“Storage is the essential foundation for how people and businesses consume and use data,” said Rob Soderbery, EVP and GM, Flash Business Unit at Western Digital. “To enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas, we must innovate, collaborate and keep pace as an industry in bringing new standards and architectures to life.’
“This collaboration is a testament to our relentless effort to exceed customers’ needs now and in the future, and holds special meaning in how we anticipate it will actively grow into a larger basis of engagement for Zoned Storage standardization,” said Jinman Han, Corporate EVP, Head of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics.Previously, the industry leaders founded the Zoned Storage TWG (Technical Work Group), which was approved by Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) in December 2021. In its press release, Samsung announced the collaboration will serve as a starting point to expand zone-based device interfaces, as well as future-generation, high-capacity storage devices with enhanced data placement and processing technologies.By Hyung-Suk Songclick@hankyung.comJee Abbey Lee edited this article.2024-09-20 10:41:38