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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. Some entries will include an additional link to a company website version of the 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 each released SPC Benchmark specification appears on the Benchmark Results page as well as the individual benchmark results page for each of SPC benchmarks and benchmark extensions:


SPC-1/E Press Releases and Articles

SPC Benchmark 1/Energy™ (SPC-1/E)

October 13, 2009
Document:
PDF document

SPC-1/E

Storage Performance Council

An overview of SPC-1/E and anticipated future development

October 13, 2009
Press Release:
PDF document

SPC-1/E

Storage Performance Council
SPC press release announcing the public release of the SPC Benchmark 1/Energy (SPC-1/E) benchmark extension
  (plus the submission of the first SPC-1C/E Results from Xiotech Corporation)

October 13, 2009
Press Release:
Xiotech website
PDF document

SPC-1/E Results

Xiotech Emprise 5000
(one SPC-1/E Result with 146 GB disk drives and the second result with
600 GB disk drives)

October 13, 2009
Document:
IDEAS website
PDF document

SPC-1/E

Research Report:  Energy and Performance Come Together with Storage Benchmarking

October 14, 2009
Document:
IDEAS website

SPC-1/E

Blog: What are the Performance & Energy Tradeoffs of 15K vs. 10 K RPM Disk Drives?

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SPC-1C/E Press Releases and Articles

SPC Benchmark 1C/Energy™ (SPC-1C/E)

June 3, 2009
Press Release:
PDF document

SPC-1C/E

Storage Performance Council
SPC press release announcing the public release of the SPC Benchmark 1C/Energy (SPC-1C/E) benchmark extension
  (plus the submission of the first SPC-1C/E Results provided by IBM Corporation and Seagate Technology LLC)

June 3, 2009
Press Release:
IBM website
PDF document

SPC-1C/E Result

IBM System Storage EXP 12S (SSD)

June 3, 2009
Press Release:
Seagate website
PDF document

SPC-1C/E Result

Seagate Savvio® 10K.3 ST9300603SS

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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)

March 2, 2010

Press Release

SPC-1 Result

Infortrend ESVA F60

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