Newisys and Kazan Networks to Show NVMe Over Fabric Flash Array

Newisys, a product division of Sanmina Corporation, and Kazan Networks Corporation will demonstrate a fastest NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) connected Ethernet-attached flash array at the SuperCompute conference being held from November 14-17.

Newisys will show their 2U/24 NVMe SSD solution with Kazan NVMe-oF solution inside. It is a provider of data center products for enterprise and cloud applications.

“We are excited to partner with Newisys for this week’s demo, and their team has been fantastic to work with on this project,” said Joe Steinmetz, CEO, Kazan. “The combination of our two technologies has come together this week to demonstrate functionality and performance that simply hasn’t been seen before.”

Since showing a prototype NVMe-oF array at IDF16 in August, Kazan has now developed a single 4x25GbE card providing performance, low latency connectivity to the Newisys shelf.

The two companies’ technology come together to deliver 10 million IO/s of performance out of a single 2U system, equivalent to 40GB/s of bandwidth. In this configuration, there is less than 7µs of incremental latency associated with a fabric-attached SSD.

This performance, low latency solution enables storage and compute disaggregation in advanced data center architectures. By pooling and sharing storage, rather than isolating it within a server chassis, large data centers can enjoy improvements in storage utilization.

“We are pleased to be showing a fabric-connected solution here at SuperCompute along with Kazan Networks,” said Eugene McCabe, EVP, Newisys. “Our two teams have collaborated on this new and exciting technology, enabling the highest levels of performance. Fabric-attached NVMe storage looks to be an extremely promising new opportunity for us.”