Mohit Aron (born 1973), is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman and entrepreneur.
Life
Aron was born about 1973 and grew up in Chandigarh. He graduated with a bachelor of technology in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1995. Aron graduated with an MS in 1998 and a PhD in computer science from Rice University in 2001. with a focus on distributed computing. His advisor was Peter Druschel.
In 2000 he joined a company called Zambeel. He was a developer on the Google File System engineering project from 2003 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he worked at Aster Data Systems. Aron is a promoter of the term hyper-converged infrastructure
Aron co-founded Nutanix in 2009. Aron was recognized by CRN Magazine in 2012. Aron founded Cohesity in 2013. In July and August 2016, CRN mentioned Cohesity.