Dell
today announced it is seizing a new market opportunity with the unveiling of a
brand new series of full-featured, enterprise storage arrays designed for
mid-sized fibre channel deployments. Available first in the Asia-Pacific region
and planned globally later in 2014, the new Dell Storage SC4000 Series arrays
demonstrate Dell’s continued innovation to bring full-featured,
enterprise-class storage to cost-efficient, high-performing, smaller-scale
solutions.
- Dell enters the mid-range fibre channel storage market with full-featured, enterprise storage arrays first launched throughout the Asia-Pacific region
- All-flash and hybrid array options offer enterprise-class performance for mid-tier deployments with all-flash solution costing up to 76 percent less than competing arrays1
- Dell extends innovative offer of all-flash performance for the price of hard disks to a new class of storage arrays2
- New arrays, designed to support various workload demands, can host up to 10,000 Microsoft Exchange user mailboxes in a single 2U SAN3
The
new storage array series, with an all-flash solution that can cost up to 76
percent less than competing pure flash arrays1, is the latest addition to
Dell’s customer-driven enterprise data center portfolio of purpose-built
solutions designed to make IT more efficient and practical.
“The
Dell Storage SC4000 Series represents the latest example of Dell redefining the
economics of enterprise storage and a huge opportunity for our customers,
channel partners and Dell,” said Chris Papa, country manager, Dell Philippines.
“Dell now can offer enterprise-class, fibre-channel arrays in a
high-performing, affordable solution designed for mid-sized deployments. These
arrays offer the advanced capabilities of larger-scale enterprise storage to
help medium-sized organizations become more competitive, while enabling Dell to
address an entirely new storage market segment with our world class solutions
and support.”
In
2014 and 2015, mid-tier, fibre channel-networked storage arrays and networked
attached storage are expected to represent an estimated $5.5 billion market
worldwide4, an opportunity previously untapped by full-featured Dell Storage
technology. Additionally, the vast majority of the Asia-Pacific region’s
mid-tier storage array sales this year are estimated to be fibre
channel-networked (79 percent), compared to 39 percent in North America.4 With
the new Dell Storage arrays launching first in Asia-Pacific countries, Dell can
help support the storage needs of the region while also opening new doors for
business growth.
New
Dell Storage Arrays Bring Large-Scale, Enterprise-Class Features to Smaller
Deployments
The
new Dell Storage SC4000 Series arrays will debut with the Dell Storage SC4020,
a 2U, 24-drive storage area network (SAN) based on Dell Compellent Storage
Center software. The arrays are designed to offer the same advanced
capabilities as larger SANs in a solution sized and priced for mid-sized
deployments. Launching with fibre channel connectivity, the new arrays
complement the Dell EqualLogic iSCSI-based solutions and enable Dell to offer
full-featured arrays that address both networking demands for mid-sized storage
needs.
The
new Dell Storage SC4020, which can scale to 408 terabytes of raw capacity,
supports a wide range of workloads for organizations across all industries and
sizes seeking a high-performing, mid-sized SAN entry point or a remote or
branch office storage solution. For example, the Dell Storage SC4020 can host
up to 10,000 Microsoft Exchange 2013 user mailboxes in a single 2U SAN with 24
hard disk drives, and, with only 12 drives, the same 2U SAN can achieve up to
129,000 Oracle database workload IOPS (input-output operations per second) with
less than one millisecond latency.3
The
new arrays offer interoperability with proven Dell Compellent storage solutions
and the same ability to intelligently tier data across traditional rotating
drives, write-optimized flash (SLC), and read-optimized flash (MLC) drives.
Users can achieve all-flash performance for the price of 15K disk technology2 by
tiering between flash drive types, thereby reducing total storage costs and
gaining from all-flash performance to support applications, such as OLTP
database workloads, where previously all-flash storage could have been cost
prohibitive.
The
Dell Storage SC4020 provides an excellent replication partner for Dell
Compellent SC8000 arrays, allowing customers to seamlessly connect and manage
arrays together with a single, centralized management interface that can help
simplify operations and reduce total cost of ownership. The Dell Storage SC4000
Series also offers customers:
Unprecedented
value with a highly efficient SAN and compact size, making it ideal for mid-sized needs or remote
or branch office deployments
Enterprise-class
performance with dual controller capability and SAN optimized for all-flash or
hybrid SSD/HDD configurations
Flexible
networking with fibre channel connectivity and iSCSI support available for
replication
Best-in-class
intelligence with advanced levels of automation and control to auto-tune the
customer’s storage environment
Advanced
software capabilities such as automated tiering, replication, thin
provisioning, snapshots and centralized management for multiple local and
remote SANs
Perpetual
software licensing that enables customers to pay only once for software
features, even across hardware upgrades
Unified
storage with the ability to manage both block and file storage, with the Dell
Fluid File System, from a single management console
World
class Dell Copilot support services that provide a combination of centralized
support and 24x7 active system monitoring to help improve system performance
and stability
Availability:
The
Dell Storage SC4000 Series will debut with the Dell Storage SC4020 throughout
the Asia-Pacific region in May 2014. Worldwide availability is planned for
later this year.
Additional
Information:
Dell,
Dell Storage, Dell Compellent, Dell EqualLogic and Dell Fluid File System are
trademarks of Dell Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks
and names of others.
1Source:
Based on Dell analysis of competitive US list pricing comparing $/GB from
Gartner Inc., CP Storage, as of Feb. 20, 2014.
2Based
on internal Dell analysis performed in February 2014, based on Dell Storage
SC4020 all-flash and 15K spinning disk list pricing for workload requirements
in the range 16,000-20,000 IOPS for OLTP databases with less than 36TB of raw
storage.
3
Based on Dell internal testing at Dell labs using Oracle ORION and Microsoft
Exchange 2013 JetStress toolkits in March 2014. Exchange 2013 and Oracle
database workload performance shown is not indicative of the maximum SC2040
performance. SC4020 performance will vary depending upon workload I/O profile
and SC4020 drive and I/O port configuration.
4
Source: IDC Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems 2013–2017 Forecast Update, Doc
#244293, Nov 2013. Mid-tier corresponds
to IDC Price Band 5 ($25,000- $49,999).
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