IBM’s Real Proof Points

Let’s focus today on just a few of the awesome proof points that IBM announced yesterday.

What’s clear is that these are not just wild claims backed by no data.

These are real, externally-reviewed and published leadership results across important workloads that you can really use as one source of input in comparisons of infrastructure.

• The new IBM Power 780 (POWER7+) with DB2 10 achieved the best 96-core two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark result. This result was 88% better per core than the HP DL980. (1)
• The new IBM Power 780 (POWER7+) with DB2 10 achieved over 2x the performance per core of the Oracle SPARC T4-4 application server on the Java SPECjEnterprise benchmark. (2)
• The new IBM DS8870 was just announced as the #1 SPC-2 storage benchmark result over HP, Hitachi and Oracle. (3)

Not just pretty pictures and fluff, but the real stuff.

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(1) IBM Power 780 (3.72 GHz) two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark result (SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application: 12 processors / 96 cores / 384 threads, POWER7+, 1536 GB memory, 57,024 SD benchmark users, running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10, dialog resp.: 0.98s, line items/hour: 6,234,330, Dialog steps/hour: 18,703,000, SAPS: 311,720, DB time (dialog/ update): 0.009s / 0.014s, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #2012033.vs. HP DL980 G7, Xeon, SQL Server 2008, 25,160 users, 8 processors/80 cores/160 threads, SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0, Certification # 2011021. http://www.sap.com.
(2) WebSphere Application Server V8.5 and DB2 10 on IBM Power 780 (POWER7+), (16 core app server, 16 core db server), 10,902 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. vs. Oracle WebLogic Server 11g and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Solaris running on a four-node SPARC T4-4 cluster, each system with four SPARC T4 3GHz processors, (128 core app server, 64 core db server), 40,104.86 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. http://www.spec.org
(3) Storage Performance Council, “SPC Benchmark 2™ Full Disclosure Report IBM Corporation, IBM System Storage DS8870,” October 2012. Source: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc2.

Results current as of 10/4/12.

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