Paper Title: Challenges in Hyperscale: What Hyperscalers Cares About

Paper Abstract: This talk will focus on the challenges of deploying in hyperscale. What the problems and industry needs are. What hyperscaler's care and do not care about.

Paper Author: Ross Stenfort, Hardware System Engineer, Storage, Facebook
Lee Prewitt, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Author Bio: Ross Stenfort is a Hardware System Engineer at Facebook working on storage. He has been involved in development of SSDs, ROCs, HBAs and HDDs. He has over 40 granted patents. He has had extensive storage experience in both large and small companies including CNEX, Seagate, LSI, SandForce, SiliconStor and Adaptec. He has a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Author 2 Bio: Lee Prewitt is a Principal Hardware Program Manager with 25 years of storage industry experience ranging from Magneto-Optical to spinning rust to Flash. His former work at Microsoft has included working in the Windows and Devices Group where he was responsible for many of the components in the storage stack including File Systems, Spaces, Storport and Microsoft’s inbox miniport drivers. His responsibilities included storage devices ranging from SD and UFS in mobile to NVMe in Enterprise and Data Centers. He currently works in the Azure CSI team where he is responsible for future Data Center storage initiatives, specifications and evangelization.