Paul Coddington

Erik Smith is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff working for Dell’s CTIO group. Over the past 23 years, Erik has spent the majority of his time working on Storage Area Networks; first as an integration Engineer working for EMC’s E-Lab where he lead the Interoperability team, and later as an active participant in the Fibre Channel standards body (T11). Most recently Erik has been focused on defining a Centralized Discovery Controller (CDC) that is intended to address what he refers to as “NVMe-oF’s discovery problem”, especially as it relates to NVMe/TCP.