What is IOPS?

What is IOPS?

Input/Output Operations Per Second or IOPS (pronounced eye-ops) is the most common method to benchmark a storage system’s performance – hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and storage area networks. The most common performance characteristics are as follows: [table...
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

What is hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI, hyper-converged, hyper-converged)? Traditionally, data centers have relied on a separate stack of hardware including a layer for compute, a layer for storage, and a layer for networking – in order to function. With that...