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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Orit Wasserman

Distinguished Engineer

IBM

Orit is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, formerly at Red Hat, specializing in Software Defined Storage (Ceph), storage for containerized applications (OpenShift Data Foundation), and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. With a strong background as a software engineer and architect, Orit's passion lies in open-source technologies and infrastructure. Throughout her career, she has extensively worked with distributed systems and storage solutions. Orit's journey at Red Hat began with her deep involvement in Ceph object storage (Ceph Rados Gateway), a highly available distributed software-defined storage solution designed to scale and handle petabytes of data. Her expertise also extends to her role as a principal architect at Lightbits Labs, a software-defined storage startup focused on NVMe/TCP development. In addition to her contributions to storage technology, Orit has made significant advancements in virtualization. She co-maintained and developed live migration for KVM/QEMU, and during her tenure at IBM Research Labs, she played a key role in developing nested virtualization for KVM. With her diverse expertise in software-defined storage, distributed systems, and virtualization, Orit brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her role as a distinguished engineer. She continues to drive innovation and shape the future of storage technologies in the dynamic landscape of open-source and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

On asymmetrical storage implementations

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We are all used to thinking that from a performance perspective distributed storage symmetrical systems perform best because of the weakest link in the chain effect. This presentation discusses situations in which asymmetrical implementation reduces the cost of implementation and improves the performance. This happens because of the public cloud resource variety and price structure. The presentation discusses the model and the details for cheaper and more performant asymmetrical Ceph deployment

Breaking Boundaries: Expanding Ceph's Capabilities with NVMe-oF

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Join us for a technical deep dive into open-source storage technology and its practical application with Ceph and its new SPDK-based NVMe-oF target. This session aims to explore an exciting advancement that brings together Ceph, an open-source software-defined storage system, and industry-standard protocols, focusing on NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF). NVMe-oF is a widely adopted, high-performance storage access protocol that provides users seamless access to Ceph clusters, opening up new possibilities for efficient data storage and retrieval.

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