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. She was awarded "Global Indian of the Year" by the Economic Times in 2023 and was named a "Silicon Valley Power 100" in the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2023 and 2024. 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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Security’s Role in Client to Cloud Networking

The Networking industry is undergoing a metamorphosis. Modern networking operations teams are challenged to cope with multiple operational models. As attackers become better and better at breaching our defenses, security analysts are increasingly at...

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The CloudVision Journey

Traditional networking has been transformed by cloud-networking principles. These principles drive an open, software-first approach to efficient...

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Journey Through Open Networking

Arista has a decade long history of collaboration in open networking. We have pushed the envelope, co-developed open platforms and deployed them to...

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Next Generation Cognitive Networking

Just a decade ago, public cloud titans Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure Cloud, became synonymous with elastic scaling, and software...

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COVID-19 Response - A Letter from Our CEO

As a leading supplier of cloud networking equipment globally, Arista plays a critical role in supporting the cloud communications and computing...

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Cloud Networking Transformation Ahead

Networking is undergoing a metamorphosis. Today’s operations are challenged to cope with the DevOps, NetOps, SecOps and CloudOps models that need...

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Beginning M&A at Arista

At Arista, we have led both the disruption and evolution of networking technology as entrepreneurs with proven customer success. The pride and...

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The Road Ahead for Cloud Area Network Migration

CIOs today mandate a ‘Cloud First’ or a ‘Cloud Only’ model for new IT investments with three different cloud models.

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Bringing Cloud Principles to The Enterprise

As legacy applications evolveto the cloud, hosted and multi cloud architectures blending on-premises data and applications with elastic scale-out and...

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Microsoft and Arista Cloud Decade

As we celebrate the 5thAnniversary of Arista’s IPO this week at NYSE, we pause to reflect on this key milestone. Arista’s results are a tribute to...

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