Supermicro says Fibre Channel is on the way out, but SAS lives on and NVMe is rising
Blocks&Files, Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
We had the opportunity to discuss storage servers with Supermicro and find out how it designs and customizes them for its customers, and how interfaces are changing. Wendell Wenjen, director of Storage Market Development, answered our questions.
Blocks & Files: How does Supermicro design a storage server, other than stuffing either SSDs or HDDs in a standard 24-slot chassis?
Wendell Wenjen: Supermicro designs a very wide array of servers ranging from enterprise, embedded, multi-node, GPU servers to cloud optimized servers. While many of these servers are used for storage applications, we have a dedicated product management and development team focused on servers specifically designed for storage applications.