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Dell Brings Storage Together With SCOS7

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Dell provides admins with a single management interface and means to replicate data between both Storage Center and EqualLogic PS storage arrays with a pair of free upgrades-- Storage Center OS 7 and PS 9.0.

Dell storageThe Dell "SC" line denotes storage products derived from Compellent, while "PS" refers to technologies aquired from EqualLogic.

SCOS 7 targets all-flash and hybrid flash arrays, and “aggressively promotes the adoption of flash, by bringing lower acquisition costs across flash and hybrid arrays and provides investment protection for Dell PS Series customers as they explore future-ready technologies." It also promises data deduplication and tools ensuring the right quality of application service from SC arrays.

The result, the company claims, brings capacity savings of up to 10:1 with a typical gain of 4:1 or 3:1, as well as cost savings on SC arrays of both flash and HDD varieties.

As mentioned earlier the PS firmware also gets an upgrade with version 9.0, one similarly allowing customers to introduce SC series arrays to PS-based datacentres through an extended Tin Import feature.

In addition Dell announce a rebranding of Enterprise Manager (EM) to Dell Storage Manager (DSM)-- a unification of the PS and SC series arrays complete with day-to-day management of PS arrays and a single user interface for storage provisioning.

The above mentioned storage software updates should be generally available by Q3 2016.

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