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Don’t use server benchmarks to measure storage performance, Computerworld blog by Leah Schoeb

By Leah Schoeb, Thursday, October 2nd 2014

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To my surprise, I have been seeing storage performance results reported using server benchmarks and their associated server metrics. Server benchmarks are specifically designed to measure the maximum performance of the server -- NOT the storage. Even if external storage...

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Storage Alignment or the lack there of…

By Leah Schoeb, Friday, September 21st 2012

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Storage Misalignment has been a performance issue that has been around for a long time. It can contribute to as much as a 30% loss in performance is not resolved.  It has always been a consideration in the physical environments...

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Evaluating storage performance requires credible information — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Friday, September 14th 2012

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Almost every conversation about storage includes performance. That’s because storage system performance is important for the responsiveness of applications. Most vendors go to great efforts to provide performance data for their storage systems. This performance data provides valuable information for...

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