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Rohit Agarwalla

Senior Director Product Management and Technical Marketing

Enterprise Networking

Rohit Agarwalla is Senior Director of Product Management and Technical Marketing within Cisco’s Enterprise Networking group. He leads cloud connectivity and cross-domain automation (Workflows) services/capabilities for Cisco Networking Cloud. Prior to rejoining Cisco, he was Head of Product at a Series B startup StarTree that offers a real time analytics database for user facing applications. He joined the company as the first product manager and led the team through the release of multiple products/services, including Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) and SaaS cloud offerings and anomaly detection application. His efforts helped ramp up the business to multi-million dollars and open up new channels for acquiring customers through self-service product led growth motion. During his past tenure at Cisco, Rohit took on different roles and worked on a variety of cutting edge technologies. Rohit spearheaded product management efforts for building platform products with container technology - Kubernetes and helped build multi-cloud strategies and solutions in collaboration with AWS and Google Cloud. Early on as an engineer he worked on building features for Cisco Nexus and was one of first code contributors to the OpenStack open source private cloud project. He also helped bootstrapped technical marketing efforts for OpenStack within Cisco. Rohit has a Masters of Business Administration degree from UC Berkeley and Masters of Engineering, Computer Science degree from Cornell University.

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June 24, 2024

NETWORKING

Cisco Unveils Workflows in Cisco Networking Cloud for Secure Network Automation

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Cisco Workflows provide seamless integration with hybrid cloud environments across millions of endpoints while ensuring unmatched security with unparalleled flexibility and efficiency, helpiong automate operations across public cloud and on-premises assets.

October 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and OpenStack: Juno Release – Part 2

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The tenth OpenStack release codenamed Juno was released on October 16, 2014. This press release provides a good summary of what to expect in Juno. It also discusses...

October 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and OpenStack: Juno Release – Part 1

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The next stable OpenStack release codenamed “Juno” is slated to be released October 16, 2014. From improving live upgrades in Nova to enabling easier migration from Nova Network to Neutron,...

May 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

OpenStack and Cisco – IceHouse release and Juno Summit

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Cisco is committed to further OpenStack development and in this post I’m going to provide an update on contributions made by the Cisco team members in the latest OpenStack release and what sessions are lead by them in the upcoming Juno Design Summit. The ninth OpenStack software release- IceHouse, came out April 17th and boasts several […]

February 26, 2014

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Voting for OpenStack Atlanta Summit Speaking Proposals is Open !

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The OpenStack Summit for Spring 2014 is scheduled to take place in Atlanta from May 12-16.  The general session speaking proposals for the Summit are submitted against the various Summit tracks and the proposed sessions go through a community voting process.  While the chairs for each track determine the final list of presentation topics, the […]

October 30, 2013

DATA CENTER

OpenStack@Cisco – Havana release and IceHouse Summit

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Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release – Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), Networking (Neutron) and other core services, it also provided users with more application-driven capabilities and more enterprise features.  Two […]

August 21, 2013

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Speaking proposal submissions for OpenStack Summit – Voting is Open!

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Cisco celebrated OpenStack’s 3rd birthday recently by releasing the Cisco OpenStack Installer for Grizzly. This blog post has more details. The OpenStack foundation organizes a four-day OpenStack Summit every six months for contributors, enterprise users, service providers, application developers and ecosystem members. It facilitates the community to gather, discuss and present on several different streams ranging from […]

June 27, 2013

DATA CENTER

OpenStack at Cisco Live in Orlando

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As part of the Cisco Open Network Environment approach, there’s a lot of news coming out of Orlando from this year’s Cisco Live US event, and a lot of it involves OpenStack. OpenStack has never been more prominent at Cisco Live – and there’s much more to come. This is significant not only because it […]