Dell plans to expand its storage lineup with a series of midsized SAN arrays and a portfolio of software-defined storage systems, furthering two prominent industry trends.
The new arrays will be configurable as hybrid or as all flash and will undercut competing solid-state arrays in a market where flash storage is getting more competitive with disk drives, according to Dell. The SDS (software-defined storage) appliances are based on a startup's software that runs on standard hardware. Both were announced at the Dell User Forum in Miami on Tuesday.