Ed Fiore, Dell’s VP for Engineering, shows off the Dell Compellent SC280 dense enclosure.
Dell has announced new storage solutions designed to help businesses improve their IT performance, support data insights and reduce overall costs.
“While businesses continue to look to drive cost and complexity out of their data centers, they also are charged with finding flexible IT solutions that provide the optimal performance for the many kinds of workloads and applications they manage,” said Christopher Papa, country manager, Dell Philippines. “With today’s portfolio updates, Dell builds on our innovative storage capabilities while allowing customers to pack more storage in significantly less space and benefit from optimized performance for the most demanding environments.”
To help customers efficiently manage their vastly growing data while also addressing the needs of I/O-intensive workloads, substantial updates to the Dell storage portfolio support both growing scale and performance-hungry applications in one solution.
With next generation Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 array software, optimized for data-intensive workloads, Dell unlocks the potential of automated tiering and ties together new Compellent offerings.
The Dell Compellent Flash Optimized Solution offers intelligent data placement across multiple types of flash technologies or in combination with traditional drives. The Flash Optimized Solution can reduce storage costs by up to 75 percent compared to other flash solutions, and supports high performance and data-intensive workloads with full enterprise-class features.
The Dell Compellent SC280 offers rack unit density of any major storage solution with up to 2.8 times more capacity than competing 2U enclosures. This capacity-optimized solution for hosting tiered data can store up to 336 terabytes in a 5U footprint while significantly reducing data center space requirements.
The new Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4, Flash Optimized Solution and SC280 enclosure have planned availability for Q3 2013.
Meanwhile, Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) v3 offers customers enterprise-class file storage featuring improved performance at one-third the cost of the market leader, helping customers better accommodate performance-intense file workloads.
Available first on the Dell Compellent FS8600 later this year, FluidFS v3 can support two petabytes in a single namespace and offer customers the best rack density among major vendors in its class. The new release is expected to be the industry’s first primary storage solution with policy-driven, variable block data reduction, de-duplicating and compressing redundant data when no longer needed.
