2022 Best of Show Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2022 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.
This year's award winners prove that the industry is more than flash memory and FMS reflects the future of technology. The future is bright for Flash Memory for high performance memory solutions, we congratulate all the award winners on their innovative technologies.
Most Innovative Flash Memory Customer Implementation
Recognizes 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.
DPU and Storage Array Category Winner
- Product: FlashBox Storage Array
- Company: Viking and Kalray
Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup
Recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies blazing a trail of innovation in the storage industry.
RAID Processor Card Category Winner
- Product: SupremeRAID™ Storage Solution
- Company: GRAID Technology
Storage Array Software Category Winner
- Product: StorPool Storage Software
- Company: StorPool
Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application
Recognizes 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.
Winner
- Product: Nitro CFexpress Card and Marvell 88SS1321 SSD Controller
- Company: Marvell and Exascend
Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application
Recognizes 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.
Winner
- Product: Hardware Enhanced Query System
- Company: NeuroBlade
Winner
- Product: Panther III DPU Storage Accelerator
- Company: MaxLinear
Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation
This new category awards innovation that includes flash memory or other forms of non-volatile memory solutions for integration and use in hyperscale IT environments.
SaaS Customer Category Winner
- Product: Extreme Data Processor (XDP)
- Company: Pliops
MSP Customer Category Winner
- Product: InfiniBox™ SSA II Storage Array
- Company: INFINIDAT
Most Innovative Sustainability Technology
Recognizes how a product or architecture may include high performance memory and storage hardware and software as part of a sustainable company program.
Supply Chain Optimization Category Winner
- Product: Sustainability Enterprise SSD
- Company: Western Digital
Storage Device Tester Category Winner
- Product: Power Analysis Modules
- Company: Quarch Technology
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Recognizes innovations that will change the way high-performance memory or storage works, and which is used in a product.
All Flash Storage Array Category Winner
- Product: Elastic Storage® System (ESS3500)
- Company: IBM
In-Memory Software Category Winner
- Product: Supermicro and MemVerge® Memory Machine™
- Company: Supermicro and MemVerge
SSD Category Winner
- Product: CM7 Series Enterprise PCIe 5.0 NVMe EDSFF SSD
- Company: KIOXIA
Disk Drive with NAND Flash Acceleration Category Winner
- Product: OptiNAND™ Technology
- Company: Western Digital
NAND Flash Architecture Category Winner
- Product: X-NAND™
- Company: NEO Semiconductor
Heterogeneous Memory Integration Category Winner
- Product: Xtacking® 3.0 3D NAND Architecture
- Company: YMTC
Controller Category Winner
- Product: SMC 2000 Smart Memory Controllers
- Company: Microchip
DRAM Category Winner
- Product: Ultra Temperature Memory
- Company: Innodisk
Industry Standards Category Winner
- Product: NVM Express® (NVMe®) 2.0 Specifications
- Company: NVM Express® Technical Work Group
Industry Standards Category Winner
- Product: SNIA Standard Computational Storage Architecture 1.0
- Company: SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group
Award Logos
Download a zip file of all award logos in various formats by clicking here.