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 have an exhibitor booth (#426) at the show. The exhibitor booth will showcase demonstrations from Dell, Integrated Device Technology, Intel and SanDisk. These demos will show how NVM Express unlocks the potential of NVM PCIe SSDs.

Interop takes place next week, May 6-10, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Stop by the booth to get the latest on NVM Express. Look forward to seeing you there!

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 Express PCIe SSDs expected to launch in 2013. To celebrate, we decided to update our website.

The new website was designed to provide easier access to information in a simple-to-navigate manner. On the site you will find information on what NVM Express is, how it can benefit end users, products available, resources and events to learn more, and how to join the NVM Express Work Group.

With the first NVM Express products coming in 2013, we hope you’ll visit this site regularly to stay up-to-date on new and exciting developments coming this year.

IDT’s PCIe Gen3 NVM Enterprise Flash Controller was recognized as Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine and as Best Electric Design by Flectronic Design Magazine. The IDT PCIe Gen3 NVM Flash Controller family provides a standard NVMe SSD solution, enabling Enterprise Storage and Server OEMs to dramatically improve latency and throughput performance.

Click here for additional information.

EE times published an article by Kam Eshghi discussing how NVMe SSDs benefit the Enterprise.

Click here for the article titled NVMe powers SSDs in the enterprise.

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.

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 drivers provide an NVM Express hardware abstraction layer, an NVM Express consumer which exposes namespaces as GEOM disks, and NVM Express management utilities.

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 own voices.  

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 with Li Zhou, VMware Staff Engineer.  To a standing room only audience, Li discussed how VMware supports the goals of the NVM Express initiative. NVMe is relevant to virtualization because NVMe SSDs can be used in existing products to increase the VM density (data can be swapped to SSD).