Huawei OceanStor N8500 Clustered NAS System Marked a Performance Peak in SPEC Test

Huawei OceanStor N8500 Clustered NAS System Marked a Performance Peak in SPEC Test PR Newswire SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 30, 2012 SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that its OceanStor N8500 clustered network attached storage (NAS) system achieved a performance peak in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's (SPEC) SPECsfs2008 test, by topping the industry's record with regard to the NFS benchmarks. It is for the third time that Huawei has achieved the best result in the benchmark test conducted by SPEC, a standard performance evaluation agency, following its previous two feats respectively in 2009 and 2011. OceanStor N8500 is a key product in the OceanStor N8000 series of scale-out NAS products, targeted at the mid- range and high-end markets. This product features the fastest file processing capacity in the industry as well as the superb capability of meeting the demanding requirements for storage performance in a big data environment. The OceanStor N8500 uses the Multi-node All Active Cluster technology with all engine nodes in the same cluster. This allows the nodes to work concurrently on transaction processing and to access a single file at the same time.