Innovating at the Speed of DevOps - Guest: Ashish Kakran, Principal of Thomvest Ventures

This conversation is part of our Lead/Forward series, where we talk with technology leaders about the real stories behind the themes of innovation, talent, and experience. In this episode, we interview Ashish Kakran, Principal of Thomvest Ventures to find out how his organization nurtures the future of technology and advancement by investing in companies to help them become leaders in their fields. During the discussion we tackle the technology challenges related to multi-cloud, including infrastructure, security in DevOps, and continually scaling workloads. We delve into how covid played a big role in speeding up the digital transformation, and how CSOs and CIOs are working to enable innovation without inhibiting applications or compromising their companies.---------Time stamps:01:00 Convergence of Security05:15 View of the Market as an Investor07:51 Multi-cloud Expansion and Usage12:00 Multi-cloud logistics and security15:30 Future dominance and structure of multi-cloud18:00 AI and ML Impact on Customer Experience23:00 Impact of Culture, Team Structure, and Tech on Customers30:00 CIO and CSO Realignment Reservations32:00 Transform or Die34:00 CSOs with a Seat at the Table36:00 Security Economics37:00 What Companies are Doing Right and Wrong---------Links:Ashish Kakran on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kakran/CIO Exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwcioexchangeYadin Porter de León on Twitter: https://twitter.com/porterdeleon [Subscribe to the Podcast] On Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cio-exchange-podcast/id1498290907 For more podcasts, video and in-depth research go to https://www.vmware.com/cio---------Keywords: cio, cio exchange, VMware, innovation, leadership, IT, information technology, business, technology, cto, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, investment, cloud, multi-cloud, security, devops, devsecops, artificial intelligence, machine learning