Cavium and Western Digital set out to prove the value of a new cloud
service provider (CSP) distributed storage platform that is price per
performance competitive with current distributed storage platforms.
Current storage platforms typically leverage high-priced Intel Xeon
processors with legacy hard disk drives (HDDs). This paper describes the
first performance assessment of a Ceph distributed block storage system
using solely flash-based SSD coupled with modern 64-bit ARM processors.
No rotating drives were used in the systems under test. (Know More)
