Mohit Aron (born 1973), is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman and entrepreneur.

Life

Aron was born about 1973 and grew up in Chandigarh. He graduated with a

bachelor of technology A Bachelor of Technology (Latin ''Baccalaureus Technologiae'', commonly abbreviated as B.Tech. or BTech; with honours as B.Tech. (Hons.)) is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after the completion of a three to five-year program of studi ...

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. In 2000 he joined a company called Zambeel. He was a developer on the Google File System engineering project from 2003 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he worked at

Aster Data Systems Aster Data Systems was a data management and analysis software company headquartered in San Carlos, California. It was founded in 2005 and acquired by Teradata in 2011. History Aster Data was co-founded in 2005 by Stanford University graduate stu ...

. Aron is a promoter of the term hyper-converged infrastructure Aron co-founded Nutanix in 2009. Aron was recognized by CRN Magazine in 2012. Aron founded Cohesity in 2013. In July and August 2016, CRN mentioned Cohesity.

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