Keerti Melkote

Keerti Melkote

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Keerti Melkote is the Founder and President of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. With a vision to enable secure mobility for enterprises of all sizes, he founded Aruba Networks in 2002 and brought to market Aruba’s industry-leading Mobile First Architecture, catalyzing the era of workplace mobility with secure enterprise Wi-Fi. He led Aruba through its IPO in 2007, through Aruba’s acquisition by HP Enterprise in 2013, and then brought together all of HPE’s Intelligent Edge portfolio under the Aruba division. Keerti leads Aruba’s strategic direction and operations, working to define the new era of the digital workplace and IoT while continuing as a market leader in enterprise networking. Prior to founding Aruba, he held leadership roles in product management, technology marketing and engineering at Cisco and Intel and led startups such as Shasta Networks. He received his MSEE from Purdue University and B.Tech in ECE from JNTU, Hyderabad. He has been granted multiple patents for innovations in the field of networking and communications and was honored by Purdue University as an Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer in 2009. Keerti serves as an advisor and an angel investor to transformative Silicon Valley startups across diverse markets including wireless, security, data center, social networking, healthcare, sports and construction.

Posts (10)

The Value of Openness: A Customer-First, Multivendor Approach

The Value of Openness: A Customer-First, Multivendor Approach

The digital era demands openness. The future belongs to the free and to the fast.

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Aruba Congratulates Arogyaswami Paulraj on NIHF Award

Aruba Congratulates Arogyaswami Paulraj on NIHF Award

MIMO inventor rocks our world and gains induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

The Internet of Things: Billions and Billions -- and Counting

The Internet of Things: Billions and Billions — and Counting

The universe is a big place. Do you know where your assets are? The right IoT strategy can help.

HPE Adds Niara to Enhance Intelligent Edge Protection

HPE Adds Niara to Enhance Intelligent Edge Protection

Niara & ClearPass combine to create industry’s best visibility and attack detection solution.

Gaining an Edge by Focusing on the Edge

Gaining an Edge by Focusing on the Edge

The Internet of Things calls for a new network and computing architecture

Building a Network of Higher Learning

Building a Network of Higher Learning

It's academic: Networks that learn are able to deliver the best experience to GenMobile users.

What Can Your Network Do for You?

What Can Your Network Do for You?

Turning connectivity to rich experiences and insights with Aruba's new Mobile First Platform.

Are your branch offices ready for today’s cloud-hosted applications?

    With the increased shift to mobile and cloud hosted apps, todays #GenMobile users expect connectivity from anywhere

Inside the Cloud Data Center

Inside the Cloud Data Center

We live in a mobile-first, cloud-centric world. As I discussed in a previous blog, “ It’s the dawn of the cloud-mobile era. Now what?” the cloud-mobile model is changing how we work and live. It...

Is your network ready for the cloud-mobile world?

Is your network ready for the cloud-mobile world?

There's been a lot of industry discussion about building cloud-ready data center networks, but it's imperative that campus networks be retooled for the mobile-cloud world, too.