Toshiba Memory America Highlights Broad Range of SSD Application Solutions at Dell Technologies World

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week at Dell Technologies World 2018, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, will be on hand to showcase its lineup of flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) and software to demonstrate server and storage application solutions. Toshiba Memory is once again a Diamond-level conference sponsor, and the two companies have been collaborating on storage solutions for nearly 20 years. Toshiba Memory products can be found in numerous Dell solutions across multiple business lines, including laptop/mobile computing, desktop, data center and enterprise servers/storage. “The digital transformation of the data center requires a modern high-performance infrastructure leveraging flash-based storage” Tweet this At Dell Technologies World, Toshiba Memory will highlight how its SSDs are optimizing a wide variety of Dell solutions. In addition, Toshiba Memory will demo the recently announced KumoScale™1 NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software and the company’s state-of-the-art 96-layer BiCS FLASH™ 3D memory. Demonstrations are located in Toshiba Memory’s booth #404 of the Dell Technologies Solutions Expo from April 30 through May 2, and include: Dell systems featuring Toshiba Memory SSDs: Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ servers with vSAN, Dell EMC XC HCI appliances with Nutanix®, Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with SQL Server and HammerDB (both Intel® and AMD based), Dell ESI (Extreme Scale Infrastructure) with SQL Server, HammerDB and Cassandra, and Dell EMC S2D (Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node) with software defined storage. Toshiba Memory SSD and Flash products: enterprise SSDs, client SSDs, off module power loss protection technology (boot drive solution), self-encrypting SSDs (SED), and 96-Layer BiCS FLASH 3D Memory. KumoScale NVMe Over Fabrics shared accelerated storage software: KumoScale enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs. Toshiba Memory can also be found participating in sessions throughout the event. Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units, will be introducing Guru Session speaker Andrew McAfee on Tuesday, May 1 at 3 p.m. In addition, Toshiba Memory will have breakout sessions at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, April 30 (Lido 3001A) and Tuesday, May 1 (Lando 4203). These sessions will be delivered jointly by Toshiba Memory’s Drew Tipton and Dell’s Jeff Armstrong, and will focus on security and self-encrypting drive solutions. “The digital transformation of the data center requires a modern high-performance infrastructure leveraging flash-based storage,” noted Steve Fingerhut. “Toshiba Memory is committed to providing leading technologies at cloud scale. We are proud to be a key SSD supplier to Dell, and excited to demonstrate our broad portfolio across their client, server and storage solutions at Dell Technologies World.”

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NVMe™ and NVMe-oF™ Take Center Stage at Flash Memory Summit

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The rapidly emerging #NVMe and #NVMeoF standards for high speed data storage will play a lead role in the 2018 Flash Memory Summit ( #FMS ), scheduled for August 7-9, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.   According to G2M Research, the NVMe market is expected to reach $60 billion by 2021 as designers make it their preferred solution for high-speed storage. NVMe offers data transfer rates up to 10 times greater than SATA, runs on the popular PCIe interface and offers a rapidly growing ecosystem of products and technology.  The NVMe-oF standard offers similar advantages for networked storage, allowing applications to use flash anywhere in an enterprise network or computer system.  “NVMe should be designers’ first choice among storage interfaces,” said Chuck Sobey, Flash Memory Summit Conference Chair.  “It offers much higher throughput than disk interfaces while still using an interface familiar to all data centers.  NVMe and NVMe-oF meet the needs of enterprise, computer, high-performance computing, embedded, mil/aero, mobile, and many other applications as well.” FMS 2018 will present a range of in-depth technical sessions on NVMe and NVMe-oF, including a series organized by the standards Group NVM Express Inc. as well as pre-conference seminars, invited talks, exhibits and market trends. The Flash Memory Summit will also feature 3D NAND flash and 3D XPoint, emerging nonvolatile memory technologies including applications for the latest MRAM developments, persistent memory and NVDIMM, controllers, flash storage networking, and the software that makes it all work together.  The FMS conference offers an upgraded exhibit hall, including a large demonstration area and more than 100 exhibitors. The conference is still accepting exhibitor applications for booth space and proposals for panel sessions and speaking slots.

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Supermicro Opens Path to 100G Networking with New 25G Ethernet Server and Storage Solutions

With 2.5X faster performance, 100% better performance-per-dollar, backward compatibility plus a future-proof upgrade path to 100G, the new 25G systems deliver best-in-class TCO for today's agile datacenters

SAN JOSE, California, March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- @SuperMicro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, is driving the server and storage industry's rapid transition to #25G Ethernet Networking technology with a robust selection of network interface card (NIC) and top-of-rack (ToR) switch solutions. As memory, processor and storage performance increase, the demand for expanded network capacity follows naturally. When combined with increased system performance, 25G Ethernet helps enterprises deliver new products and services to market faster. These innovations support smarter machines and bigger data with 2.5 times faster single lane network performance than 10G – all at about the same cost. According to industry analysts, 25G will triple in volume over the next year or two. "The time for transitioning from #10G to #25G #networking is now, and the transition is happening very quickly!" said @CharlesLiang, President and CEO of @Supermicro. "Self-driving cars, #AI, #machinelearning, #bigdata and #NVMe -over-Fabric (#NVMeoF) are all pushing system performance to the limits and driving the demand for more network bandwidth. With higher performance, better scalability, as well as an easy and clear upgrade path to 100 Gigabit Ethernet networks, customers are upgrading their networks to 25G to increase network throughput – meeting the needs of those applications that are now hungry for even more bandwidth."

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NVMe enterprise flash storage, new memory mean change in '18

At the start of 2018, the storage industry is prepared for an influx of ultrafast, low-latency #NVMe -based enterprise #flash storage and even higher-performing new memory technologies. Technology executives at leading vendors and storage analysts predict the industry will begin to shift to NVMe-based PCI Express SSDs in 2018 and eventually to enterprise flash storage arrays that support nonvolatile memory express over Fabrics ( #NVMe-oF ) to extend the performance benefits across a network. On the horizon, they also see new memory technologies, such as #3DXPoint from @Intel and @Micron, @Samsung #ZNAND and other emerging #storage class memory ( #SCM ) options, becoming a major disruptive force in the industry. The lightning-fast memory technologies could spur a new wave of software options and storage rearchitecting to address bottlenecks that have shifted from hardware to legacy software stacks. Below are predictions on enterprise flash storage, NVMe technologies and emerging persistent memory options that SearchStorage collected from industry experts.

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rack-scale flash

Rack-scale flash is flash-only storage that uses a high-speed interface to connect the storage more directly to the CPU than with a traditional storage array. The most common connection is nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) connected via a network fabric. This interface is called NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF).

Rack-scale flash is also known as shared flash storage because it creates a pool of storage that is shared by servers over the high-speed interconnect inside one or more racks. Others call the concept of sharing compute, storage and networking as resource pools composable infrastructure.

By using the NVMe protocol, rack-scale flash vendors can deliver much lower latency while keeping the same throughput levels available from network transports such as 32 gigabit Fibre Channel (FC) or 40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). The lower latency improves the IOPS of the overall system, making rack-scale flash best suited for high-performance computing needs. Examples include artificial intelligence, real-time analytics of big data and in-memory database systems.

Rack-scale flash vendors

There are two main types of rack-scale flash suppliers: those that use off-the-shelf solid-state drives (SSDs) and those that use custom flash modules. The former are generally startups such as Apeiron Data Systems, E8 Storage, Excelero and Mangstor. The latter are rack-scale flash vendors such as tech giants IBM and Hitachi Vantara.

Two early startups are Pure Storage, founded in 2009, and DSSD Inc., founded in 2010. Pure began life as a flash-only storage provider and entered the rack-scale flash market in 2016 with its FlashBlade product.

#DSSD, in comparison, was acquired by EMC Corp. in 2014 for its rack-scale technology. In 2016, the newly merged @Dell EMC launched DSSD D5, a #rackscale #flash appliance based on the acquired technology. The company cancelled the line in March 2017, stating it made more sense to embed the technology into existing storage arrays.

Benefits/drawbacks of rack-scale flash

#Rackscale #flash boosts the performance of any system, even more than #allflash arrays that don't connect via #lowlatency #NVMe protocols. All-flash array vendors claim IOPS ranging from 200,000 to the low millions. @Dell EMC, for example, claimed 10 million IOPS for its now cancelled #DSSD D5 product. While any application can benefit from that speed, it is a necessary feature for financial applications, big data technology such as #Hadoop, and #inmemory #database systems such as #SAP #HANA.

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Samsung: NVMe benefits are available now, within limits

#NVMe can bring significant benefits in performance and power consumption today, but the new #flashstorage protocol is set for real take off in 2018.
Those are the views of the solid state drive product marketing executive for @SamsungSemiconductor Europe, Kristian Vättö, who told Computer Weekly NVMe will take off as a storage medium in enterprise arrays with the arrival of dual port drives, next generation central processing units (CPUs) and NVMe-over-fabrics (#NVMf ).

The key problem highlighted by Vättö is that currently NAS and SAN have to switch between different protocols when they access storage, transitioning between small computer system interface (SCSI) and Ethernet and Fibre Channel.

“Because they are engaged in protocol switching, latency is added,” said Vättö. “That wasn’t a problem with hard disk drives when their latency was higher than that of the network.”

NVMe is an emerging flash storage protocol that can potentially speed access times by orders of magnitude compared to the SCSI and SATA protocols designed for spinning disk, but still in use for many flash drives.

But, hardware makers need to eliminate SCSI from the input/output (I/O) path and a bottleneck in storage processing to allow NVMe off the leash.

According to Vättö, NVMe’s most successful early adopters are hyperscaleusers. These are the likes of Google, Facebook etc that design their own hardware and software for use in their datacentres and don’t use proprietary storage platforms.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450428025/Samsung-NVMe-benefits-are-available-now-within-limits

Registration Hits New High for Flash Memory Summit 2017

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #FlashMemory Summit (FMS), August 8-10, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, drew thousands of storage designers and their suppliers to discuss the latest and fastest storage solutions. Registration was at an all-time high, up 6% over 2016 to over 6,200. Attendees got the inside scoop on key topics including persistent memory, 3D #NAND flash and #3DXPoint™, #NVMe and #NVMeoverfabrics, and emerging non-volatile technologies (such as #MRAM and #RRAM). Other well-attended sessions included annual updates, market research, next great breakthrough in flash, and the popular forums on architectures and controllers. "Our exhibitors were in the process of completing our biggest and best show floor ever when an early morning fire forced us to cancel the exhibits. I am grateful for the professionalism and goodwill of our attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and staff who made the best of an unprecedented situation at a technical conference. We were able to get back on schedule by the afternoon and held all of our technical and marketing presentations, panels, awards, and keynotes throughout the week. Many had standing room only crowds," said Chuck Sobey, FMS 2017 Conference Chairperson. "We have begun preparing for FMS 2018. We plan to come back stronger than ever," says Sobey. Flash Memory Summit 2018 will take place on August 7-9, 2018, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. FMS 2017 received widespread media coverage with articles in Electronic Design, Forbes, IDC, EE Times, eWeek, TechTarget, ZD Net, Storage Newsletter and Tom's Hardware. Products of significant interest included SSDs, NV-DIMM, flash chips, flash controllers, flash-based storage systems, new non-volatile technologies, and all-flash arrays. Session materials and conference proceedings are now freely available at: www.flashmemorysummit.com.

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Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO

#Tegile ’s takeover by #WesternDigital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see #NVMf and #3DXpoint products Tegile is looking forward to #NVMeoverfabrics, storage-class memory and cheaper storage arrays, according to Tegile CEO Rohit Kshetrapal. He believes the purchase of Tegile by Western Digital will bring investment for the all-flash/hybrid flash storage makers next stage of development, as well as put Western Digital on the same terrain as the big six storage makers.

“When Tegile becomes a Western Digital brand it will no longer be a smaller entity and will have access to global markets,” he said.

“It currently isn’t one of the bix six [storage suppliers], but has a definite strategy to go up into the software stack, becoming a vertically integrated company from memory chips to software platforms.”

Western Digital has primarily been a supplier of storage media, such as spinning disk and solid state, but already has its Active Archive object storage. “Tegile will be its performance array product,” said Kshetrapal.

He added that Tegile – which has around 1,750 customers and 3,200 arrays deployed – needs more capital for its next stage of expansion, and that its purchase by Western Digital will provide this.

Roadmap items include NVMe-over-fabrics – it has recently launched NVMe-equipped arrays – and so-called storage-class memory such as 3D Xpoint.

But what of the NVMe-controller bottleneck? While access to storage is potentially orders of magnitude quicker using NVMe, it currently cannot realise that potential in array format because the storage controller is a bottleneck.

Systems mooted centre on the aggregation of CPU resources from clustered or disaggregated controller functionality. “There are many paths in that development process, but we will see products on a six- to nine-month horizon,” said Kshetrapal.

He believes being part of Western Digital would help bring array prices down for Tegile customers. “We will be able to make economies of scale as a result of being part of Western Digital, which will give us advantages over competitors. Arrays will not be as expensive to customers any more,” he added.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450425726/Tegile-set-to-compete-with-big-six-with-cheaper-arrays-says-CEO

Newisys Wins Best of Show Innovation Award at the 2017 Flash Memory Summit

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Newisys, a Sanmina ( #Nasdaq: #SANM) product division, today announced that its Newisys #NVMe (NVM Express) #FabricStorageSystem, in conjunction with partners #KazanNetworks, #IBM, #Intel, and #MellanoxTechnologies, won the Best of Show Innovation Award at the 2017 #FlashMemorySummit in Santa Clara, California. The Newisys NVMe Fabric Storage System (NDS22482F) with Kazan Networks Magma™ NVMe over Fabric bridge adapters delivers industry leading performance of less than 7 microseconds of added latency over native SSDs, more than 60 GB/s (gigabytes per second) of total bandwidth, and more than 15 million total IOPS (input/output operations per second). "Flash memory is being used today in new ground-breaking ways and storage networks are evolving to leverage the performance and scalability that can be achieved with NVMe over Fabric solutions," said Jay Kramer, Chairman of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. "We are proud to select Newisys along with their partners Kazan Networks, IBM, Intel, and Mellanox Technologies for the Best of Show Innovation Award for its innovation in raising the bar to new levels of performance, scalability, and interoperability to address the demands of mission critical business application workloads." "We are extremely proud to accept this prestigious award, and I applaud the entire Newisys team for their hard work and dedication to bringing this ground-breaking technology to our customers," said Eugene McCabe, EVP Enterprise Computing & Storage, Newisys. "This award validates our commitment to innovation with an NVMe over Fabrics solution that achieves new levels of performance. We extend our appreciation to our partners for collaborating with us on this solution and we thank the Flash Memory Summit for this honor." Newisys NVMe Fabric Storage Systems are optimized to maximize the performance of data center environments—especially those using SSDs with Intel Optane (3D XPoint™) technology—without compromising management, reliability, availability, or serviceability. The full performance potential of storage based on non-volatile memory (NVM) unlocks by connecting the Newisys NDS22482F to switched fabrics using six (6) 100Gb PCIe over Ethernet links, unlike traditional all-flash arrays (AFAs). Unlimited scale-out is possible with the Newisys NDS22482F because while every unit connects directly to the storage fabric, all remain centrally managed. The Newisys NVMe Fabric Storage System model NDS22482F, as demonstrated at the 2017 Flash Memory Summit, is designed for No Single Points of Failure (NSPOF) and consists of a fully integrated rack-mountable chassis occupying two rack units (2RU) of space and including: Up to twenty-four (24) U.2 NVMe SSDs supporting single x4 or dual x2 PCIe 3.0 interfaces, Single or dual and redundant NVMe fabric modules supporting up to three (3) full length x16 PCIe 3.0 bridge adapters each, and Dual and redundant AC or DC power supplies with cooling fans and independent power inputs supporting loads of up to 1,500 Watts each. About Newisys Newisys, a product division of Sanmina Corporation, provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage server appliances, JBOD storage systems and other products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Newisys solutions are tailored for integration into OEM, System Integrator and Data Center products, reducing development and operating costs while improving time-to-market. More information is available at http://www.newisys.com.

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Solarflare Demonstrates New Storage Fabric That Stays True to Ethernet: NVMe™ over TCP

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT-- #Solarflare, a pioneer in the development of neural-class networks, today demonstrated the world’s first #NVMe over fabric based on TCP, along with #Samsung Semiconductor Inc. and #Supermicro. TCP promises to open the market for #NVMeoF over fabrics by leveraging the native Ethernet transport, without requiring the deployment of network protocols such as data center bridging (DCB), iWARP or RoCE. NVMe over TCP uses Ethernet to provide IT organizations with the same high bandwidth, low latency performance as iWARP and RoCE, but over a familiar transport deployed in 90% of the 100 million Ethernet ports shipped into their data centers each year. View the demo in Solarflare booth #638 at Flash Memory Summit. Solarflare XtremeScale NICs with NVMe over TCP support will be commercially available on September 30, 2017. #Solarflare Demonstrates New Storage Fabric that stays true to Ethernet: NVMe over TCP Tweet this “NVMe over fabrics are the tip of the iceberg for low latency networking using standard TCP,” said Ahmet Houssein, vice president of marketing at Solarflare. The largest IT organizations in the world are looking for solutions that are true to core Ethernet standards like TCP for their massive scale-out environments.” “NVMe over TCP is expected to play an important role in accelerating the adoption of NVMe over fabrics in distributed data center environments,” said Bob Napaa, senior director, product and strategic planning, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. ”Samsung 3D V-NAND NVMe SSDs provide the most advanced solutions to meet the performance requirements of NVMe-over-fabrics.” According to Michael McNerney, Vice President Software Solutions and Infrastructure at Supermicro, “We are network agnostic when it comes to providing servers for NVMe over fabrics. We welcome NVMe over TCP and its potential to accelerate the adoption of NVMe servers because it leverages existing infrastructure and protocols.” Solarflare NICs Connect Servers to NVMe over TCP Fabrics Solarflare XtremeScale™ NICs support Universal Kernel Bypass (UKB), a suite of kernel bypass applications for accelerating application performance. Onload is the UKB application proven in the electronic trading industry. DPDK and NVMe are the two newest UKB apps available for accelerating NFV and storage server traffic. Samsung SSDs Applications today need the right storage to process large amounts of data efficiently. Samsung enterprise and data center SSDs have led the industry in meeting the 24/7 demands of high performance and software-defined storage solutions. Together with NVMe over Fabrics technology like NVMe over TCP, Samsung’s comprehensive SSD portfolio including its PM1725a will play an even more important role in enabling data centers to meet increasing l performance requirements, while overcoming efficiency bottlenecks. Supermicro All Flash NVMe Server Solutions The new generation X11 NVMe systems take this exceptional technology to the next level, offering even higher performance and first-to-market technologies. Supermicro NVMe SuperServers offer up to: 3TB ECC 3DS LRDIMM or RDIMM DDR4-2666MHz memory in 24 DIMMs, 7 PCI-E slots SAS 3.0/SATA 3.0/NVMe hot-swap HDD/SSD support, 10GBase-T/10G SFP+, and support the latest generation Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family CPUs for up to 205W TDP. About Solarflare Solarflare is pioneering server connectivity for neural-class networks. From silicon to firmware to software, Solarflare provides a comprehensive, integrated set of technologies for distributed, ultra-scale, software-defined datacenters. The Solarflare XtremeScale Architecture is a design framework which includes a comprehensive suite of features for ultra-scale environments: High-bandwidth, ultra-low-latency, ultra-scale connectivity, software defined, secure with hardware firewalls, and instrumented for line-speed telemetry. Solarflare solutions have earned a sterling reputation in financial services and are used by virtually every major global exchange, commercial bank and hedge fund. This exacting, regulated performance uniquely qualifies our solutions for use in ultra-scale applications in IoT, big data and artificial intelligence where low latency, robust security and insightful telemetrics are critical. Solarflare solutions are available from leading distributors and value-added resellers, as well as from major global manufacturers. Solarflare is headquartered in Irvine, California, and operates R&D facilities in Cambridge, UK and New Delhi, India.
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Mellanox Announces BlueField Storage Solutions to Accelerate NVMe over Fabrics

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel, Aug. 8, 2017 — #MellanoxTechnologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX) today announced the availability of storage reference platforms based on its revolutionary #BlueField System-on-Chip ( #SoC ), combining a programmable multicore CPU, networking, storage, security, and virtualization acceleration engines into a single, highly integrated device. BlueField integrates all the technologies needed to connect #NVMe over Fabrics flash arrays, with the fastest performance available in the market. BlueField provides 200 Gb/s of throughput and more than 10 million IOPS in a single SoC device. In addition, the powerful on-board multicore ARM processor subsystem enables flexible programmability that allows vendors to differentiate their software-defined storage appliances with advanced capabilities. This makes BlueField the ideal chip to control and connect All Flash Arrays and Just-a-Bunch-Of-Flash (JBOF) systems to InfiniBand and Ethernet Storage fabrics. “BlueField is the most highly integrated NVMe over Fabrics solution,” said Michael Kagan, CTO of Mellanox. “By tightly integrating high-speed networking, programmable ARM cores, PCIe switching, cache, memory management, and smart offload technology all in one chip; the result is improved performance, power consumption, and affordability for flash storage arrays. BlueField is a key part of our Ethernet Storage Fabric solution, which is the most efficient way to network and share high-performance storage.” “As data takes over the world, networked storage takes over computing,” said Peter Burris, GM and Chief Research Officer of Wikibon. “The BlueField SoC controller is a leading example of the right technology at the right time.” BlueField and the BlueField flash array reference platform are being shown at Flash Memory Summit, Aug. 8-10, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Mellanox booth, #138. BlueField samples and storage reference design systems will be available in Q4, 2017. Supporting Quotes: “We use Mellanox NICs and RDMA today, and are excited that BlueField integrates all the technologies needed to connect NVMe over Fabrics flash arrays,” said Yaniv Romem, CTO at Excelero. “We are looking forward to seeing the fastest performing SoC come to market in the form of Mellanox BlueField technology.” “Continuous innovation around NIC and RDMA solutions is why E8 Storage is proud to collaborate with Mellanox to deliver an end-to-end shared NVMe solution for high-performance enterprise storage applications,” said Ziv Serlin, VP System Architecture, E8 Storage. “With 200 Gb/s of throughput and up to 10 million IOPS in a single SoC device, BlueField will bring increased performance and flexible programmability to the industry.” “BlueField will power a new class of flash storage designs based on Mellanox’s robust SoC,” said Evan Chien, Director of Inventec. “We are pleased to see this advancement as BlueField enables a new level of flexible programmability that will enable us to differentiate our products with additional advanced capabilities.” “The Mellanox BlueField technology and ConnectX-5 adapters can pass storage traffic directly to our flash controllers and NVRAM devices, thereby greatly enhancing NVMe over Fabrics performance,” said Derek Dicker, vice president and business unit manager for performance storage at Microsemi. “Our SwitchTek PCIe switches and FlashTek SSD controllers are the ideal fit for flash storage systems using the BlueField SoC and we look forward to leveraging this technology.” “BlueField holds the promise of greatly enhancing our product offerings,” said Eugene McCabe, EVP, Sanmina. “As we continue to improve our offerings, BlueField will enable us to offer our customers increased performance and efficiency, thereby delivering a more robust system solution.” “BlueField is a brand new, highly integrated device,” said Peter Tung, Chief Operation Officer for Enterprise Business Group, Wistron. “The advanced performance and capabilities makes it an elegant solution for controlling and connecting our All Flash Arrays to Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet storage fabrics.”
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Newisys Announces NVMe Over Fabric Flash Storage Platform Delivering Unprecedented Dynamic System Scalability, Throughput and IOPs

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Newisys, a #Sanmina (Nasdaq: SANM) product division, today announced its new #NDS22482F (Soquel) #NVMe Fabric Storage System. This new platform delivers an unprecedented combination of performance, dynamic scalability, low-latency and robust multi-vendor interoperability. This NVMe over Fabric™ solution will be demonstrated live at the Flash Memory Summit (Santa Clara, CA – August 8-10, 2017) showing what is possible in achieving the industry's highest performance for a production ready #SAN. This demonstration represents a Software Defined Storage ( #SDS ) solution with interoperability among vendors including #Intel #NVMe flash drives, #Kazan #NVMeoF fabric cards, #IBM #SpectrumScale (clustered file system), and #Mellanox 100Gb Ethernet switches and HBAs. "Since the initial interoperability testing last year, Newisys has achieved a level of integration with our NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) bridges that puts them on top of the performance leader board," said Joe Steinmetz, CEO of Kazan Networks. "This new platform and combined solution delivers a whole new level of performance, scalability and interoperability -- which is exciting to our customers and across the market, in general." Key Solution Advantages Record-setting Performance: The Newisys NVMe Fabric Storage System model NDS22482F architecture is non-blocking and delivers 15 million IOPS and 75 GB/s while adding less than 7 microseconds to native SSD latency. The solution scales both horizontally to increase performance and vertically to increase overall capacity. New Level of Optimization: The Newisys NDS22482F is optimized to eliminate the latency added by traditional approaches—this is especially important when using solid-state drives (SSDs) with Intel® Optane™ (3D XPoint) technology. Next-generation Storage Networking: The full performance potential of storage based on non-volatile memory (NVM) is unlocked by connecting the Newisys NDS22482F to switched fabrics using six 100Gb PCIe over Ethernet links, unlike traditional all-flash arrays (AFAs). Linear Scale-out of Performance and Capacity: Unlimited scale-out is possible with the Newisys NDS22482F, because while every unit connects directly to the storage fabric, all remain centrally managed. Flexible Management: The system ships with a single or multi-node management interface that enables easy deployment and management at scale in large data center environments. "Our new NDS22482F platform has the ability to deliver its full performance over Ethernet with full bandwidth and minimal added latency," said Eugene McCabe, EVP of Newisys. "This addresses customer use cases ranging from High Performance Computing (HPC) and Enterprise Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), to Big Data Analytics and Big Data Warehousing applications with extreme performance." This product is currently in release and production ramp-up, with early orders for test and production systems being accepted now. The fully functional solution may be seen at Newisys booth #733 in the exhibit hall at the Flash Memory Summit conference, August 8-10, 2017 in Santa Clara, CA.

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Remote SSDs in Micron's SolidScale storage system behave like local SSDs

#SSD s operate the fastest when inside a computer. #Micron s new #SolidScale storage system uproots SSDs from servers and pushes them into discrete boxes while reducing latency. SolidScale is a top-of-the-rack storage system that will house many SSDs. It will connect to servers, memory, and other computing resources in a data center via gigabit ethernet, and will use the emerging #NVMeoF (NVMe over Fabric) 1.0 protocol for data transfers.

The new storage system is faster than regular storage arrays, Micron claimed. SolidScale can deliver data more than two times faster than a standard all-flash array.

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SolidScale is a step in decoupling SSDs from servers and putting them into shared storage in data centers. It also provides a power-efficient way of packing fast storage into tight spaces.

Micron's new storage technology is designed for data centers of the future, in which storage, networking, memory, and other resources will be decoupled and boxed together in discrete units. Ideas for similar designs are already floating around. Intel has open-sourced its Rack Scale Design, which has been adopted by major server vendors.

Such deployments are flexible for use with various workloads, including the cloud and databases, and can handle a variety of in-memory or storage driven applications. Pooled resources can also reduce electricity costs of data centers by more efficiently using cooling and other resources. Virtualization manages hardware use, and Micron is providing its own SolidScale middleware and management tools.

SolidScale fits into such software-defined storage environments and is highly scalable to meet various workloads. The storage system can be pooled across many connections and resources and can offload processing to CPUs on the edge. The storage array also gets direct access to server or pooled memory.

Deployments of SolidScale may start by the end of this year or in 2018, said Eric Endebrock, vice president for storage solutions marketing at Micron.

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