Mohit Aron

Mohit Aron is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman and entrepreneur.

Early life and education

Aron was born AbOUT 1973 and grew up in Chandigarh. to a Bania family. He graduated with a bachelor of technology in computer science from The INDIAN Institute of Technology Delhi in 1995.

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

Career

In 2000 Aron joined a company called Zambeel. He was a developer on the Google File System engineering project from 2003 to 2007. He then worked at Aster Data Systems from 2007 to 2009.

Aron is a promoter of the term hyper-converged infrastructure.

Aron co-founded Nutanix in 2009. He left in 2013 to found Cohesity. Aron left Cohesity company in 2022.

Awards and recognition

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

Aster Data SystemsBachelor of technologyBania (caste)Bloomberg L.P.ChandigarhCohesityCRN MagazineDistributed computingGeorge R. Brown School of EngineeringGoogle File SystemHyper-converged infrastructureIIT DelhiIndian Institute of Technology DelhiList of IIT Delhi peopleList of Internet entrepreneursNutanixPathankotPeter DruschelRice University

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