Inspur SPC-1 Benchmark Report: World Record for Price Performance for AS2200G2 Storage Platform

Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., LTD announced that its storage platform AS2200G2 has set a record for price performance in the latest SPC-1 Benchmark report issued by the Storage Performance Council (SPC) with the score of $75.77/KIO/s (13,198 IO/s per $1,000).

The company’s top ranking on the list follows its breaking of the 16-controller and 8-controller performance records earlier this year.

Breaks record for SPC-1 price-performance
According to the SPC-1 report, 10 products from 6 global storage providers (Inspur, TTA, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Dostor and NetApp) were included in the Top 10 price-performance list. The firm’s AS2200G2 ranked first with an outstanding score of $75.77/KIO/s.

Established in 1999, SPC is one of a professional measurement organizations in the storage industry. The SPC-1 Benchmark is the most actively tested program, and aims to assess the performance of storage systems that handle complex requests and large volumes of data as well as provide scientific considerations of the economic efficiency of storage systems. Due to the fairness and objectivity of the evaluation standards, SPC-1 has attracted the participation of dozens of storage providers including Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, HDS, IBM, Inspur, NetApp and Oracle.

“The record-breaking performance result indicates that Inspur has done everything we can do to deliver extreme performance for our storage products,” said Li Hui, GM, storage production. “The extra word ‘extreme’ means a lot in the current market. High-performance storage products only meet the basic requirements of users, but storage products that deliver extreme price performance can surprise and delight users and even accelerate the development of the storage industry.“

Today, less than 10% of enterprises’ massive data has been truly analyzed and processed, so while enterprises face the challenges of massive data analysis and processing, the demand for data economy also increases rapidly. As a result, price performance has become a key aspect of the market competitiveness of storage products.

AS2200G2 is a flexible unified storage platform that is built to meet the storage requirements of different applications, such as database, file sharing and cloud computing by supporting iSCSI and FC. It also delivers HA through its redundant architecture, a modular, redundant cache, and active-active controller design. It also delivers high scalability with its support for up to 577 HDDs and a maximum cache of 64GB.

The top ranking of the company’s storage products indicates that the company provides the best-performing products among its competitors, and also enables enterprises to save on purchasing costs, maximizing the return on their investment. The price performance of the firm’s system is rated at 370,000 IO/s, which is higher than the second and third-ranked systems by 19% and 32% respectively. In addition, the price per KIO/s of the company’s storage is about $75.77, lower than the second and third-ranking products by 12% and 18% respectively, making it the preferred choice for enterprises requiring massive and real-time data processing.

In a market where there is always a trade-off between high performance and low cost, the company has been able to achieve upward performance and downward costs through a series of innovations in hardware and software. At the hardware level, AS2200G2 adopts a compact design of disk-controller integration and is powered by a Xeon CPU and 64GB cache for every controller at the front, and 25 SSDs of all-flash configurations at the back, improving data response speed. At the software level, the firm’s use of the high-end iTurbo intelligent engine enables the storage system to automatically match with different data processing strategies according to the front-end application, in order to drive hundreds of thousands of IO instructions and data blocks to transfer and flow at high speed within the storage system. With these optimizations of both hardware and software, the company achieves the highest level of performance for its storage products in the industry with the same product configuration.

Inspur’s SPC-1 Benchmark report

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