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SAN FRANCISCO -- Dell has just closed its acquisition of storage vendor EqualLogic and is wasting no time in ramping up its offerings.
At a press briefing here the company today announced its first Dell-branded product, the Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series, a mid- to high-end storage offering that fills out Dell's product line.
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The PS5000 line is for companies with little or no Fibre Channel networking because it uses iSCSI (define) instead. The iSCSI protocol is an IP-based specification that allows SCSI devices to be controlled over an IP network.
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There will be three versions of the new storage line, the PS5000E, PS5000X and PS5000XV. The "E" model will be the high-capacity serial ATA unit, while the "X" will use serial attached SCSI (SAS) drives. The "XV" is based on high-speed, 15,000 RPM SAS drives, according to Praveen Asthana, director of enterprise storage at Dell.
The PS5000E, because it uses SATA drives, is meant for high-capacity needs that can get by with slower performance. Using 1TB drives in the PS5000's four-by-four chassis, it can hold up to 16TB of storage.
The higher-performance SAS drives used in the X and VX lines have much lower capacity: 6.4TB max for the X and 4.8TB for the XV with all 16 bays filled.
All three units of the PS5000 line sit between Dell's mid-range AX series and the high-end CX series, which the company built in cooperation with EMC -- a partnership that Dell said it plans to continue.
"This makes Dell an extremely broad provider of storage, meeting all of our customer needs, and provides a really broad product portfolio for our customers," he said.
Additionally, the PS5000 series is backward-compatible with existing EqualLogic systems and can be run from the same console management software.
EqualLogic makes Dell a player in storage, an area where it's been lacking, said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT Research.
"If you look at HP and IBM and even Sun, there's a real benefit to a server vendor to offer a full storage solution, and Dell was finding it harder to compete without one," he told InternetNews.com.
Prior to the acquisition, the best Dell could manage for storage was entry-level products like the MD3000i, he added.
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