Douglas N., So Tue. is storage day. EMC will hog the spotlight, media will look to NTAP for rebuttal, and then Dell will talk on Tue too. Just a repost, but why did Dell pick the same day?
Dell to announce partner in expanding storage strategyBy Dan Neel
InfoWorld, 11/28/00
Intent on venturing even further into the lucrative enterprise storage market, Dell will announce a significant expansion of its Storage Systems business unit at a conference of senior-level executives next Tuesday in New York.
The expansion will include new storage devices and storage servers, a re-tuned enterprise storage business strategy, and the addition of a still unnamed storage partner, according to Dell sources.
Dell has had recent storage manufacturing agreements with several prominent companies, including Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Network Appliance and Milpitas, Calif.-based Quantum.
For Dell, choosing the right storage partner will enable it to better drive toward storage standards, sources said.
Earlier this year, Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and Houston-based Compaq combined their storage portfolios into one catalog. The move was part of an effort to expand each company's storage offerings and drive toward more standardized storage protocols, according to officials for the two companies.
Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, the originator of the built-to-order PC business model, has been steadily ramping up its storage offerings since it spun off its PowerVault storage division from the Enterprise Systems Group in 1998.
As of last September, Dell officially launched a separate Storage Systems business unit headed by a new vice president and general manager, Russ Holt.
So who will it be? Can't be EMC, HWP, MCDT, SUNW.
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Nov 16....
Thursday November 16, 5:01 pm Eastern Time
Press Release
Dell Adds PowerVault Storage to Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Win
Company to Provide As Much as 2,000 Terabytes Of Storage -- Enough to Hold Entire Contents of All U.S. Academic Research Libraries
ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000-- Dell (Nasdaq:DELL - news), the world's leading direct computer systems company and a premier provider of Internet infrastructure products and services, today announced that it has been selected to supply as much as two thousand terabytes (or two petabytes) of storage to the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Program.
This win comes on the heels of Dell being selected as the supplier of servers, workstations, desktops and notebooks for the more than 350,000 seats and associated networks that will ultimately come under management as part of the program.
The NMCI program is reportedly the largest federal information technology contract in history and is valued at more than $4.1 billion over the next five years. With an additional three-year option, the contract is valued at more than $6.9 billion. Dell is a member of the EDS-led Information Strike Force team, which was awarded the contract on Oct. 6, 2000.
The NMCI program represents a major shift in federal procurement and a move toward e-business. The goal of the NMCI program is to deliver comprehensiveend-to-end information services enterprise-wide to the Department of the Navy through a common computing and communications environment. The NMCI program will ultimately offer the Navy and Marine Corps higher-quality voice, video and data services at a lower cost than they have today.
``With this contract, the Navy and Marine Corps have made a conscious decision to use technology to become more efficient, and we expect other federal agencies to follow suit,'' said EDS Chairman and CEO Dick Brown. ``Dell's ability to provide world-class systems with the industry's best value proposition is paramount to the success of this project. Together with the other Strike Force members, we're helping the federal government move toward employing the best practices from the commercial and government sectors to improve defense readiness while increasing savings for American taxpayers.''
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.''
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Are the two related, ie DELL needs to break into the enterprise storage biz and they win this HUGE contract for 66 server farms. They need help and they need it now. Would they want clustering and VIA for the server farms?
Will they be the first for Switch Blades?
Will BRCD and EMLX partner for a bigger piece of the pie?
Will DELL buy TrueSAN.
To me this information will be more interesting than the EMC one which will hog the headlines... or will Dell plug into the Chamelion..is that why they chose the same day as EMC for the announcement? There must be someone who can help with this?
Or make some guesses for us. Hoping for the best and am looking forward to Tue. |
