Those pesky disks and convergence.....
Great article, and you make the statement 'AS disks will continue to be the slow component, though, we'll look to setups that keep far more in on-board RAM than ever before.' Thats true to an extent but flash can be much closer to memory performance than disk performance. Adding RAM also forces more workload, because databases need to track more in-memory data. I have seen disks replaced by flash, and memory shrunk, to get better performance....Of course, DRAM has that annoying habit of losing data when power is switched off.......
Biting the hand that feeds IT
