Which NVM Storage Technology will dominate 3 years from now?

NVM is a popular way to add performance to a storage or server system

In approximate order increasing performance and cost:

• Replace SATA/SAS HDDs with SATA/SAS SSDs
• Use PCIe NVMe accelerator cards. Simple add in cards or complex stack changes to reduce latency
• Add NVDIMMs to put NAND on the memory bus
• New NVM is now available (Like Xpoint) to allow major changes to memory and storage allocation. And there are multiple options on how to use these.
• Other Caching options

The challenge is to make the tradeoffs for use case, cost, and performance.

To decide which technologies will dominate:

• What will the costs be in 3 years? (hint: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 1-4x) … details and checkpoints need to be reviewed periodically to see we hit cost goals.
• Will people rewrite applications and change architectures to take advantage of the technologies?
• Does the market desire generic, open source solutions or customer optimized ones?
• Update on actual implementation is key question for Storage Experts this week

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