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.

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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.

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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.

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