There’s a new word cropping up in the storage industry, more often in presentations than in published writing (possibly because spell check doesn’t work while one’s giving a presentation). That word is “performant” and, although not actually a word, it’s...
Read More »IT managers are being convinced by storage vendors that solid-state flash storage will accelerate their applications by magnitudes. But after deploying solid-state storage, many see only modest performance gains or no performance improvement at all. So, what happened to the promise...
Read More »To my surprise, I have been seeing storage performance results reported using server benchmarks and their associated server metrics. Server benchmarks are specifically designed to measure the maximum performance of the server -- NOT the storage. Even if external storage...
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