SearchStorage: IBM reports benchmarks

SearchStorage: IBM reports benchmarks
December 15, 2005

IBM 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 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. The IBM TotalStorage DS8300 garnered the number two overall score in the test with a submitted result of 3,217 SPC-2 MBps.

-> Storage Perfomance Council
-> SPC2 and SPC1 Results