Helping IT Leaders Find the Sweet Spot

In this blog, longtime industry analyst Joseph Byrne describes how MEXT is redefining what a true "sweet spot server" is. Traditionally, the term sweet spot server has referred to systems that properly balance performance and cost, based largely on the decision of which processor to employ. He describes how now, there's a more significant element guiding what a true sweet spot server is: memory (DRAM). DRAM is one of the most costly data center resources, accounting for 50% of the cost of each individual server. Many applications can be extremely memory-intensive, requiring large amounts of DRAM in order to avoid performance issues. To stay safe, IT teams often overprovision DRAM, which translates to inefficient utilization and excess costs. MEXT offers a more well-tuned approach to memory management. MEXT's AI-powered predictive memory software enables low-cost system Flash to operate as if it were DRAM-speed memory—enabling memory-sensitive workloads to run within smaller DRAM footprints. This allows for significant cost savings—proving that smarter memory management beats brute-force overprovisioning.