Tom Talpey is an Architect in the Networking team at Microsoft Corporation in the Windows Devices Group. His current areas of focus include RDMA networking, remote filesharing, and persistent memory. He is especially active in bringing all three together into a new ultra-low-latency remote storage solution, merging the groundbreaking advancements in network and storage-class memory latency. He has over 30 years of industry experience in operating systems, network stacks, network filesystems, RDMA and storage, and is a longtime presenter and instructor at diverse industry events.