Dell Raises the Bar for Performance and Capacity With Next Generation of Dell/EMC Storage Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2004 Dell Services and Online Tools for Storage Area Networks (SAN) Simplify the Customer Experience Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today significantly increased the performance and capacity of its Dell/EMC The Dell/EMC brand is reserved for products that result from Dell's partnership with EMC Corporation. In some cases these are products that are jointly designed by Dell and EMC, while in other cases these are EMC products for which Dell will provide support. line of networked storage systems with the new Dell/EMC CX300, CX500 and CX700 products. 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. , general manager of Dell's storage business, said that networked storage systems are critical to organizations as they build a scalable enterprise. "Today's announcement demonstrates Dell's commitment to helping customers simplify their environments, reduce costs and scale easily to address future growth." The new Dell/EMC products leverage common hardware and compatible software that enable customers to easily upgrade existing Dell/EMC arrays with the latest technologies while keeping their data in place. "Dell/EMC storage solutions are developed to deliver investment protection and flexibility so that organizations can easily upgrade their storage systems with minimal business disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. ," added Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs . Product Details Available worldwide today, the Dell/EMC CX300, CX500 and CX700 storage arrays replace the Dell/EMC CX200, CX400 and CX600, respectively. The new product line features significant performance and capacity advances over previous Dell/EMC storage systems. Dell/EMC CX300, manufactured by Dell -- For small data center and departmental applications -- 240 percent more bandwidth to 680MB/s; 50,000 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 ) -- 100 percent more drive capacity, up to 60 drives -- Scales to 13.4TB with ATA drives The formal name for an IDE drive. See IDE. -- Support for "snapshots," or point in time copies of data, to assist in backup operations -- CX200 customers can seamlessly upgrade to a CX300 array by adding hardware components while using existing software Dell/EMC CX500 -- For midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually business-critical applications including messaging software and databases -- 100 percent performance increase to 120,000 IOPS; 760MB/s bandwidth -- 100 percent more drive capacity, up to 120 drives -- Scales to 28.4TB with ATA drives -- CX400 customers can seamlessly upgrade to a CX500 array by adding hardware components while using existing software Dell/EMC CX700 -- For large-scale database and transaction-intensive applications -- 25 percent performance increase to 200,000 IOPS; 1,520MB/s bandwidth -- Supports twice as many servers, up to 256 -- Scales to 58.4TB with ATA drives -- CX600 customers can seamlessly upgrade to a CX700 array by adding hardware components while using existing software Prices for the new Dell/EMC storage systems depend on customers' deployment requirements. The new storage arrays are supported by the Navisphere(R) Manager Suite, a single management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. that also works with all previous Dell/EMC systems. Customers can benefit from enhancements to this software, including a new incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. copy function in SAN Copy, to help reduce the cost, time and network bandwidth involved in maintaining complete copies of data. Driving Simplified Storage Solutions Dell is working to drive down the cost and complexity of purchasing and deploying SANs. Dell's online Storage Advisor tool helps customers determine upfront which Dell solutions to purchase. In addition, customers can access a new Dell/EMC community from Premier Dell.com, Dell's custom-designed, secure Web pages configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: for individual organizations. This new site provides a single point of contact for support of Dell/EMC storage systems, as well as access to software and firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. upgrades online. Dell also offers planning, deployment and training services, including one of the first skills-based certification programs to give customers hands-on experience building and managing storage area networks. For more information on Dell/EMC networked storage solutions, services and tools, please visit www.dell.com/emc. 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 Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the infrastructures. Company revenue for the past four quarters totaled $39.7 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. Pricing, specifications, availability and terms of offers may change without notice. 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