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Ravi Balakrishnan

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Datacenter Solutions

Ravi Balakrishnan holds a MS in Computer engineering and MBA in Marketing from USA

Ravi has more than 20 years of server hardware and software middleware experience at Sun, HP and Oracle and 5 years of server, virtualization and networking hardware experience at Cisco where he is employed currently – Ravi has acquired rich experience in datacenter infrastructure solutions encompassing Unified Computing Systems, Unified fabric, Energy Efficient Datacenters, and other emerging datacenter topics such as Cloud computing, dynamic provisioning, and the like.

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November 11, 2013

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Close Peek at Cisco ACI : Network Abstraction, VXLAN, Programmability

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Last week was a memorable one for me in more ways than one. First, the unveiling of Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) specifics by John Chambers and his Executive Management...

October 2, 2013

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Cisco UCS Rocks at Oracle Open World

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You must be thinking I am joking, when I say that there is an affinity between me and San Francisco Moscone center. Yes, August end, I was there for VMworld...

September 6, 2013

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My Experience at VMworld, San Francisco, 2013

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This year at VMworld, San Francisco, I had a choice, to attend either as a Visitor or as a Demo Booth staffer. I quickly chose the latter, as I could...

August 4, 2013

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Will your Citrix XenApp infrastructure perform for thousands of mobile users?

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The number of mobile devices in our companies are exploding  - and one of the fastest and best ways to deliver all those existing Windows-based apps to these devices is...

June 21, 2013

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Citrix at CiscoLive – From Disneyland to Disneyworld

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You’re probably thinking I have the best job in Silicon Valley. Last month I was running the Cisco UCS – with Citrix XenDesktop demos at Citrix Synergy in Anaheim....

June 13, 2013

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Title: Citrix XenDesktop 7 and FlexPod – a Perfect Pairing

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Hot on the heels of a hopping Citrix Synergy two weeks ago, Citrix just broadcast on June 11, a fascinating discussion between senior Citrix, NetApp and Cisco executives on the...

May 19, 2013

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Looking for Action? Citrix Synergy or Disneyland – or Both

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I am looking forward to next week’s Citrix Synergy conference in Anaheim, Los Angeles with sense of great anticipation. If you are fortunate enough to be attending, I am sure...