Paul, >>>LSI Logic Powers TPC-D Performance to New Heights
- LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. and NCR Corporation Combine to Establish
Industry Leading Data Warehouse Benchmark Results -
WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc., a
leading supplier of scalable storage solutions for the enterprise, announced today
that its storage played a critical role in establishing new record- breaking TPC-D
(Transaction Performance Council -- Decision Support) benchmark results. The
new world record results were announced today by NCR Corporation in
conjunction with the introduction of their latest WorldMark server platforms.<<<
For anyone not familiar with the LSI Logic division sites, anything out of Wichita, KN is the former Symbios, now LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. Milpitas CA, of course is LSI headquarters.
>>>The record-setting configurations included NCR WorldMark 4800 and 5200
servers, NCR's flagship Teradata database and the NCR Storage Cabinet (NSC),
incorporating scalable disk array technology from LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc.
The benchmark results clearly demonstrate the scalability of the NSC at
performance and capacity points that are aligned with the needs of customers
whose data warehouses range from gigabytes to terabytes.<<<
This is just about as big as it gets WRT to storage for computers and networks (what NCR/Teradata does). It's on par with EMC (high flying stock $$$$$) products. Note that EMC does the whole package up to and including the frame, or cabinet level to make what is called a turnkey system. OTOH, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. (getting used to that name) is an OEM vendor, selling "scalable disk array technology" to companies like NCR, who then package it, along with smart controllers, power supplies, fans, etc. into a cabinet they then sell to end users. LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. part(s) are 19 inch wide (typically) racks that contain multiple (8 or 9) hard drives, each like in your PC, except they each contain 18 gigabytes and soon 36 gigabytes each). NCR can put several of these racks into one of their about refrigerator size cabinets. Hence the name Teradata (terabyte = 1000 gigabytes) has meaning nowadays.
I keep "implying" LSI could have a mini-EMC now. One big difference is that LSI "OEMs" to the EMC type companies, but doesn't have the final turnkey box as a product. This is where the big profits are in the big storage area. Hopefully, LSI, being in between with their racks (where the minimum component is the hard drive and the maximum the cabinet, the rack in the middle) can also make decent profits.
A little storage concept talk for today.
Tony
Editing, I was trying to describe the concept of cache memories, main memories and CPUs and their interplay in computers on another SI thread the other day and thought, and wrote, that I wish we had GUI (graphical user interface) capability on SI. A picture sure would be worth a thousand words trying to describe some of these things. Like, would you believe, a block diagram! Someday. |
