Architecting storage for the cloud computing era

.......We’re at an interesting cross-roads in computer architecture. The past two decades have seen advances in processor design—from microarchi-tectural techniques to boost instruction-and thread-level parallelism to the shift from single-core to multicore process-ors. The number of cores on the die will likely continue to grow, thereby pro-viding a tremendous amount of process-ing power within a single chip. At the same time, applications are be-coming more data intensive. Already there exist several applications that can handle massive amounts of data and ar