By Calvin Zito Earlier this week, HP announced new 2.5" small form factor (SFF) 300GB SAS drives. You can read a bit about them in a blog written by my colleague Sonia Mathur on the ProLiant server team. Here's the link to her post: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/reality-check-server...
Last month we announced a world record SPC-2 number by the XP24000. At the same time we extended yet another challenge to EMC to join the rest of the world in publishing benchmarks. They continue to decline the offer, arguing “representativeness” . I thought I’d clear up the “representativeness” question...
EMC, we're once again throwing down the gauntlet. Today the XP24000 put up the highest SPC-2 benchmark result in the world. The top spot for such demanding workloads as video streaming goes to the XP. Once again, your DMX is a no show. And once again we challenge you, this time to put up an SPC-2...
By Jieming Zhu I will continue on with part 2 now. Hope you enjoy and please share your thoughts! Claim #3: Because SSD does not use any mechanical moving parts, it's inherently more reliable than HDDs. This is probably the biggest misnomer surrounding around SSD's enterprise adoption. Quite...