Paper Title: Autonomous Kubernetes Flash Management with Multi-Cloud Application Awareness

Paper Abstract: With a full-suite of open-source offerings like Stork (Storage Orchestration Runtime for Kubernetes), Libopenstorage and Autopilot, Portworx delivers industry's first highly automated data management solution for Kubernetes and other orchestrators. This presentation will examine the foundation of Portworx's multi-cloud ready architecture that enables automated hyper-convergence, performance classification, management and provisioning, application-aware acceleration and data management. It will show real-world examples and a demo of how Portworx delivers these capabilities through the power of its open-source software.

Paper Author: Venkat Ramakrishnan, VP Engineering, Portworx

Author Bio: Venkat Ramakrishnan, is VP, Engineering at Portworx. Venkat runs all of engineering and customer success at Portworx and works very closely with Portworx's Fortune 2000 customers as they adopt and deploy cloud-native microservices on-prem and in the cloud. Prior to Portworx, Venkat worked at Western-Digital, Fusion-IO, IBM, and Cisco in various technical and executive leadership roles.