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Rohit Agarwalla

Senior Director Product Management and Technical Marketing

Enterprise Networking

Rohit Agarwalla is a product management and technical marketing leader with 18+ years of experience. In Cisco’s Enterprise Networking organization, his charter includes incubating new concepts and building 0-to-1 products that tackle customer problems with innovation and define new growth vectors for the business. He leads AI/Agentic Operations for Industrial IoT, the Secure WAN portfolio, and Multicloud Networking, and earlier spearheaded the incubation and launch of cross-domain automation Cisco Workflows, establishing a foundation for agentic operations across Cisco. Prior to his current role, Rohit was Head of Product at Series B startup StarTree, a real-time analytics platform for user-facing applications. As the company’s first product manager, he built and scaled the product organization, led the launch of multiple offerings—including Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), SaaS products, and an anomaly detection application—and helped grow the business to multi-million-dollar revenue through a self-service, product-led growth model. Earlier in his career, he drove early cloud, software-defined networking, and platform initiatives, including Kubernetes and OpenStack. Rohit holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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June 24, 2024

NETWORKING
Rohit Agarwalla
Bhaskar Jayakrishnan

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]