Friday's Last Word: Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron
Mohit Aron is the CEO and founder of Cohesity. Here's what he's like outside the office.
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Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron
To find out who Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron is outside of the office, please click through the slideshow.
Aron: Star Wars
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: The latest Star Wars film in the series has made $2.028 billion US in the box office.
Aron: Red wine
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: Want to look like an expert at your next dinner party? Here's a primer on the 8 major types of red wine and their pairings.
Aron: Fitbit HR
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: Wearable fitness devices have exploded over the past few years, with fitness tracker sales increasing 150 percent year-on-year in 2015.
Aron: Buick Enclave
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: GM said sales improved at Cadillac and Buick in February, possibly in part due to its Super Bowl ad.
Aron: Cancun, Mexico
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: The sun isn't out in Cancun today, but it is 83°F, which sounds pretty nice to this Canadian.
Aron: Murdoch Mysteries
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: This Canadian series has 9 seasons and is set in Toronto during the 1890s. As you can guess by the name of the show, the series follows a young detective as he investigates murder cases.
Aron: The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: This book, from 2013, promises to be a guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks. Sounds compelling!
Aron: Blown Away by Carrie Underwood
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: Carrie Underwood won a Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance in 2013 for her song Blown Away, and its writers were given the award for Best Country Song.
Aron: Voice Dream Reader
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: According to its description on iTunes, "[w]ith advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, it can be tailored to suit every reading style from completely auditory to completely visual, plus synchronized combination of both."
Aron: Voice Dream Reader
Talkin' Cloud's Spin: According to its description on iTunes, "[w]ith advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, it can be tailored to suit every reading style from completely auditory to completely visual, plus synchronized combination of both."
Friday's Last Word: Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron
Cohesity was founded in June 2013 by CEO Mohit Aron, who is regarded as the pioneer of hyper-convergence, the first architecture to converge compute and storage to simplify virtualization. Aron founded the infrastructure company Nutanix to bring hyper-convergence to market and served as its CTO before leaving to build Cohesity. Aron worked as a Staff Engineer at Google from 2003 to 2007, where he helped design the company’s innovative Google File System. He also served as Architect at AsterData, a leading big data analytics company that was later acquired by Teradata.
What are your plans for Cohesity in 2016?
Make Cohesity "Cross the Chasm," which means start on the path to wide scale adoption of our product.
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