Dispatches
SCI provides summaries of data storage performance results and recent storage announcements from major vendors here as Storage Intelligence (StorIntTM) Dispatches. For the time being these StorIntTM Dispatches are available for free download one month after they come out in our newsletter. Prior StorIntTM Dispatches are available for 2008 and 2007.
SCI 2010 January 28 Analysis on recent ESRP results (PDF 773.6 KiB)
Our latest Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP) analysis focuses on the 1001 to 5000 mailbox category and discusses some new drive or spindle oriented analysis of recent submissions. We also continue our analysis of ESRP results for database latency, database backup and include a special analysis of log write activity.
Cisco 2010 January 26 Announcement of New Service Oriented SAN capabilities (PDF 255.2 KiB)
Cisco recently expanded their Service Oriented SAN offerings to add I/O acceleration and Secure Erase to the already Data Mobility and Storage Media Encryption. They also now offer a new SNS-16 port FC switch hardware package which includes 4 Service Engines to support these capabilities.
Symantec 2010 January 25 Announcement of NetBackup 7 (PDF 253.3 KiB)
NetBackup now integrates PureDisk, Symantec's source deduplication capabilities into the base product. Also NetBackup 7 now supports tighter integration with VMware which provides for block level incremental backups (BLIBs) for VMs. And for both VMware and Microsoft's Hyper-V, NetBackup offers guided restoration support.
SCI 2009 December 31 Update to SPECsfs® 2008 performance results (PDF 578.6 KiB)
We discuss the latest Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation System File Server (SPECsfs® 2008) performance results for both NFS and CIFS benchmarks. The top 10 results in each category are discussed for both throughput and ORT results.
SCI 2009 Nov 19 Update to SPC benchmark results (PDF 938.6 KiB)
SCI’s analysis of Storage Performance Council (SPC) performance results now adds SPC-1E and SPC-2E component level energy consumption results to the ongoing SPC-1 and SPC-2 performance result analysis
Spectra Logic 2009 November 11 Announces new T-Finity tape library (PDF 663.4 KiB)
Spectra Logic now has the largest tape library complex available within a single pass-thru regime. As such the initial library is expandable up to 30K LTO tape cartridge slots and up to 4 T-Finity library systems can be attached together to support over 122K tape cartridge slots.
SCI 2009 September 25 Update to SPECsfs® 2008 performance results analysis (PDF 433.7 KiB)
SCI's latest analysis of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's System File Server (SPECsfs® 2008) benchmark results including the NetApp PAM II results
FalconStor 2009 September 01 Announces new VMware enhancements and integration (PDF 248.1 KiB)
FalconStor announces new enhancements and integration with VMware vSphere, vCenter, SRM, and now also supports FalconStor NSS and other solutions running as virtual appliances.
SCI 2009 August 27 Update to SPC performance results (PDF 657.8 KiB)
SCI's latest analysis of Storage Performance Council (SPC) performance results now adds SPC-1C/E component level energy results to the ongoing SPC-1 and SPC-2 analysis.
EMC 2009 August 25 Announces new CLARiiON and RecoverPoint functionality (PDF 243.6 KiB)
EMC announced Virtualization aware Navisphere and RecoverPoint, CLARiiON support for 10Gbe, enhanced iSCSI and disk spin down. Also RecoverPoint can now toggle from Synch to Asynch replication for intermittant networking.
SCI 2009 July 28 Update to ESRP performance results (PDF 569.2 KiB)
SCI's latest review of Microsoft's Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP) performance results.
Data Domain 2009 July20 Announces DD880 appliance (PDF 230.1 KiB)
Data Domain announces their latest top-end deduplication appliance, the DD880. Also announced were enhancements to replication fan-in and their management GUI.
SCI 2009 June25 Update to SPECsfs® 2008 performance results (PDF 675.4 KiB)
SCI's latest analysis of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's System File Server (SPECsfs® 2008) benchmark results.
HP 2009 May 28 Announces new SMB storage (PDF 246.0 KiB)
HP refreshes their MSA product line and provides new server virtualization bundles.
SCI 2009 May 27 Update to SPC benchmark results (PDF 616.1 KiB)
SCI's analysis of Storage Performance Council (SPC) performance results now adds SPC-1C and SPC-2C component level results to the ongoing SPC-1 and SPC-2 result analysis
EMC 2009 May 19 Announcement on enhancements to BURA product (PDF 233.5 KiB)
EMC announces enhancements to Networker, DiskLibrary, and Avamar as well as introducing new service offerings.
SCI 2009 April 29 Update to ESRP performance results (PDF 684.6 KiB)
SCI's completely revised and most current analysis of Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP) performance results for storage supporting between 1K to 5K Exchange mailboxes.
EMC 2009 April 14 Announcement of new V-Max storage subsystem (PDF 328.1 KiB)
EMC announces a brand new enterprise class storage subsystem for the new virtual server environment the V-Max.
SCI 2009 March 30 Update to the SPECsfs® 2008 performance results (PDF 453.7 KiB)
SCI's latest analysis of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's System File Server (SPECsfs® 2008) benchmark results.
Data Domain 2009 March 23 Announcement of new DD660 appliance and new performance (PDF 231.0 KiB)
Data Domain announced a new mid-range deduplicatin appliance the DD660 as well as an update to the current product line software which increases deduplication performance.
HP 2009 March 10 Announcement of refreshed EVA 8400 and 6400 (PDF 232.8 KiB)
HP announced new versions of their top and mid-tier EVA line. Also announced were updates to their storage virtualization appliance and Data Protector backup software.
SCI 2009 February 24 Update to SPC performance results (PDF 823.1 KiB)
SCI's analysis of Storage Performance Council (SPC) performance results now adds SPC-1C and SPC-2C component level results to the ongoing SPC-1 and SPC-2 result analysis.
EMC 2009 February 23 Announcement of new Celerra deduplication (PDF 228.7 KiB)
EMC announces a new file level deduplication for the Celerra line of products.
SCI 2009 January 27 Update to ESRP/Jetstress benchmark performance results (PDF 1.4 MiB)
SCI's completely revised and most current analysis of Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP) performance results for storage supporting over 5K Exchange mailboxes.
Brocade 2009 January 27 Announcement on new DCX-4S switch (PDF 222.0 KiB)
Brocade announces new mid-range DCX with only 4 slots, virtual fabric features in their fabric operating system, new key manager support for thier fabric encryption, and new QOS support for their HBAs.
