Jayshree Ullal

As CEO and Chairperson of Arista, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista's business and thought leadership in AI and cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than 40 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y's "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2015, Barron's "World's Best CEOs" in 2018 and one of Fortune's "Top 20 Business persons" in 2019. Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management. She is a recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.

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Virtual Machines – The new unit for Cloud Networking

The rise of server virtualization has generated an exponential increase in virtual machines (VM), and in the associated virtual switches (vSwitch) used to manage them at this new network access layer. Yet the methods and tools available to operate...

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Applications are Driving Traffic Patterns in Cloud Networking

As we enter the second half of 2010, I sense that an architectural shift in data center environments has begun replacing traditional constructs....

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The Power of Cloud Networking

The future of data centers is changing rapidly. Enterprise data centers are no more about basic networking connectivity where networking was driven...

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Arista 7500: A New Switch is Born!

In my networking career I have been involved in a few generations of switches spanning multiple decades. The goal has always been a next generation...

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10 GbE is the no-brainer in Storage Networking

I am a big fan and proponent of iSCSI or NAS protocols over 10GbE for storage access. It is the workhorse and unsung hero in storage networking. Akin...

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The race to zero latency in Cloud Networking

The goal is millions of transactions in real time. Not an easy feat without a new class of networking gear and new architectures. It is changing and...

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Is 2010 the Year of 10Gig?

As 2010 begins and we celebrate the onset of the next new decade, I would like to wish my readers a happy new year and also pose a question asked...

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Evolution of Switching Architectures in Cloud Networking

As we wrap up this year, I do sense that the architectural shift in the datacenter environments has begun to change traditional constructs. As I said...

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Scalable Techniques for Multi-terabit Cloud Networking

Current data center network designs are very compromised. They are based on blocking multi-tier designs with 50:1 over-subscription using the...

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Celebrating our first year!

This month we are celebrating our first year as Arista Networks. We re-launched last year with our new name, our management team, and global...

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