The new storage array series, with an all-flash solution that can cost up to 76 percent less than competing pure flash arrays1, is the latest addition to Dell’s customer-driven enterprise data center portfolio of purpose-built solutions designed to make IT more efficient and practical.
S. Sridhar, Director & General Manager, Enterprise Solutions Group, Dell India said, "CIOs of Indian enterprises with mid-sized workloads are required to optimize their IT infrastructure & remain ahead of their peers in providing world class services to their internal as well external customers, protect & secure their data & do all of this efficiently. They are looking for efficient choices in IT infrastructure that provide higher performance, greater productivity within their budget. Dell’s storage products have been testified by our customers to provide industry leading performance, efficiency and high ROI. We constantly innovate give our customers this lead. In line with these efforts we are launching the SC4000 series to provide enterprises with mid-sized workloads the capabilities of enterprise storage, yet lower TCO."
Customer Quotes:
Puneet Kaur Kohli, Group Executive Vice President, IT & Operations, Bajaj Capital said: “We are now able to close our accounting period on the exact date, which has improved the overall efficiency of the organization through eliminating this delay. Dell Compellent storage is delivering three times the number of IOPS compared to our previous solution.”
J.P. Dwivedi, CIO, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, India said, “We are a cancer hospital and so our patients may visit us after many years, which means the data needs to remain highly available. We keep all records online, and while we have the current capacity of 50TB, we have the scalability to double this through simply adding disk space, which provides us with excellent price-performance. The Compellent solution provides me with a great deal of freedom and flexibility in the management of storage.”
Nandkishor Dhomne, VP-IT & CIO, Manipal Health Enterprises (MHE), Manipal Group said:
“For our Core Business Applications like HIS (Hospital Information System), we partnered with Dell to design a virtual environment powered by Dell Compellent storage solution which enabled us to develop a strong technology platform in order to support business growth, enhance operational and clinical efficiency, improve patient satisfaction through its entire delivery spectrum and to meet growing demands for capacity. We are glad to work with Dell as our strategic technology partner to upgrade and accommodate our ever growing footprint of hospitals across India and overseas"
In 2014 and 2015, mid-tier, fibre channel-networked storage arrays and networked attached storage are expected to represent an estimated $5.5 billion market worldwide4, an opportunity previously untapped by full-featured Dell Storage technology. Additionally, the vast majority of the Asia-Pacific region’s mid-tier storage array sales this year are estimated to be fibre channel-networked (79 percent), compared to 39 percent in North America.4 With the new Dell Storage arrays launching first in Asia-Pacific countries, Dell can help support the storage needs of the region while also opening new doors for business growth.
