Raghavendran Balasubramaniam quits CISCO

Raghavendran popularly the industry call him as Raghu, a CISCO veteran who has served the company for 22 years and one day in various leadership role, who has started his carrier as the Vice President in the year 1998. Networking giant Raghu is well recognised as the channel friendly personality.

Raghu was heading the Partner Organization for India & SAARC region as the Managing Director since 2018 and spoke in various interviews and the last interaction, we had was on the Cisco’s channel enablement programs and directions for its partners and spoke on how will 2020 be an important year for the IT channel industry. The evolution of our partner programs reflects our continued commitment to improving the overall partner experience, strengthening our joint go-to-market initiatives, and ultimately ensuring our partners’ success in a dynamic and rapidly digitizing ecosystem.

We have been focused on helping our partners differentiate themselves while ultimately creating value. The transition towards a software and subscription-oriented strategy puts partners in an ideal position to capitalise on customers’ desire to establish, expand, and accelerate multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud-based digital transformation initiatives. These will be centred on intent-based networking, network analytics, and security. In 2020, gaining expertise in new areas like automation, data analytics, cybersecurity, ML, etc. will help partners better understand and deliver robust vertical market solutions for Industry 4.0.

Raghu spoke about how the top three tech trends ,where the channel would be betting on, and those are Industry 4.0, analytics, AI, ML, IoT, and cybersecurity are some of the technology buzzwords used today. But there are some trends clearly emerging in the marketplace, and the channel community needs to gear up to capitalise on them.

The Indian channel partners will miss Raghu from the interaction in CISCO and I am sure there would be a solid replacement of Raghu in CISCO. Lets wait and watch to hear about the next avatar of Raghu to understand more on the channel and digital transformation.