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Tushar Jain

Sr Director Analyst

Tushar Jain is a Senior Director, Analyst for Technology and Service Provider Product Manager research.

Mr. Jain is focused on edge and cloud-native infrastructure & Security products, services and compliances (Kubernetes, containers, XaaS, SIEM, SoC, MDR, IAM, Data Security, Vulnerability, MSSP, NIST GDPR etc.)

The infrastructure and security coverage spans across distributed and public cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloud-native security, multi-cloud integration and managed services for startups, enterprise's and Telco's. Mr. Jain research also provides insight to product managers in edge-computing, security and software/hardware infrastructure spanning data, connectivity, security, and networking.

Previous experience

Mr. Jain came to Gartner from Ciena, where he held the role of Director product Management, driving strategic direction, P&L for virtualization, edge cloud infrastructure,

multi-cloud integration, cloud-native orchestration and management software with major enterprises and managed service providers. While at Ciena, Tushar also spent 2 years building and launching containerized routing software stack and access/5G hardware platforms for major customers globally. Prior to joining Ciena, he led product management at Ericsson for network operating system platform, software defined networking, software licensing and virtualization across radio, cloud and edge products. Mr. Jain spent 8 years at Cisco prior in senior product engineering and management roles for Cisco's flagship access (IOS-XE), edge, core (IOS-XR) routing and enterprise wireless products.

Professional background

Ciena, Director Product Management, 5 years

Cisco , Senior Product and Engineering Manager, 8 years

Ericsson, Senior Product Manager, 3 years

Areas of coverage
  • Craft World-Class Product Strategies

  • Product/Service Design and Creation

  • Product/Service Introduction and Delivery

  • Product/Service Evolution and Management

Education

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Post Graduate Diploma in advanced software design and development

Pragmatic Product Management.

Cloud, Wireless, Strategy, Project & Agile Certifications.

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Using cloud native edge infrastructure technologies to deliver end to product & solution offering as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS for distributed and public clouds.

02

Helping product managers for enterprise and telco access, edge, core, RAN, MBH, virtualization hardware and software infrastructure product planning, GTM and strategy.

03

Enabling product managers to build new value offerings in infrastructure security (SIEM, SOAR, SOC, MDR, XDR, IAM, SSE. Data, MSSP, AI Security)

04

Vendors & Telco's: product planning, roadmap, product management, product life cycle and product launch for infrastructure and security product and services.

05

Disaggregated software architecture, product planning, pricing, packaging, NPI for infrastructure and security product and services.