Intel® Optane™ Storage for Enterprise
Accelerate access to critical data.
Accelerate Your Storage
Intel® Optane™ Solid State Drives fill the critical storage hierarchy gap to break through traditional NAND storage bottlenecks, accelerate applications, and enable more work per server. Intel® Optane™ SSDs are designed with low latency and high endurance, which provides high throughput and QoS. With this improved performance and latency, customers can speed up access to critical data needed to process transactions, gain new insights, and differentiate services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Intel® Optane™ storage?
Intel® Optane™ SSDs fill the critical storage hierarchy gap to break through traditional NAND storage bottlenecks, accelerate applications, and enable more work per server. With an industry-leading combination of high throughput, low latency, high QoS, and high endurance, Intel® Optane™ SSDs speed up access to critical data needed to process transactions, gain new insights, and differentiate services.
What is Intel® Optane™ technology?
Intel® Optane™ technology is the unique combination of Intel® Optane™ memory media with the Intel® advanced system memory controller, interface hardware, and software IP. The memory media architecture lets Intel® Optane™ technology act like DRAM, with byte addressability, high endurance, and write in place, or traditional storage with block addressability, depending on the use case or product form factor.
How does Intel® Optane™ technology differ from NAND?
The primary technology underlying Intel® Optane™ technology products is a new memory and storage media that is inherently different from NAND. The new storage media is transistorless and bit-addressable, faster and more durable than NAND, and also avoids many shortcomings of NAND drives. Intel® Optane™ SSDs offer breakthrough performance at all queue depths (and differentiated at low depths), making them 6x faster than NAND.1 They also provide consistently fast storage reads and fast storage writes without degradation under high write pressure and high loads. Intel® Optane™ SSDs improve quality of service (up to 60x better than NAND)2 and very high endurance storage (up to 20x more total terabytes written than NAND).3
How do Intel® Optane™ persistent memory and Intel® Optane™ SSDs complement each other?
Although Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (PMem) and Intel® Optane™ SSDs use the same Intel® Optane™ memory media, they are vastly different products. Intel® Optane™ PMem is in a DIMM package, operates on the DRAM bus, can be volatile or persistent, and acts as a DRAM replacement. Intel® Optane™ SSDs, on the other hand, are strictly used for fast storage residing in standard NAND package models (such as AIC, M.2, U.2, and EDSFF), reside on the PCIe bus using the NVMe protocol, are always persistent for storage reasons, and act as a fast storage replacement.4 5 6
Intel® Optane™ SSDs in the Real World: Customer Stories
Discover how enterprises confidently deploy solutions with Intel® Optane™ SSDs to increase application performance and optimize their investment.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers Simplify IT Infrastructure
The Los Angeles Dodgers are building the future of baseball with Cisco and Intel® technology that delivers more computing power with less overhead.
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China Mobile Drives Edge-Cloud Collaboration
Intel® Optane™ technology helps China mobile accelerate data at the edge in communication and automation creating smarter decision-making and ground-breaking IoT services.
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Intel® Storage Software
Software stacks developed by Intel transform Intel® Optane™ SSDs into turnkey storage solutions for cloud or enterprise data center deployment.
Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU
This enterprise redundant array of independent disks (RAID) solution integrated into Intel® Xeon®-based platforms brings Intel® Optane™ SSDs and NVMe storage closer to the CPU for unparalleled performance potential and data protection.
Open Cache Acceleration Software
Sophisticated Open Cache Acceleration Software (Open CAS) is capable of detailed storage classification, allowing effective use of multiple storage media types, such as Intel® Optane™ SSDs and NAND SSDs.
Intel® Optane™ Technology Spans Memory and Storage
Optimize applications and workloads by making use of the full range of Intel® Optane™ storage for enterprise solutions and memory.
Intel® Optane™ Developer Tools
Cloud engineers and developer communities looking to solve specific data center storage issues benefit from storage projects that leverage open source software, defined storage frameworks, and useful toolkits.
Open Cache Acceleration Software
The open source caching project provides a flexible engine to classify storage I/O into different categories and create storage policies to direct storage I/O to specific media types.
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Product and Performance Information
Intel tested as of November 15, 2018. 4K 70/30 read/write performance at low QD. Measured using FIO 3.1. Common configuration: Intel® 2U Server System; OS: CentOS 7.5, kernel 4.17.6-1.el7.x86_64, 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 processor at 3.0 GHz (18 cores), 256 GB DDR4 RAM at 2,666 MHz. Configuration: 375 GB Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X compared to 1.6 TB Intel® SSD DC P4600. Intel microcode: 0x2000043; system BIOS: 00.01.0013; Intel® ME firmware: 04.00.04.294; BMC firmware: 1.43.91f76955; FRUSDR: 1.43. The benchmark results may need to be revised as additional testing is conducted.
Based on Intel testing as of November 15, 2018: Response time refers to average read latency measured at QD 1 during 4K random write workload using FIO 3.1. Configuration: 4K 70/30 read/write performance at low QD. Measured using FIO 3.1. Common configuration: Intel® 2U Server System, CentOS 7.5, kernel 4.17.6-1.el7.x86_64, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 processor at 3.0 GHz (18 cores), 256 GB DDR4 RAM at 2,666 MHz. Configuration: 375 GB Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X compared to 1.6 TB Intel® SSD DC P4610. Intel microcode: 0x2000043; system BIOS: 00.01.0013; Intel® Management Engine (Intel® ME) firmware: 04.00.04.294; baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware: 1.43.91f76955; FRUSDR: 1.43. The benchmark results may need to be revised as additional testing is conducted.
Intel: “Breakthrough Performance Expands Datasets, Eliminates Bottlenecks.” January 2019. intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/data-center-ssds/optane-ssd-dc-p4800x-p4801x-brief.html. Intel: “Cloud Inspired. Storage Optimized.” June 2019. intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/data-center-ssds/dc-p4610-p4618-series-brief.html.
Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Learn more at https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/performance/benchmarks/overview/.
Performance results are based on testing as of the noted date and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product can be absolutely secure.
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