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

Karthik Shivaram

Storage Engineer

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Karthik Shivaram is a Storage Hardware Engineer at Facebook. He has over 11+ years of storage experience in developing Solid State Devices. At Facebook, he works on Flash Storage for Facebook Infrastructure.

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Challenges & Opportunities with Hyper-Scale Boot Drives

Boot Devices are a critical component of servers used at scale in the Data Center. The needs and use cases for boot drives in the Data Center are very different than client HDD and Flash based boot drives in laptop applications. This talk will describe the differences between client boot drive use cases and hyperscale use cases. This talk will describe hyperscale use-cases for boot drives, unique needs Hyper-Scalars have for flash based boot drives and hyperscale challenges when deploying flash based boot drives at-scale. This talk will also discuss pros and cons of various boot drive options for now and the future available to resolve these challenges.

Karthik Shivaram
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