It is a fact of IT life: hardware becomes faster and more powerful with every new generation on the market. That absolutely applies to CPUs. A few weeks ago at Intel’s Data Centric Innovation Day in San Francisco, Intel presented their new Intel Xeon scalable processors. These beasts now scale up to 56 cores per socket, with up to 8 sockets per system/motherboard. This incredible amount of compute power enables applications to “do things”, whether it’s analytics, machine learning, or running cloud applications.
One thing in common across all applications is that they don’t want to wait for data. As soon as your %iowait is going up, you are wasting your precious and expensive compute power because the storage subsystem is not fast enough. Fortunately, WekaIO wants to make sure this will not be the case for your applications.