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Jason Hardy is vice president of storage technology at NVIDIA, where he drives storage architecture and ecosystem alignment for accelerated computing and enterprise AI. With more than 20 years of experience spanning enterprise data infrastructure and AI platforms, he has led the development and scaling of high-performance storage systems as well as AI solutions supporting analytics, enterprise, and industrial workloads. Jason works across engineering, product, and industry partners to advance storage architectures designed for scale, performance, and reliability in modern AI environments. Previously, he served as vice president and CTO at Hitachi Vantara, where he led global technology strategy, platform innovation, and AI initiatives across the portfolio.


Arindam ist NetApps erster Technical Fellow. Er ist außerdem Chief Architect, VP of NetApp Platforms und verantwortet die Technologievision, Strategie und Architektur für NetApp. Derzeit leitet er die Architektur und das Design der nächsten Generation von KI-Infrastruktur und KI-Datenplattformen. Arindam verfügt über mehr als 25 Jahre Erfahrung mit verteilter Speicherinfrastruktur und Datenplattformen. Er ist seit 19 Jahren bei NetApp und hat zahlreiche Innovationen in den Bereichen Dateisysteme, verteilter Speicher und KI vorangetrieben. Arindam ist Autor bzw. Co-Autor von mehr als 50 Patenten und Patentveröffentlichungen, die im Bereich von Computerdatensystemen und -technologie über 500-mal zitiert wurden.

Gunna Marripudi is a product builder for Cloud Storage at NetApp. In his role as a Vice President for Product Management at NetApp, he leads product teams defining and delivering cloud-native data platforms that power mission-critical workloads across public and hybrid cloud environments. He strives to deliver scalable cloud storage services for enterprise and cloud-native applications, and AI-driven capabilities that improve performance, resilience, and cost. Prior to NetApp, he ran product management for scale-out object storage and all-flash arrays at Western Digital. Earlier in his career, he was a principal storage software architect at Samsung and Hewlett Packard.