Current enterprise storage devices have to service many diverse and continuously evolving application workloads (For e.g., OLTP, Big Data/Analytics and Virtualization). These workloads combined with additional enterprise storage services like deduplication, compression, snapshots, clones, replication, tiering etc. result in complex I/Os to the underlying storage. Traditional storage system tests make use of benchmarking tools, which generate a fixed and constant workload, comprised of a single or few I/O access patterns and are not sufficient for enterprise storage testing.

Samsung recently contributed Poseidon project, which is an OCP-based industry collaboration between component vendor (Samsung), system vendor(Inspur) and data center. Poseidon is an open-source storage software and hardware platform for NVMe-oF based systems. It's an EDSFF based storage reference system, targeted for performance and density, suitable for cloud data center. Today cloud service providers (CSP) are constantly challenged with large volumes of data and increasing demand from customers for cost effective storage.

Samsung recently contributed Poseidon project, which is an OCP-based industry collaboration between component vendor (Samsung), system vendor(Inspur) and data center.

Poseidon is an open-source storage software and hardware platform for NVMe-oF based systems. It's an EDSFF based storage reference system, targeted for performance and density, suitable for cloud data center.

Today cloud service providers (CSP) are constantly challenged with large volumes of data and increasing demand from customers for cost effective storage.