FMS Best of Show Award Winners

Flash Memory Summit (FMS) is announced its 2022 Best of Show Award winners.

This year’s awards recognize the most significant products and companies within the flash memory and solid state storage industries. Celebrating 35 years of NAND flash memory, this year’s winners demonstrate the continued growth and innovation in the industry.

“This year’s award winners prove that the industry is more than flash memory and FMS reflects the future of technology” said Jay Kramer, awards chair, FMS. “The future is bright for flash memory for high performance memory solutions, we congratulate all the award winners on their innovative technologies.“

16th Annual Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Award Winners are:

Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation:

• Product: FlashBox Storage Array
• Category: DPU and Storage Array
• Company: Viking Enterprise Solutions and Kalray SA

Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup: 

• Product: SupremeRAID Storage Solution
• Category: RAID Processor Card
• Company: Graid Technology, Inc.

Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup: 

• Product: StorPool Storage Software
• Category: Storage Array Software
• Company: StorPool Storage AD

Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application: 

• Product: Nitro CFexpress Card and Marvell 88SS1321 SSD Controller
• Company: Marvell Technology, Inc. and Exascend, Inc.

Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application: 

• Product: Hardware Enhanced Query System
• Company: NeuroBlade Ltd

Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application: 

• Product: Panther III DPU Storage Accelerator
• Company: MaxLinear, Inc.

Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation: 

• Product: Extreme Data Processor (XDP)
• Category: SaaS Customer
• Company: Pliops Ltd

Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation: 

• Product: InfiniBox SSA II Storage Array
• Category: MSP Customer
• Company:Infinidat Ltd

Most Innovative Sustainability Technology: 

• Product: Sustainability Enterprise SSD
• Category: Supply Chain Optimization
• Company: Western Digital Corporation

Most Innovative Sustainability Technology:

• Product: Power Analysis Modules
• Category: Storage Device Tester
• Company: Quarch Technology Ltd

Most Innovative Memory Technology: 

• Product: Elastic Storage System (ESS3500)
• Category: All Flash Storage Array
• Company: IBM Corporation

Most Innovative Memory Technology: 

• Product: Supermicro and MemVerge Memory Machine
• Category: In-Memory Software
• Company: Super Micro Computer, Inc. and MemVerge, Inc.

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

• Product: CM7 Series Enterprise PCIe 5.0 NVMe EDSFF SSD
• Category: SSD
• Company: Kioxia Corporation

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

• Product: OptiNAND Technology
• Category: Disk Drive with NAND Flash Acceleration
• Company: Western Digital Corporation

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

• Product: X-NAND
• Category: NAND Flash Architecture
• Company: NEO Semiconductor, Inc.

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

• Product: Xtacking 3.0 3D NAND Architecture
• Category: Heterogeneous Memory Integration
• Company: Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. (YMTC)

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

• Product: SMC 2000 Smart Memory Controllers
• Category: Controller
• Company: Microchip Technology, Inc.

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

• Product: Ultra Temperature Memory
• Category: DRAM
• Company: Innodisk Corporation

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

• Product: NVM Express (NVMe) 2.0 Specifications
• Category: Industry Standards
• Company: NVM Express Technical Work Group

Most Innovative Memory Technology:

Product: SNIA Standard Computational Storage Architecture 1.0
Category: Industry Standards
Company: SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group

More information for more of the award-winning companies, innovative products and solutions