Your Storage Datapath is a Network Datapath

Andy Warfield, co-founder and CTO at Coho Data discusses hardware trends in datacenter computing, and describes the specific performance challenges facing storage system designs. As nonvolatile memories become denser sources of both performance and capacity, storage systems must increasingly learn from packet processing architectures. Andy discusses how Coho is taking advantage of a converged approach that integrates tightly with software defined networking (SDN), and how Coho is using software tools such as Intel’s Data Path Development Kit (DPDK) in the design of its storage system.