The latest developments in storage – NVMe and NVMeOF

In the past 20 or so years, by far the biggest disruption in the storage world in terms of technology has been the introduction of Solid State Drives (SSDs). Now, we know that a lot of people have gotten quite used to having them in their computers—laptops, workstations, whichever type of device we use. But again, we're discussing storage for virtualization, and enterprise storage concepts overall, and that means that our regular SATA SSDs aren't going to make the cut. Although a lot of people use them in mid-range storage devices and/or handmade storage devices that host ZFS pools (for cache), some of these concepts have a life of their own in the latest generations of storage devices. These devices are fundamentally changing the way technology is working and redoing parts of modern IT history in terms of which protocols are used, how fast they are, how much lower latencies they have, and how they approach...