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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 est le premier Technical Fellow de NetApp. Il est également Chief Architect, VP of NetApp Platforms, et dirige la vision, la stratégie et l’architecture technologiques de NetApp. Il pilote actuellement l’architecture et la conception de la prochaine génération d’infrastructures d’IA et de plateformes de données d’IA. Arindam possède plus de 25 ans d’expérience dans les infrastructures de stockage distribué et les plateformes de données. Il travaille chez NetApp depuis 19 ans et a été à l’origine de nombreuses innovations dans les domaines des systèmes de fichiers, du stockage distribué et de l’IA. Arindam est l’auteur ou le co-auteur de plus de 50 brevets et publications de brevets ayant reçu plus de 500 citations de référence dans le domaine des systèmes et technologies de données informatiques.

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.