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Software challenges for the changing storage landscape

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Conventional storage software stacks are unable to meet the needs of high-performance Storage-Class Memory technology. It is time to rethink 50-year-old architectures.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 11
              November 2018
              156 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/3289258
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