Starting Monday August 12, at its regular spot in the Santa Clara Convention Center, the Flash Memory Summit and Exhibition will again bring together just about anybody who has knowledge and interest in nonvolatile memory. Monday is reserved for four in-depth seminars, followed by a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The regular conference starts Tuesday with a full gaggle of 1¼-hour talks that continue until 6 p.m. on Thursday. There will be 11 half-hour keynote presentations given during the three conference days.
The exhibit floor is open on Wednesday (noon to 2 and 5 to 7:30 p.m.) and Thursday (noon to 2 p.m.). Here are just a few of the many interesting products being shown on the exhibit floor:
LSI Sandforce (www.lsi.com), in booth 402, will show you a new SSD NAND flash controller delivering the endurance, reliability, and performance customers require, even as flash memory geometries shrink.
PMC (http://pmcs.com), a leading provider of enterprise storage system solutions for networked and server storage applications, will showcase 12-Gbit/s SAS and PCIe Gen 3 solutions. They will be happy to explain how NAND vendors and storage OEMs can design managed enterprise flash solutions using off-the-shelf MLC and SLC NAND devices.
EMC (www.emc.com) will have on hand its XtremSF PCIe flash hardware that is deployed in servers to dramatically improve application performance by reducing latency and accelerating throughput. XtremSF can also be used in conjunction with server flash caching software from EMC for accelerated read performance with data protection.
EMC XtremSF PCIe flash hardware.
At booth 606, HGST (www.hgst.com) will be demonstrating new 12-Gbit/s SAS SSDs that have the industry's highest performance, three endurance-level options, capacity up to 1 Tbyte, and proven reliability. The companies Ultrastar SLC and MLC drives fit the enterprise where it is critical that SSDs and HDDs integrate seamlessly in tiered storage environments.
PNY (www3.pny.com) will talk to you in booth 414 about the company's endurance promise that offers peace of mind for solid-state drives with up to 10k program/erase cycles, so you can easily choose the right drive based on your needs. They feature capacities up to 480 Gbytes and performance up to 550 Mbytes/s.
The ArxCis-NV nonvolatile DDR3 DIMM memory from Viking Technology (www.vikingtechnology.com) will be shown in booth 508. It delivers both performance and reliability to enterprise applications and is integrated into standard server and storage architecture at the fastest storage tier; exceeding any SSD (SATA, SAS, or PCIe) in performance with 12 Gbytes/s and 1.4 M IOPS. ArxCis-NV also features practically infinite write endurance.
The ArxCis-NV from Viking Technology.
Seagate Technology (www.seagate.com) will have three 2.5-in. SSDs. The 600 SSD is the ultimate SSD to speed up existing laptops with SATA 6 Gbits/s and up to 480-Gbyte capacity. The 600 Pro SSD is an entry-level enterprise SATA 6-Gbit/s drive with up to 480-Gbyte capacity. And, the 1200 SSD enterprise 12-Gbit/s SAS SSD has capacities up to 800 Gbytes.
Silicon Motion Technology (www.siliconmotion.com) will demonstrate its SM2246 SATA 6-Gbit/s controller in booth 615. It is intended for client and cache SSD for PC/ultrabook, and tablet applications, with ultra-low power consumption and support for the Toggle/ONFI 3.0/Async interface.
The Skyera sktHawk memory subsystem.
Skyera (www.skyera.com) has leveraged experience in advanced networking and chip design to build skyHawk, a vertically integrated hardware and software solution which combines a purpose-built flash storage array and a rich feature set of software tools.
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