Then and Now – How Agility Became Business Critical and Cloud Networking Went Mainstream for Enterprisess – Sponsored by Aviatrix
NI, formerly National Instruments Corporation, is an American multi-national company with international operations. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. Chris Oliver is the Principal Infrastructure Architect for the I&O Core Infrastructure team at NI and has been part of several IT transformations at NI from a traditional data centric architecture, common for large enterprises, to a far more agile cloud centric architecture and now to a multi-cloud network architecture. Join Chris and Steve Mullaney, CEO of Cloud Network & Security leader Aviatrix, for a dynamic and entertaining exchange as they explore the incredible shift in enterprise architecture that has been driven, not by technology, but by the value it delivers to enterprise businesses.
Steve Mullaney brings 30 years of marketing, product management, and engineering experience in network infrastructure and security to Aviatrix. Most recently, Steve was the CEO of Nicira Inc., a network virtualization and software-defined networking company, from 2009 until it was acquired in 2012 by VMware for $1.26 billion. Nicira invented the concept of offering software-based services running on top of networking hardware. Mullaney became the senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s Networking and Security business unit following Nicira’s acquisition.
Prior to Nicira, he served as vice president, marketing, and interim CEO for Palo Alto Networks. During his tenure, Mullaney oversaw the company’s invention of the next-generation firewall market category, which helped cement Palo Alto Networks’ reputation as a thought leader and cybersecurity innovator.
Steve also held executive positions at Blue Coat, Force10, Cisco, Growth Networks, ShoreTel, Bay Networks and SynOptics, and began his career as a design engineer at GTE Government Systems. Steve holds a BSEE from the University of Rhode Island.
