First NVM Express Plugfest

Posted on: June 4, 2013

The first NVM Express Plugfest was held at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) from May 13-16.Companies participating in the Plugfest were Agilent…

NVM Express at Interop

Posted on: May 3, 2013

Interop Las Vegas, here we come! Interop is a premier event for IT professionals, and the NVM Express Work Group is excited that we will…

NVM Express: A New Look

Posted on: May 1, 2013

Welcome to our new site. Over the last four years, NMV Express has matured quickly with specifications ratified, development tools and drivers delivered and NVM…

NVMe Powers SSDs in the Enterprise

Posted on: November 28, 2012

EE times published an article by Kam Eshghi discussing how NVMe SSDs benefit the Enterprise. Click here for the article titled NVMe powers…

Inside Solid State Drives

Posted on: November 1, 2012

We're excited to announce that we just published a book that provides an in-depth look inside SSDs.  "Inside Solid State Drives (SSDs)" walks the reader through all the main topics related to SSDs: from NAND Flash to memory controller, from I/O interfaces (PCIe/SAS/SATA) to reliability, from error correction codes (BCH and LDPC) to encryption, from Flash signal processing to hybrid storage. NVMe is highlighted as a key standard for the host control interface that will get the most out of PCIe SSDs and drive adoption.

IDT Talks About NVM Express

Posted on: October 16, 2012

With real products in the market, NVM Express is bringing flash storage via PCI Express.  Kam Eshghi, NVMe Board member and Sr. Director of Marketing at IDT, talks about their latest NVMe controllers with Bill Wong of Electronic Design.

FreeBSD® Adds NVM Express Drivers

Posted on: October 1, 2012

FreeBSD® recently added NVM Express drivers for PCI Express® (PCIe®)-based Solid State Drives (SSDs) to its Enterprise repertoire.  Intel's Jim Harris was the primary author of the drivers with contributions from EMC's Joe Golio. The addition of NVM Express drivers positions FreeBSD as a leader of Enterprise solid-state storage technology solutions.  The commit is located at http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=240616. The drivers provide an NVM Express hardware abstraction layer, an NVM Express consumer which exposes namespaces as GEOM disks, and NVM Express management utilities.