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Manish Israni has been Leading IT Evolution From
the Past Three Decades
Manish has witnessed and been a projects as well as data center s e r v i c e s , c l o u d s e r v i c e s ,
part of the real evolution of the IT migrations. Besides, I even connectivity, security, and data
landscape in the past three m a n a g e d d i r e c t s a l e s f o r center build services to customers.
decades. He has worked on every infrastructure services at Infosys. While we have managed to
aspect of IT from Mainframe to I later joined JP Morgan Chase & achieve these milestones, there
Distributed Architecture as well as Company as Head of Technology were roadblocks in this journey as
Cloud technology. He first stepped Infrastructure, driving the strategic well. These hurdles were in terms of
into the industry as a Coder but initiative and large project getting the right machines,
soon discovered his potential and evaluation in the data center, solution engineering, and the
switched to the hardware side of IT. network, voice, and collaboration integrator to develop the overlay
Today, he is proud of his diverse area. I have also been the Global layer, backend provisioning, etc.
k n o w l e d g e a n d e x p o s u r e , Server System Operations Leader Also, during the peak of the
including working with a desktop to at IBM and Head of IT Infrastructure lockdown, we onboarded more
a data center and spearheading and Data Center at Vodafone. than 100 resources who were
20 to 25 data center migrations to remotely enabled from day one.
a tune of 100 to 500 racks across Best IT Deployments W e a l s o m i g r a t e d o u r fi r s t
the US, Europe, and Asia. Some of my remarkable projects at customer, Essar Group, during the
JP Morgan include setting up of pandemic.
Contributions & Achievements
in the IT Space 30000-seat VDI for the outsourced Top 3 technologies in 2021
candidates of JP Morgan in Asia
One of my earlier achievements while doing away with desktops Cloud technology, Security, and Big
was setting up a 500-seater and laptops. I also migrated all Data Analytics.
captive for Computer Sciences local applications to the private IT Deployment Done in
Corporation (CSC). During my cloud and implemented Social Partnership with Virsec
stints with HCL as well as Infosys, I CRM to monitor customers' With Virsec, we are now bringing
was involved in managing the responses and behavior on social end-to-end, real-time application
transition and operations of critical media. security to Yotta's Enterprise Cloud
Being a Yottaite and Navigating and co-location customers. The
through the Challenges i d e a i s t o p r o v i d e V i r s e c ' s
application-aware security
To excel in the data center domain, capabilities to enterprises, thereby
you need to carry the experience of protecting their data against
working on the core infrastructure. I attacks on workloads. With the help
have brought a similar experience of Virsec, Yotta will also provide
to Yotta. As a CIO and Head of IT server security through real-time
Operations at Yota, I look forward to protection against known and
establishing the company as one unknown malware, file integrity
of the leading digital platforms. monitoring, application control,
Under Yotta Tech Services, the idea and real-time protection against
is to extend our managed IT - the most advanced file-less,
memory-based, and zero-day
attacks.
Manish Israni
EVP & CIO of Yotta June 2021