Name: Leveraging Layered Storage Architectures for Scale & Performance
Start: 2026-06-23T14:00:00-0500
End: 2026-06-23T14:45:00-0500

Welcome to the GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026 schedule. Use this page to browse sessions, view speaker and session details, and build your personal agenda for June 22–24 in Rogers, Arkansas. Check back through May as additional sessions and details are added.

Leveraging Layered Storage Architectures for Scale & Performance

Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador A & B

As data demands continue to outpace traditional storage budgets, organizations are searching for ways to extract more performance and cost efficiency from their infrastructure without sacrificing reliability. In this talk, we explore how ZFS and Ceph — two of the most powerful open-source storage platforms available — can be scaled to new levels by adopting the same layered fault tolerance strategies that underpin the world's largest public cloud providers.
Rather than relying on a single, monolithic protection scheme, we'll examine how combining multiple levels of fault tolerance across tiered storage architectures unlocks dramatic improvements in throughput, latency, and cost-per-gigabyte. Attendees will learn how to architect storage systems that intelligently balance redundancy across media types and failure domains, mirroring the approaches used by hyperscalers to serve billions of requests daily — at a fraction of the assumed cost.
Whether you're managing a growing on-premises environment or building a private cloud alternative, this session will give you a practical framework for rethinking how your storage stack is structured, protected, and optimized for the workloads of today and tomorrow.

Speakers

Steven Umbehocker

CEO / CTO, OSNexus

Sponsors

OSNexus

OSNexus helps organizations manage and scale storage with its QuantaStor platform. QuantaStor is a unified file, block, and object storage solution used across healthcare, energy, media & entertainment, transportation, higher education, government, and more.
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Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador A & B 3303 South Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Rogers, AR, USA

Sponsor Session, Gigabit

Audience Network Engineers
Subject Infrastructure, Security & Operations

GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026

Steven Umbehocker

OSNexus

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