Dell Fluid Data

The architecture of Fluid Data providing "overflowing" of corporate data on storage infrastructure levels thanks to their automatic classification and migration is complemented with the capacious slogan Fluid Forward symbolizing its purpose — advance, creation of a basis of successful business development of customers and achievement of the best results due to data storage optimization. Fluid Data becomes one of components of convergent infrastructure, support of cloud computing and "corporate mobility".

This architecture is supplemented by storage virtualization (creation of a pool of resources), optimization of use of the disk capacity (thin provisioning), "instant pictures" for protection and fast data recovery, replication given on remote platforms (thin replication), possibilities of dynamic scaling of systems.

The architecture of Fluid Data should help customers to reduce complexity and to reduce data management cost. Announcements of the last year confirm progress of this strategy: the market is entered by the products showing results of innovations and integration of a solution portfolio of Dell Storage. The solutions of the senior class which filled up a portfolio of Dell as a result of acquisition of Compellent company and the new PowerVault systems on the basis of iSCSI and Fibre Channel technologies became the most significant new products in a line of storage systems of the last year. The most significant advantages of the storage systems in Dell consider the attractive cost and usability, the maximum flexibility in building of resources.