Overview Our partners at Intel have recently announced the availability of Optane, an NVMe-based SSD device built on top of the new persistent memory technology from Intel and Micron, 3D XPoint (3DXP). Intel Optane Technology One of the main advantages of 3DXP is that it gives the application a way to decide which part of the dataset should be stored on fast memory, e.g. DRAM, and which part on a