Tag Archives: IBM SVC

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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SPC Results IOPs vs. Capacity – chart of the month

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Ray

This chart is from SCI’s last months report on recent Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmark results. There were a couple of new entries this quarter but we decided to introduce this new chart as well. This is a bubble scatter … Continue reading →

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Latest SPC-2 results – chart of the month

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Ray

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 →

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5 Reasons to Virtualize Storage

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Ray

Storage virtualization has been out for at least 5 years now and one can see more and more vendors offering products in this space. I have written before about storage virtualization in “Virtualization: Tales from the Trenches” article and I … Continue reading →

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