IBM adds Optane to its cloud, only as storage and without GPUs

Optane's great as memory, says Big Blue, but we can't do that yet

IBM's made good on its promise to fire up a cloud packing Intel's Optane non-volatile memory "in the second half of 2017." But Big Blue has fallen short of the "broad services suite" it foreshadowed and can't even put Optane to work as memory."