Tag Archives: IBM

Exchange 2010/ESRP 3.0 results – chart of the month

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Ray

Well after last months performance reversals and revelations we now return to the more typical review of the latest Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP 3.0) for Exchange 2010 results.  Microsoft’s new Exchange 2010 has substantially changed the efficiency and effectiveness … Continue reading →

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Save the planet – buy fatter disks and flash

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Ray

Well maybe that overstates the case but there is no denying that both fatter (higher capacity) drives and flash memory (used as cache or in SSDs) saves energy in today’s data center.  The interesting thing is that the trend to … Continue reading →

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Is M and A the only way to grow?

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Ray

Oracle buys Sun, EMC buys Data Domain, Cisco buys Tandberg, it seems like every month another major billion dollar acquisition occurs.  Part of this is because of the recent economic troubles, which now values many companies at the lowest they … 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 resultschart 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 it … Continue reading →

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We need a data storage museum

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Ray

Just returned from Washington DC in the States. It has been decades since I had last seen the Smithsonian American History Museum and I was very saddened to see that their display of information technology of the 40s and 50s … Continue reading →

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ESRP results over 5K mbox-chart of the month

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Ray

In our quarterly study on Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) results we show a number of charts to get a good picture of storage subsystem performance under Exchange workloads. The two that are of interest to most data centers are … Continue reading →

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Repositioning of tape

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Ray

In my past life, I worked for a dominant tape vendor. Over the years, we had heard a number of times that tape was dead. But it never happened. BTW, it’s also not happening today. Just a couple of weeks … Continue reading →

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Chart of the month: SPC LRT(tm) performance results

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Ray

The above chart shows the top 12 LRT(tm) (least response time) results for Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark. The vertical axis is the LRT in milliseconds (msec.) for the top benchmark runs. As can be seen the two subsystems from … Continue reading →

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