Arista Networks opens new Innovation Centre in Bengaluru

BENGALURU: Arista Networks, a company that delivers software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments has opened its new technology centre at Bengaluru. The centre is focused on the development of Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System) software driven products and technologies.

“This inaugural event is an important milestone and I am delighted to welcome our honorable luminary, Nandan Nilekani, along with our key partners celebrating Arista’s success as a global innovator,” said JayshreeUllal, President and CEO for Arista Networks.

“As businesses and consumers migrate all their applications to the cloud, Arista’s innovative products are well placed to be the platform of choice,” said Nandan Nilekani, chairman of EkStep, who was the guest of honor at the inaugural. “With Jayshree Ullal’s dynamic leadership, Arista has built a deep R&D portfolio and is partnering closely with businesses and cloud providers around the world and in India to enable this transformational transition,” he added.

Arista opened its first India office in 2010 and has maintained steady growth since that time. Technology partnerships and CloudVision, a network wide approach for workload orchestration and workflow automation, announced earlier this year, are key areas of development for the India team at Arista.

Amod Dani, managing director of development and operations, will head the new centre. Amod has more than 18 years of extensive software and engineering development experience. He helped Arista establish the first software development office in Bangalore and currently oversees the development of Arista EOS features.

The new centre furthers Arista’s commitment to software driven cloud networking across key markets such as, Web 2.0, high-tech enterprise, service providers and financial services.

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