Cisco Cloud Infrastructure: Application, Security, and Data Center Architecture
Jalpa Patel, CCIE No. 42465
Avinash Shukla, CCIE No. 28418
Himanshu Sardana
Komal Panzade
Cisco Cloud Infrastructure: Application, Security, and Data Center Architecture
Jalpa Patel, Avinash Shukla, Himanshu Sardana, Komal Panzade
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About the Authors
Jalpa Patel (CCIE No. 42465), is multidisciplinary technologist, passionate leader with strong track record of successful engineering executions and game-changing business achievements defining, building and growing new products. Her domain knowledge of Data Center hardware infrastructure is focused on Compute, Networking, Storage and Accelerators. Patel holds an MS degree in Telecommunication Networks from NYU, a BS degree from Government Engineering College, Gujarat, India, and an Advanced Program Management Certificate from Stanford.
Avinash Shukla (CCIE No. 28418), Senior Leader in Ciscos US Customer Experience (CX) Organization, has 14 years of experience in Cisco CX roles spanning Professional and Technical Services, and extensive expertise in collaboration and datacenter technologies. He now leads a team of engineers working on Cisco Data Center Technology (Cisco Unified Computing Systems, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Datacenter automation). He holds a B.Tech in ECE from IIIT, Hyderabad and has won numerous Cisco awards for customer focus, and has delivered many technical trainings for Cisco partners and customers.
Himanshu Sardana (CCNP, VCP, CKA), is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer in Ciscos Customer Experience (CX) Org. He started his professional journey with Cisco and now has 6 years of experience in Data Center Compute and Storage space. His current area of focus is on Ciscos Hyperconverged business (Hyperflex) and Intersight, helping with high escalations and creating tools like Hypercheck to make customer interactions with Cisco Products better. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Chitkara University, Punjab, India.