SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Jacob Cherian
Chief Product Officer
ionir
As CEO and founder, Jacob is responsible for ionir’s overall vision and strategy. He brings over 20 years of industry experience in storage and data center technologies. Jacob was instrumental in driving the transition of Reduxio’s technology from legacy enterprise storage to software defined, and building the business strategy based on cloud storage and data management. Prior to that, Jacob spent 14 years at Dell, where he led multiple product and architectural initiatives in storage and other data center infrastructure. Jacob was named a Dell Inventor of the Year in 2005, and holds 50 patents in the areas of data storage and networking. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, a master’s degree in computer science from Oklahoma State University, and an MBA from Northwestern University’ Kellogg School of Management.
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Name Based Addressing for Kubernetes Storage
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platforms such as Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI and the like dramatically speed deployments by allowing administrators to automate virtually every process step. Automating the data layer is the final frontier. Today, hours are wasted manipulating datasets in the CI/CD pipeline. Allowing Kubernetes to orchestrate the creation, movement, reset, and replication of data eliminates dozens of wasted hours from each deployment, accelerating time to market by 500X or more. Using real-life examples, Jacob will describe the architecture and implementation of a true Data as Code approach that allows users to: -Automatically provision compute, networking and storage resources in requested cloud provider / BM environments; -Automatically deploy the required environment-specific quirks (specific kernels, kernel modules, NIC configurations), -Automatically deploy multiple flavours of Kubernetes distributions (Kubeadm & OCP supported today; Additional flavors as pluggable modules) -Apply Kubernetes customized deployment (Feature Gates, API server tunables, etc ) -Automate recovery following destructive testing -Replicate datasets to worker nodes instantly All based on predefined presets/profiles (with obvious customization/overrides as required by the user), across multiple cloud environments (today AWS & BM, additional environments as pluggable modules into the architecture)