In this week’s podcast, the team talk to Alex Chircop, CTO at StorageOS about the implications on storage of the recent Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Much has been made of the potential impact to I/O performance and by definition storage platforms and products. The guys talk about what the vulnerabilities actually mean for end users and what to expect from storage vendors. Finally, the podcast concludes with some suggestions from Martin, as the token end user in the discussion. Two references were made in the podcast. The first is to a Techspot article comparing NVMe and SSD …
