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| Source: Dell. The Dell Storage PS6610 series enterprise arrays are targeted at the mid-market. |
Dell today announced several new storage offerings designed to help businesses and organisations cost-effectively adapt and scale their data centres to keep pace with ever-increasing IT demands.
Dell’s future-ready approach to IT solutions development continues to address both current and new methods for managing the massive growth of data with the announcement of a new entry-level array series, higher performing dense storage arrays, enhanced software capabilities and new software-defined storage (SDS) appliances.
“Dell continues to redefine the economics of enterprise storage, offering customers of all sizes world class storage solutions that remove complexity, lower cost and deliver impressive long-term value,” said Mak Chin Wah, GM, Enterprise Solutions, Dell South Asia.
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| Source: Dell. The Dell Storage SCv2000 Series is an entry-level offering. |
“The new Dell Storage SCv2000 Series brings the proven performance and protection of our Dell SC Series arrays to an entry-level offering with best-in-class value at a very disruptive price. Overall, our new solutions offer customers innovative technologies to efficiently improve and simplify storage management with both current and new IT approaches.”
With the introduction of the Dell Storage SCv2000 Series, Dell offers customers entry-level storage arrays with the same common management and several of the core features as higher-end Dell SC Series arrays.
The new SCv2000 Series offers the best performance and protection in its class1 with integrated data protection to support specialised projects, database and test environments, or simple storage consolidation. Extending Dell Storage Center software to entry-level arrays allows customers to standardise on a common platform, helping them save time, management costs and operational overheads.
The customer-inspired Dell Storage SCv2000 Series exemplifies the Dell Storage strategy to expand customer access to higher-end storage capabilities. Starting at approximately US$14,000 per array, the new series launches with three models supported by three expansion options and offers:
· High performance
The PS6610 appeals to organisations seeking advanced storage features in a dense array that is easy to manage and is optimised for workload consolidation, such as ERP applications, email storage and SQL databases, and for archival storage to support large data repositories such as those required for medical records, financial data and video surveillance.
The arrays ship with Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array Software 8.0, also announced today, which provides new space-saving features, such as the compression of snapshots and replicas. The new software further supports virtual environments with advanced VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes integration that allows arrays to be managed on a virtual machine basis instead of per volume or logical unit number (LUN). Existing customers with a valid support contract can download the latest software at no additional cost.
Also new is Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces, tested and validated solutions designed to support Microsoft’s SDS capabilities on Dell’s enterprise-class server and direct attached storage hardware. The new Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) solutions, available in five configurations, support customers seeking an SDS and virtualised storage approach to various workloads, including private cloud deployments, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and SQL and Hyper-V environments.
Dell’s solution support includes performance and capacity sizing, end-to-end fulfillment, deployment and on-going system support. The new solution allows customers to start small and scale to more than one petabyte of raw storage as their business needs grow.
The Dell Storage SCv2000 Series arrays are available in Singapore today, and Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces has planned availability this June. The Dell Storage PS6610 Series arrays and Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array Software 8.0 will be available in Singapore in early Q3.
“The Dell Storage SCv2000 array perfectly balances our performance and capacity requirements with our cost restraints to support our log data, and it’s also part of the broader Dell Storage SC Series portfolio with additional offerings to meet our other storage needs,” said Benjamin O’Connor, Storage System Engineer, TripAdvisor. “Being able to leverage a single storage family and the same management interface across our entire storage environment is a huge benefit.”
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1 Based on a February 2015 competitive review and Dell performance testing the SCv2000 FC array. Actual performance will vary on the workload and drive type.
2 Based on a February 2015 competitive review and Dell performance testing the SCv2000 FC array with 24 write intensive SSDs using IOmeter with 8KB random reads. Actual performance will vary on the workload and drive type.
3 Based on internal Dell analysis of total capacity in March 2015 comparing Dell PS6610 arrays to PS6510 arrays.
4 Based on a January 2015 competitive review and Dell performance testing the PS6610ES hybrid-flash arrays and the PS6510ES hybrid-flash arrays using IOmeter with 4KB block and 70/30 read/write random IOs. Actual performance will vary depending on the workload and drive type.
The customer-inspired Dell Storage SCv2000 Series exemplifies the Dell Storage strategy to expand customer access to higher-end storage capabilities. Starting at approximately US$14,000 per array, the new series launches with three models supported by three expansion options and offers:
· High performance
The arrays deliver best-in-class performance in a single, affordable 2U enclosure2. Options include proven data protection features, RAID tiering to optimise capacity, thin provisioning, flash support, data-migration services, and multi-protocol connectivity. Customers can help safeguard their data with granular data protection that allows up to 2,000 snapshots and 500 replications.
· Integrated data protection
· Integrated data protection
The arrays offer Remote Instant Replay, Local Instant Replays and Replay Manager along with RAID tiering that optimises SAN capacity. Tight integration with common application environments, such as Microsoft and VMware, help to simplify virtualised data centres, allowing local and remote functionality to take consistent snapshots of virtual machines without sacrificing performance.
· Scalability with Storage Center
· Scalability with Storage Center
Customers can gain more value from existing investments with data migration to the higher-tier Dell Storage SC4000 and SC8000 Series arrays. The SCv2000 Series makes use of the same user interface as the other SC Series arrays. Customers can scale capacity when needed with the benefit of no capacity licensing and choose from a broad range of hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs), configured for a variety of applications.
The new Dell Storage PS6610 Series enterprise arrays offer the ultimate in performance and capacity for Dell’s mid-market, iSCSI-based array portfolio. The arrays offer hybrid flash and hard disk drive configurations, support critical business applications and are ideal for customers with large data repository requirements. They combine the power of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and dense storage, offering the ability to support half a petabyte of capacity in a single 5U array.
The new Dell Storage PS6610 Series enterprise arrays offer the ultimate in performance and capacity for Dell’s mid-market, iSCSI-based array portfolio. The arrays offer hybrid flash and hard disk drive configurations, support critical business applications and are ideal for customers with large data repository requirements. They combine the power of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and dense storage, offering the ability to support half a petabyte of capacity in a single 5U array.
The dual-controller arrays provide 3.5 times the capacity3 and up to 7 times the performance4 compared to the previous generation Dell EqualLogic PS6510 arrays.
The PS6610 appeals to organisations seeking advanced storage features in a dense array that is easy to manage and is optimised for workload consolidation, such as ERP applications, email storage and SQL databases, and for archival storage to support large data repositories such as those required for medical records, financial data and video surveillance.
The arrays ship with Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array Software 8.0, also announced today, which provides new space-saving features, such as the compression of snapshots and replicas. The new software further supports virtual environments with advanced VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes integration that allows arrays to be managed on a virtual machine basis instead of per volume or logical unit number (LUN). Existing customers with a valid support contract can download the latest software at no additional cost.
Also new is Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces, tested and validated solutions designed to support Microsoft’s SDS capabilities on Dell’s enterprise-class server and direct attached storage hardware. The new Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) solutions, available in five configurations, support customers seeking an SDS and virtualised storage approach to various workloads, including private cloud deployments, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and SQL and Hyper-V environments.
Dell’s solution support includes performance and capacity sizing, end-to-end fulfillment, deployment and on-going system support. The new solution allows customers to start small and scale to more than one petabyte of raw storage as their business needs grow.
The Dell Storage SCv2000 Series arrays are available in Singapore today, and Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces has planned availability this June. The Dell Storage PS6610 Series arrays and Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array Software 8.0 will be available in Singapore in early Q3.
“The Dell Storage SCv2000 array perfectly balances our performance and capacity requirements with our cost restraints to support our log data, and it’s also part of the broader Dell Storage SC Series portfolio with additional offerings to meet our other storage needs,” said Benjamin O’Connor, Storage System Engineer, TripAdvisor. “Being able to leverage a single storage family and the same management interface across our entire storage environment is a huge benefit.”
Need the big picture? Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts about the rest of the Dell Solutions Tour:
Dell sees synergy with Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative
It’s all about software: Dell
Networking for data centres goes future-ready
PowerEdge packs more of a punch
1 Based on a February 2015 competitive review and Dell performance testing the SCv2000 FC array. Actual performance will vary on the workload and drive type.
2 Based on a February 2015 competitive review and Dell performance testing the SCv2000 FC array with 24 write intensive SSDs using IOmeter with 8KB random reads. Actual performance will vary on the workload and drive type.
3 Based on internal Dell analysis of total capacity in March 2015 comparing Dell PS6610 arrays to PS6510 arrays.
4 Based on a January 2015 competitive review and Dell performance testing the PS6610ES hybrid-flash arrays and the PS6510ES hybrid-flash arrays using IOmeter with 4KB block and 70/30 read/write random IOs. Actual performance will vary depending on the workload and drive type.
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