Monday, February 29, 2016

February StorInt Newsletter, latest SPC-1 & -2 performance and EMC VMAX All Flash & Mainframe

In this month's newsletter, we publish our review of the latest SPC-1 and -2 performance results and discuss Hitachi's VSP F series of all flash storage announcement.
Latest SPC-1 and SPC-2 performance report 

Lot's of activity in SPC-1 submissions and one in particular lit up our top ten charts on a number of metrics. Read the report to learn more. 

EMC announces new VMAX All Flash and VMAX Mainframe 

EMC released a new all flash version of VMAX3 with 3D TLC SSDs, with new software-hardware bundled solutions. Performance is pretty impressive as well. EMC  also announced a mainframe version of VMAX3 which supports FICON channels as well as iSCSI & FC.  Read the report to learn more. 
RayOnStorage top blog post(s)
 
Platform9, a whole new way to run OpenStack - Earlier this month we were at TechFieldDay 10 in Austin and we met with a company I had never heard of before, Platform9. It appears they have created a new way to deploy OpenStack in your environment. Making it look almost as easy as using AWS.  Read the post to learn more.
 
 Greybeards talk year with Pivot3 & NexGen Storage  on their recent acquisition - John Spiers, CEO NexGen Storage and Ron Nash CEO Pivot3 were on our podcast to discuss Pivot3's acquisition of NexGen. Pivot3 is active in the hyper converged space and was looking to up their game in storage and NexGen was searching for some new funding to take their maketing to the next level. Seems like a match made in heaven. . Listen to the podcast to learn more...
 


What you may have missed last month
 
ESRP for the over 5K category has had seven new submissions since we last covered this over 5000 mailbox category. Most of these had between 8 and 25K mailboxes so there weren't many new top 10 entries. Nonetheless, we do show two of our ESRP top ten performance charts with new entries. Read the report to learn more.

The new systems use industry standard controllers and SSDs with brand new storage software with deduplication and compression to go after the current crop of data reduced all flash arrays on the market. R
ead the report to learn more.  
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