Highlights of the newsletter: Evaluator Group and IOmark release Virtual Machine Data Storage Benchmark Results for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Hyper-Converged System. New research on X-IO iglu blaze storage systems. Plus a Technical Insight paper on the rebirth of Parallel I/O and blog posts on public clouds, parallel I/O and more. 
Storage Journal, December 2015
What's up this month? Evaluator Group and IOmark release VM Data Storage Benchmark Results for HPE Hyper-Converged System . New research released on the X-IO iglu blaze product line. Plus, John Webster, Senior Analyst, published a free white paper entitled The Rebirth of Parallel I/O and its Impact on Hyper-converged Price Performance. 

IOmark Benchmark Reports 
IOmark-VM Benchmark Report for HP ConvergedSystem 250-HC StoreVirtual
IOmark-VM Benchmark Report for HP ConvergedSystem 250-HC + 4335 StoreVirtual 
IOmark-VDI-HC Benchmark Report for HP ConvergedSystem 250-HC StoreVirtual 

If You Missed It
Open Storage Platform, Realizing the Hyper-scale Dream  - Industry Insight by Eric Slack 
Hyper-Converged Executive Summary and more new Hyper-Converged Research
Analyst Video - A summary of Open Storage Platform research by Eric Slack

New Research Highlights 
X-IO iglu blaze Product Brief , Analysis
IBM Storwize V5000 (2nd Generation) Product Brief, Analysis
The Rebirth of Parallel I/O and its Impact on Hyper-converged Price Performance - Free White Paper 

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Rebirth of Parallel I/O - Forbes Blog by John Webster 
 
The transition from a dependence on rotating disk to solid-state storage is under way. And as the cost per unit of solid state storage capacity inevitably decreases, enterprise IT is now getting the message that an investment in solid state storage drives more revenue generating transactions every business day. However, improving the performance of the storage media—which the current trend of replacing of disk with flash essentially does—only addresses one aspect of the I/O “stack” and storage performance in general.
 
Is there a Leak in the Data Center - Blog by Eric Slack 

Eric Slack, Senior Analyst at Evaluator Group, discusses shifting trends in data storage and how users are utilizing new technology to prevent data center leaks. Don't miss this in-depth blog post on the movement to "cloudification" and hyper-convergence.
 
New and Updated Research

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Updated Comparison Matrices (Standard PDF) 
 
SAN Comparison Matrix – Midrange Storage
SAN High-End Comparison Matrix
Solid State Storage Comparison Matrix (New Designs)
Hyper-Converged Systems Comparison Matrix
Virtual SAN Comparison Matrix
Storage Resource Management Comparison Matrix
Disk-to-Disk VTL Deduplication Comparison Matrix Entry , Mid, High

Updated Comparison Matrices (Interactive PDF) 

SAN Comparison Matrix – Midrange Storage
SAN High-End Comparison Matrix
Solid State Storage Comparison Matrix (New Designs)
Hyper-Converged Systems Comparison Matrix
Virtual SAN Comparison Matrix
Storage Resource Management Comparison Matrix

Updated Product Brief & Analyses

HP 3PAR 8000 Product Brief , Analysis
HP 3PAR 20000 Product Brief, Analysis
EMC Isilon Product Brief, Analysis
IBM XIV Product Analysis
NexGen N5 Product Brief
X-IO iglu blaze Product Brief, Analysis
EMC VPLEX Product Brief, Analysis
HP StoreOnce Product Brief, Analysis
IBM V5000 Product Brief, Analysis
Simplivity OmniCube Product Brief
NEC HYDRAstor HS8-5000 Product Brief, Analysis
Atlantis Hyperscale Product Brief
PureStorage FlashArray Product Brief, Analysis
Coho Data DataStream Product Brief
IBM Spectrum Control Product Brief

Technical Insight 

The Rebirth of Parallel I/O and Its Impact on Hyper-converged Price Performance
 

 
Storage Vendor News Round-Up 

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Blogs



Is there a Leak in the Data Center - by Eric Slack



The Rebirth of Parallel I/O - by John Webster

Are all Public Clouds Created Equally? - by John Webster



Open Storage Platform - Why Now? - by Randy Kerns
 
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