Windows 8 server editions will include a filter driver for NTFS for data deduplication The next version of Microsoft Windows Server includes integrated data deduplication technology. Microsoft is positioning this as a boon for server virtualization and claims it has very little performance … [Read more...]
Innocence, Fairness, and Technology Benchmarks
February 26, 2010 by 1 Comment
HP recently commissioned Tolly Group to benchmark their BladeSystem c7000 against the Cisco UCS 5100. The short report focuses on two results, and reads like so many competitive benchmarks in the IT industry: Tolly focuses on metrics that highlight the strength of HP’s solution and the weaknesses … [Read more...]
VMware PVSCSI Adapter performance and low I/O Workloads
February 24, 2010 by 1 Comment
I’ve recently been implementing a vSphere deployment and have been looking at the new features introduced as part of Virtual Machine Hardware 7. Obviously one of the major new components is the new Para Virtualised SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter which I wrote about way back in May 2009. When it first … [Read more...]
Drobo Performance Stats
December 2, 2009 by 1 Comment
Some discussions on twitter last week triggered the topic of performance relating to the Drobo’s. This is the 5th consecutive post on Drobo Series of products. To read other Drobo related posts: Drobo S and DroboElite – Introduced 11/23/2009 Some very interesting articles on Drobo S … [Read more...]