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CXO Talk

& deliverables, and operational processes, vital role in the global storage-area network
creativity as well as and business models. economy, they should (SAN).
innovation. As far as India’s be at the forefront of We configured a
digital infrastructure is leading social change 3 Node cluster with
What key challenges concerned, it is coming and mitigating climate Nutanix Acropolis
have you encountered to life as a result of risk by reallocating Hypervisor (AHV),
on your way to policy and technological capital, enhancing risk enabled Deduplication
success? innovation. The frameworks, providing and compression
As a CTO, your country is fast moving greater transparency, features of CVM level
contribution gets towards a digital-first and improving data and and created a container
acknowledged by the economy. I feel that reporting standards. to store different
peers (& the board), every organization and workloads of VMs i.e.
especially when you are CTOs must contribute Please elaborate App-Store, Db-Store,
doing the right things to India’s dream of a more on your and ISO-Store. The next
with technology. but, I $5 Trillion economy. HCI experiments step was to connect the
have never been satisfied Also, COVID-19 has not and project port of each node 10G
with appreciation. I only accelerated digital implementations. SFP+ interface with two
have always believed adoption but has also HCI (Hyper-Converged 10G switches as Active
in extracting the been a litmus test for Infrastructure) is and Passive (backup).
maximum out of my every organization’s more like a hardware Port of each node
role. I never wished to digital infrastructure. refresh as traditional 1G connected on the
be just another CTO of
any company. I kept
challenging myself to
differentiate myself from
my peers. I believe that
when you challenge
yourself, you don’t
end up becoming
pigeonholed.

What is your take on Most of the companies infrastructures require interface with the switch
digital transformation that have made months of planning as an IPMI management
in the wake of the strategic investments before installation, and 10G - Uplink
Digital India initiative? in technology will whereas HCI can be between the switches
Companies across come out stronger, designed to meet and single 10G cable
varied industries have but laggards may still current needs. It helps connectivity with Cisco
started adopting digital be able to leapfrog if to reduce planning Core switch. Finally, we
business platforms they take swift action time, as well as configured HCI Box Pulse
to streamline both to accelerate tech installation takes days and remote support and
internal and customer- modernization. or even hours. Hyper- created new VMs as per
facing processes. Senior I strongly believe converged systems workload of application
leadership teams are that the bFSI sector usually plug into existing and database to
digitally transforming has an opportunity infrastructure and make migrate existing Physical
three key areas of their to become purpose- integration easier. Also, servers (P2V) and KVM
enterprises including, driven global leaders. they can eliminate the VM (V2V) to Nutanix
customer experience, Given their unique and need for an expensive appliance.

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