The adoption of NVMe storage devices in servers has resulted in huge performance and capacity growth per server. Unfortunately, main server CPUs have not kept pace. The Kalray Smart Storage Accelerator (SSA) offloads intense storage data services and applications from the main CPU, thereby releasing all the potential of NVMe SSDs in any server with local NVMe devices. The main CPU is freed to perform billable tasks while all storage-related functions and applications are offloaded to the Kalray K220-LP Smart Storage Accelerator. Leveraging Kalrays MPPA DPU unique capabilities, the K220-LP is a low-power PCIe card designed for any server and OS. A lightweight daemon configures the desired storage resources and the Kalray card presents standard block-level NVMe targets to the OS. With no software layer between the NVMe devices and host VMs or applications, the full performance efficiency is realized from local TLC and QLC SSDs. Existing device and IO drivers continue to work seamlessly.