Ravi Balakrishnan
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Datacenter Solutions
Articles
Cisco Live Europe, 2017 – Historic Berlin plays host, second year in a row
Berlin becomes a whole new city in winter. And February is especially notable, as you can see all kinds of premieres and rub shoulders with the glitterati. This is when famous movie stars make their way down the red carpet for the international film festival Berlinale. For me, the special draw is Ci…
Programmability is the Future of NetOps
Primary Author Bio – Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations,…
Cisco ACI Partner Ecosystem Packs a Punch – 65 Partners and Growing
When it comes to leadership in the SDN marketplace, clearly there is one winner. And that is, Cisco ACI. The proof is in customer momentum numbers. Cisco ACI has 2700+ ACI customers and a rapidly growing ecosystem of 65 technology partners. ACI ecosystem partners come from a broad spectrum of L4/L7,…
Changing the game with Cisco ACI and NetScaler MAS Integration – Customers benefit from full L2-L7 Automation and …
Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI are jointly responding to our customer demand for delivering application centric automation of the network and application delivery controllers. In just under two years, the two companies have several customer deployment proof-points for the ACI-NetScaler joint solutio…
Large multi-national security company simplifies network operations with Cisco ACI and Avi Networks solution
Software based load balancers are making a big splash in recent times driven by developer-centric and application-led initiatives. Adding to this growing space of excitement is the up and coming Avi Networks (a Gartner Cool Vendor in Enterprise Networking 2016) which makes load balancers cool again!…
Cisco ACI Ecosystem Builds Strong Momentum with new Security, Monitoring and Orchestration Technology Partners
When it comes to leadership in the SDN marketplace, clearly there is one winner. And that is, Cisco ACI. The proof is in customer momentum numbers. In the recently concluded quarter, Cisco ACI announced 8600 plus ACI ready customers and a rapidly growing ecosystem of 50 plus technology partners. In…
YRC Freight achieves Business Transformation with Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler
YRC Freight, based in Kansas, is a leading transporter of industrial, commercial, and retail goods, specializing in solutions for businesses across North America. In fact, so large is their network and operations that anything we buy at any store is possibly shipped by YRC. In 2013, their IT depart…
Cisco ACI – F5 iWorkflow Integrated Joint Solution – Talk of the show at F5 Agility US, Europe and Australia
In recent weeks, I had the opportunity to attend F5 Agility US and Australia, and meet with several customers and partners of Cisco and F5. It was evident from these events that there is an increasing momentum in deploying F5 application services with Cisco ACI. There are several customers in produc…
Thunder Down Under – F5 Agility rolls into Melbourne and Sydney
In a few weeks Spring season will set in, and it’ll be a Ripper Down Under. For the IT technology geeks there is plenty of action in store to celebrate the onset of Aussie spring. I am talking about F5 Agility 2016, that is about to rock Melbourne (Aug 16) and Sydney (Aug 18). After making a big sp…
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