Patent 10034407 was granted and assigned to Intel on July, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Examples may include a sled for a rack of a data center including physical storage resources. The sled comprises mounting flanges to enable robotic insertion and removal from a rack and storage device mounting slots to enable robotic insertion and removal of storage devices into the sled. The storage devices are coupled to an optical fabric through storage resource controllers and a dual-mode optical network interface.