A New Operational Framework for Benchmarking the SAN Products

Abstract

The novel framework presented in this paper provides a comprehensive methodology and statistical approach for benchmarking two Storage Area Network (SAN) products. This framework has the ability to assess the complexity of the SAN products benchmarking characteristics. This approach enables us to explore the complex interactions and relationships between the SAN products in the same environment. There are many evaluation techniques available for testing, but their results and evaluations may lack maturity and are not statistically sound. This novel unified framework provides a cost effective way that quantifies the benchmarking and interaction level of two SAN products by using single Design of Experiments (DOE) analysis. This novel approach provides good SAN product comparative analysis to customer's with high degree of accuracy with good predictabilities in product improvement, product marketing and product selection.