简介:Data storage systems and architecture play a vital role in the evolution of society’s information technology. This foundation, which was laid several decades ago, is facing grand challenges today as power limits and reduced semiconductor reliability make it increasingly more difficult to leverage technology scaling, and the shift towards cloud computing, virtualization, and big data analytics will include dependability and availability requirements for traditional architectures. At the same time, there are emerging technologies and applications that can be game-changing enablers in the future. A new plethora of memory and storage architectures can be built by exploiting innovative concepts, mechanisms and implementations that take advantages of these emerging technologies and applications while addressing new design challenges in big data era. In this short lecture, I will address the opportunities and challenges of innovating next generation non-volatile memory storage architecture in big data era from a holistic perspective spanning from device technology to emerging application.