The ESF continues our busy schedule hosting informative Webcasts, writing and publishing articles and participating at industry conferences. 2015 also brings a change in ESF leadership. I’d like to welcome Chad Hintz of Cisco as our newest ESF board member. Chad has been elected as chair of our Storage over Ethernet Special Interest Group (SIG).
The Storage over Ethernet SIG is focused on a growing trend among modern data centers to deploy consolidated Ethernet networks as the primary network infrastructure for all LAN and storage traffic. Technologies such as Data Center Bridging (DCB), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) among others, offer organizations a robust environment to support mixed workloads with each using the most appropriate protocol (including NFS, SMB and iSCSI) over a shared Ethernet physical transport. The Storage over Ethernet SIG offers educational and thought leadership materials related to these technologies and the business value they offer to organizations of all sizes. Especially appreciated by our audience is that this information comes from SNIA and thus is vendor-neutral.
Chad brings a wealth of expertise to ESF. He is a Technical Solutions Architect focusing on designing enterprise solutions for customers around data center technologies. He holds 3 CCIEs in routing and switching, security and storage and has held certifications from Novell, VMware, and Cisco. We’re confident his expertise and passion for Ethernet Storage will be a big asset to our group.
We are looking forward to having Chad on our team to help guide the many activities we have planned this year. Other members of the 2015 board include myself as ESF chair, Alex McDonald (NetApp), and Mike Jochimsen (Emulex).
As I mentioned, the ESF is busy creating vendor-neutral educational on Ethernet connected storage networking technologies. I encourage you to check out some of our recent and upcoming content:
Upcoming Webcast – Visions for Ethernet Connected Drives
On-demand Webcast – Benefits of RDMA in Accelerating Ethernet Storage Connectivity
Article – Cloud File Services
Article – Weave Your Cloud with a Data Fabric