Paper Title: NVMe-oF Ethernet SSDs Optimizing eBOF Solutions for Efficient Data Center

Paper Abstract: Ethernet-attached SSDs are one of the most promising developments in networked storage. Standard server-based JBOF designs, which are architected with DRAM, PCIe switches, Ethernet NICs and CPUs, convert Ethernet to PCIe and back. However, NVMe-over-fabric Ethernet attached SSDs (eSSDs) and NVMe-oF Ethernet storage enclosure, such as eBOF, can bring significant efficiencies to disaggregated storage. Mellanox and Samsung will show how tomorrow's data centers can take full advantage of this new architecture, through the integration of NVMe-over-fabric eSSDs with eBOF. These designs can be optimized with the most advanced SSDs in more closely aligning software-defined storage and networking infrastructure. Direct benefits include much-improved TCO, higher performance, scaling and ease-of-use.

Paper Author: Ilker Cebeli, Sr Director Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor

Author Bio: Ilker Cebeli is a Senior Director of Product Planning at Samsung where he focuses on Enterprise and Data Center SSD, NVMe-oF SSD, Emerging Memory, and All-Flash-Array Storage Software and Technologies. He has spent 25 years in a variety of roles within the data center computing, storage, networking and memory industry, and has been a key figure in developing strategy and establishing new product lines for data center-related technologies. Prior to joining to Samsung, Ilker worked at Micron, where he directed an advanced engineering team and led emerging memory projects in its Memory Division. Ilker also spent 15 years at Intel and he was responsible for Intel's Xeon™ product planning and server platform architecture definitions.