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 Connectivity & Collaboration 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 Multicloud Fabric, AI/Agentic Operations for Industrial IoT, and 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.
Cisco AI Troubleshooting for Industrial Networks acts as your OT team's digital teammate. This on-premises agent continuously senses faults, diagnoses root causes, and provides step-by-step remediation to drastically speed up resolution.
Cisco Multicloud Fabric simplifies networking for the AI era with a unified, secure, and on-demand global fabric that connects sites and clouds through a single, intelligent platform.
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.
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...
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,...
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]