Applications need much more than just SCM
NetApp has a brand new Exadata killing technology that lets you take full advantage of all the amazing hardware power. Max Data, formerly Plexistor, is the technology and it works by going around the legacy kernel communication protocols. Think tier 0 running off SCM with full data protection and flash as your tier 1. It is not a cache and supports full read/write at single digit microsecond latency without having to rewrite your application. NetApp also is the first to market, and maybe still the only major player, to have NNMe from end to end without reverting back to SAS at the drive. the A800 supports the NVMe protocol, drives, and has a 100Gbs back plane with the OnTap data fabric features for data mobility, snaps, clones to and from the cloud, white box, object...etc.