Pinhi, Are you bowler. <gg> re: ...Michael Dell in which he said he intended to do to storage what he did to PCs.
He said the same about Workstation, DELL is now the leader in selling workstation worldwide.
Awhile back NTAP and DELL where in bed. From DS has told me NTAP fell over backwards trying to make it happen. But it didn't work out. Yes I know going from PC to storage is far from a straight line, and I know DELL lacks the expertise for the really big jobs as turnkey supplier, but DELL is not going to set around a stagnate, or will the others. Here is a little snip from the Navy Contract news release
<<Dell's products will compose the primary network infrastructure for eight Navy Operations Centers throughout the continental United States. Over the next five years, Dell will supply desktops, notebooks, thin clients and servers for up to 66 server farms. The 66 server farms will each be composed of an estimated 2,500 PowerEdge(tm) 2450 and PowerEdge 6450 servers as well as PowerVault(tm) storage systems. With Dell's enterprise-class systems as the foundation of the NMCI program, the Navy and Marine Corps are assured the highest levels of flexibility, reliability and performance.
"Dell and EDS are both at the forefront of helping organizations leverage the power of the Internet to increase their efficiency and lower their costs," said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO at Dell. "The Navy and Marine Corps' decision to standardize on Dell systems is yet another endorsement of our ability to provide the performance, reliability and data security that is essential to improving the way organizations communicate.">>
Now that's big contract it shows how far DELL as come moving up the food chain. The word Standardize stands out.
I remember when DELL starting with servers, they didn't even have rack mounted one, so you can see, they are relentless in expanding the DELL's manufacturing efficiency further into supplying enterprise computing needs. Along the way they could develop the software savvy.
Greg |
