NVM Express Organization Initiates “NVM Express over Fabrics” Effort; NVMe Specification Revision 1.2 Approaching Ratification

WAKEFIELD, Mass. – Sept. 3, 2014 – NVM Express, Inc., the organization that developed the NVM Express specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) on a PCI Express (PCIe) bus, today announced that it has initiated an effort to specify a standard for NVM Express over Fabrics. This extends the benefits of NVM Express (NVMe) to usages with hundreds of solid state drives where using a fabric as an attach point is more appropriate than using PCI Express, as in flash appliances that use fabrics such as Ethernet with RDMA, InfiniBand® and Intel® Omni Scale Fabric.

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