New Fundamental Data, Storage and Device Technologies

As data sets continue to grow, IT managers have begun seeking out new ways for flash to be deployed in the data center in order to take greater advantage of the performance and latency benefits. With traditional interfaces such as SAS, SATA and PCIe already taking advantage of flash, the focus has shifted to non-traditional interfaces in order to further penetrate current infrastructure. This has led to the emergence of new solutions that leverage the DDR3 interface and are deployed via existing DIMM slots in server hardware, creating vast pools of flash and enabling it to be deployed on the edges of the data center.

In this tutorial, Page Tagizad of SanDisk, will provide an overview of various DIMM-based approaches that have emerged, including the ULLtraDIMM, Hybrid DIMM, SATA DIMMs and NVDIMMs, as well as discuss the advantages of each approach and what applications are best addressed by them.

Learning Objectives

How the DIMM form factor closes the gap between storage devices and system memory
How DIMM-based infrastructures meet the demands of data-intensive workloads by reducing processing time compared to HDDs and SSDs leveraging other interfaces
How DIMM solutions meet the needs of time-sensitive workloads such as high-frequency trading (HFT), Big Data, Analytics, Virtualization and Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)