Dell announced a number of new products on Day Two of its Enterprise Forum in San Jose, including two major additions to its Compellent storage lineup and the latest release of its flagship file system.

Version 6.4 of Compellent Storage Center introduces an ‘intelligent data placement’ engine that distinguishes high-performance flash from lower quality variants. This flash tiering mechanism writes performance-intensive data to enterprise-grade single-level cell (SLC) flash, and assigns lower priority information to devices that include cheaper and less reliable multi-level cell (MLC) variant. The platform automatically stores “cold” data on disk memory.

Storage Center 6.4 is joined by the SC280, an ultra-dense rack enclosure that can store up to 336 terabytes in a 5U form factor.

“While businesses continue to look to drive cost and complexity out of their data centers, they also are charged with finding flexible IT solutions that provide the optimal performance for the many kinds of workloads and applications they manage,” said Marius Haas the president of Dell’s Enterprise Solutions division. “Dell is best positioned with an end-to-end data center approach that provides open, scalable, integrated and automated solutions designed to simplify and generate the most value out of an IT investment.”

The two new Compellent solutions are joined by version 3.0 of Dell’s FluidFS file system. This latest release supports up to two petabytes of data in a single namespace, and includes policy-based deduplication functionality that enables admins to configure tasks in advance.

The product announcements follow Day One of the Enterprise Forum and Dell’s converged infrastructure launch frenzy. Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences and Active System Manager 7.1, the newest version of the vendor’s converged workload and deployment platform, are among the many products that made their debut on the first day of the Dell Enterprise Forum.