Paper Title: NVMe-oF Storage Interface Unification from Hot to Cold

Paper Abstract: NVMe-oF is taking the storage industry by storm. Storage infrastructure has entered an era of true modularity exemplified not only by the rich ecosystem of transports available to choose from, but also the ever-increasing types of fabric attached storage devices.The use cases range from legacy interfaces seeing updates to stay relevant, to composable infrastructure promising to cloudify it all, and everything in between. This presentation will provide a broad view of different NVMe-oF disaggregated storage systems, all attached to a single unified fabric, with the objective of accelerating the cloudification of all data infrastructure.

Paper Author: Ihab Hamadi, Head of Systems Architecture, Western Digital

Author Bio: Ihab Hamadi is a Fellow and Sr. Director at Western Digital, where he focuses on storage systems architecture for devices and platforms. He has over two decades of solid track record of building leading edge cloud computing, data storage, networking, and virtualization technology and solutions. Before joining Western Digital, Ihab was Distinguished Technologist at HPE Aruba, leading development teams that contributed to OpenSwitch project and created ArubaOS-CX network operating systems, a modern OS for the mobile and IoT era, built from the ground-up to support Intent Based Networking. Ihab has also held a wide range of technology leadership positions with Broadcom, Emulex, and other companies. He earned a MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Denver.