Second Industry Benchmark Proves IBM Storage Performance Leadership16 December 2005
IBM today announced that its storage
virtualization product, the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller and one
of its enterprise disk subsystem storage products, the IBM TotalStorage
DS8300, have achieved top scores for performance as measured by the Storage
Performance Council's latest benchmark.
The Storage Performance Council's newly released industry storage benchmark
SPC-2™ is the second SPC benchmark result published in the last six
weeks to highlight IBM's storage performance leadership. The SPC-2
benchmark consists of three application-oriented sequential I/O performance
tests, which include large file processing, large database queries and
video on demand.
The IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller demonstrated the best sequential
throughput producing an average of 3,517 SPC-2 MBPS (megabytes per
second)™. [1] Additionally the IBM TotalStorage DS8300 followed closely
behind, garnering the number two overall score in the test with a submitted
result of 3,217 SPC-2 MBPS™. [2] The DS8300 was the top performer among
tested enterprise disk storage subsystems.
"Over and over again, IBM has proven its support of open and objective
performance testing, and in the process has demonstrated clear performance
leadership," said Kristie Bell, vice president, marketing, IBM Storage.
"This latest achievement reaffirms IBM's SAN Volume Controller as a world
leading virtualization platform and IBM's DS8000 series as a world leading
disk storage platform for large-scale workload applications and
performance. We continue to offer our clients storage solutions that are
designed to optimize their infrastructure investments and deliver
information on demand. These results deepen our conviction that innovation
truly matters."
The IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, launched more than two years
ago and installed in more than 1,500 businesses worldwide, continues to
help reduce the cost and complexity of managing SAN-based storage to
clients in many industries across the globe. Now on its eighth release,
the SAN Volume Controller is being used by customers worldwide including
First Merit Bank, Marine Max and City of Richmond in Virginia.
The DS8000 series products feature three IBM Research-developed software
innovations in caching that are designed to work together to deliver
dramatically greater throughput and faster response times for a wide range
of real-life workloads. A new prefetching feature preloads and manages
sequential data in the cache so it always contains the needed data. This
prefetching feature also enhances the previously announced Adaptive
Replacement Cache technology that integrates and balances both of the
critical caching and prefetching functions. The third innovation is
designed to eliminate undesirable interactions between the read- and
write-cache management while still allowing both caches to beneficially
share memory resources.
The IBM TotalStorage DS8000 Series is used by customers around the world.
Some recent customers using the breakthrough disk system include Memorial
Health System in the United States, Crédit Immobilier in France and Schwenk
Zement KG in Germany. The high-performance, high-capacity TotalStorage
DS8000 Series exploits IBM POWER5 and Virtualization Engine technology to
set a new standard in enterprise storage.
"IBM is to be congratulated on being an early adopter and producer of two
significant SPC-2 results," said Walter E. Baker, Administrator and Auditor
for the Storage Performance Council. "The new SPC-2 benchmark provides an
additional view of storage performance for customers seeking to assess
performance based upon objective, verified benchmark results. A combination
of SPC-1 and SPC-2 results provides a comprehensive view of the random and
sequential I/O performance of storage products such as IBM's SAN Volume
Controller and DS8300."
SPC-2 was unveiled in December of 2005 as the next phase of performance
benchmarks for the storage industry. SPC-2 benchmark results were released
for a wide range of storage products. Each SPC-2 result has been both
audited and peer reviewed for compliance to ensure consistency and
accuracy.
The SPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize and
promote storage system benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable
performance data to the computer industry and its customers. SPC membership
is open to all companies, academic institutions and individuals. The SPC
created the first industry-standard performance benchmark in 2001, targeted
at the needs and concerns of the storage industry and its goal is to serve
as a catalyst for performance improvement in storage. For a complete list
of SPC-1 and SPC-2 benchmark results, visit
http://www.storageperformance.org/home.
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take
full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about
IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com.
[1] Results current as of 12/14/05. Eight IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume
Controller V3.1 engines and 24 IBM TotalStorage DS4300s. SPC-2 MBPS™:
3,517.75; SPC-2 Price-Performance: $563.93 ASU Capacity: 20,615.843 GB;
Data Protection Level: Mirroring; Audit Certification Number: B00001,
Availability Date: November 18, 2005. See
http://www.storageperformance.org/results for more information.
[2] Results current as of 12/14/05. The IBM TotalStorage DS8300 submitted
with 2 clusters each containing 4 Power 5 CPU processors and 32 gigabytes
cache for a total of 64 gigabytes cache. SPC-2 MBPS™: 3,217.53; SPC-2
Price-Performance: $539.38, ASU Capacity: 6,957.847 GB; Data Protection
Level: Mirroring; Audit Certification Number: B00006, Availability Date:
available today. See http://www.storageperformance.org/results for more
information.
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Contact:
Mike Darcy
IBM
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mdarcy@us.ibm.com
SOURCE: IBM
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