The rise of flash storage has been a dominant theme in the datacentre in recent years. And rightly so, with performance in the order of 100 times better than spinning disk media. But there are always ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. NAND flash media solid state drives (SSDs) have largely displaced hard disk drives (HDDs) in client ...

Persistent storage is an essential requirement of all computer systems. It provides the ability for data to be retained across server reboots where data in memory would normally be lost. For the past ...

2017 is the year that NVMe interfaces running on the PCIe bus become mainstream. All the flash memory component and systems companies at the Flash Memory Summit were focused on NVMe products and ...

With cloud computing all the rage, Cadence's verification IP is primed for functional verification of systems based on the 12-Gbit/s SAS and NVM Express protocols. Participation in standards working ...

SATA and SAS are two serial connections protocols between hosts and peripherals in desktops, servers, and other applications. The protocols are similar in terms of data rate and signal requirements ...

SSDs (solid-state drives) are rapidly becoming the storage method of choice. With this changing of the guard from hard-disk drives to SSDs, there is a need for different connections than are used for ...

Supercomputing or high-performance computing (HPC) has massive storage needs. The hyperscale approach takes a modular approach using high-speed connectivity to link computing, network, and storage ...

The ancient storage tech your modern Windows PC can't live without ...

Legacy spinning media will live alongside SSDs with the new non-volatile memory express 2.0 protocol that addresses the needs of HDDs. The new NVM Express 2.0 has been released and with it a surprise: ...