Modernize Your Customer’s Data Center With the Simple Choice

If you’ve sold your customer a system to better manage their business-critical database data, you’ve gone only partway to helping them modernize their data center. 

In today’s digital age, industry consensus reports that 80% of all new data being created is unstructured—stored primarily in the form of files and objects. Unstructured data is far more than just wedding photos or a dozen versions of a PowerPoint presentation stored in a home directory. In the modern economy, unstructured data includes important application and IT data such as sensor data, log files from servers and networking devices, email, surveillance videos, CAD or medical images, metadata and much more. Every organization of every size has unstructured data, which needs to be stored, managed, analyzed and protected.Unstructured Data

How can a vendor who offers a single solution for all their customers’ unstructured data requirements help their customers fully transform their data centers?

When you partner with Dell EMC, you can offer your customers choice ─ one that is not complicated, it’s simple. Choice takes into account the customer’s IT infrastructure today and in the future. It also takes into account the amount of unstructured data and the speed at which it’s growing. And, it considers the ecosystem required to get the most from the organization’s unstructured data.

Provide your customers with solutions from Dell EMC’s best-of-breed portfolio:

Dell EMC Isilon

The leader in scale-out NAS as recognized by industry analysts*, Isilon was designed for unstructured workloads and delivers

    • Exceptional performance
    • Easy capacity scalability
    • Multi-protocol access
    • Cloud tiering

Isilon is the ideal solution for customers who are looking at file-only, general purpose NAS or unstructured NAS (audio, video or large graphic files) workloads, or who are looking to do Hadoop data analytics or require integration with ISVs in specialties such as video surveillance or life sciences.

Dell EMC Unity

The Dell EMC Unity product is a consolidated SAN and NAS array that is optimized for flash and simplicity. Dell EMC Unity supports file system scalability to 256TB (usable) with efficiency features such as inline compression, flexible snapshots, and VMDK cloning.

Unity is the ideal solution for customers who want their block and file storage on a single system or who want to deploy applications such as databases and VMware over NAS (i.e. Transactional NAS).

Dell EMC SC + FS8600

This easy add-on Gateway provides enterprise-class transactional NAS, based on the FluidFS scale-out file system, for SC Series storage systems.

Dell EMC SC + FS8600 are ideal for customers with SC Series deployments who are looking to add enterprise file sharing.

We’ve made it easy for you to get started in helping your customers manage unstructured data and transform their data centers

  1.   Familiarize yourself with the comprehensive portfolio of Dell EMC NAS solutions
  1. Identify your target customers

Many organizations haven’t had a plan for managing their unstructured data growth; and, consequently their file data is stored in silos that are inefficient and difficult to manage. This is a good opportunity for you to introduce a consolidated NAS solution with Dell EMC. Other organizations have maintained their storage on a competitive NAS platform for years and as those systems reach the end of their service life, there’s no simple migration strategy. Why not introduce them to solutions from the industry’s leading provider of NAS systems?

  1. Learn about Dell EMC programs to help facilitate competitive displacement

With customer incentives for swapping out competitive systems and local and remote migration services, we’re making it easier for you to establish a Dell EMC footprint in your customers’ data centers.

Contact your local Dell EMC partner business manager to get started, or visit the Dell EMC Partner Portal for more information on our programs.

* Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, March 3, 2017.

 

About the Author: Kristine Cornwall