Krishna Yadappanavar is the cofounder and CEO of Kloudfuse, a unified observability platform. He previously co-founded SpringPath, which was acquired by Cisco. With over 20 patents, Krishna has made his mark on data, virtualization and storage technologies at Veritas, Commvault, EMC, VMware and Cisco. He co-authored VMware’s VMFS file system and designed critical components of the storage virtualization stack for ESX Server. Additionally, Krishna advises and invests in emerging startups across data, virtualization, cloud, security and AI/ML, contributing to vision, product strategy, engineering and go-to-market efforts.