Enough CPU cycles?
I would agree on the assessment and assumptions being a bit premature. New generations of storage arrays across vendors have shown that there is enough CPU cycles around to manage storage efficiency features such as compression, de-duplication, multiple PIT snapshots on top of their disk and cache management. The new generation of processors will continue to expand the scope for these type of capabilities .
I dont work for EMC but my guess would be that the code base for Lightning is probably tied to their existing dynamic cache partitioning functionality (Symmetrix).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
