Dell has unveiled a new series of enterprise storage arrays designed for mid-sized fibre channel deployments. The Dell Storage SC4000 Series arrays, with an all-flash solution that can cost up to 76 percent less than competing pure flash
The new Dell Storage SC4000 Series arrays will debut with the Dell Storage SC4020, a 2U, 24-drive SAN based on Dell Compellent Storage Center software.
The arrays are designed to offer the same advanced capabilities as larger SANs in a solution sized and priced for mid-sized deployments. Launching with fibre channel connectivity, the new arrays complement the Dell EqualLogic iSCSI-based solutions.
The new Dell Storage SC4020 can scale to 408 terabytes of raw capacity. The Dell Storage SC4020 can host up to 10,000 Microsoft Exchange 2013 user mailboxes in a single 2U SAN with 24 hard disk drives, and, with only 12 drives, the same 2U SAN can achieve up to 129,000 Oracle database workload IOPS (input-output operations per second) with less than one millisecond latency.
Dell says that users can achieve all-flash performance for the price of 15K disk technology by tiering between flash drive types, thereby reducing total storage costs and gaining from all-flash performance to support applications, such as OLTP database workloads, where previously all-flash storage could have been cost prohibitive. It also offers flexible networking with fibre channel connectivity and iSCSI support available for replication.
The Dell Storage SC4000 Series will debut with the Dell Storage SC4020 throughout the Asia-Pacific region in May 2014 with worldwide availability planned for later this year. Perpetual software licensing enables customers to pay only once for software features, even across hardware upgrades.
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