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Latest SPC-1 results – IOPS vs drive counts – chart-of-the-month
[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
Posted in Block Storage, Disk storage, FC, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged 3PAR, Chart of the month, HDS, HDS VSP, HP, HP 3PAR V800, IBM, IBM SVC, IBM SVC 4.3, IBM SVC 5.1, IOPS, IOPs/Drive, SPC-1, Storage Performance Council
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Top 10 blog posts for 2011
Happy Holidays. I ranked my blog posts using a ratio of hits to post age and have identified with the top 10 most popular posts for 2011 (so far): Vsphere 5 storage enhancements – We discuss some of the more … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cloud services, Cloud storage, Cognitive computing, Data integrity, Ethernet, FC, FCoE, IBM SyNAPSE chip, MIT analog brain chip, SSD storage, System effectiveness
Tagged Analog synapse simulation, BlueArc, Cognitive computing, Data loss, HDS, IBM Research, Intel SSD, neuromorphic computing, OCZ SNIA, SyNAPSE chip, VMware, vSphere 5
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HDS buys BlueArc
Yesterday, HDS announced that they had closed on the purchase of BlueArc their NAS supplier for the past 5 years or so. Many commentators mentioned that this was a logical evolution of their ongoing OEM agreement, how the timing was … Continue reading
Posted in data access, File Storage, R&D measures, Storage, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged BlueArc, Commodity hardware, HDS, Hitachi, Mercury, NAS, Titan, VSP
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Initial impressions on Spring SNW/Santa Clara
I heard storage beers last nite was quite the party, sorry I couldn’t make it but I did end up at the HDS customer reception which was standing room only and provided all the food and drink I could consume. … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud services, Disk storage, File Storage, Storage, Storage architecture, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness, Systems
Tagged DataRAM, Fusion-io, HDS, IBM Watson, Marvel DragonFLY, Micron, Scality, SNW, snwusa, StorSimple, TMS, Verident, Viking Modular Systems
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Hitachi-HDS Strategy Sessions in Japan
Went to Tokyo at HDS’s expense this week and had a great time talking with Hitachi and HDS about their current and future product portfolio. Arrived Monday evening and went out for an informal dinner. In the photo foreground one … Continue reading
Posted in Disk storage, Storage density, Strategy
Tagged analyst meetings, HDS, Hitachi Central Research Lab
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Hitachi’s VSP vs. VMAX
Today’s announcement of Hitachi’s VSP brings another round to the competition between EMC and Hitachi/HDS in the enterprise. VSP’s recent introduction which is GA and orderable today, takes the rivalry to a whole new level. I was on SiliconANGLE‘s live TV … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Server virtualization, Storage architecture, Storage Features, Storage performance
Tagged EMC, HDS, Hitachi, storage architecture, VMAX, VSP
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Latest SPC-2 results – chart of the month
Latest SPC-2 (Storage Performance Council-2) benchmark results chart displaying the top ten in aggregate MBPS(TM) broken down into Large File Processing (LFP), Large Database Query (LDQ) and Video On Demand (VOD) throughput results. One problem with this chart is that … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Benchmarks, Chart of the month, Database transfers, file processing, HDS, HDS USP-V, HP, HP XP24000, IBM, IBM DS5300, IBM SVC, SPC-2, Sun, Sun 6780, video on demand
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ESRP results over 5K mbox-chart of the month
In our quarterly study on Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) results we show a number of charts to get a good picture of storage subsystem performance under Exchange workloads. The two that are of interest to most data centers are … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Chart of the month, Database transfers, EMC, ESRP, Exchange, HDS, HP, IBM, PillarData
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