From ComputerWorld: With its latest SSDs, Intel is paving the way for fast, standard NVMe connections in storage systems for both more and less adventurous users.
Intel is one of the biggest boosters of NVMe (non-volatile memory express), designed as a standard controller technology for PCI-Express interfaces between CPUs and flash storage. It wants to help create a large ecosystem around NVMe and other high-speed storage technologies that could, in turn, help to drive demand for more powerful CPUs. While SSDs (solid-state drives) dramatically boost storage performance over spinning disks, it takes high-speed interfaces like PCIe to make full use of that advantage.
At a Thursday event in San Francisco, Intel announced its first NVMe SSDs with dual ports for high-availability storage platforms, the kind of systems most enterprises use for critical applications. Dual-port systems use separate networks dedicated to storage and typically are deployed for specific applications, with common uses including critical applications such as online transaction processing.
Vendors can use the new Intel SSD DC D3700 and D3600 Series drives in products that use these traditional scale-up architectures but have the high performance of PCIe. The drives are available in capacities ranging from 800GB to 2TB.
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