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Transaction Processing Performance Council Announces First Result for its

Virtual Measurement Single System (TPC-VMS) Specification
TPC also announces formation of Big Data Work Group (TPC-BD)
San Francisco, October 28, 2013 The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today
announced the first result for its TPC-VMS benchmark. Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) has
published the first TPC-VMS result, running the TPC-E benchmark which simulates the online
transaction processing (OLTP) workload of a brokerage firm across three virtualized servers.
HP measured performance and price/performance utilizing a ProLiant DL385p Gen8 enterprise class
server, running Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 on VMware vSphere 5.5.
Complete details for the benchmark are available at www.tpc.org/tpcvms.
TPC-VMS is the first industry specification which enables comparison of performance workloads running
enterprise database applications across several virtual machines. The TPC-VMS specification references
current TPC benchmarks and, as a result, offers the industry a rapid means of running and reporting
performance metrics for virtualized environments. Additional information on the TPC-VMS specification is
available on the TPC Web site at www.tpc.org/information/benchmarks.asp.
This initial TPC-VMS result marks the beginning of the TPCs approach to benchmarking virtualized
databases, said Wayne Smith, chairman of the TPC-VMS committee. TPC-VMS is positioned to
become a valuable tool for IT managers to assess performance and price/performance implications
around database consolidation, from multiple hardware platforms down to one, running virtualized
workloads.
Approved in December 2012, TPC-VMS is the latest specification published by the TPC. Current
benchmark standards under development include TPC-DI (data integration), TPC-V (virtualization for
complex workloads) and a new class of TPC-Express benchmarks, intended to deliver working
applications via downloadable kits.

Formation of Big Data Work Group (TPC-BD)

The TPC also announced the creation of TPC-BD, a Work Group tasked with developing industry
standards for benchmarking Big Data systems. In 2013, Big Data was identified as one of the top areas
for benchmark development at the annual TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and
Benchmarking, prompting the groups formation.
The TPC is committed to developing relevant benchmark standards, said Raghunath Nambiar, chairman
of the newly formed TPC-BD Work Group, chairman of the TPCTC 2013, and a distinguished engineer at
Cisco. Big Data has become a mainstream area of interest across major industry verticals, research
and life sciences. So developing standard benchmarks for measuring performance and providing
verifiable price and price-performance of systems is crucial.

The TPC is encouraging industry, government and research organizations which are interested in
influencing the benchmark development process to become members. Additional information is
available online at www.tpc.org/tpcbd.

About the TPC

The TPC current full members are : Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC,
Oracle, Red Hat, Sybase, Teradata, Unisys and VMware; and associate members are: Ideas
International, ITOM International Co, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Telecommunications Technology
Association and the University of Coimbra. Further information is available at www.tpc.org.

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