Intel Chip Chat

Joaquin Ruiz, Senior Director of Product Management at NetApp*, joins Chip Chat to talk about facilitating data access and analysis with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Ruiz is responsible for product management for NetApp advanced memory solutions, including the MAX Data* memory tiering solution. MAX Data enables a plug-and-play approach to using Intel Optane DC persistent memory with a number of applications, providing access to persistent memory without changes to the application itself. In this interview, Ruiz speaks to the effects of today's data explosion and how NetApp is helping to address storage and data challenges for customers in an array of verticals including financial services, government, retail, and healthcare. Ruiz notes that simply having data is no longer enough -- what counts is the ability to analyze and quickly act on data. Ruiz additionally forecasts how advancements like persistent memory will influence storage architectures in the future, including making large-scale data analys