Amber Huffman to be honored during annual summit
— said Chuck Sobey, FMS General Chair
SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED STATES, July 27, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Flash Memory Summit (FMS) today announced this year’s recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award: Amber Huffman of Google Cloud. Huffman is being recognized for her achievements in bringing flash storage into the mainstream of the data storage industry by founding and driving the standards that have made flash memory a mainstream storage medium for virtually all computing applications. FMS will honor Huffman for her accomplishments during the annual summit on Tuesday, August 8, at 11:30am PDT.
Amber Huffman is receiving this prestigious award for her part in establishing and leading industry organizations whose standards have accelerated the adoption of NAND flash in computing systems:
● The Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI), which standardized NAND chip interfaces to work with all chips, regardless of supplier or revision level
● NVM Express (NVMe), an alternative to HDD-oriented storage interfaces that takes advantage of flash’s particular strengths, and enables storage class memory including persistent memory
● The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), the programming interface for Serial ATA (SATA), to enable scaling beyond hard drive limitations to allow SSDs to gain widespread market penetration
● Board member of the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation, and OCP Storage Project co-lead, to drive common datacenter SSD requirements for broad adoption of advanced features
● Board member of the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe), which provides the path to integrate persistent memory into SoC packages
Huffman has shown outstanding leadership in all of these and other standards. She also founded NVM Express, Inc., served as the specification editor until 2017, and continues to lead the organization forward as its President. Her work defined and drove a standard that, like ONFI, has proven to be transformative throughout the industry.
As a Principal Engineer at Google Cloud, Amber is responsible for steering Google’s industry engagement in the datacenter ecosystem including storage, servers, networking, and accelerators. Previously, she worked at Intel for over 25 years as an Intel Fellow and VP, and she has been granted 25 patents in data storage architecture and related technologies.
Huffman is known across the industry not only as an evangelist and diplomat who makes things happen, but also as an inclusive leader and a passionate mentor. In 2018 she was the first recipient of Flash Memory Summit’s and The Evaluator Group’s SuperWomen in Flash Leadership Award, and in 2019 she received the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Rising Women of Influence Award. She now serves on the GSA Women’s Leadership Council, and the University of Michigan’s Computer Science & Engineering National Advisory Board.
Industry Comments
“Amber’s technical influence in the computing and datacenter ecosystem space cannot be overstated. Throughout her career Amber has been instrumental to driving consensus and action around new standards that moved the entire data storage industry forward,” said Amin Vahdat, Vice President and General Manager, Systems, and Cloud AI, Google Cloud. “Not only has she impacted the technology, but she has made a lasting impact on the community as well, serving in key leadership roles along the way. I am excited to see Amber’s achievements in this space recognized and look forward to witnessing her contributions in the years to come.”
“Amber’s lifetime work in driving NAND flash and interface standards – and the technologies behind them – has been profoundly transformational to the industry,” said Rich Uhlig, Intel Senior Fellow, CVP and Director of Intel Labs. “She is an inspiration not only for what she has accomplished, but how she did it – always seeking to support and coach the technologists around her to reach new heights of innovation as a community. It is wonderful to see her leadership recognized!”
“Amber’s work and vision enabled flash storage to move from simply a faster, more-expensive hard disk drive replacement to the dominant storage technology from the laptop to the data center,” said Chuck Sobey, FMS General Chair. “We are delighted to showcase her contributions, and are looking forward to her continuing leadership in our industry.”
For More Information
The FMS website at https://bit.ly/FMSLAA includes more information about Amber Huffman’s impact on the memory and storage industry, as well as information about the Lifetime Achievement Award recipients since 2011.
About Flash Memory Summit
Flash Memory Summit will be held August 8-10, 2023, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. Produced by Conference ConCepts, FMS showcases the industry’s key applications, technologies, vendors, and innovative startups that are driving the multi-billion dollar high-speed memory and SSD markets. First held in 2006, FMS is the world’s largest event featuring the trends, innovations, and influencers driving the adoption of flash memory and other high-speed memory technologies within demanding enterprise storage applications, high-performance computing, AI/ML, the cloud, and mobile and embedded systems. Follow us on Twitter @FMS2023 and @FlashMemorySummit.
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