Industry voice: How to avoid getting your hand caught in the I/O Blender

The I/O blender, the computing term for describing input/output, is the commonly used phrase for describing performance in virtualised environments. Over the years, virtualisation has continued to grow. In fact, today about 70-80% of workloads are virtualised and that number is only expected to increase in the coming years. Prior to the widespread adoption of virtualisation in enterprise environments, storage was "predictable." System and storage admins could easily describe what the I