The Storage Handshake is Dead: Why HCI Redefines the Rules
Figure 1: The evolution of I/O—from physical cabling constraints to logical proximity. The Ticket-to-LUN Latency Loop It always kicks off the same way. The SQL team gripes about write latency. The dashboard? Still green. You check the switch ports—zero errors. You poke around on the array—cache hits look fine. Yet the app crawls. Classic 3-Tier…