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ThousandEyes, interview with CEO Mohit Lad
Date: 16 February 2014
ThousandEyes CrunchBase profile

As a part of my CEO series, I interview CEOs of innovative companies in the fields of Storage, Virtualization and Networking.

Measuring how your application is performing is not a straightforward task. Many enterprises have multiple locations, work with Cloudbased applications and have end users stationed in different parts of the world.

With the future of IT Infrastucture trending toward more interconnectedness and external dependencies, it becomes both increasing difficult and increasingly important to know how your application is performing.

ThousandEyes created a Network performance measurement tool that is ready for modern Cloud application environments. They are able to collect data inside your enterprise environment and data from various probing points on the internet, to tell you exactly how your application is performing.

They couple this to a very intuitive interface, allowing customers and suppliers alike to monitor performance of their applications all over the planet.

ThousandEyes was founded in 2010 and is backed by the renowned Sequoia Capital. I interviewed Mohit Lad, the CEO of ThousandEyes about their service and the background of the company.
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Nimble Storage, interview with Suresh Vasudevan
Date: 15 February 2014
Nimble Storage CrunchBase profile

As a part of my CEO series, I interview CEOs of innovative companies in the fields of Storage, Virtualization and Networking.

Nimble Storage was founded in 2008, offering a hybrid storage model that works both with magnetic disk and flash storage. They have been very successful and went IPO very succesfully on December 13 of last year.

I had the pleasure to interview Suresh Vasudevan and learn about his background and gain insights into Nimble’s company culture and post IPO plans.

You are a born Indian and studied there, how did you transition into Silicon Valley and the Storage field?
Yes I was born and brought up in India and studied there, then I joined McKinsey consultancy in India. The work was a lot of fun, most of what I did was strategy consultancy which I loved. I then moved for McKinsey to Chicago and the assignments there were considerably less interesting.

(laughing) I was into operations and restructuring of steel plants and paper companies – and so on, which was a lot less exciting then what went on in Silicon Valley at the time.
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Interview with CEO Mohit Lad of ThousandEyes

Nimble Storage CEO Suresh Vasudevan on culture and post IPO plans