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.

2024 Best of Show Award Winners

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.

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

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: MetisX

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

    Best of Show Winners