Poornabodha Narayanswamy

Director of Engineering, Customer Escalations, Network & Security Business Unit @Vmware

Part of the Research and Development Organization in the Network & Security Business unit, I manage a team of highly skilled engineers, who provide high touch technical services in Network and Security Virtualization space that enables your virtual cloud network to connect and protect applications across your data center, multi-cloud, bare metal, and container infrastructure. VMware NSX Data Center delivers a complete L2-L7 networking and security virtualization platform — providing you with the agility, automation, and dramatic cost savings that come with a software-only solution VMware NSX is a network virtualization solution that allows you to build software-defined networks in virtualized datacenters. Just as VMs are abstracted from physical server hardware, virtual networks including switches, ports, routers, firewalls etc, are constructed in the virtual space. Virtual networks are provisioned and managed independent of the underlying hardware. VMware NSX is a successor of VMware vCloud Networking & Security (vCNS), and Nicira NVP which was acquired by VMware in 2012.