Kapil Arora is a cloud solution architect specialising in OpenStack, Containers and Enterprise Storage. He helps customers with proof of concept implementations and production deployments and focusses on innovation, evangelisation, and promoting the benefits of NetApp storage and software in cloud computing and containerised environments. He is an active speaker at OpenStack events and conferences. He is very interested in topics like File-share services, Backup and Recovery, Database Applications, and Persistent Storage for Containers. He has 10 years of IT industry experience including close to 8 years in the Storage industry. Kapil is also a Java and Python programmer and has a Bachelor degree in Information Technology.