Texas Memory Systems (TMS), also known as the maker of World’s Fastest Storage, has joined the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization working to accelerate the growth of Linux. TMS will focus on improving the SSD support from in the mainline Kernel by supporting developers.
TMS will of course benifit from users having proper native SSD support in the Linux kernel since its main customer base is businesses, and servers tend to use Linux. This includes support for PCIe SSDs, which, although expensive, are the best performing SSD solutions available today.
“Linux is key to our long-term success,/…/There is an enormous amount of innovation within the open source community, primarily driven through collaborative development. Texas Memory Systems wants to help accelerate that work in order to meet both the needs of the community and customers who need advanced high-performance SSDs in a variety of IT environments.” said Jamon Bowen, Director of Sales Engineering at Texas Memory Systems.
While the Linux Foundation is glad to have TMS onboard, we are even happier. Linux has been trailing Windows in the SSD development and considering the fact that SSD is here to stay and will be taking over more and more of the market, this is more or less a necessity to bring Linux up to speed.
“Texas Memory Systems is pushing the limits on enterprise storage and support /…/ Solid State Drives are the future of data storage, and The Linux Foundation is eager to work with leaders like Texas Memory Systems to optimize this technology for Linux.” said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs, The Linux Foundation.
TRIM support, better performance and less stress on the memory cells are just some the things that needs improving. That should be said for all platforms though. SSD performance isn’t just in the hardware and that is why we are so happy to see a company like TMS take a step forward and help get things moving faster.
