- Storage Articles on This Site (these are not listed below)
- External Blog Articles
- Presentations
- Podcasts and Videos
- Industry Panels
These will be listed in reverse chronological order. Links to online materials will be included where available.
Blogs & Articles
- 2019.12.02. Hyperscalers Take on NVMe™ Cloud Storage Questions. Q&A Blog.
- 2019.09.03. Introducing the Storage Networking Security Webcast Series. SNIA Blog.
- 2018.04.04 The Poor Man’s iSCSI SAN. Blog
- 2017.08.27. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud to Ask: Part Cyan – Opening Pandora’s Box with Storage Management. SNIA Blog
- 2017.07.28. A Look at Fibre Channel’s Legacy – and Future. FCIA Article
- 2017.07.18. Q&A: When Compute, Networking and Storage Intersect. SNIA Blog
- 2017.05.18. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Vermillion – What if Programming and Networking Had a Storage Baby? Say What? SNIA Blog
- 2017.03.07. Latency Budgets for Solid State Storage Access. SNIA Blog
- 2017.02.03. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Rosé – iSCSI Pod. SNIA Blog
- 2017.01.18. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Teal – Buffering Pod. SNIA Blog
- 2016.10.11. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Mauve – The Architecture Pod. SNIA Blog
- 2016.08.01. Storage Forces. [PDF] 2016 FCIA Solutions Guide
- 2016.07.18. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Chartreuse. SNIA Blog
- 2016.07.05. The Life of a Storage Packet. SNIA Blog
- 2016.05.20. Architectural Principles for Network Solid State Storage Access. SNIA Blog
- 2015.11.10. The Life of a Storage Packet (Walk). SNIA Blog
- 2015.10.07. Storage Performance Benchmarking, Part 2. Solution Under Test. SNIA Blog
- 2015.07.24. Storage Performance Benchmarking 101. SNIA Blog
- 2015.06.30. The Napkin Dialogues: Life of a Packet (Walk), Part 1. Cisco Blog
- 2014.11.11. NVMe for Absolute Beginners. Cisco Blog
- 2014.08.04. Balancing the MDS Scales In Your Favor. Cisco Blog
- 2014.07.24. Storage Performance Benchmarking 101. SNIA Blog
- 2014.07.09. The Napkin Dialogues: Nexus Programmability, Part II. Cisco Blog
- 2014.07.08. Load Balancing with Dynamic FCoE. Cisco Blog
- 2014.06.30. The Napkin Dialogues: Nexus Programmability, Part I. Cisco Blog
- 2014.05.14. What is Dynamic FCoE? Cisco Blog
- 2014.05.14. Thoughts on #OpenStack and Software-Defined Storage. Cisco Blog
- 2014.04.28. Two Resources on Nexus Programmability. Cisco Blog
- 2014.04.10. The Napkin Dialogues: “Open”-ing up to SDN. Cisco Blog
- 2013.09.24. Thoughts and Observations: Software-Defined Storage. Cisco Blog
- 2013.09.12. Storage Distance by Protocol, Part IV: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Cisco Blog
- 2013.09.10. Storage Distance by Protocol, Part III – Fibre Channel. Cisco Blog
- 2013.09.09. Storage Distance by Protocol, Part II – Physical Layer. Cisco Blog
- 2013.09.09. Storage Distance by Protocol, Part I – FC, FCoE, and FCIP, Part I. Cisco Blog
- 2013.03.27. Fibre Channel Standards, Speeds and Feeds, and Generation “X”. Cisco Blog
- 2013.03.02. The Napkin Dialogues: Lossless iSCSI. Cisco Blog
- 2014.12.03. The Performance impact of NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics. SNIA Blog
- 2014.11.11. A Beginner’s Guide to NVMe. SNIA Blog
- 2011.10.19. FCoE, Converging IT Teams, and… Penguins? Cisco Blog
- 2011.07.21. The Napkin Dialogues: FCoE vs. QCN. Cisco Blog
- 2011.05.22. Converged Networks vs. Mononetworks. Cisco Blog
- 2011.04.29. 3-for-2: The FCoE Bandwidth Bonus. Cisco Blog
Public Presentations and Webinars
Presenter/Moderator
- 2019.11.19. How Facebook & Microsoft Leverage NVMe Cloud Storage. SNIA. (YouTube)
- 2019.11.06. Understanding Fibre Channel Scaling. FCIA. (PDF Slides)
- 2019.10.08. Understanding Storage Security and Threats. SNIA. (YouTube)
- 2019.09.24. NVM Express Specifications: Mastering Today’s Architecture and Preparing for Tomorrow’s (SDC 2019). (YouTube)
- 2019.08.27. Understanding Fibre Channel and Security. FCIA. (PDF Slides)
- 2019.06.27. Fibre Channel Zoning Basics. FCIA (PDF slides)
- 2019.06.18. Intro to Incast, Head of Line Blocking, and Congestion Management. SNIA.
- 2019.01.22. NVMe over TCP/IP. SNIA.
- 2019.01.17. Storage Networking for Virtualization Best Practice Considerations. SNIA.
- 2012.12.05. Creating Efficient Storage Networks with Ethernet and NVMe-oF. NVMe Developer Days.
- 2018.06.27. Putting the “Fabrics” in NVMe over Fabrics. SNIA presentation at StorageFieldDay 16
- 2018.06.21. Great Debates: FCoE vs. iSER vs. iSCSI. SNIA
- 2018.06.19. FICON 101. FCIA
- 2018.06.12. NVMe, and NVMe over Fabrics Deep Dive (BRKDCN-2494). CiscoLive (requires CiscoLive login)
- 2018.05.15. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Aqua – Storage Controllers
- 2018.05.03. What’s New in NVMe Express. SNIA Storage Developer Conference
- 2018.04.26. Virtualization and NVMe: Advantages and Implementations (Free, but registration required)
- 2018.01.17. The Evolution and Future of NVMe
- 2017.11.01. Transactional Models & Their Storage Requirements
- 2017.10.12. Long Distance Fibre Channel. See also the Q&A Blog
- 2017.09.28. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Cyan – Opening Pandora’s Box with Storage Management. See also the Q&A Blog
- 2017.09.13. Zeroing In On The Sweet Spot of Storage: Navigating the Forces of Scale, Performance, and Management. SNIA Storage Developer Conference.
- 2017.08.29. Dive Deep into NVMe over Fibre Channel.
- 2017.08.01. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Turquoise – Where Does My Data Go?
- 2017.07.06. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Vermillion – What if Programming and Networking Had A Storage Baby? Say What? [PDF] See also the Q&A Blog
- 2017.04.19. Architectural Principles for Networked Solid State Storage Acces – Part 2. [PDF]. See also the Q&A Blog
- 2017.02.16. Introducing Fibre Channel NVMe. [PDF]
- 2016.10.11. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Mauve – Architecture Pod. [PDF] See also the Q&A Blog
- 2016.09.23 Fibre Channel and NVMe
- 2016.07.18. Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask: Part Chartreuse. [PDF] See also the Q&A Blog
- 2016.06.15. High Availability in NVMe. Data Storage Innovations Conference
- 2016.05.20. Architectural Principles for Network Solid State Storage Access. [PDF] See also the Q&A Blog
- 2015.12.15. Under the Hood with NVMe over Fabrics. [PDF] See also the Q&A Blog
- 2015.11.09. Life of a Storage Packet (Walk). [PDF]. See also the Q&A Blog
- 2015.10.21. Storage Performance Benchmarking: Part 2. Solution Under Test. [PDF] See also the Q&A Blog
- 2015.07.30. Storage Performance Benchmarking: Introduction and Fundamentals. [PDF] See also the Q&A Blog.
- 2014.11.13. Performance Impact of NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics
Series Creator:
- Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask (SNIA)
- Fibre Channel Basics (FCIA)
- Storage Performance Benchmarking (SNIA)
- Big Picture Storage (forthcoming) (SNIA)
Editor
Podcasts & Videos
2019
- 2019.10.04. NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive, Part II. Storage Unpacked.
- 2019.09.27 NVMe 1.4 Deep Dive, Part I. Storage Unpacked.
2017
- 2017.11.03 Episode 61: Storage Networking Futures. Virtually Speaking
- 2017.11.22 Datanauts 111: NVMe. Datanauts
- 2017.11.07 Full Stack Journey #15. Cloud Storage and the Modern Administrator.
- 2017.08.29. DellEMC Tech Select #46: An Interview with Dr. Jay [sic] Metz at VMWorld 2017 Tech sElect: The EMC Elect Community Podcast.
- 2017.07.20 Datanauts 093: Erasure Coding and Distributed Storage Datanauts.
2016 and Earlier
- 2016.10.09 J Metz on NVMe and NVMe-oF. Ten on Tech.
- 2016.06.14 Fibre Channel is Dead, Right? The Hot Aisle
- 2015.01.29 Non-Stories Gone Wild. In Tech We Trust.
- 2014.03.24 #102 – Lock It Down. Speaking in Tech.
- 2014.03.17 Show 183 – Storage Network Design. Packet Pushers.
- 2012.11.06 VMware $Billion Buy – Brilliance… or Blunder? Speaking in Tech.
Industry Panels
2018
- 2018.12.06 NVMe-oF Transports. NVMe Developer Days
2017
- Ethernet Networked Flash Storage. Flash Memory Summit
- CTO: Future Storage Considerations. Flash Memory Summit
- Ultra-Fast NVMe Storage Networks for Next Generation Flash Arrays. Flash Memory Summit
2016
- Ethernet Networked Flash Storage. Flash Memory Summit
- Your Data Center: Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why? Flash Memory Summit
- CTO Panel: The Future of Flash Storage. Flash Memory Summit
- Ethernet Summit
2015
- PCIe/NVMe Extensions. Flash Memory Summit
- Creating Higher Performance Solid State Storage with Non-Volatile Memory Express. Ethernet Summit
Media Mentions
- 2018. Silwa, Carol. NVMe enterprise flash storage, new memory mean change in 2018. SearchStorage
- 2017.11.15. eWeek. Storage Networking Group Reveals 2018 Board of Directors.