Software-Enabled Flash™ technology is being developed to allow storage developers to maximize the value of flash deployed in their data centers. It makes flash storage software-defined by redefining the relationship between the host and solid-state storage. Purpose-built, media-centric hardware focused on cloud-scale requirements, combined with an open source API and SDK, give developers tools to define latency outcomes, tenant isolation, control flash background processes, and build their own application-centric storage protocols.

Software-Enabled Flash™ is a new storage paradigm engineered as a vendor neutral Linux Foundation project. This technology is dedicated to delivering the full power and flexibility of software-definable flash to developers. It is built on a hardware architecture focused on low-level flash management and abstraction, combined with an open-source, host-based software stack optimized for data placement control, latency prioritization, and protocol creation. Hardware from KIOXIA implementing this new Software-Enabled Flash technology will be sampling soon with select customers.

Software-Enabled Flash™ (SEF) technology fundamentally redefines how flash memory is used for cloud and enterprise applications. Using highly-tuned, custom hardware and a host-based API and SDK, SEF technology empowers developers with control over data placement, latency outcomes and isolation. It is managed by a vendor-neutral Linux Foundation open source project that’s dedicated to enabling industry collaboration on this next evolution of storage. This session will introduce the SEF software and hardware stacks and describe how developers can access it.

Come join an informal discussion where you can get some in-depth answers to your questions about Software-Enabled Flash Project and Technology. Project members will discuss Software-Enabled Flash features like isolation and queuing control, the reference block, FDP, and ZNS drivers, and the different SDK and API components.