By Jonmichael Hands, NVMe MWG Co-Chair, Intel NVMe™ technology was built from the ground up for SSDs, and the original NVMe specification included a standard SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) log that monitored errors, device health, and endurance. At the time, SAS/SATA drives had SMART capability, but it was [...]
By Lee Prewitt, Microsoft Microsoft manages its data centers using Azure, our cloud computing solutions for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services. For nearly a decade, this open, flexible, enterprise-grade technology (now available in over 54 regions around the world) has operated as Microsoft’s answer to the incredibly expanding storage [...]
By Ross Stenfort, Facebook Source: Accelerating Facebook’s Hardware Infrastructure, Vijay Rao Many of today’s data center challenges are met head-on with NVMe™ solutions, which work to improve performance and endurance and strategically address a variety of challenges. These include the ever-evolving needs of security, methods for effective systems communications across the data center [...]
By Nick Adams and David Woolf Earlier this month, we hosted an NVM Express™, Inc. webcast to discuss the newly released NVMe™ 1.4 specification. We’re very excited about this release and what it means for the cloud, enterprise and client market segments, so we were glad to have the opportunity to educate the public about [...]
By Dr. J Metz, NVM Express, Inc. Board Member This year has been significant for NVMe technology advancements, between the announcements of NVMe 1.4 and NVMe-oF 1.1 specifications and our two-day presentation track at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2019. Now that the hustle and bustle of Flash Memory Summit is over, it’s time to look [...]
By Amber Huffman, NVM Express, Inc. President Our focus and diligence have come to fruition in the form of the much-anticipated release of the NVMe™ 1.4 specification, which provides faster, simpler, and easier-to-scale technology. Its counterpart, NVMe-oF™ 1.1, has entered the final member review period and will be published during September 2019. NVMe-oF 1.1 improves fabric [...]
By Cameron Brett and Jonmichael Hands, NVM Express Marketing Work Group Chairs This year, NVM Express returned to Flash Memory Summit (FMS) to network with leaders in the flash storage industry and update attendees on the latest NVMe™ technology innovations. We served as a proud FMS association sponsor and presented a full speaking track led [...]
By Cameron Brett and Jonmichael Hands, NVM Express Marketing Work Group Co-Chairs We at NVM Express, Inc. are excited to announce that we will be attending Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2019 taking place from August 6-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. NVMe is still one of the hottest topics at the show, and once [...]
By Mark Carlson and John Kim We held our Q2 webcast titled, “Powering the Data Center with NVM Express™” on June 11, 2019. Audiences learned about how the NVMe™ specifications are evolving to support data center deployment of SSDs. During the webcast, we discussed how hyperscalers have brought their requirements to the NVM Express organization [...]
By Matias Bjørling, NVM ExpressTM Member Data growth has been exploding year-over-year. With the proliferation of artificial intelligence, IoT, and massive growth of video, we are just scratching the surface of how companies will be storing and extracting value from data. Yet, we are still architecting our software to use a generic storage interface, without [...]
