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Plexistor, founded
in
2013 and
headquartered in Mountain View (with its R&D in Herzliya, Israel) has built
a new Software-Defined Memory (SDM) platform to leverage volatile DRAM and
emerging persistent memory, such as NVDIMM-N and 3DXPoint, with large capacity,
persistence of storage and performance of memory.
Plexistor's solution
upgrades infrastructure to ultra-low latency converged primary storage that
enables in-memory applications to run large data sets at memory speeds. 100x
faster than flash SSD.
Plexistor's SDM supports next-generation
applications such as relational databases, in-memory databases, NoSQL, big data
analytics, and complex event processing that challenge traditional compute and
storage resources.
The platform works across the data center to bring
together in-memory and Enterprise storage paradigms, so conventional
applications and business processes also benefit from SDM performance. For
further information visit www.plexistor.com
see also:-
Plexistor
- mentions on StorageSearch.com
Plexistor's blog
acquisitions in the
SSD market
after AFAs -
cloud adapted memory systems? |
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editor's comments:- December 2015 - Plexistor (currently emerging from
stealth mode) is an
SSD software company
focusing on one of the
big SSD ideas
which emerged in 2015 - retiring and retiering enterprise
DRAM.
The
company's multi-tiered solution
- which has been developed first for Linux - will provide software defined
memory which can be implemented by combinations of physical memory such as DRAM,
flash, and alternative nvms.
Investors include Battery
Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures.
Competitors include:-
Levyx,
SanDisk among others. |
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Where are we now
with SSD software?
flash SSD
capacity - the iceberg syndrome
exciting new
directions in rackmount SSDs
Why size matters in
SSD controller architecture
Efficiency - making the
same SSD - with less flash
consolidation
pressures and projections in enterprise flash
utilization impacts
from the enterprise SSD software horizon
is remanence in
persistent memory (NVDIMMs) a new security risk? |
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| NetApp acquires
Software-Defined Memory |
In May 2017
- A
report
on NoCamels.com said that Network Appliance
has agreed to buy Plexistor
for $20 million.
Editor's comments:- Plexistor's claim to fame
was Software-Defined Memory - with a chip agnostic approach to
SCM DIMM wars and the
memoryfication
of the enterprise.
This acquisition will enable NetApp to play around
with options on that adoption curve in speculative system offerings without
risking too much wasted software in memory dead ends | | |
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| Plexistor demonstrated
its persistent memory over fabric software can deliver millions of remote
writes per second at latencies as low as a few microseconds in a 100GbE setup. |
| SSD news -
August 2016 | | |
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| The size of the business
opportunities represented by retiring and retiering DRAM have become apparent
by analyzing the gains made possible by earlier generations of enterprise SSDs -
in particular PCIe SSDs... |
| SSD year 2015? -
the 4 big ideas | | |
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| Plexistor aims to bind
factions in SSD DIMM wars |
Editor:- December 15, 2015 - Plexistor (an SSD
software company emerging from stealth in stages)
announced
today that it is on track for beta release of its Software-Defined Memory (SDM)
platform for next-generation data centers in Q1 2016.
Plexistor says
that SDM will support a wide range of memory and storage technologies such as
DRAM and emerging nvm
devices such as
NVDIMM-N
and
3D
XPoint as well as traditional flash storage devices such as NVMe and
NVMe
over Fabric, enabling a scalable infrastructure to deliver persistent high
capacity storage at near-memory speed.
See also:-
A
File System for Use with Emerging Non-Volatile Memories (pdf) - Plexistor's
presentation at last summer's FMS
- which summarizes the value proposition thus - "Application developers can
focus on business logic, not storage". | | |
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