Netlist NVvault NVDIMM Designed Into New Server Platform for Microsoft Cloud

Netlist, Inc., announced that its NVvault NVDIMM has been designed into a server platform for the Microsoft Cloud.

“After 18-months of extensive collaboration, we are pleased to confirm that our NVvault is qualified in the Microsoft cloud server platform,” said Christopher Lopes, VP WW sales and co-founder, Netlist. “This early work between Microsoft and Netlist has led to defining the specifications now being proposed for future generations of NVDIMMs, as well as customized features such as backup power option using the Netlist’s Power Management Unit. We look forward to continuing to work with Microsoft and building off the design and development work to date.“

Over the past 7 years, Netlist has shipped almost half million units of NVDIMMs – more than all of its competitors combined. As the pioneer of the NVDIMM and its enablement on the memory channel, Netlist holds seminal intellectual property on the technology. Recent independent tests revealed that NVvault for DDR3 exceeded 1.6 million IO/s (IO/s), an 1,800% improvement over previous  performance using PCIe SSD, and making NVvault a performing NVDIMM.

NVault NVDIMM Performance

Non-Volatile DIMM (NVDIMM) is a dual in-line memory module that appears to the host system as a standard registered DIMM during normal operation while having the persistence of flash. It provides the performance, latency, and data integrity of DRAM during DDR3 operation. These benefits are for OLTP, virtualization, big data analytics, high speed transaction processing, high performance database, and in-memory database applications.

Although Netlist has not received purchase orders for volume production, it continues to work with Microsoft to advance this design win as well as those for future generations of NVDIMMs.