Sunil Mahale, VP and MD at Nutanix India and Vivek Sharma, MD of Data Center Group at Lenovo, will talk to top IT pros at CIO100 2017 about accelerating their cloud journey. Sunil MahaleVice President and Managing Director, Nutanix India An enterprise information technology veteran, Sunil Mahare has had successful stints with global industry players like Hitachi, EMC and NetApp. Prior to joining Nutanix, Sunil has lead worldwide business with large Indian global system integrators as well as managed global accounts and social innovation business for APJ at Hitachi Data Systems. Having worked in the US for 12 years, Sunil moved back to India little over 6 years ago. He was instrumental in driving strategic synergies between Indian GSI community and global industry leaders. Under his leadership, GSI business was the fastest growing business unit in his organizations. Sunil started the Nutanix India Sales entity and has lead the business to phenomenal growth in the last 18 months.Vivek Sharma Managing Director of Lenovo Global Technology India Vivek Sharma was recently appointed as the Managing Director of Lenovo Global Technology India for its Data Center Group. Vivek joins Lenovo from Dimension Data where, as the IDC and Cloud leader, he played a key role in transforming the ITaaS and datacentre business. Prior to this, he held several leadership positions at Wipro, where he helped the company in becoming a major force in India’s public sector. With over 25 years of experience, Vivek has excelled in leadership positions across enterprise sales, alliances, distribution, telecom, cloud and datacenter services. Related content brandpost Sponsored by SAP Generative AI’s ‘show me the money’ moment We’re past the hype and slick gen AI sales pitches. Business leaders want results. By Julia White Nov 30, 2023 5 mins Artificial Intelligence brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers capture real economic value with zero trust Unleashing economic value: Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange transforms security architecture while cutting costs. By Zscaler Nov 30, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Sponsored by SAP A cloud-based solution to rescue millions from energy poverty Aware of the correlation between energy and financial poverty, Savannah Energy is helping to generate clean, competitively priced electricity across Africa by integrating its old systems into one cloud-based platform. By Keith E. Greenberg, SAP Contributor Nov 30, 2023 5 mins Digital Transformation feature 8 change management questions every IT leader must answer Designed to speed adoption and achieve business outcomes, change management hasn’t historically been a strength of IT orgs. It’s time to flip that script by asking hard questions to hone change strategies. By Stephanie Overby Nov 30, 2023 10 mins Change Management IT Leadership Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe