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Press Releases and Articles
Listed below are links to various SPC-related press releases and articles, including press releases from SPC Test Sponsors announcing their SPC Results.  As additional articles are written this page will be updated, so include this page as one of your regular "stops" when visiting the SPC website.  If you have access to an SPC-related press release or article that does not appear on this page, please contact the SPC Administrator if you would like for that press release or article to appear on this page.

Each of the bulleted links listed below will give provide access to the labeled table of articles and press releases.

A "Press Release", "Article", or "Document" link in a table entry will access the actual press release, article, or document. An SPC "Result" link will access the result's entry in the appropriate SPC Benchmark Results page, which contains descriptive information as well as links to the Executive Summary and Full Disclosure Report (FDR) for the result.  Each company logo is a link that will access the company's website home page and a product name link will access official product information.

A brief overview of both SPC Benchmark 1 (SPC-1) and SPC Benchmark 2 (SPC-2) appear on the Benchmark Results page.


SPC Press Releases and Articles

Storage Performance Council (SPC)

July 12, 2007

Press Release
SPC-1 Result
SPC-2 Result

Storage Performance Council (SPC)

Scalability of SPC-1 and SPC-2 as demonstrated by IBM's SVC 4.2 SPC Results

July 12, 2007

Press Release
SPC-1 Result
SPC-2 Result


IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.2
July 13, 2007
Article
SPC Results
Computer Business Review Online
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.2: SPC-1 and SPC-2 Results
July 13, 2007 Article
SPC Results
storage.itworld.com IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.2: SPC-1 and SPC-2 Results
April 12, 2007
Article
SPC Benchmarks
Enterprise Storage Forum
"Managing Storage Performance" (second in a two article set)
March 28, 2007 Article
SPC Benchmarks
Enterprise Storage Forum "Evaluating Storage Benchmarks" (first in a two article set)


SPC-1 Press Releases and Articles

SPC Benchmark-1™ (SPC-1)
October 1, 2007 Press Release
SPC-1 Result

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V (USP V)
October 1, 2007
Article
SPC-1 Result
Enterprise Storage Forum Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) SPC-1 Result article
December 7, 2006
Article
SPC-1 Result
SearchStorageChannel.com
IBM DS8300 Turbo SPC-1 Result article

December 5, 2006

Press Release

SPC-1 Result


IBM System Storage DS8300 Turbo

November 2, 2005

Press Release
SPC-1 Result
SPC-1 Result

IBM System Storage DS8300
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
December 10, 2001
Article
SPC-1
Client Server News 2000 - Issue 429 (page 6)
SPC-1 announcement article
December 6, 2001
Article
SPC-1
ComputerWire
SPC-1 announcement article
December 5, 2001
Article
SPC-1
InfoStor
SPC-1 announcement article
December 3, 2001
Press Release
SPC-1
Storage Performance Council (SPC)
SPC press release announcing SPC-1 (December 3, 2001 press kit)
December 3, 2001
Document
SPC
Storage Performance Council (SPC) SPC backgrounder (December 3, 2001 press kit)
December 3, 2001
Document
SPC-1
Storage Performance Council (SPC) SPC-1 Backgrounder (December 3, 2001 press kit)
December 3, 2001 Document SPC-1 Storage Performance Council (SPC) SPC-1 Executive Summary (December 3, 2001 press kit)
December 3, 2001
Press Release
SPC-1
Evaluator Group
Press release announcing support of the SPC and SPC-1
December 3, 2001
Press Release
SPC-1
Ideas International
Press release announcing support of the SPC and SPC-1
December 2, 2001
Article
SPC-1
searchStorage.com
SPC-1 announcement article
December 2, 2001
Article
SPC-1
searchStorage.com - Q & A
SPC-1 announcement interview


SPC-2 Press Releases and Articles

SPC Benchmark-2™ (SPC-2)
December 9, 2006
Article
SPC-2
The Register
SPC-2/SPC-2 Toolkit availability announcement article
December 7, 2006
Article
SPC-2
Network World
SPC-2/SPC-2 Toolkit availability announcement article
December 6, 2006
Press Release
SPC-2
Storage Performance Council
SPC press release announcing the public availability of SPC-2 and SPC-2 Toolkit
  (plus development of SPC component-level benchmarks)


August 10, 2006

Press Release

SPC-2 Result


Sun StorageTek® 6140 Array

November 28, 2006

Website Entry

SPC-2 Result


Fujitsu ETERNUS4000 Model 500

December 14, 2005

Press Release
SPC-2 Result
SPC-2 Result

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
IBM System Storage DS8300

December 13, 2005

Press Release

SPC-2


Press release announcing support of SPC-2
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SPC Presentations at Computer Measurement Group (CMG)  Conferences

SPC at CMG

December 2-7, 2005

SPC Presentation


CMG'07 - San Diego, California

December 3-8, 2006

SPC Presentation


CMG 2006 - Reno, Nevada

December 4-9, 2005

SPC Presentation


CMG 2005 - Orlando, Florida

December 5-12, 2004

SPC Presentation


CMG 2004 - Las Vegas, Nevada

December 7-12, 2003

SPC Presentation


CMG 2003 - Dallas, Texas

December 8- 13, 2002

SPC Presentation


CMG 2002 - Reno, Nevada

December 2-7, 2001

SPC Presentation


CMG 2001 - Anaheim, California



Analyst Opinions on SPC Benchmark 1™ (SPC-1)

"Systems and storage are increasingly becoming independent purchasing decisions. ...the largest users who are making frequent disk decisions, ask us for apples-to-apples data to assess the performance of competing products. Furthermore, performance of enterprise storage subsystems can vary dramatically in network storage configurations. Until now this data was not available. The SPC plans to provide this data precisely and I believe that every serious storage vendor will eventually have to join to answer customers' requests. Those that do not are likely to hiding something."

- Jack Scott, Evaluator Group

 

"The storage market has for many years been in need of a standardized and audited industry performance metric. The SPC-1 storage benchmark is a major industry contribution for providers and buyers of storage networking technology."

- Ian Birks, Ideas International

 

"As a leading provider of comparative hardware data, we are very excited about the clearly applicable vendor-neutral comparison process the SPC-1 benchmark offers storage buyers. We are pleased to have been a part of the process of the establishment of this benchmark test."

- Chris Ober, Ideas International


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