Paper Title: 2019: The Year of NVMe

Paper Abstract: Accelerating time to insights is the new currency and lifeline for enterprises. Success requires you to take advantage of the latest high-performance storage constructs flash memory, NVMe, and fast data storage to eliminate bottlenecks, management complexity and high costs of traditional storage solutions. NVMe enables higher performance all-flash arrays (AFAs) with the requisite enterprise-class management and high efficiency for cost-effective on-premises storage. Considerations for today's enterprises include: How CIOs are using NVMe All-Flash storage to accelerate fast data and multi-site DR, and support mission-critical apps; How flash storage helps consolidate multiple tiers of storage to save on power, cooling, and rack space at a lower total cost (Forrester Total Economic Impact Study); How open composable infrastructures, based on NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is taking the evolution of storage further, enabling the disaggregation of resources (including disk, flash, compute and network) into scalable pools on a single fabric for on-the-fly provisioning, so you can accelerate apps, increase utilization and save up to 40% TCO compared to traditional infrastructures.

Paper Author: Narayan Venkat, VP, Data Center Systems, Western Digital

Author Bio: Narayan Venkat currently serves as the vice president of Western Digital’s Data Center Systems business. Narayan oversees all development and execution of Western Digital’s Data Center Systems marketing strategy, branding, marketing communications, demand generation and customer engagement programs. He brings deep customer-centric marketing and leadership experience that help companies realize transformation and accelerate the speed of business, leveraging award-winning all-flash and hybrid storage arrays. Previously, Narayan acted as the chief product officer at Tegile, which was acquired by Western Digital in 2017, leading the overall product management and design for the company. Before joining Tegile, Narayan served as vice president of products for Violin Memory, and was vice president of the cloud infrastructure business unit at VMware. Earlier leadership experience includes senior marketing roles at LSI Corporation’s Engenio Storage Group, OnStor, NetApp and Intel. Narayan received his master’s of science degree in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University, and his MBA from the Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago.