Traditional IT is not flexible enough to meet ongoing goals, soaring opex and capex limits, as its time is absorbed in maintaining status quo and virtualisation ceilings.
Traditional data centres are too rigid for evolving business demands, says Tony Wand, Dell storage director for emerging markets.
The company has unveiled what it calls a flexible solution for enterprise and mid-size data centres. Dubbed the Dell Fluid Data Solution, it automates management and virtualisation of data, and enables a company to scale up its infrastructure when needed.
Wand says: “A key component to complete the stack of the Dell Fluid Data Solution was Compellent.”
Earlier this year, Dell completed its acquisition of Compellent Technologies, a virtualised storage solutions provider, in order to use its automated data management, smart tiering and thin provisioning technologies to build the Dell Fluid Data Solution.
Wand says Dell acquired several companies in order to create a fully virtualised solution for data centres. Dell acquired Compellent in February 2011, Exanet in May 2010, EquaLogic in 2007, and Ocarina Networks in July 2010.
According to Dell, 17% of an IT hardware budget is spent on storage infrastructure. And around 60% of the cost of storage is invested in labour. In addition, 20% of backups and 32% of restores fail and annual capacity growth is growing at a rate of between 20% and 40%. Each 1TB of data can add $1 million to budget.
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