From AI Ambition to AI Infrastructure: Your Blueprint to Success for Enterprise Networks – Cisco Triple-T
We know most Enterprises aren’t running tens of thousands of GPUs (yet!), but AI is quickly accelerating every industry. Before you can run AI, you need a network built to carry it. That means your network must be smart, secure, and ready to evolve. This session cuts through the complexity with a practical look at how enterprises can get AI infrastructure up and running without disrupting existing workloads. Learn about what it takes to run both traditional and AI workloads seamlessly, with unified operations, automation, and real-time observability across traditional and AI fabrics. Your blueprint to success is a proven modernization path. No matter where you are on your AI journey, you’ll come away with practical ways to simplify, future-proof, and supercharge your data center for the Agentic Era.
Murali Gandluru is the Vice President, Product Management Data Center Networking at Cisco. Prior to re-joining Cisco, Murali was the Vice President of Strategy (Product & GTM) for Software Networking Business Unit in the IBM Software group where he was presently responsible for delivering innovative application-centric, hybrid/multi-cloud networking products around automation, orchestration, observability, and connectivity.
Murali is a product executive with over 22 years of experience in building multiple billion-dollar product-line businesses in the infrastructure space spanning both public companies and startups, including: Arrcus, DuploCloud, Cisco: Nexus/ACI, ASR, and at Oracle. At Arrcus, he served as VP of Product Management/Marketing, a venture-backed firm that he helped launch out of stealth through Series A/B/C with a disruptive software-powered, open multi-domain networking solutions. He also served as Sr. Director of Product Mgmt. at Cisco Systems following the acquisition of the pioneering Software Defined Networking (SDN) startup Insieme Networks.
Murali has a MS in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Varanasi. He is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite! startup program. In his spare time, Murali maintains a keen interest in soccer, music and theatre.
