Dell adds SSDs in updated EqualLogic line [Video]

Dell aims the virtualized storage line at the needs of larger enterprises

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Dell is set to update on Wednesday the virtualized storage line it acquired in its purchase of EqualLogic last year, now aiming at the needs of larger enterprises.

The introduction will be part of a larger set of announcements concerning Dell’s datacenter strategy, taking place at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday morning. Dell said it is focused on combining servers, storage and services, all optimized for virtualization, in a single architecture. Like other major datacenter vendors, such as IBM and HP, Dell is facing a new end-to-end competitor in Cisco, which last week announced its first blade servers.

Most storage architectures installed in enterprises today weren’t designed to work with virtualized servers, which are being widely adopted. The new EqualLogic PS6000 Series, an upgrade to the already virtualization-oriented PS5000, includes additional features in that area along with higher performance …