Intel Presents at Storage Field Day 21

Intel Optane History and Business Update

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Kristie Mann, Sr. Director Optane DC Persistent Memory Products, updates the Storage Field Day 21 delegates on the history of Intel’s Optane technology and discusses recent developments. Mann begins with a look back at the timeline of Optane technology: The start of 3D XPoint development in 2012, the announcement in 2015, first SSD products in 2017 and PMem products in 2019, and the recent introduction of the PMem 200 and SSD P5800X. Mann also gives some statistics on Optane adoption across multiple industries and workloads including in-memory database, VMware vSAN, AI and analytics, and more. Next, Mann gives an update on the SK hynix announcement, in which Intel will sell their NAND memory and storage business in two phases (estimated as 2021 and 2025 or beyond) but will retain Optane technology in a new Intel Optane Group (IOG) within Intel DPG. Finally David Lundell, GM, Client Division, corrects recent press reports about Intel’s Optane client products.

Personnel: David Lundell, Kristie Mann

Intel Optane Technology Use Case: HPE VMware vSphere and vSAN at Cerner

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Cerner, a US-based provider of health IT services, devices, and hardware, wanted to improve the client experience to allow doctors and nurses to provide better care to their patients, while reducing TCO, increasing performance, and improving scalability. The company partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware to deliver vSphere with Intel Optane Persistent Memory and and vSAN with Intel Optane SSD for caching diagnostic images on edge systems and on-premises multi-tenant workloads. In this session, Allison Goodman, Sr. Principal Engineer and Director of Optane Storage Solutions for Intel discusses the Cerner use case with Sridhar Kayathi, Tech Solutions Specialist in Intel’s Optane Sales Group and Kristie Mann, Sr. Director Optane DC Persistent Memory Products at Intel and takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Allison Goodman, Kristie Mann, Sridhar Kayathi

Intel Optane Technology Use Case: Aerospike at PayPal

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PayPal, the world’s largest online money transfer, billing, and payments system, wanted instant response to detect fraud among hundreds of reads and writes per transaction, 325 million customer profiles, and 32% annual data growth. They partnered with Aerospike to deploy Intel Optane Persistent Memory in an optimized database with higher performance than SSDs, lower cost per GB than DRAM, higher node densities, and data indexes which persist over system restarts. This solution stores 5x more records per node, reduced node count by 2x, and increased replication factor from 2 to 3, with 30% lower cluster hardware cost and 8x faster restart times. In this session, Tim Faulkes, Vice President of Solutions Architecture for Aerospike, discusses the solution with Ginger Gilsdorf, Application Engineer at Intel, and Kristie Mann, Sr. Director Optane DC Persistent Memory Products at Intel. The group also takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Ginger Gilsdorf, Kristie Mann, Tim Faulkes

Intel Optane Technology Use Case: VAST Data at DUG

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HPC-as-a-Service provider DUG wanted to build a resilient and adaptive storage environment to expand into new verticals, including academia, astrophysics, medicine and genomics, wildfire modeling, and COVID 19 research, enabling access to large and complex datasets for customers. Their solution, boosts performance and reliability by switching from HDDs to petabytes of flash storage with VAST Data Universal Storage, powered by Intel Optane SSD. In this session, Howard Marks, Technologist Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for VAST Data and Stuart Midgley, Chief Information Officer for DUG, discuss the solution with Kristie Mann, Sr. Director Optane DC Persistent Memory Products at Intel. The group also takes questions from the Storage Field Day delegates.

Personnel: Howard Marks, Kristie Mann, Stuart Midgley

Intel Optane Technology Use Case: SAP and Canadian Pacific Railway

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North American railway operator Canadian Pacific Railway wanted to improve operational control to increase capacity while still ensuring safety and optimizing costs. They partnered with SAP to deploy Intel Optane Persistent Memory to deliver 8x faster restarts, 20% lower data storage costs, and 3x reduction in SAP HANA production nodes. In this session, Vishal Sanghvi, Global Market Development Manager, Team SAP, at Intel, and Krishna Yalamanchi, Persistent Memory Architect at Intel, discuss the solution with Kristie Mann, Sr. Director Optane DC Persistent Memory Products at Intel.

Personnel: Krishna Yalamanchi, Kristie Mann, Vishal Sanghvi

Intel Optane Technology Discussion at Storage Field Day 21

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Kristie Mann, Sr. Director Optane DC Persistent Memory Products at Intel, leads a free-form discussion with the Storage Field Day delegates focused on Intel’s Optane technology. Joining the discussion are Allison Goodman, Sr. Principal Engineer, Director of Optane Storage Solutions at Intel, and Vishal Sanghvi, Global Market Development Manager, Team SAP at Intel.

Personnel: Allison Goodman, Kristie Mann, Vishal Sanghvi