FMS: NGD Systems to Demo Computational Storage Progress

NGD Systems, Inc., in NVMe computational storage, demonstrated its computational storage technology at FMS.

In addition to showcasing its updated Newport product family, NGD also presented a keynote explaining how computational storage solves analytics problems with an additional session where NGD presented real customer use cases and discussed the recent progress of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) computational storage working group.

Announcements:

• Computational Storage Definition: The FMS took place this year amidst momentum from NGD and in the computational storage industry broadly, including major strides from the SNIA computational storage (CS) working group. The SNIA CS group recently established formal definitions and terminology to properly categorize computational storage technologies. NGD is one of several prominent members of the SNIA CS group that presented at FMS. NGD’s Scott Shadley served as co-chair of the group.
• New Products: NGD announced support for new edge computing services and a higher capacity drive.

“NGD has been very productive since last year’s flash Memory Summit, introducing several technical innovations and establishing new use cases for computational storage in hyperscale, edge and content delivery network environments,” said Scott Shadley, VP marketing, NGD. “In the last year, NGD introduced the industry’s highest capacity NVMe SSDs, debuted those products in availability, announced a new M.2 form factor, and earned recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor. We will be demonstrating that technology at the show, along with some new offerings that will be announced later this week.“

NGD Systems Keynote:

• NGD CTO Vladimir Alves and Scott Shadley
  Subject: Computational Storage Helps Solve Huge Analytics and ML Problems
  Abstract: Everyone wants to get the greatest possible value from the enormous amounts of data they are now collecting. Not only does this require tremendous computing power, but it also requires easily scalable solutions that can handle even more data in the future. Computational storage is a key part of the answer. It brings compute to the edge where the data is stored. This both avoids the need to move large amounts of data around and reduces the strain on facilities such as central processors, networks, and other systems and devices.

Other presentations:

• Shadley and director of storage solutions Neil Werdmuller
  Subject: Find Out What Computational Storage Really Is!
• NGD VP of business development Eli Tiomkin
  Subject: Showcasing Application Enhancements via NGD Systems In-Situ Processing Computational Storage