- Dell selected as top overall vendor of
choice for organizations using or planning to deploy flash/SSD
technologies1
- Dell changes the economics of flash by
shipping its new all-flash storage solution costing less than a
comparable 15K disk drive solution2
Dell today announced it once again is redefining the economics
of the data center and has been selected as the top choice among IT
leaders for enterprise flash deployments.1 Dell now offers
customers better cost for storage performance as it begins to ship
the new Dell Flash-optimized Solutions and dense storage enclosure.
Dell’s breakthrough approach is designed to unlock customers’
greater business potential that has been limited due to the cost of
high-performance flash and supporting storage environments.
Besting EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp and others by six or more
percentage points, Dell is the top choice among IT leaders who have
selected it as the leading vendor for deploying flash/SSDs. The
results, according to an ITIC/Storage Strategies NOW survey of more
than 550 global IT leaders, also show that 32 percent of
respondents currently use or have definitive plans to deploy
flash/SSD technologies.1
“The adoption of performance-intensive applications for big data
analytics and process transactions provides organizations the
opportunity to operate faster, make better informed decisions and
improve customer service, but meeting the performance demands can
be costly,” said Alan Atkinson, vice president and co-general
manager, Dell Storage. “Dell is the only major vendor that has
found a way to offer all-flash solutions at the economics of disk.
Dell’s practical approach integrates flash into a fully-functional
storage array and uses enterprise storage features, like tiering,
replication and management, to support high-performance data
demands while also offering a new level of cost-efficient density.
We see this as a game-changing approach for customers and the
industry.”
Dell Changes the Economics of Enterprise Flash
Storage
Dell Compellent Flash-optimized Solutions offer the industry’s first product in its class
with intelligent data tiering across multiple types of flash
technologies or in combination with traditional drives.3 Dell’s
groundbreaking approach allows customers to place all hot data for
IOPS-hungry applications — such as Oracle, SQL, SAP, VDI,
big data and private cloud deployments — on flash in order
to process more transactions faster while lowering the overall
costs to be comparable with traditional disk storage.
The Dell Compellent all-flash solution costs less than a
comparable 15K disk drive solution,2 benefiting from enhanced
automated tiering capabilities with built-in, highly granular
intelligence that automatically tiers data and optimizes
performance.
With this advanced feature of Dell Compellent Storage Center
6.4, available at no additional cost for customers with active
contracts, the Dell Flash-optimized Solutions first writes data to
high-performance, high-reliability flash (SLC) drives. As data
ages, it is automatically moved to a second tier of lower-cost,
higher-capacity flash (MLC) drives, and finally to low-cost,
capacity-based hard disks. This tiered approach, combining
different levels of flash with traditional disk-based storage,
offers cost reductions up to 80 percent compared to all-flash
arrays that don’t similarly optimize for cost or performance.4
The Dell Compellent Flash-optimized Solutions supports high
performance and data-intensive workloads with full enterprise-class
features, and when tiering among dual flash drive types and
spinning disks, organizations can achieve:
- Smaller footprints – Reducing rack
space by up to 84 percent
- Improved performance – Reducing latency
by up to 90 percent
- Reduced costs – Reducing the solution
cost by approximately 56 percent compared to traditional spinning
arrays. 5
“As a market leader in enterprise cloud services, we have stayed
ahead of the curve and experienced tremendous growth globally by
working closely with partners such as Dell. Compellent storage has
played a critical role in helping us to meet the stringent SLA
requirements the enterprise market demands,” said Dante Orsini,
senior vice president, business development, Houston-based iland.
“For our customers running database software and other
performance-intensive applications, the Compellent Flash-optimized
solution enables us to quickly support these demands in the most
cost-effective manner, which is a key part of our winning formula
for anticipating the rapidly changing needs of our customers in
today’s dynamic environment.”
Dell Addresses High Performance and Low Cost Storage in One
Solution
While performance-intensive applications benefit from flash
performance, the rapid growth of unstructured data, such as audio,
video and image files, has led to a demand for the most
cost-effective ways to keep large amounts of data online and
accessible. Dell today also is shipping the Dell Compellent SC280
dense enclosure, which offers the best rack unit density of any
major storage solution with up to 2.8 times more capacity than
competing 2U 3.5” disk drive enclosures.
The Dell Compellent SC280 can be used in one solution that tiers
data from high-performance flash drives down to high-capacity,
cost-optimized storage within a single Dell Compellent array. With
this combination, addressing both ends of the storage spectrum, IT
leaders can now cost-efficiently support business goals, deliver
better data insights, and devote more resources to developing new
innovations and services for priorities such as attracting and
retaining customers.
With capacity of up to 336 terabytes of hard drives in a 5U
enclosure, the dense enclosure maximizes floor space and creates an
all-in-one, fast-write, bulk storage solution for co-location
environments or file workflows, such as radiology, life sciences
and media archival.
Additional Quotes:
“Dell has put together an impressive array of SSD/Flash options
covering the end-to-end of its server and storage product lines,”
said Deni Connor, founding analyst for Storage Strategies NOW.
“Designation of an SLC Tier and an MLC Tier in the Dell Compellent
Storage Center is a unique concept and allows tuning of hardware
for a given workload at a new level of granularity. The new density
enhancements also add immense value for keeping large amounts of
data online as data center footprints become more and more
expensive.”
“Dell has looked beyond the current state of the market and
refuses to implement flash technology in the same manner of its
contemporaries,” said Rick Gouin, CTO of Winslow Technology Group.
“By tiering with lower cost read-intensive drives in an intelligent
way, Dell can offer larger pools of flash storage without
compromising on performance or cost. This delivers the best of both
worlds for customers today while the Dell Compellent architecture
is fully prepared for a future when flash drive technology moves
towards greater cost parity with spinning disk.”
Additional Information:
- Storage Strategies NOW Report:
Enterprise Use Cases for Solid State Storage/Flash Memory
- Storage Switzerland Report: Mixed
All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance
- Dell Blog: IT leaders select Dell as
Top Vendor for Enterprise Flash Deployments
- Spec Sheet: Dell Compellent
Flash-optimized Solutions
- Dell Storage on Twitter and
Facebook
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1 Source: Storage Strategies NOW, “Enterprise Use Cases for
Solid State Storage/Flash Memory,” August 2013.2 Based on internal
Dell analysis in July 2013 based on Dell Compellent flash-optimized
and spinning disk US list pricing3 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.4 By
automatically tiering data across SLC and MLC SSDs, Dell Compellent
SC 6.4 Flash-optimized solution can reduce costs up to 80% compared
to other Flash-optimized solutions. Competitive US list pricing
from Gartner Inc, CP Storage, as of June 2013. Market price
calculated assuming a discounting of approximately 50% for all
competitive systems and Dell Compellent.5 Internal Dell analysis in
July 2013 based on Dell Compellent flash-optimized and spinning
disk US list pricing, technical specifications of flash-optimized
vs. spinning disk arrays and an internal test performed by Dell in
March 2013 with Storage Center v6.3.10 on dual SC8000 controllers
running OLTP type workloads using IOmeter with a 100% random, 70/30
read/write mix and 8K sector transfer size achieved this IOPS
performance. Assumption is SC 6.4 will have similar results. Actual
performance/latency will vary based on configuration, usage and
manufacturing variability.
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