Dell ships SAN

Dell has released the first products resulting from its acquisition of EqualLogic, with the shipping of Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series storage-area network arrays.

Last month, Dell completed the acquisition of EqualLogic, an IP SAN vendor, for US$1.4 billion (NZ$1.76 billion).

PS5000 has built-in virtualisation in the storage array; management capabilities including remote replication and thin provisioning; and the ability to create multiple tiers of storage in a single SAN while optimising each tier for the application it serves, according to Dell.