Paper Title: Invited Talk: Using 3D XPoint Persistent Memory Effectively

Paper Abstract: There's a lot of excitement of 3D XPoint or Optane persistent memory (PMEM). It falls between DRAM and flash NVMe SSDs. It's five times faster than the fastest flash SSD while ten times slower than DRAM. Versus DRAM, it's non-volatile with higher density and lower cost. Analytics, OLTP, AI, and deep machine learning vendors all salivate at the prospect. However, there are several hidden PMEM potholes that derail the most promising efforts, and which frustrate architects of all kinds. Attendees at this presentation will learn how to design around those potholes in order to gain the required value of 3D XPoint.

Paper Author: Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Author Bio: Marc Staimer, President of Dragon Slayer Consulting in Beaverton, OR, is well known for his in-depth and keen understanding of user problems, especially with storage, networking, applications, and virtualization. He has provided tips from the user perspective in thousands of technology articles for internationally renowned online trades including many of TechTarget’s Search websites, as well as GigaOM. Marc has also delivered hundreds of white papers, webinars and seminars, as well as sales training and strategy sessions, for many well-known industry giants such as: Brocade, Cisco, DELL, EMC, Emulex, Fujifilm, Fujitsu, HDS, HGST, HPE, LSI, Mellanox, NEC, NetApp, Nexsan, Oracle, QLogic (Cavium), SanDisk and Western Digital, as well as smaller, less well-known vendors/startups including: Asigra, Cloudtenna, Clustrix, Condusiv, Daisy, DH2i, Diablo, FalconStor, Gridstore, ioFABRIC, Nexenta, Neuxpower, NetEx, NoviFlow, Pavilion Data, Permabit, Qumulo, StorONE, StrongBox Data and Tegile.