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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The Many Facets of Software-Defined Switching

In recent times many Software Defined Networking (SDN) advocates are seeking to establish a new paradigm of networking that better optimizes for applications in place of establishing simple connectivity. This software may be embedded in management...

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The Power of Programmable Cloud Networking

For past few decades, our internetworks have been built and have operated in a decentralized manner, thus avoiding the pitfalls of a single point of...

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Software Defined Cloud Networking Options: Overlays or Open Protocols?

The recent rhetoric on SDN (Software Defined Networking) promotes overlay network controllers as an approach to the problem of scaling large...

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Ushering in the Software Defined Cloud Networking Era

Since I last blogged about Software Defined Networking last year industry discussion on this topic has risen to the highest levels of exuberance....

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Application Based Cloud Networking - The Next Frontier

Networking over the past two decades has mostly been about raw connectivity. Rarely have applications been tuned and optimized to truly take...

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The Fabric Hype Versus Cloud Networking Simplicity

As we enter 2012, the networking industry faces much need for a return to focusing on simplicity and standards amidst the confusion created by...

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The Role of 10GBASE-T and 40GbE in Cloud Networking

10GbE continues to make strides into data centers. The massive data explosion triggered by bandwidth-heavy content such as video, high-resolution...

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Celebrating 1000 Customers for Cloud Networking

This month we are celebrating our third year of shipments at Arista Networks growing from 0 to 1000 customers in record time. We have outpaced the...

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The Four Pillars of Software-Defined Cloud Networking

Software-defined networking, an exciting buzz word these days really means different things to different folks. Often Openflow, ONS (Open Network...

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Cloud Networking vs Enterprise Networking – Are We Stretching Investment Protection?

Networking vendors and the IT industry have touted investment protection as a key attribute for many years. This combined with...

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