IRVINE, Calif. – March 6, 2019 – NGD Systems, Inc., the leader in computational storage, today announced the general availability of the Newport Platform for deployment of computational storage devices. The Newport Platform offers the highest capacity NVMe SSDs and leverages In-Situ processing to eliminate the need for data movement to main memory prior to processing, removing a major bottleneck that’s never previously been addressed. The Newport Platform makes it possible to implement intelligent edge and hyperscale environments with much greater efficiently and lower cost, providing customers a realized TCO benefit.
“The Newport Platform is the result of years of customer engagement and feedback, research, market observations and developing multiple previous products and Computational Storage IP to address the biggest storage pain points in intelligent edge and hyperscale environments. The Newport Platform delivers new innovation by bringing NVMe-based computational storage into the mainstream,” said Nader Salessi, CEO and co-Founder of NGD Systems. “We offer the industry’s highest capacity NVMe, smallest footprint, and the most power efficient SSDs on the market. This makes it possible for the first time to perform In-Situ processing within the storage device itself without having to trade power, space or cost to do so.”
Intelligent edge computing applications have gained major momentum recently, while hyperscale system growth has accelerated. Each offers tremendous possibilities that can transform technology. However, both rely on fundamentally old computing architectures in which all data needs to be moved between and within servers’ memory and CPU before it’s processed. This data movement causes latency, consumes power and makes it harder to scale as datasets reach petabyte size, causing major bottlenecks for intelligent edge and hyperscale systems that prioritize response time, results and scalability. Organizations first tried to mitigate this problem by adding innovative technology like NVMeoF fabrics, composable architectures, and GPU and FPGA acceleration solutions, but these approaches increase cost, power consumption and size while they don’t address the fundamental issue of moving data before processing.
The industry’s most advanced NVMe storage solution, Newport is the first ASIC-based computational storage platform in the world. In addition, the product is also the industry’s first SSD Controller ASIC to be released on a 14nm process technology. The Newport platform has up to 16 flash channels and delivers NVMe 1.3 PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 optimized storage performance in a variety of form factors. Today the first product is being released, the U.2, with additional form factors coming soon. Unlike other SSD storage products, the Newport Platform form factors do not suffer performance loss due to power throttling.
Product details include:
- Form Factors: U.2 15mm
- Max Raw Capacity: 16TB
- Max Active Power: 12W
- Interface/Protocol: PCIe Gen3 x 4; NVMe 1.3
“Modern networks, such as hyperscale and intelligent edge environments, face their biggest challenges in trying to scale,” said Don Jeanette, Vice President, Storage Research at TrendFocus. “NGD Systems’ Newport Platform solves that scalability challenge by introducing new efficiencies to these systems, which delivers a groundbreaking approach by creating computational storage NVMe SSDs. By eliminating the need to move data before processing, the Newport Platform drastically reduces latency and system level power consumption.”
As a third-generation design, the Newport Platform offering builds upon the success of NGD Systems Catalina-2 and Catalina-1 families of computational storage devices. Customers deploying Catalina-2 will be able to seamlessly transition to the new platform, as applications developed for Catalina-2 are fully compatible with the Newport Platform.
About NGD Systems
Founded in 2013 with its headquarters in Irvine, California, NGD Systems is a venture-funded company focused on creation of new category of storage devices that brings computation to data. NGD has designed its advanced proprietary NVMe controller technology which deploys patented Elastic FTL algorithm and Advanced LDPC Engines to provide industry leading capacity and scalability. The platform also deploys the patented In-Situ Processing technology to enable Computational Storage capability. The company is led by an executive team that helped drive and shape the flash storage industry, with decades in leadership positions with storage companies such as Western Digital, STEC, Memtech, and Micron. For more information, please visit https://www.ngdsystems.com.
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