Game-changing technologies are exciting. In a recent blog, Jim O'Reilly wrote that Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) was about to "revolutionize" the solid-state drive (SSD) industry in as radical a change as introduced by Fibre Channel in the 90s and SCSI in the 80s.
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Silicon Motion Licenses Mobiveil's UNEX NVM Express Controller to Accelerate SoC Design
June 3, 2014
MILPITAS, CA - Mobiveil, Inc, a fast growing supplier of silicon intellectual property (SIP), platforms and IP-enabled design services, today announced that Silicon Motion, a world leader in high performance, low-power semiconductor solutions to OEMs and other customers in the mobile storage and mobile communications markets, has licensed Mobiveil's UNEX NVM Express controller IP for system-on-chip (SOC) designs. This agreement gives silicon motion access to Mobiveil's highly configurable, UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab) certified IP. Mobiveil's leadership in...
IntelliProp SATA 6Gb/s Host Core Certified on Xilinx Kintex-7(R) FPGA
June 3, 2014
LONGMONT, CO--(Marketwired - June 03, 2014) - IntelliProp Inc announced today that their SATA 6Gb/s Host Intellectual Property (IP) Core has passed certification by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) on a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA. The IntelliProp SATA 6Gb/s Host IP core is the first SATA Host core to be certified by the UNH-IOL on the Xilinx Kintex-7 device.
NVMe Poised To Revolutionize Solid-State Storage
April 21, 2014
File I/O stacks in operating systems are a great example for schools to teach Parkinson's Law, which says that software expands to use the resources available. Last time I counted, the current Linux stack with an attached SSD has a total of six or seven address translations. That's a huge software overhead, and you might be forgiven for wondering if the objective of the fastest I/O got lost in translation!
University of New Hampshire Plugfest Leads to Product Certification
April 1, 2014
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (NHU-IOL) provides interoperability and conformance testing for a wide range of network, telecommunications, storage products and technologies. Its recent NVM Express Interoperability Plugfest, which took place this past February, led to a number of devices finding certification through the New Hampshire group and NVM Express, a collection of more than than 90 companies that support non-volatile memory-based storage. NHU-IOL announced this week that products from Dell, Huawei, Intel, Mobiveil, PMC Sierra and Samsung...
UNH-IOL Certifies NVMe 1.1 Devices at Plugfest
March 26, 2014
DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 that its NVM Express Interoperability Plugfest, conducted February 24-27 in cooperation with the NVM Express Organization, led to the certification of eight products and the continued validation of NVM Express (NVMe) as a robust and interoperable solution for enterprise and data center application performance challenges. This was the second plugfest conducted by the UNH-IOL's...
NVMe Plugfest Webinar - An Interop Event for NVMe SSDs
January 17, 2014
With the second NVM Express (NVMe) Plugfest approaching, the University or New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) is providing a webinar titled "NVMe Plugfest Webinar - An Interop Event for NVMe SSDs" provide information to UNH-IOL members and non-members. The session will be led by David Woolf and is designed to provide information on the upcoming Plugfest and the benefits of being a UNH-IOL member to enterprise server, storage or subsystem vendor companies developing NVMe products. The webinar takes place January...
Quarch Technology Introduces hot swap test tool for PCIe SFF Disks
December 5, 2013
AVIEMORE, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Dec. 3, 2013) - Quarch Technology Ltd, leaders in test automation, have announced a new range of test modules for use with the latest generation of PCIe attached storage. The Quarch PCIe SFF Drive Module will allow fully automated hot-plug, lane failure and fault injection testing of the next generation of storage devices.
Volume Deployment and Final Standardization of 12Gb/s SAS Data Storage Interface Boosts SCSI Trade Association's Plugfest Event
November 19, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As Enterprise storage continues to demand higher performance to meet rising workload levels and higher reliability to push down total cost of ownership, the SCSI Trade Association (STA) today announced two 12Gb/s SAS storage interface technology milestones, signaling the technology's continued success in meeting these industry needs.
First NVMe SSDs Announced - What's NVMe?
September 23, 2013
I recently attended the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco, CA, in order to follow-up on the progress of NVM Express (NVMe). While there, I attended an NVMe technical session and spent a large amount of time in the NVMe Pavilion discussing NVMe with most of the vendors there. NVMe has made good progress since last year (last year's comments), with the first NVMe SSD announced and a robust ecosystem developing to support this technology.