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This article is part of the Vol. 8 Num. 1 March 2009 issue of Dell and EqualLogic win best midrange array
Dell's midrange arrays soar from last to first in our user service and reliability survey Rich Castagna If the people at Dell Inc. are reflecting with more than a little satisfaction on their decision to acquire EqualLogic Inc., it's certainly understandable based on the most recent results from the Storage magazine Quality Awards (see "About the survey"). Until it acquired EqualLogic, Dell had relied mainly on its OEM versions of EMC Corp. Clariion arrays for its midrange storage line, and it didn't fare well in any of our previous surveys, ranking ninth out of nine in 2008. But adding EqualLogic to its roster of storage systems appears to have had a dramatic impact. In the 2009 edition of the Quality Awards for midrange arrays, Dell has fashioned a dramatic reversal and leaped to the top of the field based on user surveys that for the first time combined Dell's and EqualLogic's products. About the survey The Storage magazine Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The ... Access >>>
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Quality Awards IV: Dell plus EqualLogic -- A winning combination
Dell's midrange arrays soar from last to first in our user service and reliability survey.
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Dedupe update: What's coming in 2009
Everybody knows that the hottest thing in storage in 2008 was data deduplication. Don't expect it to cool off in 2009.
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Quality Awards IV: Dell plus EqualLogic -- A winning combination
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Remote-office backups made easy
With plenty of economical disk-based backup products and cloud-based services available, remote offices can be brought back into the fold.
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More testing, more confidence for DR plans
More firms are testing their disaster recovery (DR) plans regularly, and storage managers are more confident that their DR plans can avert a significant business disruption.
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Remote-office backups made easy
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Think data, not equipment (Storage Bin 2.0)
If IT can put itself back into a position of treating every decision from the perspective of the data itself, our effectiveness could be optimized.
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Where does deduplication belong in backup? (Hot Spots)
Should you go with a software-based approach that allows for policy-based deduplication or a hardware-based approach because it can be implemented quickly and easily?
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Data on the brink
You might think your company's data is secured and safely backed up, but there's probably still a lot of crucial data that's out of the reach of your backup systems.
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Think data, not equipment (Storage Bin 2.0)
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