Paper Title: Developing Low-Latency Data Services on NVMe-oF Shared Storage

Paper Abstract: NVMe-oF is rapidly becoming the industry standard for the storage infrastructure of next-generation data centers. Now how do we achieve the low-latency data services that installations demand in the new environment? Such services include redirect-on-write snapshot, fast clone, thin provisioning, thick provisioning, and even active-active failover. A new software-based NVMe-oF storage controller enables all the rich data services mentioned plus advanced data protection at a speed of 20M+ IOPS with additional latency overhead of less than 10 microseconds. It uses a proprietary algorithm to meet data-access demands efficiently and thus handle the stringent performance demands of mission-critical applications.

Paper Author: Chaan Beard, Chief Solution Architect, AccelStor

Author Bio: Chaan Beard is currently the Chief Solution Architect at AccelStor, a maker of high-performance all-flash arrays. He provides technical pre-sales expertise for flash storage platform architecture, converged infrastructure (CI) solutions, and hyperconverged-infrastructure (HCI) solutions. His areas of expertise include storage platforms from major vendors, servers, hyperconverged infrastructures, and data protection platforms. He has been a solutions architect for several major solution providers, specializing in networking, storage, servers, and data protection. He has over 25 years experience in the computer, telecommunications, and networking industries. He earned a BSc in telecommuncations engineering from the Pretoria West College of Engineering (South Africa).