Storage Technologies News

In mid-2020, the NVMe Organization released the first revision of the Zoned Namespace specification (ZNS). This new specification has received a lot of attention, with promises of longer living drives that achieve higher performance under certain conditions. Since then, a number of companies have published roadmaps that include products with ZNS support. In this article, we'll review the significance of this specification and what ZNS drives are good for.

First, this specification is significant because it brings a new...

TEWKSBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avery Design Systems, leader in functional verification solutions today announced the pre-silicon system simulation solution of NVMe TM SSD and PCIe® designs using QEMU virtual host to SystemVerilog PCIe VIP co-simulation thus enabling the functional validation of complete NVMe and PCIe hardware-software SoC designs using industry standard conformance and performance benchmarking software applications running in Linux and Windows® environments.

“Early HW-SW integration and verification accelerates the development schedule and reduces bug fix times and iterations dramatically,” said...

DURHAM, N.H., August 5, 2019 – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced the latest release of their software, IOL INTERACT, a tool designed for SSD integrators, SSD controllers and System Integrators to automate testing for NVMe™ SSDs and NVMe-oF products. The UNH-IOL will be holding an educational webinar on 28 August 2019 at 1:00 PM EST highlighting their NVMe Testing Software and...

Nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) has gained incredible adoption as a low-latency interface for connecting host systems with SSDs. NVMe storage attached directly to host systems via peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) is commonly available in high-end storage servers, laptops, and mobile devices.

A complementary specification, NVMe over fabrics (NVMeoF) defines the attachment of that same NVM storage media over a fabric with microsecond-level latency. The NVMe-oF specification was designed to be agnostic of the underlying transport, and an additional...