Engineering a Scalable Enterprise Data Fabric for AI Acceleration- Industry Keynote
Modern IT environments generate petabytes of data from applications, endpoints, and
cloud services. AI-powered enterprises need to enable movement of this data for
training of AI models and reasoning via thousands instances of agentic AI across
enterprise data center and cloud locations. This keynote dives into the Riverbed Data
Fabric as a purpose-built enterprise data plane for large-scale data movement to enable
the scaled deployment of enterprise AI.
We’ll explore our vision and plans for a data fabric that can move massive data sets
from heterogeneous sources, apply enterprise security and stream data to multiple
locations with speed and simplicity. Attendees will gain insight into the fabric’s
architectural principles designed to reduce data gravity while preserving analytical
depth.
The session will cover how engineering and operations teams deploy and put the
Riverbed Data Fabric to use:
- Deploy a data fabric to move large files across the enterprise WAN, to cloud and
across multi-clouds - Detect, visualize and export telemetry on primary agentic flows and secondary
data flows spawned by agents to send or retrieve data across the enterprise,
cloud or SaaS - Accelerate the delivery of data flows to/from agents across the enterprise and
clouds to ensure real-time agentic task completion
Through concrete technical use cases, this talk will share how a unified data fabric
becomes the backbone for resilient enterprise operations with measurable impact on
performance, availability and digital experience.
Chalan Aras is Riverbed’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Acceleration business, overseeing the entire Acceleration portfolio, including engineering and product management. Aras brings over three decades of experience in B2B technology, including leading product organizations and divisions at renowned companies such as Deloitte, Citrix Systems, Cisco, and Polycom. Aras most recently served as Chief Product Officer and Managing Director for Deloitte’s Cyber Security Services. Prior to Deloitte, he spent nine years at Citrix in VP and GM roles leading products that included Cloud Network and Security Services, SD-WAN and WAN Optimization. Aras holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, a master’s degree in computer engineering from North Carolina State University; an Executive MBA in Strategy and Marketing from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University.
