Delivering on its commitment to
transform the storage industry with industry-leading customer value and
economics, Dell today announced the global
availability of new enterprise class Dell Storage all-flash array (AFA)
configurations starting at only $25,000 (US). With this launch, Dell offers
customers the lowest entry price for an all-flash mid-range solution by any
major vendor.1
Speaking about the new offering,
Storage Marketing Director Dell, Robin Kuepers stated that: “For years, price
has been the number one barrier to enterprise flash adoption, and we’re
knocking down these walls to make the high performance, reliability and smaller
footprint of flash practical for almost any workload. “As Dell continues to bring down the cost of enterprise
class storage, we now offer customers the industry’s easiest to use and lowest
cost entry point into mid-range, all-flash enterprise arrays.”
Customers continue to recognize Dell’s flash
leadership, with the company being selected as the top choice for deploying
enterprise flash/SSDs for the second consecutive year, according to an October
2014 SSG-NOW independent survey of more than 300 global IT leaders.3
"Dell's
ability to disrupt the storage industry with its extremely attractive and low
entry price for its all-flash storage offerings is made all the more impressive
by its inclusion of enterprise-class features and functionality,” said Mark
Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Given the overall value
proposition—which is bolstered by Dell's renowned Copilot support—IT users
around the globe should certainly give consideration to Dell when looking for
AFA solutions."
The new Dell Storage SC4020 AFA configurations offer an economical
starting point for all-flash performance to support a wide range of
applications and workloads. Dell is now shipping two options:
The Dell Storage SC4020 Entry-Level AFA
single-tier configuration includes six 480GB read-intensive SSDs for a total of
2.8 terabytes of raw capacity for an advertised street price of $25,000
(US). The Dell Storage SC4020 Flash-Optimized AFA multi-tier
configuration provides even faster write performance, while continuing to
optimize cost, with six 480GB read-intensive SSDs, plus an additional six 200GB
write-intensive SSDs for a total of more than 4 terabytes of raw capacity and
an advertised street price of $35,000 (US).
Dell’s Data
Progression software lets the array do what it needs to do to optimise drives
for performance and cost, and frees up hours of our time every month.”
Both new AFA configurations are based on the Dell Storage SC4020 array, which includes 24 drive bays and
dual controllers in a 2U chassis, plus all standard software, options,
installation and three-years of Dell Copilot support.
Customers may continue to expand their Dell
Storage SC4020 AFA as an all-flash solution by adding additional read-intensive
or write-intense drives – or achieve additional cost savings at any time by
automatically moving cold data to one or more optional tiers of traditional
spinning disks. In either case, all incoming writes and “hot reads” are handled
by the fastest SSD tier, ensuring maximum application performance.
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