"Sameer Garde will join the company on August 1, 2017 and take over as President, Cisco India & SAARC," it said in an emailed response.
The development comes at a time when Cisco is betting big on the 'Digital India' wave in the country. The company is engaged in 50 digitisation projects and is working with six states on various digitisation initiatives.
"The Cisco cyber range lab aims to provide highly specialised technical training workshops to help cyber security professionals build the skills...to combat new-age threats," Cisco India President India and SAARC Dinesh Malkani said at the Cisco India Summit 2017 here.
Watch panel of experts – Rajiv Bajaj of Bajaj Auto, Dinesh Malkani of Cisco and Rishad Premji of Wirpo speak to Shereen Bhan on the theme 'Re-Imagine, Don't Re-Engineer' at NASSCOM India Leadership Forum, 2017.
In this episode of Digitizing India, a Cisco initiative brought to you in association with CNBC-TV18, Shereen Bhan is in conversation with Dinesh Malkani, President at Cisco India and SAARC where he talks about the road ahead on smart cities.
Cisco's services business serves 10,000 customers globally through a network of integrated GDCs. India is the only market where Cisco has two GDCs, the other one being in Bengaluru.
Networking giant Cisco said its revenues in India have grown 18 percent in the January-March quarter, driven by significant traction in collaboration and security solutions
Watch the launch of Digitizing India powered by Cisco in partnership with CNBC-TV18.
eCommerce sector in India has seen unprecedented growth with increasing Internet penetration and more people shopping online.
On the curtain raiser episode of Digitizing India, CNBC-TV18‘s Shereen Bhan spoke with the President of Cisco India and SAARC Dinesh Malkani about the internet of everything, digitization in India and the way forward for India to make the most of its technological potential.
Cisco sees significant opportunities due to digital India and the smart cities push.
The clash between the old world and the new is sharply in focus in the crowded 3,000-year-old holy city of Varanasi, where many devout Hindus come to die in the belief that doing so will give them salvation.
NASSCOM has pegged FY15 IT sector growth at 13 percent. For FY16, the industry body expects it to be around 12-14 percent. R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, does not think the guidance is muted and feels the industry is preparing for a change in structure.
The companies will jointly develop Internet of Everything (IoE)-based digital solutions to pursue opportunities in the infrastructure sector and smart cities in India.