New name for an established industry conference, the "Flash Memory Summit" has morphed into The "Future of Memory and Storage" which is definitely a good name with the acronym. Once again this year it was the rendez-vous of semi-conductor professionals plus a few other adjacent profiles. Plenty of new things, awards of course but also new products, technology directions and trends confirmed by vendors products iterations. A good show as usual, I hope you will enjoy this short recap.

The last FMS 2024 conference was the opportunity to celebrate Harriet Coverston, a real pioneer in the storage domain and especially in the data archiving space. Harriet just received the SuperWomen of FMS Leadership Award that rewards a brilliant carrier and strong industry contributions. After some times at Lawrence Livermore and Control Data Corp., she founded LSC in 1986 with famous SAM-FS and QFS, later acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2001 where she stayed 10 years. In 2011, she founded Versity Software as CTO with Bruce Gilpin, CEO, to address new data archiving challenges developing a modern data archiving platform. A great talk and a real honor to exchange with Harriet, a reference in storage, I hope you will enjoy the listening. Thank you Harriet.

Following the recent IT Press Tour and the very interesting session we had at MaxLinear, I decided to meet again the company and go more in details on Panther III, the storage accelerator card, well adopted by the market and recognized as one of the fastest in the industry. I talked with Mark Moran, Executive Director, and Pinaki Chanda, Director Software Engineering, during FMS, the famous conference now operating under a new name "The Future of Memory and Storage" and still with the same acronym. We discussed about the strategy of the company but go deeper into the product, its features, its performance and values delivered to users but also key partners. A very interesting exchange about this advanced technology paramount in this fast growing AI era. I hope you will enjoy listening to it. Thank you Mark and Pinaki.