Above we reproduce a chart from our latest newsletter StorInttm Dispatch on SPECsfs(R) 2008 benchmark results.  This chart shows the top 10 CIFS throughput benchmark results as of the end of last year.  As observed in the chart Apple’s Xserve running Snow Leopard took top performance with over 40K CIFS throughput operations per second.  My [...]

On Wednesday 4 November, HP announced a new network storage system based on the Ibrix Fusion file system called the X9000. Three versions were announced:

X9300 gateway appliance which can be attached to SAN storage (HP EVA, MSA, P4000, or 3rd party SAN storage) and provides scale out file system services
X9320 performance storage appliance which [...]

The chart to the left was sent out in last months SCI newsletter and shows the throughput attained by various storage systems when running the SPECsfs(R) 2008 CIFS and NFS benchmarks. The scatter-plot shows data for NAS systems that have published both NFS and CIFS SPECsfs benchmark results for the same storage system. [...]