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.
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.
IBM
Senior Product Manager
Dell Enterprise
Portfolio Marketing Manager
NetApp
Senior Product Manager
I&O Operations Management
Product/Service Discovery and Validation
I&O Platforms
M.B.A, General Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
M.S, Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University
B.E, Electronics Engineering, Nagpur University
1Enterprise Storage, Software-defined storage, Cloud storage
2Data protection: Backup and recovery, backup storage targets, Cloud backup
3Distributed file systems and Object Storage
4Hybrid cloud storage and Edge storage
5On-Premises Storage-as-a-service