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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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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