Paper Title: Blockchain: Trusted Transactions Lead to Enormous Storage Needs

Paper Abstract: As SSDs become more affordable, cloud providers want to use them to provide high performance, highly reliable services for their customers. 3DXPoint⢠and 3D NAND TLC/QLC are the two latest non-volatile memory technologies to offer desirable features. 3D Xpoint⢠fills the performance gap between DRAM and NAND-based SSDs while 3D NAND TLC reduces the cost gap between SSDs and hard drives. By re-architecting their storage with a combination of the two technologies, cloud service providers can offer higher performance and more reliable services with cost effective, high capacity/density storage. Example studies show results obtained with various combinations of currently available SSDs. A use case study shows the results for a Ceph cluster and a relational database service from a cloud provider. Further investigations will deal with shared storage consisting of 3D XPoint SSDs and ruler SSDs (in a new form factor).

Paper Author: W David Schwaderer, Principal, Smart Creatives

Author Bio: David Schwaderer is a Silicon Valley inventor and consultant. He supported Samsung Memory Solutions Laboratory's (MSL) Advanced Research and Development initiatives for over four years, authoring and co-authoring Samsung patent filings related to advanced technologies. He is also editor-in-chief of the Symantec Technology Network which distributes a monthly newsletter. David has written 11 technical books and personally created six commercial programs. He has presented tutorials at Usenix FASTâ14 and FASTâ16, Flash Memory Summit, Google, Oracle, Sun Labs, Symantec, Stanford, MIT, the Naval Postgraduate School, Samsung, and various Silicon Valley startups. David has an MS in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a MBA from the University of Southern California.