Kioxia releases version 3.20 of KumoScale™ storage software

KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 (Bernama) -- Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, has released version 3.20 of its KumoScale™ storage software built around the NVM Express™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) protocol.

Designed for cloud-centric deployment at data centre scale, the KumoScale storage platform delivers high performance NVM Express (NVMe™) flash storage as a disaggregated networked service, according to a statement.

Major features in KumoScale software version 3.20 include additional bare metal deployment options, seamless support for OpenID Connect 1.0, and support for NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage (GDS).

In addition to the KumoScale software’s streamlined appliance install, KumoScale software version 3.20 adds an option to deploy on generally available commercial operating systems.

For large data centres, storage infrastructure, of necessity, is tightly integrated with a variety of sub systems such as those for provisioning, monitoring, telemetry and networking.

Version 3.20 adds support for NVIDIA GDS. GDS enables a direct data path for direct memory access (DMA) transfers between GPU memory and storage, which avoids a bounce buffer through the CPU. This direct path increases system bandwidth and decreases the latency and utilisation load on the CPU.

Version 3.20 adds support for third-party OpenID Connect 1.0. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol that allows clients to verify the identity of users and session based on the authentication performed by an Authorization Server for service account permissions.

KumoScale software version 3.20 also includes CSI raw block support, and an embedded Grafana™ storage analytics dashboard.

-- BERNAMA