SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Kim Malone
Storage Software Architect
Intel
Kim is a storage software architect in Intel’s Office of the CTO, focused on pathfinding around computational storage and heterogeneous computation. She has over 20 years of experience architecting and developing distributed high-availability distributed systems for the storage, networking, cable, and telecommunications industries. Prior to Intel, Kim held principal engineer roles at both NetApp and SwiftStack. Kim co-authored the first technical proposal for adding computational storage to NVMe, and is co-chair of the NVMe Computational Storage Task Group.
Related Sessions
NVMe Computational Storage Update
Learn what is happening in NVMe to support Computational Storage devices. The development is ongoing and not finalized, but this presentation will describe the directions that the proposal is taking. Kim and Stephen will describe the high level architecture that is being defined in NVMe for Computational Storage. The architecture provides for programs based on a standardized eBPF. We will describe how this new command set fits within the NVMe I/O Command Set architecture. The commands that are necessary for Computational Storage will be described. We will discuss a proposed new controller memory model that is able to be used for computational programs.
NVMe Computational Storage – An update on the Standard
Learn what is happening in NVMe to support Computational Storage devices. The development is ongoing and not finalized, but this presentation will describe the directions that the proposal is taking. Kim will describe the high level architecture that is being defined in NVMe for Computational Storage. We will describe how this new command set fits within the NVMe I/O Command Set architecture. The commands that are necessary for Computational Storage will be described. We will discuss a proposed new memory model that is able to be used for computational programs.
NVMe Computational Storage Standards
Learn what is happening in NVMe to support Computational Storage devices. Computational Storage requires two new command sets: The Computational Programs Command Set and the Subsystem Local Memory Command Set. We will introduce you to how these two command sets work together, the details of each command set, and how they fit within the NVMe I/O Command Set architecture.
