By leveraging TCP, the most widely used and reliable network protocol in today's enterprise data centers and cloud environments, KumoScale software enables the deployment of NVM Express™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) on existing Ethernet networks, opening up broader opportunities for NVMe-oF deployment and adoption. In addition to TCP networks, KumoScale supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) version 2 networks.
 
KumoScale shared accelerated storage software makes flash storage accessible across a data center network. It addresses the inefficiencies associated with direct-attached storage (DAS) architectures by disaggregating high-performance NVMe SSDs from compute nodes and making them shared and available across a network infrastructure as network-attached resources. Pooling these resources provides the ability to provision the right amount of storage or compute for each application workload, on every server within the data center, while preserving the high-performance, low-latency benefits of NVMe SSDs. By offering highly flexible, disaggregated network block storage for compute nodes, KumoScale enables data centers to operate more efficiently.
 
At Flash Summit 2018, Toshiba Memory's KumoScale storage software and Marvell® FastLinQ® 100GbE network interface card (NIC) received the "Best of Show" award for "Most Innovative Memory Technology in Storage Networking" for their joint NVMe-of-F TCP demonstration. The solution leverages existing Ethernet networks to protect investment and enables disaggregated and virtualized storage for any NVMe SSD.

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