marketing direction and engineering efforts to grow Cisco's portfolio of Carrier Ethernet Access solutions. She has also served as a Vice President of Engineering Strategy and Portfolio Planning and held multiple engineering roles leading global teams building software and central engineering services, executing engineering plans with feature velocity, quality and focus on getting it right for the customer. Mentorship, talent development and leadership are an important priority for Liz, and she is an active mentor and sponsor of underrepresented groups. She is the Cisco Global Executive Sponsor for the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. Liz serves on the Board of Directors for Daimler AG and Ingersoll Rand Inc. Liz holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Mumbai and a M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

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June 6, 2023

APPLICATIONS

Launch of Cisco FSO Platform Unifies and Secures Digital Experiences at Scale

Announcing the Cisco FSO Platform, an open and extensible, API-driven Full-Stack Observability (FSO) platform built on OpenTelemetry. Our Cisco Full-Stack Observability strategy provides AI/ML-driven analytics and a new observability ecosystem that delivers relevant and impactful business insights.

February 7, 2023

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APPLICATIONS

Risk is the Reality: Securing Modern Applications with Cisco Business Risk Observability

Cisco is leading the way in securing and enabling your greatest assets—applications and the experiences they empower. A significant advancement in our applications strategy, we’re announcing Business Risk Observability and spotlighting a tech preview of Cisco’s Full-Stack Observability Platform at Cisco Live EMEA.

December 19, 2022

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Tech Trends and Predictions That Will Shape 2023

As we look to 2023, we see a transformation in how applications, connectivity, and security are delivered and consumed. An immersive future that is “sustainable by default” will require new technologies built with new processes, and in service to new business models. The future is taking shape, and here’s what I see coming in the year ahead.

June 15, 2022

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco’s API-First Motion is Driving Innovation at Scale

Free-tier developer solutions Panoptica and Calisti continue Cisco’s strategy to connect, secure, and observe modern applications.

June 14, 2022

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cloud-Native Observability in the Experience Economy

Cisco Launches AppDynamics Cloud to enable the delivery of exceptional digital experiences. Application performance, security, and trust are at the center of it all.

August 13, 2021

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Advances Full-Stack Observability Strategy with Intent to Acquire Epsagon

Cisco announces intent to acquire Epsagon to advance full-stack observability strategy.

April 30, 2021

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco – the Bridge to an API-first, Cloud Native World

The traditional development of applications is giving way to a new era of modern application development.

January 15, 2021

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Application-First Infrastructures

Application-first Infrastructure for modern applications is here, and Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver a simplified, unified application infrastructure that breaks down silos across developers, operations and security teams.

November 16, 2020

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EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Future of Cloud-Native Connectivity: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Banzai Cloud

1/15/20 Update: Cisco has completed the acquisition of Banzai Cloud. Welcome to Cisco! As modern cloud-native applications become more pervasive, the environments in which these applications run are becoming thinner (containers, microservices, functions), increasingly distributed and more geographically diverse. Emerging cloud infrastructure technologies give rise to unique implementation challenges as the modern cloud-native application relies […]