Have you seen the latest? Storage Magazine ranked Dell the #1 midrange array provider in service and reliability. With our acquisition of EqualLogic, we turned last-year’s 9 th place ranking into a #1 ranking in product reliability and initial product quality. Hopefully, you didn’t miss Dell’s other recent achievement where Gartner recognized Dell as a leader in Midrange Disk Arrays for their Magic Quadrant 2008 . Dell has made a tradition out of listening to you, our customers
( editor's note - this comes to us from Tim Sherbak - one of our EqualLogic virtualization masters ) As you may have heard VMware recently introduced a new initiative they call vStorage. In a nutshell, it’s all about making VMware work better with storage. Many of our readers are moving to virtual environments using VMware – and this has important storage implications. vStorage helps you integrate and automate solutions to manage and protect your data more efficiently. So, what are
( editor's note - this post comes to us from Tony Ansley of Dell’s storage product group which will be supporting hands-on labs at SNW next week .) If you’re interested in what Dell is doing with enterprise storage, make every effort to get to Dallas (OK, Grapevine…) for the Computerworld Storage Networking World conference that is starting on October 13 th . Please come by and see us in booth #400. Here's a list of some of the things we'll be doing at the show: Agenda
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HP made an interesting move today with the intent to acquire LeftHand Networks. Obviously HP is coming to recognize what Dell did a long time ago – simple, intelligent, automated storage is what the mid-market wants. That’s why we moved to buy EqualLogic almost a year ago. What really interested us was the ease-of-use, intelligence and automation of EqualLogic’s systems. That was a big advantage that others don’t have. As an example, let’s look at investment protection
(editor's note - The virtualization news from VMworld continues to abound...this post comes to us from Achmad Chadran in our EqualLogic solutions group) Citrix just released an integration module that sets a new high-water mark for virtualization. We’ve already begun work documenting the experiences of customers who’ve deployed our EqualLogic SANs in virtual-server environments, and I’m psyched to post their stories. But by incorporating key EqualLogic functionality directly
( editor's note - this post comes to us courtesy of Tim Sherbak, one of our virtualization gurus ) The VMworld show is next week in Las Vegas and we'll be there in a big way. We'll be there to show solutions highlighting data protection, disaster recovery, consolidation, virtual desktops, and systems management. We’ve got a series of live demos in the booth including a full VMware environment built from our new blade and rack servers and the new Dell EqualLogic PS5500E . We’ll
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09-12-2008
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