Michelle Rudnicki
President of NetApp US Public Sector, Inc.
According to Michelle Rudnicki, 2024 will bring many of the same challenges from 2023, with AI, cybersecurity, skills and data topping the list.
The heightened awareness in, and availability of, generative AI presents an opportunity and a challenge as lawmakers and IT organizations drive toward responsible use of the technology and ensuring the information sources feeding these engines are credible, authorized and protected.
“Michelle is a visionary leader who believes real transformation requires that her customers trust her to think outside the box and know what they’ll need to succeed, both now and in the future,” said Cesar Cernuda, president at NetApp. “Her breadth and depth of Public Sector experience and commitment to helping customers in federal, state, and local governments achieve their complex missions helps position NetApp U.S. Public Sector for rapid growth. Michelle is leading NetApp US Public Sector into a new era of technological transformation supercharged by innovations in intelligent data infrastructure that include cloud computing, AI, Zero Trust, and more.”
Why Watch
NetApp understands data is an organization’s most valuable asset. Rudnicki and her team are enabling organizations to build an intelligent data infrastructure that helps them harness the power of AI and deliver data-enhanced experiences.
They recognize the pervasive nature of cyberattacks and the need to build products secure by design with comprehensive data recoverability and threat detection, and that form the foundation for zero trust architectures. NetApp is also working with customers to help them build hybrid, multi-cloud environments. The intelligent data infrastructure allows customers to easily move their data between their on-premises data centers and the cloud.
“I am proud to lead the NetApp US Public Sector business in this transformative era where we are seeing tremendous advances in technology,” Rudnicki said. “We have spent more than 25 years building trust with our customers and the partnerships we’ve built are enabling us to work together to tackle their IT modernization challenges with new tools, new approaches, and a new mindset to fully embrace this exciting technological future.”