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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 enterprise storage technology, including storage-as-a-service, software-defined storage, distributed file and object storage, and backup and recovery applications, both on-premises and in the public cloud.
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
Dell Enterprise, Portfolio Marketing Manager, 5 years
IBM, Senior Product Manager, 3 years
NetApp, Senior Product Manager, 12 years
Areas of coverage
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I&O Operations Management
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Craft World-Class Product Strategies
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I&O Platforms
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
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Enterprise Storage, Software-defined storage, Cloud storage
Data protection: Backup and recovery, backup storage targets, Cloud backup
Distributed file systems and Object Storage
Hybrid cloud storage and Edge storage
On-Premises Storage-as-a-service