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Usha Andra

Leader, Product Marketing

Data Center and Cloud Networking

Usha Andra is an experienced product marketer and leads a marketing team in the Cisco Customer and Solutions Marketing (CSM) team with a focus on Cisco’s Cloud and Data Center Networking connectivity, cloud managed platforms and cloud-native initiatives around automation, orchestration and insights with Cisco Nexus Cloud and Nexus Dashboard along with Cisco Nexus switching for 400G/800G. Prior to this role, she was responsible for developing gold-standard global thought leadership initiatives with the Cisco Service Provider and multi-domain marketing teams where she was a lead analyst on network performance, telemetry and usage analysis with the Cisco Annual Internet Report, Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) and Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI) — the company's efforts to forecast and analyze the growth and use of the Internet, IP networks and cloud based networks worldwide — resulting in successful launches for the SP product portfolio. Usha has been with the company for 17 years. She started her career with Cisco’s Strategic Marketing Organization focusing on the Enterprise and Consumer segments doing market share and share of wallet. She is an MBA/BSEE and has served as an adjunct faculty member at the College of Business at SJSU, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Articles

January 30, 2023

DATA CENTER

5 key data center network themes at Cisco Live EMEA

5 min read

It’s time to bring your networking best, get ready to taste great cheeses, and bring your inquiring minds to Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam from Feb 6-9th, 2023 Read all about the five reasons why Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam is buzzing with excitement!

April 12, 2022

DATA CENTER

Hybrid cloud networks are calling – Cisco Nexus Dashboard has the answer

4 min read

With the Nexus Dashboard, we are helping customers figure out where in the network infrastructure automation journey they are. Then help them in their journey to move their performance zone from reactive, to proactive and then to optimizing and the visionary self-healing, self-driving, and self-diagnostic networks.

September 14, 2021

DATA CENTER

Data, Data Everywhere: The Challenges of Hybrid Cloud Networks

2 min read

As complexities and expectations escalate, hybrid network management often remains inefficient and subpar, despite all the tools and money and people on the tasks. The answer to all this complexity? A single command center: Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

June 2, 2021

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus Dashboard: One platform to manage multicloud automation

2 min read

Tune into this Cisco Champions podcast episode and learn more from seasoned data center networking experts about the multicloud operational simplicity realized from Cisco Nexus Dashboard and its powerful capabilities.

January 13, 2021

DATA CENTER

Citius, Altius, Fortius: Lead in 2021 with Cisco Nexus Dashboard

3 min read

The Cisco Nexus Dashboard gives you better control over your cloud-centric digital infrastructure. Register for our upcoming webinars - January 19 and February 2 - to experience the ease of comprehensive visibility and scale in the multicloud.

May 27, 2020

DATA CENTER

How to Create Networks that Meet Your Intent?

3 min read

Network infrastructure and network operations are experiencing unprecedented demand to support digital transformation initiatives to move at the speed of the business.

Why Do Network and Application Performance Need to Be Superior?

4 min read

Question: Is there still a need for more network capacity and performance enhancements to fixed and mobile networks? Answer: Yes! And tomorrow’s tactile Internet needs and requirements will be met by 5G, Wi-Fi6 and FTTH innovations that support emerging applications (and new services that are just in the ideation phase today). At the beginning of […]