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Vikas Butaney

SVP / GM, Cisco Networking

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

October 31, 2019

INDUSTRIAL IOT

Cisco empowers IT & OT partners to create and grow their IoT business

4 min read

Going into Cisco’s Partner Summit, one thing’s for certain: Cisco IoT offers a great opportunity for partners to build profitable, growing practices.

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.