Tag Archives: NetApp

Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ray

[We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just something about a million SPECsfs2008(r) NFS throughput operations per second that kind of excites me (weird, … Continue reading →

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Will Hybrid drives conquer enterprise storage?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Ray

I saw where Seagate announced the next generation of their Momentus XT Hybrid (SSD & Disk) drive this week.  We haven’t discussed Hybrid drives much on this blog but it has become a viable product family. I am not planning on describing … Continue reading →

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SCI’s latest SPC-1&-1/E LRT results – chart of the month

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Ray

It’s been a while since we reported on Storage Performance Council (SPC) Least Response Time (LRT) results (see Chart of the month: SPC LRT[TM]).  This is one of the charts we produce for our monthly dispatch on storage performance (quarterly … Continue reading →

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Data compression lives on

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ray

Last week NetApp announced the availability of data compression on many of their unified storage platforms, which includes block and file storage.  Earlier this year EMC announced data compression for LUNs on CLARiion and Celerra.  I must commend both of … Continue reading →

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Primary storage compression can work

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Ray

Since IBM’s announced their intent to purchase StorWize there has been much discussion on whether primary storage data compression can be made to work.  As far as I know StorWize only offered primary storage compression for file data but there is nothing … 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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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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Building a green data center

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Ray

At NetApp’s Analyst Days last week David Robbins, CTO Information Technology, reported on a new highly efficient Global Dynamic Lab (GDL) data center which they built in Raleigh, North Carolina.  NetApp predicts this new data center  will have a power … Continue reading →

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