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Dell has announced that early next year it will begin selling EMC’s Celerra NX4 unified storage system. The companies have agreed to extend their partnership through 2013. The multiprotocol NX4 can be used for network-attached or iSCSI storage, or within a storage area network. The system scales up to 60 drives and can support one or two blade servers. The product supports SAS and SATA hard drives and is certified for operating within VMware-based virtualization environments and as storage for Microsoft’s Exchange e-mail server and SQL Server database.

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This post was written by Kim Windmiller

Dell Inc. has gained share in iSCSI-based SANs to take the number one position with more than twice the revenue of the next leading vendor. This growth demonstrates strong momentum in all segments of Dell’s worldwide storage business. Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of Dell Enterprise Storage said
“We believe taking the lead in the Windows/Linux external storage market is significant. We have invested heavily in our portfolio across the board. This is the high-growth segment, and we plan to continue demonstrating leadership throughout our entire family of storage systems, including PowerVault, Dell/EMC and EqualLogic.”
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