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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Separating Hype from Reality in SDN

Lately, two acronyms have been making the rounds: SDN (Software Defined Networking) and ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure - promoted by Cisco). Both have things in common which equate to great marketing: a delightful vision and being difficult...

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A New Cloud Network “Spline™” Is Born

The dramatic shift to East-West traffic patterns within the data center is creating excitement, new customer requirements and many new three-letter...

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Redefining Cloud-Networking Resilience & Visibility

In modern two-tier leaf-spine cloud networks, the increasing dominance of east-west traffic patterns, accompanied by the sheer volume of traffic and...

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Enabling Network Applications with VMware, Microsoft and the Ecosystem

With the advent of the modern application era in data centers for applications such as business analytics and web services and the accompanying...

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The Software Choices for Cloud Networking

These days there is much discussion on “disaggregation” of switches or routers – the splitting of the hardware from the software, the control plane...

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Shifting from Enterprise to Cloud with the Arista 7500E

The rapid adoption in data centers of virtualized servers powered by multicore CPUs, the deployment of petabytes of storage and the increasing use of...

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Bringing SDN to Reality

It is difficult to get one definition of SDN - interpretations vary. The purist would say it’s a separation of the data and control planes using a...

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Celebrating One Million Ports of Software Defined Cloud Networking and Introducing the Arista Data Analyzer (DANZ)

For the past 5 years, Arista has been setting the agenda for software defined cloud networking. We are not addressing the legacy enterprise market...

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Software-Defined Cloud Networking Reflections

Every year I like to reflect upon my beginning of year predictions and compare them with the reality of what actually occurred. Once again that time...

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SDN is about Programmable Networking

The hype of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is alive and well. Many are advocating changing the classical IP model and moving to a network where a...

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