{"id":575530,"date":"2026-08-05T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/575530\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:52:09","slug":"nvm-express-revamps-specs-to-boost-virtualization-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/575530\/","title":{"rendered":"NVM Express revamps specs to boost virtualization and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"ezntm\">The NVM Express consortium has updated each of its 11 specifications, including the introduction of support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and solid\u2013state drive (SSD) virtualization for locally attached drives.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4r3ee\">Updates covering specs including NVMe 2.4 Base and NVMe-MI 2.2 aim to prepare storage security layers to withstand future quantum computing decryption risks, with support extended for quantum-resistant algorithms approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ashbq\">NVMe virtualization was also added, expanding native handling of virtual environments directly on local attached drives, a move the consortium said would help ensure virtual machine mobility without requiring time-consuming storage reconfigurations or hypervisor emulations.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d9drb\">Rate limiting to optimize storage performance was also added in this latest update, which imposes input\/output operations per second (IOPS) and bandwidth caps on SSDs to set predictable service tiers and stabilize system quality of service.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5lnkm\">The consortium also added what it described as \u201csustainability advancements,\u201d including voltage monitoring to help track device health parameters, providing engineers with the means to identify power anomalies before they impact performance or reliability. A device recovery simplification and configuration addition allows hosts to restore an NVMe subsystem to factory-default settings in a bid to streamline troubleshooting<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5d0jn\">The updates, announced at an industry event in Santa Clara, California, look to help storage engineers get the best out of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdxcentral.com\/analysis\/ai-is-altering-data-storage-scale-structure-and-sanity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly costly drives<\/a> by means with which to \u201caddress the growing demands of data-intensive applications in AI, cloud, enterprise and client environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"19qs4\">\u201cThe latest NVMe specifications introduce foundational enablers to remain secure in the post-quantum era while streamlining device manageability and improving sustainability, future-proofing NVMe storage across enterprise, cloud, AI and client environments,\u201d said Amber Huffman, president of NVM Express.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b0b80\">\u201cAs security requirements and operational efficiency demands continue to evolve, NVM Express remains focused on delivering innovations that improve data protection and storage efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NVM Express consortium has updated each of its 11 specifications, including the introduction of support for post-quantum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-575530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}