Dell Expands Disk Storage Line with First-to-Market Product.PowerVault MD3000 Delivers New Entry-Level Storage Availability, Performance ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Dell today introduced the PowerVault[TM] MD3000, a versatile, direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. array delivering high performance and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. for critical applications. The PowerVault MD3000 is the first external RAID SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. array from a tier-one storage system company. "Direct attach storage is incredibly important to a large number of customers. With its performance and advanced software capabilities, the MD3000 will redefine how customers look at DAS," said Darren Thomas Stuart Darren Thomas (most commonly known as Darren Thomas, born January 25, 1975 in Swansea) is a retired Welsh cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. , vice president and general manager of Dell storage and services. "At Dell, we want to change the economics of storage by providing easy-to-use, highly-capable storage at new levels of affordability." The expandability, availability, advanced snapshot and virtual disk copy functionality of the PowerVault MD3000 make it an ideal platform for clustered applications such as Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 2005 and Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. 2007. In addition, these applications are including more advanced replication capability in the software itself. The MD3000 complements this by providing easy-to-use and highly-capable storage at a fraction of the price of storage area networks. Added to this, the PowerVault MD3000 uses dual active/active RAID controllers to enhance performance and availability - producing up to 1,400 MB/s of throughput and approximately 90,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS IOPS Input/Output Per Second IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second (server performance measurement) IOPS International Organization of Pension Supervisors IOPS Information Operations Planning System IOPS Internet Official Protocol Standards ).* The throughput performance aids applications such as video services and file serving while the high IOP/s make it ideal for applications with high transactional performance requirements - such as databases and email applications. Dell Leading with Standards The PowerVault MD3000 is Dell's second storage product to comply with the Storage Bridge Bay 1.0 specification. Dell is a founding member of the Storage Bridge Bay (SBB SBB Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Railway) SBB Sports by Brooks (sports webblog) SBB Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil (Portugese: Bible Society of Brazil) ) Working Group that is dedicated to developing industry standards that help accelerate the adoption of new storage technologies and deliver enhanced quality and affordability. Additional information on SBB can be found at www.sbbwg.org. PowerVault MD3000 Features * Capacity - Up to 4.5TB per system * Expansion - Ability to expand with up to two MD1000 arrays for a total of 13.5 TB(+). * Two Node Clustering - This is the first PowerVault MD product to support two node clustering providing high availability and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. for applications or services. * Multi-host Capability - Attach up to four Dell PowerEdge[TM] servers. * Performance - Active/active RAID controllers can produce up to 1,400 MB/s of throughput and approximately 90,000 IOPS from cache. This is nearly twice the throughput of the PowerVault MD1000.** * Redundant Architecture - The direct-attached storage array uses two active/active RAID controllers with mirrored cache and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output multi-pathing capabilities to help ensure processing continues without interruption. Also includes hot-pluggable, redundant power supplies, cooling modules and disk drives, active disk scrubbing and non-disruptive firmware upgrades * Manageable - Delivers a suite of easy-to-use, intelligent storage management features for configuration and administration, partitioning, and dynamic disk expansion. Optional management features provide enhanced data availability via snapshots and virtual disk copies. Ideal Customer Scenarios * Applications typically configured in two node clusters - such as Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server. * IT environments that require affordable, high performance and high availability for one or two servers. * Mainstream technology buyers who buy SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. disk drives today Pricing and Availability The PowerVault MD3000 is available immediately worldwide with pricing beginning around $6,499. For more information on Dell storage, visit http://www.dell.com/storage. About Dell Dell Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally than any computer company, placing it No. 25 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS. Pricing, specifications, availability, and terms of offers may change without notice. Taxes, fees, shipping, handling and any applicable restocking charges are extra, and vary. U.S. new purchases only. Dell cannot be responsible for pricing or other errors, and reserves the right to cancel orders arising from such errors. Dell, PowerVault, PowerEdge and the Dell logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. * Denotes from cache. Performance is based on the IOMeter (v.7.30.2004) benchmark test performed by Dell Labs in October 2006 on a PowerEdge 6800 configured with 4GB DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory 2 RAM, four 3.66GHz Intel Xeon CPUs and Windows 2003 Server OS and a MD3000 containing 15 73GB, 15K RPM SAS drives. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability. ** MD1000 performance is based on theIometer (v.7.30.2004) benchmark test performed by Dell Labs in March and April 2006 on a PowerEdge 2850 configured with 2 GB DDR2 ECC RAM, two 3.2GHz Intel Xeon CPUs and Windows 2003 Server OS and a PERC PERC See: Preferred equity redemption stock 5/E with one full PowerVault MD1000 containing 15, 36GB, 15k RPM SAS drives. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability. (+)Projected availability first half 2007. |
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