The data sphere continues to grow at an exponential pace and will accelerate as new data-intensive applications such as IoT, 5G and autonomous driving become mainstream. Legacy storage architectures lack the scalability and efficiency to support future capacity requirements. New standards, such as NVMe over Fabrics and NF1 form factor, offer a solution here: NVMe over Fabrics unifies network and drive protocols for vastly improved efficiency and when combined with space-optimized NF1 form factor SSDs, enables a scalable high-density, low-latency storage solution.