SPC-1 Highest Ranking for Inspur HF18000G5 AFA, Topping Huawei and Fujitsu

Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., Ltd.  won the Storage Performance Council‘s (SPC) highest ranking with its flash storage system, HF18000G5.

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Delivering unparalleled performance for servers, the HF18000G5 solid state array took first place with over 23 million IO/s – nearly 10% higher than the second-place player, and more than 2x the performance of third- and fourth-ranked storage solutions.

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The HF18000G5 combines IO speeds with enterprise reliability and resiliency, using all-flash NVMe to achieve 99.99999% uptime for 24/7 business continuity. Designed to support mission critical applications in the cloud computing era, it enables intelligent cloud tiering and intelligent data reduction of 5:1 – reducing storage costs for customers – while allowing public, hybrid, and private clouds to interact.

Leading industry in respected benchmark
The Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 Benchmark is one of the most influential international performance evaluation tests in the storage industry. In addition to evaluating standard metrics such as repetitive tasks and durability, SPC-1 includes quantitative evaluations of a storage system’s ability to handle complex requests and large-scale data.

Storage vendors including Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, and Insur participate in SPC-1 tests. The results are helping enterprises select storage, which is a critical element in enabling cloud and on-premises servers to manage constantly growing volumes of data without interruption or loss.

Inspur advances in storage industry and breakthrough capabilities
Inspur Storage set the world record for enterprise storage I/O performance, and has been recognized by Gartner for global top 5 market sales volume, making the firm a strong storage vendor. Already deployed at large scale, including the world’s largest SAP HANA data warehouse and a world’s largest network billing business, the company‘s product performance, reliability, and resiliency are leading the industry.

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This year, the firm set 3 global records for the SPC-1 Benchmark test, including single-controller performance of 720,000 IO/ss, overall performance exceeding 23 million IO/s across 32 controllers, and a response time of 0.294ms. Beyond the nearly 10% leap in overall performance, these numbers represent 20% less response time and 10% higher single controller performance than the second place on the list. See complete SPC-1 Benchmark results.

This is the sixth time that the company has set SPC performance record. In 2018, the firm achieved a record for 8-controller storage system with over 1.5 million IO/s, and in 2020, it set new records in 8-controller, 16-controller, and price-performance benchmark. The firm also achieved record results  in the field of distributed storage in June 2021, and continues to set records ranging from centralized all-flash solutions to distributed all-flash solutions and overall performance benchmarks.

These world records are the result of the firm’s R&D in storage system hardware and software architecture. The company is one of only 2 storage vendors in the world offering 32-controller high-end storage system, which uses a shared global cache and high speed interconnect to deliver performance. Additionally, the firm‘s newly developed iTurbo 2.0 Intelligent Acceleration Engine optimizes storage using dozens of performance optimization algorithms, including IO balancing, resource scheduling, and metadata management. It builds up a tiered storage resource pool composed of 96 Optane and 480 NVMe SSDs. iTurbo 2.0 maximizes palletization of IO processing and distributes workloads evenly across all storage nodes, yet with the lowest latency and record overall storage system performance in the industry.

According to IDC forecasts, 65% of global GDP in 2022 will be driven by digitization. Enterprise digital transformations are being driven by the efficiency of data mining and utilization, and SSD performance is becoming a core factor in enterprise storage selection.