2024 Best of Show Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2024 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 span innovation across the entire spectrum of memory and storage technologies and solutions. We are proud to honor and congratulate these companies for the significant contributions they are making to the storage industry and what this represents for future customer adoption.
Most Innovative Customer Implementation
Recognizes innovation in all forms of high-performance memory or storage in a real customer application.
Intelligent Storage Solution Category Winner
- Product: VAST Data and CoreWeave Redefine Cloud
- Company: VAST Data
Most Innovative Enterprise Business Application
Recognizes how a product or service uses high-performance memory or storage to solve a specific business problem.
Media & Entertainment (M&E) Solution Category Winner
- Product: Graid SupremeRAID (with Solidigm, CheetahRAID & Tuxera)
- Company: Graid Technology
Financial Transaction Services Category Winner
- Product: Software Defined Storage (with SWIFT & Red Hat)
- Company: Kove
Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup
Recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies blazing a trail of innovation in the storage industry.
Computational Memory Category Winner
- Product: CXL Computational Memory Solution
- Company: XCENA
Most Innovative Startup
Recognizes the most creative and ambitious startup companies that are blazing a trail of innovation in the memory and storage industry.
Security Category Winner
- Product: ShapeShift Ciphers Data Encryption Solution
- Company: ShapeShift® Ciphers
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: iXCharger 140W
- Company: Vinpower
Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application
Recognizes how a product or service that includes all forms of high-performance memory or storage is being used to solve a specific AI problem, with examples including machine learning, cognitive computing, big data, IoT, containers, and virtualized customer environments.
3D Memory with AI Processing Technology Category Winner
- Product: 3D X-AI™ Memory Solution
- Company: NEO Semiconductor
CPUs, GPUs, Accelerators with Cloud Native AI Software Category Winner
- Product: Kirana Edge AI
- Company: Viking Enterprise Solutions
Large Language Model (LLM) Training Category Winner
- Product: Phison aiDAPTIV+
- Company: Phison
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.
CXL Controller Solution Category Winner
- Product: CXL Memory Expander Controller
- Company: Marvell
SSD Solution Category Winner
- Product: 9550 NVMe™ SSD
- Company: Micron
Most Innovative Technology
Recognizes innovations that will change the way high-performance memory or storage works, and which is used in a product.
AI Inferencing with CXL Solution Category Winner
- Product: Supermicro 4U GPU All-Flash Server
- Company: Supermicro & MemVerge & Astera Labs
QLC NAND Flash Solution Category Winner
- Product: 218-Layer BiCS FLASH™ Generation 8 & SanDisk Desk Drive
- Company: Western Digital
DRAM Controller Category Winner
- Product: DenseMem CXL Memory Controller
- Company: Zeropoint Technologies
SSD Technology Category Winner
- Product: RAID/Erasure Coding Offload on SSD
- Company: KIOXIA
SSD Cooling Chip Category Winner
- Product: AirJet® Mini Sport Cooling Solution
- Company: Frore Systems
Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation
Recognizes innovation in all forms of high-performance memory or storage solutions for integration and use in hyperscale IT environments.
All-Flash and Hybrid Storage Array Category Winner
- Product: InfiniBox G4 Family
- Company: INFINIDAT
Storage Management Software Category Winner
- Product: Hammerspace and Meta Scalable Cluster
- Company: Hammerspace
Most Innovative Memory Technology
Recognizes innovations that will change the way high-performance memory or storage works, and which is used in a product.
Enterprise SSD Category Winner
- Product: BM1743 - 128TB QLC
- Company: Samsung
LLM Inference Server Accelerator Category Winner
- Product: XDP LightningAI
- Company: Pliops
Memory Class Storage System Category Winner
- Product: MAX-Memory Software-Defined Memory
- Company: UnifabriX
DRAM Test System Category Winner
- Product: GDDR7 Memory Test Solution
- Company: Introspect Technology
Industry Standards Category Winner
- Product: NVM Express® Host Managed Live Migration
- Company: NVM Express® Technical Work Group
Industry Standards Category Winner
- Product: EDSFF Specification
- Company: SNIA Technical Work Groups