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® 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 [...]
Back from a great week at the 2012 Intel Developers Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. […]
Sumit Puri of LSI, Steve Sardella of EMC, and myself had the pleasure of recording an audio podcast on NVM Express for Intel Chip Chat. Each of us gave our view on NVM Express and the advantages it brings to the industry and our companies individually. We also had the horror of listening to our [...]
We attended VMWorld, and there was lots of buzz and some tremendous IT & business networking opportunities with 15,000+ attendees! VMWorld attendees are a mix of IT technical professionals and business decision-makers from organizations of all sizes, representing a wide range of industries. I co-presented an NVM Express Smart Talk in the Solutions Pavilion along [...]
San Francisco... the city by the bay... What could be more perfect than that? How about 14 NVM Express members in one Showcase community at the Intel Developer's Forum? That's right. The largest gathering of products and demonstrations all in one area from September 11-13. The NVM Express Showcase provides an opportunity to see products and [...]
Finally getting caught up after 3 days at Flash Memory Summit. Rather than posting a normal summary of the event, two of the NVM Express members decided to take a different approach and provide observations through the eyes of someone new to the Storage market and through the eyes of a seasoned veteran. […]
This week IDT introduced the industry’s first NVMe enterprise flash controllers! This is exciting news, as IDT’s new programmable flash controllers enable SSD developers to lead the transition to standard-based NVMe SSDs, while differentiating with their own “secret sauce” firmware. And these controllers enable server & storage OEMs to dramatically improve storage performance, while using [...]
So it’s time for Flash Memory Summit (FMS) again and like in years past, I am getting ready to head out to the Summit to learn the latest and greatest in flash memory technology. However, this year, I am especially excited about FMS. On Tuesday afternoon, from 2 PM onwards, the brightest and the sharpest [...]
PCI Express Solid State drives are quickly outrunning the capabilities of existing IO architectures. The SSD Form Factor Working Group has been defining a new drive connector which is being developed as Project SFF-8639. NVMe, when used with the new standard device connector, will accelerate usage of PCIe-based SSDs. This is a great example of [...]