By Surabhi Agarwal
Publication Date: 2025-12-03 01:29:00
In this episode of “The Morning Brief” ET in the Valley series, we delve into the mind of one of Silicon Valley’s most quietly influential founders, a technologist who reshaped modern data centers with a single idea: keep compute and storage together because the network will always slow it down. Host Surabhi Agarwal talks to Mohit Aron, co-founder of Nutanix and founder of Cohesity, about the idea that grew into hyperconverged infrastructure and why, even in an era of cloud and artificial intelligence, the basic physics of…Read more The data has not changed yet. We also dive into the forgotten world of secondary data backups, archives, test systems and how cleaning up that chaos opened up new possibilities, from ransomware detection to AI-based analysis. Now working on his third startup, he explains why sales technology is still so broken and why fixing it seemed urgent. Beyond products and companies, the conversation expands to the Valley’s overheated AI momentum, circular funding loops, and crude…