Kalray, Board Member of SNIA EMEA

By Jean-François Marie, chief solution architect data center, Kalray Corp., formerly at Sun Microsystems, EMC and NetApp, active SNIA member for 10 years and French SNIA president for 2 years.

You may know my long standing support for SNIA and industry standards, as I think any good technology that helps solve real issues should be shared widely.

SNIA is the recognized and trusted authority for data center storage leadership, standards, and technology expertise and I have been privileged to have been strongly involved in the SNIA French committee and in some technical workgroups for 10 years.

Six months ago I joined an amazing company, Kalray, to apply my know-how and expertise to support data center activities.
This firm is investing in innovation using new standards such as NVMe and NVMe-oF to bring to market storage and computational storage solutions, as well as networking technologies such as Open vSwitch, or security algorithms to bring to market bare metal solutions and more.

At Kalray we have decided to be more involved in standards and SNIA and we are participating in technical workgroups at the global level. Today, the company Kalray has joined SNIA EMEA as a voting member and thus I have been appointed to the EMEA board of directors including also NetApp, Dell EMC, IBM and T-Systems.

I am delighted to have such a role, as it is important to share what is happening in terms of technology these days. We are surely in massively changing times and disruptive technologies such as flash devices, NVMe and others are pushing boundaries of the IT game I have been involved in for more than 30 years, and these change dynamics are also pushing storage companies to reinvent themselves continuously.

We used to speak about agile method for development processes, but with the pace of change in technologies and hardware, I’ve started to think that we should apply the same method to hardware, which is far more challenging. A challenge we are addressing at Kalray.