Re: Persistent DIMM's - Persistent Malware
Can you explain why you think this is a recipe for disaster?
PMEM sits between traditional main memory and storage in terms of performance and cost (at least, hopefully it sits between them on cost...). The existing technologies have methods of addressing malware and other security issues and PMEM doesn't appear to present any new risks other than "things happen faster". If this is the argument, both scanning for malware AND malware storage access happen faster so I'm not convinced this argument is valid.
For pretty much the life of the CPU, I/O and in particular storage I/O has been the bottleneck for the amount of useful work that can be done by a system so I would expect it to be welcomed. The only potential downside for PMEM at present is pricing and ACTUAL performance * stares at Intel *
Biting the hand that feeds IT
