Analyst Profile
Arun Chandrasekaran
VP Distinguished Analyst
6 years at Gartner
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18 years industry experience
Santa Clara, CA USA
Roles and Responsibilities
Arun Chandrasekaran is a Research Vice President and Agenda Manager at Gartner, where his research focus is on providing strategic advice to CIOs and IT leaders on infrastructure agility, with an emphasis on emerging technologies such as containers and serverless computing, public cloud IaaS/storage, Hadoop/Spark platforms, machine learning infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructures. He has a strong blend of technical and business skills and is a leading speaker on topics such as cloud computing, infrastructure agility and artificial intelligence. He has rich international experience and cultural understanding, having lived and worked in five countries on three different continents.
Areas of Coverage
- Servers & Storage
- Open Source
Arun Chandrasekaran's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
Background
Previous Experience
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Chandrasekaran headed research on cloud computing, data center equipment and services for Frost & Sullivan, in a practice offering consulting and research services to the leading vendors, service providers and end users in the Asia/Pacific region.
Professional Background
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Senior Network Engineer, 2 years
Frost & Sullivan, Research Director - Cloud Computing and Data Center Practice, 6 years
SSI Technologies, Member of Technical Staff, 5 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
Gartner Inquiry Excellence Award, 2016
Gartner Inquiry Excellence Award, 2017
Education
B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Madras, India
Certificate Program in Professional Communications, UC Berkeley
M.B.A., Strategic Management, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Languages
English
Indian - Hindi
Indian - Tamil
