Anand Paladugu is a Principal product manager in the emerging technologies division in EMC. He has 22 years of IT industry experience working in the computer and storage hardware/software industry, with ten of those years in a lead / managerial role. In his 15 years of service at EMC, he has worked on several products in different roles from Product management, Software engineering to Quality Engineering/Sustaining and TCE. Anand has his Masters in IT management from Harvard University and his MBA from Northeastern University.