The Future of Data

By Sanjiv Goyal Featuring Mohit Aron

In this article you will learn about:

• Trends in data management and storage
• Entrepreneurial opportunities in data
• Data lakes
• Ransomware
• Contemporary Business Model Innovations
• Tips for entrepreneurs
• Snowflake

Cyber Oil

AI is all the rage right now. Everyone wants a piece of it, but Mohit Aron remains focused on his first love, data. The IIT Delhi alumnus, co-founder and CTO of Nutanix, and founder and CEO of Cohesity, illuminates how data will shape infrastructure and industry in the future. In his words: data is the new oil.

In the last 25 years, our world has seen massive technological advances and been shaped by the ways the internet has connected us. As network speeds have become faster, as disc capacities have grown, as the cloud has evolved, data has exploded. Zettabytes of data are processed every year.

These days an organization can no more be divorced from its data than a smartphone can be separated from a millennial’s hand. In order to be on the cutting edge of business, you have to be in the business of data.

Next Steps

With so much data in the world today, storing it in silos that are connected via the internet has become costly and cumbersome. The next generation of data storage is looking to…