IBM technology is record setting, and it's no different when you're talking DB2 and storage technologies. The combination recently achieved outstanding performance in energy savings, cost savings, and most importantly, performance.

An IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage hit the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, which bested results previously achieved by competitors such as HP.

Here's a succinct description:

Performance more than 2.5 times better than HP's best result, a 69% greater performance per core, and 2.1 times better price/performance.

That's welcome news to enterprises in any industry looking for more cost-efficient and cost-effective strategies in running today's data intensive workload demands.

Per-core performance is especially crucial in sectors such as financial services, mobile communications and energy as they tend to run database application workloads that use per-core pricing when determining total solution cost.

It's simple math: fewer cores to gain the same performance means big savings in licensing and maintenance costs.

"Smarter healthcare providers, cities, retailers, smarter energy grids and financial systems, all require support for ever greater data volumes and transaction throughput," said Arvind Krishna, GM, IBM Information Management. "The results of this benchmark demonstrate how IBM innovations combine to deliver unprecedented performance and cost efficiency for data intensive applications. Not only can you scale to massive data volumes and transaction throughput, but you can do so economically in an energy efficient way."

This TPC-C benchmark was conducted using a cluster of three IBM Power 780 servers, each with 8 processors, 64 cores, and 256 threads and it achieved a throughput of 10,366,254 tpmC at $1.38/tpmC Want the full technical details? Click here.