Smart and Secure Storage

Volatile or non-volatile storage and memory systems can do more than just save and transfer data with the right augmentation. It's possible to provide more capacity using data compression. Information can be more secure using data encryption. In addition, computation can be moved into the storage device to offload the host and provide a more efficient data-manipulation system. 

Data centers are built around very large network and storage systems. Optimizing data movement is key to providing efficient operation. Moving some of the processing from the host to the network interface card (NIC) can reduce the overall traffic and provide services from firewalls to data compression in a SmartNIC. The SmartNIC TechXchange contains a more extensive list of SmartNIC articles, but a couple are included here as well. 

The Compute Express Link (CXL) TechXchange provides a more detailed list of CXL articles. A few of the articles are listed here, as CXL has become a major component in data-center storage these days. The technology is also being utilized in embedded systems due to the escalating storage requirements of high performance computing (HPC). 

There are lots of memory and storage articles that don't fit in the prior sections, so we collected some of the more interesting ones here. They include articles about secure boot and SR-IOV, which are memory-related technologies.