With the NVMe/TCP and disaggregated storage gaining rapid market adoption, it is more clear than ever that Storage Initiator (SI) needs to be more performant and efficient to provide applications with DAS (Direct Attached Storage) like performance and latency. At the same time, there is a growing need from virtualized applications for secure transport and storage performance near bare metal. The Host CPU can save a significant number of cycles by offloading the NVMe/TCP to a DPU based Storage Initiator (SI).