OK, I will admit it…when Dell announced last year it was acquiring EqualLogic my e-mail inbox was full of congratulations, kudos and dire predictions. For the latter, the most common themes were around customer service, product development and preservation of our channel business. The reaction I received was that many folks thought EqualLogic had gotten quite a few things right, and they were concerned that may change as we became a part of Dell. As a co-founder of EqualLogic I have a unique
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (Leonardo da Vinci) Seven years ago, in the early spring of 2001, Peter Hayden, Paul Koning and I collaborated on an idea that eventually became the Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series family of iSCSI storage arrays. Little did we know how far that idea would take us. We took a hard look at the storage industry and saw an opportunity: storage was complicated and based on a model that was struggling to scale as the need to store ever increasing volumes of data continued