With declining memory prices and increasing application performance requirements, Solid State Drive technology has re-emerged as a topic of great interest in the IT industry. Most recently, enterprise-class versions of the technology have been appearing in midrange storage arrays, including the Dell|EMC Clariion CX series and Dell's EqualLogic PS Series. We had Travis Vigil in Dell’s Enterprise Product Group spend a little time to explain the basics around Solid State Drives and how they
Last week, Marc Staimer of storage firm Dragon Slayer Consulting published a good article on SearchStorage.com called “The value of easy-to-use SAN storage.” I, along with a number of colleagues on Dell’s EqualLogic line, have had the pleasure of talking with Marc from time to time at industry events. It has been a pleasure in part because Marc always ‘got it’ when EqualLogic experts were explaining the point of having a virtualized storage architecture or talking about
Some industry pundits have voiced doubt about the value of providing new SAN-based software features to customers. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, Dell and others clearly disagree. That’s why Dell bundles all of the EqualLogic software features in the price of an array at no extra cost. Customers only need to have a valid support agreement in place, and then they can download the latest array firmware and even host-integrated software like ESX-aware snapshots in Auto-Snapshot Manager