Ritu Jyoti is Program Vice President for IDC's Cloud IaaS, Enterprise Storage and Server team, which includes research offerings, quarterly trackers as well as advisory services and consulting programs.  Ms. Jyoti is responsible for managing the systems infrastructure research portfolio spanning topics such as cloud computing, software-defined infrastructure, cloud data management and protection, Infrastructure for artificial Intelligence, acceleration and automation, Big data analytics workloads infrastructure needs, and Digital Transformation- IT transformation infrastructure strategies. She oversees a team of analysts responsible for identifying and analyzing vendor strategies, emerging technology and market and customer trends affecting IT buyers and datacenters worldwide.

BACKGROUND

Prior to joining IDC, Ritu held various executive level positions in Product Management, Marketing, Solutions, Technology Alliances and Consulting at companies such as Kaminario, EMC, IBM Global Services and PwC Consulting.  Ritu has over two decades of experience in high-tech, covering Business Applications (ERP, CRM), Databases, Big Data Analytics, Traditional, All-Flash and Software Defined Storage, driving big picture corporate growth and strategic direction by identifying high potential new business, market, and partnership opportunities. She is a proven innovative thought leader adept at leveraging strong technical background to uncover and align business/customer needs with on-the-ground solutions engineering. Most recently, she was the Chief Product Officer at Kaminario.

EDUCATION/INDUSTRY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Executive education in Corporate Strategy & Strategic Marketing from MIT Sloan School of Management, USA.
• B.Sc. engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Ranchi University, India
• Frequent speaker and presenter at IDC, industry, and customer events, as well as providing analysis for multiple media outlets, and is often quoted in leading business and technology publications.