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Using Optane Memory Like A Hyperscaler

March 28, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The ramp for Intel’s Optane 3D XPoint memory, which sits between DDR4 main memory and flash or disk storage, or beside main memory, in the storage hierarchy, is going to shake up the server market. …

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