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Making containers smarter with Trident

Name: Making containers smarter with Trident
Uploaded: 2026-10-15
Description: As containers and virtualization converge in enterprises, this session explores NetApp Trident for Kubernetes with ONTAP app-aware data protection—covering architecture, roadmap, latest updates, and real customer examples.

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As containers and virtualization converge in enterprises, this session explores NetApp Trident for Kubernetes with ONTAP app-aware data protection—covering architecture, roadmap, latest updates, and real customer examples.

NetApp Trident

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Luis Rico

Luis Rico is a highly accomplished and respected specialist in data storage, data protection, and disaster recovery. Luis has spent the past 22 years in the data storage industry as a pre-sales consultant, helping enterprise customers worldwide. He has been working with persistent storage in Kubernetes and OpenShift since early 2017. At NetApp, Luis is the Principal Product Manager for Trident — the open-source software from NetApp for provisioning and protecting Kubernetes applications. Before NetApp, he was a principal solution architect at Red Hat, working with Gluster, Ceph, and OpenShift Data Foundation.

Bhavin Shah

Bhavin Shah is a principal product manager in the NetApp Data Services business unit, working on all things Kubernetes and Trident. Bhavin has more than 10 years of experience in working on virtualization, cloud, and Kubernetes solutions. Bhavin is a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and a Data on Kubernetes Community Ambassador, and he also cohosts the Kubernetes Bytes podcast.

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