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March 14, 2016

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3 SDN lessons in 3 years of production – Learn from Cisco ACI and Citrix NetScaler best practices

This blog has been developed in collaboration with Citrix. Primary Author – Steve Shah, VP Product Management. Secondary Author – Ravi Balakrishnan, storyboard, blog style and content adaptation. Bring out your dead! This, among many other quotable lines from Monty Python and the Holy G…

September 8, 2014

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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…

June 13, 2014

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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…

January 22, 2014

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Cisco Live Milan 2014: Where Hi-Tech meets Fashion and Tradition

I am neither an AC Milan soccer fan nor a connoisseur of haute couture, so it will be no surprise if you wondered what I am doing in Europe’s fashion capital Milan, and that too in the middle of Milan’s wintry January. Without further ado, I will break the suspense.  Yes, I am one of the few, chosen…