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Affordable, versatile, and scalable storage solutions for small and medium businesses

Managing the relentless growth of data can strain IT organizations, whose strategic roles have expanded even in the face of contracting budgets. The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3 storage arrays and the NX Windows NAS Series address challenges with versatile solutions that are optimized for smaller-scale storage consolidation and flexible virtualization projects, while offering easy deployment and management.

Best of all, they are designed to scale as your business grows. With PowerVault storage products, you can easily add additional modules as needed to support new applications and additional data.

PowerVault NX NAS storage solutions also support structured application data and unstructured file data with equal ease, and when paired with the affordable MD3-iSCSI SAN you can add high performance, flexible unified block-and-file storage capabilities to your business any time.

For organizations that require disk-based backup and archiving solutions, the PowerVault DL Series Disk Library Systems provide continuous data protection and automated snapshots—all in an appliance that can be installed and configured in less than 25 minutes.1

The PowerVault TL Series Tape Automation Systems offer organizations that face both rampant data growth and strict compliance requirements advanced automation for their backup processes and a reduced need for manual intervention.

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Featured Case Study: Thomas College

Dell PowerVault™ SAN storage is easy allows Thomas College to scale for growing storage needs.

The biggest advantage of the Dell MD3000i for me is the ability to add a few more drives to the SAN as needed. Let’s say I have an E: drive on a server that needs to go from 500 gigabytes to 800 gigabytes. I can just throw a few more physical drives in the SAN, partition the 800 gigs and copy the data over. I just attach the SAN to that server and I’m done. Adding capacity took a lot longer with direct-attached storage. In addition, the consolidated SAN storage saves 24 to 36 hours per year in administration time.

— Christopher Rhoda, VP for Information Services, Thomas College
 

PowerVault MD iSCSI SANNew! PowerVault MD iSCSI SAN

Low-cost, easy-to-use and feature-rich SAS-based iSCSI SAN arrays, the PowerVault MD3 Series features modular expandability with high density and high availability options.

PowerVault MD Fibre Channel SANNew! PowerVault MD Fibre Channel SAN

PowerVault MD3 Series Fibre Channel arrays deliver highly scalable 8Gb/s throughput for fast, efficient storage consolidation and server virtualization.

PowerVault MD Direct-Attached StorageNew! PowerVault MD Direct-Attached Storage

Direct attach storage (DAS) solutions provide additional capacity that can be directly attached to a single server, server cluster or the Dell PowerVault MD3 Series arrays.

PowerVault NX3500 / NX3600 Unified Storage SolutionPowerVault NX3600 Unified Storage Solution

PowerVault NX3500 adds high-availability NAS functionality to help provide a unified storage solution for PowerVault MD iSCSI arrays.

PowerVault NX Network-Attached StoragePowerVault NX Network-Attached Storage

Dell Network-Attached Storage appliances offer high performance storage while maintaining ease of use and offering the ability to quickly deploy all essential services in your IT environment.

PowerVault DL Backup to Disk AppliancePowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance

Reliable backup for large amounts of data and long-term archiving.

PowerVault ML/TL Tape BackupPowerVault ML/TL Tape Backup

Dell offers a wide range of tape backup solutions, certified with industry-standard backup and retrieval applications, from such trusted technology partners as CommVault® and Symantec™.

PowerVault MD Storage ManagerPowerVault MD Storage Manager

All PowerVault MD3 Series storage arrays include the MD Storage Manager software, with no additional software licensing fees, to easily configure, manage and troubleshoot one or more MD Series arrays.

1 A DL Appliance with Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 can be up and running in less than 25 minutes.
3 Graphic created by Dell based on Gartner research and reflects Dell/Compellent combined market share for 2010. Source: Gartner, "Market Share: External Controller-Based Disk Storage, Worldwide, 2007-2010, A. Kros, R. W. Cox, April 26, 2011.

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