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Luca Relandini

Principal Architect

Data Center and Cloud - EMEAR

I’m a Principal Architect at Cisco Systems, in the EMEAR team for Data Center, Automation and Cloud Computing.

After a long career as a Enterprise Architect in the IT industry, working at enterprises, system integrators and software vendors (in professional services) I moved to pre-sales activities.

Here I can leverage what I've learned: the human factor is more important than technology (i.e. organization and governance, as well as alignment of Business Strategy and IT Strategy, plus a sound architectural design).

As long as you have (at least) good technology, people in your project will be more critical for the final outcome than the products you choose.

So (sometimes) I’m trusted by my customers because they understand I can guide them to achieve their goals. Because I’m not selling slides, I’m telling them the story of projects I’ve led or participated, explaining why they succeeded or failed.

I hope that the information shared here will be useful to you also.

Friends and peers are more than welcome, if they like to add their perspective to my stories.

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July 19, 2017

CLOUD

Protecting Your Border or Offering a Service to Others? Part 1

4 min read

In the previous posts (1 and 2) we talked about how technical innovation (in networking and containers) can address an operational challenge involving different stakeholders within an organisation. In the next two starting today, we zoom out to see another pattern of dynamics between business and IT: the pressure for a faster provisioning of resources for […]

July 6, 2017

CLOUD

The Best OpenSource Solution for Microservices Networking – Part 2

3 min read

In my previous post, we talked about the complexity that Containers can bring to the network and what that means to different roles within an organisation. We also introduced Contiv in this context and touched on its high-level architecture. In this post, we aim to get a big more into detail… 🙂 So let’s begin… Contiv […]

June 27, 2017

CLOUD

The Best OpenSource Solution for Microservices Networking – Part 1

6 min read

There is a big (justified) hype around containers and microservices. Indeed, many people speak about the subject but few have implemented a real project.

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