Oracle gets ZFS filer array spun up to near-AFA speeds Oracle's ZFS filer array has virtually matched an all-flash array in the SPC-2 streaming storage benchmark and set a new SPC-2 streaming/price/performance record [PDF]. It introduced its ZS4-4 array in December last year, as a refresh of the prior ZS3. That was rated at 17,244.22MB/sec on its SPC-2 run with a $22.53 price/ …
Funny how IBM is so bad; over priced and under performing. Best in the graph is down, to the right. IBM is the opposite; high, to the left.
IBM is exiting all hardware, putting all resources on services. IBM will exit storage too, as they dont seem to interested in developing storage, look at the bad performance and price.
This ties to Oracle, too -- who would IBM offload their tape business to? If they just up and discontinued it, it would leave Oracle as the only supplier of Enterprise tape storage, and HP as the only manufacturer of LTO drives. Quite uncomfortable for Spectra Logic which uses IBM drives in their libraries.
I'm surprised to see the XIV so bad in performance, price yes, but not performance. There's a huge overhead with the entire Array RAID1+0. Plus, most installations I've seen max out the flash front end. But I've seen XIV blow the doors off similar competition up to and around the 100k IOPS target.
The DS8800 benchmark is from 2010 and it's an enterprise class array and can only be compared to a VSP or VMAX. At least IBM benchmarks their storage and by far the most on this chart. Where's EMC? Oh yeah, they just have to say they're awesome, not prove it. Dell? 3Par?
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