Azure Files: Design Challenges for the Biggest File Server in the World
For over nine years, Microsoft Azure has provided completely managed file shares in the cloud.
Azure Files provides SMB3, NFS4.1 and REST based access to file shares.
SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Rena Shah
Director of SSD Industry Standards,
KIOXIA
John Geldman is a Director of SSD Industry Standards at KIOXIA. John is currently an active contributor to NVM Express, INCITS T10, INCITS T13, JEDEC, OCP, PCI-SIG, SATA IO, SNIA, and IEEE SISWG. John has had corporate leadership responsibility for standards for multi-billion dollar storage vendors since 2011. He has been involved in storage standards since 1992, with an early introduction to standards that included the transition from X3T9 to T13 (ATA) and T10 (SCSI), as well as the transition from PCMCIA to CardBus. John has been an active FMS CAB member for at least 10 years.