This is SCI’s first report on Microsoft Exchange Solution Review Program (ESRP)[1] performance results. SCI found ESRP reports as a group inconsistent and somewhat difficult to compare. However, upon further …
EMC 2008 April 08 announcement of their encryption in PowerPath and Connectrix
EMC announced new encryption features for PowerPath and Connectrix that uses RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter encryption key management. PowerPath supplies encryption support for disks and Connectrix supplies encryption …
SCI 2008 Mar 18 latest SPECsfsS97 results analysis
Our last performance results dispatch was on SPC block storage performance. In this one we report on NAS system performance using SPEC SFS97_R1* NFS V3 results. Latest SFS97_R1 NFS V3 …
IBM 2008 February 12&26 announcement of 1st quarter storage updates, new N-series products and other items
IBM’s announced new z/OS storage capabilities, new N series hardware and functionality enhancements, new channel ready packaging for DR550, new director class switch, and support for ½ height LTO-4 drives …
HP 2008 February 26 announcement of their new MSA2000 and EVA4400
HP had announced earlier this month a new MSA2000 and today announced the new EVA4400 storage subsystem. The MSA is targeted at small to midsize customers or departments of enterprise …
EMC 2008 February 25 announcement of their new DLm product and new RecoverPoint features
EMC announced a new Disk Library product targeted at the mainframe space and they have enhanced RecoverPoint their CDP and CRR appliance with new Clariion write splitting. Disk Library mainframe …
Cisco 2008 February 25 announcement of their new Nexus 7000 Series data center class switch
Announcing: New Nexus 7000 Series data center class switch Cisco announced the Nexus 7000 Series switch in January and did an analyst briefing in late February. Nexus 7000 next generation …
SCI 2008 Feb 19 latest SPC-1 and SPC-2 performance results analysis
After our last performance result dispatch proved so popular we decided to split out the SpecSFS results into a separate dispatch. Look for the new SpecSFS performance results dispatch to …