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Ravi Balakrishnan

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Datacenter Solutions

Ravi Balakrishnan holds a MS in Computer engineering and MBA in Marketing from USA

Ravi has more than 20 years of server hardware and software middleware experience at Sun, HP and Oracle and 5 years of server, virtualization and networking hardware experience at Cisco where he is employed currently – Ravi has acquired rich experience in datacenter infrastructure solutions encompassing Unified Computing Systems, Unified fabric, Energy Efficient Datacenters, and other emerging datacenter topics such as Cloud computing, dynamic provisioning etc.,

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January 21, 2019

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Cisco Live EMEA 2019 – Barcelona gears up to host industry’s premier tech. event, second year in a row

Barcelona is Europe’s greatest city to visit in the winter.  It is also the time when the cultural calendar swings into action, and often hosts the best exhibitions of the year. For me, the special draw is Cisco Live Barcelona, where I get the  opportunity to meet, learn and collaborate with industr…

September 26, 2018

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Cisco at Splunk .conf18 – A broad data center and security technology showcase

It is a double-header this month-end for me at Orlando, with back-back technology events. I had a terrific Microsoft Ignite earlier this week and now I am getting ready for Splunk .conf18 at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Oct 1-4.  Cisco is a Peta sponsor this year and I am ineffably exc…

July 31, 2018

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Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited improves banking services availability with Cisco ACI

Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL), the first bank in Bangladesh to be fully automated, offers a wide range of financial products and services to businesses and consumers. It introduced “plastic money” and digital banking services to the Bangladeshi masses in 2003, and now operates the nation’s larges…

July 25, 2018

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Grifols Increases IT Efficiency and Builds Global Data Center Network with Cisco ACI

Grifols is a global healthcare company working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Grifols has been working in the fields of transfusion, blood banking, protein therapeutics, and laboratory analysis for more than 70 years and distributes products in 90 countries. Challen…

July 16, 2018

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Germany’s largest IT provider Bechtle extends Cloud services with Cisco ACI

Bechtle is Germany’s largest IT and e-commerce provider with presence in 14 European countries. With a track record of implementing forward-looking IT architectures, Bechtle is committed to driving digitalization, cloud computing, mobility, security, and IT as a Service, worldwide. Challenges and Ne…

June 14, 2018

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BMC Remedy ITSM – Cisco ACI joint solution delivers robust and agile IT operations

Introduction As companies strive to become digital enterprises, they need to make the best use of their existing assets and infrastructure, while introducing new technology and tools that drive the business forward. ITSM is one of the key digital accelerators that deliver improved performance, highe…

June 12, 2018

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Cisco ACI and BlueCat DNS Integrity empowers customers to implement Enterprise DNS strategy

Today data center customers are rolling out newer trends and technologies at a rapid pace. SaaS, DevOps, and migration to Cloud are disruptions that mandate a robust networking technology to deliver on the promise of innovation. To manage this complex environment, customers are seeking an enterprise…

June 4, 2018

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Double Your Excitement in Orlando Next Week – Cisco Live 2018 and Universal Studios Experience and More

Cisco Live 2018 is arriving in Orlando a week from now, and the city is already abuzz with excitement.  More than 25,000 customers and partners converge to network and share their experiences, and potentially meet new peers onsite.  From technical education to future-focused thought leadership, 1:1…

June 1, 2018

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Logicalis enables predictive and proactive data centers with Cisco ACI

Logicalis is a worldwide systems integrator whose customers span industries and geographical regions; and their focus is to engage in the dynamics of their customers’ vertical markets; including financial services, education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, a…