Dell Storage Solutions for intelligent data management

Accelerate your data management strategy

The right storage strategy can transform data into a strategic asset — not an IT maintenance headache

The amount of digital information produced in 2011 is expected to equal almost 1,800 exabytes — that’s 10 times that produced in 2006. A full 95 percent of that data will be hard-to-manage unstructured data — emails, word documents, videos and the like¹. And another 90 percent of this information is never accessed after creation².

Clearly, not all data deserves the same treatment. As the deluge continues, it’s time to reduce the uncertainty and costs of data management. Dell™ Storage Solutions for intelligent data management (IDM) can help.

Smarter storage solutions for intelligent data management

With the right tools, you can achieve enormous storage efficiencies. Open, capable and affordable storage solutions can help you:

• Control expenses — Enable your IT staff to implement a comprehensive data management strategy to access, prioritize, preserve and protect data at an affordable, predictable and sustainable cost.
• Create value — Transform data from an unsustainable burden into a valuable strategic asset.
• Increase efficiency — Optimize data placement across storage tiers.
• Manage data growth — Make smart decisions about where and how you store data.
• Keep data accessible — Ensure data is readily available to meet compliance and business unit requirements.
• Reduce risk — Eliminate costly data loss, deduplication errors, access problems and backup challenges.
• Protect against disaster — Create data copies that can be cost-effectively stored and quickly recovered.
• Address long-haul business requirements — Expand performance and capacity simultaneously — and recovery without disruption — over time.

How It Works

Dell Storage Solutions for IDM help you to prioritize and classify stored content, and to more efficiently and securely direct it to the right storage asset. Dell solutions work by:

• Automating data management throughout its life cycle, from creation to deletion
• Simplifying storage with tight integration and optimization for virtualization
• Tiering data to ensure a balance between capacity and demand that enables you to scale storage in tandem with business need

Get smart about your data. Discover Dell Storage Solutions, including: