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 [...]

 

We return now to file system performance and analyze the latest SPECsfs® 2008* benchmark results. There were nine new NFS benchmarks, five from Isilon on their new S200 hardware at various node configurations (140-, 56-, 28- 14- and 7- nodes), two from LSI Cougar 6720 at different memory configurations (34 and 50 GB), one from [...]

 

We return now to our favorite block storage benchmark, Storage Performance Council (SPC) results*.  There have been three new SPC-1 submissions since our last report, TMS RamSan-630, IBM StorWize V7000 and Pillar Data Axiom 600 Series 3, one new SPC-1 also from TMS, their RamSan-630 (first all SSD system for this throughput benchmark), and an [...]

 

IBM announced new DR and BC capabilities for their System z environment based on GDPS and application specific asynchronous replication services. IBM GDPS today The GDPS product family includes a number of solutions ranging from synchronous systems such as HyperSwap and PPRC, to asynchronous systems like Global Mirror and XRC, to combinations that support both [...]

 

EMC World VPLEX, Isilon and other announcements At EMC World recently, EMC® announced new VPLEX™ Geo, Isilon™ Nearline system, Atmos™ capabilities, and GreenPlum-Hadoop distribution and appliance. VPLEX Geo Last year EMC rolled out the first two products of their storage virtualization family called VPLEX Local and VPLEX Metro and discussed two other roadmap items at [...]

 

IBM Data Protection and Disk Storage announcements IBM Data Protection New TS1140 IBM announced a new generation of enterprise tape drive transport and media called the TS1140 that now provides the highest performing tape storage.  New TS1140 tape media comes in high capacity (4TB) or economy high performance (500GB) both with WORM option cartridges. The [...]

 

This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers recent Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP)[1] v3.0 results for Exchange 2010. Since the last time we discussed this over-5K mailbox category nine months ago, there have been more than a dozen new submissions. Future dispatches will report on the under-1K and 1K-to-5K mailbox categories, but all prior ESRP [...]

 

EMC releases new Isilon hardware and software EMC® recently announced new Isilon software and two new versions of Isilon hardware the S200 and X200. Isilon and big data EMC Isilon is a scale out NAS solution, which provides up to 14 PB of file storage within one file system, using a cluster of storage nodes, [...]

 

We once again return to analyze the latest SPECsfs® 2008* benchmark results. There were two new NFS benchmarks, one from EMC on their VNX VG8 gateway with 5-X blades (1 standby) which used SSDs and the other from IBM with their new Scale Out NAS (SONAS) product using disks.  There was also one new CIFS [...]

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