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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 es el primer Technical Fellow de NetApp. También es Chief Architect y VP de NetApp Platforms, y lidera la visión tecnológica, la estrategia y la arquitectura de NetApp. Actualmente lidera la arquitectura y el diseño de la próxima generación de infraestructura de IA y plataformas de datos de IA. Arindam cuenta con más de 25 años de experiencia en infraestructura de almacenamiento distribuido y plataformas de datos. Lleva 19 años en NetApp y ha impulsado numerosas innovaciones en las áreas de sistemas de archivos, almacenamiento distribuido e IA. Arindam es autor o coautor de más de 50 patentes y publicaciones de patentes que han recibido más de 500 citas en el campo de los sistemas de datos informáticos y la tecnología.

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.