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THE PROBLEMS WITH SERIAL I/O 1 Servers are out of balance in terms of the relationship THE PROBLEM. Current systems don’t have software optimizations that can fully harness the latest advances in more powerful server system technologies. between CPUs and I/O WORKLOAD As a result, I/O performance has been the major bottleneck holding back the industry. PARALLEL COMPUTE SERIAL I/O IDLE 2 IDLE IDLE IDLE I /O www.datacore.com | 3