Dell Helps Customers Optimize Performance, Efficiency and Scale with New Solutions Designed for Data-Intensive Workloads
05 Juni 2013 - 6:30PM
Business Wire
At its Dell Enterprise Forum customer and partner event, Dell
today unveiled new storage solutions and expanded analytics
capabilities designed to help businesses improve their IT
performance, support data insights and reduce overall costs.
Ed Fiore, vice president of engineering
for Dell storage, inspects a new Dell Compellent SC280 super dense
data storage enclosure at the company's Eden Prairie, Minn., design
center. One new Dell enclosure can store up to 336 terabytes, the
equivalent of more than 6.7 million four-drawer filing cabinets
filled with text. (Photo: Business Wire)
As businesses work to keep pace with massive data growth, many
also are turning to IT systems optimized for performance- and
data-intensive workloads like those required to analyze customer
and business data for insights that help achieve their goals. In
fact, analyst firm IDC projects the worldwide big data technology
and services market will grow at a 31.7 percent compound annual
growth rate with revenues reaching $23.8 billion by 2016.
Infrastructure technology for big data deployments is expected to
grow the fastest with the storage segment expected to increase at
the highest rate, 53.4 percent.2
“While businesses continue to look to drive cost and complexity
out of their data centers, they also are charged with finding
flexible IT solutions that provide the optimal performance for the
many kinds of workloads and applications they manage,” said Marius
Haas, president, Dell Enterprise Solutions. “Dell is best
positioned with an end-to-end data center approach that provides
open, scalable, integrated and automated solutions designed to
simplify and generate the most value out of an IT investment. With
today’s portfolio updates, Dell builds on our innovative storage
capabilities while allowing customers to pack more storage in
significantly less space and benefit from optimized performance for
the most demanding environments.”
Dell Optimizes Scalable Storage Platform to Balance Customer
Needs for Performance Hungry Applications and Cost Effective Data
Management
To help customers efficiently manage their vastly growing data
while also addressing the needs of I/O-intensive workloads,
substantial updates to the Dell storage portfolio support both
growing scale and performance-hungry applications in one solution.
With next generation Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 array
software, optimized for data-intensive workloads, Dell unlocks the
potential of automated tiering and ties together new Compellent
offerings:
- The Dell Compellent Flash Optimized
Solution offers the industry’s first storage solution in its class
with intelligent data placement across multiple types of flash
technologies or in combination with traditional drives.3 The Flash
Optimized Solution can reduce storage costs by up to 75 percent
compared to other flash solutions, and supports high performance
and data-intensive workloads with full enterprise-class
features.1
- The Dell Compellent SC280 offers the
best rack unit density of any major storage solution with up to 2.8
times more capacity than competing 2U enclosures. As Dell continues
to drive innovative system efficiency, this capacity-optimized
solution for hosting tiered data can store up to 336 terabytes in a
5U footprint while significantly reducing data center space
requirements.
- Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) v3
offers customers enterprise-class file storage featuring improved
performance at one-third the cost of the market leader,4 helping
customers better accommodate performance-intense file workloads.
Available first on the Dell Compellent FS8600 later this year,
FluidFS v3 can support two petabytes in a single namespace5 and
offer customers the best rack density among major vendors in its
class. The new release is expected to be the industry’s first
primary storage solution with policy-driven, variable block data
reduction, de-duplicating and compressing redundant data when no
longer needed.6
Dell Broadens Hadoop Capabilities, Enabling Customers
Flexibility in Turning Data into Insights
Dell continues to hear from customers about their big data
challenges, specifically a need for solutions that allow
flexibility and choice while enabling key insights from their data.
To address that need, Dell’s plans for expansion of its Hadoop
capabilities include:
- Enabling customers to take advantage of
Intel’s Distribution of Apache Hadoop (IDH). Dell currently is
testing a solution based on IDH with customers, which will focus on
performance and security, and offer customers choice for solutions
to harness the value of big data. Dell Crowbar currently includes
integration to Hadoop and will integrate with IDH when Dell
launches an IDH-based solution this year.
- Support for Cloudera Search for Hadoop
to enable less technical users to ask questions of big data more
easily and quickly. Cloudera’s new search capabilities add powerful
full-text indexing to data stored in Hadoop or Hbase. Dell Crowbar
currently integrates with the Dell | Cloudera Hadoop Solution to
accelerate open-source cloud development, deployment and
updates.
Availability:
- The new Dell Compellent Storage Center
6.4, Flash Optimized Solution and SC280 enclosure have planned
availability for Q3 2013.
- Dell Fluid File System v3 has planned
availability for early Q4 2013.
Additional Information:
- Dell Enterprise Forum Online Press Kit
holds solution details, images, videos and more.
- Dell Blog: Deliver your critical data
by the “speed of flash” to optimize your data center
- Dell Enterprise Forum on Twitter
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1 Based on internal Dell TCO analysis of SSD drive usages and
cost comparisons of MLC/SLC drives and spindle count performed in
May 2013.
2 Source: IDC, “Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services
2012-2016 Forecast (IDC #238746),” December 2012.
3 Based on internal Dell analysis performed in May 2013,
comparing Dell Compellent offerings to EMC VNX Family, HP 3PAR
StoreServ, HP EVA, IBM V7000, IBM XIV, Hitachi Data Systems HUS 100
Family, and Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Family.
4Performance results based on SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 testing
comparing Dell Compellent FS8600 using 8-node, 24 SLC and 120 eMLC
SSDs configurations to similar Isilon SPECsfs submissions. Actual
performance will vary based on configuration, usage and
manufacturing variability. Pricing results based on May 2013
internal Dell comparison.
5The Dell FS8600 with FluidFS v3 will support up to 2PB in a
single namespace, which represents approximately two times increase
over the 1PB namespace supported at launch of the Dell FS8600 with
FluidFS v2.
6Validated May 2013 via review of Dell’s major competitors’
websites documenting their primary storage deduplication
features.
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