Latest SPC-1 & -2 performance results and HDS VSP F series announcement summary
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.
There were two new SPC-1/1E submissions during the past quarter and one new SPC-2 submission. All of these were all flash storage systems and as such broke some new ground in block storage performance. In one case besting the prior competition by over 50%. Read the report to learn more.
The new storage arrays match the VSP G series except for the G1000 and incorporate a new flash module design which has hardware data compression and more performance. The F series includes a new bundled version of SVOS which incorporates data protection (with replication) and base analytics services. HDS is also launching a new service which can securely erase flash modules, including reserved space and certify that the data has been erased. Read the report to learn more.
Facebook down to 1.08 PUE and counting for cold storage - Read an article a couple of weeks ago about what Facebook was able to achieve at some of their cold data storage facilities from a power efficiency perspective. This was made possible with MAID, fresh air cooling and fewer power conversions and it is all available in Open Compute platform technologies. Read the post to learn more.
PB are the new TB, in this episode the GreyBeards talk with Brian Carmody (@initzero) CTO of Infinidat who we had also talked with at Storage Field Day 8 (SFD8). The discussion this month was far ranging and less about their technology and a more about industry trends and what Infinidat is doing to address them effectively. Both Howard and I were impressed with Brian and he coined quite a few sound bites during the talk. The title was one and the other of particlar interest was that mobile devices these days play the role of sophisticated caching layer for cloud data and apps. Listen to the podcast to learn more...
What you may have missed last month
Latest Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) performance reports - 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.
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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