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The Register can reveal that Dell EMC is looking to add storage-class memory (SCM) and NVMe drives and fabric across its storage portfolio and that HPE's Nimble arrays will get SCM support in 2019. At a briefing this week, Dell EMC storage product marketing manager Bob Fine told us SCM was already an incoming technology on …

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  1. WYSIWYG650

    Applications need much more than just SCM

    NetApp has a brand new Exadata killing technology that lets you take full advantage of all the amazing hardware power. Max Data, formerly Plexistor, is the technology and it works by going around the legacy kernel communication protocols. Think tier 0 running off SCM with full data protection and flash as your tier 1. It is not a cache and supports full read/write at single digit microsecond latency without having to rewrite your application. NetApp also is the first to market, and maybe still the only major player, to have NNMe from end to end without reverting back to SAS at the drive. the A800 supports the NVMe protocol, drives, and has a 100Gbs back plane with the OnTap data fabric features for data mobility, snaps, clones to and from the cloud, white box, object...etc.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Applications need much more than just SCM

      Nice advertisement. Maybe you want to include a photo with a sexy model too?

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Applications need much more than just SCM

      MAX Data is important, makes Dell and HP's announcement worthless. If you get tier 0 from the server, you won't need the SCM baggage and cost on the array.

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    3. IareFlash
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      Re: Applications need much more than just SCM

      ¿Just how long have you worked for NetApp?

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    4. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Applications need much more than just SCM

      Using off-the-shelf NVMe SSDs is hardly leading edge when other vendors have higher density custom Flash modules. NetApp is neither the only nor the first to claim NVMe end-to-end!

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      Re: Applications need much more than just SCM

      Exadata? Not exactly set the world on fire has it? Oracle sold most where they gifted the HW in return for more DB licensing annuity revenues.

      Exa is plenty fast enough for most DBAs and does have clever HW tech - Hard to compete with unless you can play this trick.

      Faster is not always the killer.

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    3par with SCM...

    Lipstick on a pig. Someone please take the 3par out back and put it out of its misery. Without a massive design overhaul, the CPU bound 3par is a dead end. Just go with Nimble if you HAVE to have HPE.

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    1. WYSIWYG650
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      Re: 3par with SCM...

      MaxData is a server side technology... it uses All Flash storage as second tier, Tier 1 is from the server....it is kind of departure from traditional storage in many ways.

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