IBM® has recently introduced a new version of their enterprise storage DS8000 product line called the IBM Systems Storage® DS8870. IBM DS8870 The DS8870 upgrades the computing hardware, adds more …
SCI 2012Feb26 Latest Storage Performance Council SPC-1 results
We return now to the preeminent block storage benchmark, the Storage Performance Council SPC results*. There have been three new SPC-1 submissions since our last report, one from IBM®, an …
SCI 2012Jan25 Latest Exchange Solution Review Program, ESRP results
This Storage Intelligence (StorIntTM) dispatch covers recent Microsoft Exchange 2010 Solution Review Program (ESRP)¹ v3.0 results. Since we last discussed this over-5K mailbox category nine months ago, there have been …
IBM 2011 May 09 Data Protection and Disk Storage Announcements
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 …
SCI 2011 Apr 28 Latest Microsoft ESRP v3.0 (Exchange 2010) results
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 …
SCI 2011 Feb 21 Latest SPC-1 and SPC-2 performance results
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 …
SCI 2010 May 27 latest SPC-1 benchmark results analysis
We return now to that classic block storage benchmark, Storage Performance Council (SPC) results*. We mostly discuss SPC-1 latest results below with a short discourse on an interesting SPC-1C result. …
IBM 2010 April 19 announcement of new DS8700 version 5.1
Announcing IBM DS8700 5.1 IBM recently announced a new revision of the tier-1 storage platform the DS8700 version 5.1 that includes a new automated storage tiering solution they called Easy …