Born in London, Ullal was raised in India and then came to the U.S. where she earned her bachelor's degree in engineering at San Francisco State University and a master's in engineering at Santa Clara State University. She started her career as an engineer, first designing chips and later switch architecture for Ethernet startup Crescendo Communications. At Crescendo, Ullal helped pioneer 100-Mbit/s Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI) products. She landed at Cisco when it acquired Crescendo 14 years ago to obtain the foundation for its Ethernet switch business.
Jayshree Ullal, SVP Data Center, Switching and Security Technology Group, Cisco Systems
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Industry veteran Paula Long is the co-founder of SAN specialist EqualLogic, where she serves as executive vice president of products and strategy. After filing its S-1 a couple of months ago, EqualLogic's IPO is now said to be imminent, as the iSCSI vendor joins a growing list of public storage companies.
The exec has played a key role in the rise of EqualLogic, which is ramping up sales at a rapid rate. An amendment to the vendor's S-1, filed earlier this month, reveals that EqualLogic's annual revenues grew from $30 million in 2005 to $68.1 million in 2006. For the first six months of 2007, EqualLogic brought in $53.2 million, according to the SEC filing.
Although Long was unwilling to provide comment for this article, on account of the "quiet period" preceding EqualLogic's IPO, the exec is nonetheless regarded as something of a rising star.
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