We were at Nimble Storage (videos of their sessions) for Storage Field Day 10 (SFD10) last week and they presented some interesting IO statistics from data analysis across their 7500 customer install base using InfoSight.
As I understand it, the data are from all customers that have maintenance and are currently connected to InfoSight, their SaaS service solution for Nimble Storage. The data represents all IO over the course of a single month across the customer base. Nimble wrote a white paper summarizing their high level analysis, called Busting the myth of storage block size.
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