The Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Awards showcase industry recognition of company and organization products and services. Recently, FMS expanded the awards program to include recognition of the use of a variety of memory technologies in addition to flash memory.
Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation - recognizes real-world solutions that demonstrate compelling customer value with market-differentiating benefits such as enhanced ROI, quality of service, business continuity, security, data protection and/or virtualization.
Product: FlashBox Storage Array
Category: DPU and Storage Array
Company: Viking and Kalray
Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup - recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies blazing a trail of innovation in the storage industry.
Product: SupremeRAID™ Storage Solution
Category: RAID Processor Card
Company: GRAID Technology
Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup - recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies blazing a trail of innovation in the storage industry.
Product: StorPool Storage Software
Category: Storage Array Software
Company: StorPool
Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application - recognizes solutions for devices such as smartphones, music/video players, digital cameras, gaming systems, navigational systems, tablets, mobile computing solutions and/or other consumer hardware and software solutions.
Product: Nitro CFexpress Card and Marvell 88SS1321 SSD Controller
Company: Marvell and Exascend
Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application - recognizes a wide range of market segments, vertical market sectors and customer environments demanding high performance and scale such as AI, machine learning, in-memory databases and other big data applications.
Product: Hardware Enhanced Query System
Company: NeuroBlade
Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application - recognizes a wide range of market segments, vertical market sectors and customer environments demanding high performance and scale such as AI, machine learning, in-memory databases and other big data applications.
Product: Panther III DPU Storage Accelerator
Company: MaxLinear
Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation - this new category awards innovation that includes flash memory or other forms of non-volatile memory solutions for integration and use in hyperscale IT environments.
Product: Extreme Data Processor (XDP)
Category: SaaS Customer
Company: Pliops
Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation - this new category awards innovation that includes flash memory or other forms of non-volatile memory solutions for integration and use in hyperscale IT environments.
Product: InfiniBox™ SSA II Storage Array
Category: MSP Customer
Company: INFINIDAT
Most Innovative Sustainability Technology
Product: Sustainability Enterprise SSD
Category: Supply Chain Optimization
Company: Western Digital
Most Innovative Sustainability Technology
Product: Power Analysis Modules
Category: Storage Device Tester
Company: Quarch Technology
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: Elastic Storage® System (ESS3500)
Category: All Flash Storage Array
Company: IBM
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: Supermicro and MemVerge® Memory Machine™
Category: In-Memory Software
Company: Supermicro and MemVerge
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: CM7 Series Enterprise PCIe 5.0 NVMe EDSFF SSD
Category: SSD
Company: KIOXIA
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: OptiNAND™ Technology
Category: Disk Drive with NAND Flash Acceleration
Company: Western Digital
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: X-NAND™
Category: NAND Flash Architecture
Company: NEO Semiconductor
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: Xtacking® 3.0 3D NAND Architecture
Category: Heterogeneous Memory Integration
Company: YMTC
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: SMC 2000 Smart Memory Controllers
Category: Controller
Company: Microchip
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: Ultra Temperature Memory
Category: DRAM
Company: Innodisk
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: NVM Express® (NVMe®) 2.0 Specifications
Category: Industry Standards
Company: NVM Express® Technical Work Group
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Product: SNIA Standard Computational Storage Architecture 1.0
Category: Industry Standards
Company: SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group
"This year's award winners prove that the industry is more than flash memory and Flash Memory Summit reflects the future of technology" said Jay Kramer, Awards chair, Flash Memory Summit. "The future is bright for Flash Memory for high performance memory solutions, we congratulate all the award winners on their innovative technologies."
Award Logos
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