Analyst Profile
Arun Chandrasekaran
Distinguished VP Analyst
7 years at Gartner
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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.
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
