Phantom Partners With Dell EqualLogic

Phantom Data Systemsn Inc., a data storage, disaster recovery and data backup solutions provider in Norwalk, Connecticut, announced a strategic partnership with Dell EqualLogic.

"EqualLogic has been on our radar for a while, right after their happy marriage with Dell," said Alani Kuye, company president. "We did our due diligence and thoroughly evaluated the decision to add another storage vendor. Our decision to go with EqualLogic is based on a number of variables. Interoperability, scalability, and of course the heavy support of multi platform stacks and being vendor agnostic. It also helps that compared to the EMC, HP, NetApps and Suns out there, EqualLogic is the superior alternative."

With the modular design of the EqualLogic PS Series, you can buy only the amount of storage needed today and seamlessly add additional arrays in the future without disrupting business operations. Enterprise reliability features include fault tolerance; fully redundant, hot-swappable components (including disks, controllers, network interfaces, power supplies, and cooling fans); self-tuning, battery-backed, mirrored controller caches; hot sparing; support for RAID 5/10/50; and 99.999% availability.

The two companies are uniquely positioned to increase the adoption of alternative and availability solutions above current adoption levels. EqualLogic’s open ecosystem approach with the PS series and Storage Management interface allows customers to select best of breed ISV partner solutions to add enhanced functionality to their IT environments. "Lets face it, the greatest approach to risk management to have no risk at all. However, if you’re in business, then there is given risk. So we have to eliminate to the bare minimum from a technology and business risk management approach. None is number one, affordability is number two, scalability is number three on our paradigm of success," said Alani Kuye.

With more and more clients asking questions about storage management, virtualization and disaster recovery, the need for a virtual environment to offset disaster recovery and availability services has never been greater. The virtualization market alone is a multi billion dollar industry and projected to grow at a 75 percent run rate over the next 10 years. Companies like Phantom Data Systems have a lot to gain from this. "Being a leading Disaster Recovery solution provider in the North East, we live and breathe the technology," added Andrew Preston, vice president – implementations.

"Customer perception is that availability and DR solutions require a lot of IT resources to setup and maintain, as a result IDC finds most organizations are invested when it comes to business continuity,” said John Humphreys, Program Vice President, Virtualization Software for IDC. “The combination of easy-to-use, tightly integrated virtualization and availability software could make HA and DR a practical reality for mid-market companies as well as broadens protection in larger companies.”