Paper Title: Benefits of Native NVMe-oF SSD

Paper Abstract: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) enables large numbers of NVMe-based storage arrays to be networked helping to improve asset utilization, increase application performance and reduce CAPEX & OPEX. Currently the most common implementation approach being considered is at the storage array level. An alternative and more cost effective approach is to deploy NVMe-oF natively at the SSD level. This approach can yield greater scalability, performance, reliability/availability/serviceability (RAS) while also helping to contain compute and memory investment costs. This approach also overcomes the limitation of PCIe by leveraging market proven Ethernet based networks.

Paper Author: Balaji Venkateshwaran, Director Product Mgmt & Strategy, Cisco

Author Bio: Balaji Venkateshwaran is currently Director of Strategy and Product Marketing at Toshiba Memory where leads the company’s initiatives in defining and bringing to market future flash-based storage solutions for Enterprise, Client and Data Center markets. Previously at Intel and Western Digital, he defined and launched multiple generations of Server, Storage and Networking products for Enterprise and Cloud customers. Balaji’s background also includes leading Product Management/Marketing in the data analytics space where he worked with Tier-1 Cloud Service providers such as Google as lead customers for his data analytics product platform. Balaji began his career at Intel where he worked on commercializing advanced Storage-Class Memory and Silicon Photonics technologies for ultra-high-speed connectivity for short reach (servers) and long reach (metro) applications. He earned his MBA from Stanford Business School and M.S in Electrical Engineering with graduate research focused on advanced memory technologies.