In Mumbai: Dell has unveiled its storage portfolio, expanding existing solutions with the recent global acquisitions to give customers the choice to build an integrated storage infrastructure using different technologies such as fibre or iSCSI to meet their needs in the virtual era. Reiterating this storage focus, Dell also announced the India availability of solutions from its recent acquisition of Compellent Technologies, Inc. Compellent Technologies is a rapidly-growing provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions with automated data management features, including tiering and thin provisioning, for enterprise and cloud-computing environments.
A key trend that has shaped the storage market in Indian enterprises is the massive growth of unstructured data. According to IDC, the digital universe is growing faster at a rate of 60% and is projected to be nearly 1,800 exabytes this year, a 10-fold increase over the past five years.
Understanding the need and importance of data management for the organizations, Dell brings to market the most comprehensive storage portfolio in the industry across DAS, NAS, SAN and back-up solutions and strong FC-based solutions. A key trend is the growth of iSCSI storage solutions, and in this fastest growing storage technology, Dell is playing a pioneering role with EqualLogic, to make storage simple, affordable and capable. EqualLogics iSCSI approach is of particular interest to medium sized businesses as it allows them the flexibility of larger enterprises, with simplicity of deployment and management, reducing cost and complexity.
Key advantages of Storage Consolidation include:
Increased Staff Productivity - Storage Administrators can manage more terabytes of storage in a consolidated environment
Optimized Availability - SANs provide high data availability for access to business-critical data
Improved Utilization and Scalability - Disk and Tape utilization can be increased through centralization
Improved Manageability - Administrators can gain control of the growth of their data and respond to changing business needs.
Compellents Fluid Data technology combines a powerful data movement engine, intelligent software and modular hardware that can help cut costs up to 80 percent. The acquisition of Compellent complements Dells strategic acquisitions of EqualLogic, Scalent, Ocarina and Exanet by extending Dells key intelligent infrastructure tenants of automation, optimization, scalability and virtualization.
Dells storage solutions significantly advances the Dell strategy to help customers better manage data growth, reduce storage costs and dramatically simplify the management of IT infrastructure.
"Data is a strategic asset and protection of data has become a high-priority objective for enterprises, with the top priority for CIOs being cutting costs and achieving maximum storage flexibility & scalability," John Joseph, Vice President, Dell Storage
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