Paper Title: A New Replaceable SSD Form Factor

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Paper Author: John Geldman, Director of SSD Industry Standards, KIOXIA

Author Bio: John Geldman is Director SSD Industry Standards at Toshiba Memory. He focuses on standards for cloud storage, HDD and SSD storage devices, data security, and persistent (storage class) memory. His previous standards committee engagements include INCITS T10 and T13, NVMe, PCI-SIG, SATA-IO, TCG, SFF, SNIA, OSF, OCP, and JEDEC. He is well-known as a storage interface leader adept at guiding standards organizations and architecting groundbreaking technical developments. His specialties include SSD architecture, IP development, storage security, and storage card products. He was previously Director Industry Standards at Micron, where he led the company’s participation in such standards bodies as T10, T13, SATA, IEEE 1667, USB, CompactFlash, and the SD Association. He has also worked for Brecis Communications, Basis Communications, and Cirrus Logic. He holds 9 patents and has been recognized for his standards work by the SD Association and INCITS. A frequent blogger and conference contributor, he has been a speaker, organizer, and chairperson at Flash Memory Summit, as well as being a member of the Conference Advisory Board. He holds an MSCS from Santa Clara University and a BSECE from Clarkson University.