Ravi Balakrishnan
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Datacenter Solutions
Articles
Citrix NetScaler Device Package for Cisco ACI goes FCS
The Cisco-Citrix partnership has expanded significantly in recent years from UCS-XenDesktop based Desktop virtualization solutions to span Mobility, Desktop as A Service (DaaS) and most recently ACI-NetScaler joint solutions. I have been fortunate enough to be part of this momentum. And it’s b…
F5 device Package for Cisco APIC goes FCS
Recent few weeks should have been exciting if you are a customer of ACI. First, we announced the shipment of ACI to Data Centers worldwide. Then, F5 announced that its device package for Cisco APIC is FCS. We also had a very successful F5 Agility at New York early in August, showcasing Cisco ACI-F5…
Cisco at F5 Agility – From Copenhagen to New York
You are probably thinking I have the most exciting job in Silicon Valley. In June 2014, I was leading Cisco ACI at the EMEA (Copenhagen) edition of F5 Agility. Next week, amidst a glorious New York autumn, I will be at the glittering Times Square for the Americas edition of F5 Agility. And you’re qu…
Cisco ACI at F5 Agility 2014, Copenhagen
At F5 Agility 2014 Copenhagen this month, Applications take the central stage. The key focus area is Application Delivery Controllers (ADC’s as Gartner calls them) and how they are increasingly becoming more important to modern IT than they used to be, allowing scale, availability, orchestration an…
Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 wins Best of Interop Japan, 2014
Success breeds success. In April this year, Cisco Nexus 9516 won the Best of Interop at Las Vegas. Yesterday, Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000 won the Best of Interop at Tokyo. Listen to Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer Lucien Avramov describe the action and excitement of the award announcement on the s…
OpenStack with ACI whiteboard Video illustrations by Lucien Avramov
According to Gartner’s Andrew Lerner, many of the networking practitioners running mainstream corporate networks have only surface-level knowledge of OpenStack as evidenced in his recent blog. To assist networkers to understand Openstack, we created an easy white-board style video illustration of Op…
ACI Walkabout at CiscoLive 2014, San Francisco
In a few days at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cisco Live. This year we are expecting record attendance exceeding 20,000 participants, 9 amazing keynotes, 600 sessions, live demos at world of solutions, big analyst and partner presence, and last…
Cisco ACI’s Multi-Hypervisor + BareMetal Interop with VLAN and VXLAN Routing and Bridging Demonstration
In November last year, I introduced via my blog, the powerful capabilities of the ACI Fabric and the unique hardware based VXLAN implementation in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switching platform. In this blog, I am happy to present a powerful Video based demonstration of the ACI Fabric. The demo presents…
IT Brand Pulse recognizes Cisco as Innovation leader in 7 Data Center Categories
Cisco ACI has been making waves in the industry since its launch in Nov 2013. At Interop, Las Vegas in April 2014, Cisco Nexus 9516 bagged the Best of Interop award in Data Center category. Following on the heels of this success, at the Ethernet Summit yesterday, Cisco bagged two prestigious IT Bran…