Thanks to all who attended or listened on-demand to our recent SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) webcast on Trends in Worldwide Media and Entertainment Storage. Motti Beck of Mellanox Technologies and Tom Coughlin, SSSI Education Chair and analyst with Coughlin Associates, got rave reviews for their analysis of this important market. Feedback comments included “Good overview with enough details for me to learn something”; “Really appreciate the insight into the ME businesses”; and “Just in time for the upcoming NAB Show!”. We appreciate your interest and enthusiasm!
Important to every SNIA webcast are the Questions – and we got quite a few on this one. Thanks in advance to Tom Coughlin, who provided the answers below. Send any more questions to us at asksssi@snia.org with the subject- M&E Webcast Questions. Happy reading, and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming webcasts or events.
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Leave it to Rob Peglar, SNIA Board Member and the MC of SNIA’s 7th annual Persistent Memory Summit to capture the Summit day as persistently fun with a metric boatload of great presentations and speakers! And indeed it was a great day, with fourteen sessions presented by 23 speakers covering the breadth of where PM is in 2019 – real world, application-focused, and supported by multiple operating systems. Find a great recap on the Forbes blog by Tom Coughlin of Coughlin Associates.
Attendees enjoyed live demos of Persistent Memory technologies from AgigA Tech, Intel, 
SMART Modular, the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, and Xilinx. Learn more about what they presented here.
And for the first time as a part of the Persistent Memory Summit, SNIA hosted a Persistent Memory Programming Hackathon sponsored by Google Cloud Read More
With a topic like Emerging Memory Poised to Explode, no wonder this SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative webcast generated so much interest! 
Our audience had some great questions, and, as promised, our experts Tom Coughlin and Jim Handy provide the answers in this blog. Read on, and join SNIA at the Persistent Memory Summit January 24, 2019 in Santa Clara CA. Details and complimentary registration are at www.snia.org/pm-summit.
Q. Can you mention one or two key applications leading the effort to leverage Persistent Memory? Read More
by Samuel A. Fineberg, Co-chair, SNIA LTR TWG
Ten years ago, a SNIA Task Force undertook a 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey with a goal to determine requirements for long-term digital retention in the data center. The Task Force hypothesized that the practitioner survey respondents would have experiences with terabyte archive systems that would be adequate to define business and operating system requirements for petabyte-sized information repositories in the data center. Read More
ent memory solutions available today and SNIA is a sponsor in the exhibit hall. Read More
by Arthur Sainio, SNIA NVDIMM SIG Co-Chair, SMART Modular
SNIA’s Non-Volatile DIMM (NVDIMM) Special Interest Group (SIG) had a tremendous response to their most recent webcast: NVDIMM: Applications are
Here! You can view the webcast on demand.
Viewers had many questions during the webcast. In this blog, the NVDIMM SIG answers those questions and shares the SIG’s knowledge of NVDIMM technology.
Have a question? Send it to nvdimmsigchair@snia.org.
1. What about 3DXpoint, how will this technology impact the market? Read More
New on the Solid State Storage website is a whitepaper from analysts Tom Coughlin of Coughlin Associates and Jim Handy of Objective Analysis which details what IT manager requirements are for storage performance. The paper examines how requirements have changed over a four-year period for a range of applications, including databases, online transaction processing, cloud and storage services, and scientific and engineering computing. Read More