Challenges Others to “Put Up or Shut Up!” Runs Both Enterprise Storage and Application Workloads at
8 Cents per SPC-1 IOPS™ while Driving the Fastest Response Times Ever Reported
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,
January 12, 2016
– DataCore, the leader in Parallel Powered Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN solutions, today announced a new world record
for price-performance using the industry’s most recognized and peer reviewed storage benchmark, the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1. Thanks largely to
breakthroughs in its parallel I/O software that harnesses the untapped power of multi-core processors, this achievement places DataCore with an audited
SPC-1 Price-Performance™ of $0.08 per SPC-1 IOPS™ [1] and as the
clear-cut leader in SPC-1 Price-Performance™ overall. DataCore certified its results on a powerful but compact 2U Lenovo System x3650 M5 multi-core server
featuring Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 series processors with a mix of flash SSD and disk storage. On this same platform, DataCore also recorded the fastest
response times ever attained, even compared to the many all-flash arrays and multi-million dollar name brand systems that have published SPC-1 results.
“With these first certified results, DataCore has put a stake in the ground to demonstrate our parallel I/O performance and hyper-converged capability. For
us, this is just the beginning. Look for future benchmarking to incorporate multi-node high availability configurations and to demonstrate I/O originating
from both inside and outside the servers – the future for all storage systems,” stated Ziya Aral, Chairman of DataCore Software. “We have only just begun
to show the full potential of our inherently parallel I/O architecture.”
Hyper-converged System Handles Compute, Parallel I/O Processing and Storage Workloads
Notably, the record-breaking price-performance results were achieved on a hyper-converged solution capable of servicing both enterprise-class storage
requirements and demanding database and transaction processing application workloads – all running together on the same platform.
Hyper-converged systems must demonstrate that they can cost-efficiently handle combined enterprise-class storage and application workloads. Unlike SPC-1
results that characterize only external storage systems excluding the servers used to generate the load, DataCore’s $0.08 per SPC-1 IOPS™ result includes
the cost to generate the workload and, therefore, encompasses the total cost and end-to-end requirements for running the enterprise application.
“We’d like to see others, like Nutanix and SimpliVity, publish SPC-1 benchmark numbers to reveal how they fare against our record-breaking SPC-1
Price-Performance™ results. Then customers can clearly assess the cost implications of these alternatives,” challenges DataCore’s CEO, George Teixeira.
“There’s been much speculation about how these systems perform under I/O-intensive workloads generated by mission-critical enterprise applications. Using
the peer-reviewed SPC-1 full disclosure process provides an objective frame of reference for making comparisons prior to any buying decisions.”
The Results: Record-Breaking Price-Performance for both Storage and Hyper-converged
For the benchmark, DataCore used an off-the-shelf, hyper-converged system targeting enterprise-class OLTP and latency-sensitive database applications rated
for 459,290.87 SPC-1 IOPS™, with a total cost for hardware, software and three years of support coming in at $38,400.29, making it the top SPC-1
Price-Performance™ result of $0.08 per SPC-1 IOPS™. That is a 300% improvement over the previous record of $0.24 per SPC-1 IOPS™ attained by the Infortrend
EonStor DS 3024B [2] and less than
25% of the cost of popular top-of-the-line storage arrays including EMC VNX 8000[3], NetApp EF560 [4] All Flash
Array, Dell Storage SC4020 [5], and HP 3PAR
StoreServ 7400[6]
.
DataCore and IBM are the only companies to benchmark a hyper-converged system where the SPC-1 applications and storage workloads they generate are both
serviced on the same platform. This means that DataCore’s $38,400.29 price includes not only the storage components, but all of the host server resources
and the hypervisor software needed to run the enterprise-level database/OLTP workloads generated by the benchmark. For comparison, the only other
hyper-converged system with publicly reported SPC-1 results is an IBM Power 780 Server. Their SPC-1 Price-Performance result is $4.56 per SPC-1 IOPS™ [7]. That system
attained 780,081.02 SPC-1 IOPS™ at a total price of $3,557,709.00, or roughly 91 times more costly than the DataCore solution.
DataCore™ Adaptive Parallel I/O Technology Fully Exploits the Power of Multi-Core CPUs
The remarkable price-performance ratings can be attributed in major part to DataCore™ Adaptive Parallel I/O techniques intrinsic to the design of the SANsymphony™-V Software-Defined Storage Services platform. DataCore executes many
independent I/O streams simultaneously across multiple CPU cores, significantly reducing the latency to service and process I/Os by taking full advantage
of cost-effective but dense, multi-core servers such as the Lenovo System X machines. Competing products serialize I/O limiting their throughput and
slowing their response times.
“Lenovo initially approached us to run the demanding SPC-1 enterprise workload benchmark. They wanted proof we could fully harness the power of their
multi-core servers given the abundance of unsubstantiated performance claims circulating in hyper-converged circles,” continued Teixeira. “They soon
realized with parallel I/O, we had a rocket ship in our hands.”
“Lenovo is excited to partner with DataCore to disrupt the storage marketplace providing customers the best price and performance in the industry,” stated
Chris Frey, VP & GM, Lenovo North America. “DataCore’s industry-leading SPC-1 results on Lenovo System x demonstrate the performance, innovation and
reliability that Lenovo is delivering to meet the growing storage needs to our customers.”
The SPC-1 Benchmark – Tested / Priced Configuration
The rigorous SPC-1 performance testing is designed to demonstrate a system’s performance capabilities for business-critical enterprise-level workloads
typically found in database and transaction processing environments. The audited configuration that was tested and priced includes DataCore SANsymphony-V
parallel I/O software on a Lenovo System x3650 M5 multi-core server featuring Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 series processors running Microsoft Windows Server,
equipped with 16 SSDs and 8 hard disk drives. The DataCore software also supports Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, Linux KVM and other hypervisor-based
solutions. It can also run directly on Windows servers when server virtualization is not appropriate.
“Less is More” with DataCore Hyper-converged Virtual SAN and Software-Defined Storage
DataCore SANsymphony-V software dramatically reduces the I/O limitations and bottlenecks that restrict the number of virtual machines (VMs) and workloads
that can be consolidated on server and hyper-converged platforms. The software enables industry-standard x86 servers to gain the essential storage
functionality needed to meet today’s demanding tier-1 business application requirements. It runs on off-the-shelf servers and works infrastructure-wide
across all types of storage (flash, disk and cloud) to automate and optimize performance and resource allocation.
DataCore’s revolutionary parallel I/O software uniquely takes advantage of today’s advanced generation of multi-core server platforms – allowing companies
to increase productivity and server consolidation savings by supporting the I/O needed to run more VMs and more application workloads faster and at a much
lower cost. To learn more visit: www.datacore.com/products/sansymphony/parallel-io/
About the Storage Performance Council
The Storage Performance Council (SPC) is a vendor-neutral standards body focused on the storage industry. The SPC created the first industry-standard
performance benchmark targeted at the needs and concerns of the storage industry. From component level evaluation to the measurement of complete
distributed storage systems, the SPC benchmark portfolio provides independently audited, rigorous and reliable measures of performance, price-performance
and power consumption. For more information about the SPC and its benchmarks, please visit: http://www.StoragePerformance.org.
About DataCore
DataCore is the leading provider of Software-Defined Storage and
Adaptive Parallel I/O Software
– harnessing today’s powerful and cost-efficient server platforms to solve the IT industry’s biggest storage problem, the I/O bottleneck. The company’s
comprehensive and flexible storage virtualization and hyper-converged virtual SAN solutions free users from the pain of
labor-intensive storage management and provide customers true independence from storage solution vendors that cannot offer a hardware agnostic
architecture. DataCore’s Software-Defined Storage platforms revolutionize storage infrastructure and serve as the cornerstone of the next-generation,
software-defined data center – delivering greater value, performance, availability, and simplicity. Visit https://www.datacore.com or call (877) 780-5111 for more information.
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[1] SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report DataCore Software Corporation DataCore SANsymphony-V 10.0
(Current as of 11/30/2015)
[2]
SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report, Infortrend Technology, Inc., Infortrend EonStor DS 3024B
(Current as of 6/12/2015)
[3]
SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report, EMC Corporation, EMC VNX8000
(Current as of 7/30/2015)
[4]
SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report, NetApp, Inc., NetApp EF560 Storage System
(Current as of 1/27/2015)
[5]
SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report, Dell, Inc., Dell Storage SC4020
(Current as of 3/18/2015)
[6]
SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report, Hewlett Packard Company, HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
(Current as of 5/23/2013)
[7]
SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report, IBM Corporation, IBM Power 780
(Current as of 4/11/2013)