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Lax Sakalkale

Director, Product Management

Multicloud Integration & Solutions

Lax Sakalkale is Director Product Management executive at Cloud Platform and Solutions Group leading Multicloud Solutions and Integration across Cisco BEs. He loves to interact with customers and partners to understand Multicloud Adoption challenges along with related integration and automation needs.

Prior to the current role at Cisco, he was leading UCS Automation and Solutions by creating Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite for modern hyper-converged hybrid data centers, private clouds, and big data automation.

Lax calls SF Bay Area his home and comes with 20+ years of silicon valley experience in product management of innovative products in big and startup companies like CA Technologies, HP, Unisys, Nimsoft etc.

He loves team sports like Baseball, Cricket, and Soccer.

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June 6, 2018

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Top 7 Multicloud Initiatives – Delivering on the Multicloud Promise

According to IDC, by 2021, enterprises’ spending on cloud services and cloud-enabling hardware, software, and services will more than double to over $530 billion, leveraging a diversifying cloud environment that is 20% at the edge, more than 15% specialized (non-x86) compute, and more than 90%…

February 27, 2018

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Your Guide to The Multicloud World, Part 3

Making the move to a multicloud environment is a complicated process that requires clear-headed and careful planning, an understanding of the various options and choices that have to be made and a strategy for overcoming the obstacles that no doubt will come up. As we showed in the previous blog in…

February 16, 2018

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Your Guide To The Multicloud World, Part 2

The multicloud era is here. There is no denying that businesses large and small are accelerating the pace of moving applications and data to not only private and public clouds, but multiple clouds. It’s a strategy that holds a lot of promise but is not an easy one to pull off, in either the move to…

February 12, 2018

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Your Guide to The Multicloud World, Part 1

The world is going multicloud. Organizations seeking the efficiency, speed, scalability and reduced costs the cloud promises, are rapidly moving applications and data out of their on-premises environments and into the private and public clouds, and increasingly – for high availability and disaster r…