Mike Halhed

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Arista Networks has changed the game in Data Centre Networking and is now providing campus and wifi solutions. The company was founded to deliver zero-downtime software driven networking solutions to meet the requirements of the cloud, service providers and enterprise for their large data center and high-performance computing environments. Arista has been consistently recognized by Gartner as a \"leader\"​ in its’ Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking and is known for true high-availability and product quality.The world is expeditiously moving to the cloud to achieve greater agility and economy, following the lead of the cloud titans. Arista’s revolutionary innovations in software-driven cloud networking are propelling this dynamic transformation that weaves private, public and hybrid clouds into a seamless single-image network. Avant-garde applications including artificial intelligence, social media and big data, coupled with emerging architectures such as, dense server virtualization and IP Storage have placed enormous demands on the network infrastructure in datacenters.Key transformations include:• Architectures are transforming the enterprise, extending to the campus and branch, converting siloed places in the network to a cloud first strategy resulting in places in the cloud.• Applications are changing to new standards and methodologies for agility and elastic demand, blending cloud native and business worlds.• Datacenters are moving to microservices, be they physical, virtual and containerized models.• Demands for hitless upgrades and high availability are mandatory with automatic rollback and uninterrupted services. Network architectures, and the network operating systems that make the cloud possible, need to be fundamentally different from the highly over-subscribed, hierarchical, multi-tiered and costly legacy solutions of the past.