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To: Voltaire who wrote (83809)	12/5/1998 10:09:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

Dell to manufacture its own storage products? Well don't be surprised. Voltaire: Interesting piece of news,as you can see from below DELL may be manufacturing their own storage products in couple of years. ============================================================= '..But now that it has established a presence in the market, Dell does plan to begin manufacturing its own storage products; it has been hiring engineers from storage vendors over the last year for that purpose. In its drive to become one of the top five open-system storage vendors by 2001, Dell says solutions due by 2000 will support managing a mixed NT and Unix storage framework.....' DELL'S NT STORAGE -- VENDOR TEAMS WITH STORAGE COMPANIES FOR PRODUCT SUITE Dec. 04, 1998 (InformationWeek - CMP via COMTEX) -- Dell Computer this week will introduce a full suite of storage products for Windows NT servers. The move underlines the importance of an external storage portfolio for vendors who want to be considered NT solutions providers. The reason: As NT becomes a data-center platform, many customers are measuring their storage needs in gigabytes and even terabytes. The products debut just months after Dell began selling its first removable storage system for the enterprise. The new offerings consist of an Ultra SCSI 2 storage subsystem, a DLT-based tape library for backup and restore tasks, and a RAID controller for high-availability requirements. Dell is also enhancing its existing Fibre Channel storage subsystem. "Now we have a broad product folio for the NT storage market, " says Kevin Reinis, director of product marketing and business development for Dell Storage Systems. Anders Lofgren, a senior analyst with Giga Information Group, says the new offerings further establish Dell as a viable storage vendor for NT implementations of around 100 Gbytes. "If system vendors want to be taken seriously, storage is an important component," says Lofgren. "They must have some offering, even if it's through an original- equipment-maker agreement with someone else." Dell does lean heavily on equipment makers as partners. The PowerVault 200S SCSI system is built by EuroLogic Systems to Dell's specifications; the PowerVault 130T tape library is based on Storage Technology Corp.'s 9370 tape library; the PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (Perc 2) is made by Adaptec Corp.; and the enhanced PowerVault 650F Fibre Channel unit continues to be from Data General Corp.'s Clariion division. Reinis adds that Dell's direct model lets users efficiently meet expanding storage needs. "Storage capacity grows a lot over time, so customers want the quick time to market, competitive pricing, and reliability that Dell delivers," he says. To accomplish that, StorageTek says Dell puts extreme demands on suppliers. This includes having inventory depots close to Dell facilities for just-in-time products, says Mark Davis, StorageTek's VP of multiplatform storage marketing. Says Davis, "Most other tape vendors don't have the infrastructure to do it." According to Lofgren, Dell was right to jump into the game with other partners, rather than miss opportunities while ramping up its own storage business from scratch. But now that it has established a presence in the market, Dell does plan to begin manufacturing its own storage products; it has been hiring engineers from storage vendors over the last year for that purpose. In its drive to become one of the top five open-system storage vendors by 2001, Dell says solutions due by 2000 will support managing a mixed NT and Unix storage framework. Dell will pair its hardware with storage-management software from Legato Systems and Veritas, as well as its own PowerVault software. The PowerVault 200S processes data at 80 Mbytes per second, stores more than 145 Gbytes of data, and offers redundant, hot-pluggable features for between $3,000 and $17,000. Starting at $17,799, the PowerVault 130T will back up more than 2 terabytes of information, processing data at a rate of 144 Gbytes per hour. The $1,899 Perc 2 delivers high-performance RAID availability with a 64-bit, 66-MHz adapter card; it can handle 128 Mbytes of removable cache memory. With 18-Gbyte Fibre Channel drives, the PowerVault 650F can store more than 2 terabytes of data in a single rack, and more than 6 terabytes of data for a single Dell server when three racks are attached. The 650F is priced at $24,000 with 10 drives. By: Martin J. Garvey