storage performance

Microsoft has put the new Mbv4 family of Azure virtual machines into public preview in East US and East US 2, targeting SAP landscapes and other memory-heavy enterprise workloads that need more storage throughput, faster NVMe access, and larger scale-up headroom. The announcement, covered by...

Google engineer Eric Biggers has posted a revised AVX-512 implementation of Linux’s xor_gen() parity routine for review on the kernel mailing list, with Phoronix reporting on June 14, 2026, that the new version now shows performance gains of up to 43 percent in RAID-related workloads. The number...

Late-breaking reports that Windows 11’s native NVMe path can still be re-enabled through hidden feature flags are a reminder that Microsoft’s storage stack is in the middle of a broader transition, not a finished product. What looks like a simple registry tweak on enthusiast forums is really a...

Microsoft’s storage team quietly rewired a decades‑old bottleneck: a native NVMe I/O path that bypasses Windows’ SCSI‑style translation and — when enabled — can raise small‑block random SSD performance and cut CPU cost per I/O, but the client‑side route that enthusiasts are using today is...