Emerging the data-centric workloads necessitate systems with highly scalable storage components, not only in terms of capacity, but also in terms of performance and energy efficiency. These requirements, in combination with advances in Storage Class Memory (SCM) technologies, will drive the departure from traditional memory and storage architectures. The focus of this paper is on systems that employ Phase-Change Memory (PCM) to either complement or replace traditional media such, as HDDs, protected DRAM, and flash.