Today is an exciting day for Dell and our customers and partners. At events around the world, we’re unveiling a series of new innovative products and services squarely addressing our customer’s needs; breakthrough technology designed to help maximize their most valuable resources: people, time and money. We talk a lot about simplifying IT at Dell and today we’re giving our customers two new storage options that take performance and management to new levels, the Dell EqualLogic PS6000
IDC put out a news release recently about its Q4 External Disk Storage Systems report. The headline was a bit gloomy to say the least and drove some media and blogging coverage here , here and here . Let me give you my take on it. Dell’s strategic investments over the last few years have been closely tied to our vision of simplifying IT – making storage simple, capable and affordable for our customers. It’s clear to me from this release that customers are voting with their wallets
There’s been a lot of discussion in the media and among vendors about FCoE and iSCSI ( here , here and here ). We’ve talked about it at length ( here and here ). Most of this chatter has missed the broader issue. What customers really want is to simplify their environment and reduce costs. A unified fabric does just that and both FCoE and iSCSI rely on Ethernet as the means to get there. Either way, step one is to get your storage on Ethernet. That’s why we have been talking about
The PowerVault DL2000 is the industry’s first integrated disk-to-disk (D2D) based solution that automates, simplifies, and speeds up backup and recovery. These are tasks that customers in the SMB space need to do but either do inefficiently, can’t afford, don’t have time to do, or worse, can’t do at all. In plain English – this is the system that will help our customers automate and simplify their data protection processes while slashing data backup by 55% and restore
Today we completed the EqualLogic acquisition, a leading provider of high-performance storage area network ( SAN ) solutions designed for virtualization and ease-of-use. The purchase extends Dell's leadership in simplifying IT for customers. Customers face extreme challenges with data growth. Storage solutions that use existing infrastructure, install in minutes not days, manage themselves, can grow easily as needs increase and plug into the virtualized IT ecosystem will help businesses with