Availability of MemVerge Memory Machine Software Delivering Big Memory Being DRAM-Fast and Highly Available

MemVerge, Inc. announced availability of Memory Machine software.

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Used with Intel Corp.‘s Optane persistent memory, Memory Machine changes in-memory computing infrastructure. IT organizations depend on performance DRAM while coveting lower-cost and persistent memory. The company asked, ‘Why not both?‘

The Memory Machine engineering team answered with a software-defined pools of DRAM and persistent memory that are easy to deploy because they appear to applications as familiar DRAM. The company extends the performance limits of persistent memory to offer DRAM-like speed; and provide enterprise memory data services that transform the decades-old and fragile DRAM memory tier into a highly available memory tier. As a result, organizations around the world have started deploying Memory Machine to harness the power of big memory.

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Memory Machine is a ‘Big Memory software’ capable of transforming DRAM and persistent memory hardware into a software-defined memory pool. By virtualizing the memory pool, it provides access to persistent memory without changes to applications, super-charges persistent memory with DRAM-like performance, and introduces enterprise memory data services that make server memory highly available.

“Servers deployed with Intel Optane persistent memory hardware and Memory Machine software incorporate a Big Memory architecture without compromise,” said Charles Fan, co-founder and CEO. “Memory Machine harnesses the best of DRAM and persistent memory to create a new software-defined Big Memory tier that is simultaneously lower cost, high-performance and highly available.“

IDC defines Big Memory as a market segment consisting of memory hardware and big memory software that creates a new persistent memory tier.

“By 2024 a quarter of all data will be real-time data and two-thirds of Global 2000 corporations will have deployed at least one real-time app.” said Eric Burgener, research VP, infrastructure systems, platforms and technologies, IDC. “This is driving the need for the price, performance, and enterprise data services in Big Memory Computing.“

“Intel developed Optane persistent memory to help fill the gap in the memory-storage subsystem,” said Alper Ilkbahar, VP and GM, memory and storage product group, Intel. “It is exciting to see this offering from MemVerge that will help enable enterprises to take advantage of the speed of traditional memory with the capacity that persistent memory delivers, without requiring application code modifications.“

Memory Machine standard edition: Way to use persistent memory to expand memory
For businesses that need to address the cost of their growing memory footprint without comprising performance, Memory Machine standard edition provides applications with transparent access to volatile persistent memory. It also powers lower-cost persistent memory to perform like DRAM. Instead of modifying multiple applications, IT organizations can now efficiently deploy Big Memory across a data center with a single Memory Machine virtualization layer.

Penguin Computing, a subsidiary of Smart Global Holdings, Inc., offers several platforms for AI/ML training and inferencing applications via its analytics practice. By incorporating Optane Persistent Memory and Memory Machine software, its team reduced Facebook Deep Learning Recommendation (DLRM) inference times by more than 35x over SSD.

“Optane PMEM and Memory Machine allow us to scale memory and accelerate workflows for DLRM and similar applications,” said Kevin Tubbs, SVP, strategic solutions group, Penguin. “We are using Memory Machine to virtualize DRAM and PMEM across our data, cloud, HPC, and AI practices as an important aspect of our edge-to-core strategy.“

Memory Machine advanced edition: enterprise memory data services
The edition includes all the capabilities of Memory Machine standard edition, plus transparent access to persistence via an industry’s first enterprise data services for HA memory.

IT organizations rely on enterprise data services for their disk and all-flash storage, especially, snapshots and replication which enable DR. Memory Machine’s patented ZeroIO memory snapshot technology eliminates IO to storage. The result is the ability to snapshot and recover terabytes of data from persistent memory in a few, instead of taking minutes to hours from storage.

Organizations around world have deployed Memory Machine to harness power of big memory
MemX, Inc. a next-gen technology-driven stock exchange has deployed Optane persistent memory and Memory Machine software to improve the capabilities of their trading application environment.

“In designing our new stock exchange, we sought technologies that delivered both high performance and low variance during moments of market volatility,” said Dominick Paniscotti, CTO, MemX. “MemVerge’s Memory Machine software demonstrates marked performance gain over other in-memory infrastructure while displaying lower jitter and increased determinism.“

Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, a banking group in Italy by market capitalization, has deployed Optane persistent memory and Memory Machine software to increase the performance and availability of their in-memory database applications.

“One of the cultural pillars of Intesa Sanpaolo is to promote innovation by carefully monitoring trends, and then enable it through listening and dialogue with the business in order to offer effective solutions in the quickest time possible. We believe that the footprint of our in-memory applications is going to grow as well as the challenges to guarantee the highest service levels,” said Nicola Carotti, head, cloud and hybrid datacenter, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. “MemVerge Memory Machine’s ZeroIO Snapshot capability dramatically improves performance of new applications, reducing the time to recovery from hours tos.“

Resources:
IDC Technology Spotlight: Big Memory Computing Emerges to Better Enable Data-Intensive IT
Memory Machine data sheet