Dell turns heat up on NetApp with midrange push
Dell turns heat up on NetApp with midrange push
Apr 27, 2005: Dell has taken its partnership with EMC a step further, and at the same time thrown down to gauntlet to rival vendor Network Appliance, with its plans to offer a network-attached storage (NAS) device aimed at the midrange market, in which NetApp currently holds a leadership position.
The new Dell/EMC NS500G is a NAS gateway, which allows customers to consolidate data from multiple NAS systems and connect to a storage area network (SAN).
While in the past organisations looked to implement a NAS or SAN-based network, increasingly the two are coming together, as companies look to use elements of the two in their networks – NAS for file-based applications and SAN for block-based applications.
The new Dell/EMC NAS gateway is designed to take the complexity out of having separate storage architectures by consolidating all block and file data in one storage pool.
EMC isn't far behind NetApp in the midrange NAS market, with the pair jointly accounting for around 70 percent of the segment. Now that Dell is to resell a co-branded Dell/EMC box, NetApp's mid-market share is likely to come under pressure.
"The Dell/EMC NS500G builds on the success of the Dell/EMC partnership and extends our storage portfolio to include enterprise-class NAS. It is the logical next step in Dell's scalable enterprise strategy."
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