A valuable new tool has emerged in the battle against latency and the fight for improving the efficiency of the IT infrastructure – Computational Storage. With the pace of CPU improvements slowing while network speeds, storage speeds and data-set sizes rapidly increasing, the traditional CPU-centric architecture has become a bottleneck for application performance, driving up latency and increasing the costs for datacenters and IT infrastructure managers. Computational Storage Drives (CSDs), such as the ScaleFlux CSD 2000, have been designed to alleviate these problems by moving compute capabilities to the storage drives. CSDs parallelize compute workloads and reduce data movement to improve application performance and latency.