Mainstream enterprise storage vendors are embracing NVMe. HPE, NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, Kaminario and Tegile all offer all-NVMe arrays. According to these vendors, the products will soon support storage class memory as well. NVMe protocol access to flash memory SSDs is a big deal. Support for storage class memory may become an even bigger deal.
NVMe Flash Delivers More Performance Than SAS
Using the NVMe protocol to talk to SSDs in a storage system increases the efficiency and effective performance capacity of each processor and of the overall storage system.