KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.) will showcase its data center and enterprise solid state drive (SSD) portfolio at this week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Virtual Summit and Future Technologies Symposium.

At the Summit, KIOXIA will highlight its CM6 and CD6 Series PCIe 4.0 NVMe enterprise and data center SSDs, KumoScale storage software based on NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and a new Software-Enabled Flash (SEF) technology that "redefines digital storage."

KIOXIA was the first company to publicly demonstrate PCIe 4.0 SSDs, and is now the first to ship these next-generation drives, which will be demonstrated at OCP. The company’s CM6 Series brings planned performance improvements of up to 2x over its PCIe 3.0 predecessors and is 12x faster than SATA drives. KIOXIA’s lineup of Gen4 PCIe SSDs also includes the CD6 Series, which is targeted to cloud and scale-out environments.

KIOXIA will also introduce SEF technology. SEF combines software flexibility, host control and flash native semantics into a flash native API and purpose-built hardware. SEF will be showcased in KIOXIA’s Executive Track Session led by Eric Ries.

Other KIOXIA exhibits

• CM6 Series PCIe 4.0 enterprise NVMe SSDs demonstrating MySQL database performance improvement over PCIe 3.0 SSDs
• CD6 Series PCIe 4.0 data center NVMe SSDs showcasing object storage performance of over 6.0 GB/s throughput
• KumoScale NVMe-oF Shared Accelerated Storage Software: Enabling networked NVMe flash at data center scale

Additionally, KIOXIA executives will be featured presenters on various technologies and topics around SSDs, new technologies and applications.

• Executive Track Session: Eric Ries, “Why Are You Still Using Flash Like a Drive?”
• Expo Hall Stage Presentation: Neville Ichhaporia, “Improve Scalability and Application Performance with PCIe 4.0 SSDs”