2023 Best of Show Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2023 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.

2023 Best of Show Award Winners

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.

Jay Kramer FMS Awards Program Chair, and President of Network Storage Advisors, Inc.

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.

SSD & Controller Category Winner

  • Product: PBlaze and Bravera
  • Company: Marvell & Memblaze

Storage Array & Data Protection Category Winner

  • Product: OpenFlex and xiRAID
  • Company: Western Digital & Xinnor

Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup

Recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies blazing a trail of innovation in the storage industry.

SSD Technology Category Winner

  • Product: AirJet® Active Cooling Chip
  • Company: Frore Systems

Memory Technology Category Winner


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.

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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.

Travel Bookings Solution Category Winner

  • Product: Hyper Server, Memory Machine, Leo Memory
  • Company: Supermicro & MemVerge & Astera Labs

Media & Entertainment (M&E) Solution Category Winner

  • Product: SupremeRAID and LQD4500 IO Accelerators
  • Company: Graid & Liqid

Most Innovative AI Solution

Recognizes how a product or service that includes flash memory or other forms of high-performance memory is being used to solve a specific AI problem.

NeuroBlade Category Winner

  • Product: Hardware Enhanced Query System
  • Company: Data Analytics Compute

Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation

Recognizes innovation that includes flash memory or other forms of non-volatile memory solutions for integration and use in hyperscale IT environments.

Petabyte Storage Solution Category Winner

  • Product: InfiniBoxT™ 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.

Data Center Storage Category Winner

  • Product: Sustainable Data Storage Solutions
  • Company: Seagate

Data Center Storage Category Winner

  • Product: All-Flash NVMe Servers & Solidigm D5-P5430
  • Company: Supermicro & Solidigm

Most Innovative Memory Technology

Recognizes innovations that will change the way high-performance memory or storage works, and which is used in a product.

DPU Category Winner

  • Product: K220-LP Smart Storage Accelerator
  • Company: Kalray

Data Center SSD Category Winner

  • Product: CD8P PCIe 5.0x4 NVMe 2.0 SSD
  • Company: KIOXIA

3D DRAM Architecture Category Winner

  • Product: 3D X-DRAM™
  • Company: NEO Semiconductor

Optical Interconnect Category Winner

  • Product: Photowave Optical Interconnect
  • Company: Lightelligence

Memory Accelerator Architecture Category Winner

  • Product: Cambridge Architecture™
  • Company: Blueshift Memory

Storage Management Software Category Winner

  • Product: Hammerspace Software
  • Company: Hammerspace

SSD Manufacturing Machine Category Winner

Data Encryption Security Category Winner

  • Product: NutManager
  • Company: NUTS Technologies

Industry Standards Category Winner

  • Product: NVM Express® Flexible Data Placement (FDP)
  • Company: NVM Express® Technical Work Group

Industry Standards Category Winner

  • Product: Swordfish, SDXI, Computational Storage API
  • Company: SNIA Technical Work Groups

Award Logos

Download a zip file of all award logos in various formats by clicking here.


Best of Show Winners