Lalit Ahuja

Position:

Chief Technology Officer

Bio:

Lalit Ahuja is responsible for the direction, implementation and delivery of GridGain’s technology strategy. He works closely with GridGain customers and partners worldwide and leads the Engineering, Product Management and Delivery teams in ensuring GridGain products and services meet or exceed all customer expectations.

In his career spanning over 25 years, Lalit has led various IT functions including enterprise architecture, product management, large scale program management, IT operations and served as a digital strategy advisor to executives at Fortune 500 enterprises.

Prior to GridGain, Lalit led the global Customer Success team at Akana, a leader in API Management and Application Services Governance space, where he was responsible for increased customer retention and more than 300% growth in Akana’s consulting services business.

Lalit holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and an MBA from UCLA.

Bio:

Lalit holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and an MBA from UCLA.

Making Well-Informed AI-Driven Decisions in Real Time

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Making Well-Informed AI-Driven Decisions in Real Time

Lalit Ahuja

Someone one told me that good things come in 3s and, fortunately, that is all it takes to make a well-informed AI-driven decisions in real time as well. The three things we need are:Access to all of the relevant data;Execution of an intelligent model on that relevant data; and finallyDoing all of it in real time.And while it is just these three things and may look to be obvious, as the proverbial…

Why the Airline Industry Needs a Unified Real-Time Data Platform

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Why the Airline Industry Needs a Unified Real-Time Data Platform

Lalit Ahuja

I still remember the day I boarded my first flight ever – the idea of crossing such a huge distance in a very short time, the excitement of getting on a plane and getting to look down from the window up in the sky floating over the clouds was heightened by the nervous chill as we went through security and gate checks. In fact, I can safely say that the flight was the best part of my trip. …

The Evolution Of The Enterprise Data Ecosystem And Its Challenges

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The Evolution Of The Enterprise Data Ecosystem And Its Challenges

Lalit Ahuja

In his 2005 book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Friedman talked about globalization and a level playing field. Globalization, fading geographical boundaries, and increasing economic dependencies between countries and companies have increased the influence of and dependencies on global information for enterprises worldwide. Global information, characterized…

Data-Driven Enterprises: What To Know About A Data Integration Hub

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Data-Driven Enterprises: What To Know About A Data Integration Hub

Lalit Ahuja

In a previous article, I discussed redefining the challenge facing companies that want to become data-driven. The way most people think about this problem – and the most commonly proposed solution – is putting all data into a single place, such as a data lake.This strategy has challenges, the biggest of which is that while data lakes make it economical to store data, retrieval, and analysis…

Digital Integration Hub Architecture for Telecommunications

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Digital Integration Hub Architecture for Telecommunications

Lalit Ahuja

Telecommunication companies can transform their operations into data-driven enterprises by utilizing the Digital Integration Hub Architecture, which is built on GridGain's in-memory computing platform. In this blog post, we will explore how the Digital Integration Hub architecture can assist telecommunication companies in enhancing customer insights, creating additional revenue streams, and…

An Introduction to Unified Real-Time Data Platforms

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An Introduction to Unified Real-Time Data Platforms

Lalit Ahuja

First, there were DBMSs and data warehouses. Then came data lakes and event stream processing platforms. Now, the most advanced data solutions are Unified Real-Time Data Platforms. But what are they? Unified Real-Time Data Platforms simplify and optimize data architectures by combining transactional, stream, and analytical processing across data silos into a single “unified” platform. These…

The Demand For A Microsecond Data Ecosystem Is Coming: Vendors Need To Step Up

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The Demand For A Microsecond Data Ecosystem Is Coming: Vendors Need To Step Up

Lalit Ahuja

As we move through 2023, enterprises will increasingly demand that their data “circulatory system” – data storage, movement, sharing, processing, and analytics – run on an end-to-end microsecond computing ecosystem.In the distant past (25 years ago), latency wasn’t a big topic of conversation. Database analytics was performed in batch mode, often nightly or over weekends, and most users were…

Lalit Ahuja

Making Well-Informed AI-Driven Decisions in Real Time

Making Well-Informed AI-Driven Decisions in Real Time

Why the Airline Industry Needs a Unified Real-Time Data Platform

Why the Airline Industry Needs a Unified Real-Time Data Platform

Top Questions and Answers From Our Fintech Webinar

Top Questions and Answers From Our Fintech Webinar

The Evolution Of The Enterprise Data Ecosystem And Its Challenges

The Evolution Of The Enterprise Data Ecosystem And Its Challenges

Data-Driven Enterprises: What To Know About A Data Integration Hub

Data-Driven Enterprises: What To Know About A Data Integration Hub

Digital Integration Hub Architecture for Telecommunications

Digital Integration Hub Architecture for Telecommunications

An Introduction to Unified Real-Time Data Platforms

An Introduction to Unified Real-Time Data Platforms

The Demand For A Microsecond Data Ecosystem Is Coming: Vendors Need To Step Up

The Demand For A Microsecond Data Ecosystem Is Coming: Vendors Need To Step Up

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