Posted on: April 26, 2012
The growth of digital content, currently 50 percent per year, presents a strong secular expansion opportunity for storage over the next decade. Getting timely access to that data is essential to improving the user experience in an array of cutting edge applications. The introduction of PCIe based SSDs has shattered the performance ceiling of legacy storage interfaces. A PCIe interface can deliver 4GB/sec data rate and devices have demonstrated over one million IOPs on a mainstream CPU platform. The new NVMe interface protocol is targeted at these high performance applications. NVMe enables both a standard driver to be written for each OS and interoperability between implementations which reduces OEM qualification cycles. NVMe frees SSDs from legacy protocol support requirements and enables the next level of performance. Existing software investments are preserved by use of the NVMe standard drivers that are available for all the major operating systems.
Posted on: April 18, 2012
As a leader in enterprise SSDs with a comprehensive portfolio of products including – SAS, SATA, FC and PCIe based SSDs, we at…
Posted on: April 4, 2012
Oracle is a vendor of software, hardware, and integrated engineered systems with advanced system architectures that are optimized for Oracle applications from the ground up. …
Posted on: April 3, 2012
SanDisk believes that high performance interfaces are key to delivering the full performance potential of PCIe-based SSDs. NVMe was designed from scratch to unlock the…
Posted on: March 20, 2012
IDT has been a key contributor to the development of NVM Express from the beginning, and we’re thrilled with the progress made to date. NVMe…
Posted on: March 14, 2012
The infrastructure is coming together to support a complete NVMe based PCIe SSD solution. The NVMe specification is now at 1.0c with a new level…
Posted on: March 7, 2012
I am excited to see the tremendous progress in the NVMe ecosystem over the past few months. The Linux NVMe driver has been…
Posted on: October 11, 2011
SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface standard holds the key
By Kam Eshghi
http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2011/080811-ssd.html
Flash-memory-based solid-state disks (SSDs) provide faster random access and data transfer rates than electromechanical drives and today can often serve as rotating-disk replacements, but the host interface to SSDs remains a performance bottleneck. PCI Express (PCIe)-based SSDs together with an emerging standard called NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) promises to solve the interface bottleneck.
SSDs are proving useful today, but will find far more broad usage once the new NVMe standard matures and company's deliver integrated circuits that enable closer coupling of the SSD to the host processor.
ANALYSIS: SSD could ultimately replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says
Posted on: May 31, 2011
It is an exciting time for NVM Express. After 18 months of development in collaboration with 80 companies, the specification was published on March 1st. …
Posted on: May 31, 2011
I released a new version of the Linux NVMe driver today.
You can fetch it from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/willy/nvme.git;a=summary
I fixed a number of the review comments, including handling out-of-memory error conditions gracefully, supporting 32-bit userspace calling ioctl() with a 64-bit kernel and fixing the docbook comments to be real kerneldoc.
