OCP Global Summit: Kioxia Highlights Additions to Data Center and Enterprise SSD Portfolio

Kioxia America, Inc. was at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit to highlight its data center and enterprise SSD portfolio, including next-gen Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S SSDs for hyperscale data centers, Software-Enabled Flash technology, and PCIe 5.0 SSDs.

The company continues to spearhead advancements in flash memory technology and is committed to propelling the industry toward a future defined by enhanced efficiency, unwavering reliability, heightened security, and performance in enterprise and hyperscale data centers. The company’s participation in the summit opens opportunities for direct connection and collaboration with customers focused on the same goals.

“Whether it’s increasingly dynamic workloads or more data-intensive technologies, today’s businesses are facing many challenges – and we’re here to be part of the solution,” said Neville Ichhaporia, SVP and GM, SSD business unit. “On our journey with the Open Compute Project community, we have witnessed first hand the commitment that this growing alliance of companies has to collaborative innovation. These united efforts will shape the data center landscape for years to come.”

The firm offers a portfolio of products, including SSDs for client PCs, data center, hyperscale, high-end servers and storage systems. Demonstrations was given in the Kioxia booth on the show floor at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center from October 17-19 and included:

XD7P Series EDSFF E1.S SSDs

• XD7P Series EDSFF E1.S SSDs: E1.S drives was shown running a RocksDB workload, showcasing high throughput and low latency.
• LD2-L Series E1.L SSDs running high throughput FIO: Showcasing the extreme density of 960TB ⁽¹⁾ in a single rack unit. FIO workload showing sequential read workload to highlight performance. Maximum throughput from 32 SSDs tops 100GB/s of sequential read.

CD8P Series U.2 Data Center NVMe SSD

• CD8P Series U.2 Data Center NVMe SSDs: It is one of the first data center class PCIe 5.0 SSDs. Providing performance at a reasonable cost for data center workloads, it can be used to rapidly access large data sets used by cloud and data center providers.
• Software-Enabled Flash: Kioxia will be showcasing the 1st ⁽²⁾ software-defined flash storage hardware device in an E1.L form factor supporting the Linux Foundation Software-Enabled Flash Project.

Additionally, Scott Stetzer, senior director, memory and storage strategy division (MSSD), Kioxia America, wase giving an executive address at the conference. Titled, The Next Evolution of Flash is Software-Defined, this presentation explained how software-defined technology allows developers to maximize the yet untapped capabilities in flash storage. The company’s executive address took place on October 1. The firm also presented an Expo Hall session titled, Flash-Centric Storage Architecture Enabled by the E1.S Form Factor, on October 17.

(1) Definition of capacity: Kioxia Corporation defines 1MB as 1,000,000 bytes, 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a 1TB as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer OS, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB=2^30 bytes=1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB=2^40 bytes=1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
(2) As of October 17, 2023