Tag Archives: 3PAR

Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Ray

[As promised, I am trying to get up-to-date on my performance charts from our monthly newsletters. This one brings us current up through November.] The above chart plots Storage Performance Council SPC-1 IOPS against spindle count.  On this chart, we have … Continue reading →

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Enterprise data storage defined and why 3PAR?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Ray

Recent press reports about a bidding war for 3PAR bring into focus the expanding need for enterprise class data storage subsystems.  What exactly is enterprise storage? Defining enterprise storage is frought with problems but I will take a shot.  Enterprise … Continue reading →

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HDS Dynamic Provisioning for AMS

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Ray

HDS announced support today for their thin provisioning (called Dynamic Provisioning) feature to be available in their mid-range storage subsystem family the AMS. Expanding the subsystems that support Thin provisioning can only help the customer in the long run. It’s … Continue reading →

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Chart Of The Month

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Ray

This chart was included in our last months newsletter and shows relative costs of subsystem storage as well as subsystems performance on two axis SPC-1 IO operations per second and measured Least Response Time. Having the spreadsheet, I can easily … Continue reading →

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