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January 2015

Simplify ITIt is about IOPS – Doh!

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Data is Exploding

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Performance Data Protection

Data Efficiency Global Unified Management

Virtualization Changed Everything

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Performance is Lagging

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Why IOPS are (now) painful

36 GB Hard Drive~150 IOPS

4 TB Hard Drive~150 IOPS

2000

..is like…

Which is OK

NOW

Is like…

Which is bad

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“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”

—Gene Amdahl

We tend to think that the phenomenon of engineers and scientists being at the top of a company is something that started with Bill Gates, and Steve Wozniak, but this just isn’t the case. One of the first was Gene Amdahl who rocked the dominant IBM – his previous employer. =