Dell launched an Internet-based’ storage area network array’ on Monday. Subsequent to the acquisition of ‘EqualLogic’, the computer manufacturer, it is the first introduction by Dell.

Dell’s ‘PS5000 Series iSCSI array’ is aiming at the medium businesses that are running their own servers in a specialized and virtualized environment within the ambit of a data center. This new rolled out array from Dell has been designed with an objective to provide enhanced storage in specified environments.

The “PS5000” is now available in three different models. These models are well equipped with the modular architecture developed by the “EqualLogic”. It will further facilitate the customers with the hardware supporting more storage capacity.

This array is based upon the virtualization concept and provides a simple slicing and dicing the disk arrays in varied applications that are running on virtualized servers.

The” PS5000” Series is a typical 16-bays chassis. Each bay is capable of holding a specific’1 TB drive’ for a complete set of ‘16 TB’ of storage. This is a flexible system that can easily be scaled up to ‘192 TB’ storage. It is extremely beneficial for the specific business systems with enhanced storage capacities “with as many as 60,000 high-transaction users”, according to Dell.

Dell has given this array a new name, the “intelligent storage array”. It is mainly because of the inclusion of ‘SAN configuration’ features along with the capabilities for sensing the “network topology that automatically builds RAID sets, and conducts system health checks”, Dell said. The company claims that the installation and configuration of this new ‘PS5000’ system will not consume more than an hour’s time.

Three models of the ‘PS5000’ series have different speeds of the disk drives. The ‘PS5000E’, the cheapest one, uses the SATA hard disk drives. The ‘PS5000X’ model is based on the 10,000-RPM SAS hot-plugged drives, and the ‘PS5000XV’ model uses the 15,000-RPM SAS drives. The ‘PS5000’ series has a common price tag of $ 19,000.

This new acquired technology of Dell is serving the various types of storage technology related purposes of the small and medium businesses. Experts call this as the “Dell’s sweet spot in storage”.

SANs have been traditionally designed around the “Fiber Channel” which was almost unaffordable for the small businesses specifically. But this new product of Dell, which is based on the “iSCSI SANs”, uses the internet protocols and therefore becomes affordable, manageable, and maintainable for all small and medium businesses. Market analysts expect that the double digit growth of this technology will reach up to $5.1 billion level around 2010.

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