2025 Best of Show Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2025 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.

2025 Best of Show Award Winners

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.

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.

HPC Solution Category Winner

  • Product: Cineca Supercomputing Center with DDN Data Intelligence Platform
  • Organization(s): DDN

Most Innovative 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.

Consumer Application Category Winner

  • Product: WD BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD
  • Organization(s): Sandisk

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.

Media and Entertainment Solution Category Winner

  • Product: VAST Data Platform and the NHL®
  • Organization(s): 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.

HPC Solution Category Winner

  • Product: Graid SupremeRAID™
  • Organization(s): Graid Technology

Most Innovative Hyperscaler Implementation

Recognizes innovation in all forms of high-performance memory or storage solutions for integration and use in hyperscale IT environments.

Category Winner

  • Product: DirectFlash QLC
  • Organization(s): Pure Storage

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Workflow Category Winner

  • Product: InfiniBox® Platforms
  • Organization(s): Infinidate

Most Innovative Memory Technology

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

Industry Standards Category Winner

  • Product: CXL 3.X Specifications
  • Organization(s): CXL Consortium

Enterprise SSD Category Winner

  • Product: PM1763 16-Channel PCIe Gen6 SSD
  • Organization(s): Samsung

Industry Standards Category Winner

  • Product: CXL Memory Hackathon & EDSFF E2 Form Factor
  • Organization(s): SNIA Technical Work Groups

Industry Standards Category Winner

  • Product: UALink 200G 1.0 Specification
  • Organization(s): UALink Consortium

Computational Memory Category Winner

  • Product: MX1 CXL3.X
  • Organization(s): XCENA

Most Innovative Technology

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

3D Memory Technology Category Winner

  • Product: Hybrid Bonding for Memory Device
  • Organization(s): Adeia

SSD Software Technology Category Winner

  • Product: FADU Flexible Data Placement (FDP)
  • Organization(s): FADU

Memory Controller Category Winner

  • Product: CXL Memory Module
  • Organization(s): innodisk

SSD Technology Category Winner

  • Product: LC9 Series 245.76 TB SSD
  • Organization(s): KIOXIA

DRAM Solution Category Winner

  • Product: 1-Gamma Node LPDDR5X LPDRAM
  • Organization(s): Micron

High Bandwidth Memory Technology Category Winner

  • Product: X-HBM™ Memory Solution
  • Organization(s): NEO Semiconductor

AI Accelerator Category Winner

  • Product: LightningAI FusIOnX
  • Organization(s): Pliops

NAND Flash Solution Category Winner

  • Product: High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)
  • Organization(s): Sandisk

SSD Technology Category Winner

  • Product: Liquid Cooled Hot Swappable NVMe SSD
  • Organization(s): Solidigm

All-Flash Storage Server Solution Category Winner

  • Product: ARS-121L-NE316R 1U Storage System
  • Organization(s): Supermicro

Memory Controller Category Winner

  • Product: SM2514-AT Automotive SSD Controller
  • Organization(s): Silicon Motion

Networks Category Winner

  • Product: Memory-over-Fabrics™
  • Organization(s): UnifabriX

3D NAND Flash Memory Category Winner

  • Product: Xtacking® 4.0
  • Organization(s): YMTC

Most Innovative Startup Company

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

Virtualization IT Infrastructure Category Winner

  • Product: VergeIQ
  • Organization(s): Verge.IO

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.

Category Winner

  • Product: Advanced Rare Earth Material Capture Program
  • Organization(s): Western Digital

Best of Show Winners