Inside the new SPEC storage solution benchmark

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released a major new version of its storage solution benchmark, designed to help IT managers make better purchasing, configuration and optimization decisions.

by Don Capps, SPEC Storage subcommittee chair

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released a major new version of its storage solution benchmark, designed to help IT managers make better purchasing, configuration and optimization decisions.

The new SPECstorage Solution 2020 benchmark is based on actual applications and real-world scenarios. It includes new workloads for artificial intelligence (AI) and genomics, expanded custom workload capabilities, massively better scaling, and a statistical visualization mechanism for displaying