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Vikas Butaney

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco SD-WAN, Multicloud, and Industrial IoT 

As the SVP | GM of Cisco IoT, Vikas Butaney sets the business and engineering strategy and solutions across the portfolio. Vikas engages closely with customers across key industries like manufacturing, transportation, utilities, and the public sector as they transform into digital businesses by leveraging Cisco IoT technologies.

Vikas has global responsibility for engineering and product strategy, roadmaps, and partnerships for the Cisco IoT portfolio including Edge Compute, IoT Security, and Industrial IoT Networking. His team of developers, product managers, technical marketers, industry experts, and business development professionals have enabled more than 70,000 successful Enterprise IoT deployments. Prior to this role, Vikas held the position of VP, Product Management for Cisco IoT and other leadership roles in Cisco network engineering. Vikas also brings experience from working at cloud and mobility start-ups, including Accelera and Mobile Iron.

Vikas earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering focusing on Optical and Data Communications from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.

Articles

May 26, 2020

INDUSTRIAL IOT

New innovations for more connected devices, performance, and power at the IoT edge

4 min read

Cisco IoT is announcing three new innovations to securely connect and scale your remote operations bringing real-time and bandwidth heavy IoT applications to fruition – anywhere – with the security and simplicity to scale with existing IT capabilities.

October 15, 2019

INDUSTRIAL IOT

Delivering data at mission critical speed from anywhere: Cisco ESR6300 Embedded Series Router

2 min read

Learn more about Cisco’s new Embedded Series router that helps to reliably connect, unlock data and meet time-critical deadlines.

June 10, 2019

INDUSTRIAL IOT

Cisco Live US: Let’s Accelerate Outcomes at the IoT Edge

3 min read

Cisco extends intent-based networking to the IoT Edge and hazardous locations with IP67 rated Catalyst Heavy Duty Series switches and wireless access points.

February 6, 2019

INDUSTRIAL IOT

One Utility Network for the Modern Grid

3 min read

Utility networks are transforming worldwide, and Cisco is leading the way by providing flexible deployment solutions at scale, with multi-layered grid security.