SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Ugur Kaynar
Technical Staff, Storage Technologist - Chief Technology Office
Dell
Ugur is Technical Staff at Dell Storage CTO. Her current focus on storage for AI and object storage. She drives research, incubation, positioning, and adaptation of emerging technology and architecture for AI/ML storage. Prior to her role at Dell, Ugur completed her PhD, specializing in distributed caching for object storage in datacenters. Her interests lie broadly in the fields of storage systems, object storage, caching, distributed systems, and AI.
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On-Prem Object Storage: S3 Ecosystem and Its Role in Various Workloads
Over the years, on-prem object storage has significantly evolved, with S3 and its API compatibility being key topics at S3 Plugfest. This presentation will explore the comprehensive S3 ecosystem, highlighting how various S3 features support diverse use cases, particularly in the context of rapidly advancing AI workloads. Additionally, we will delve into the role of S3 extensions in enhancing this ecosystem.
Birds of a Feather: Object Storage in the AI Era
This Birds of a Feather (BoF) session brings together the community to discuss, share experiences, and brainstorm the increasing role of object storage for AI workloads. As AI applications continue to grow, object storage is being utilized as a primary storage solution for many of these applications.
Emerging AI workloads demand low latency, high throughput, and robust support for small and random I/O operations. While storage solutions are optimizing their stacks to meet these requirements, inefficiencies remain in the client-side libraries and object protocols that sit between the application and the storage stack. These inefficiencies can prevent applications from fully exploiting the capabilities of object storage. In this session, we aim to explore the role of object storage in the AI pipeline and client-side library ecosystem.