By Austin Bolen, Distinguished Engineer, Server Storage at Dell EMC To evolve with the next phase of NVM Express® (NVMe®) technology, the NVMe Management Interface (NVMe-MI™) specification was modified to optimize NVMe SSD management and ensure interoperability with the other specifications. These changes have been released in the NVMe-MI 1.2 specification, which is available in [...]
By Sebastian Grandjean Perrenod Comtesse, NetApp High Performance Computing (HPC) and supercomputing have always involved complex system designs featuring highly specialized equipment at a massive scale. Years ago, some companies realized that IT infrastructure should be streamlined, and together they jointly developed a common reference architecture to simplify the overall design process. The sole purpose [...]
By Ross Stenfort, Hardware System Engineer, Meta At Meta, our goal is to give our users the optimal user experience. The NVM Express® (NVMe®) 2.0 specifications, which were released this past June, were restructured for easier development and contain features that address new use cases for the cloud. In this blog, I’ll discuss how hyperscale [...]
By Kerry Munson and Mara Johnson NVM Express proudly collaborates with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) to conduct compliance and interoperability testing for the NVM Express® (NVMe®) specifications. As a vendor-neutral test lab, the UNH-IOL provides members with confidential and unbiased test results, helping companies get products ready to market, faster. NVM [...]
NVM Express, Inc. recently announced the release of the NVM Express® (NVMe®) 2.0 family of specifications. The NVMe 2.0 specifications were restructured to: enable faster and simpler development of NVMe solutions, and to support the increasingly diverse NVMe device environment. The extensibility of the specifications encourages the ongoing enhancements of independent command sets like Zoned [...]
NVM Express is excited to announce the honorees of the NVM Express® (NVMe®) 2.0 Specifications Award. These awards recognize key members of the NVM Express Technical Working Group that made significant contributions to the NVMe 2.0 specifications. Released in June 2021, the NVMe 2.0 specifications were refactored to meet the evolving demands of the future [...]
Cameron Brett and Kerry Munson, NVM Express Marketing Work Group Co-Chairs In 2021, NVM Express celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the first NVM Express® (NVMe®) specification. In the past ten years, NVMe technology has proven to be an industry standard with ever-evolving use cases in the client, cloud and enterprise markets. This year, NVM Express [...]
By Bill Martin, Samsung, Matias Bjørling, Western Digital, Nick Adams, Intel and Peter Onufryk, Intel The recent “NVMe 2.0 Specifications: Fast, Simple and Optimized for the Future of Storage” webinar provided a comprehensive overview of the (NVM Express®) NVMe® 2.0 specifications refactoring effort, critical specification features, and new command sets such as Zoned Namespace (ZNS) [...]
By Hrishikesh Sathawane, Director of Product Planning, Samsung and Mike Allison, Sr. Director of Products – Standards, Samsung As the need for high-speed data storage and memory solutions continues to grow, developments in non-volatile storage protocols will continue to evolve faster than traditional storage protocols like SATA. When navigating these higher speed and lower latency [...]
By Chris Browy, VP Sales and Marketing at Avery Design Systems The evolution of NVMe® technology has been spectacular, starting with the basic PCIe-based SSDs and expanding to all-flash disaggregated, composable storage systems that involve an alphabet soup of standards. NVMe technology now embodies a set of standards, and system architects must be able to [...]
