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PRESS RELEASES
August 6, 2024
November 5, 2024
Certified by SANBlaze Test Suite Helps Develop, Validate, and Debug NVMe SSDs
Littleton, MA, USA — November 5, 2024 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced
availability of its 10.7 GA (General Availability) software release that includes SPDM, OCP, FDP, and iRiser5 test scripts. Read More...
August 6, 2024
Affordable Enterprise-level Testing for Client SSDs
Littleton, MA, USA — August 6, 2024 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced the release of the industry’s first platform to support NVMe PCIe Gen5 validation and compliance testing for Client Drives. The SBExpress-DT5CD Client Drive Test System brings enterprise level test capabilities to the client market at an affordable price. The SBExpress-DT5CD Client Drive Test System offers Enterprise test capabilities for Client Drive development, QA, and validation teams, and includes the company’s Certified by SANBlaze (SBCert™) compliance test suite, widely recognized as an industry benchmark. Read More...
New SBExpress Rackmount Gen6 and Desktop Gen6 to Deliver Latest-Generation Validation and Compliance Testing
Littleton, MA, USA — August 6, 2024 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced the coming availability of the industry’s first platform to support NVMe® over PCIe® Gen6 validation and compliance testing. The SBExpress Rackmount and Desktop Gen6 platforms provide broad test capabilities for development, QA, validation, and manufacturing teams, and includes the company’s Certified by SANBlaze (SBCert™) compliance test suite, widely recognized as the industry benchmark for NVMe testing. Read More...
July 1, 2024
SANBlaze To Release Its Latest OCP Test and Validation Software
Comprehensive Upgrades Include OCP 2.0 Scripts
SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, is pleased to announce today its OCP compliant 2.0 test suite as a welcome addition to its widely adopted NVMe qualification platform.
The company’s Certified by SANBlaze™ test suite within its latest version 10.6 software now supports all aspects of NVMe qualification with the addition of the industry accepted Open Compute Project (OCP) 2.0, with ongoing work for OCP 2.5 to be released later this year. The OCP 2.0 package will be available for distribution July 10, 2024.
February 27, 2024
SANBlaze Announces its New Patented iRiser5 for Precision Signal Control and Measurement
Quality Teams Can Now Design Specifically Tailored Test Scenarios
Littleton, MA, USA — February 28, 2024 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, is pleased to announce its iRiser5 device which brings precise signal control and measurement to Gen5 PCIe NVMe testing with the SANBlaze SBexpress-DT5 and SBExpress-RM5 PCIe NVMe test systems.
SANBlaze Releases Latest Software Including the Testing of Flexible Data Placement
Certified by SANBlaze Test Suite Helps Develop, Validate, and Debug NVMe SSDs
Littleton, MA, USA — January 17, 2024 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced availability of a conformance test suite supporting Flexible Data Placement (FDP), an emerging NVMe® SSD technology for host data storage stacks and applications. The new FDP capabilities, available on release V10.6 of the Certified by SANBlaze test suite allows SSD manufacturers to efficiently and accurately test FDP implementations on their drives in half the time it would take using home-grown or open-source tools.
January 17, 2024
August 01, 2023
SANBlaze Releases Flexible Data Placement (FDP) Solutions for Expert Testing
Certified by SANBlaze Test Suite Helps Develop, Validate, and Debug FDP Technology
Littleton, MA, USA — August 01, 2023 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced availability of its Flexible Data Placement (FDP) test suite that allows SSD manufacturers to test FDP on their drives in half the time it would take using home-grown or conventional tools.
June 27, 2023
SANBlaze Ships SBExpress-DT5 PCIe 5.0 Desktop NVMe SSD Test System
Convenient Portable Desktop System Cuts SSD Testing Time in Half
Littleton, MA, USA — June 27, 2023 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced availability of its SBExpress-DT5, a complete turnkey PCIe® 5.0 NVMe® SSD validation test system. The SBExpress-DT5 system works in conjunction with the company’s industry-leading Certified by SANBlaze™ Test Suite, bringing enterprise class NVMe validation right to the developer's desktop. The system is fully self-contained, quiet, and easily portable, perfect for a work-from-home environment or traveling to customer sites.
April 07, 2023
SANBlaze Releases OCP Testing and Major Updates to NVMe Test Suite
Comprehensive Upgrades Include OCP 1.0a Scripts and Low Power Sub-States Validation in Latest Version 10.5
Littleton, MA, USA — April 07, 2023 — SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today released major enhancements to its widely adopted NVMe qualification platform. The company’s Certified by SANBlaze test suite update, available via versions 10.5 and 10.5.1, now supports all aspects of NVMe qualification with the addition of Open Compute Project (OCP) 1.0a and Low Power Sub-states validation. Advanced capabilities also include PCIe Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), ZNS, VDM, TCG, SRIS/SRNS clocking, OPAL, and T10/DIF. A variety of updates for APIs and Linux are included.
October 19, 2022
SANBlaze Partners with UNH-IOL to Develop Open Compute Project Test Scripts
Joint Development Effort to Benefit SSD Manufacturers by Targeting Improvements in Real-World Robustness
SANBlaze today announced that it is working closely with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) to produce OCP (Open Compute Project) test scripts, leveraging the combined experience of both teams in testing NVMe and advanced storage solutions. The final test scripts will be made available in both SANBlaze test products and UNH-IOL testing services.
August 1, 2022
SANBlaze Joins Symbiosys Alliance
Interconnect Technology Leaders to Debut Tech Sector Alliance at Flash Memory Summit
August 1, 2022
SANBlaze Enters New Markets in the Storage Testing Industry
Expansion to Large Cloud Vendors and Data Centers Driven by Early Release of PCIe 5.0 Test Suite
Expansion to Large Cloud Vendors and Data Centers Driven by Early Release of PCIe 5.0 Test Suite
SANBlaze today announced the expansion of its industry-first NVMe® over PCIe® 5.0 validation and compliance testing system from traditional SSD manufacturers to new markets comprised of data center storage and large cloud vendors.
“Customer confidence has grown beyond our traditional walls of satisfying requirements from major SSD manufacturers to supporting large data centers and cloud storage organizations,” said Rick Walsh, VP of Sales and Marketing. “This evolution stems from our first-to-market leadership for early adoption and development of NVMe PCIe Gen5. Early availability was a critical factor in enabling our key strategic customers to meet their internal development schedules for Gen 5 SSD’s and FCS releases.”
“SANBlaze partnered with WD to get our Gen5 Validation infrastructure ready in time including SRIS/SRNS clocking features which helped to fast track our overall Gen5 bring up,” said Anuj Awasthi, Senior Director, System Design and Firmware Verification Engineering, Western Digital Corp.
Dec. 16, 2021
Sept. 2, 2021
June 2, 2022
SANBlaze unveils SBExpress-DT5, a complete turnkey PCIe® Gen5 NVMe SSD validation test system that works in conjunction with our industry-leading Certified by SANBlaze automated testing, bringing Enterprise Class NVMe validation right to the developer's desktop.
Leveraging the industry leading SBExpress-RM5 Gen5 NVMe test system technology, SBExpress-DT5 is a self-contained system, quiet and portable, perfect for a work-from-home environment or traveling to customer sites or satellite offices. Read More...
March 15, 2022
SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today released major enhancements to its widely adopted NVMe qualification platform. The company’s Certified by SANBlaze test suite update, available via versions 8.4 and 10.4, now supports all aspects of NVMe qualification with the addition of PCIe Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) capabilities and implementation of enhanced features for a range of NVMe specifications, including ZNS, VDM, TCG, SRIS/SRNS clocking, OPAL/Ruby and T10/DIF. A variety of updates for APIs and Linux are included. Read more...
SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced the availability of the industry’s first platform to support NVMe® over PCIe® Gen5 validation and compliance testing. The SBExpress-RM5™ platform provides broad test capabilities for development, QA, validation, and manufacturing teams, and includes the company’s Certified by SANBlaze (SBCert™) compliance test suite, widely recognized as an industry benchmark.
SANBlaze is pleased to announce today its SBExpress Version 8.3/10.3 software release which provides NVMe SSD manufacturers the ability to test PCIe based NVMe devices as well as NVMe-oF™ (NVMe over Fabrics) devices. Comprehensive test suites are included for complete verification and compliance of ZNS, VDM, TCG, OPAL/Ruby and T10/DIF specifications for NVMe devices. Enhanced Python and XML APIs provide access to all tests and features enabling integration of SANBlaze SBExpress NVMe systems into existing test infrastructure - all fully compatible with SANBlaze’s upcoming Gen5 PCIe generation of products.
June 15, 2021
SANBlaze is pleased to announce today a major enhancement to their comprehensive ZNS test suite for NVMe storage devices. Working with one of the industry-leading ZNS SSD vendors, SANBlaze has doubled its ZNS tests from 105 to over 200, and then added more than 200 negative test cases as well to make it the only ZNS testing vendor to provide all-inclusive comprehensive ZNS testing.
May 12, 2021
SANBlaze is pleased to announce the addition of a comprehensive Python Application Programming Interface (API) for our SBExpress NVMe test system which makes integration of the SANBlaze system into an existing test infrastructure simple and streamlined.
March 23, 2021
SANBlaze is pleased to announce today its SBExpress Version 8.2 software release which provides NVMe SSD manufacturers the ability to test native NVMe PCIe devices as well as NVMe-oF™ (NVMe over Fabrics) devices. Version 8.2 builds on the Industry Standard SBCert (Certified by SANBlaze) NVMe qualification platform adding advanced automated testing features (including ZNS, VDM, TCG, OPAL, Ruby, XML, and Python Support) and an entire array of new reporting features that reduce testing time and shorten time-to-market for its customers.
Feb 15, 2021
Responding to the growth of our NVMe test and measurement tools, SANBlaze has entered a joint sales and marketing agreement with Gillaspy Associates to expand support of our customers in the Western US region. Gillaspy brings a deep knowledge of the Storage Network industry, providing test and measurement tools, semiconductors, fiber optics and test automation equipment for the SAN market. Gillaspy's experience in the NVMe and SAN test equipment business complements the SANBlaze sales team well, increasing our ability to support our growing customer base.
Nov 06, 2020
SANBlaze Announces the SBExpress-DT4 NVMe Test System
SANBlaze is pleased to unveil today its latest system in the family of NVMe test systems, the SBExpress-DT4. This portable desk top unit packs all the same features as its big sister the SBExpress-RM4 yet rather than live permanently in a server room rack, it can be taken to a customer site or used in a work-from-home environment, and can be set up and running tests in under five minutes.
Jul 29, 2020
SANBlaze is pleased to announce today its SBExpress Version 8.1 software release which provides NVMe SSD manufacturers the ability to test native NVMe PCIe devices as well as NVMe-oF™ (NVMe over Fabrics) devices. Version 8.1 builds on the Industry Standard SBCert (Certified by SANBlaze) NVMe qualification platform adding advanced automated testing features including ZNS, VDM, TCG, and Python Support.
May 11, 2020
SANBlaze has bundled a VDM hardware module with a simple-to-use MI packet generator that allows engineers to build custom test scenarios or run any combination of built-in "Certified by SANBlaze" MI tests.
SANBlaze Technology, the leader in NVMe SSD testing, announced today the availability of its VirtuaLUN (VLUN) V8.0 software release supporting both Native NVMe PCIe Gen4 testing and NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) including RoCE/RDMA and TCP/IP.
Apr 17, 2020
SANBlaze announces TCG Opal support, allowing customers to test and verify this security feature on their NVMe solid state drives (SSDs).
SANBlaze announced today the industry’s first NVMe PCIe Gen4 ZNS capable validation and test platform for early adopters – system and NVMe device OEMs – to enable the timely release and support of this leading edge NVMe technology.
Aug 06, 2019
SANBlaze Announces PCIe NVMe Gen4 at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2019
SANBlaze announced today that it is demonstrating its new state-of-the-art PCIe NVMe Gen4 Test System, the SANBlaze SBExpress-RM4 at FMS, providing NVMe SSD manufacturers performance and compliance testing on their NVMe solid state storage drives. With PCIe Gen4 providing the fastest interconnect speeds to date, the SANBlaze SBExpress has now doubled its bandwidth from 16GB to 32GB per host adapter.
Dec 17, 2018
Through Virtual Instruments’ partnership with SAN storage emulation systems provider SANBlaze Technology, the new WorkloadWisdom delivers non-volatile memory express (NVMe) workload modeling and testing over Fibre Channel (FC), enabling data-driven analysis of and intelligent workload placement in next-generation flash technologies.
Aug 07, 2018
Integration and Cross Resale of the Leading Products in Storage Workload Simulation Offers Unprecedented Insight into FC-NVMe Workloads for Storage Technology Vendors and Enterprise IT
Jul 12, 2018
SANBlaze released its industry leading NVMe testing hardware and software, the SANBlaze SBExpress-RM. The new hardware, coupled with the SBExpress NVMe software, provides engineers with a variety of test scenarios that can be run against NVMe SSD drives, including I/O performance, NVMe conformance, automated hot plug/hot swap, and error injection.
Jun 21, 2018
SANBlaze Demonstrates NVMe-oF at UNH Plug Fest
SANBlaze successfully demonstrates NVMe target emulation over RoCE and Fibre Channel. The SANBlaze NVMe platform not only helps customers test NVMe in their current environment, but also helps in the selection of which protocol or transport to use.
Oct 24, 2017
SANBlaze, a leading innovator in storage emulation and validation, is proud to announce the launch of the Dual Port NVMe Drive Test Platform.
Oct 26, 2017
SANBlaze, a leading innovator in storage emulation and validation, announced support for Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) Ethernet Test Solution is available in the latest version of VirtuaLUN™.
Aug 08, 2017
Today, SANBlaze Technology Inc. announced the new 7.5.2 release of the industry leading VirtuaLUN™ storage emulation and validation software. New features include SBExpress™ software manager, v.7 of the UNH IOL NVMe conformance test suite, as well as additional NVMe and FC-NVMe features.