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Last Updated: Mar 06, 2002

Users have been clamoring for an industry-standard storage benchmark for years. Such a benchmark has arrived and while analysts say it's not a panacea, they admit it is the tool you've been waiting for. Read our exclusive Q&A with ...
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Storage industry-standard benchmark announced

(06 Mar 2002)

A consortium of vendors, including IBM, Sun and Veritas, says it has developed the first industry-standard storage benchmark. According to one analyst, users have been waiting a long time for a reliable score card in which to evaluate products. Is it a panacea? Hardly. But, it is a step in the right direction, he says.

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>>	Testing I/O performance TIP :This tip links to Intel's free Iometer program, allowing you to test storage products on NT 4.0/Solaris operating systems.
>>	RAID benchmarks TIP :One way to measure RAID systems is by their I/O performance. Mentioned here are tools like Iozone, Disktest, and many others.
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>>	Slow disk access: A fragment of your imagination TIP :According to this tip, performance is also affected by disk fragmentation. read some good rules of thumb.
>>	A storage Thanksgiving message TIP :Jon Toigo suggests three things to be thankful for in the world of enterprise storage this year.
>>	Testing true performance ASK THE EXPERTS :How do you test the true performance a Compaq SAM system? Is there any benchmark software out there we could use? Thanks.
>>	Old and new benchmarks ASK THE EXPERTS : Hi Randy, What do you think of Auspex filers compared with NetApps in terms of performance. In particular, ...
>>	Fibre Channel or gigabit ASK THE EXPERTS : Hi, we are in the process of evaluating SANs for a Telco in Asia. There are around 14 applications including SAP/Billing ...

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