Thursday, March 31, 2016

March 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 SPECsfs2008 & SPECsfs2014 performance results and discuss Pure Storage's FlashBlade and FlashArray//m10 announcements.
Latest SPECsfs2008 and SPECSFS2014 performance report 

No new SPECsfs2014 activity so we are showing another of our seldom seen charts on SPECsfs2008 data, this one a bubble chart of throughput, ORT and capacity. Read the report to learn more. 

Pure Storage announces a new FlashBlade, scale-out storage system and a new FlashArray//m10

Pure announced two new systems the FlashBlade scale-out, all flash file and object storage system and a new FlashArray//m10 for small-to-medium enterprise data centers.  FlashBlade is a new hardware implementation, which uses NAND chips and a new Elasticity OS to support up to 15 storage blades in a chassis and can connect multiple chassis together into a single storage cluster. The //m10 is a reduced version of their current FlashArray solutions.  Read the report to learn more. 
 

RayOnStorage top blog post(s)
 
A tale of two AFAs: EMC DSSD D5 & Pure Storage FlashBlade EMC and Pure both announced new AFA's within 2 weeks. Each were ground up hardware implementations using NAND chips, but they couldn't be farther apart from a performance perspective, from an architectural perspective and from a market perpsective. Read the post to learn more.  

 
 Greybeards talk car videos, storage and IT trends with Marc Farley - Marc's been our only 3rd time guest and has quite a long history in the storage business. He has recently taken a sabatical and we thought it would be good to catch up with him to discus what he is doing these days and some of his thoughts on the storage industry and IT trends impacting the data center today. Listen to the podcast to learn more...
 


What you may have missed last month
 
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 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. 
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