Mohit Aron

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Mohit Aron
Born1973 (age 5051)
Pathankot, India
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
TitleFounder & CEO of Cohesity
Co-Founder & CTO of Nutanix

Mohit Aron (born 1973),[ citation needed ] is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman and entrepreneur.

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Early life and education

Aron was born about 1973 and grew up in Chandigarh. [1] He graduated with a bachelor of technology in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1995. [2]

Aron graduated with an MS in 1998 and a PhD in computer science from Rice University in 2001 with a focus on distributed computing. [3] His advisor was Peter Druschel. [4]

Career

In 2000 he joined a company called Zambeel.

He was a developer on the Google File System engineering project from 2003 to 2007. [5]

From 2007 to 2009 he worked at Aster Data Systems.

Aron is a promoter of the term hyper-converged infrastructure. [6] [7]

Aron co-founded Nutanix in 2009. [8]

Aron was recognized by CRN Magazine in 2012 as one of the Top 25 Innovators of 2012. [9]

Aron founded Cohesity in 2013. [10] In July and August 2016, CRN mentioned Cohesity. [11] [12]

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