Dell Upgrades Mobile Data architecture

In Beijing, January 12, 2012, Dell announced the upgrade of its mobile data architecture at its first Dell Storage Forum event in Europe. The new architecture helps customers quickly adapt to their evolving needs and improve the level of automated management of online data, backup data, and archived data.

The mobile data architecture is designed to help customers manage more information more effectively. The architecture is now enhanced with the addition of the following new products: Dell's first Data de-duplication backup device (intellectual property acquired through acquisition of Ocarina), critical software release for compellent storage arrays, Microsoft-oriented SharePoint's new storage optimization solution and broader support for Dell Force10, Powerconnect, and brocade storage network solutions.

"It companies are changing at an unprecedented rate in today's ever-changing market environment," said Darren Thomas, managing director of business storage at Dell's vice president. That's why the IT enterprise's data needs to be as dynamic and flexible as its business. With brand new Dell primary storage, archived storage, and backup storage solutions, the Dell Mobile data architecture provides customers with powerful storage intelligence features that help them cope with massive and ongoing it changes while saving time and cost, or reducing the frequency of infrastructure changes. ”

New Dell DR4000 Storage platform with duplicate data deletion and compression capabilities

To improve speed, access, and reliability, customers are still expanding or replacing traditional backup and recovery environments with disk-based solutions.

DR4000 not only has the performance and reliability of the Backup-to-disk solution, but also adds Dell's ability to duplicate data deletion and compression acquired through the acquisition of Ocarina NX Company. With these capabilities, customers can avoid multiple versions of the same data and allow more data to be kept online for longer periods of time and are available whenever a disaster or data loss occurs.

By saving data online for weeks or months before moving to an archive store, customers can find and recover critical data more easily, resulting in new efficiencies and lower TCO of storage infrastructure.

DR4000 is an ideal choice for small and medium enterprises and large enterprise remote offices that require Backup-to-disk solutions with the following features:

· Reduce disk capacity Requirements by up to 15 times times, eliminating redundant data

· Reduce reliance on tape backups

· Reduce the bandwidth requirements for data transfer up to 15 times times

· Reduce backup storage costs to just 0.25 dollars GB

· Reduce the environmental impact of backups, saving data center power and cooling costs.

DR4000 's effective storage capacity is 40TB, 81TB and 135TB three, supports online data deduplication (inline deduplication) and compression, undelete data replication (deduplicated replication), Advanced data protection and non-disruptive deployment, and certification through market-leading backup software applications.

In addition to its excellent data reduction capabilities, DR4000 provides a software licensing model that does not contain any additional licensing fees, enabling customers to take full advantage of all current and future product functionality without paying an extra license fee, and thereby progressively reduce storage costs over time.

New Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.0

The new Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.0 software includes 64-bit support that can increase memory by one-fold to improve performance and scale. The modular design of the Dell Compellent San has advanced tiering, automatic streamlining configuration and replication capabilities to upgrade the datacenter to a new firmware version and deploy future product releases without eliminating and replacing (rip-and-replace) processes. To help customers to further save costs. With the new Dell Compellent firmware, customers can not only improve the performance of existing solutions, but also take full advantage of the future enhancements of compellent software.

Storage Center 6.0 also strengthens the long-term integration and engineering partnerships between Dell and VMware, which can help customers migrate to Dynamic Data centers and cloud computing environments faster. Through collaboration, Dell and VMware provide the core framework and storage solutions for virtualized data centers to meet the needs of our common customers. By extending its face to VMware vsphere 5? Dell EqualLogic and PowerVault application integration, Dell today unveiled new VMware-specific enhancements for Dell Compellent storage customers, including:

· Dell Compellent VMware vsphere. Storage APIs for array integration provide full replica uninstall and hardware-assisted locking to enhance the existing support capabilities of Compellent 0 (block zeroing). These features increase the deployment speed of virtual machines up to 40%* and release network and managed resources while also improving storage performance against the amount of data shared by multiple virtual machines.

· The Dell Compellent Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for site Recovery Manager 5 is now available for download, which supports a variety of new SRM 5 features, such as automatic recovery from disasters and new workflows for planned migrations and outages. Dell Compellent continues to maintain an OEM relationship with VMware for SRM 5, and all disaster recovery hardware and software support is provided by Dell Compellent copilot support organizations.

· Dell Compellent vsphere 5 client plug-ins and Enterprise Manager and vsphere 5 Integrated support VMware software users via VMware vsphere 5 or Compellent Enterprise Manager console to efficiently manage compellent virtual storage resource pools, saving administrative time.

New Dell Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Infrastructure Optimization

Dell has also launched a complete solution to help customers improve their data and storage management to optimize their Microsoft SharePoint infrastructure. New Dell Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Infrastructure Optimization are Dell DX storage, Dell Microsoft SharePoint Assessment, Design and deployment services, and AvePoint? DocAve? Software. This solution delivers a comprehensive, integrated solution for SharePoint Lifecycle management and migration that can effectively improve capacity utilization, performance, business continuity, and compliance.

Dell solutions are designed to help customers meet the three major challenges:

· Proactive capacity planning and management to improve storage efficiency and increase application performance by 40%

· Ensure backup consistency across the SharePoint infrastructure with excellent business continuity, increase backup speed by up to 29 times times and increase recovery by 32 times times

· Enables flexible, scalable data governance through automated archiving.

Extended support for Dell Force10, Dell Powerconnect, and Brocade storage network Solutions

Dell is committed to speeding storage deployments, improving performance, and simplifying management by improving interoperability with Dell Force10, Dell Powerconnect Ethernet solutions, and brocade 16Gb Fibre Channel switches.

On the component side, Dell has launched a new Dell Force10 S4810 10Gb Ethernet switch and deep buffer S60 1GB/10GB Ethernet switch, providing more choices for equallogic users. EqualLogic customers can also use the automatic identification and autoconfiguration features in specific Dell Powerconnect switch models to shorten deployment time.

To help automate Compellent array deployments, the Dell PowerConnect 8024 10Gb switch and m8024-k Blade IO module employ a powerful technology that reduces the multi-step switch configuration to one command.

By combining the Dell Mobile data architecture with the Brocade 16Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure, Dell Compellent customers can gain exceptional flexibility, reliability, and simplicity in their SAN environments to support a new generation of applications and services through a highly virtualized cloud-optimized environment. Brocade DCX 8510 is a powerful San core switch that simplifies network expansion design, reducing network complexity and cost and simplifying management while maximizing overall port density and space utilization through large-scale consolidation of traditional sans. The Brocade 6510 switch has excellent price/performance, supports "on-demand" (Pay-as-you-grow), can use 24 to 48 ports on demand, with best-in-class on-demand flexibility. These two products have been compellent array certification, will be listed this month.

"Dell is one of the few companies that can deliver End-to-end data center solutions," said Scott Winslow, chief executive of Winslow Marvell Group, as the outstanding Channel Partner for Dell's Partnerdirect program. Enables customers to transform the IT environment from a rigid cost center into a flexible productivity center. These new Dell Storage solutions offer a flexible, open platform that lays a solid foundation for the customer's easy growth in the future and complements Dell's ever-expanding server, network, and software portfolio. ”

"Dell will continue to invest with Dell's core intellectual property rights and focus on creating ' win-wins ' integrated products and services," said Simon Robinson, director of storage research at 451 study. By introducing these products and enhancements in the near future, Dell continues to fulfill its vision of a mobile data architecture. The ongoing expansion of the Dell portfolio is consistent with this strategy and provides a unique opportunity for Dell to expand its business coverage in both the existing customer base and the larger storage market. Dell has been well prepared for a more aggressive expansion of the upstream and downstream markets. ”

Time to market:

· Dell DR4000 disk-based backup devices (with duplicate data deletion) will be listed in the first quarter.

· Compellent Storage Center 6.0 software will be listed in the first quarter.

· The Brocade 6510 and Brocade DCX 8510 Data Center switches will be available for sale in January.

· Dell FORCE10 S4810 10Gb Ethernet Switches and depth buffering S60 1GB/10GB Ethernet switches for EqualLogic are now available on the market.

· The Dell PowerConnect 8024 10Gb switch and m8024-k Blade IO module are now available on the market.