BWI: Dell Bulks up its Storage Portfolio with its Densest Storage Array

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Dell India
Monday, August 27, 2012 05:48 PM IST (12:18 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Business services, Electronic appliances & components, Information technology; Technology
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Dell Bulks up its Storage Portfolio with its Densest Storage Array


Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, August 27, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- -- New PowerVault MD3 dense arrays can scale up to 180 hard drives and store up to 540 terabytes in 12U of rack space

-- New features added to DR4000 disk backup and disaster recovery appliance with DR Rapid Data Access offers tight integration with Symantec backup applications and helps ease remote office backup through many to one replication

Dell today announced its densest storage array yet with the new PowerVault MD3, storing up to 180 terabytes of data in a 60-drive, 4U rack enclosure. The new PowerVault MD3 provides organizations with easy access to flexible enterprise solutions for all stages of growth. Additionally, Dell added new features to the DR4000 disk-based backup and recovery appliance designed to include tighter integration with Symantec OST (OpenStorage) and to support the ability to replicate from multiple appliances to one.

The MD3 dense arrays are ideal for entry-level, medium-sized, or enterprise organizations that seek high-performance computing from a small form factor to save space, power and administrative costs. As a 12U configuration, with one MD3 dense array combined with two MD3 dense expansion enclosures, the storage solution can scale up to 180 hard drives, store up to 540 terabytes of data, and supports Fibre Channel, SAS and iSCSI protocols.

The new MD3 dense arrays include Dynamic Disk Pools (DDP) that help maintain affordable, high-bandwidth computing by recovering failed drives faster than traditional RAID environments. DDP when combined with the high performance tiering on Dell's MD3 dense storage array can deliver continuous data protection with improved productivity and lower total cost of ownership.

"Dell continues to invest in its Workgroup storage and mid-market storage solutions to help customers looking for the right balance of performance and value," said, Philip A Davis, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions Group Commercial Business Dell Asia Pacific & Japan. "The dense array design of the new MD3 combined with enhanced software capabilities across our MD and DR products provide the power to do more with a growing set of features and capabilities that provide new levels of efficiency and performance."

The MD3 dense array meets a range of needs from customers setting up their first storage installations to those preparing for the dramatic growth of Big Data. Application management spans from general purpose computing to high-bandwidth, high-performance computing environments.

The MD3 dense array is available globally this month with the same software, firmware and management features as the PowerVault MD3 series, offering customers the same benefits of the PowerVault MD platform but in a smaller design. As a truly modular platform, customers can non-disruptively grow storage with their business and quickly respond to changing conditions with a flexible infrastructure designed to support high-performance computing applications.

DR4000 Backup and Recovery Updates

Dell is announcing new updates to the DR4000, an advanced disk-based backup and recovery solution that features innovative deduplication and compression capabilities from Dell's Ocarina Networks acquisition. Since it was first announced in January at Dell Storage Forum London, the DR4000 has been popular with Workgroup storage customers who want to augment or replace traditional backup and recovery environments with disk- based solutions for their speed, access and reliability.

The updated DR4000 supports the ability to replicate from multiple appliances to one, enabling customers with remote offices or locations to replicate to a centralized location.

New updates to the DR4000 also include support for Symantec OST (Open Storage), an API that enables third-party intelligent storage devices to tightly integrate with Symantec backup software applications. When a DR4000 is used with OST, the backup application becomes aware of the properties and capabilities of the appliance, and can better control backup images. The DR4000 with DR Rapid Data Access can significantly increase performance and can now backup up to 4 terabytes of data per hour when using Symantec OST.** The new DR4000 features are available this month globally.

Additional Information:

-- Dell PowerVault MD3 dense array

-- Dell Financial Services

-- Dell DR4000

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**Based on testing by Dell Labs in June 2012. Actual performance will vary based on DMA configuration, number of parallel backup streams in use, % of duplicates in the dataset used, usage and manufacturing variability.





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