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PCI-SIG® Announces CopprLink™ Cable Specifications for PCIe® 5.0 and 6.0 Technology

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Mittwoch, Mai 1, 2024

PCI-SIG ®, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express® (PCIe®) standard, today announced the release of the CopprLink™ Internal and External Cable specifications.

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  • PCI-SIG ®, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express® (PCIe®) standard, today announced the release of the CopprLink™ Internal and External Cable specifications.
  • The CopprLink Cable specifications provide signaling at 32.0 and 64.0 GT/s and leverage well-established industry standard connector form factors maintained by SNIA .
  • “The CopprLink Cables are intended to evolve with the same connector form factors, scale for future PCIe technology generations and meet the demands of emerging applications.
  • The CopprLink cabling specifications are subject to the copyright rights of PCI-SIG and its Member companies and the legal disclaimers contained in such specifications.

Chiplet Summit Announces Its Initial Keynote Schedule With Emphasis on AI Applications

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Dienstag, Januar 2, 2024

The second annual Chiplet Summit, to occur on February 6-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, has now set its initial keynote schedule.

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  • The second annual Chiplet Summit, to occur on February 6-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, has now set its initial keynote schedule.
  • Speakers will be:
    Cliff Grossner and Bapi Vinnakota, Open Compute Project
    There will also be short talks by the UCIe Consortium, Silicon Catalyst, and SNIA.
  • Keynote topics will include AI solutions, design methods, memory, interfaces, new packaging methods, and the open chiplet economy.
  • Summit General Chair Chuck Sobey says, “At our keynotes, attendees hear what industry leaders are planning.

KIOXIA Donates Command Set Specification to Software-Enabled Flash Project

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Mittwoch, September 20, 2023

KIOXIA America, Inc. today announced that it has donated a command set specification to the Linux Foundation® vendor-neutral Software-Enabled FlashTM Project.

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  • KIOXIA America, Inc. today announced that it has donated a command set specification to the Linux Foundation® vendor-neutral Software-Enabled FlashTM Project.
  • Built to deliver on the promise of software-defined flash, Software-Enabled Flash technology gives storage developers control over their data placement, latency outcomes, and workload isolation requirements.
  • According to Hilary Carter, senior vice president of research & communications for the Linux Foundation, “The Software-Enabled Flash Project will benefit from this important specification from KIOXIA, as it allows project member companies to develop their own solutions for storage developers.”
    The Linux Foundation’s Software-Enabled Flash Project offers several levels of membership and participation.
  • The Software-Enabled Flash project will be on hand at the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)’s Storage Developer Conference (SDC) from September 18-21 to highlight Software-Enabled Flash technology.

Software-Enabled Flash Empowers Hyperscalers with New Command Set Specification

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Mittwoch, September 20, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Linux Foundation announced that KIOXIA America, Inc. has donated a command set specification to the Software-Enabled Flash (SEF) open source project. Software-Enabled Flash is a software-defined technology that delivers the full power and performance of flash memory into storage applications and development projects. Designed to harness the full potential of flash memory, SEF is now poised to benefit hyperscale environments, providing an unparalleled level of control over flash-based storage solutions.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Linux Foundation announced that KIOXIA America, Inc. has donated a command set specification to the Software-Enabled Flash (SEF) open source project.
  • Software-Enabled Flash is a software-defined technology that delivers the full power and performance of flash memory into storage applications and development projects.
  • New SEF specification donated by Kioxia focuses on maximizing flash memory value for data centers.
  • "The Software-Enabled Flash Project will benefit from this important specification from KIOXIA," said Hilary Carter, SVP Research & Communications at The Linux Foundation.

JEDEC Publishes New Standard to Support CXLTM Memory Module Implementation

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Dienstag, August 1, 2023

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association , the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced the publication of JESD317: Compute Express Link (CXL™) Memory Module Base Standard, known as “CMM”.

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  • JEDEC Solid State Technology Association , the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced the publication of JESD317: Compute Express Link (CXL™) Memory Module Base Standard, known as “CMM”.
  • CMM is designed to provide reference base targets for CXLTM-attached memory modules to help simplify system design and minimize industry confusion for first adoption.
  • By leveraging established industry standard specifications from SNIA (EDSFF), PCIe, and CXLTM to define specific module implementations, CMM enables system providers to accommodate certain known devices while leaving room for innovation.
  • “The high-speed memory capabilities offered by CXLTM memory modules are increasingly important to the industry and critical to many emerging applications such as artificial intelligence and data analytics,” said Mian Quddus, JEDEC Board of Directors Chairman.

Supermicro Expands Storage Solutions Portfolio for Intensive I/O Workloads with Industry Standard Based All-Flash Servers Utilizing EDSFF E3.S, and E1.S Storage Drives Across Multiple Product Lines

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Dienstag, März 14, 2023

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing the latest addition to its revolutionary ultra-high performance, high-density petascale class all-flash NVMe server family. Supermicro systems in this high-performance storage product family will support the next-generation EDSFF form factor, including the E3.S and E1.S devices, in form factors that accommodate 16- and 32 high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe drive bays.

Key Points: 
  • All of the Supermicro systems that support either the E1.S or E3.s form factors enable customers to realize the benefits in various application-optimized servers.
  • EDSFF (Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor) is an industry standard developed by and maintained by the SNIA.
  • The EDSFF specified storage devices are available in a range of capacities and performance and have increased scalability and serviceability compared to previous generations of storage devices.
  • "Supermicro continues to address our users' requirements with innovative solutions for today's and tomorrow's workloads," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro.

Supermicro Expands Storage Solutions Portfolio for Intensive I/O Workloads with Industry Standard Based All-Flash Servers Utilizing EDSFF E3.S, and E1.S Storage Drives Across Multiple Product Lines

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Dienstag, März 14, 2023

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing the latest addition to its revolutionary ultra-high performance, high-density petascale class all-flash NVMe server family. Supermicro systems in this high-performance storage product family will support the next-generation EDSFF form factor, including the E3.S and E1.S devices, in form factors that accommodate 16- and 32 high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe drive bays.

Key Points: 
  • All of the Supermicro systems that support either the E1.S or E3.s form factors enable customers to realize the benefits in various application-optimized servers.
  • EDSFF (Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor) is an industry standard developed by and maintained by the SNIA.
  • The EDSFF specified storage devices are available in a range of capacities and performance and have increased scalability and serviceability compared to previous generations of storage devices.
  • "Supermicro continues to address our users' requirements with innovative solutions for today's and tomorrow's workloads," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro.

SNIA’s New Smart Data Accelerator Interface Specification

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Donnerstag, Februar 16, 2023

The newly released Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) Specification v1.0 is a standard for a memory-to-memory data mover and acceleration interface.

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  • The newly released Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) Specification v1.0 is a standard for a memory-to-memory data mover and acceleration interface.
  • The benefits of this new specification include:
    Data movement between different address spaces, including user address spaces located within different virtual machines.
  • A PCI Express (PCIe) device model is described in the specification and the interface can be extended to other device models.
  • “With new accelerators and memory types enriching the system architecture, the release of the SDXI v1.0 Specification provides the framework for standardization of accelerator-assisted memory data movement and transformation.”

Scality's 2023 predictions: Security considerations will dominate the data storage industry, while the Three I's -- intelligence, innovation and integration -- will transform it

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Dienstag, Dezember 6, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scality announced its data storage predictions for 2023, capping a year of unprecedented ransomware attacks and unstructured data growth that complicate the work of IT teams to run efficient enterprise computing resources. In the present economic climate of higher costs and geopolitical uncertainty, Scality's forecast considers how big data storage solutions will evolve to meet these challenges, including how data security will remain a key storage industry driver, and how the Three I's — intelligent features, innovation, and integration — present new hope for data center efficiency and effectiveness.

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  • In 2022 the data storage industry evolved to embrace advances in AI/ML, hybrid clouds and edge computing that enabled greater data sovereignty and flexibility.
  • Security will dominate IT buying criteria, including for data storage.
  • This will present an opportunity for big data storage solutions with the intelligence to address current gaps in multi-level security, detection and data immutability for ransomware protection and fast business recoverability.
  • Customers need intelligent data search methods to optimize data analytics and mining of the trillions of unstructured data objects they have aggregated in object storage solutions.

iValue Group Strengthens Its Advisory Board with Appointment of IT Industry Expert and Veteran Business Leader Rajesh Janey

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Dienstag, September 20, 2022

BANGALORE, India, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Mr. Rajesh Janey, a well-known industry expert and seasoned technologist, has been named to the advisory board of iValue InfoSolutions.

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  • BANGALORE, India, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Mr. Rajesh Janey, a well-known industry expert and seasoned technologist, has been named to the advisory board of iValue InfoSolutions.
  • In this capacity, he will engage with iValue leadership team and provide guidance oncompany's both organic and inorganic growth strategy.
  • We are excited to have Rajesh on our Advisory Board and look forward to working closely with him," Mr. Sunil concludes.
  • iValue's focus and expertise in enabling this integrated approach, explains the company's extraordinary growth since inception," said Mr. Rajesh Janey.