Disk-based storage systems are losing their appeal as businesses increasingly shift their critical storage workloads to #allflash arrays. IDC reports that the worldwide market for enterprise storage systems dropped 6.7 percent on year-over-year basis in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016 before settling at $11.1 billion. While sales may have dropped, the market's appetite for more capacity remains unsated. Vendors shipped 52.4 exabytes worth of storage capacity in Q4, an annual increase of 18.3 percent. "2016 represented a year of considerable change for the enterprise storage systems market," observed Liz Conner, research manager of IDC's Storage Systems unit. "While the broader #enterprisestorage systems market has been impacted by headwinds, companies continue to increase their investments in several key areas, such as #softwaredefinedstorage, #cloudbasedstorage, #allflash storage systems, and #convergedsystems ."
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Dell PowerEdge grows revenue, shrinks data center footprint
#Dell 's new addition to its blade server market, the Dell #PowerEdge #FX2, has helped Dell's blade server market experience 34% year over year revenue growth, growing seventeen percent faster than the overall industry in 2016, the company reports. The PowerEdge modular infrastructure has been an offering since 2014, and has been used as infrastructure improvement in data centers across 70 countries worldwide. Customers are using the infrastructure in conjunction with Dell system management software, which the company says has helped improve data center efficiency without totally changing their own infrastructure. "With strong systems management capabilities, the PowerEdge FX2 can help customers meet their goals by supporting traditional applications and new workloads driven by social, mobile, analytics and cloud computing in a modular infrastructure. These attributes combined with recent customer successes is driving unprecedented growth," says Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, vice president and general manager, Dell Server Solutions. The infrastructure has been used in some of the world's most powerful data centers by using it as 'building block' for storage, storage and networking that has improved data center operations, the company says. Accelerated Technology Laboratories, A US-based research facility, used the technology to consolidate its data center footprint to improve cooling, power and rack space requirements in more than 400 of its laboratories. The company says its growing infrastructure facilitated the upgrade. "The Dell FX2 architecture supports our whole business in a 2U space, and it is critical that it is extremely reliable for our employees and our customers. With the Dell FX2 as the center of our end-to-end Dell solution, our infrastructure gives us the flexibility to expand storage and compute as our company grows," says Mark Burke, chief information officer at Accelerated Technology Laboratories.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
New Dell Systems Management Capabilities Bolster Customer Successes for Fast-growing Dell PowerEdge FX2 Modular Infrastructure
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dell today announced updates to the systems management portfolio for the #Dell #PowerEdge #FX2 modular infrastructure to help customers further maximize IT productivity and business continuity. The new features enhance provisioning and infrastructure visibility, plus add support for Nagios users and open source applications.