Learn to speak storage with our glossary
There is quite a lot of tech terminology that's specific to the storage industry, and if you're like us, you might even have jogged your memory with prior articles...
NVMe-oC
NVMe-oC - NVMe over CXL. This uses CXL requests to tell an MS-SSD to put data into its controller's DRAM, which forms part of a CXL memory pool. This...
MS-SSD
MS-SSD - Memory-Semantic SSD. This is an SSD with DRAM in its controller. The DRAM is loaded with the estimated or known next item needed by the host from...
UUID
UUID - Every disk drive has a UUID, a Universal Unique Identifier, which is a 128-bit hexadecimal number, generated buy a standard method, and used to identify objects or...
Flit
Flit - Flow control unit or digit - this is a unit of data that is a packet of data in a packet-switched network connection between nodes (network routing...
QR Code
QR Code - Quick Recognition Code. A QR code is a type of barcode that can be read by a digital device and which stores information as a series of pixels...
SFTP
SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol is a network file transfer protocol (FTP) with added security. FTP is a basic file sharing protocol. sFTP was designed as an extension...
CopprLink
CopprLink - The PCI-SIG announced in November 2023 that the new naming scheme for PCIe Internal and External Cables will be CopprLink. The PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 Internal and...
vVols
vVols - Virtual Volumes - vVols is a VMware vSphere SAN/NAS management and integration framework that exposes virtual disks as native storage objects and enables array-based operations at the virtual...
BaM
BaM - Block access Memory provides high-level abstractions for accelerators to make on-demand, fine-grained, high-throughput access to storage while enhancing the storage access performance. To this end, BaM...
LRU
LRU - Least Recently Used is a cache replacement algorithm that removes the least recently used cache values when the cache is full.That means an LRU-using system has...
COSI
COSI - Container Object Storage Interface. With reference to Kubernetes.io this is a standard for provisioning and consuming object storage in Kubernetes. Developers use the Kubernetes API to provision, configure...