As data generation continues to increase, linear performance scaling has become an absolute requirement for scale-out storage. Storage networks are like car roadway systems: if the road is not built for speed, the potential speed of a car does not matter. Even a Ferrari is slow on an unpaved dirt road full of obstacles. Scale-out storage performance can be hindered by the Ethernet fabric…
]]>Does the switch matter? The network fabric is key to the performance of modern data centers. There are many requirements for data center switches, but the most basic is to provide equal amounts of bandwidth to all clients so that resources are shared evenly. Without fair networking, all workloads experience unpredictable performance due to throughput deterioration, delay…
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