The rapid evolution of persistent memory (PM) technologies has spurred a significant shift in how data structures and algorithms are designed and implemented. Persistent memory, offering ...

With a few exceptions, the announcements at Oracle OpenWorld last week were largely aimed at filling in the blanks of its cloud and data platform portfolio. ZDNet colleague Stephanie Condon was on the ...

Non-volatile memory (NVM) systems represent a transformative shift in data storage, blending the speed of conventional memory with the endurance of persistent storage. These systems enable data to ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. For the last two years, we’ve been writing about Intel Optane persistent memory, knowing that scores of ...

Aerospike, provider of an enterprise-grade non-relational database, has announced general availability of Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 optimized for Intel Optane DC persistent memory. According to ...

As we reported last fall, Oracle's refresh of its Exadata database consolidation platform was a generation change with major architectural changes that turbocharge transaction processing and analytics ...

While it is possible to reap at least some benefits from persistent memory, for those that are performance focused, the work to establish an edge is getting underway now with many of the OS and larger ...

Intel Corp. announced a new kind of memory and storage technology Wednesday that it built purposely for data center operators. The technology, called Intel Optane DC persistent memory, is designed to ...

Ever since Intel and Micron announced 3D XPoint memory in 2015, the world has been waiting for the companies to use it to build memory sticks. 3D XPoint blends the properties of flash storage and DRAM ...