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Supermicro Expands Storage Solutions Portfolio for Intensive I/O Workloads with Industry Standard Based All-Flash Servers Utilizing EDSFF E3.S, and E1.S Storage Drives Across Multiple Product Lines
New Server Addresses Critical Need for a High-Density Petascale Storage System in a Balanced NUMA Architecture SAN JOSE, Calif., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/
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[{"type":"text","content":"New Server Addresses Critical Need for a High-Density Petascale Storage System in a Balanced NUMA Architecture\nSAN JOSE, Calif., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing the latest addition to its revolutionary ultra-high performance, high-density petascale class all-flash NVMe server family. Supermicro systems in this high-performance storage product family will support the next-generation EDSFF form factor, including the E3.S and E1.S devices, in form factors that accommodate 16- and 32 high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe drive bays.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThe initial offering of the updated product line will support up to one-half of a petabyte of storage space in a 1U 16 bay rackmount system, followed by a full petabyte of storage space in a 2U 32 bay rackmount system for both Intel and AMD PCIe Gen5 platforms. All of the Supermicro systems that support either the E1.S or E3.s form factors enable customers to realize the benefits in various application-optimized servers.\nEDSFF (Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor) is an industry standard developed by and maintained by the SNIA. This group continues to develop standards for data center storage and specifications. The EDSFF specified storage devices are available in a range of capacities and performance and have increased scalability and serviceability compared to previous generations of storage devices. EDSFF form factor storage uses the NVMe protocol with the same PCIe interface and edge connectors.\n\"Supermicro continues to address our users' requirements with innovative solutions for today's and tomorrow's workloads,\" said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. \"With up to a petabyte of storage in a standard rackmount system, users can quickly access tremendous amounts of data at their fingertips. The new storage system is compact and energy efficient and will give our users the lowest latency and highest bandwidth in the industry. The performance and capacity of these new systems enable customers to gain insight using advanced AI technologies. Using our building block architecture, we can bring the latest technologies to market faster, giving users advanced systems as part of our Total IT Solutions rack scale offerings.\"\nAs the evolution of C...