HPE plans to deliver a DAOS storage solution targeting version 2.0 to enable initial customer deployments. The reference implementation will include HPE servers, Intel Ice Lake CPUs with DCPMM and NVMe SSDs, Mellanox or HPE Slingshot switches, and customized Cray management software. HPE will host potential customers in their CTO lab to run proofs of concept and collect feedback to inform full productization planned with Sapphire Rapids.