By Lisa Burroughes, 6 July 1998 15:46
NEWS The storage industry could have its first benchmark standard in place in under a year. A number of major storage manufacturers have joined together to form the Storage Performance Council (SPC). Among the founders are Clarion Storage, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Mylex, Qlogic, Sun Microsystems, Symbios, Unisys, Veritas Software and Western Digital. The first benchmark will focus on Raid subsystems, which have been traditionally difficult to compare between vendors. The SPC said standards for tape storage will follow.
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