Bala Kuchibhotla is SVP, GM - Era & Business Critical Apps. He leads product strategy, engineering, GTM for Database-as-a-Service platform and solutions for business critical apps at Nutanix. Prior to Nutanix, He was Architect, Vice President at Oracle where he led Oracle DB private cloud initiative and built a number of data-management features and products. Bala has co-authored 20+ issued patents and has been a regular speaker at Oracle Open World, .NEXT and other forums.