Technoglitch
Core Member
Dell is also aggressively promoting the adoption of flash. SCOS 7 not only promotes the adoption of flash, it increases virtualization (which should elevate and abstract data control), and unifies Dell’s storage ecosystem across multiple portfolios. These abilities will help businesses address current challenges while preparing for future challenges.
Benefits include:
In a further effort to reduce costs, SCOS 7 has a comprehensive data reduction that will enable customers to store more data on fewer drives, a 10:1 reduction or better in some cases (though 3:1 or 4:1 is reported more often). SCOS 7 leverages the new Intelligent Deduplication and enhanced Intelligent Block-Level Compression. The deduplication can be turned on or off and is active on the lowest tier of media (whether that is HDDs or SSDs in an all-flash array). Using the auto-tiering feature, hot data is kept on the highest performing tier, when it cools it is moved to a lower tier where it is deduplicated. This comes with the higher costs of keeping more data on the hot tier but Dell states that customers can see as high as 93% improvement in capacity.
In order to unify its Dell Storage ecosystem, Dell is introducing Dell Storage Manager (DSM not to be confused with Synology’s popular DSM) software. This new software provides a common management platform with an HTML5-based interface for SC, PS and FS products. SCOS 7 will add bi-directional cross-platform replication between SC and PS arrays, and “single pane of glass” day-to-day management of both systems. Dell claims that they are the only storage vendor in the mid-range enterprise storage area to offer native cross-replication across product lines. That means PS customers can leverage existing investments if they choose to purchase SC products in the future.
Availability
Most of SCOS 7 features are available now on SC9000. General availability for the entire SC line is expected in the third quarter of 2016.
Dell Announces SCOS 7 | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews
Benefits include:
- Helps lower acquisition costs across flash and hybrid arrays
- Helps lower lifecycle costs through elevated, simplified management
- Increased flexibility to respond to business and technology changes
- Enhanced support for virtualization and cloud strategies
- Increased portfolio-level investment protection.
In a further effort to reduce costs, SCOS 7 has a comprehensive data reduction that will enable customers to store more data on fewer drives, a 10:1 reduction or better in some cases (though 3:1 or 4:1 is reported more often). SCOS 7 leverages the new Intelligent Deduplication and enhanced Intelligent Block-Level Compression. The deduplication can be turned on or off and is active on the lowest tier of media (whether that is HDDs or SSDs in an all-flash array). Using the auto-tiering feature, hot data is kept on the highest performing tier, when it cools it is moved to a lower tier where it is deduplicated. This comes with the higher costs of keeping more data on the hot tier but Dell states that customers can see as high as 93% improvement in capacity.
In order to unify its Dell Storage ecosystem, Dell is introducing Dell Storage Manager (DSM not to be confused with Synology’s popular DSM) software. This new software provides a common management platform with an HTML5-based interface for SC, PS and FS products. SCOS 7 will add bi-directional cross-platform replication between SC and PS arrays, and “single pane of glass” day-to-day management of both systems. Dell claims that they are the only storage vendor in the mid-range enterprise storage area to offer native cross-replication across product lines. That means PS customers can leverage existing investments if they choose to purchase SC products in the future.
Availability
Most of SCOS 7 features are available now on SC9000. General availability for the entire SC line is expected in the third quarter of 2016.
Dell Announces SCOS 7 | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews
