FMS 2020: Best of Show Award Winners

Flash Memory Summit presented its 2020 Best of Show Awards in a virtual ceremony.

This year’s 18 awards demonstrate that the industry continues to grow and innovate, thus impacting a new decade of expansion within the global flash memory and solid state storage industries.   
 
“We had a record year with the largest number of submissions ever for our Best of Show Awards,” said Jay Kramer, FMS Awards program chair, and president of Network Storage Advisors, Inc. “We were absolutely thrilled to see so much innovation with these best-in-class product solutions leveraging flash memory and solid state storage, and these will drive the next generation of data centers and cloud infrastructure.” 
 
The 15th Annual Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Award Winners are as follows: 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation   
Product: Hyperparallel Flash Array for Facial Recognition 
Customer: US Federal Government Agency 
Company: Pavilion Data 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Start-Up                                              
Product: X-NAND         
Category: Hardware Architecture 
Company: NEO Semiconductor 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Start-Up                                              
Product: FC4012 Flash Controller and DELTA SSDs         
Category: Flash Controller 
Company: FADU Technology 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application 
Product: FuzeDrive SSD 
Company: Enmotus
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application 
Product: ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD 
Company: Western Digital  
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application    
Product: SCM and QLC NVMe SSDs for Databases 
Company: Pliops  
 
Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation   
Product: FS1600 Storage Cluster 
Company: Fungible 
                                 
Most Innovative AI Application                                               
Product: DGX A100 and DGX A100 SuperPOD 
Category: System Architecture 
Company: NVIDIA 
 
Most Innovative AI Application                                               
Product: ESS3000 
Category: All Flash Storage Array 
Company: IBM 
 
Most Innovative AI Application                                               
Product: Apollo System on Chip with MRAM 
Category: System on Chip 
Company: Ambiq 
 
Most Innovative AI Application                                               
Product: Weka Accelerated DataOps for AI             
Category: Software-Defined Technology  
Company: WekaIO 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology                                              
Product: Optane Persistent Memory 
Category: SSD  
Company: Intel                  
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology                    
Product: NVMe RAID Accelerator for HPE OS Boot Device 
Category: Controller and System 
Company: Marvell and HPE  
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology                                              
Product: QLC-based FlashArray//C 
Category: All Flash Storage Array 
Company: Pure Storage 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology                                              
Product: LightSpeed Storage Architecture 
Category: Hardware and Software Architecture 
Company: VAST Data 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology                                            
Product: EDSFF E3.S SSD and Storage System  
Category: Industry Standards 
Company: KIOXIA 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology                                               
Product: NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) 
Category: Industry Standards 
Company: NVM Express 
 
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology                                               
Product: Native NVMe-oF Drive Spec Version 1.0.1 
Category: Industry Standards 
Company: SNIA Object Drive Technical Work Group (TWG)