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Dell and EqualLogic get down to business
Dell Inc. launched its first EqualLogic product family today, less than a week after it closed its acquisition of the small New Hampshire company.
The Round Rock, Texas, computer maker announced the Dell EqualLogic PS 5000 series, data-storage systems designed to be easy to install, to manage and to expand as needed. The products are designed to fit between Dell’s entry-level storage products and the high-end storage systems it sells in a partnership with EMC Corp.
Dell recently bought EqualLogic for $1.4 billion, its biggest acquisition and one that landed the computer maker a technology that fits several growing trends in business computing.
While companies’ data-storage needs are soaring, technology managers are seeing their budgets shrink or remain flat in a tightening economy. The budget constraints have driven companies to get more out of their existing systems, using technologies such as virtualization, which essentially lets them make several virtual machines out of one server or storage device.
EqualLogic’s data-storage systems employ virtualization, as well as iSCSI connection technology that’s one of the fastest-growing segments of the data-storage market.
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