OpenSDS: Storage Challenges in a Cloud Native Era - Allen Samuels, Western Digital
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 15/09/2017

OpenSDS: Storage Challenges in a Cloud Native Era - Allen Samuels, Western Digital

Cloud-native adoption is disrupting the traditional enterprise data center landscape forcing traditional hardware vendors to rethink their strategies in a software-defined era to better address the storage challenges faced by their customers. In this session, we will share how leading vendors are coming together in the OpenSDS community to solve these challenges, and building open solutions that support Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker, CloudFoundry, OpenStack and other open source cloud ecosystems.

About Allen Samuels
Allen joined SanDisk in 2013 as an Engineering Fellow, he is responsible for directing software development for SanDisk’s system level products. He has previously served as Chief Architect at Weitek Corp. and Citrix, and founded several companies including AMKAR Consulting, Orbital Data Corporation, and Cirtas Systems. Allen has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.