Micron and WekaIO Win Best of Show Award at the Flash Memory Summit 2019
August 29 2019 - 8:00AM
Micron Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) and WekaIO today announced that
they have won the 2019 Best of Show Award at this year’s Flash
Memory Summit for the Micron high-performance 9000 series NVMe SSD
product line, along with the Weka File System (WekaFS™). The Micron
9000 series NVMe SSDs and WekaFS high-performance software were
selected for the award category of Most Innovative Flash Memory
Enterprise Business Application based on SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark
test results.
“Flash memory solutions are addressing a wide range of data
types including applications driven by video streaming,
transactional databases, virtual desktops and other data-intensive
environments demanding high scalability and accelerated speed,”
said Jay Kramer, chairman of the awards program and president of
Network Storage Advisors Inc. “We are proud to recognize an array
of Micron 9200 NVMe SSDs, combined with the Weka File System,
achieving record-breaking performance with the trusted independent
industry SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark.”
Micron was chosen for its leadership and innovation in the flash
memory and solid-state storage industries. The award category
analyzes enterprise market segments, vertical market sectors and
customer environments that demand high performance and scale such
as artificial intelligence, machine learning, in-memory databases
and other big data applications.
Micron 9000 series SSDs leverage 3D NAND and NVMe technology to
maximize throughput and reduce latency for faster access to data
for enterprises and cloud providers. WekaFS is the world’s fastest
parallel file system based on independent benchmark SPEC SFS 2014
test results. The results are based on tests conducted in February
2019 using WekaIO’s software with Micron 9200 NVMe SSDs. In similar
testing performed in June, Penguin Computing used the Micron 9000
series SSDs in conjunction with WekaFS to break eight world records
on the STAC-M3 Benchmark. The benchmark is used to analyze
high-speed analytics common in the financial services industry.
“Our flagship storage 9000 series NVMe SSDs are easy to deploy
and help optimize existing infrastructure for our partners and
customers,” said Roger Peene, vice president of marketing, Storage
Business Unit, Micron. “We are pleased that our technology alliance
with WekaIO has resulted in setting records for industry-leading
performance benchmarks.”
“Our parallel file system, combined with the 9000 series NVMe
SSDs, has proven to be a winning storage solution for
data-intensive application workloads,” said Barbara Murphy, vice
president of marketing at WekaIO. “The records we’ve made this year
have set the industry benchmark for breakthrough performance of
storage solutions, and we have more benchmarks that we are
targeting with WekaFS and the Micron 9300 series.”
The Flash Memory Summit’s annual best of show awards are a
premier opportunity for the industry to recognize innovative
products and solutions that are being used in the marketplace. A
record number of award submissions were received this year, making
the judging challenging and each of the categories extremely
competitive.
About Micron Technology, Inc.We are an industry
leader in innovative memory and storage solutions. Through our
global brands — Micron®, Crucial®, and Ballistix® — our broad
portfolio of high-performance memory and storage technologies,
including DRAM, NAND, NOR Flash and 3D XPoint™ memory, is
transforming how the world uses information to enrich life. Backed
by 40 years of technology leadership, our memory and storage
solutions enable disruptive trends, including artificial
intelligence, machine learning and autonomous vehicles, in key
market segments like data center, networking, automotive,
industrial, mobile, graphics and client. Our common stock is traded
on the Nasdaq under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron
Technology Inc., visit micron.com.
About WekaIO WekaIO helps companies manage,
scale, and futureproof their data centers so they can solve big
problems. WekaIO has built the world’s fastest shared and parallel
file system on new architecture optimized for NVMe flash that
leapfrogs legacy storage infrastructures by delivering the best
performance density at any scale, at a fraction of the cost. With
the most flexible deployment models, the storage software is a
modern file system designed for modern I/O-intensive and extreme
technical computing workloads.
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About Flash Memory SummitThe Flash Memory
Summit, produced by Conference ConCepts, showcases the mainstream
applications, key technologies and leading vendors that are driving
the multibillion-dollar nonvolatile memory and SSD markets. Now in
its 13th year, FMS is the world’s largest event featuring the
trends, innovations and influencers that are driving the adoption
of flash memory in demanding enterprise storage applications, as
well as in smartphones, tablets, and mobile and embedded systems.
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Micron Media Relations Contact
David Oro
Micron Technology Inc.
+1-707-558-8585
davidoro@micron.com
WekaIO Media Contact
Sarah Shkargi
Waters Communications
sarah@waterscomms.com
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