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Dell Updates EqualLogic Storage Line, Targets Linux And Acquires AppAssure: Page 3 of 3

Customer enthusiasm is off the charts, he says. "The Compellent numbers were so high, we thought they were a math error, but we studied it and they turned out correct because of Copilot. So we're investing and going to roll that out for every product in storage." EqualLogic will be the first product to be added, and Dell is investing, scaling up the Copilot organization, extending globally and building the infrastructure for an automated data collection engine for the different products.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Reston, Va., AppAssure delivers the industry's fastest backup and recovery of virtual servers, including VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer, as well as physical servers, states Dell. AppAssure will enable customers to seamlessly move and replicate data across its existing platforms, from an EqualLogic array in a remote office to a Compellent array at a data recovery site.

Unlike traditional solutions, AppAssure is application-aware, with built-in intelligence both about the data and the application, blogged Darren Thomas, VP/GM, Dell Storage. It is integrated with storage solutions like snapshots that can quickly capture changed data as frequently as virtual environments need, dedupe and compress this incremental snapshot, and recover it quickly for any slice of time. Using its very simple, single management pane of glass, customers can verify the reliability of the recovery and back up to any physical or virtual machine from any platform, providing customers the Fluid Data promise of the right data in the right place at the right time for the right cost.

Thomas says existing customers will see an immediate benefit on day one--for example, by being able to back up an EqualLogic array to a Compellent solution and recover it from anywhere. Initially, it will be a software-only solution, and then over time Dell will offer additional data protection solutions tightly integrated in its Fluid Data architecture. Customers will be able to manage data end-to-end, not in silos of servers and storage, or islands of sites.

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