Paper Title: What NVMe-Over-Fabrics Means to Software Defined Storage

Paper Abstract: What all forms of Software Defined Storage have in common is that they expect to manage storage devices resident in servers. But with NVMe Over Fabrics, it makes a lot of sense to move the storage devices to shared pools using highly optimized, possibly non-server based, hardware. Come learn how these two technology juggernauts, apparently at odds with one another, can be harmonized for extreme data center flexibility and efficiency.

Paper Author: Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist, DriveScale

Author Bio: Tom Lyon is a computing systems architect, a serial entrepreneur and a kernel hacker. He is a founder and Chief Scientist at DriveScale, a company that is pioneering Composable Infrastructure for flexible, scale-out computing using standard servers and commodity storage. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. Tom was also a founder at Nuova Systems (sold to Cisco) and Ipsilon Networks (sold to Nokia). Additionally, as employee #8 at Sun Microsystems, Tom made seminal contributions to the UNIX kernel, created the SunLink product family, and was one of the NFS and SPARC architects.