South Korea-based Samsung Electronics the global advanced memory technology company, recently launched a new lineup of next-generation memory and storage devices during the Flash Memory Summit 2022 held at the Santa Clara Convention Centre in California from 2 to 4 August. In a keynote address with the title “Memory Innovations Navigating the Big Data Era,” Samsung brought to the limelight the four areas of technological advancements driving the big data revolution: data storage, data movement, data management, and data processing. The company also launched their leading edge memory solution for respective fields.
“The IT industry is facing a new set of challenges brought on by the explosive growth in big data, and this underscores the importance of a robust, cross-industry ecosystem,” said Jin-Hyeok Choi, keynote speaker and executive vice president of Memory Solution & Product Development at Samsung Electronics. “We are committed to developing transformative memory technologies that can bring far-reaching changes in how we move, store, process and manage data for future AI, ML and HPC applications, as we navigate these challenging tides together with industry partners.”
Samsung release a wide range of products to suffice for the big data revolution, they are:
Petabyte-level storage devices for maximum server utilisation. To maximise the efficiency of a data centre in a highly data-intensive environment, Samsung introduced a next-gen storage platform known as “Petabyte Storage”. The new technology will allow a single server unit to have more than one-petabyte storage thus facilitating server manufacturers to increase storage capacity with a minimal number of additional servers.
Samsung also released a “Memory Semantic SSD” that claims to combine the benefits of DRAM memory and storage devices. It utilises Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect technology and a built-in DRAM cache, Memory-semantic SSDs can perform up to a 20x advancement in both random read speed and latency when used in AI and ML applications, according to the company.
Telemetry claims to enable a more reliable data centre management. Samsung claims that its new telemetry technology gathers human-readable metadata from components inside the consumers’ SSD such as NAND flash and DRAM as well as SSD controllers and firmware, and can detect any problems preemptively and amble a more efficient and reliable operation.
