Increasing Throughput Doesn't Always Increase Performance

Here's a really good article on Storage that I found on thesanman.org website :

"A wise man once told me that if there were a major car crash further up the highway, having a faster car would only get me to the accident quicker. Obvious right? Not so it seems when the wisdom of these words is applied to the analogy of the growing number of SAN infrastructures currently upgrading from 4Gbps to 8Gps. ‘Faster means quicker, means better’ is the commonly heard sales pitch used to seduce vulnerable IT Directors who dream of ‘a guaranteed performance improvement that would solve the headache of their ever slowing applications’. "

For the full article please go to: http://www.thesanman.org/

~ Scott March