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™ or 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 [...]
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 [...]
Authors: Sagi Grimberg, Chief SW Architect, Lightbits Labs and Dave Minturn, Intel Corp., Fabrics Linux Driver WG Chair This week the ratified NVMe™/TCP Transport Binding specification has been made available for public download. TCP is a new transport added to the family of existing NVMe™ transports; PCIe®, RDMA, and FC. NVMe/TCP defines the mapping of [...]
By Brandon Hoff I recently presented a webcast on NVM Express® over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) and gave a rundown on what’s new for NVMe-oF in 2018. Since the NVMe-oF specification’s official release in May 2016, we have seen a lot of excitement building. In my webcast, I deliver a high-level overview of the NVMe-oF content we [...]
The Storage Developer Conference 2018 (SDC 18), hosted by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), will be held on September 24-27 in Santa Clara, CA and is a must-attend event for those in the storage industry. Attendees will have the opportunity to acquire training on hot industry topics like NVMe™ and NVMe over Fabrics, persistent [...]
Join Brandon Hoff, distinguished software architect at Broadcom, as he provides particulars about the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) 2018 updates on Tuesday, September 25 from 9:00 – 10:00 am (United States – Los Angeles). NVMe-oF is the defacto standard for extending the NVMe architecture in a scalable manner over mainstream interconnects. This webcast will provide [...]
By Amber Huffman Members of NVM Express, Inc. have recently returned from sunny Santa Clara, where we attended yet another Flash Memory Summit. The event was devoted to providing the storage community with the latest technology updates, forecasts, and roadmaps for non-volatile memory—but it also indicated that NVM Express is more prominent than ever and [...]
By J Metz and Bill Lynn Welcome to part III of our blog series, “NVMe™ Form Factors”. If you’re joining us late, don’t worry. You can catch up on part I and part II and then meet us back here for the finale. Now that we’ve talked through the history of NVMe and its building [...]
By J Metz and Bill Lynn Thank you for joining us for Part II of our blog series, “NVMe Form Factors”. If you missed part I, you can catch up here. Now let’s get down to the topic at hand—the building blocks of NVMe™. Building Blocks An SSD consists of an SSD controller chip, some [...]
