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Sunil Mahale, Vivek Sharma: Journey to building an enterprise cloud

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Aug 27, 2017
Cloud ManagementData CenterTechnology Industry

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.