Paper Title: Technical and Market Directions for Persistent Memory

Paper Abstract: In this section we will look ahead to Persistent Memory technology is evolving, including maximizing performance in next-generation applications, and PM market grown projections.

Paper Author: Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

Author Bio: Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant. He has over 39 years in the data storage industry with engineering and management positions at several companies. Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports (including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and The Emerging Memory Report), and puts on digital storage-oriented events. He is a regular storage and memory contributor for forbes.com and M&E organization websites. He is an IEEE Fellow, Past-President of IEEE-USA and is active with SNIA and SMPTE. For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications and activities go to www.tomcoughlin.com.