SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Ashit Kumar
Lead Architect
SODA Foundation/Huawei Technologies
Ashit Kumar is a technologist and Open Source evangelist with 15 years of experience and has worked for companies like Symantec, Veritas, and Huawei. Currently, he is working with Huawei Technologies as a Lead architect and is one of the Maintainers of SODA Foundation Projects. He is also SODA Foundation India Outreach Committee member. Over the years, he has developed and designed several solutions and products for Server and Storage Resource Management, DRaaS, Host-Based replication, Orchestration, multicloud, Container Storage, Backup and Archival etc.. He has presented papers and has been speaking on different international platforms. He has also got US patent on his name. He is the India Outreach Committee Member of SODA Foundation. Apart from this, he loves to write technical blogs and share knowledge. He has been teaching for the last 12 years and is one of the Visiting Faculty at Pune University Computer science department.
Related Sessions
Data Protection for stateful application: OpenSource way!!
Currently Stateful Applications contribute to the major chunk (more than 50%) of containerized application deployment for enterprise. To maintain an uninterrupted application availability for the containerized applications, backup and recover these application to be DR ready is the need and important strategy of the enterprises. One important aspect is to backup and recover in an alternative environment. With alternative environment we mean, in an hybrid environment, i.e. take an example of Cloud1 managed K8S environment being recovered into Cloud2 managed K8S environment. Today, there are multiple proprietary solutions available but an Open Source solution, which is driven by community development, will add more insight as well as flexibility. This session aims to provide the: a) Background of Data protection for stateful applications in K8S b) The strategy for developing such solutions, considerations and important aspects to look to c) Look into some of the available and upcoming Open Source solutions like Velero and future solution from SODA Foundation. And How SODA Foundation is creating a community driven development of this solution