IOPS, Capacity, Bandwidth: Finding the Right Balance

As one of the comments on Joerg Moellenkamp's note concerning IOPS, storage capacity and bandwidth there is more to " ... storage than capacity, particularly IOPS and bandwidth." Moellenkamp pithily explains how the uneven progress among these three aspects of storage makes it essential to consider storage in as wide a context as possible in order not to wind up with massive storage on the other side of a bandwidth bottleneck.

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