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