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

MSSD Business Development

KIOXIA

Sean has over 30 years of storage marketing experience including Samsung, Seagate, and Toshiba.  He has been working with Flash and SSDs for over 10 years in the enterprise and hyperscale markets. He is part of the team at KIOXIA America bringing the launch of Software-Enabled Flash technology.

Making Flash Software-Defined

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Everything else is the data center is software-defined, so it’s time to bring that concept to flash. This session will be an open forum making flash software programmable in the host for the data center. We’ll discuss Software-Enabled Flash concepts, the reference FTL, and the reference ZNS and block VirtIO drivers. Moderated by representatives of the Linux Foundation’s™ open source Software-Enabled Flash™ Project, we hope to cover its software defined architecture, internal workings, and their fit in cloud-scale applications.

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