By Amber Huffman, NVM Express President The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated unfortunate cancellations of many of our industry’s top 2020 events. While we look towards a recovery cycle in the business community and find connectivity options, we need to maintain safety and follow the protocols of this recent era. Given [...]
By NVM Express Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Q1 2020 webcast “NVMe-oF™ 1.1 Specification: Key Features and Use Cases Audiences.” During the webcast, we discussed how the latest NVMe-oF 1.1 specification is creating “data center storage disruption,” the latest features and provided a couple of key [...]
By Cameron Brett, NVM Express MWG Co-Chair, Kioxia Digital transformation in data centers is taking a huge leap forward in 2020, thanks to NVMe™ technology. From cloud and enterprise applications to gaming to 360-degree immersive video projects for sporting events and much more, it’s no wonder so many industry experts are [...]
By Jonmichael Hands, NVMe MWG Co-Chair, Sr. Strategic Planner / Product Manager, Intel NVM Express™ (NVMe™) technology has enabled a robust set of industry-standard software, drivers, and management tools that have been developed for storage. The tool to manage NVMe SSDs in Linux is called NVMe Command Line Interface (NVMe-CLI). [...]
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 [...]
