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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Daniel Helmick

Principal Architect,

Samsung

Dan is a Principal Architect focusing on future generation NVMe SSDs for Samsung Semiconductor. A strong background in HDD Control Systems has folded into performance FW in SSDs and future product architectures for storage products of several different medias. Dan has worked closely with customers to understand future requirements, develop industry leading standards to achieve those requirements, and design the product feature for servicing the new standardized feature. He has been a primary SSD Architect shaping features such as Zoned Namespaces (ZNS), Flexible Data Placement (FDP), Live Migration (LM), Quality of Service (QoS), and many more industry leading features.

SSD Virtualization: Enabling New Possibilities for SSD-Based Ecosystems

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A new set of NVM Express® (NVMe®) and Open Compute Project® (OCP) features is revolutionizing the virtualization landscape, enabling a new SSD-supported virtualization ecosystem. This presentation will explore these innovative features and their potential applications in host systems. We will describe an example virtual machine (VM) setup and discuss how the features can be utilized together to create a robust, secure, and performant virtualized environment.

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