Tag Archives: HP

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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Services and products, a match made in heaven

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ray

In all the hoopla about company’s increasing services revenues what seems to be missing is that hardware and software sales automatically drive lots of services revenues. A recent Wikibon post by Doug Chandler (see Can cloud pull services and technology … Continue reading →

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Tape vs. Disk, the saga continues

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ray

Was on a call late last month where Oracle introduced their latest generation T1000C tape system (media and drive) holding 5TB native (uncompressed) capacity. In the last 6 months I have been hearing about the coming of a 3TB SATA … Continue reading →

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Latest ESRPv3 (Exchange 2010) results analysis for 1K-to-5Kmailboxes – chart of the month

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Ray

The chart is from SCI’s October newsletter/performance dispatch on Exchange 2010 Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP v3.0) and shows the mailbox database access latencies for read, write and log write.  For this report we are covering solutions supporting from 1001 up … Continue reading →

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SPC-1/E IOPS per watt – chart of the month

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Ray

Not a lot of Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmark submissions this past quarter just a new SPC-1/E from HP StorageWorks on their 6400 EVA with SSDs and a new SPC-1 run for Oracle Sun StorageTek 6780.  Recall that SPC-1/E executes … 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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PC-as-a-Service (PCaaS) using VDI

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Ray

Last year at VMworld, VMware was saying that 2010 was year for VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), last week NetApp said that most large NY banks they talked with were looking at implementing VDI and prior to that, HP StorageWorks announced … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010/ESRP 3.0 results – chart of the month

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Ray

Well after last months performance reversals and revelations we now return to the more typical review of the latest Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP 3.0) for Exchange 2010 results.  Microsoft’s new Exchange 2010 has substantially changed the efficiency and effectiveness … Continue reading →

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