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Dsa Spotlight on Dell Storage in Asean Dell Storage Strategy - Coming of Age DSA SPOTLIGHT ON DELL STORAGE IN ASEAN DELL STORAGE STRATEGY - COMING OF AGE A CAPABILITY ANALYSIS PAPER WRITTEN AND PREPARED BY DATA&STORAGE ASEAN © ASIA ONLINE PUBLISHING GROUP SDN BHD 2014 SPOTLIGHT ON DELL STORAGE EDITORS INTRODUCTION The Storage Group at Dell Asean opened its 1 HOW HAS DELL doors to Data & Storage Asean and asked us to INTEGRATED ITS critically assess the progress they have made in STORAGE ACQUISITIONS rounding out the Group’s storage offerings. INTO A COMPREHENSIVE DATA We were given access to key people who run the STORAGE SOLUTIONS storage business across Dell Asean and in so doing PORTFOLIO? allowed us to determine the extent to which Dell 2 WHAT HAS DELL DONE has built its storage portfolio, the progress Dell has WITH ITS STORAGE made in managing and integrating the various ACQUISITIONS TO storage acquisitions of the last 7 years, and DEVELOP A NEW potentially the future direction of the company. STRATEGY? 3 DOES DELL HAVE THE Data & Storage Asean took this opportunity to RIGHT TO CALL ITSELF make this assessment and focused on answering A MAJOR PLAYER IN three main questions: THE STORAGE SPACE? © ASIA ONLINE PUBLISHING GROUP SDN BHD 2014 SPOTLIGHT ON DELL STORAGE DELL STORAGE ACQUISITION HISTORY Dell’s first major foray into the storage arena started seriously in November of 2008 with the purchase of EqualLogic. Back then, there were 8,000 EqualLogic units installed across 4,000 customers globally. By November 2012, Dell expanded this piece of their storage business by more than eleven fold to 45,000 customers. Today Dell continues to invest heavily in every storage technology they have acquired. Dell has worked hard to tightly integrate the entire storage portfolio and it is clear that these investments in storage technology will continue into the future. Dell is taking a building block approach to becoming a serious storage player. The success of the EqualLogic acquisition cemented Dell’s intent to build a comprehensive storage portfolio. We expect subsequent purchases will strengthen the vendor’s future position in the burgeoning storage market. These acquisitions included: 2008 – EqualLogic (iSCSI storage area network) 2010 – Exanet (network-attached storage software and foundation of the Dell Fluid File System or FluidFS) 2010 – Ocarina Networks (fle-aware storage optimization and data compression/data deduplication) 2011 – Compellent (modular, scalable, iSCSI, Fibre Channel and FCoE SAN Storage) 2012 – AppAssure (backup software) 2013 – Quest (security, data protection, BakBone) NetVault AppAssure 2013 vRanger 2012 2013 Purpose Built Data VM Data Backup Protection Appliance & Backup Protection OCARINA DE DUPLICATION 2010 EXANET 2010 FLUID FILE SYSTEM BLOCK STORAGE FC/ ISCSI iSCSI/FCoE EQUALLOGIC COMPELLENT 2008 2011 Certainly when viewed alone, each acquisition raised more questions than answers. Why did Dell acquire Equallogic when it would eventually enter into a 10 year reseller relationship with EMC? What we have observed, and this is to Dell’s credit, is that the company has been good at taking the time to discover and understand the technologies it acquired, and invest even more into integrating these acquired IP into solutions that make business and technology sense. Indeed, six years on, we are starting to see Dell come out with a storage portfolio that should earn it the respect of its competitors and the ears and minds of its customers. Data&Storage Asean will be the frst to admit that the end is not yet here for Dell. Storage remains a moving target that hasn’t stopped or slowed down since the days when punch cards or even drum memory. © ASIA ONLINE PUBLISHING GROUP SDN BHD 2014 SPOTLIGHT ON DELL STORAGE DELL STORAGE ACQUISITION HISTORY CONT. We have categorised these acquisitions into three groups: Building Block End Product Point End product Ingredient Product Building Block End Product EqualLogic and Compellent form the foundation of what we would consider as the basic building blocks of Dell’s Block-based primary storage portfolio. Point End Products AppAssure and Quest provide point technologies that boost Dell’s Data Protection Portfolio. Ingredient Products Exanet and Ocarina bring in technologies that have been developed to add functionality to the total storage range. Exanet provides the technology for what is today Dell’s Fluid File System and Ocarina for deduplication and compression technology. Data&Storage Asean has observed Dell through a number of these acquisitions and we see a common cycle. Following each acquisition is a period of silence from Dell with no obvious proactive marketing or product announcement. When that happens Dell has often been open to criticism with industry pundits questioning the “point” of the purchase and wondering if Dell understood what or why it had made the purchased. However in each case, the reality is that Dell has taken the technology and intellectual property, learned what they had, applied signifcantly more R&D resources to ongoing development, and only then shift marketing gears when new products are ready to go out to market. Technology experts agree that Dell has taken each acquisition with the same degree of measured planning refecting the gravity of its intent to become a serious player in the storage arena. Dell has developed and improved most of the technologies they have inherited. Take for example the backup software Netvault from the Quest that Dell acquired in September 2012. By adding more R&D resources into the mix, Dell is able to not only enhance the point solution it acquired, but integrate it into an existing portfolio to deliver a signifcantly enhanced technology – the Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) technology which offers advanced management platform for File, block and SAN based primary storage. © ASIA ONLINE PUBLISHING GROUP SDN BHD 2014 SPOTLIGHT ON DELL STORAGE DELL STORAGE STRATEGY Dell has amalgamated all of its developed and acquired storage technologies to deliver a strategy which in their words: Provide users and applications with access to the right data at the right time in the right place for the right cost. This is a wide ranging strategy and, in our opinion, Dell is delivering against and stands alone in breadth of offerings that have been developed to match this mantra – the right data at the right time in the right place at the right cost. Strategy is Key Data centers need to handle many types of diverse application workloads Our assessment of the storage portfolio led to one overarching conclusion: an overarching strategy is more important than components. The components (or products) are in themselves compelling, with a truly enviable breadth of products that we will outline in the next section. However it is the glue that brings the components together that cements Dell’s place as a signifcant and major storage vendor. So what is the “special sauce”? We looked at some of the catchy marketing phrases and some of the “cutely” named products that Dell is touting and delved a bit deeper. We wanted to see if things like “Flash at the price of Disk” and “FluidFS” are real differentiators or just creative marketing without technical substance behind them. Flash at the Price of Disk Many companies market their all fash arrays at prices comparable to traditional HDD-based arrays, but they do so after applying compression and deduplication so their comparison is not necessarily like for like. Dell has used clever technology to place a much higher percentage of cheaper MLC fash into the arrays, meaning that even with a true like for like comparison the price of the Dell all fash array really does compare to traditional disk. Further the Dell all fash array is built on Compellent technology meaning that many enterprise features like replication, snapshot and thin provisioning that may not be available with some of the new Flash only vendors are already embedded in the Dell solution. Verdict – Dell offers real unique features and its claim is real. © ASIA ONLINE PUBLISHING GROUP SDN BHD 2014 SPOTLIGHT ON DELL STORAGE Fluid File System Architecture Dell have continued to build on their Fluid FS and are integrating their products together to create joined up solutions like FluidCache for SAN Every enterprise storage vendor has a “scale out fle system” offering and for Dell, it is the FluidFS. The FluidFS architecture allows customers to manage information more effectively, responding to three of the greatest challenges facing IT today: the exponential growth of data, the different requirements which arise from changes in IT, and the rigidity of the traditional storage architecture. Fluid File System has been developed specifically to enable: Capacity and Scalability Effciency Interoperability Manageability Performance Resilience Security Data Protection Archive and Tiering Dell is not unique in creating a comprehensive scale out fle system with enterprise features. However by delivering the Fluid File System Dell brings itself head to head with all other major storage vendors. By enabling storage solution that scale and deliver blistering fast performance, Dell has done an excellent job of developing FluidFS as a single consistent fle system across every Dell storage Platform. Verdict - Where Dell scores high in our view is creating an architecture that lends itself to the goal of the right data at the right time in the right place for the right cost. It is a hugely scalable fle system that is sensitive to the underlying storage architecture. This combined with the distributed and clustered architecture of Fluid File System, results in an architecture that can easily leverage future technology enhancements. Data Progression Intelligent Tiering virtualizes the placement of data on the optimal storage tier and RAID level using a technology called Data Progression. Based on the actual use of data, Data Progression intelligently determines if a block is heavily accessed and how often access typically occurs.
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