Dell puts customers on fast track to storage efficiency

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Dell Storage Solutions - Are they too late???

July 1, 2009

Analysis by:GLG Expert Contributor

Dell is known for its trend of following competition into the market and being late to the game. What is not known is the solutions capability of the Dell brand – a significant negative point. In 2007, Dell had a $6 billion global services revenue (including Virtualization, Microsoft and Storage competencies) that predominantly both current and prospect customers were not aware existed.

Hans van RietschoteTechnical AdvisorQLAYER BVBA

Dell providing free consultancy to boost sales of their PowerVault DL2000

July 1, 2009

The backup market is competitive and at the same time very sticky, meaning once customers buy a backup solution they will stick with it. This means that the only place for growth is in the SMB space where customers are shopping for price. De-duplication is a great cost savings features so very attractive to the SMB customer.

Clear and strong entrance in DeDup storage from Dell

July 1, 2009

Analysis by:GLG Expert Contributor

Dell seems to take the rolling ball on deduplication technology with both services and solutions. It illustrates the key strategy aspect of this technology both for a financial perspective and a pure IT point of view. Dell wishes to come back in user mind and be considered, again, as a key trusted partner in that space. Partnership with CommVault, one of the few gems and pure data protection ISVplayers,...

David CroslinChief Executive OfficerLinoWave

Deduplication Too Complex For The Masses? Not For Long.

June 30, 2009

Deduplication is a critical component to maximizing storage utilization efficiency and minimizing bandwidth requirements to offsite storage and processing. But, with shifts in solid state storage and RAID technologies, deduplication is quickly expanding beyond backup.