ULLtraDIMM

We are running a bit late with our Flash Memory Summit coverage as I did not get back from the US until last Friday, but I still wanted to cover the most interesting tidbits of the show. ULLtraDIMM (Ultra Low Latency DIMM) was initially launched by SMART Storage a year ago but SanDisk acquired the company shortly after, which made ULLtraDIMM a part of SanDisk's product portfolio. The ULLtraDIMM was developed in partnership with Diablo Technologies and it is an enterprise SSD that connects to the DDR3 interface instead of the traditional SATA/SAS and PCIe interfaces. IBM was the first to partner with the two to ship the ULLtraDIMM in servers, but at this year's show SanDisk announced that Supermicro will be joining as the...