Ashok is Head of Products responsible for product direction and strategy at Datera. Prior to joining Datera, Ashok was a key part of the product team that brought Cisco UCS to market and ran the UCS applications and cloud product teams that conceptualized FlexPod and Cisco Analytics platforms. Ashok started his career as an I/O and OS architect in HP-UX at HP. Ashok holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and MSEE from University of Arizona, Tuscon, and a number of patents in the IO and resource mgmt space.