2018 Best of Show Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2018 FMS Best of Show Award Winners!
The FMS Best of Show Awards showcase industry recognition of company and organization products and services. Recently, FMS expanded the awards program to include recognition of the use of a variety of memory technologies in addition to flash memory.
These industry-recognized awards went through a rigorous review process, and the winners represent true innovation as leaders in the flash marketplace. The number and quality of the award nominations, ranging from start-ups to established players as well as collaborations with technology partners, demonstrates the continued strength and growth of this industry. Customers are the beneficiaries of these product innovations, which show the compelling value of flash solutions in the marketplace. Congratulations to this year's FMS Best of Show award winners.
Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation
Addressing real-world solutions that demonstrate compelling customer value with market-differentiating benefits such as enhanced ROI, quality of service, business continuity, security, data protection and/or virtualization.
- Award Winner: Excelero and Mellanox
Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application
Addressing solutions for devices such as smartphones, music/video players, digital cameras, gaming systems, navigational systems, tablets, mobile computing solutions and/or other consumer hardware and software solutions.
- Award Winner: DriveSavers
- Award Winner: Western Digital
Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application
Addressing a wide range of enterprise market segments, vertical market sectors and customer environments demanding high performance and scale such as AI, machine learning, in-memory databases and other big data applications.
- Award Winner: Newisys and Intel
- Award Winner: NGD Systems
Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology
Addressing innovations that will change the way flash memory is used in products and raise the bar to new levels of performance, availability, endurance, scalability and/or energy efficiencies.
- Award Winner (SSD): Seagate
- Award Winner (Network Interconnect): Microsemi
- Award Winner (Storage Network): Toshiba and Marvell
- Award Winner (All Flash Arrays): IBM
- Award Winner (Controller and SSD): Fadu
- Award Winner (Industry Standards): SNIA and EXTEN
- Award Winner (Industry Standards): SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative
Most Innovative Flash Memory Start-up Company
(New Award in 2018) recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies and applauds their entrepreneurial journey to becoming a market disruptor and champion of the storage industry.
- Award Winner (NAND Flash): Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Award Winner (Computational Storage): ScaleFlux
Award Logos
Download a zip file of all award logos in various formats by clicking here.