Disaggregated storage took off after full bisection bandwidth networks emerged
Original titleThis is true. It wasn't actually possible before 2010 because datacenter networks would bottleneck. We used to design coupled storage/com...
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Ali Ghodsi says disaggregating storage from compute became feasible only after research on full bisection bandwidth networks removed datacenter bottlenecks around 2010. Databricks and Snowflake followed soon after, and many others came later. He says putting data on an object store is now the standard approach.
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