by Sean Fitzpatrick, StorageWorks Storage Platforms Business Development Over the past few months, we've all witnessed positive milestones for FCoE...but...is it ready? This past June the Fibre Channel Standards T11.3 BB-5 (back bone) working group finalized defining the spec (or ratified) and voted...
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...
Yes, while the worlds top athletes were in Beijing striving for world records in their various sports HP's XP24000 was setting a new performance standard of its own. That standard is XP's new record SPC-2 benchmark result of 8.7GB/s! That surpasses the previous record by more than 20%, and trounces...
By Lee Johns For a number of years now the relentless growth of SANs has overshadowed the Direct Attached Storage market (DAS). Ind e ed market studies have shown that while still a large market, DAS is shrinking. However , recent advances in SAS drives and SAS connectivity, along with market shifts...