Dell partners with EMC

Dell will begin selling EMC's Celerra NX4 unified storage system early next year, reports Information Week.

In addition, Dell and EMC have agreed to extend their partnership through 2013. Dell has been selling EMC products since 2001.

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.

Results of a survey by Ziff Davis Enterprise, publisher of eWeek, indicate that the data storage sector of IT generally remains unblemished by the economic downturn affecting the US and world economy, says eWeek.

Eighty-nine percent of storage survey respondents report they will either maintain or increase their storage purchasing in 2009.

Virtually all companies in the disk and tape storage markets - along with surrounding submarkets, such as storage controllers, data centre management software and others - have reported increasing sales and revenue over 2007.

Storage solutions provider vFusion-io says its ioDrive, an enterprise solid-state data storage technology, has become the first solid-state storage solution to achieve IBM ServerProven designation, states Market Watch.

The IBM ServerProven programme is designed to provide customers with additional product choices by performing compatibility tests with a variety of non-IBM products.

The ioDrive is a PCI-Express-based, direct-attached storage solution that has 100 times the capacity density and 10 times the capacity per dollar of DRAM. The technology makes it possible to have terabytes of near-memory-speed storage within each node, making systems requiring extremely large memory and high-performance I/O for applications more cost-effective.