In anticipation of the Upcoming Flash Memory Summit on August 4-7, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA companies are taking the wraps off important announcements and getting recognition for ground-breaking products. The event promises to be the biggest yet, with over 5,000 people expected and featuring sessions that explore important technology developments and end user applications. Tom Coughlin is general chairman of the 2014 Flash Memory Summit and organizer of the Storage Valley Supper Club.
There were a few anticipatory events before the conference. Micron, a leading flash Memory manufacturer, won an award from Techinsights for the Most Innovative Memory Device and Semiconductor of the Year award for their 16nm NAND. Samsung had an analyst and press event about their latest technology in San Francisco. This included displays of their new NVMe SSDs, which support much faster data transfers than traditional SATA and SAS interface products that were originally designed for HDDs.
There will be 12 keynote speakers with a strong focus on enterprise applications. These include Wu Peng from Alibaba, who will talk about the role that flash memory serves in solving their storage problems. Ty McConney from NetApp with customer Steve Knipple from Easy Street will discuss flash for enterprise customers. Jim Elliott and Bob Brennan from Samsung will discuss the evolution of their Vertical-NAND technology and its use in the new data center. Derek Dicker from PMC will discuss software defined flash solutions. Forrest Norrod from Dell will examine the future of flash across the enterprise. John Scaramuzzo from SanDisk describes how to build the flash-transformed data center.
Jamie Thomas and Michael Kuhn from IBM will talk about flash memory in big data applications. Steve Wozniak from Fusion-io will have a fire-side chat on how flash memory will impact our lives. Iri Trashanski from Marvell will look at the role of client flash in the data center. Riccardo Badalone from Diablo will talk about how to bring persistent memory into more computer applications. Kushagra Vaid from Microsoft will talk about designing SSDs for large scale cloud workloads. Tom Isakovich from Nimbus Data Systems will show how all-flash arrays solve storage problems cost effectively. Chris Rowen from Cadence will discuss flexible architectures for scalable flash controllers.
Other sessions focus on flash memory applications including flash in wearables and flash in 4K broadcast content and flash in healthcare. Other sessions explore storage interfaces such as NVMe, PCIe, SAS and SATA; controller and flash architectures; data recovery from SSDs, emerging solid state storage technologies, the role of software in flash storage systems. Flash memory in cloud applications will be a popular topic.
Readers can find the complete program, exhibitors and sponsors and other conference information on the conference web site at: www.flashmemorysummit.com.
After the Flash Memory Summit closes on Thursday August 7 there will be a Storage Valley Supper Club Meeting in Milpitas, CA featuring Sol Zales from Contour Semiconductor talking about phase change memory, Scott Cleland from Violin Memories discussing applications with all-flash storage appliances and Scott Holewinski from Gillware will talk about the challenges of recovering data from self encrypted SSDs. You can get more information on this event at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/storage-valley-supper-club-vii-registration-11688072339
