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Chandra Mukhyala

Sr Director Analyst

Chandra Mukhyala is a Senior Director, Analyst within Gartner's IT Infrastructure and Operations practice. Mr. Mukhyala's research focus is on providing strategic advice to IT Leaders and Technical Professionals on three topics: 1) All things enterprise storage 2) Applying AI and Agentic AI in IT infrastructure and Operations 3) Data Protection and Cybersecurity.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Mukhyala was a senior product manager within IBM's Storage Division where he was responsible for creating a new software defined scale-out NAS offering from concept, and successfully bringing it to market. Prior to IBM, he held portfolio marketing and senior product management roles at Dell Enterprise Storage division and NetApp respectively.

Professional background

IBM, Senior Product Manager, 3 years

Dell Enterprise, Senior Portfolio Marketing Manager, 5 years

NetApp, Senior Product Manager, 12 years

Areas of coverage

  • IT Operations and Cloud Management

  • Shape the Product Strategy

  • AI, Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure

Education

M.B.A, General Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

M.S, Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University

B.E, Electronics Engineering, Nagpur University

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

Enterprise Storage, Software-defined storage, Cloud storage

02

Data protection: Backup and recovery, backup storage targets, Cloud backup

03

Agentic AI for Infrastructure and Operations

04

Hybrid cloud storage and Edge storage

05

Infrastructure for RAG, GenAI and Agentic AI