Alibaba Cloud doubles VMs per host with CSAL storage tech
Briefly

The paper highlights the challenges faced by cloud servers in handling local storage and the limitations of traditional storage solutions like hard disks and solid-state drives.
Alibaba Cloud experimented with QLC SSDs in various scenarios but found issues like write amplification and poor performance under load, leading them to develop the Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL) for optimization.
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