NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS 08/31/04 Today's focus: Dell benchmarks cluster
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Dell releases cluster test score using Microsoft benchmark * Links related to Servers * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Statscout Blanket Network Performance Monitoring Monitor your entire network every 60 seconds with minimal impact on the network. Businesses and organizations seeking detailed performance and troubleshooting reporting on networks of 1000 to 200,000 network interfaces in size will benefit substantially from using Statscout. Request your 30-day trial now, click here http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78755 _______________________________________________________________ IS SECURITY RIPE FOR OUTSOURCING? Security demands for online applications such as e-commerce and Web services are prompting more corporate customers to hand off security functions - such as intrusion detection and firewalls - to outside service providers. Find out if security should be outsourced in this Network World article: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=78268 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Dell benchmarks cluster By Deni Connor Dell last week released performance benchmarks for its PowerEdge servers, claiming that they have the best combination of performance, value and availability for a cluster of data center servers. The company benchmarked the servers using Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003 benchmark, for which it ran Windows Exchange Server 2003 on a cluster of four PowerEdge 1750 dual-processor 3.2-GHz Xeon servers connected via a switch to a Dell/EMC CX600 storage-area network (SAN). The servers had hyper-threading enabled, allowing them to handle more than one task at once. While benchmarks have always been popular in the Unix server world, it is just in the last two years that server vendors have performed TPC-C and other benchmarks on Intel servers running Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or IBM DB2. Dell used Microsoft-developed benchmarks that are published at: <http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/performance> Specifically, Dell used MAPI Messaging Benchmark 3, which measures a server's messaging performance using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and approximates how many typical corporate e-mail users the server can support. Dell's score for the cluster was 15,000. An operating environment with higher MMB3 results than another is able to hold more users per server, although the exact number is not the MMB3 score. In July Dell's 1850 was benchmarked and performed at 6,500 MMB3s. Fujitsu's Primergy BX600, a dual-processor Xeon-based server, achieved 6,664 MMB3s. HP in March benchmarked its ProLiant ML350 G3 at 4,500 MMB3s. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS TPC prepares Web server benchmark revision IDG News Service, 04/07/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0407tpcprepa.html Microsoft benchmarks step up Linux assault IDG News Service, 09/05/03 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0905microbench.html The Transaction Performance Council http://www.tpc.org/ Full exposure: How Kodak converged its net Network World, 08/30/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004yourtakekodak.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Deni Connor Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can reach her at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Statscout Blanket Network Performance Monitoring Monitor your entire network every 60 seconds with minimal impact on the network. 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