Douglas Gourlay

As VP/GM Douglas Gourlay is responsible for the revenue and growth of the Arista software portfolio. A twenty-year industry leader he has held roles as the CEO of Capture2, Corporate VP at Skyport Systems, VP of Marketing and Systems Engineering at Arista and VP of Marketing/Product Management at Cisco where he led the initial development of the Nexus product line. Doug holds over forty patents in networking technologies. Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer, ROTC at Auburn University, and studied Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare at Norwich University.

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Navigating the Network: The Quest for Innocence in a World of Complexity

Welcome to the digital age, where the marvels of self-driving cars and sophisticated AI like ChatGPT grace our everyday lives. Yet, amidst these advancements, a battleground often goes unnoticed, hidden within the layers of our network...

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Accelerate AWS Access with Arista

AWS Cloud WAN Tunnel-less Connect and Arista CloudEOS integrate to accelerate cloud onramp As cloud and multicloud adoption continue to evolve,...

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Modernizing the WAN from Client to Cloud

The evolution of WAN architectures has historically paralleled that of application architectures. When we primarily connected terminals to...

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Arista Partnering with Google Cloud to Deliver Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud Connectivity

Arista has a long history of joint development with hyper-scale cloud providers delivering innovative solutions for a broad range of customers. Our...

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Delivering a Multi Cloud and Cloud Native Operator Experience

Right around the same time I joined Arista in 2009, Amazon Web Services developed the concept of the Virtual Private Cloud, one of the seminal...

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