By Amber Huffman Last month, we hosted our 2019 NVMe Annual Members Meeting and Developer Day—supported by Platinum Sponsor Toshiba Memory and Association Sponsor SNIA—in sunny Fremont, California. Over 100 NVMe technology experts were onsite collaborating on the latest advancements to the NVMe specifications and exhibiting their groundbreaking NVMe technology-enabled products. The Developer Day portion [...]
By Sagi Grimberg and Peter Onufryk NVM Express, Inc. recently announced the addition of NVMe™ over TCP (NVMe™/TCP) to the family of NVMe transports. The addition of NVMe/TCP is such an important development, that our first webcast of 2019 was an in-depth exploration of the crucial benefits and features of the new specification. If you [...]
NVMe technology experts will share the challenges, opportunities and outlook of the specification library BEAVERTON, Ore. – March 8, 2019 – NVM Express™, Inc. is pleased to present their 2019 NVMe™ Annual Members Meeting and Developer Day , supported by Platinum Sponsor Toshiba. The afternoon portion of the event will be free for media and [...]
By Cameron Brett, NVM Express Marketing Work Group Co-Chair Our Annual Members Meeting and Developer Day is right around the corner and we hope you can join us this year! This year’s event is March 19-20 in Fremont, CA - the now the fourth largest city in the San Francisco Bay metropolitan area and a [...]
By Peter Onufryk, Management Workgroup Chair and Austin Bolen, Management Workgroup Vice Chair NVM Express® is innovating to effectively and efficiently service today’s data-intensive storage demands. The NVMe open collection of standards reveal the scores of benefits of non-volatile memory in all types of computing environments from mobile to data centers. Enterprise IT, storage and [...]
By Janene Ellefson, NVM Express Marketing Workgroup Co-Chair Deemed “the new language of storage,” NVM Express™ saw a year of recognition and implementation in 2018, with more than 100 companies offering NVMe™ enabled products. Looking forward to 2019, NVMe is not expected to plateau; in fact, most analysts and industry experts anticipate this will be the year of NVMe™ over [...]
By Jonmichael Hands, NVM Express Marketing Co-Chair 2018 was a huge year for NVMe™. NVMe SSD shipments now make up the majority of SSD revenue and capacity shipments, and some analysists are showing that the industry average ASP of NVMe is now equivalent of SATA, driven by hyperscale deployments. It was also a huge year [...]
NVMe Management Interface Architectural Overview NVMeTM Management Interface (NVMe-MITM) is targeted at enterprise and hyperscale applications and currently not at client applications. The use cases include: Inventorying (Asset Management), Health Monitoring (Identify bad drives), Wear Monitoring (Replace drives nearing wear-out), Temperature Monitoring (Fan throttling), Power Monitoring and configuration, Configuring (format drives, crypto erase), Change Management (update [...]
NVMe Specification Readiness NVM Express® is an open collection of standards and information and the NVM Express organization (www.nvmexpress.org) is responsible for specifying the NVMe specifications. To date (August 2018) it has released several specifications: Base NVMe Specifications including NVMe 1.0e, 1.2.1 and 1.3 NVMeTM Over Fabric 1.0 Specification and NVMeTM Management Interface 1.0 Specification [...]
NVMe Over Fabrics Architectural Overview NVMeTM Over Fabrics replaces the PCIe transport with a fabric technology such as RDMA or Fibre Channel (FC) fabric as shown in Figure 3. Transports for RDMA fabric include Ethernet (ROCE), InfiniBand and iWARP. Native TCP (non-RDMA) transport is also possible (TCP is still Work-In-Progress as of July 2018). Figure 3: [...]
