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.

• SPC Press Releases and Articles
  
• SPC-1 Press Releases and Articles
  
• SPC-2 Press Releases and Articles
• SPC Presentations at Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Conferences
  
• Analyst Quotes
  

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

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