Paper Title: Ethernet Offers the Speed and Affordability Required for Storage Networking

Paper Abstract: As flash and other non-volatile storage media go faster and gain market share, networks must increase their speeds and improve manageability to keep up. Ethernet is already well on the road to becoming the dominant storage fabric for all types of storage, including block, file, object, and hyperconverged. Ethernet has the advantages of high-speed options up to 400G, a huge ecosystem, tremendous familiarity, and widespread use throughout the entire range of applications. The ongoing addition of storage automation and management features will allow Ethernet to rival any other type of storage network.

Paper Author: David Iles, Senior Director, Ethernet Switching, Mellanox

Author Bio: John F. Kim is Director of Storage Marketing at Mellanox Technologies, where he helps storage customers and vendors benefit from high performance interconnects and smart offloads, including RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). He is a frequent conference participant, including several past Flash Memory Summits, and a frequent blogger on storage and networking topics. He is also chair of the Ethernet Storage Forum. Before joining Mellanox, he created storage solutions and alliances at NetApp and EMC. He has a BA from Harvard University. Follow him on Twitter: @Tier1Storage