When flash drives first came to market the easiest way to integrate them into the enterprise storage infrastructure was to make them connect in the same way that a current hard disk drive would. While providing immediate compatibility and an instant performance improvement, the legacy protocol, SCSI, was not optimized for low latent flash. The industry’s response is NVMe. But this flash optimized protocol isn’t just for servers. In this ChalkTalk Video Storage Switzerland and Brocade discuss NVMe Over Fabrics.
