Business Chief USA – August 2019

to the commonplace at head-spinning

speeds, it is a common mistake for

companies to latch onto every new

development, implement it quickly,

and then try to figure out the business

case later. “Don’t digitally transform for

the sake of technology,” warns Davis.

“I digitally transform businesses to help

them compete and remain marketable.

When we talk about transformation,

it’s about a connection to your corpo-

rate strategy. It’s also about a data

strategy because ultimately I want to

modernize and help transform so I can

leverage the data within my company

to drive insights for the business.”

One new Intel technology that’s

playing a key role in harnessing

increased amounts of data for more

rapid insights is Intel Optane DC

Persistent Memory. In development

for the past 10 years, Intel Optane DC

Persistent Memory represents a

re-architecting of the memory storage

hierarchy. “We’ve created a new

memory pool that is non-volatile, unlike

RAM, and delivers more capacity and

better TCO,” explains Davis. “A great

use case for Optane is in in-memory

databases like SAP Hana. SAP has

been a key innovative partner in

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INTEL CORPORATION