14 Views from the Flash Summit

By Rick Merritt, EETimes, Aug. 12, 2016 – 

New persistent memories and techniques promise to reshape computing. At the Flash Memory Summit here, engineers talked about how they are driving shifts in everything from server design and network storage to machine learning and flash chip prices.

One of the hot topics of the event was closing the gap between flash storage arrays on the network and solid-state drives (SSDs) on the server. The idea that systems could access flash memory whether it is local or on the other side of the data center is driving new system, silicon and software designs.

Fueling the trend, the NVM Express group just released a specification to enable the NVMe flash interface to run over networks such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel and Infiniband. The so-called NVMe over fabrics spec supports various schemes for direct memory access.

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