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Latest Exchange (ESRP) performance results & IBM DS8880 announcement summary

In this month's newsletter, we publish our review of the latest Exchange (ESRP) performance results and discuss IBM's DS8880 storage family announcement. StorInt™ Newsletter - Issue 99 -  October 2015 Latest Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Programe (ESRP) performance report There were two new ESRP submissions during the past 3 quarters in the 1001 to 5000 mailbox category. These two new solutions broke into a few of our top ten Exchange performance charts which we discuss in this months report. Read the report to learn more.  See the Report  IBM announces a new DS8880 storage product family  The new storage arrays include a low-end hybrid storage system, a new enterprise class hybrid array and an upcoming all-flash array. All these systems include the new POWER8 processing, PCIe3 and more system memory. Performance of the new systems is impressive and IBM provided a few reference metrics that compared well against their previous DS8870 storage arrays with flash storage. Read the report to learn more. See the Summary RayOnStorage top blog post(s) Coho Data, the packet processing squeeze and working set exploits - We were at Storage Field Day 8 (SFD8) this past week and met with Coho Data to discuss some of their new activities and insights on what's happening with data storage today. You can see Andy Warfields, CTO and Co-founder's session on video at the site, but we try to summarize some of the more interesting insights and changes that Coho Data has planned for their customers in our blog post.  Read the post to learn more. GreyBeards OnStorage We talk with Ellen Rubin, CEO & Co-founder and Laz Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder, ClearSky Data on their new global storage service. ClearSky's global storage service includes both an edge flash storage appliance, metropolitan networking and an in metro area point of presence (PoP) hardware, used to cache cloud storage and supply tier 2 primary storage for a data center. They currently have PoPs in 3 USA metro areas but are expanding into more. Their service is billed out on a $/GB/month basis that includes all the edge hardware, metro networking, PoP hardware and cloud storage in that one price. Listen to the podcast to learn more...   What you may have missed last month  Latest SPECsfs2008/2014 performance report - There were no new SPECsfs2014 submissions, so for this quarter's SPECsfs review we rolled out another of our infrequently seen charts, the top ten NFS throughput performance per node. Here we examine how well clustered file storage performs on a per node basis. Read the report to learn more. Vmware announces new VSAN 6.1and other enhancements at VMworld2015 - VMware's new VSAN 6.1 rolls in some impressive features and functionality of interest to enterprise customers. Other enhancements, such as the Photon Platform, VAIO, NSX 6.2, vRealize Op's 6.1 and Integrated OpenStack 2 round out the new enhancements that we found important. Read the report to learn more. Silverton Consulting, Inc. | Respond to email |1-720-221-7270 | Updated (Oct. 2015) SAN-NAS Buying Guide | SilvertonConsulting.com See what's happening on our social sites:

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[SCI's StorInt Newsletter] Latest Microsoft ESRP performance results and Fujitsu's new DX 8000 S3 storage family in July's issue

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Silverton Consulting StorInt™ Newsletter - Issue 95 -  July 2015 Dispatches   In this month's newsletter, we publish our review of  Microsoft Exchange 2010-2013 Solutions Reviewed Program performance results for the 1000 mailbox and under category and discuss Fujitsu's new ETERNUS DX8000 S3 series storage system announcement.  Latest Microsoft ESRP performance report There was only one new Microsoft ESRP (Exchange Solution Reviewed Program) submission in the 1000 mailbox and under category, this past nine months,  an HP MSA 1040. The HP MSA storage managed to rank in the top ten in a number of our ESRP metrics. Read the report to learn more ... Fujitsu announces a new ETERNUS DX8000 S3 storage family with two new systems The new storage family includes two new systems a revamped ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and new scale-out ETERNUS DX8900 S3 storage system.  This is all made possible with the new DX8000 S3 Qual Star architecture that supports a new front end, any-to-any router that can connect any host FC port to any controller in the system. The ETERNUS DX8900 S3 can scale from two to 24 controllers and the DX8700 S3 can scale from two to eight controllers. Read the report to learn more ... RayOnStorage top blog post(s)     VMware VSAN 6.0 all-flash & hybrid IO performance at SFD7 VMware's VSAN team talked at Storage Field Day 7  last spring and showed a couple of performance charts at the very end of their session (they were running a bit late). I was pretty interested in their all SSD and hybrid (SSD-disk) performance numbers. Read the post to find out more. ..   GreyBeards on Storage podcast   For this month's podcast,  the GreyBeards talk data aware, scale-out files systems with Peter Godman, Co-founder & CEO Qumulo. Peter had previously been with EMC Isilon and had worked a long time in scale out NAS there. Qumulo takes a somewhat different tack and focuses on providing quicker and better metadata access in their data aware file services. Another significant difference is Qumulo's use of Agile software development to release new storage functionality every two weeks!! I wrote a blog post called Storage systems on Agile which just missed the cut for top post of the month.  Listen to the podcast to learn more...   What you may have missed in last month's issue   Latest SPECsfs2008 & SPECsfs2014 performance report There are still no new SPECsfs2014 submissions other than the reference ones. This time we examine the new SPECsfs20014 report formats and weigh in on what we like and dislike that we see in the reports and the summary page. Read the report to learn more ... HP announces a new high-end 3PAR StoreServ product line, the 20000 series storage systems At their Discover conference, HP announced a new high end 3PAR StoreServ product line that includes the 20800 CFA and 20850 AFA. The systems have upgraded hardware, a new Gen 5 ASIC, and new 3PAR OS.  The performance numbers for the AFA are pretty impressive. With 3PAR's data reduction capabilities, the 20850 CFA is able to provide 15PB of usable storage for 6PB of raw capacity.  Read the report to learn more ... Quick Links   Previous Dispatches |Newly (July, 2015) updated  SAN-NAS Buying Guide for sale on our website   (c) 2014-2015 Silverton Consulting, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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