Paper Title: The Quest for an Autonomous Storage Fabric

Paper Abstract: While consistently delivering on bandwidth needs, many storage fabrics have struggled to keep pace with customer expectations around storage infrastructures powered by AIOps, intelligently tiered storage and provisioning. Building an autonomous, self-driving storage fabric requires shared intelligence between endpoints, strong awareness of fabric conditions and decisive action that automates best practices. This session will explore and evangelize the upcoming NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP fabric technologies like Fabric Notifications (FPINs), application tracking (VM-ID), congestion control (new reno), intelligent discovery services (nameservers and CDC) and the resulting OS stack integrations that comprise the industry's quest for a self-driving, autonomous storage fabric.

Paper Author: Nishant Lodha, Director, Emerging Technologies, Marvell

Author Bio: Nishant Lodha is a Director of Technologies focused on emerging storage and networking for Marvell. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nishant is responsible for Enterprise and Cloud Storage markets, trend analysis and analytics, technology integrations and hybrid cloud use cases for flash accelerated applications. As an author of various papers and speaker at technology events – including Flash Memory Summit, DPDK Summit, SDC, OCP Summit and dozens of BrightTalk webinars. Prior of joining Marvell in 2010, Nishant has worked at various storage and networking industry majors including Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems and Intel. Nishant has served on the Board of Directors for the Ethernet Alliance the IBTA Steering committee.