Paper Title: RAIN: Reinvention of RAID for the World of NVMe

Paper Abstract: NVMe is rapidly moving to dominate the storage world, with G2M predicting that more than 50 percent of enterprise servers and 60 percent of enterprise storage appliances will have NVMe bays by 2020. However, most storage software does not yet support NVMe fully. Most RAID engines, deduplication engines, and volume managers offer low performance and high latency in practice. A new approach provides a distributed RAID engine optimized for NVMe and NVMe-oF hardware. It takes care of legacy software issues and produces lockless solutions, direct interaction with Linux kernel NVMe host and target drivers, and a unique approach to RAID calculations.

Paper Author: Sergey Platonov, Chief Strategist, RAIDIX

Author Bio: Sergey Platonov is Chief Strategist at Raidix, where is responsible for product development and strategy. He has extensive experience in scientific and technical research, including the implementation of new erasure coding algorithms. He has been involved in many projects with prominent European universities such as St Petersburg State University and the University of Lubeck (Germany). A certified IBM and SNIA specialist, he is a regular speaker at industry events such as the Supercomputing Conference and the IEEE High-Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC). He has over 10 years experience in the high-technology industry, has written many articles in industry journals, and has organized a large data storage conference in Eastern Europe.