Designed for high performance and non-volatile storage media, NVMe is the only protocol that stands out in highly demanding and compute intensive enterprise, cloud and edge data ecosystem.
The financial services created a fully functioning digitized bank account in minutes. E-commerce players experimented with Machine Learning (ML) in the areas like catalog qualities, product size recommendations, and prevention of fraud orders. Players like Netflix and Amazon of the digital world changed the way people consumed content and media.
As markets bounce back, the digital transformation is going to be an even bigger and a more urgent imperative. The road to recovery will be paved with data that will provide the fuel to power better and faster decisions.
The growth in data has been exponential, and it has shown no signs of slowing down. To process this growing data in shorter and shorter time periods, data centers will need to adopt new storage architectures to meet the dual goals of size and speed. This becomes increasingly significant not only for cloud data centers but also as data architecture changes from the core to the edge.
NVMeTM: The future of cloud storage

For several years, storage technology progress was measured primarily in terms of capacity and speed. No longer. In recent times, those steadfast benchmarks have been augmented, and even superseded, by sophisticated new technologies and methodologies that make storage smarter, more flexible and easier to manage.
The unique features of NVMe are helping enterprises to avoid the usual bottlenecks. It not only offers significantly higher performance and lower latencies for existing applications than legacy protocols, but also enables new capabilities for real-time data processing in the data center, cloud and the emerging edge computing environments.
Companies from the healthcare and telecom are leveraging NVMe for fast and complex workloads since they nearly eliminate processor wait times when reading data from storage. Finance companies use NVMe as extra storage to accelerate high transaction volumes. Having said this, it is not limited to one specific type of workload since it improves performance for other applications as well.
In today’s global digital economy, every microseconds count. As hyperscale cloud and enterprise data centers constantly work to ensure uncompromised performance and availability of essential applications, while also keeping pace with unprecedented data growth, customer adoption of NVMe and NVMe-oF solutions will continue to accelerate.
Western Digital: Reshaping the cloud and edge with NVMe innovations
Western Digital, with its long history of NAND Flash innovation and an integrated portfolio of NVMe SSDs and new data fabrics solutions, is well-positioned to enable customers fully embrace NVMe and get the most out of their storage assets.
Take the case of Ultrastar© DC SN840 Gen3.1 NVMe SSD, which is Western Digital’s third-generation solution with a vertically integrated in-house NVMe controller, firmware and 96-layer 3D TLC NAND technology. The solution meets all the needs of mission-critical applications that require superior read/write and mixed workload performance, low latency and dual-port high availability, including high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing, SQL/NoSQL databases, virtualisation (VMs/containers), AI/ML and data analytics.
The future of flash is undoubtedly NVMe as it is all about speed, efficiency, capacity and cost-effective scalability, and with the availability of NVMe-oF it takes to the next level.
Designed for high performance and non-volatile storage media, NVMe is the only protocol that stands out in highly demanding and compute intensive enterprise, cloud and edge data ecosystem. It is not only revolutionizing storage, but it is changing the way IT teams view both storage and memory.
To know more on how Western Digital portfolio brings more choice, better cost efficiencies, and superior solutions for data architect, visit the following resources.
- https://blog.westerndigital.com/nvme-important-data-driven-businesses/
- https://blog.westerndigital.com/reshaping-cloud-and-edge-nvme-innovations/
- https://blog.westerndigital.com/5-reasons-consider-nvme-of/
- https://www.westerndigital.com/products/data-center-platforms/ultrastar-nvme-series-ssd
- https://blog.westerndigital.com/zns-ssd-ultrastar-dc-zn540-sampling/