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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 é o primeiro Technical Fellow da NetApp. Ele também é o Chief Architect, VP of NetApp Platforms e lidera a visão, a estratégia e a arquitetura tecnológica da NetApp. Atualmente, ele está liderando a arquitetura e o design da próxima geração de infraestrutura de IA e plataformas de dados de IA. Arindam tem mais de 25 anos de experiência em infraestrutura de storage distribuído e plataformas de dados. Ele está na NetApp há 19 anos e foi pioneiro em muitas inovações nas áreas de sistemas de arquivos, storage distribuído e IA. Arindam é autor e coautor de mais de 50 patentes e publicações de patentes que receberam mais de 500 citações como referência na área de sistemas e tecnologia de dados computacionais.

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.