FEATURE: BIG DATA
TAJ ELKHAYAT
Regional Vice President,
Middle East and Africa at
Riverbed Technology
AFTER TEN YEARS
OF RESEARCH, INTEL
UNVEILED ITS 3DXPOINT
NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
TECHNOLOGY, WHICH
HAS 10X THE CAPACITY
OF DRAM, IS 1000X
FASTER THAN NAND…
Having upgraded to the Intel Xeon
processor E5-2600 v3 product family
and the Intel SSD DC S3700 Series,
CERN has been able to double the
input/output operations per second
(IOPS) and estimates it will be able to
collect 50 times more data by 2020.
It’s not just the advances in the field
of compute power that are going to
help businesses process large chunks of
data more efficiently. After ten years of
research, Intel unveiled its 3DXPoint nonvolatile memory technology, which has
10x the capacity of DRAM, is 1000x faster
than NAND – and will prove invaluable as
the volume of data continues to explode
over the next decade.
“With the data revolution well
underway, businesses that do not take
advantage of the technology on offer
to gain insights into their business will
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cease to be competitive in the shortterm and will ultimately cease to exist,”
Henrys continued.
“The problem is many businesses
are not sure how to maximise value
out of their data and this is where
Intel comes in. The key for firms to
use data successfully is to ask the
correct questions. We are cataloguing
a set of vertical usage models for
analytics that can help organisations
get started with an understanding
of where they can find value; we are
also working with a broad eco-system
to develop and improve the analytics
tools needed to carry out analytics
projects and we are working with data
platform vendors and the open source
community t