2019 Best of Show Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2019 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: GigaIO
- Award Winner: ScaleFlux™
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: Toshiba Memory Corporation
Most Innovative Flash Memory Business Application
Addressing a wide range of 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 Winners: Ontrack® and NetApp
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: EXTEN
- Award Winner: Viking™ Enterprise Solutions
- Award Winner: Micron® and WekaIO
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: Radian® Memory Systems
- Award Winner: Everspin® Technologies
- Award Winner: Western Digital
- Award Winner: Microchip
- Award Winner: Excelero
- Award Winner: Xilinx and Eideticom
- Award Winner: Codelucida
- Award Winner: SecureData
- Award Winner: NVM Express®
- Award Winner: 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: Pliops
- Award Winner: Pavilion Data
Award Logos
Download a zip file of all award logos in various formats by clicking here.