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Roland Acra

Senior Vice President & General Manager

Data Center Networking

Roland Acra joined Cisco in November 2016 and leads the product teams focused on data center switching, unified computing, application modeling, and data-driven analytics for network automation and policy.

From 2013 through 2016, Roland consulted about predictive analytics and statistical inference models for Internet of Things (IoT) and smart grid applications. He was previously CEO of Arch Rock, a sensor networking startup acquired by Cisco in 2010 as part of its Smart Grid business unit.

Prior to Arch Rock, he was CEO of Procket Networks. From 1991 through 2003, Roland held several general management and executive leadership positions at Cisco in the United States and EMEA.

Roland's expertise is in Internet routing, distributed systems, sensor networks, and statistical learning algorithms. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech (France) and holds an MSc degree in statistics from Texas A&M, where he presently advises on the Masters in Analytics program.

Articles

January 29, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Cisco Data Center Goes Anywhere Your Data Is

Today, Cisco is making a bold statement. Known for best-in-class data center solutions across all industries around the globe, we are announcing that there is nothing centered about data centers anymore. This doesn’t mean data centers are going away; in fact, they are expanding. Now there are…

March 27, 2018

DATA CENTER

New Portability Options for Cisco’s Data Center Networking Software and Hardware

As our customers look for more flexibility and portability across their data center network, Cisco continues to deliver open APIs to our networking devices, integration with popular automation frameworks like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef, and programming via any set of convenient programming languages,…

March 8, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Better Services and a Safer Data Center: Tetration in Action at UNC – Charlotte

At the end of the day, technology is at its best when it’s helping people – empowering them to accomplish their goals. Whether that’s members of my team envisioning new products or supporting our current ones – or customers doing more with less and being smarter in their business – that’s when…

March 5, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Workload protection is a full cycle. Tetration uniquely delivers on it all.

There’s always an inherent challenge between providing a secure infrastructure for your applications and delivering agility. How do you manage a complex web – where apps are dynamic and distributed across your own data center and the cloud – and keep security at the front of your priorities? I…

January 30, 2018

DATA CENTER

Assuring the Full Promise of Intent-Based Networking: Introducing the Cisco Network Assurance Engine

Capture your network’s intent, accelerate change, predict outages and assure policy compliance As digital enterprise rapidly accelerates, we’ve seen an explosion of new applications – housed across containers, virtualized environments, and clouds  – acting on massive datasets…