Paper Title: Flash in the Era of Digital Infrastructure: What CIOs Need to Know

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Paper Author: Ashish Nadkarni, Group VP, IDC

Author Bio: Ashish Nadkarni is Group VP in IDC's Worldwide Infrastructure Practice. He leads a team of analysts who deliver research on computing, storage, and data management infrastructure platforms and technologies. Ashish’s team takes a holistic, forwarding-looking and long-term view on infrastructure-related issues in the datacenter, in the cloud, and at the edge. He focuses on heterogeneous, accelerated, fog, edge and quantum computing architectures, silicon, memory and data persistence technologies, composable and disaggregated systems, rackscale design, software-defined infrastructure, and cloud computing. Before joining IDC, Ashish was Practice Lead at consulting firm GlassHouse Technologies and worked at Bose, Computer Sciences, and EMC. He earned an MBA in entrepreneurship from Babson College (MA) and an MS in physics from the University of Pune (India). He is a frequent speaker, presenter, and panel moderator at industry conferences and a blogger and guest analyst.