SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Gowtham Alluri
Staff Software Engineer
Nutanix Inc
Gowtham is a Staff software engineer working at Nutanix Inc for the past 6.5 years and is one of the founding engineers that have built "Objects" the object storage product at Nutanix from the ground up. Gowtham had been involved in architecture and development of the object data layout and management on top of a virtual storage subsystem and capacity scaling of the object storage to multiple clusters. More recently Gowtham has been the lead for the replication feature architecture and development that provides a near synchronous capability for Data Protection. Prior to the object storage journey Gowtham was part of the Nutanix distributed file system group where the contributions invovled memory management, Garbage reduction, Sequential Write Performance enhancements, and a Distributed Log infrastructure. Gowtham has more than 10 years of experience in the storage domain working at EMC and Nutanix, and have worked in block, file and object storage variants. Gowtham has filed for 4 patents as part of Objects and two other patents from prior efforts.
Related Sessions
“Streaming Replication” of Object Storage System Data to achieve Disaster Recovery.
Object Storage is increasingly getting used on premises for a variety of use cases some of which consist of primary and critical applications. Such use cases and applications require enterprise grade Data protection and disaster recovery capabilities. Replication of S3 compatible Scale Out Object Storage presents unique challenges that are unlike found in traditional block or file storage. Replication of object storage system is done at individual bucket and object level and it not only has to deal with data replication but also object specific constructs like metadata and tags. Streaming replication provides a near synchronous and eventually consistent approach to replicate object storage data.
