Frederick Knight

Frederick Knight is a Principal Standards Technologist at NetApp Inc. Fred has over 40 years of experience in the computer and storage industry. He currently represents NetApp in several National and International Storage Standards bodies and industry associations, including NVM Express, SCSI (T10), Fibre Channel (T11), ATA (T13), IETF (iSCSI), TCG, SNIA, and JEDEC. He has authored documents at each of those committees . He is also the editor for several INCITS standards and the Convenor for the ISO/IEC JTC-1/SC25/WG4 international committee (overseeing the international standardization of T10/T11/T13 documents). Fred has received several NetApp awards for excellence and innovation and is the holder of several patents. He also received the INCITS Technical Excellence Award for his contributions to both T10 and T11 and the INCITS Merit Award for his longstanding contributions to the international work of INCITS. He also developed the first native FCoE target device in the industry. At NetApp, he contributes to technology and product strategy and serves as a consulting engineer to product groups across the company. Prior to joining NetApp, Fred was a Consulting Engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, and HP where he worked on clustered operating system and I/O subsystem design.