Dell Announces Storage Simplification Assessments

Dell introduced the  Storage Simplification
Assessments portfolio, a globally-consistent set of offerings designed
to simplify the evaluation and selection of storage, backup, recovery
and archiving environments. The new offerings will help customers
improve the management and scalability of their storage and backup
infrastructure while helping them cope with the dramatic increase in the
volume of data in traditional and virtualized settings.

A departure from the industry’s traditional
storage and backup consulting approach, Dell Assessment services can
deliver information to the customer in days, instead of weeks, by
leveraging non-disruptive tools and processes. The offers provide a
technical and operational inventory of customers’
environments and help them more rapidly decide which solution will best
meet their needs.

“The combination of Dell’s
recent storage acquisitions and this new global services delivery makes
it very clear that Dell is focused on helping customers address storage
growth along the path to simplifying IT,” said
Doug Chandler, research director, Infrastructure Services, IDC. “The
steps Dell is taking to provide an end-to-end storage portfolio that
simplifies the storage market for customers are compelling.”

The Storage Simplification Assessments portfolio includes the following
options:

• The
  Storage for Server Virtualization Assessment helps customers
  quickly evaluate their existing storage infrastructure to help ensure
  data is properly managed in virtualized environments.
• The
  Backup, Restore and Archive Assessment analyzes an organization’s
  entire backup and restoration environment and helps to proactively
  address recovery time objectives.
• The
  Data Management and Storage Technology Assessment provides
  customers with a detailed analysis of their existing storage
  infrastructure in order to determine the storage technologies needed
  to meet their business needs.

“After experiencing strong business growth, we
had serious issues managing our 15TB storage and backup environment,”
said Richard Sacre, IT director, John Brown Publishing. “By
leveraging Dell’s Storage Simplification
Assessment portfolio, we were able to more fully understand existing
issues and identify how data was being utilized within our organization.
As a result, we have completely redesigned our storage and backup
infrastructure to allow for high speed file serving, immediate access to
archived data and improved scalability that will allow us to focus on
growing our business.”

“For many customers, storage infrastructure
has become unnecessarily difficult to manage,”
said Paul Kaeley, Storage Consulting Practice Leader, Dell. “Dell’s
new Storage Simplification assessments identify the core issues driving
complexity and provide a path to simplifying customers’
storage and backup environments.”

Dell’s Storage Simplification Assessments are
available immediately through Dell and will be offered to Dell
Registered Partners looking to enhance storage consulting, deployment
and integration capabilities.

Dell Inc.