John Furrier45
Question 4: What workloads are hybrid storage systems best suited for?
Bert Latamore
Also how does software-defined storage and the concept ofbServer SAN http://wikibon.org/w... impact choice of hybrid systems?
Jean-Luc Chatelain
Mixed workload that have a high IOPS requirement but do not want to compromise on throughput when doing very long I/Os example is analytics modeling in big data (time series require long reads but computing the model needs IOPS
John Furrier
@InformationCTO that is interesting to separate transactional data from the sea of big data
Kerstin Woods
Benchmark results below show the ZS3 Series hybrid is superb for latency sensitive and high-throughput streaming applications, such as DB, BIDW, video on demand...
Dave Vellante
Their best suited for the "Fat Middle" - they're not suited for super low latency. They're typically not used for ultra high performance OLTP or super low cost archiving - great for general purpose workloads
Dave Vellante
Also DB-as-a-Service for tier 2 databases
Steven Zivanic
any time-sensitive applications benefit from a hybrid storage system; accelerating a company's time to insight is a key value provided by these offerings
Jean-Luc Chatelain
One example is retail pricing optimization analysis: read in GB long tables of multivariable time series and the compute like a madman with thousands of small R/W/M files then write out a long suite of results ->hroughput then IOPS then throughput
Dave Vellante
Right in the fat middle
Kerstin Woods
Backup is another good fit for hybrid system as a demanding workload where sustained write performance is required.
Dave Vellante
Totally agree - backup target is a great fit - super for bandwidth oriented apps