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WekaIO Honored as a Finalist in the 2019 CRN® Tech Innovator Awards

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Monday, November 11, 2019

WekaIO (Weka) , the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, announced today that CRN ,a brand of The Channel Company , has recognized Weka as a finalist in the 2019 CRN Tech Innovator Awards.

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  • WekaIO (Weka) , the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, announced today that CRN ,a brand of The Channel Company , has recognized Weka as a finalist in the 2019 CRN Tech Innovator Awards.
  • WekaFS, Wekas flagship product, is the industrys first NVMe-optimized parallel file system and is designed to provide extreme performance at any scale.
  • CRNs Tech Innovator Awards honor technology vendors who work tirelessly to craft ground-breaking solutions for end-users, matching the speed of the channels evolution, said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company.
  • Its great to see a channel-centric company like WekaIO receive recognition from a respected brand such as CRN for data center technology innovation.

Netlist Strengthens Memory Partnership with Validation on 2nd Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors

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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Netlist, Inc. (OTCQX: NLST) today announced the successful validation of its NVMe SSDs and its NVvault DDR4 NVDIMM-Non the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC processors.

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  • IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Netlist, Inc. (OTCQX: NLST) today announced the successful validation of its NVMe SSDs and its NVvault DDR4 NVDIMM-Non the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC processors.
  • Netlist's NVMe SSD performance and latency had best-in-class results when benchmarked using the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors against other leading SSD makers.
  • In addition, AMD validated Netlist's NVDIMM-N solution on the 2nd Gen EPYC processor and found full functional system and power loss compatibility in memory configurations.
  • Hong, Netlist Chief Executive Officer, said, "We have a long-standing relationship with AMD and are pleased to support their latest generation platform with our SSD and NVDIMM memory solutions.

KIOXIA’s KumoScale Software Now Includes Cross-Domain Volume Replication

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Tuesday, November 5, 2019

KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.), the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, today announced that the v3.11 of its KumoScale storage software with NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) now includes cross-domain volume replication.

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  • KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.), the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, today announced that the v3.11 of its KumoScale storage software with NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) now includes cross-domain volume replication.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191105005286/en/
    With the addition of cross-domain volume replication, KumoScale software offers data protection at the storage layer while maintaining NVMe flash performance and low latency.
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    KIOXIAs KumoScale storage software makes flash storage accessible over a data center network allowing data centers to run more efficiently.
  • When provisioning volumes, KumoScale software will create volume replicas across multiple KumoScale appliances located in different failure domains for rack-level resiliency.

Western Digital Showcases Industry-leading Storage Innovations at Microsoft Ignite 2019

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Monday, November 4, 2019

Microsoft Ignite 2019, Booth #909 - Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC ) is at Microsoft Ignite demonstrating how its innovations in SSDs, HDDs and storage server platforms help data center managers and architects deliver scale-out performance and extreme storage density with unmatched TCO for todays most demanding IT environments.

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  • Microsoft Ignite 2019, Booth #909 - Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC ) is at Microsoft Ignite demonstrating how its innovations in SSDs, HDDs and storage server platforms help data center managers and architects deliver scale-out performance and extreme storage density with unmatched TCO for todays most demanding IT environments.
  • It is also highlighting its latest Ultrastar 96-layer NVMe SSD families and Ultrastar Serv60+8 hybrid storage server, along with their industry-leading Ultrastar Data60 storage enclosure.
  • Western Digital data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital, G-Technology, SanDisk and WD brands.
  • Western Digital, the Western Digital logo, G-Technology, SanDisk, WD, and Ultrastar are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries.

Pavilion Achieves VMware Ready Status for Its Hyperparallel Flash Array

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Monday, November 4, 2019

Pavilion Data Systems, the leader in NVMe-Over-Fabrics, today announced release 2.3 of its award-winning Hyperparallel Flash Array with VMware Ready status.

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  • Pavilion Data Systems, the leader in NVMe-Over-Fabrics, today announced release 2.3 of its award-winning Hyperparallel Flash Array with VMware Ready status.
  • Release 2.3 includes native VMware support for vCenter, VMware Ready support for NFS along with backward compatibility for block-based iSCSI connectivity.
  • VMware is a leader in datacenter innovation and is pleased to work with Pavilion, a leader in high-performance storage, to support its Hyperparallel Flash Array for the benefit of customers like Statistics Netherlands (CBS), said Sudhanshu Jain, group product line manager, Cloud Platform, VMware.
  • Pavilion is the inventor of the worlds first Hyperparallel Flash Array.

Micron Broadens Choices for Storing the World’s Data With Announcement of New Enterprise and Consumer SSDs

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Thursday, October 24, 2019

The new Micron 7300 NVMe series and Micron 5300 SATA series of SSDs enable enterprises to modernize, economize and maximize return on their data center investments.

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  • The new Micron 7300 NVMe series and Micron 5300 SATA series of SSDs enable enterprises to modernize, economize and maximize return on their data center investments.
  • In parallel, growing volumes of data are increasing average capacities in enterprise and consumer drives.
  • The new SSDs deliver on Microns commitment to provide differentiated solutions that store data across all market segments and needs, from consumer to cloud.
  • The Micron 5300 SSDs are the industrys first 96-layer 3D TLC enterprise SATA drives with enhanced security.

Cadence Announces First-to-Market NVMe 1.4 Verification IP for High-Performance Computing

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

The Cadence VIP for NVMe 1.4 supports the companys Intelligent System Design strategy, enabling SoC design excellence through best-in-class IP.

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  • The Cadence VIP for NVMe 1.4 supports the companys Intelligent System Design strategy, enabling SoC design excellence through best-in-class IP.
  • The new Cadence VIP for NVMe 1.4 provides customers with a comprehensive verification solution to develop high-quality NVMe host and device controllers quickly, helping reduce overall time to market.
  • The new NVMe 1.4 specification is designed to address the growing needs of enterprise systems that utilize PCIe-based solid-state storage, said Moshik Rubin, Verification IP Product Management Group Director, System and Verification Group at Cadence.
  • The Cadence VIP for NVMe 1.4 with TripleCheck technology is part of the Cadence Verification Suite and is optimized for Xcelium Parallel Logic Simulation, along with supported third-party simulators.

NGD Systems Earns 30th Patent

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

NGD Systems, Inc. , the world leader in Computational Storage, today announced its 30th patent awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); the company also has submitted additional patents that are pending.

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  • NGD Systems, Inc. , the world leader in Computational Storage, today announced its 30th patent awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); the company also has submitted additional patents that are pending.
  • Since achieving its first patent in August 2014, NGD has gone on to create the storage industrys most innovative technology, including the largest capacity and most power-efficient NVMe Computational Storage Drives (CSDs).
  • NGD Systems manufactures the worlds most advanced computational storage drives (CSDs) that allow customers to compute anywhere.
  • NGD Systems technology is ideal for edge computing networks, data-intensive AI/ML applications, stringent SLA environments, content delivery networks (CDNs) and hyperscale environments.

Excelero And Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) Streamline High-Performance Cloud Storage

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) , a global data center solution provider, and Excelero have partnered to develop a High-Performance Cloud Storage joint solution , QxStor Excelero NVMesh , that delivers the high IOPs performance capabilities of NVMe Flash at scale without the traditional storage bottlenecks.

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  • Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) , a global data center solution provider, and Excelero have partnered to develop a High-Performance Cloud Storage joint solution , QxStor Excelero NVMesh , that delivers the high IOPs performance capabilities of NVMe Flash at scale without the traditional storage bottlenecks.
  • Targeted at high-performance computing (HPC) users, cloud service providers and web-scale organizations, QxStor Excelero NVMesh combines the QCTnext-generation NVMe storage servers with Exceleros NVMesh software-defined block storage for shared NVMe at local performance.
  • QxStor Excelero NVMesh is a pre-validated and pre-configured software-defined storage solution that supports the industry-leading block storage software and helps users accelerate their business with flexibility and tailored infrastructures.
  • We are delighted to team up with Quanta Cloud Technology on QxStor Excelero NVMesh and apply Exceleros extensive expertise with web-scale NVMe storage users so that together we can help more organizations to deploy the optimal storage architecture to power their growth.

Pavilion Data Achieves World Records in STAC-M3™ Benchmarks

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Pavilion Data Systems, the leader in NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF), announced today record-breaking results of STAC-M3 benchmarks in a new Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Report released this week.

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  • Pavilion Data Systems, the leader in NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF), announced today record-breaking results of STAC-M3 benchmarks in a new Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Report released this week.
  • The Pavilion array came ahead of all other publicly disclosed solutions involving kdb+ and flash arrays in eight tick analytics benchmarks.
  • VR Satish, Pavilion Data CTO, will then present architectural considerations for large-scale workloads in a session called NVMe-oF for High-Frequency Trading.
  • These tests show that NVMe over Fabric using the Pavilion Hyperparallel Flash Array represents a valid option to support high-performance kdb+ market data analytics.