Paper Title: EDSFF: Mainstream NVMe for the (Datacenter) Masses

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Paper Author: Jonathan Hinkle, Principal Researcher, Lenovo

Author Bio: Jonathan Hinkle is Director, Systems Platform Technologist at Lenovo, where he drives new server architecture and technologies in their Enterprise Product Group. Previously, Jonathan was Storage and Memory Systems Architect at Viking Technology, where he developed next-generation memory and storage products and technologies. Before Viking, Mr. Hinkle worked at IBM where he developed server systems ranging from high-end enterprise boxes to blade servers. He is the chairman of the JC45.1 RDIMM committee and the Hybrid Memory Module task group in the JEDEC standards organization. He also invented and drove first development of the VLP DIMM and the SATADIMM SSD. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a member of the Program Executive Committee for Flash Memory Summit.