Presenter

Phil Cayton is a Principal Engineer for Intel with nearly 30 years of industry experience researching and developing networking, storage, and datacenter infrastructure technologies. In addition to his current role with Open Fabrics Alliance, he is actively involved with the SNIA’s Storage Management Initiative, the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, and the NVM ExpressTM Consortium as chair of the NVMe Boot Task Group as well as setting the agenda for the main NVMe Technical Work Group. He has been involved with InfiniBandTM since the beginning and has written many RDMA-based drivers including the initial prototype NVMe-over-Fabrics driver stack. Additionally, he has led remote peer-to-peer memory projects, Open Fabrics testing and patching, dynamic data center energy efficiency R&D, server autonomics R&D, mobile-device multi-radio interference mitigation, mobile augmented reality, sensor enhanced personal medical monitoring, and network driver development projects. He has several published whitepapers and 21 granted patents.