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Dell Storage Point o View:

Optimize your data everywhere

Fluid Data Architecture


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Executive summary

Business moves aster every day. The volume, velocity and value o the data you manage accelerates at

an ever increasing pace. The only real constant is change, bringing a never-ending sense o uncertainty

about what IT will ace next.

Its time or a new approach to dealing with change. Dell Storage and the Dell Fluid Data architecture

keep your data as dynamic as the organization it supports by putting the right data in the right place at

the right timeor the right cost. The uniying Fluid Data architecture is designed to automatically and

intelligently optimize data everywhere, helping to transorm IT operation into innovation. With storage

designed to constantly adapt, customers can cut cost, time and risk as they ocus on moving their

organizations orward.

At Dell, we have a clear and compelling point o view on the state o data storage and how organizations

can keep pace as data needs evolve. We have the products, solutions and support that make our vision

a reality. And we have customers with real-world results that will tell you how the Fluid Data architecture

made an impact in their data centers.

The Dell point o view on enterprise storage

Its no secret that legacy storage is static, too rigid,

too hard to manage and unable to rapidly respond

to the constant change that drives business growth.

Dell has set out to build the right storage architecturebased on what customers truly want. With best-

o-breed technologies innovated in the last

decade, including industry-leading deduplication

and compression algorithms, the patented high-

perormance highly scalable Dell Fluid File System,

world-class virtualization and embedded system

intelligence, the Fluid Data architecture allows or

dynamic storage that delivers new levels o ef ciency

and agility.

Meet change head-on with the Fluid Data architecture.

The Dell Fluid Data

architecture is designed

to automatically andintelligently optimize

data everywhere.

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Shit operation to innovation

The Fluid Data architecture is designed to intelligently

align operations with business processescutting the

cost, time and risk o enterprise storage. Storage built

on the Fluid Data architecture actively and intelligentlymanages data at a more granular level while scaling

without restraints, allowing organizations to better

respond to change while minimizing cumulative CAPEX

over time as capacity increases. Inormation, the

lieblood o an IT inrastructure, is always available to

those who need it where they need it.

Fueled by customer-driven innovations, the Fluid Data

architecture is built on engineering and design tenets

that reflect our point o viewa set o core belies that

represent a path away rom the inflexibility o legacy

storage toward the dynamic data centers o tomorrow.

Storage should help you spend less while

getting more

To handle todays massive data volumes while

controlling costs, organizations need to store more

data on less hardware. Innovative compression,

deduplication and automated tiering enable the Fluid

Data architecture to help you use the capacity you

have more ef ciently. Cost-optimize disk purchases

while also decreasing the incremental power,cooling, real estate, and management expenses that

accumulate with each additional drive.

Storage should ree up your time, not take it away

With the Fluid Data architecture, enterprises can

streamline the productivity o oten overloaded IT

personnel. Intelligent automation and intuitive, point-

and-click management save time and training costs

while putting storage administration within reach o

your entire sta. And with experts rom Dell Servicesleading implementation and support, you can ree

up even more time or innovation.


Storage should grow along with younot beore

The Fluid Data architecture separates upgrades

rom downtime. Modular, scalable design supports

growth in capacity and perormance without

replacing hardware or undergoing expensive data

migrations. Advanced reporting and accurate

capacity and perormance data help you easily seehow storage is being usedand how to react. Buy

what you need today and capitalize on improved

ef ciency and lower costs as you grow.

Legacy hinders agility

Up to 80 percent o IT budgets go toward

keeping systems running. Traditional

storage solutions oten ail to deliver the

agility and ef ciency necessary to shit

spend toward innovation.

Excessive upront costs and operating

expenses

Expensive, highly disruptive orklit

upgrades

Rigid data layouts, creating

disconnected islands o storageresources

Three-year hardware reresh cycles,

repurchase o sotware licenses

Complex integration with server

virtualization solutions

Extensive manual intervention to

migrate data

Fixed capacity and perormance limits

measurable ease o use


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Storage should preserve your investments over

the long-term

All too oten, a three-year hardware reresh is

assumed to be a oregone conclusion. The Fluid

Data architecture seeks to uture-proo your storage

investment. Mix and match hardware generations as

you deploy a range o storage devices, rom primary

storage to archive. Non-disruptive sotware upgrades

and innovative licensing models keep storage

ocused on the businessnot the balance sheet.

Storage should optimize your data everywhere

Protecting and retaining data oten goes hand-in-

hand with complexities and costscompounded

when storage goes beyond production resources to

include osite recovery, backup, and archive storage.With automated tiering and load-balancing, the Fluid

Data architecture moves data to the optimal storage

resource. This helps increase storage perormance,

improve disk utilization and accelerate access to

inormationwhile your sta spends more time

ocusing on innovation.

Storage should integrate seamlessly with

inrastructure and applications

Every admin knows that storage doesnt run in a silo.By aligning storage with the servers and networking

at the heart o your data center, the Fluid Data

architecture seeks to improve end-to-end IT

ef ciencies among business-critical applications,

virtualization and virtual desktops, operating systems,

servers, networking and the storage layer.

Storage should protect your data rom downtime

and disaster

Because data is key to success, organizations need to

simply and cost-eectively keep it available or those

who need it. The Fluid Data architecture incorporates

business continuity and resiliency at the core and is

designed or high availability with redundant hardware

components, lightweight snapshots and ailover

eatures like remote replication. Define and deliver

the level o security, business continuity and disaster

recovery that best suits your business.

Maximum data ef ciency

Slash the cost o purchasing and managing

storage by up to 80% now and in the uture

Greater IT agility

Instantly respond to change to increase

and accelerate IT service levels

Dynamic business resiliency

Help ensure applications and inormation

are always available to make decisions

Storage should work as promisedno excuses

With extensive storage knowledge and industry-leading

support tools, Copilot Support goes beyond traditional

oerings with the right combination o proactive

processes, proessional expertise and support tailored

to individual customer environments. Today available

or Dell Compellent, Copilot Support helps ensure

the satisaction o every customer. Additionally, Dell

Storage services oers a ull complement o hardware

and sotware implementation services, training

programs and reactive and proactive support to help

you scope, design and plan solutions to storage

challenges and maximize your investments in storage

technologies.


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Dell Compellent

The Dell Compellent Storage Center storage array

oers enterprises a next-generation storage platorm

with built-in investment protection. Designed to gain

ef ciency at scale, Storage Center provides intelligence

and automation to dynamically manage enterprise

data throughout its lie cyclehelping to ensure that

inormation is available when and where it is needed.

Together, block-level intelligence, storage virtualization,

integrated sotware, and modular, protocol-independent

hardware enable a cost-ef cient enterprise storage

inrastructure that delivers exceptional ef ciency, agility

and resiliency, lowering the total cost o storage by up

to 80 percent.

Dell EqualLogic

Built on an advanced peer-scale platorm, Dell

EqualLogic storage arrays are designed to simpliy

the deployment and administration o consolidated

storage. Automation and sel-tuning eatures are paired

with integrated sotware to help accelerate storage

and virtual machine provisioning, data protection,

and disaster recovery tasks. Industry-standard iSCSI

connectivity enables organizations to leverage existing

Ethernet network investment. EqualLogic is designed to

gain perormance at scale while maintaining simplicity,

also helping to protect your investment by scaling

across hardware generations.

By helping to optimize resources and simpliy admin-

istration, next-generation EqualLogic storage enables

organizations to achieve enhanced return on their

investments and reduced total cost o ownership

(TCO) compared with other solutions.

Dell PowerVault

Designed or consolidation without complexity, Dell

PowerVault MD storage arrays provide cost-eective

storage or high-perormance computing and scale-

out server arms as well as departmental, SMB and

remote of ce projects. The Dell PowerVault NX amily

is a unified network storage system that delivers

versatility and expandability in both file-sharing and

application-serving environments.

Exceptional flexibility allows you to match drives and

perormance to your needs while modular scalability

allows or easy upgrades to support growth.

Dell DX Object Storage Platorm

The Dell DX Object Storage Platorm is designed to

intelligently access, store, protect and distribute fixed

digital content. From Web publishing to archiving, it

oers a powerul combination o data and storage

management eatures, and an elegant, sel-managing,

peer-scaling architecture.

Policy-based management helps reduce risks, while

sel-healing unctionality helps maintain the integrity o

stored objects. Scaling to billions o files and petabytes

o data, you can add capacity nondisruptively without

the need or manual configuration.

Dell DR4000

Optimize your data management while reducing

reliance on tape backups with the Dell DR4000 disk-

based data protection and recovery solution. Designed

to drop in to any backup workflow environment,

DR4000 delivers cost-eective deduplication and

replication that streamlines backups and helps to

eliminate redundant data.

The Dell Storage portolio

From primary storage to backup and archive and everywhere in between, the products in the Dell Storage

portolio can optimize data everywhere and put it in reach o those who need it most.


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Address your pain points with Dell Storage solutions

The Dell Storage solutions portolio encompasses a broad

range o systems, sotware and services based on the

Fluid Data architecture. Designed to be uture-compatible

in scope and flexibility as well as pragmatic in application,Dell Storage solutions leverage existing investments in

IT inrastructure and establish a clear path to achieving

eective and ef cient data management.

Stay ocused on success

Dell Storage services and the extensive global network

o Dell Certified Partners help you design, implement,

and maintain an eective data management strategy that

helps to ensure application perormance meets business

objectives. Consult with experts to quickly diagnose

problems and plan new solutions, and leverage Dell

Services or implementation, training, and support.

The Dell point o view: Storage optimized everywhere

The Dell point o view on storage goes beyond legacy

and looks toward what storage can be. By collapsing

boundaries between technology and the organization,

the Fluid Data architecture helps you realize maximum

data ef ciency, greater IT agility and dynamic business

resiliency.

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