We return now to one of our favorite block storage benchmarks, the Storage Performance Council SPC results*. There have been three new SPC-1 submissions, one from HP on their latest 3PAR V800 storage, one from HDS on their Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) and one from Oracle for their Sun ZFS 7420 storage system. There has [...]
NetApp recently introduced a new entry level storage system above their FAS2040 and below their medium class system the FAS3210. FAS2240 system The FAS2240 is a new, entry-level storage system. The system lists at under US $16K and has an impressive list of software functionality, including just about any advanced storage system feature imaginable. This [...]
This ESRP Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers recent Microsoft Exchange 2010 Solution Review Program (ESRP)[1] v3.0 results. Since we last discussed this 1K-and-under mailbox category nine months ago, there have been seven new ESRP submissions. Future dispatches will report on the 1K-to-5K and over-5K mailbox categories, but all previous ESRP V2 and ESRP V3 performance [...]
IBM® recently announced a new Active Cloud Engine™ (ACE) capability for their SONAS and Storwize® V7000 Unified storage systems. ACE federated file systems With the new ACE capabilities file data can now be shared across a number of SONAS clusters located around the world, creating a federation of SONAS systems. By doing this, data located [...]
We return now to file system performance and analyze the latest SPECsfs® 2008* benchmark results. There has only been one new NFS benchmark since our last report, a HDS 3090-G2 (powered by BlueArc®) cluster run. However, this new submission did not break into our normal throughput or ORT top 10 charts. Also, there were no [...]
NetApp recently announced a new version of their storage software Data ONTAP 8.1 with enhancements to both cluster (Cluster-Mode) and traditional data (7-Mode) storage. They have rolled out Data ONTAP 8.1 to partners, sales and customers as a release candidate that can now be downloaded by any customer worldwide. Data ONTAP 8.1 enhancements for Cluster-Mode [...]
We return now to our favorite block storage benchmark, Storage Performance Council (SPC) results*. There have been no new SPC-1 submissions since our last report and only one now SPC-2 result, specifically the Fujitsu DX80 S2. Must be something about the summertime in the states. SPC-2*results We start our discussion with the top 10 $/MBPS [...]
EMC DLm6000 announcement EMC recently announced a new version of their disk library for mainframe environments the DLm 6000 with new backend storage capabilities. DLm6000 For the first time last year EMC rolled out a new deduplicition capability for their DLm product using a Data Domain deduplication appliance. At that time the DLMm960 product used [...]
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers recent Microsoft Exchange 2010 Solution Review Program (ESRP)[1] v3.0 results. Since we last discussed this from 1K-to-5K mailbox category nine months ago, there have been eight new ESRP submissions. Future dispatches will report on the under-1K and over-5K mailbox categories, but all previous ESRP V2 and ESRP V3 performance [...]
IBM XIV gen 3 announcement IBM recently announced a new version of their XIV storage subsystem, with higher performance, higher entry point and new SSD cache upgradeability. New XIV storage The new XIV gen 3 storage system has been redesigned to focus on applications that need high IO performance. Enhancements were made to hardware and [...]
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