Paper Title: An Overview of the Refactored NVMe Transport Specifications

Paper Abstract: With the availability of separate NVMe transport specifications (NVMe/PCIe Transport specification, NVMe/RDMA Transport specification and the NVMe/TCP Transport specification) NVM Express can isolate and independently evolve NVMe-oF transports for emerging technologies and use cases. In this presentation, NVMe technology experts from HPE and Lighbits Labs will explain the changes to the NVMe-oF specification, what's new in the transport specifications and the unique capabilities and benefits of deploying NVMe technology with each transport.

Paper Author: Nick Adams, Principal Engineer, Intel
John Geldman, Director of SSD Industry Standards, KIOXIA
Curtis Ballard, Technologist, HPE

Author Bio: Nick Adams is a Platform Storage Architect in Intel’s Datacenter Group. In this role he drives strategy and innovation in the storage space. He is co-chair of the SNIA Computational Storage TWG and is an active participant within the NVMe Technical Working Group. Prior to his current role at Intel, Nick spent two years at Microsoft as a Director of SW/FW Engineering for the Surface team. Before that, Nick held various System FW Architecture, Management, and Development roles at Intel over the course of 16 years. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, both from Portland State University. He has been issued 11 patents with 12 more pending in the areas of Computer System Firmware and Security

Author 2 Bio: Member Board of Directors, NVM Express Member Board of Directors, SNIA Currently an active contributor to the following standards organizations: NVM Express, INCITS T10, INCITS T13, JEDEC, OCP, PCI-SIG, SATA IO, SNIA, IEEE SISWG In addition, John’s team members are also active in CXL, DMTF, TCG Corporate leadership responsibility for standards for multi-billion dollar storage vendors since 2011 Involved in storage standards since 1992, with an early introduction to standards including the transition from X3T9 to INCITS/T13 (ATA) & INCITS/T10 (SCSI), and PCMCIA to CardBus An active FMS CAB member for at least 10 years

Author 3 Bio: Curtis Ballard is a Distinguished Technologist with Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the HPE Storage Organization. He works on emerging storage technologies and industry engagement. Curtis is on the NVM Express Board of Directors, the SNIA Technical Council, and is the vice-chair of the INCITS/T10 SCSI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee. Curtis has worked on storage products across the industry including host drivers, interface ASICS, standalone drives, and complex storage systems and has over 40 storage related patents