Entries tagged as ‘Equallogic’
They also see storage demand resisting the recession
Storage Soup reports that Compellent believes their great results are partly due to the disturbance in the partner status quo caused by Dell’s acquisition of Equallogic.
Equallogic has great products, and they gain lots of leverage as part of Dell. But in this innovation-rich market, there’s a downside to change in the channel. Hungry companies with good products get a shot at previously loyal customers.
Any Compellent customers out there that care to comment? How about Equallogic loyalists?
Categories: Company Profiles · Storage Systems
Tagged: Compellent, Dell, Equallogic, Storage Soup
Server virtualization is helping storage shrug off a weak economy
Byte and Switch observe that disk storage demand continues to expand, even as a recession threatens in the US economy. They see server virtualization and specifically the SCSI storage systems supporting it as the reason.
No surprise to me. Storage demand is limited primarily by the ability to manage it effectively. Virtualization makes server deployment easy, and iSCSI arrays make it easy to feeding their appetite for terabytes. Case in point: Dell’s Equallogic.
VMWare has helped open the door wide for real-world server virtualization, with Microsoft eager to walk in with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
A future big spark for business storage demand will be the “top-down” mainstream technology shift driven by XIV at IBM and Hulk/Maui at EMC.
Categories: Datacenter · Industry trends · Storage Systems
Tagged: storage, Dell, Equallogic, virtualization, VMWare, IBM, Byte and Switch, XIV, iSCSI
February 8, 2008 · 1 Comment
The right product at the right time for Dell’s SMB customers
Dell has launched a storage solution for virtualized servers. The Equallogic iSCSI-based PS5000 includes up to 196 TB (16 TB per chassis) and the ease-of-use you expect from Equallogic. Choose SATA or SAS drives, depending on performance needs.
This product reflects the timeliness and fit of Dell’s aquisition of Equallogic. Virtualization is a hot topic for Dell’s SMB customer base, and easily managed storage to enable it is just what the doctor ordered.
Categories: Business Solutions · Products · Storage Systems
Tagged: Dell, Equallogic, iSCSI, PS5000, storage, virtualization
Equallogic understands the power of manageability
Steve Duplessie’s post on Dell’s Equallogic grab includes a great example of the insatiable demand for storage that’s really only limited by manageability.
Business data storage is becoming less and less about the bytes and all about how easy it is to use them. Equallogic has had to fight its way kicking and screaming into a fiercely competitive market, and they’ve succeeded because they understood this fact and stayed true to it with their products.
Categories: Business Solutions · Storage Systems
Tagged: 100TB, business data storage, data growth, Dell, EMC, Equallogic, Steve Duplessie
