The news of the earthquake in Nepal is shocking and heart-wrenching. When people are dealing with life-threatening devastation -- loved ones lost and homes destroyed -- it really makes us pause and put things in proper perspective. All this human suffering makes talk about megabytes per second or IOPS seem [...]
As discussed in my last blog post -- Latency and Response Time: The Same but Not the Same, latency and response time can be confusing when assessing storage I/O performance. In the storage world, performance is generally defined by two parameters: Throughput and I/O Per Second. Throughput is measured in [...]
In the storage world, we frequently encounter the words “latency” and “response time.” Most of the time people treat the two terms as synonymous. However, when analyzing I/O performance it is important to differentiate the true meaning of each so we can precisely describe, and therefore properly attribute each term’s [...]
When we tell people about our Transparent Datapath Intercept, or TDI, their first reaction is almost always “It is not possible.” But after we describe how it works, their comments change to “Wow that is really clever…” Then after we demonstrate it using our products, they say “It is magical!” [...]