Ken Cantrell

The storage performance benchmarking dynamic duo, Mark Rogov and Ken Cantrell, are back. Having covered storage performance benchmarking fundamentals, system under test and most recently block components, this fourth installment of the Webcast series will focus on File Components.

Register now to learn why the File World is different from the Block World. Mark and Ken will walk through the basic filesystem theory to how filesystem data layout affects performance, covering:

The third installment of our performance benchmarking Webcast series, “Storage Performance Benchmarking: Block Components” aims to continue educating anyone untrained in the storage performance arts to ascend to a common base with the experts. In this Webcast, you will gain an understanding of the block components of modern storage arrays and learn storage block-world terminology, including:

Both the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Genomics fields are growing quickly - consuming large amounts of compute and storage resources across labs and data centers. The SPEC Storage subcommittee, creator of the SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark, has been working with subject matter experts in the AI/ML and Genomics fields to capture their unique storage workload profiles. We have distilled the network and system call traces down to realistic industry-standard workloads.

The first installment of our performance benchmarking Webcast series, “Storage Performance Benchmarking: Introduction and Fundamentals” aims to bring anyone untrained in the storage performance arts to a common base with the experts. In this first webcast, gain an understanding of the complexities of benchmarking modern storage arrays and learn the terminology foundations necessary for the rest of the series. This includes: