Tag Archives: CIFS

New file system capacity tool – Microsoft’s FSCT

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ray

Jose Barreto blogged about a recent report Microsoft did on File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) results (blog here, report here).  As you may know FSCT is a free tool released in September of 2009, available from Microsoft that verifies a SMB … Continue reading →

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IBM Scale out NAS (SONAS) v1.1.1

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Ray

We have discussed other scale out NAS products on the market such as Symantec’s FileStore, IBRIX reborn as HP networked storage, and why SO/CFS, why now (scale out/cluster file systems) in previous posts but haven’t talked about IBM’s highend scale out NAS (SONAS) … Continue reading →

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SPECsfs2008 CIFS ORT performance – chart of the month

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Ray

The above chart on SPECsfs(R) 2008 results was discussed in our latest performance dispatch that went out to SCI’s newsletter subscribers last month.  We have described Apple’s great CIFS ORT performance in previous newsletters but here I would like to … Continue reading →

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More cloud storage gateways come out

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Ray

Multiple cloud storage gateways either have been announced or are coming out in the next quarter or so. We have talked before about Nasuni’s file cloud storage gateway appliance, but now that more are out one can have a better … Continue reading →

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SPECsfs(R) 2008 CIFS vs. NFS results – chart of the month

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Ray

We return now to our ongoing quest to understand the difference between CIFS and NFS performance in the typical data center.  As you may recall from past posts and our newsletters on this subject, we had been convinced that in SPECsfs … Continue reading →

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Latest CIFS performance – chart of the month

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Ray

Above we reproduce a chart from our latest newsletter StorInttm Dispatch on SPECsfs(R) 2008 benchmark results.  This chart shows the top 10 CIFS throughput benchmark results as of the end of last year.  As observed in the chart Apple’s Xserve … Continue reading →

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Ibrix reborn as HP X9000 Network Storage

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Ray

On Wednesday 4 November, HP announced a new network storage system based on the Ibrix Fusion file system called the X9000. Three versions were announced: X9300 gateway appliance which can be attached to SAN storage (HP EVA, MSA, P4000, or … Continue reading →

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Chart of the Month

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Ray

The chart to the left was sent out in last months SCI newsletter and shows the throughput attained by various storage systems when running the SPECsfs(R) 2008 CIFS and NFS benchmarks. The scatter-plot shows data for NAS systems that have … Continue reading →

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