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To: arthur pritchard who wrote (83096)	12/1/1998 1:22:00 PM
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Dell Rounds Out Storage Line (12/01/98, 10:53 a.m. ET) By Chuck Moozakis, InternetWeek Dell has taken another step toward its goal to become a major player in the enterprise storage market. The vendor next Monday will take the wraps off three new storage products: the PowerVault 200S JBOD, the PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 2 and the PowerVault 130T tape library, Dell's first excursion into the backup market. The devices, available this month, round out Dell's PowerVault line, according to Bruce Kornfeld, product marketing manager. "This gives us the portfolio we need to compete in this space," he said. Aberdeen Group analyst Dave Hill said the new products should help Dell in its quest to offer enterprise-class storage devices. "Dell is well recognized in the enterprise for its PCs and servers, but they aren't recognized in the highest-end arenas. They have to demonstrate to their audience that they are capable of playing" in that market, he said. To that end, Dell is targeting the devices to the largest corporate data centers, Kornfeld said. The 200S array features up to eight high-speed 7,200 rpm or 10,000 rpm Ultra 2 SCSI hard drives, capable of pumping data at speeds of up to 80 megabytes per second. Four 200S units can be configured in a single array, providing up to 576 gigabytes of storage capacity. High-availability features include redundant power supplies and hot pluggable fans and disk drives. The 200S is priced from $3,000 to $17,000, depending upon configuration. The DLT library, meanwhile, can hold up to 30 tape cartridges and up to four DLT 4000 or DLT 7000 drives, providing up to 2 terabytes of compressed data. It can be used with restore and backup apps developed by Computer Associates and Seagate Software; it's also been certified with Legato Systems's NetWorker management software. The library is manufactured for Dell by StorageTek and is priced at $17,779. The PERC 2 RAID controller is a 64-bit PCI card that has been designed to offer twice the data transfer speed over Dell's current RAID controller. The device has 128 megabytes of cache capacity and is priced at $1,899; it will be offered as an option to Dell's PowerEdge enterprise servers. The new Dell storage products come a little more than a month after Dell took the wraps off an OEM pact with Network Appliance to develop a line of network-attached storage devices in 1999. Earlier this year, Dell also unveiled an agreement with Data General's Clariion unit to develop a line of Fibre-attached RAID arrays.