Arun Thulasi is the Chief Technologist for Vertical Solutions in the Network Functions Virtualization Business Unit at HP. His responsibilities include defining, building and delivering NFV solutions bringing together technologies that form building blocks of a Next-Gen network (Cloud Operating Systems, SDN, Orchestration etc) into consumable, production-ready solutions. From an early career in kernel networking and performance analysis, his current focus areas have moved him into Software-Defined-X, Data Analytics and Cloud-native application & service development.