This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2008.
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"Dell and Open Source" by Serban Zirnovan @ eLiberatica 2008
1. DATA CONSOLIDATION
AND MANAGEMENT
SERBAN ZIRNOVAN
ENTERPRISE BUSINESS MANAGER
31 MAY 2008
2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF DELL
People
90,000 employees
Financials
$61,1B revenue*
# 34 on Fortune 500
Market Entry
1984 - Desktops
1991 - Notebooks
1996 - Servers
1998 - Storage
2002 - IT Services
2003 - Printers
2006 - IT Solutions
* Revenue for the last four quarters
3. WHAT IF…
YOU COULD CONSOLIDATE AND
TIER YOUR DATA USING WHAT
YOU ALREADY HAVE?
13. WHICH WAY TO GO?
– TRUSTED ARCHITECTURE – LOWER COST INFRASTRUCTURE
– FAST, REGARDLESS OF FILE SIZE – NO SPECIAL TRAINING REQUIRED
– BEST-IN-CLASS DATA – COMPARABLE PERFORMANCE TO
MANAGEMENT FEATURES FIBRE CHANNEL FOR MANY
APPLICATIONS
DELL|EMC CX/AX DELL EQUALLOGIC / POWERVAULT
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14. EMERGENCE OF iSCSI
iSCSI is fastest growing segment of industry
Why the Growth?
– Leverages IT’s ubiquitous
IP Networking Knowledge
– Superior capabilities for
virtualization
– 10GbE
*Gartner 2007 Forecast
iSCSI: 40% CAGR
FC: 4% CAGR
15. iSCSI AND VIRTUALIZATION
69% of iSCSI early adopters WHY?
are currently using server
virtualization software in a
production environment
• Limited hypervisor
configuration required
69% • Minimal network
Yes management required
31%
No
• Direct relationship between
VMs and storage
Dell/EMC CX3-20 and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3:
Optimizing Virtual Data Centers with iSCSI Storage -ESG 2007
16. SIMPLIFY YOUR STORAGE WITH
DELL EQUALLOGIC
Operations / /
Operations
Management $$$ $$
Management • Cost of operations and management
Operations /
Performance / decrease as capacity increases
Management $$
Capacity
Performance / • Fastest and most scalable iSCSI product
Capacity
Learning Curve / • Highest Exchange performance midrange SAN
Performance
Learning Curve
Capacity • All-inclusive price with no hidden costs
2 TB — 16+ TB …
2TB – 16TB…
STORAGE CAPACITY
Storage Capacity
Learning Curve
TM
Changing the way people
experience storage!
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17. Dell is the fastest growing storage
vendor in the world!
Dell is in the leaders quadrant of
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant
Dell is the iSCSI market leader
Dell owns the product named
iSCSI SAN of the Year!
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18. INTRODUCING DELL
SUPPORT SERVICES
Dell and its local partners combine to deliver
service
Bringing worldwide experience to Romania
Global consistency in services
Rapid resolution of incidents to reduce
downtime and improve Total Cost of Ownership
Aimed at Consumers and Businesses
19. ROMANIA INVESTMENT
$3m Initial Investment
Local Distribution Centre (LDC) – Bucharest
5 Field Stock Location (FSL)
11 Pick Up Drop Off Points (PUDO)
Logistics Provider – UPS
Independent Service Provider - IIRUC