Paper Title: Latency: Number 1 Metric for Modern Clouds

Paper Abstract: When building a cloud, the focus is usually on cost and throughput metrics (MB/s, IOPS). However this approach is wrong, often leading to application issues - when the applications are moved to the new cloud they end up costing more and/or being slower. In this talk, we show how storage latency drives application performance for all applications. We show why latency is the Number 1 metric to optimize for in a cloud. Then we’ll dissect the application performance measurements of leading public clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and several others.

Paper Author: Boyan Krosnov, CTO, StorPool

Author Bio: Boyan Krosnov is a Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of StorPool Storage. He has been part of the technical teams building 5 service providers from scratch in 4 countries. In most of these projects, he has designed the architecture, led the technical teams, and managed the implementation of projects in the millions.