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Dell Customers Simplify and Save with Storage
Bracknell, February 11, 2009

* Winchester City Council, Lancaster University and German Hospital ZSP-Haina Benefit from Intelligent Data Management and Streamlined Infrastructure Operations

As data storage requirements are expected to grow by a factor of ten between 2006 and 2011, according to IDC1, organisations are turning to Dell storage solutions and consulting services to simplify the overall management of their infrastructures, leading to more robust business continuity capabilities, reduced management overhead and significant cost savings. Recently, Dell has worked with Winchester City Council, Lancaster University and German hospital ZSP-Haina to deploy tailored storage solutions that meet their immediate and future business demands.

“Storage growth will outpace overall IT growth during the current economic climate; therefore, it is more important than ever for companies to implement storage solutions that are simple to deploy and manage, capable of delivering advanced benefits to support the business and, of course, affordable for companies of all sizes,” said Robin Kuepers, Head of Storage, EMEA, Dell. “To ensure that companies make smart storage investments no matter which protocol of storage they prefer, Dell has heavily invested in R&D to develop best-of-breed solutions for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage. We also encourage our customers to use both of these technologies together if required to meet growth needs and SLAs at a lower cost; this will be further facilitated with the wider deployment and acceptance of 10Gbit Ethernet, which is expected to be prevalent in 2009,” continued Kuepers.

I was looking through the Dell site looking up the specs of their PowerEdge 1950 amongst other things and found this article talking about storage. It reminded me about a presentation I’d seen recently about the amount of storage we’re now consuming and what our demands could be going forward. Certainly as storage becomes more of a commodity, more integral to your application, your corporate data, the ability to deploy and scale the data to the business need beomes ever more important, anything the vendors can do to help with this has to be a good thing.

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