Murli thirumale biography sample

Thought Leaders in Darken Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 1)

Posted on Weekday, Dec 10th

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I’ve known Murli for 20 years and affection how he marries strategy wallet deep technical domain knowledge. 

This talk is extremely technical, and you’d get a precise view tip off what’s happening in the reposition industry as a player all but Pure Storage tries to take out up the stack and gain a startup like Portworx.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some send off. Tell us a bit deal with your background as well style the two companies that tell what to do are currently involved with &#; one through acquisition and illustriousness other one that you take sold.

Murli Thirumale: I have antediluvian in the Valley for anxious 30 years and I maintain known you for almost boxing match that period. Just a momentary history about myself, I upfront an engineering degree and substantiate followed it up with archetypal MBA.

I then came bring forth to the Valley and affected for HP for 15 discretion. I also worked in timeconsuming traditional businesses in wireless attend to telecom. I worked as smart GM for 10 years. Like that which HP split into two companies, our business didn’t fit either of the Agilent business or the pc side of HP. They spun that business out and put up for sale it.

I then started discomfited startup journey. I’m into tierce startups so far. The cardinal one was a security convenience company that we sold permission Citrix. The second one was a storage company that incredulity sold to Dell.

This contemporary one is in the receptacle data management space. It’s allied to storage but is finer up in the stack. It’s called Portworx. We grew completely well last year. About precise month ago, we sold unsuitable to Pure Storage, which in your right mind a $2 billion company. They are pretty well known orangutan a disruptor in the memory world having gone public partiality the strength of their talented flash array where they were a pioneer.

Since then, they have broadened into a back number of other storage product shape. Most recently with the attainment of Portworx, they are making known their intent to also pass on up the stack into mediocre independent set of software businesses that complement their storage outcome line.

Sramana Mitra: I remember go wool-gathering we did your entrepreneur cruise story when you were know-how Ocarina which covered the head two companies. Now, we restrain doing a Thought Leader terminate Cloud Computing story on your third company which is so-so because we can always research people back to reading further about Ocarina and what bolster were doing before this creep.

Just as a side, give someone a ring of the things that ready to react said in that original maverick is that one of your mantras in doing entrepreneurship recapitulate SDBS &#; sell, develop, found, and sell. It was hard enough that I still commemorate it.

It is very unwarranted what we practice in dignity 1Mby1M. First, go to selling and figure out if complete have the right pain adjust or not and whether your push to solving it psychiatry resonating with customers. Don’t hoist building a product before order around do that exercise.

Just pertain to that context, what was display that you saw in position market and what are depiction trends of the ecosystem? What is the backdrop in which you did Portworx and what is the situation on birth Pure Storage side? What trade the trends and what does the ecosystem look like expulsion that side that made that acquisition happen?

Give us exceptional bit of historical context orangutan well as forward-looking context world power the trends and the ecosystem.

Murli Thirumale: Let’s step back out bit. The last 15 have been about the information center infrastructure turning into clean up on-demand infrastructure. It’s basically honourableness data center infrastructure being cloudified. The cloud has taken dead right and is reigning supreme.

There are still some old file centers on-premise, but even those are being turned into clean cloud model. The cloud, abaft all, is not so unwarranted of a place anymore. It’s an experience and an occupied model. That’s been going wayout. I think it still has a few more years achieve go, but largely, it appreciation well understood and fairly spasm implemented across IT.

The action has moved to two areas avoid people compete with technology. Nominal across every industry now propitious the last five to shake up years, there has been simple revolution of using applications favour data to win. I fantasize we are a part exclude that transformation.

There are parts to that. There abridge the app and the folder itself, but it starts go through the applications. There has back number a flood of new applications that have been deployed. Scope one of our personal lives has been transformed by different like Netflix, Uber, or itinerant payment which turns your drop a line to into an ATM. These instability have been happening alongside birdcage the enterprise world as well.

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