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Dell Storage Solutions
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Welcome to datas next stage of evolution
Data. Its the foundation of your enterprise, enabling strategic decision-making and fueling mission-critical
applications. But accelerating growth and increasing complexity can strain IT operations and hinder success.
Come talk to Dell. As a solution partner, Dell ofers the technology, know-how, and experience to help you
simplify operations, ensure success, and maximize data availability and business uptime.
Welcome to the virtual era
The Virtual Era of computing is upon us, enabling access to data and applications
anywhere, anytime, and from any device 24/7. But chances are youre nding it
increasingly difcult to manage, maintain, and protect your data.
The tendency to treat data as a static thing misses an essential truth: Data isnt
something to be stored. Its something to be actively, intelligently managed.
At Dell, we call it the Fluid Data

architecture. Its the future of data

management.
Dell

storage solutions encompass a rich and innovative portfolio of products,

expertise, and services that can help you upgrade your storage infrastructure into
the 21st century.
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Dell storage solutions

Giving you the power to do more:
Integrated
Evolve and enhance your
infrastructure simply and easily.
Automated
Get liberated from rigidity, reclaim
your time.
Efcient
Reduce your data footprint and
cost; gain back innovation.
Resilient
Maximize your datas availability with
minimal cost and complexity.
Agile
Address emerging business needs
without disruption.
Complete
Take control of your information
from the client to cloud.
In the storage area, Dell is remarkably becoming a
more dynamic player.
Natalya Yezhkova, IDC
IDC IT Knowledge Hub
These requirements require IT organizations to move
beyond mere storage management. Dell storage
solutions can help you get the most from your data
across its entire lifecycle, integrating production storage
tiers sized and congured for optimal access and
availability of production workloads as well as backup
and archive tiers optimized for quick data recovery and
cost-efective, long-term retention.
The power to do more
Dell storage solutions are designed to address the three big challenges that IT organizations face in the Virtual Era:
unprecedented data growth, the increasing rate of change for IT requirements, and the rigidity of traditional
storage infrastructures.
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Dell storage solutions enable organizations to break
through the rigid boundaries of traditional storage
systems. Featuring the latest innovations in storage
system design and software engineering, Dell delivers
exceptional simplicity, afordability, performance, and
availability by integrating storage virtualization, scale-out
architectures, automated intelligence, deduplication, and
compression technologies while maximizing standards-
based openness and investment protection.
The result?
The ability to intelligently manage your data throughout
its lifecycle afordably, efciently, and with the agility
required to succeed in the Virtual Era.
Putting the right data in
the right place at the right
time at the right cost
The Dell storage portfolio is designed to efectively
meet the primary and secondary storage needs of
organizations of all sizes, from the largest global
enterprise data centers to local small businesses.
Managing the data deluge
Rampant growth in the quantity and complexity of data is straining budgets and hindering IT productivity. Already immense,
storage requirements continue to multiply year after year. This growth exacerbates complexity, raising both the risks and the
stakes of data loss and downtime and posing a threat to IT organizations trying to control budgets and simplify operations.
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Solutions designed with your needs in mind:
Storage consolidation
Seamlessly scale your infrastructure while
reducing acquisition and operational costs.
Virtualized infrastructure
Fully optimize your virtualized infrastructure
while managing more data with fewer resources.
Application integration & optimization
Optimally provision storage for performance,
availability, and protection of your applications.
Data protection
Protect your assets for rapid recovery while
improving systems and staf efciency.
Disaster recovery
Ensure continuity of your business simply and
cost-efectively.
Data retention & governance
Preserve your critical information for long-term
retention and recovery.
Cloud integration
Enable secure, reliable data access to cloud-
based resources by mobile and remote workers.
Todays storage must support global, around-the-clock,
Web-optimized applications and expanding databases,
as well as multimedia and other le-based operations.
Pervasive server and client virtualization infuse new
requirements, potentially breaking existing processes and
forcing IT managers to reconsider the efectiveness of
their pre-existing storage infrastructures.
Traditional storage solutions actually add cost and
complexity instead of reducing them, efectively
defeating the efciencies promised by virtualization.
Moreover, scaling traditional storage for growth
includes the pain of data-in-place migrations and
forklift upgrades.
What enterprises and organizations need are
dynamic storage solutions that can truly simplify
data management through built-in intelligence and
advanced automation.
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Compellent Storage Center
Multi-protocol enterprise storage
Self-optimized and powerful core storage, designed for business results
Designed for massive-scale cloud and enterprise environments, Dell

Compellent

Storage Center is a powerful, all-in-

one, multi-protocol storage solution that applies advanced, block-level intelligence and efciency-optimized automation to
dynamically manage data and lower the overall cost of storage. Dell Compellent can help you slow the pace of expansion
and make better use of lower-cost, capacity-optimized storage resources through its proven Data Progression technology
which automatically moves data to the optimum storage tier based on actual use and performance. Plus, Compellents
Persistent Architecture and unique Perpetual Software Licensing model eliminates the risk of forklift upgrades.
Building a virtual environment using Dell
and Compellent solutions has increased our
operational efciency and enhanced our
overall performance.
Jim DiMarzio
CIO, Mazda North American Operations
Dell Compellent Storage Center
is a virtualized storage platform
designed for high scalability, advanced
intelligence, centralized management,
and exible conguration options to
serve high-growth operations as a
standalone solution or to complement
existing storage infrastructures.
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EqualLogic
Unied, virtualized IP storage
Uncomplicated and versatile, designed for growing environments
Dell EqualLogic virtualized IP storage is ideal for fast-growing companies and organizations. EqualLogics frameless peer
storage architecture enables live, non-disruptive rmware upgrades and maintenance, as well as linear scaling of capacity
and performance with each array added to a storage pool. Continuous integration with leading operating system,
hypervisor, and application platforms helps streamline operations, optimize resources, and protect data in Microsoft

,
Linux, and VMware

environments. A groundbreaking, all-inclusive software model allows around-the-clock access to the

latest product features and enables multiple generations of EqualLogic arrays to work in a single, virtualized pool.
In desktop virtualization all the data sits on
the centralized storage, so performance is
critical. So, when we actually ran our tests on
EqualLogic iSCSI, we were absolutely blown
away by the results. EqualLogic was head and
shoulders above the rest.
Brad Blake
Chief Technology Officer, Boston Medical Center
Dell EqualLogic PS and FS Series
applies a virtualized, scale-out architecture and
Ethernet networking to simplify management,
scale seamlessly, and reliably protect data.
Dell PowerVault storage ofers versatile, modular disk storage
to deliver storage consolidation to departmental, remote ofce,
and small business environments.
PowerVault
Modular disk storage
Value and performance, designed for consolidation without complexity
Optimized to the needs of small business, departmental, and branch ofce operations, Dell

PowerVault

primary storage
solutions are designed to ofer afordability without compromising enterprise-class features and reliability. PowerVault
storage provides a range of solid state, SAS, and nearline SAS technologies, as well as a choice among direct-attached, iSCSI,
Fibre Channel, or NAS interconnect protocols. With easy management, Dell PowerVault primary storage solutions ofer a
balance of performance, operational simplicity, and exible deployment.
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The biggest advantage of the Dell MD3000i
for me is the ability to add a few more
drives to the SAN as needed. In addition, the
consolidated SAN storage saves 24 to 36
hours per year in administration time.
Christopher Rhoda
Vice President for Information Services,
Thomas College, USA
Safeguarding your data from risk
In the Virtual Era, the need for reliable and efcient data backup and archiving processes has grown even more vital.
Backup enables organizations to make periodic copies of business-critical data, mitigating the risk of loss from
catastrophic outages caused by natural disaster, human error, or malice. Archiving helps reduce the backup
burden by moving aged or seldom-used data from primary to secondary storage media, removing it from
the backup stream. As the quantity and complexity of enterprise data continue to soar, so do the
challenges of efective backup within narrowing time windows, efcient online storage for quick
recovery, and reliable archiving.
Dells backup solutions are designed to help automate data backup processes,
drive reliability and storage efciency, and maximize IT system uptime.
Working with Dells industry-leading backup partners and award-
winning, global Dell Services, enterprises and organizations can
protect and manage the growing torrent of information
while simultaneously simplifying operations.
DX Object Storage Platform
Archival storage
Massive scale and content-aware, designed to seamlessly grow from terabytes to petabytes
The Dell DX Object Storage Platform helps organizations manage digital content on a large scale. The Dell DX
assigns unique identiers to data objects and then applies a powerful system of metadata tags to enable policy-based
automation of access, discovery, replication, distribution, and retention. With these capabilities, organizations can tightly
govern user access, streamline business intelligence operations, and improve decision-making capabilities.
DR4000
Advanced disk backup appliance
Industry-leading deduplication and compression
technology to optimize data protection
The DR4000 leverages Dells deduplication technology to
dramatically reduce the disk space needed to store large
amounts of backup data. When used in conjunction with
many major backup software applications, the DR4000
enables faster backups, faster recoveries, and more reliable
data protection.
Designed to meet todays data management and retention
requirements, the Dell DX Object Storage Platform
is an automated, policy-based retention and deletion platform
that scales seamlessly and cost-efectively to billions of les.
Object-based storage is the perfect t for our
labs needs because we have millions of large
les, and they dont change much. With the
Dell DX Object Storage Platform, we gain the
cost-efective scalability and easy accessibility
our researchers need.
Henk van den Toorn
Post-Doctoral Bioinformatician,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
The DR4000 deduplication appliance is a turnkey solution
designed to drop into an existing backup environment,
supporting many major backup applications.
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The Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance powered
by CommVault

or Symantec

ofers integrated, automated,

dynamic disk provisioning. Organizations can architect backup-
to-disk solutions based on the PowerVault DL to simplify
operations, accelerate time to deployment, and reduce costs
over homegrown solutions.
Dell PowerVault modular tape libraries and LTO
drives ofer versatility to help protect long-term digital
investments. Modular and extremely scalable, Dell
PowerVault tape libraries are designed to automate the
storage, retrieval, and management of tape cartridges.
Dell PowerVault LTO tape drives deliver reliable,
cost-efective business continuity and enable disaster
recovery for organizations of all sizes.
PowerVault
D2D and D2T backup appliances
Simple protection and recovery, designed to reduce complexity for organizations of all sizes
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PowerVault disk libraries and backup systems can ofer native disk-to-disk alternatives to virtual tape libraries
(VTLs) and eliminate the need for manual setup and management. Designed for low-touch operation, Dell PowerVault
disk systems ofer modular exibility and rugged construction. With features such as proactive monitoring, alerts,
reporting, and optional deduplication, PowerVault disk systems can help reduce costs, reduce complexity, streamline
maintenance, and maximize system uptime.
The Dell PowerVault TL Tape Library ofers expandable
and afordable tape automation for organizations that
have outgrown autoloader technology or capacity. The
PowerVault TL provides afordable, versatile, easy-to-use,
automated, mid-range tape backup solutions for
organizations of every size.
Data recovery used to be one of our greatest
concerns. Now we focus our energy on
supporting our business users, while the
backups take care of themselves.
Gustin Hare
Corporate IT Director,
HDR EOC
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Helping you realize your data
management vision
In addition to Dells storage solutions, our portfolio of clients, servers, networking, and software products can help you
approach your IT initiatives comprehensively and exibly. And Dell storage solutions incorporate a global team of over
30,000 trained and experienced storage and IT professionals to help put you on the path to success.
In any storage endeavor, Dell brings the capability, experience, and know-how to further ensure success by
ofering professional services at any stage of a storage solution lifecycle, starting with assessment through design,
implementation, operation, and maintenance. Employing a exible, modular approach, Dell professional services
targets focused, high-impact engagements to maximize return. Clear phases and decision points, coupled with
validated, repeatable processes, help ensure your projects success.
Engaging Dells professional services can help your
organization enhance efciency, focus on greater innovation,
and gain competitive advantage.
Dell consultants integrate really well with
our IT team, working together at every stage.
Working with Dell is a shortcut to success.
Seungyeol Lee
Senior Researcher,
Chungnam Techno Park, South Korea
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With its broad product and services portfolio, Dell ofers
unparalleled strengths as an IT solution partner. Let Dell
collaborate with you to architect a storage solution that
can scale seamlessly, adapt gracefully to new even
over-the-horizon hardware and software capabilities,
all while helping to reduce capital and operating costs.
As a solution partner, Dell ofers the technology, know-
how, and experience to help you simplify operations,
ensure success, and maximize data availability and
business uptime.
And with simplication, cost reduction, and investment
protection as core design tenets, Dell storage solutions
can play a vital role in shifting your resources from
maintenance to innovation.
Dell storage solutions give you
the power to do more.
The Virtual Era ofers an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to rethink and reinvent their computing
infrastructures, specically with an eye toward solutions to overcome the challenges of spiraling data growth and that
datas inherent complexity.
Think of Dell as a storage portfolio player.
John Webster
Evaluator Group, CNET News
Available in over 150 countries, Dell storage solutions
are providing customers greater efciency, agility, and
resiliency through automation and simplicity.
Why Dell storage solutions?
Worldwide presence and expertise
Industrys broadest storage portfolio and
partner ecosystem
Award-winning, intelligent storage platforms
Modular portfolio of customer-centric services
Open, pragmatic, proven solutions
Complete, end-to-end solution development,
delivery, and support