Kove’s Key Takeaways from MemCon ‘24

Kove founder and CEO John Overton was proud to take the stage, delivering a keynote alongside partners from Red Hat and Swift, sharing empirical test results that highlight how Kove:SDM™ — using software only — helps business-critical applications gain performance while saving time and energy, and reducing costs and complexity.

There were many productive discussions happening on the future of memory from leaders in the space. Here are some of our key takeaways:

There are memory concerns displayed across the board: These range from worries about the ever-increasing need for more memory, to cost and complexity, to those about implementation and efficiency. Because it requires no new hardware at all, Kove:SDM™ is able to take on these concerns head-on in a way that’s never been possible before. It works seamlessly with customers’ existing hardware to mark the end of traditional memory limitations and the dawn of a new era of software-defined capabilities.

Market demand for software-defined memory is present: The challenge facing the industry is how to meet this demand right now rather than waiting for the potential incremental gains of CXL and the new hardware that will be needed to help it deliver. Fortunately, Kove:SDM™ delivers breakthrough gains through software only. It works on any kind of hardware right now, representing a groundbreaking technology that empowers individual servers to draw from a common memory pool — including amounts far larger than could be contained within a physical server. This ensures that each job receives exactly the memory it needs, when it needs it.

“[Kove:SDM™] works on any kind of server, any kind of processor, any kind of anything. It not only works across the rack, we route memory across the data center. It all works right now. You no longer have to think about how much memory you want.”

— John Overton, CEO, Kove

Users need efficient memory at a good price: The cost and ease-of-use around memory solutions is a key sticking point for adoption of available solutions. One big reason is the fact that most of these solutions require new hardware to implement. As part of Overton’s keynote, he showcased how Kove:SDM™’s software-only advancements enable users to decouple memory from individual servers to achieve superior results while needing fewer servers, reducing all associated operating costs, including power and personnel.

Everyone wants to talk AI: No surprise, the topic on everyone’s mind was artificial intelligence and its impact on memory moving forward. When the topic of AI and the memory wall came up, we were able to show how, with Kove:SDM™, there is no more worrying about how to get over the memory wall, whether it’s AI-intensive workloads, such as model training with enormous data-sets, in-memory databases or containers.

There are currently no memory solutions that can match what SDM offers: And only Kove:SDM™ is delivering on SDM’s full potential — all while working on customers’ existing hardware. As Overton said in his keynote, “[Kove:SDM™] works on any kind of server, any kind of processor, any kind of anything. It not only works across the rack, we route memory across the data center. It all works right now. You no longer have to think about how much memory you want.”