Analyst Profile

Arun Chandrasekaran

Distinguished VP Analyst

7 years at Gartner , 19 years industry experience
Santa Clara, CA USA

Roles and Responsibilities

Arun Chandrasekaran is a Distinguished Vice President, Analyst at Gartner, where his research's focus is on providing strategic advice to CTOs, CDOs and CIOs on how to spur technology innovation within enterprise IT. As a member of technology innovation research group, Mr. Chandrasekaran analyzes emerging and strategic technology trends and explores how these trends shape the way individuals and companies derive value from it.His focus areas include emerging technologies such as micro-services infrastructure (containers, kubernetes, service mesh and serverless computing), public cloud IaaS, big data platforms (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark), artificial intelligence and machine learning infrastructure. He has a strong blend of technical and business skills and is a leading speaker on topics such as cloud computing, infrastructure innovation and artificial intelligence.

Areas of Coverage

Servers & Storage
Open Source

Arun Chandrasekaran's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Market Guide for Hadoop Distributions
10-Dec-2018
Predicts 2019: Artificial Intelligence Core Technologies
29-Nov-2018
SWOT: Alibaba Cloud Services, Worldwide
28-Nov-2018

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

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Top Strategic Predictions for 2019 and Beyond: Practicality Exists Within Instability Technology-based change is happening continuously, and most organizations struggle to see the change in advance. Continuous change can begin to seem like chaos. CIOs in end-user organizations must learn to find practical approaches within the chaos.

23 Jan 2019
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23 Jan 2019
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Analyst Profile

Arun Chandrasekaran

Distinguished VP Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

Areas of Coverage

Arun Chandrasekaran's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Background

Previous Experience

Professional Background

Industry Awards/Accolades

Education

Languages

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