SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Sebastien Le Duc
Software Engineering Director
Kalray
Sebastien started his professional career in 1998 at STMicroelectronics where he worked on compilers for a proprietary VLIW DSP targeted at multimedia applications. He then joined ST-Ericsson in 2006 where he spent 8 years managing Multimedia Software development teams. He continued his career back at STMicroelectronics as Lead Software Architect on set-top box products. Together with his technical background that ranges from low-level software development to middleware integration, his team management and product development experience, Sebastien brings outstanding Software Engineering leadership to Kalray.
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Unlocking the Potential of NVMe-oF and Software Defined Storage Thanks to Programmable DPUs
During the last two decades, the data center world has been moving to a “Software Defined Everything” paradigm. This has been taken care of mostly by hypervisors running on the x86 up to recently.
In parallel, a new communication protocol to interface with SSDs has been specified from the ground-up, allowing to fully exploit the levels of parallelism and performances of all-flash storage: NVMe, and NVMe-oF. NVMe-oF promises to enable the performances of direct attached all-flash storage with the flexibility an TCO savings of shared storage. To fully unlock the benefits of NVMe-oF while keeping the software defined paradigm, we believe a new kind of processor is needed: the Data Processing Unit, or DPU.