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About the Author
Steve Scargall is a persistent memory software and cloud architect at Intel
Corporation. As a technology evangelist, he supports the enabling and development
effort to integrate persistent memory technology into software stacks, applications,
and hardware architectures. This includes working with independent software
vendors (ISVs) on both proprietary and open source development, original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs), and cloud service providers (CSPs).
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science and cybernetics from the
University of Reading, UK, where he studied neural networks, AI, and robotics. He
has over 19 years’ experience providing performance analysis on x86 architecture and
SPARC for Solaris Kernel, ZFS, and UFS file system. He performed DTrace debugging in
enterprise and cloud environments during his tenures at Sun Microsystems and Oracle.