Customers demand more efficient and lower cost storage systems incorporating the latest available technologies to solve the problem of poor performance, exploding data sets, and increasingly diverse and complex data workloads which is difficult because of a competitive storage market and low margins.
New NVM technologies have unusual and asymmetric performance properties which interact non-linearly with different customer workloads. This is made worse by incorporating increasingly complicated technologies (e.g. DRAM, 3D XPoint, NVMe) making it exceedingly difficult to design efficient data placement algorithms.
This leads to your customer’s storage performance being negatively impacted by the need to use less than optimal configurations because of testing limitations.