The Dell Difference in Storage

A Complete Solution, End-to-End

Dell believes in a holistic approach to IT management. Storage is just one part of the greater infrastructure that may include servers, switches, software and clients. Our standards-based approach, along with our close partnerships with industry leaders, reduces overall cost and complexity, while increasing performance and reliability across your IT infrastructure.

With our comprehensive storage portfolio — including the EqualLogic, Compellent and PowerVault product lines and the DX Object Storage Platform — Dell can help you:

The first step in building your road map is to assess your current environment.

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    SAN-Aware Operating Systems Enable Server-Based Storage Provisioning

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    Storage Area Network (SAN)-aware operating systems can create SAN-aware snapshots by using technologies such as Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) or VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) snapshots to dramatically improve backup operations.

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    Virtualized iSCSI Storage for Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V Environments

    This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to deploy, manage and scale.

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    Intelligent Data Management

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    Data is growing faster than storage budgets; regulations and privacy laws make it increasingly difficult to manage that data. Learn how Intelligent Data Management (IDM) solutions can help you meet these challenges.

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    Dell EqualLogic PS Series: Product Family Overview

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    High performance, 24-7 uptime, zero complexity. These are table stakes in the Efficient Enterprise, and core family values for EqualLogic storage. Meet the family.

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    Virtual Servers Need Virtual Storage

    Storage Area Networks (SANs) typically provide the core infrastructure for virtualized data centers. It is critical that the virtualization features of the SAN match and are well integrated with the server virtualization environment to ensure flexibility, improved resource utilization and lower costs.

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    Object Storage — A Fresh Approach to Long-Term File Storage

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    Object storage is an ideal solution for efficiently managing large unstructured data sets and for archiving data with high compliance and legal risks such as medical and legal records, emails, invoices, and financial statements.

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    Dell Intelligent Data Management

    25 May 2011

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    Build an agile business that responds to changing needs with Dell Intelligent Data Management. Automate, optimize, scale and protect your storage by putting the right data in the right place at the right time for the right cost.

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    IT Efficiency Metrics for the Virtual Era: Survive, Grow and Thrive

    13 May 2011

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    How efficient is your enterprise? Explore eight key benchmarks that define IT efficiency from the desktop to the data center. Next, weigh the metrics impact of taking these key steps: standardize, simplify, automate and move to the cloud.

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    Dell Technology Perspective: Intelligent Data Management

    12 May 2011

    Learn how Dell Intelligent Data Management (IDM) can help IT organizations go from managing storage data, to managing and delivering data as strategic information.

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    ESG White Paper: Archive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

    04 Mar 2011

    When it comes to archiving, cost savings is just one advantage object storage like the Dell DX platform has over tape and network attached storage. In this comparison, ESG finds Dell DX also has manageability, longevity, density and regulatory perks.