Toshiba Leads Sessions and Demos on New Advances in Memory, SSD and Architecture Technologies at Flash Memory Summit

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

WHAT: Flash Memory Summit 2017

WHEN: August 8-10, 2017

WHERE: Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA

WHO:
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) will demonstrate groundbreaking memory and storage technologies in several different applications in booth #407 at the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) this week. Toshiba employees will also be featured presenters on various technologies and topics around SSDs, new flash technologies and applications. Demonstrations and theater presentations will take place in Toshiba's two-level booth (#407) on the show floor at the Santa Clara Convention Center from August 8-10.

Featured Keynote Presentation
TITLE: "Flash Memory is Going Places We Have Never Been Before"
SPEAKERS: Steve Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager of storage products and Shigeo (Jeff) Ohshima, technology executive, SSD application engineering
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 12:10 - 12:40 p.m.

Sessions and Panels
Toshiba was selected by FMS organizers to present in the following sessions and panels:

TITLE: "Avoiding Costly I/O Latency Variations in SSDs Through I/O Determinism" (Forum B-11)
SPEAKER: Steven Wells, Toshiba fellow, data center architecture
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 8:30 - 10:50 a.m.

TITLE: "NVM Express® (NVMe(TM1)) BGA: NVMe in a Small Form Factor" (101-A)
SPEAKER: Balaji Venkateshwaran, director of strategic marketing
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 8:30 - 9:35 a.m.

TITLE: "Ballooning Demand for NAND in Autonomous Vehicles Beyond 2020" (Invited talk T-11)
SPEAKER: Hrishi Sathawane, senior staff storage engineer/analyst
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 8:30 - 10:50 a.m.

TITLE: "TCG(3) + NVMe Security" (Forum A-11)
SPEAKER: Jeremy Werner, vice president, marketing and product planning
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 10:30 - 10:50 a.m.

TITLE: "Achieving Optimized, Dynamic Storage Provisioning with NVMe-oF(TM) (NVM Express(TM) over Fabrics)(1)" (Forum C-12)
SPEAKER: Joel Dedrick, systems architect, NVMe-oF
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 3:40 - 6:00 p.m.

TITLE: "Device Architectures to Best Enable PCIe®(2 )Gen 4" (Forum B-12)
SPEAKER: Rob Sykes, distinguished engineer
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 3:40 - 6:00 p.m.

TITLE: "NVMe SSD with Persistent Memory Region" (Forum M-31)
SPEAKER: Chander Chadha, senior technical product engineer
DATE: Wednesday, August 9(th)
TIME: 8:30 - 9:45 a.m.

TITLE: "Emerging Solutions for Persistent Memory" (Session X-103)
SPEAKER: Tom Friend, Director of Industry Standards
DATE: Wednesday, August 9(th)
TIME: 3:00 - 3:50 p.m.

TITLE: "All Flash Edge Computing Platform for IoT" (Forum W-32)
SPEAKER: Ram Johri, system architect
DATE: Thursday, August 10(th)
TIME: 9:45 - 10:50 a.m.

TITLE: "Flash-Based Edge Computing System for IoT" (Invited Talk IT-10)
SPEAKER: Atsuhiro Kinoshita, Flashmatrix project lead
DATE: Thursday, August 10(th)
TIME: 1:30 - 3:40 p.m.

Toshiba will also be leading sessions and forums on many technology and application topics.

TITLE: Consumer Applications: Session 101-A
SPEAKER: John Geldman, director, SSD industry standards
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 8:30 - 9:35 a.m.

TITLE: Enterprise Storage: Forum D-12
SPEAKER: Steve Garceau, senior product marketing manager, enterprise SSDs
DATE: Tuesday, August 8(th)
TIME: 3:40 - 6:05 p.m.

TITLE: PCIe-NVMe Issues: Forum A-21
SPEAKER: Maulik Sompura, director of product management, data center and client SSDs
DATE: Wednesday, August 9(th)
TIME: 8:30 - 10:50 a.m.

TITLE: Flash Storage: Session 202-B: "The Performance Story: An Independent Evaluation of Flash Storage"
SPEAKER: John Geldman, director, SSD industry standards
DATE: Wednesday, August 9(th)
TIME: 9:45 - 10:50 a.m.

TITLE: Flash and Big Data: Session 204-C: "Flash in Big Data Applications"
SPEAKER: Mark Carlson, principal engineer, industry standards
DATE: Wednesday, August 9(th)
TIME: 4:40 - 5:45 p.m.

TITLE: Application Acceleration: Session 303-C
SPEAKER: Aaron Behman, senior director of marketing, Flashmatrix(TM 4
)DATE: Thursday, August 10(th)
TIME: 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.

TITLE: Flash and IoT: Session 304-A: "Flash and the Internet of Things"
SPEAKER: Nidish Kamath, architect, enterprise SSDs
DATE: Thursday, August 10(th)
TIME: 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Toshiba Booth (#407) Demos

    Demo                            Description
    ----                            -----------

    Client SSDs: BG and XG Series    The new ultra-mobile, single package BG3
                                     NVMe Client SSD using HMB (Host Memory
                                     Buffer) will be demonstrated live.
                                     Toshiba's high-performance XG5 M.2 NVMe
                                     Client SSD will also be on display.
    -----------------------------   -----------------------------------------

    Enterprise NVMe SSDs: CM5        The most comprehensive, feature-rich
     Series                          NVMe SSD available, Toshiba's CM5 is the
                                     first5 enterprise SSD with 3D TLC flash.
    -------------------------       -----------------------------------------

    NVMe over Fabrics                A technology demonstration that validates
                                     NVMe-oF's ability to provide DAS-like
                                     performance as local NVMe, over the
                                     network, in demonstrations with Lenovo
                                     and Mellanox.
    -----------------               -----------------------------------------

    Enterprise SAS SSDs: PM5 Series  The fastest6 SAS SSD 12Gbit/s SAS series
                                     available for enterprise server and
                                     storage systems, built on 3D TLC flash.
    ------------------------------- -----------------------------------------

    Enterprise SATA SSDs: HK Series  Optimized for high performance and low
                                     power in data center applications,
                                     Toshiba's HK Series has been put through
                                     independent third-party testing by
                                     Storage Review - and it emerged the
                                     clear leader among competitors.
    ------------------------------- -----------------------------------------

    IO Determinism                   Lightning systems will demonstrate IO
                                     Determinism (IOD). QoS latency
                                     improvements will be shown through
                                     firmware enhancements using the theory
                                     of IOD on a standard Toshiba NVMe PCIe
                                     drive.
    --------------                  --------------------------------------

    Client SSD OEM Solutions         A showcase of mobile computing products
                                     that utilize Toshiba's cSSDs.
    ------------------------        ----------------------------------------

    cSSD, eSSD and Memory Product    Toshiba's broad lineup of flash solutions
     Samples                         will be available to view at the
                                     reception desk.
    -----------------------------   -----------------------------------------

    FlashMatrix 1000                 Toshiba's 'superconverged' edge and
                                     analytics platform will be shown running
                                     Red Hat(R)7 Enterprise Linux(R)8
                                     (RHEL(R)), on 24 processors, with all 24
                                     processors able to read and write from
                                     and to the entire 24TB memory space.
    ----------------                -----------------------------------------

    Through Silicon Via (TSV)        Performance comparison between BiCS FLASH
     Technology                      and BiCS FLASH TSV. Demonstrates
                                     significant improvement in sequential
                                     write performance using TSV technology.
    -------------------------       -----------------------------------------

    BiCS FLASH(TM) 3D Flash Memory   Holographic image showing structure of
                                     the industry's first9 96-layer 3D flash
                                     memory enabling a 1TB single package.


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NOTES
1: NVMe-oF and NVMe are trademarks of NVM Express, Inc.
2: PCI Express and PCIe are trademarks or registered trademarks of PCI-SIG
3: TCG: Trusted Computing Group
4: Flashmatrix is a trademark of Toshiba Memory Corporation
5: As of August 7, 2017, based on industry-published specifications
6: As of August 7, 2017, based on industry-published specifications in comparison to PM5 SAS SSD with 3,350 MB/s of sequential read and 2,720 MB/s of sequential write in MultiLink mode and 400,000 random read IOPS in narrow or MultiLink mode. Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size
7: Red Hat and RHEL are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.
8: Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linus Torvalds
9: As of February 22, 2017. Toshiba survey

*About Toshiba and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)
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