With more and more users accessing the same resources, response times get slower and applications start taking longer to process. The performance of traditional storage has not changed in the last couple of years—a single HDD yields about 150 MB/s with response times of several milliseconds. With the introduction of flash media and protocols such as non-volatile memory express (NVMe), a single SSD can easily achieve gigabytes-per-second and sub-millisecond response times; SDS can leverage these new technologies to provide increased performance and significantly reduce response times.
Enterprise storage is designed to handle multiple concurrent requests for hundreds of clients who are trying to get their data as fast as possible, but when the performance limits are reached, traditional monolithic storage starts slowing down, causing applications...
