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Prashanth Shenoy

Vice President of Marketing

Enterprise Networking and Mobility

Prashanth Shenoy is the Vice President of Marketing at Cisco. His team is responsible for driving the overall global marketing strategy and execution – from awareness, enablement, and demand generation – for Cisco’s $20B business of Enterprise , Data Center, and Cloud Networking, IoT infrastructure, and Developer solutions.

He has more than 20 years of engineering, product management and marketing experience and has represented Cisco in various industry, press, analyst, and customer events.

He holds a MS in computer science from Texas A&M University and a MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

Additional blog contributions can be found on Prashanth's contributor page.

Articles

October 16, 2017

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Miercom Verifies Performance of Enterprise Campus Infrastructure in a Cisco vs. Huawei Bake Off

3 min read

Miercom's evaluation found that while Cisco and Huawei both offer what appears to be comparable components for building a campus-wide, wireless and wired, network infrastructure, the side-by-side testing revealed that the Cisco package offers significant and important advantages that Huawei does not.

October 12, 2017

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Journey to an Intent-based Network

3 min read

In June, Cisco announced the network intuitive vision and the ground-breaking steps we are taking to transform the network to an intent-based system based on the Cisco Digital Network Architecture.

June 15, 2017

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Building a Strategic Roadmap for Networking?

3 min read

If you’re trying to determine the best way to create your organization’s own network journey, you can’t go wrong with reading Gartner’s 2017 Strategic Roadmap for Networking.

April 6, 2017

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Empowering IT for Massive Network Change

2 min read

Get the details on the network programmability certifications and training options Cisco has introduced to deliver critical skills.

March 29, 2017

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Helping SMBs Compete on a Level (Wireless) Playing Field

3 min read

It can be tough for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). They need to compete with the deep pockets of bigger organizations who can provide top-notch wireless access to customers, vendors and employees alike. But finding cutting-edge wireless network solutions that won’t break the bank, are easy-to-deploy and don’t take up a lot of space can […]

February 21, 2017

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Start Navigating Your Digital Journey Today with Cisco DNA

4 min read

How can you take advantage of new network virtualization and security innovations to help accelerate digital transformation in your organization?

December 20, 2016

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The Year of Network Innovations – Cisco DNA Ushers a New Era

3 min read

The biggest news of 2016 was the introduction of Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). It revolutionized the way you deploy and manage your network with a software-driven architecture focused on automation, security, and analytics.

September 6, 2016

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Cisco Edges Competition by Being a Gartner Wired and Wireless LAN Access Magic Quadrant Leader

2 min read

Today everything is becoming digital, and we don’t mean just connecting to a network. We are talking about machines communicating with other machines, employees retrieving the information they need allowing...

July 6, 2016

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Ignite Your Enterprise Digital Journey in Three Steps

3 min read

It’s been a few exciting weeks recently at Cisco. On the heels of Cisco and Apple innovations for iOS 10, came the Tetration Analytics announcement to provide pervasive visibility across everything in your data center in real time. Now, I am ecstatic to continue that momentum with an update to our Digital Network Architecture (DNA) […]

July 11, 2016

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Getting to a Digital Network Architecture

3 min read

Any change is tough. True transformation is even tougher –especially when we are talking about the transformation of your tried and tested networks to a new software-delivered model. Your network...

June 2, 2016

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Cisco Recognized as A Leader in Gartner WAN OP MQ, 2nd Year in a Row

2 min read

More evidence that Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture solutions are providing an open, software-driven and service-centric network to accelerate digital transformation initiatives.

May 12, 2016

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802.11ac Wave 2 and Cisco: A Beautiful Synergy

5 min read

Here’s a question: how many devices are brought into your organization that conform to the 802.11ac Wave 2 standards? Don’t tell me, I already know the answer: probably none. That’s great and you’re safe. For now. By this time next year, you’re going to start seeing more and more 802.11ac Wave 2 enabled devices on […]

April 7, 2016

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Cisco DNA Technologies Reign in Three Finalist Spots for Best of Interop!

3 min read

I believe I can speak for the Cisco Enterprise Networks team that today’s announcement of Best of Interop finalists is a proud moment for all the product managers and engineers that have invested years of man-hours to bring the Cisco DNA Architecture to life . We have made some great inroads with Cisco DNA with a […]

February 9, 2016

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Slow and Steady Doesn’t Win This Digital Business Race

4 min read

When I talk to network professionals, I routinely ask them about the one part of their job that keeps them up at night. The thing that consistently comes up is their network speed required for delivering a consistent reliable user experience: or specifically, the lack of it. They usually follow up this admission by saying […]

February 9, 2015

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Cloud-Managed IT: The Demystification of Cisco Meraki

3 min read

I often find when you say “cloud” to a customer they get a reluctant look on their face, and I wonder to myself, ”Is it the mystery about the cloud...

January 28, 2015

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Enterprise Networks Taking Center Stage at Cisco Live Milan

1 min read

It is clear being an IT professional today is not easy, there are ever increasing demands on the network and on IT resources. Just look at some of the data out there: According to a report posted on Information Age 70% of businesses say that IT operations are holding them back. Research from the Cisco […]

January 26, 2015

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Summary: Drive Customer Engagement with Analytics and Insights – the Next Wave of CMX Innovation

2 min read

CES and NRF kicked off 2015 with a bang, and as usual, showed us that there is no shortage of gadgets and dashboards to help businesses solve their every need. From an IT perspective, choosing the right tools to solve each technology challenge should involve a full evaluation the merits of feature sets, while balancing […]

January 26, 2015

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The Next Wave of CMX: Location Innovation, Scalability, and User-centric Analytics for Better Customer Engagement

2 min read

Technology is a funny thing: it enthralls some, mystifies others. As evidenced by CES and NRF, there is no shortage of gadgets and dashboards these days to help businesses solve...

May 6, 2014

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Get Your Mobile Workspace Solution now – from Cisco and Citrix

3 min read

Having an enterprise-wide mobility strategy provides a competitive advantage as a recent IT survey from Cisco concluded.  Working with many customers over the last couple of years we have come to recognize that mobility is a multi-stage journey that every organization is taking at its own pace. While some of you might think of this journey […]

October 17, 2013

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Beyond Today’s Productivity and Efficiency: Enterprise Mobility Enables Long-Term Growth

2 min read

One of the basic tenants of enterprise mobility is its direct influence on “now”. When organizations implement mobile policies like BYOD and virtualized desktops, day-to-day operations can immediately improve. In...

September 26, 2013

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Cisco Leads the Gartner Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant Again!

2 min read

Gartner has released their 2013 Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant.  For the 2nd time in a row, Cisco is recognized as a leader in this highly anticipated publication. Here is the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure (Authors: Tim Zimmerman and Mark Fabbi; Published 3rd September 2013). There are […]

October 2, 2013

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Cisco Expands the Reach and Power of Unified Access to Drive Business Innovation

7 min read

Over the last 15 months Cisco has revolutionized how organizations provide reliable, secure access to end-users and devices that connect via wireless, wired or VPN networks. This new approach to unified access delivers significant operational improvements by delivering One Policy, One Management, and One Network. However, operational improvements are only half of the story. As […]

September 19, 2013

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The Sixth Step to Enterprise Mobility: Power to Your People

2 min read

This is the sixth post in a blog series featuring Vine-format videos focusing on the “Six Essential Steps for Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Mobility”. The first blog post...

September 11, 2013

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The Fifth Step to Enterprise Mobility: Defending Your Data

2 min read

This is the fifth post in a blog series featuring Vine-format videos focusing on the “Six Essential Steps for Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Mobility”. The first blog post...

September 4, 2013

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The Fourth Step to Enterprise Mobility: Create an App Checkpoint

2 min read

This is the fourth post in a blog series featuring Vine-format videos focusing on the “Six Essential Steps for Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Mobility”. The first blog post...

August 22, 2013

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Third Step to Enterprise Mobility: The Division of Devices

2 min read

This is the third post in a blog series featuring Vine-format videos focusing on the “Six Essential Steps for Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Mobility”. Be sure to read...

August 14, 2013

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Second Step to Enterprise Mobility: Go Virtual

2 min read

This is the second post in our “Six Essential Steps for Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Mobility” blog series featuring Vine-format videos. To read the first blog and...

September 23, 2013

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Cisco Positioned as A Leader in the Gartner Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant – For a 2nd Time in a …

3 min read

Gartner has released their 2013 Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Magic Quadrant.  For the 2nd time in a row, Cisco is recognized as a leader in this highly anticipated publication. Without further ado, here is the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure (Authors: Tim Zimmerman and Mark Fabbi; Published 3rd […]

August 7, 2013

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First Step to Enterprise Mobility: Build the Mobile Structure

3 min read

Over the last several years, the role of an enterprise workforce has evolved from a select few mobile-enabled employees to a robust, global network equipped with advanced capabilities at their...