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Dell Offers End-to-End Storage Solution Featuring New Arrays, Global Services and Build-to-Order Capabilities; Midrange Arrays Deliver Double Capacity and Dramatically Increased Performance

Posted on: Monday, 8 May 2006, 09:09 CDT

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) today announced 4-gigabit Dell/EMC CX midrange storage systems with global services and build-to-order capabilities designed to reduce deployment time and cost.

These new products are tested and validated on Dell enterprise systems for applications such as Oracle(R) databases, Microsoft(R) SQL Server and Exchange Server.

"Dell is focused on speeding customer technology deployment and reducing integration complexity," said Darren Thomas, general manager, enterprise storage and services, Dell Product Group. "This integrated solution, featuring arrays with the new UltraScale architecture and high-performance, SAN-ready servers, is designed to support customers' mission-critical environments and offer long-term investment protection."

To meet customers' unrelenting data storage needs, the new Dell/EMC CX UltraScale series provides an end-to-end 4-gigabit architecture, delivering double the storage capacity and dramatically increased performance over the previous Dell/EMC CX series. The new UltraScale series includes the Dell/EMC CX3-20, CX3-40 and CX3-80. The CX3-80 can support up to 480 drives, equaling 239 terabytes and up to 256 high-availability hosts. In addition, these products will support Fibre Channel and iSCSI(1) (Internet small computer systems interface), protocols. For storage expansion, Dell is offering the DAE4P, a 4-gigabit expansion enclosure.

Using build-to-order factory capabilities, customers can custom-order SAN-ready Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Servers with a broad range of host bus adapter (HBA) cards factory installed and tested, minimizing several steps in SAN installation.

To help maximize customers' technology investments, Dell continues to offer multi-tiered services. Today Dell is extending that support by delivering SAN maintenance services worldwide, offering customers even more investment protection. This service, Dell/EMC Maintenance, is designed to offer customers improved availability and performance, while keeping their SAN up-to-date.

Today's announcement builds on the success of the Dell/EMC strategic alliance spanning nearly five years. Since the relationship started, Dell and EMC have shared a common vision for making storage easy and affordable for businesses of all sizes. Using this approach, the two companies have won almost 15,000 new customers worldwide.

Dell/EMC CX key features and benefits

-- Scalability: supports up to 120, 240 or 480 hard drives, depending on configuration

-- Investment protection: modular, upgradeable design and compatibility with previous generation Dell/EMC CX storage systems

-- Complete suite of software: EMC(R) Navisphere(R) Manager Suite that includes options for mirroring, snapshot and data movement technology; PowerPath(R) software, and EMC VisualSRM(TM)

-- Ease of use: Replacing certain components is easy with new tools that assist the customer with the replacement process.

Pricing and Availability

Priced from about USD $27,000, the Dell/EMC CX3 series storage arrays are available later this month worldwide.

About Dell

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally than any computer company, placing it No. 25 on the Fortune 500. Company revenue for the last four quarters was $56 billion. For more information, visit http://www.dell.com. To get Dell news direct, visit http://www.dell.com/RSS.

(1) iSCSI versions will be available later this year

Pricing, specifications, availability, and terms of offers may change without notice. Taxes, fees, shipping, handling and any applicable restocking charges are extra, and vary.

Dell and PowerEdge are a trademarks of Dell Inc.

Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.

EMC, Navisphere, PowerPath and VisualSRM are trademarks or registered trademarks of EMC Corp.

Source: Business Wire

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