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PRESS RELEASES

January 13, 2025

SANBlaze and Microsoft Partner to Support Open-Source Test Specifications

SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, is pleased to announce today its OCP compliant 2.5 test suite as a welcome addition to its widely adopted NVMe qualification platform.

“AZURE Datacenter requirements are vast and often unique to sustain Microsoft’s differentiation in performance and reliability of our Datacenters. We are excited to partner with SANBlaze to not only meet our unique internal needs, but to also support open-source test specifications like OCP 2.5 for setting generic standards around reliability, specification compliance, cost and performance for Azure.” said Dillip Dash, Sr. Director of Microsoft Azure Memory and Storage CoE.

“With our combined efforts in adding value to the 'Certified by SANBlaze' test suites, we are achieving our desired validation coverage tailored to our needs and are able to enhance the test coverage with adding new features like MI 1.2 (Management Interface) and SPDM (security protocol and data model), which are both planned for future CDL inclusion. This partnership helps us deliver reliable and tested solutions to our Azure fleet.”

December 17, 2024

New SBExpress Rackmount Gen5+ and Desktop Gen5+ are Gen6 Ready to Deliver Latest-Generation Validation and Compliance Testing

Littleton, MA, USA — December 17, 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.  Read More...

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...

August 6, 2024

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
 

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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.

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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. 

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August 1, 2022

SANBlaze Joins Symbiosys Alliance


Interconnect Technology Leaders to Debut Tech Sector Alliance at Flash Memory Summit

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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.

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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.

Dec. 16, 2021

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...

Sept. 2, 2021

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.

December 16, 2021

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.

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.

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