Ashish Nadkarni is a research director within IDC's Storage Systems research practice. He provides detailed insight and analysis on evolving industry trends, vendor performance, and the impact of new technology adoption. Mr. Nadkarni is responsible for producing and delivering timely, in-depth market research with a specific focus on file and object-based storage, storage for virtualized environments and storage for Big Data. He also co-leads IDC's Big Data Global Overview program, in addition to managing the infrastructure component of that program.

Since entering the IT industry in 1997, Mr. Nadkarni has held a series of high-level engineering, consulting, and product management positions at Bose, CSC, GlassHouse and AutoVirt.

Ashish received his M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship from Babson College and his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Physics from the University of Pune.