Paniraj Koppa is a member of the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) Solutions team.  He has over 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and operating solutions in the data center. In his current role, he works on design and development, best practices, optimization, automation and technical content creation of compute and hybrid cloud solutions. Paniraja holds a master’s degree in computer science. He is a repeat speaker Cisco Live US and Europe events. He has  also presented  sessions in Open Infrastructure Summit,  Cisco DevNet Day, and Kubecon events.  Paniraja’s current focus is on Generative AI solutions.

Mike has been in the IT industry for over 30 years covering a broad spectrum of networking and infrastructure solutions. He joined NetApp in 2008 and has been a field engineer and solution architect before his current role as Global Field CTO, Partners. Prior to NetApp, Mike owned a consulting firm designing, deploying and securing data centers around the globe such as Tokyo, Frankfurt and London. Mike holds a CISSP security certification and having been on the customer, consultative and vendor side gives him a unique perspective and understanding on the business of IT.