Kash Shaikh, CEO and President of Virtana, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.
Shaikh has more than 25 years of experience in the data center and cloud software and hardware industry. He has a track record of improving results in small and large fortune 100 public companies by making necessary strategic calls to drive profitable organic and inorganic growth. Prior to Virtana, Shaikh was Global VP and GM of Solutions business at Dell Technologies, which included technology partner alliances. Before Dell, Shaikh held executive and leadership roles at public companies, including Ruckus Wireless, Riverbed Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, and Nortel Networks. He also serves as a Board Member of Ignited, a non-profit that provides learning opportunities around STEM for teachers. Shaikh holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NED University, a master’s in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University, and an MBA from Boise State University.
Virtana is a provider of hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, offering comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring and real-time, AI-powered analytics for the modern enterprise data center. The company’s solutions give IT operations teams deep workload visibility and actionable insights into their end-to-end systems that support mission-critical applications.
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