Paul von Behren is a Software Architect at Intel Corporation. He is currently involved with software enabling using of byte-addressable persistent memory, is co-chair of SNIA’s NVM Programming Technical Work Group and editor of SNIA’s NVM Programming Model specification. His background includes software for managing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and SAS storage devices, multi path management software, and RAID systems. He helped lead the creation of the SNIA Storage Management Initiative – Standard (SMI-S) and Multipath Management API standards, and contributed a number of other storage and management software standards.