Anand Akela is Senior Principal Product Marketing Director for Oracle Enterprise Manager. He focuses on Oracle's enterprise cloud, virtualization, and infrastructure management offerings. Prior to his current role at Oracle, he worked at HP in various product marketing, product management, and engineering roles in the IT Operations management, servers, datacenter energy efficiency, and enterprise software areas.Anand is an active participant in various data center industry consortia and currently serves as Chairman for the Data Collection and Analysis Work Group at The Green Grid. The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems around the globe. Anand also serves as an adviser to PeersNet, a web services provider. Anand received his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a B.S.in Computer Science from Pune University in India.