Gartner Expert
Chandra Mukhyala
Sr Director Analyst
Chandra Mukhyala is a Senior Director, Analyst within Gartner's Technology and Service Provider research group. Mr. Mukhyala's research focus is on providing strategic advice to product and portfolio planning teams on data center storage software, with an emphasis on software-defined storage, distributed file and object storage, and backup and disaster recovery.
Previous experience
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.
Professional background
IBM
Senior Product Manager
Dell Enterprise
Portfolio Marketing Manager
NetApp
Senior Product Manager
Areas of coverage
Infrastructure and Operations Leaders
Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Management
Data Center Infrastructure
Cloud and Edge Infrastructure
Product Planning
Education
M.B.A, General Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
M.S, Electrical Engineering, Wichita State University
B.E, Electronics Engineering, Nagpur University
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Data protection: Backup and recovery, backup storage targets, Cloud backup
2Software-defined storage, Cloud storage
3Scale-out NAS and distributed file systems
4Hybrid cloud storage and object storage
5Product management best practices