Event Report: HPE Discover 2024 - KIOXIA Highlights Flash Storage Breakthroughs

October 24, 2024

KIOXIA has been collaborating with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to create innovative storage solutions for years and our storage solutions can be found optimizing HPE solutions across multiple product lines, from the edge to the cloud to Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing. In June 2024, KIOXIA joined as an emerald sponsor in Las Vegas for HPE Discover 2024 to highlight the critical role its broad lineup of next-gen SSDs is playing in the modernization of today’s data centers, even in space. 

HPE Discover 2024 hosted the HPE keynote and customer appreciation event, held this year at Sphere, an immersive entertainment arena in Las Vegas. KIOXIA was spotlighted in the keynote for our work together on Spaceborne.

HPE Discover 2024 held at Sphere at Las Vegas
A grand KIOXIA thank you sponsor sign welcoming attendees at the HPE Discover 2024 entrance.

Live booth demonstrations (on HPE ProLiant/Alletra platforms) included:

  • Milvus® Vector Database for AI workloads featuring KIOXIA CM7 Series Enterprise E3.S NVMe™ SSDs 
  • MinIO® scale out storage workload featuring KIOXIA RM7 Series Value SAS SSDs
  • Deep learning I/O benchmark for AI featuring KIOXIA CD8P Series Data Center E3.S SSDs 
  • SUSE® Harvester Hyperconverged Infrastructure featuring KIOXIA PM7 Series Enterprise SAS SSDs 
KIOXIA booth was heavily visited by attendees.

Other demonstrations included:

  • HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 program (SBC-2) : Demonstrating how HPE and KIOXIA are working together on the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 initiative in the International Space Station (ISS)
  • Value SAS SSDs: Featuring their price/performance value in a real-world workload – and showing a clear path away from aging SATA technology
  • EDSFF E3: Specifications were developed by leading companies that include HPE and KIOXIA to optimize SSD designs for capacity, power, performance, and thermal/cooling – and to replace 2.5-inch form factor SSDs
KIOXIA and HPE – Accelerating ISS Research with SBC-2.

KIOXIA also participated in several speaking sessions and panel discussions that focused on its new products and its longstanding collaboration with HPE, including a breakout session highlighting KIOXIA SSDs leveraged in SBC-2 with the ISS. This session was titled, “HPE and KIOXIA: Storage Solutions for AI, Cloud and Space,” and highlighted the next frontier of computing, with a special focus on managing workloads and data from the cloud to the edge - even to the edge of space. HPE’s Dr. Mark Fernandez detailed HPE’s collaboration with KIOXIA on the latest Spaceborne-2 initiative. You can watch and learn more about this exciting project.

KIOXIA SSDs in HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 – KIOXIA Memory Maker (Video, 3:07) A modal window will open.
A well-attended breakout session by Tyler Nelson, Director of KIOXIA Innovation Lab, KIOXIA America and Dr. Fernandez from HPE.
A slide from the breakout session presentation

KIOXIA and HPE are also collaborating on future space projects including outfitting the next lunar rover, the Astrolab FLEX rover, with HPE servers that are equipped with our SSDs. The FLEX rover is a lunar terrain vehicle designed for the “last mile” of the transportation network to support human operations, robotic science, exploration, logistics, construction, resource utilization, and other activities enabling a sustained human presence on the moon, and beyond.

Neville Ichhaporia, SVP/GM, SSD Business Unit of KIOXIA America checking out the Astrolab FLEX Rover that will feature our SSDs.

Below are more photos highlighting the event.

KIOXIA Corporation CMO, Caesar Ichimura (Lead Singer), and others performed with Norm Follett, Senior Director, HPE Global Technical Marketing, Space Technologies & Solutions from HPE during the Customer Reception Jam Session.
KIOXIA was one of the three Emerald Sponsors at HPE Discover 2024 Celebration, featuring live performance by Dead and Company, a popular American rock band.

KIOXIA and HPE showcased how our joint innovations in PCIe® Gen 5, EDSFF SSDs, and 24G SAS SSDs can provide customers with reliable, high-performance, sustainable storage solutions. Together, we enable data center evolution and support more digitally-focused strategies, driving compute and storage modernization from the edge to the cloud to AI.

KIOXIA at HPE Discover 2024 (Video, 2:09)

Thank you all for stopping by and experiencing what KIOXIA has to offer.

  • Definition of capacity: KIOXIA Corporation defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1 GB = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
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