OCP Summit: Demo of NVMe 3D NAND M.2 PCIe SSD From Cnex Labs and Lite-On

CNEX Labs, Inc. and Lite-On Storage, business group of Lite-On Technology Corporation, jointly announced a demonstration of storage performance at Open Compute Summit 2018.

Lite-On showcased its AD2 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD with 3D NAND technology featuring CNEX’s proprietary CNX-2670 controller that delivers a 550,000 IO/s, a 25% performance increase over previously available M.2 form-factor SSDs.

Together with CNEX, the company demonstrated an M.2 SSD that features early support for Project Denali, a cloud storage interface Microsoft Corp. announced at the Open Compute Summit. This demonstration achieves a latency reduction of up to 95% through IO isolation, providing a potentially disruptive improvement in QoS for cloud computing.

CNEX’s PCIe SSD controllers offer the flexibility to support both NVMe and Open-Channel SSD technology, the latter of which will now be standardized within Project Denali by Microsoft and other industry leaders, including Lite-On and project steering committee member CNEX.

“The combination of CNEX’s unique hardware-accelerated controller technology – featuring best-in-class performance and power consumption – and Lite-On’s established capabilities in building advanced SSDs, offers a powerful solution for the most demanding hyperscale, cloud and enterprise data center environments,” said Justin Heindel, VP, marketing and business development, CNEX Labs. “CNEX is excited to work with Lite-On to bring these disruptive product advancements to the solid state storage market.“

“CNEX has been one of the key partners in helping to deliver SSD features that address the vital data center needs of our enterprise customers,” said Darlo Perez, MD, Americas region, Lite-On Storage Group. “By working with partners such as CNEX, Lite-On is able to deliver innovative clod-based storage solutions that customers can quickly and cost effectively deploy to better store and manage their critical information.“