Jayshree Ullal: A Novel Approach to Cloud Networking.

Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Slam 2009.
Jayshree Ullal is a networking executive veteran with 25 years of experience and was named one of the "50 Most Powerful People" in 2005 Network World. As President and CEO of Arista Networks, she is responsible for building the company's business in cloud networking . Formerly, Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco and responsible for $10B in annual revenue from Data Center, Switching and Services, including Cisco's flagship Nexus 7000 and Catalyst 4500 and 6500 product lines. During her tenure at Cisco. Jayshree forged key alliances with EMC, VMWare and Microsoft in virtualization and application acceleration. Prior to joining Cisco, Ullal was the Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications, which was Cisco's first acquisition in 1993.

Ullal holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University and a M.S. degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.

Keynote Abstract: A Novel Approach to Cloud Networking

The advent of Cloud Computing changes the approach to datacenters networks in terms of throughput and resilience. The ability to scale, control, visualize and customize the cloud network is an important evolution to "data center in the box" approach. Cloud computing is a compelling way for many businesses, small (private) and large (public) to take advantage of web based applications. One can deploy applications more rapidly across shared server and storage resource pools than is possible with conventional enterprise solutions. Deploying modern web applications across a cloud infrastructure enables a new level of agility that is very difficult to accomplish with traditional silo computing model. New Computing models for virtualization and cloud require a very scalable, resilient and open network infrastructure , different from legacy networking.
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