Dell Advances Storage Standards With Product Certification, Expanded Work With Industry Organizations; Dell Technology Strategist Appointed to SNIA Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Spring 2004 PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2004 Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today outlined three critical areas in which it has extended its work with Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) to drive better interoperability for customers through industry standards. Dell participation with SNIA includes board-level leadership, RAID interoperability standards development as well as first-ever product certification Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance and/or quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in regulations such as a building code and nationally accredited test standards, for the company's Dell/EMC line of network storage. Dell has been an active member of SNIA since 1999. Dell Storage Technology Strategist Matthew Brisse, was recently appointed to SNIA's board of directors. "Dell's ongoing involvement with SNIA to drive standards-based solutions has been critical in addressing customer requirements for better storage management and increased interoperability and has helped fuel Dell's impressive growth in the storage industry." "Storage standards increase customer choice, value and flexibility and forces vendors to compete on value. Dell will be actively involved in relevant industry initiatives that further these goals for customers," said Brisse. Dell/EMC Network Storage is Among First SMI-S SMI-S Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SNIA) Compliant Products The Dell/EMC CX line of network storage and Dell storage arrays including the FC4500, FC4700, CX200, CX300, CX400, CX500, CX600 and CX700 have passed the SNIA Conformance Testing Program The Storage Networking Industry Association's Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP) is an integral step towards bringing third party standards conformance to the storage networking marketplace. and are certified by the Systems Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). The Dell/EMC storage systems with this designation are recognized for providing customers with easier configuration and allocation procedures and standardized controls for complex operations. This certification is an important step by Dell to ensure that its storage systems can be more easily managed and implemented in multi-vendor environments. The Dell Solutions Enabler Kit, enables SMI (1) (Storage Management Initiative) The initiative developed by the SNIA in 2003 to create a single standard interface for storage management technologies used by multiple vendors and networking communities. and is provided free of charge to all Dell customers. Driving New Interoperability Standards Dell is one of the driving forces behind the new draft of the SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format (DDF DDF Distributed Data Facility DDF Digital Distribution Frame DDF Director's Discretionary Fund DDF Danske Dagblades Forening DDF District Development Fund (UN) DDF Data Decryption Field DDF Drug and Disease Free ) Specification, which provides a basic level of interoperability between different suppliers of RAID technology. Dell will work with SNIA to see the specification through ratification The confirmation or adoption of an act that has already been performed. A principal can, for example, ratify something that has been done on his or her behalf by another individual who assumed the authority to act in the capacity of an agent. . As one of the founding members of the DDF Technical Working Group, Dell dedicated significant engineering resources to help define and drive the DDF specification, which will enable "data-in-place" migration among systems from different vendors. Simply put, this technology will allow customers to move data to and from server and storage systems without time-consuming reconfigurations and potential data loss. Dell has endorsed to the current version of DDF and will continue to work with SNIA on further development. For more information please visit www.dell.com/standards. About Dell Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL) is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Company revenue for the past year totaled $41.4 billion. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained at www.dell.com. |
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