back to article Are DataCore's SPC benchmarks unfair?

DataCore has been active over recent months with benchmarks based on their new SANsymphony Parallel Server offering. The most recent of these claims 5.1 million SPC-1 IOPS at $0.08/SPC-1 IOPS and 0.32 millisecond response time. Other vendors are crying foul on these results, claiming they don't represent a true test because …

  1. Locky

    Have you been letting the Aussie intern select the pics again?

    Good hit on the Roosters there

    1. stevehamby

      Re: Have you been letting the Aussie intern select the pics again?

      Go Dragons (go right down to the bottom of the ladder lol)

  2. seven of five

    convert to market share?

    While it will be in the (storage) news for a while, the pactical releveance for most of us just isn´t there.

    selecting your (or rather your companies) next storage system rarely contains "who is the quickest" in step one.

    RAS, existing service contracts, hassle free migration and -of course- the numbers returned from your buying department will be more relevant.

    I actually do wonder whether they really did themselves a favour by that number - we could never consider such a system now as we need around 1200TB of disk storage, this would result in a hundred of their parallel servers. Thats half a billion iops. Or buy a slower configuration, but who would buy they quickest array there is and then slow it down?

    I´d be interested if this really converts to market share.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well well well

    SPC Members,

    The Board of the Storage Performance Council met via teleconference on 16 June 2016 to consider a pending CRC recommendation, and found that a recent DataCore SPC-1 submission (Audit ID: A00167) was non-compliant with version 1.14 of the SPC-1 Benchmark specification.

    Accordingly, and as required by Clause 9.8.2 of the Policies, the SPC is hereby notified that:

    · The result has been removed from the SPC-1 results list, as required in the final paragraph of Clause 9.3.3

    · DataCore may not use this result in any of its marketing, sales, or press materials, as per the final paragraph of Clause 9.3.3

    · The result has been removed from the SPC-1 Top-10 lists, as per Council minutes from March 25, 2014

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