Cloud Innovation, Analytics, and Data Transformation with Monica Kumar

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This episode features an interview with Monica Kumar, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Cloud-Go-To Market at Nutanix. Nutanix is a data platform that is redefining workloads in cloud environments. Prior to Nutanix, Monica spent two decades at Oracle where she launched several market solutions.

Monica is passionate about positioning and supporting women in leadership roles. She is a founding limited partner of Neythri Futures Fund, a venture fund dedicated to bringing South Asian women into the investment community. Monica also serves on the board of Directors at Watermark, an organization dedicated to women in leadership.

In this episode, Monica and Sam discuss the evolving world of marketing analytics, tech’s biggest innovation to date, and how the data industry can change for the better.

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“I believe that cloud has now become more of an operating model. It started out in the public cloud, but now organizations have adopted the same philosophy of self-service, metering, chargeback, quick deployment, on-demand deployment, on-premises as well. So, my assertion is that cloud has become more of an operating model than a location. And what we’re going to see going forward more and more is this notion of multi-cloud and hybrid multi-cloud data platforms that would be able to access data from multiple locations and be able to provide on top of that, the analysis that the user is looking for.” – Monica Kumar

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Episode Timestamps:

(02:23): What open source data means to Monica

(12:37): The evolving world of marketing insight analytics

(16:42): How remote work is changing the industry for the better

(20:25): How Monica supports diverse entrepreneurs

(24:11): The transformation of a database to a data platform

(26:37): Why the cloud is tech’s biggest innovation

(29:23): What’s next for data storage in 5 years?

(29:41): Monica’s analogy for data storage

(33:34): Monica’s advice for newcomers

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Links:

LinkedIn - Connect with Monica

LinkedIn - Connect with Nutanix

Twitter - Follow Monica

Twitter - Follow Nutanix

Visit Nutanix

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