Poojan Kumar, Commvault’s Chief Product Innovation Officer, leads the company’s innovative product development strategy for today’s cloud-first, data-driven world.
An engineering visionary, Poojan re-envisioned how data is managed, analyzed, stored, and recovered at companies including Nutanix, VMware, and Oracle. And as an entrepreneur, he built, scaled, and led the acquisition of multiple successful companies. Most recently, he co-founded and was CEO of Clumio, which Commvault acquired in 2024.
Poojan earned his bachelor’s in computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology and his master’s in computer science from Stanford University.
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Recovery Readiness in the AI Era with Clumio
As AI initiatives move from experimentation to production, organizations are rethinking what it means to be resilient in a cloud-first world. In this conversation, the shift from backup to recovery readiness in the AI era takes center stage, exploring why trusted, recoverable data has become a strategic requirement for modern enterprises. Patrick Moorhead sits down with Clumio President and CEO Poojan Kumar to discuss how cloud-native architectures are reshaping cyber resilience, what organizations should expect from recovery at cloud scale, and how customer expectations continue to evolve across highly regulated industries.
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