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Kip Compton

SVP, Cloud Platform and Solutions Group

Kip Compton is Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Cloud Platform and Solutions group. Kip leads the company’s effort to help customers innovate in a multicloud, automated world which is core to Cisco’s strategy of delivering a secure, intelligent platform for digital business. Kip and his team work across Cisco and with key technology partners to deliver innovative cloud products, hybrid cloud solutions, and Cisco’s multicloud portfolio.

Kip’s organization develops world-class cloud orchestration solutions, private cloud software platforms, and network orchestration products. His team also leads Cisco’s ngena initiative to enable service providers to benefit from a new shared economy model for networking services, creates go-to-market strategies for the Cisco Cloud Portfolio, and enables Cisco's open source software contributions. In addition, Kip’s team drives the development of the world’s highest performance and most advanced data plane software used in cloud, virtualization and container networking. Kip and his team also enable Cisco partnerships with public cloud companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Kip has over 20 years of senior leadership experience driving innovation in cloud, services, the Internet of Things, and network engineering. Kip has held leadership roles with vendors as well as service providers. His areas of expertise include video, distributed systems, content distribution, collaboration technologies, and digital media security.

Previously, Kip served as Vice President of Cisco’s Internet of Things Systems and Software Group, where he was responsible for developing a broad portfolio of IoT connectivity platforms and advanced software platforms. Additionally, he served as General Manager of Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software and Solutions Group, Chief Technology Officer for Cisco’s Video and Collaboration Group, and Vice President and General Manager of Strategy and Product Management for the Service Provider Video Technology Group.

Before joining Cisco, he was with Comcast as Vice President of Video and Media Engineering, responsible for development of Comcast’s digital cable, content security, video on demand, and streaming media infrastructure and services.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a MBA degree from the Wharton School. He holds multiple patents in the areas of digital video, content security, and networking.

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January 22, 2019

CLOUD

What’s Ahead for Cloud in 2019

2018 was an incredible time for cloud. Its impact on customer experiences, business processes and models, and workforce innovations was undeniable. We saw more and more use cases where customers started leveraging multiple clouds to enable innovation than ever before. But the landscape continues to…

November 8, 2018

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Cisco and AWS Collaborate to Accelerate Innovation

In an increasingly competitive environment, enterprises are under intense pressure to do more and to do it faster, with less. That’s why the ability to rapidly deliver new experiences to customers and employees through applications is an important differentiator in a growing number of industries. Ap…

October 3, 2018

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My Day with Some of the Greatest Minds in Tech at GHC18

I had the opportunity to attend this year’s the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) in Houston last week. For those that don’t know, it’s the world’s largest celebration of women in computing, honoring Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist and pioneer in computer programming. The event is brillian…

October 2, 2018

CLOUD

Modernizing On-Premises and Hybrid Cloud SAP Landscapes without Disruption

I love it when problem solvers collaborate with other like-minded people to find elegant solutions to important problems. This is exactly how Cisco came together with SAP to realize our common vision to help customers modernize infrastructures without disruption, and take advantage of flexible, inno…

September 7, 2018

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CLOUD

The Promise of the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud, Delivered

Many of today’s global enterprises are looking to service providers (SPs) for the infrastructure, platforms and services they need to help them innovate. We’re excited that the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is now shipping. With it, businesses can accelerate on-prem app modernization,…

July 30, 2018

CLOUD

Why Hybrid Cloud Makes Sense for Developers

Developers are always looking to embrace new technologies that can help them build the applications that drive innovation forward. This was evident at the Google Cloud Next ’18 conference, where more than 25,000 registrants came to learn more about the possibilities of cloud. I was there as a guest…

June 28, 2018

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Insights from Customer Zero: Enabling the Next Generation of Hybrid Cloud

Cisco’s own IT organization is one of our best customers for Cisco technologies, often acting as Customer Zero when new innovations are being rolled out. I recently chatted with Mike Duarte from Cisco IT to talk about the experience of being a participant in the early access program (EAP) for the Ci…

June 11, 2018

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Power a Multicloud World – Enabling Next-Generation Hybrid Cloud with Google Cloud

To better compete in a rapidly evolving marketplace, companies are turning to the cloud and making applications the lifeblood of their business. The pressure to innovate has never been greater. This is one of the biggest IT transformations of our generation. New and emerging technologies are changin…

June 7, 2018

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Unlocking the Power of Enterprise Applications

Cisco is doing a lot to unlock the power of enterprise applications, not only through our own development activities but also with important technology partners. I had the opportunity to sit down with SAP’s Dr. Franz Faerber in a fireside chat at this week’s SAP Sapphire NOW event, to talk about our…