Skip navigation
VMware
349 Views 3 Replies Last post: Nov 7, 2007 1:05 AM by tom howarth RSS
mreferre Virtuoso 3,096 posts since
Jan 16, 2004
Currently Being Moderated

Nov 5, 2007 7:53 AM

Equallogic and Dell

 

I have heard so many times the world "Equallogic" on this board that I guess you will be interested in this piece of news:

 

 

http://www.news.com/Dell-to-buy-storage-company-for-1.4-billion/2100-1015_3-6216992.html

 

 

Massimo.

 

 

 

 

 

tom howarth Guru User Moderators vExpert 8,058 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
Currently Being Moderated
1. Nov 5, 2007 2:47 PM in response to: mreferre
Re: Equallogic and Dell

It will be interesting to see how this affects Dell's relationship with EMC

 

 

Kind Regards

 

Tom,

Please consider the use of the Helpful or correct buttons to award points to those Answers you found useful or correct. Tom Howarth VCP / vExpert VMware Communities User Moderator Blog: http://www.planetvm.net Contributing author on VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment Contributing author on VCP VMware Certified Professional on VSphere 4 Study Guide: Exam VCP-410
marcfarley Lurker 2 posts since
Oct 25, 2007
Currently Being Moderated
2. Nov 6, 2007 3:37 PM in response to: tom howarth
Re: Equallogic and Dell

This is Marc Farley from EqualLogic.  I know a number of people are predicting that the EMC/Dell relationship will fall apart once Dell starts selling EqualLogic products, but I don't think that perspective takes into account the breadth of their relationship, which includes software and services as well as storage systems.  EqualLogic is not going to start developing FC storage and Dell has many customers that want FC storage. I know that because we run into it all the time in our sales efforts at EqualLogic.  Don't get me wrong, we're never all that happy to lose a deal to EMC, but I can tell you there are lots of customers who want to buy EMC FC products from Dell. Furthermore, there are many customers who already have both EMC and EqualLogic products running in their data centers and want to keep it that way.  Its bound to be a bit strange for some time, but my guess is that Dell and EMC will continue to be more valuable to each other as accommodating business partners than they are as bitter rivals.  An EMC/Dell divorce would probably only be satisfying to their mutual competitors.

tom howarth Guru User Moderators vExpert 8,058 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
Currently Being Moderated
3. Nov 7, 2007 1:05 AM in response to: marcfarley
Re: Equallogic and Dell

I have got to tentatively agree here, it would be interesting to see the sales figures of the AX150i from DELL now   the CX range that DELL rebadge will still sell well as they are agressively priced and even undercut EMC's own list proce for the same model.

 

 

 

Kind Regards

 

Tom,

Please consider the use of the Helpful or correct buttons to award points to those Answers you found useful or correct. Tom Howarth VCP / vExpert VMware Communities User Moderator Blog: http://www.planetvm.net Contributing author on VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment Contributing author on VCP VMware Certified Professional on VSphere 4 Study Guide: Exam VCP-410

Bookmarked By (0)

Share This Page

Communities