There is a new very high performance SSD interfaced called NVMe over Fabrics now available to expand the capabilities of Red Hat networked storage solutions. It is an extension of the local NVMe SSD interface developed a few years ago driven by the need for a faster storage interface to SSDs. This was needed to allow applications to take advantage of the much higher performance of solid state vs. hard drives. NVMe over Fabrics, utilizes ultra-low latency RDMA technology to achieve data sharing across a network without sacrificing the local performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs. This session will explain the technology, what its capabilities are, where it is today, where it is going tomorrow and how to interface it into Red Hat solutions.
Rob Davis
VP Storage Technology Mellanox
Rob Davis is Vice President of Storage Technology at Mellanox where he focuses on ways to apply high-speed interfaces to storage systems. As a technology leader and visionary for over 35 years, he has been a key figure in the development of an entire generation of storage networking products. He is currently leading the development and marketing of products based on NVMe over fabrics, which will allow for the high-speed networking of PCIe-based storage. Davis was previously Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at QLogic, where he drove development and marketing of Fibre Channel, Ethernet and InfiniBand technology into new markets such as blade servers. Before joining QLogic, Davis worked at Ancor Communications, where he drove development and marketing of Fibre Channel and InfiniBand products. Davis’ areas of expertise include virtualization, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, InfiniBand, RoCE (remote DMA over converged Ethernet), SAS, PCI, SATA, NVMe and flash storage.
Ilker Cebeli
Senior Director of Product Planning Samsung
Ilker Cebeli is a Senior Director of Product Planning at Samsung. He is responsible for leading and directing the emerging memory, SSD, and all-flash-array related storage solutions and technologies. He has spent over 25 years in enterprise computing, storage and networking working in various roles as a strategist, engineering management, and technologist. Prior to joining to Samsung, Ilker worked at Micron, and was leading and directing emerging memory projects in memory division. Ilker also spent 15 years at Intel and he was responsible for Intel's Xeon™ product planning and server platform architecture definition. He led the strategies and product planning for several Intel Xeon™ CPUs, chipsets, and server initiatives; including Intel’s first Core™ architecture based Xeon™ “Woodcrest”, Intel® first micro server SOC "Avoton", Sandy Bridge Xeon™ CPU and Romley platform, Intel’s first integrated memory controller Xeon ™ CPU “Nehalem”, and Intel DDR server chipset, blades, rack server form factor initiatives. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BSEE from Istanbul Technical University.
Room 157A
Wednesday, 3rd May, 15:30 - 16:15
