Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Timing-wise, how fast can that revenue mix change? How fast does the consequent profitability impact going to reflect based on how many Pure Storage customers you can immediately sell the Portworx stuff to?  Murli Thirumale: Pure Storage has about 8,000 customers. A good majority of those is what I would call classic enterprise

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Now, I’m going to switch my question to Pure Storage and the strategy for a company like Pure Storage. They are trying to move up the stack. Based on what we have discussed for the last half hour, we understand why they acquired Portworx. If you put the Chief Strategy Officer hat on

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What does the ecosystem look like in terms of competitors? Does Portworx have competitors? Murli Thirumale: Yes, we do. I’ll give you an example of the competitive environment by giving you a few use cases so that we can talk about why our competitors are not able to do what we do. An

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me double-click down on one more layer based on what you have said. Is Portworx sitting on top of the traditional storage players? Is it like a caching solution on top of the existing one? Mohan Thirumale: Yes, it’s not unlike caching, but it’s doing two things. One is exactly what you

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Portworx CEO Murli Mohan Thirumale (Part 2)

Murli Thirumale: What has been driving the world in the last five years has been app agility. It’s how you develop apps anywhere really quickly. Apps are changing, and it’s a very competitive environment. People are using an application to win in their business whether it’s in banking or if it’s a service provider. The

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

I’ve known Murli for 20 years and love how he marries strategy and deep technical domain knowledge.  This conversation is extremely technical, and you’d get a precise view of what’s happening in the storage industry as a player like Pure Storage tries to move up the stack and acquire a startup like Portworx.

Top 20 Serial Entrepreneur Interviews

In the recap mode, here’s a list of the top 20 serial entrepreneurs I have spoken with: * Philippe Courtot – a very young 63-year old CEO of Qualys.

Serial Entrepreneurs

I want to turn the spotlight on serial entrepreneurs, and open a discussion on what drives them, and if you want to become a serial entrepreneur, what can you learn from the lives, careers and choices of other successful serial entrepreneurs.