By Desire Athow
Two weeks ago, HPE announced a new memory type that promises to change make things slightly more exciting in the world of storage and computing generally.
Dubbed Persistent Memory, it is initially geared at the high-end of the enterprise market although, as history taught us, many useful technologies that started in the B2B space will trickled down to consumers. We put our questions about that new component to Bret Gibbs and Richard Slyfield who both work for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
techradarpro: How is Persistent Memory (PM) different from traditional RAM?
hpe: Persistent memory is a non-volatile memory solution designed to accelerate applications and workloads while retaining data during power interruptions and system reboots. Traditional RAM stores data that runs programs and applications on a server and requires a power source to retain data.
techradarpro: How is PM different from other existing NVDIMM-F and NVDIMM-N solutions (Sandisk, Micron, Diablo, Samsung, Netlist etc).
Persistent Memory is the category name and the HPE 8GB NVDIMM-N module is our first product offering in this category. HPE is the first server vendor to offer an NVDIMM solution that’s integrated at the server level. Significant changes have been made to the server architecture, system BIOS and memory controller to ensure …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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