Supporting the Linux Foundation's Software-Enabled Flash open-source project,
KIOXIA America, Inc. announced innovative new software-defined technology and sample hardware based on PCIe and NVMe technology.
This technology fully uncouples flash storage from legacy HDD
protocols, allowing flash to realize its full capability and potential
as a storage media. KIOXIA will highlight Software-Enabled Flash at this
week's
Flash Memory Summit Conference & Expo at
its booth #307 on the show floor and present the session, "NVMe
Software-Enabled Flash Storage for Hyperscale Data Centers," at the
Santa Clara Convention Center.
To
reach efficiency at scale, hyperscale cloud storage needs more from
flash storage devices that are currently based on hard disk drive
protocols created decades ago. To resolve this, the Linux Foundation's
Software-Enabled Flash Community
Project will enable industry adoption of a software-defined flash API,
giving developers the ability to customize flash storage specific to
data center, application and workload requirements. The project was
created to benefit the storage developer community with a vendor
agnostic, flexible solution that meets the evolving requirements of the
modern data center.
Software-Enabled
Flash technology consists of an open-source API and libraries coupled
with purpose-built, media-centric flash hardware focused on hyperscale
requirements and provides the tools for software developers to maximize
the yet untapped capabilities in flash storage. By unlocking the full
power of flash, this technology breaks free from legacy HDD protocols
and creates a platform specific to flash media in a hyperscale
environment.
"Software-Enabled
Flash technology fundamentally redefines the relationship between the
host and solid-state storage, offering our hyperscaler customers real
value while enabling new markets and increasing demand for our flash
solutions," said Eric Ries, SVP, Memory Storage Strategy Division
(MSSD), KIOXIA America, Inc. "By delivering the ability to flexibly
deploy and manage flash-based storage, and get the maximum value out of
it, we are making good on our promise to improve flash efficiencies in
hyperscale data centers."