IBM submits new 'world record' storage performance council (SPC) benchmark results

The Storage Performance Council (SPC) has announced new 'world record' SPC Results (SPC-1 and SPC-2) submitted for the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.2.

"SPC congratulates IBM on the submission of 'world record' SPC-1 and SPC-2 Results for the SVC," said Walter E. Baker, Administrator for the Storage Performance Council. "In addition to demonstrating the world class performance of the SVC, IBM's latest SPC Results validate the scalability of SPC benchmarks and their ability to accurately measure large, complex storage configurations that address very high-performance end user requirements."

The latest SPC-1 and SPC-2 Results, for IBM's SVC, have successfully completed an SPC Onsite Audit and have begun the required 60-day SPC Peer Review. The combination of a required SPC Audit and SPC Peer Review for each SPC Result ensures a source of comparative storage performance information that is objective, relevant, and verifiable.

"Storage systems are getting more complex with high-end requirements that often extend to millions and even billions of files," said Chuck Standerfer, senior partner, Evaluator Group. "On the other side of the spectrum there are end-users with much more modest requirements. The fact that SPC benchmark results can easily scale to measure a range of storage hardware and software systems provides both storage vendors and end-users accurate performance information to demonstrate how various storage hardware and software solutions can benefit applications when rapid, timely and efficient access to information is a requirement. We encourage all storage vendors to provide SPC Results for their products as it is the only way to ensure a source of objective, relevant, and verifiable comparative performance information."

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