Dell Puts Customers on Fast Track to Storage Efficiency
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dell today announced new data deduplication services, solutions and products designed to help businesses make their storage environment more efficient.
Dell Point of View:
-- Data deduplication is getting significant attention from a growing
number of customers looking to manage ever-increasing storage growth by
eliminating redundant data. Dell believes data deduplication is just one
- not the only - option to help customers meet this challenge.
-- Dell is taking a customer-specific approach in which Dell consultants
will guide customers in determining how any or all of the following
optimization considerations can help them manage their storage as
efficiently as possible:
o Thin provisioning
o Reclaimed storage
o Storage virtualization
o Automated load balancing
o Data tiering and classification
o Deduplication
-- Dell's deduplication strategy is to foster and encourage the rapid
evolution of dedupe technology into a storage environment where the
functionality exists everywhere. As deduplication matures quickly, it
will move beyond backup storage - where it primarily resides today - to
other data types including near-primary, archive, file and object
storage solutions.
-- Dell believes that incorporating deduplication functionality into ISV,
application and storage software can provide significant benefits to
customers including:
o More affordable, better performing solutions than purpose-built
appliances.
o Simplified management through single console interfaces for data
protection and management.
o Reduced network traffic across WAN and LAN infrastructures leading to
improved, more cost effective disaster recovery environments.
The News:
-- New Storage Consulting Services Capabilities, Options
Dell now offers a suite of end-to-end consulting services to help
customers understand deduplication technology, quantify the benefits,
and design a deduplication solution to best meet their needs. Dell's
consulting services are different in that they provide practical,
action-oriented plans to deliver specific, predictable and measured
outcomes through high-impact, short duration projects.
o TheDell Storage Simplification Workshop helps customers cut through
the marketing clutter surrounding deduplication and develop a clear
understanding of the considerations and potential benefits. In a free,
half-day session, Dell consultants work with customers to determine a
potential solution or technology areas that can yield measurable
results with predictable outcomes, pricing and timelines.
o TheDell Backup, Recovery, Archive Assessment helps customers avoid
wasting resources on improper or overly optimistic solutions. While
general ROI numbers pervade the industry, benefits can vary widely
across environments, applications and methods. This assessment
delivers a detailed report built upon metrics and insights from the
customer's own environment showing an impact analysis with estimates
of storage and/or network traffic reduction, amount of backup data,
backup frequency, retention periods and frequency of data changes.
o TheBackup/Restore Stabilization, Optimization and Deduplication
Designservice helps customers avoid one-size-fits all solutions that
fail to understand their unique requirements. These services design a
tailored solution for each customer environment with specific product
recommendations, service catalog and implementation plan.
-- New PowerVault(TM) DL2000
Dell announced a new version of its PowerVault(TM) DL2000 powered by
CommVault(R) Simpana(R) 8.0 - providing a good example of the integrated
deduplication approach. The industry's first and only integrated
hardware, software, and services solution that comes with CommVault
Simpana 8.0 software factory installed, the PowerVault DL2000 is a data
protection solution that includes end-to-end block-based deduplication
for backup, archive and replication.
o PowerVault DL2000 offers data deduplication of up to 20:1. Using this
capability, an organization can economically keep weeks of complete
recovery copies of their data on a small disk footprint. The
PowerVault DL2000 uses up to 90 percent less tape media for offsite
archiving solutions. Dell and CommVault have created a calculator to
help customers estimate the benefits of deduplication based on their
weekly backup size.
o The PowerVault DL2000 is the highest performance deduplication
solution in its price class with deduplication rates of almost 1.5 TB
per hour when performing weekly full backup operations.* Appliances
with similar performance from other vendors can cost significantly
more. List pricing for the PowerVault DL2000 starts around $14,300 and
configurations with the dedupe capability start at approximately
$41,000.
o To reduce primary storage use, an optional Email Archiver license lets
an organization move infrequently accessed data from production
servers and archives it to lower cost DL2000 disk storage or
PowerVault tape. End users and applications retain normal access to
the archived items at all times. By archiving server data with
PowerVault DL2000 an organization can achieve smaller backups and
faster recoveries.
Quotes
-- "Today's dedupe solutions are predominantly purpose-built appliances.
This will migrate into an integrated, software-based model -- it's the
natural progression of technology features. They start off as dedicated
devices and then migrate into the broader software stack." -- Darren
Thomas, vice president and general manager for Dell Enterprise storage.
-- "Deduplication is an important answer to the specific problem of
redundant data. But just adding dedupe is not a panacea. Dell believes
you can use cost-effective services to determine the best utilization of
your storage and look at the challenge holistically. Without this,
dedupe can be a quick fix at best and a waste of time at worst." -- Paul
Kaeley, director, Dell Global Storage Services Practice.
-- "Deduplication as a feature in target storage has been in the spotlight
of late. However, deduplication as an integrated software feature is a
compelling proposition. Dell is at the front of this trend to make
deduplication ubiquitous in the storage stack." -- Lauren Whitehouse,
analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
Additional Information:
View Darren Thomas discussing dedupe
Dell Storage Consulting Practice
Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services
About Dell
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is a leading technology provider to commercial enterprises around the world.
*Based on Dell Labs testing using CommVault Simpana 8.0, SP1 in May 2009. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and environment variability.
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Source: Dell Inc.
Released June 9, 2009