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Storage sprawl is threatening remote or and branch offices (ROBO) as well as the central data center. Exponential data growth is driving increased costs, complexity, and inefficiencies for storage on the edge of the organization. Data protection is also a concern, particularly when sites are supported only through central IT resources or local IT staff dual-tasked with other business functions.

Combining Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS4000 series storage arrays with the Dell PowerVault™ DL2100 Powered by CommVault® helps simplify storage consolidation and data protection. The PS4000 and DL2100 deliver a scalable storage solution designed for remote sites within large and small medium size organizations. This powerful pair offers an affordable SAN with investment protection and integrated disk-to-disk-to-tape backup with deduplication and compression to solve WAN constraints to enable efficient data protection and retention at a central location. Combined with an integrated suite of enterprise-level software applications to centralize management, this solution delivers increased efficiencies, reduced complexity, and lower costs.

Simplify IT operations and reduce total IT expenditures
Eliminate unnecessary complexity at remote sites and branch offices by leveraging central IT staff to manage and monitor remote storage.

Standardize platforms to drive efficiencies and to regain control of data protection, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance
EqualLogic “pay as you grow” scalable storage solutions are single multi-generational SANs with seamless interoperability. The PS4000 Series array offers remote sites an affordable SAN with investment protection and enterprise-level software.

Automate IT management and virtualize to achieve low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Remote IT staffs often promote inefficient use of server and storage resources and non-standard operational policies and procedures resulting in insufficient data protection, leaving the organization’s data at risk of loss and regulatory non-compliance (SOX, DPA, HIPAA, FCRA, etc). Dell offers easy storage and server administration using EqualLogic’s SAN HQ and the Dell Management Console powered by Altiris® from Symantec®. With these tools, central IT teams can manage the data protection and disaster recovery process across their organization.

Dell works collaboratively and is certified with industry leading technology partners for enhanced backup and restore solutions.

	Blue Coat Systems Blue Coat® Systems ProxySG and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Provide Accelerated Replication Performance Over WAN Links.
	Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.
	Citrix Snapshot, clone and replication features enhance the value of EqualLogic SANs in Citrix-virtualized environments by protecting mission-critical data otherwise made more vulnerable by consolidation and centralization.
	F5 Networks Dell and F5 have combined EqualLogic™ iSCSI SAN and F5® BIG-IP® WOM to create an advanced data storage system with the ability to improve security and efficiency when replicating data over WANs.
	Microsoft As a leading iSCSI SAN vendor, we work closely with Microsoft’s Simple SAN initiative including Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) compatibility for full integration with all leading backup vendors that support VSS. In addition, Dell has worked closely with Microsoft to ensure that the PS Series provides a seamlessly scalable SAN for DPM backup services.
	Nortel Networks Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series and Dell EqualLogic PS Series provide high-performance, reliable iSCSI storage that scales.
	Riverbed Technology Dell EqualLogic PS Series SANs and Riverbed Steelhead appliances integrate to provide cost-effective simplification and optimization of WAN-based data migration and backup operations.
	Symantec The EqualLogic PS Series supports Symantec Backup Exec backup and recovery software and VERITAS Storage Foundation storage management and virtualization software to deliver enhanced data and storage management environment for enterprise customer.
	VMware As Global Alliance Partners, Dell and VMware provide integrated enterprise solutions that enable the virtualized environment, both servers and storage, within a customer's IT environment.