This article has a lot of good information, but its weirdly sensationalistic tone detracts from it. I appreciate learning more about 3D Xpoint and Nantero, but SSDs are not a &quot;transitional technology&quot; in any real sense of the word, and they won&#x27;t be displaced by anything in 2016, if nothing else because it takes multiple years from volume capability to stand up a product pipeline on a new memory technology, and more years to convince the enterprise market to start deploying it. The most solid point the article makes is that the workload-specific performance of SSD-based storage is still being explored, and we need better tools for it.