Supermicro NVMe (U.2) Solutions Drive Data Center Performance and Efficiency with Expanded Support for Intel SSD Data Center Family

SAN JOSE, Calif.,, July 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing is extending its unrivaled range of NVMe 1.2 optimized SuperServer® and SuperStorage solutions with expanded support for Intel® SSD Data Center Family P3700/P3600/P3500 series 2.5″ U.2 (SFF-8639) and AIC PCIe 3.0 SSDs. Supermicro’s latest solutions combine the extreme performance, endurance and efficiency of NVMe with boot functionality via UEFI, RAID5 via Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (RSTe) and Supermicro’s energy-efficient Green Computing innovations in advanced thermal optimized cooling architecture and intelligent, cold redundant power supplies. Target applications include mission-critical database, server virtualization, scale-out storage, VDI, and big data analytics. With the industry’s widest range of application optimized NVMe solutions in 24, 10, 4, 3, and 2x NVMe configurations, Supermicro is raising the bar on performance, efficiency, density and reliability in Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud and HPC environments.

“Supermicro is driving innovation in the Data Center with the industry’s broadest range of NVMe server and storage solutions featuring the Intel SSD Data Center Family,” said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. “We are rapidly expanding hot-swap NVMe support across our Ultra, TwinPro, FatTwin, WIO, DCO, SuperBlade and additional server, storage platforms to accelerate adoption and provide cost effective economies of scale for next generation storage technologies. Combining boot functionality, support for Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise, and innovations in cooling and systems management, our NVMe solutions offer feature sets that maximize performance, density, efficiency and reliability while lowering overall TCO.”

“NVMe brings significant improvements in SSD technology by delivering nearly 500x reduction in latency over traditional HDD and 6x reduction in latency over SAS/SATA interfaces,” said Rob Crooke, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. “By using the Intel® SSD Data Center Family, Supermicro is able to offer a wide variety of enterprise server and storage configurations with high performance, density, endurance and reliability.”