Dell Compellent Propels the Future of Flash-Only Computing
The Dell Enterprise Forum wrapped yesterday in San Jose, CA and the company announced some notable products during the span of the event.
First up is Vertex, described as a “data center in a box.” There’s also updates to ActiveSystems, Dell’s partnership with Oracle, two new additions to Compellent – Version 6.4 of Compellent Storage Center which introduces an ‘intelligent data placement’ engine that distinguishes high-performance flash from lower quality variants and SC280, an ultra-dense rack enclosure that can store up to 336 terabytes in a 5U form factor, and version 3.0 of Dell’s FluidFS file system.
Joining Kristin Feledy in this morning’s NewsDesk is Wikibon Co-Founder and CTO David Floyer for his Breaking Analysis on Dell.
According to Floyer, the highlight of the Dell Enterprise Forum was its announcement regarding the amplification of its flash strategy.
“What Dell has done is, taken the Dell Compellent system, which has a feature called Data Progression, and made that into flash-only array. They’ve done some changes to the microcode to make that work a little bit better, but the key advantage of that approach is that they can take the storage stack, all of the functions of storage like replication and provisioning and all the other things that they have, and put that straight into a flash-only environment,” Floyer stated.
Floyer also touched on Dell and Violin’s relationship stating that that is over as the company is now focusing on flash-only array.
For more of Floyer’s take away on the Dell Enterprise Forum, check out the NewsDesk video below:
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