SAN JOSE, Calif., Today at the 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, announced the general availability of KumoScale^TM1, its new NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express^™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. A leading provider of NVMe™ SSDs, technology and software, TMA is committed to helping cloud data center customers maximize flash and compute resources. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs.

“The cloud was built on Direct Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs due to their low cost and ease of deployment,” noted Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units for TMA. “However, customers are finding the fixed nature of DAS inhibits the flexibility promised by the adoption of containers and orchestration frameworks. With the availability of KumoScale software, these cloud data centers can scale and provision server and flash storage independently to accommodate unexpected and peak workloads. This increases data center efficiency and gives the agility needed to respond to new revenue opportunities.”

The availability of KumoScale opens up a wide range of possibilities for TMA customers – including Lenovo.  “Toshiba is an important strategic partner for Lenovo’s servers and storage offerings,” said Chris Verne, executive director, Data Center Group for Lenovo. “We’ve recently collaborated on the KumoScale software solution, demonstrating its ability to work on Lenovo’s platforms. We see the Toshiba software solution as a key innovation for future NVMe-oF offerings that enable increased flexibility and efficiency.”

SAN JOSE, Calif., Today at the 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, announced the general availability of KumoScale^TM1, its new NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express^™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. A leading provider of NVMe™ SSDs, technology and software, TMA is committed to helping cloud data center customers maximize flash and compute resources. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs.

“The cloud was built on Direct Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs due to their low cost and ease of deployment,” noted Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units for TMA. “However, customers are finding the fixed nature of DAS inhibits the flexibility promised by the adoption of containers and orchestration frameworks. With the availability of KumoScale software, these cloud data centers can scale and provision server and flash storage independently to accommodate unexpected and peak workloads. This increases data center efficiency and gives the agility needed to respond to new revenue opportunities.”

The availability of KumoScale opens up a wide range of possibilities for TMA customers – including Lenovo.  “Toshiba is an important strategic partner for Lenovo’s servers and storage offerings,” said Chris Verne, executive director, Data Center Group for Lenovo. “We’ve recently collaborated on the KumoScale software solution, demonstrating its ability to work on Lenovo’s platforms. We see the Toshiba software solution as a key innovation for future NVMe-oF offerings that enable increased flexibility and efficiency.”

SAN JOSE, Calif., Today at the 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, announced the general availability of KumoScale^TM1, its new NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express^™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. A leading provider of NVMe™ SSDs, technology and software, TMA is committed to helping cloud data center customers maximize flash and compute resources. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs.

“The cloud was built on Direct Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs due to their low cost and ease of deployment,” noted Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units for TMA. “However, customers are finding the fixed nature of DAS inhibits the flexibility promised by the adoption of containers and orchestration frameworks. With the availability of KumoScale software, these cloud data centers can scale and provision server and flash storage independently to accommodate unexpected and peak workloads. This increases data center efficiency and gives the agility needed to respond to new revenue opportunities.”

The availability of KumoScale opens up a wide range of possibilities for TMA customers – including Lenovo.  “Toshiba is an important strategic partner for Lenovo’s servers and storage offerings,” said Chris Verne, executive director, Data Center Group for Lenovo. “We’ve recently collaborated on the KumoScale software solution, demonstrating its ability to work on Lenovo’s platforms. We see the Toshiba software solution as a key innovation for future NVMe-oF offerings that enable increased flexibility and efficiency.”

SAN JOSE, Calif., Today at the 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, announced the general availability of KumoScale^TM1, its new NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express^™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. A leading provider of NVMe™ SSDs, technology and software, TMA is committed to helping cloud data center customers maximize flash and compute resources. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs.

“The cloud was built on Direct Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs due to their low cost and ease of deployment,” noted Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units for TMA. “However, customers are finding the fixed nature of DAS inhibits the flexibility promised by the adoption of containers and orchestration frameworks. With the availability of KumoScale software, these cloud data centers can scale and provision server and flash storage independently to accommodate unexpected and peak workloads. This increases data center efficiency and gives the agility needed to respond to new revenue opportunities.”

The availability of KumoScale opens up a wide range of possibilities for TMA customers – including Lenovo.  “Toshiba is an important strategic partner for Lenovo’s servers and storage offerings,” said Chris Verne, executive director, Data Center Group for Lenovo. “We’ve recently collaborated on the KumoScale software solution, demonstrating its ability to work on Lenovo’s platforms. We see the Toshiba software solution as a key innovation for future NVMe-oF offerings that enable increased flexibility and efficiency.”

SAN JOSE, Calif., Today at the 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, announced the general availability of KumoScale^TM1, its new NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express^™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. A leading provider of NVMe™ SSDs, technology and software, TMA is committed to helping cloud data center customers maximize flash and compute resources. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs.

“The cloud was built on Direct Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs due to their low cost and ease of deployment,” noted Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units for TMA. “However, customers are finding the fixed nature of DAS inhibits the flexibility promised by the adoption of containers and orchestration frameworks. With the availability of KumoScale software, these cloud data centers can scale and provision server and flash storage independently to accommodate unexpected and peak workloads. This increases data center efficiency and gives the agility needed to respond to new revenue opportunities.”

The availability of KumoScale opens up a wide range of possibilities for TMA customers – including Lenovo.  “Toshiba is an important strategic partner for Lenovo’s servers and storage offerings,” said Chris Verne, executive director, Data Center Group for Lenovo. “We’ve recently collaborated on the KumoScale software solution, demonstrating its ability to work on Lenovo’s platforms. We see the Toshiba software solution as a key innovation for future NVMe-oF offerings that enable increased flexibility and efficiency.”

SAN JOSE, Calif., Today at the 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, announced the general availability of KumoScale^TM1, its new NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express^™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. A leading provider of NVMe™ SSDs, technology and software, TMA is committed to helping cloud data center customers maximize flash and compute resources. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs.

“The cloud was built on Direct Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs due to their low cost and ease of deployment,” noted Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units for TMA. “However, customers are finding the fixed nature of DAS inhibits the flexibility promised by the adoption of containers and orchestration frameworks. With the availability of KumoScale software, these cloud data centers can scale and provision server and flash storage independently to accommodate unexpected and peak workloads. This increases data center efficiency and gives the agility needed to respond to new revenue opportunities.”

The availability of KumoScale opens up a wide range of possibilities for TMA customers – including Lenovo.  “Toshiba is an important strategic partner for Lenovo’s servers and storage offerings,” said Chris Verne, executive director, Data Center Group for Lenovo. “We’ve recently collaborated on the KumoScale software solution, demonstrating its ability to work on Lenovo’s platforms. We see the Toshiba software solution as a key innovation for future NVMe-oF offerings that enable increased flexibility and efficiency.”

SAN JOSE, Calif., Today at the 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit, Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, announced the general availability of KumoScale^TM1, its new NVMe-oF™ (NVM Express^™ over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. A leading provider of NVMe™ SSDs, technology and software, TMA is committed to helping cloud data center customers maximize flash and compute resources. The introduction of KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block storage, all while preserving the high performance of direct-attached NVMe SSDs.

“The cloud was built on Direct Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs due to their low cost and ease of deployment,” noted Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager, SSD and Cloud Software business units for TMA. “However, customers are finding the fixed nature of DAS inhibits the flexibility promised by the adoption of containers and orchestration frameworks. With the availability of KumoScale software, these cloud data centers can scale and provision server and flash storage independently to accommodate unexpected and peak workloads. This increases data center efficiency and gives the agility needed to respond to new revenue opportunities.”

The availability of KumoScale opens up a wide range of possibilities for TMA customers – including Lenovo.  “Toshiba is an important strategic partner for Lenovo’s servers and storage offerings,” said Chris Verne, executive director, Data Center Group for Lenovo. “We’ve recently collaborated on the KumoScale software solution, demonstrating its ability to work on Lenovo’s platforms. We see the Toshiba software solution as a key innovation for future NVMe-oF offerings that enable increased flexibility and efficiency.”