Anil Valluri,
Vice President & Managing Director, India GEM
Sun Microsystems India

Anil Valluri has over 22 years of Sales, Marketing and Technology Management experience in the IT industry. He worked earlier with DCM Data Products and Digital India. Anil was instrumental in pioneering and evangelising 64-bit computing technology in India back in 1993 during his stint with Digital.

Anil joined Sun Microsystems India in 1999 as their Director – Systems Engineering & CTO, responsible for all technology, product and solution consulting. He lead a team of IT Architects, Consultants, Product Specialists and Solution Managers in Data Center, Data Management, Java Web Services, Identity and Network Computing. He currently heads Sun India's Services Business, which spans Support Services, Professional Services, Learning Services and Managed Services.

He has been involved in some of the largest enterprise computing decisions in the country with customers belonging to diverse segments in banking, transportation, securities, manufacturing, automobiles, telecom and government. Anil is passionate about technology and is especially interested in microprocessors, system architectures, operating systems, high availability and storage with focus on application of these technologies in the area of 'Extreme Scale Redshift Computing'.

Anil is a regular speaker on technology/computing trends and is a key evangelist for Sun in India. Anil has also been on Advisory council for customers, CTO/CIO forums and has also been on many Jury Panels for well known IT publications.

He is an avid golfer, photographer and also designs and builds Home Theater systems as a hobby. He also a big fan of Formula1 racing.