Paper Title: The Future of Data-Center Infrastructure

Paper Abstract: In today’s hyper-connected world, data centers are processing more data than ever before, inventions like machine learning and artificial intelligence have enabled us to gain deep insights from the data generated from online shopping, social media, location services, etc. As these technologies grow, the demand for these data insights in real-time grow as well. Not only are storage costs increasing, the plateau of Moore’s Law is limiting performance, scalability and the ability to duplicate date. This presentation will discuss how the current, compute-centric approach to data centers is no longer viable and will dive into why data centers must pivot to a data-centric model. Storage must move to a disaggregated model, allowing the industry to composable infrastructure. This model will supercharge data centers, allowing them to handle the increasing demands of the 21st century. Mr. Goya’s presentation will share Fungible’s vision on the building blocks required to enable infrastructure that can power a data-centric world. This presentation will be especially useful to those attending the Flash Memory Summit because it will discuss how the current cloud infrastructure is increasing the cost of storage, and holding storage back.

Paper Author: Rajan Goyal, CTO, Fungible

Author Bio: Rajan Goyal is the Chief Technology Officer at Fungible, a Santa Clara based startup providing at scale next-generation solutions for the data center, cloud and IT industries. As CTO of Fungible, he leads the engineering team in their goal of ushering in data center-infrastructure that will meet the needs of our increasingly data-centric world. He is responsible for the overall strategy and execution of hardware acceleration technology for Fungible’s target markets. Rajan is a proven technical leader and a pioneer with over one-hundred patents issued or pending. He has successfully driven numerous projects from concept to finished product and has led many cross-domain teams of software and hardware engineers throughout his career. Prior to Fungible, as lead architect for Cavium’s CTO department, he defined next-generation accelerators for Cavium’s flagship products for the networking, storage and data-center markets. Prior to Cavium, Rajan held technical lead and management positions at Cisco Systems and worked on layer 4 to layer 7 systems. He regularly speaks at technical conferences and technical panels across the country and is passionate about providing his engineering team with strong technical leadership. Mr. Goyal received a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.