[Disclosure: Intel is a client of the author.]After a recent debrief on Intel 3D XPoint memory effort (aka Optane), I was again struck with the fact that this technology is selling well below potential.
That sure to change as virtual providers of desktop and gaming platforms realize it&ll be critical to their efforts to remove latency, mostly in storage but also when a cloud customer or on-premise user needs to do the massive in-memory analysis of large data sets.What got me thinking about this was when Dell EMC launched its DC D4800X product earlier this year and I saw the early reviews of Google new cloud gaming service Stadia, which has been getting bad reviews due to the unacceptable latency.
This latency may be even more pronounced on competing services.