“The Dell EqualLogic SAN has given us an incredibly flexible and scalable solution where we can provision a new storage volume for a Microsoft Dynamics NAV database in just a few minutes.” - Tom Zuijdwegt, development manager, 4PS
“We use the Auto-Snapshot Manager tool that came with our Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series SANs to restore data quickly. This gives us peace of mind that our data is protected at all times.” - Michel Sebag, chief information officer, A.L. Filter
“We’ve successfully used VMware Infrastructure 3 and Dell EqualLogic storage arrays to reshape our IT infrastructure and make it more adaptable to business goals like high availability and disaster recovery.” - Shane Fontenot, Network Technician, Acme Truck Line, Inc.
"Tiered storage is a really big win for us – we just plug it in, and anything we need will migrate there automatically. We can scale independently according to our needs."
- Andy Monroe, Vice President of Technology, AirClic, Inc.
“Dell and Datad collaborated well during the demonstration, helping us determine quickly the best EqualLogic devices for Barentz.”
-Cor van Leeuwen, IT manager, Barentz
"It’s just the elegance of the technology – I’m impressed every time I use it. We can do so much more than ever before. Anything that we want to store and replicate is going on the SAN."
- Bob Munson, Network Engineer, Bay Cove
"Pretty much everything is included in the price of our SAN, in particular the software used to divide data, create and manage snapshots, replicate data, clone volumes and manage the I/O. Other vendors force you to buy additional licenses for these functionalities."
- Wim Diersen, Financial Manager, Bribus Keukens
"It’s nice to know that when EqualLogic comes out with new features, they are included. I actually get a tangible benefit for my annual support payment, beyond the ability to call about problems – which I never have!"
- Chris Formes, Southland Division IT Manager, Brookfield Homes
"EqualLogic's SAN allows us to consolidate massive amounts of documents and data without fear of storage limitations, inefficient backups, downtime and expensive operational costs."
- Dave Ewanchuk, IS Manager, Bull, Housser & Tupper
“We were extremely impressed with how quickly Dell deployed our new infrastructure. There weren’t any delays or surprises, so we could enjoy the benefits of our solution straight away.” - Berthold Malms, procurement manager, COE CSW
"I was used to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for snapshots and replication, and with EqualLogic these are built in. With other solutions, to buy a system even capable of adding that functionality would start at six figures – and that's before the software." - Bob Maiers, IT Manager, Chicago Records Management
“The Dell EqualLogic SAN was easy to deploy, and it offers an intuitive interface for ongoing management….We can expand its capacity rapidly. If we add a new array, the controller will incorporate that storage into the SAN seamlessly.” - Shervan Torabi, IT manager, Citizant
"EqualLogic storage equipment work right out of the box, and is the best I have ever seen for simply working as advertised. I have not had a single problem with the PS Series SAN in three years; it is so simple to operate and maintain that I almost forget its there. EqualLogic successfully replaced a cumbersome and expensive Fibre Channel storage system, and we have never looked back. EqualLogic is that good."
- Chris Fricke, Senior Microcomputer Specialist, Clackamas County
“The iSCSI connectivity makes the Dell EqualLogic PS5000E SAN much easier for us to manage and maintain than a Fibre Channel system. We can leverage our existing Ethernet skills.” - Gary Comeau, manager, Information Technology Infrastructure, Headquarters, College of the North Atlantic
"EqualLogic is so simple to use that you can begin to see ROI almost instantly in terms of usage and maintenance. Everything EqualLogic says about its implementation is true: design, setup and management have never been easier. The best benefit is that our faculty and staff love the robustness and 100 percent uptime of the new e-mail and calendaring functions."
- Joe Volesky, Windows Services Group Leader, CSU Academic Computing and Networking Services Department
“With help from Dell, we’ve been able to make affordable upgrades that give us some of the IT capabilities of a much larger firm. That helps our company grow, take on new challenges, and ultimately win more shelf space for the products we distribute.”
- Tim Owens, infrastructure manager, Columbia Distributing Company
"When we were evaluating SANs, only EqualLogic sent us a demo device. More impressive is that once we received the device we only needed to call EqualLogic to acquire the initial password. We tested creating volumes, snapshots, and performed restores within minutes of powering on the PS Series array."
- Derek Longdo, IT Manager, Community Health Partnership, Inc.
“I don’t have to log on to the Dell EqualLogic SAN more than twice a week. I wouldn’t have time to manage operations if it weren’t for Dell EqualLogic and virtualization.” - Adam Mikolajczyk, IT manager, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
"Like us, most of our customers can’t wait 10-12 hours to load and run backup tapes, to retrieve data, but the PS Series arrays render backup process instantaneously. Not only is this capability critical in case something goes wrong, but it also provides savings in terms of the time and effort it takes to manage a daily backup process."
- Paul Vagnozzi, Vice President and CTO, Cypress Corporation
"Our Dell EqualLogic SANs are a foundational piece of our overall IT consolidation and simplification initiative. We’re looking forward to reinvesting the time that we save in providing new services for the Deeley team." - Brent Fawcett, Manager, Technical Services, Deeley Harley-Davidson® Canada
“When we actually ran our tests on EqualLogic iSCSI, we were absolutely blown away by the results. EqualLogic was head and shoulders above the rest.”
Brad Blake,
Chief Technology Officer,
Boston Medical Center
“In less than one hour, the IT team at Delta Lloyd Bank was fully conversant in using the Dell EqualLogic storage and was launching new storage volumes in under 15 minutes.” - Paul Op de Beeck, IT operations manager, Delta Lloyd Bank Belgium
"In these regards, EqualLogic exceeded expectations. EqualLogic products met the County's technical requirements and were very competitively priced. EqualLogic staff were knowledgeable, flexible, and easy to work with."
- Kevin Furlong, Technology Division Manager, Deschutes County
"With other solutions, you pay for every little piece of functionality. EqualLogic has a much better way, delivering all the performance, reliability, and functionality I could want right from the start."
- Alan Hunt, Operations Manager, Dickinson Wright
"Our objective was Simple SAN, and only EqualLogic fit this picture perfectly; all the other solutions eventually involved excessive management costs or were found to be too complex. As an IT manager, you have other things on your mind. None of the other evaluated systems did what they had to do, namely, provide ease of implementation and being operational within the space of one week..."
- Luc Lowet, Consultant, Encare ICT
“EqualLogic’s on-board software is superior to other arrays. We’ve found Dell EqualLogic storage to be a cost-effective, efficient, easy to manage solution.” - Alex Schroeder, IT manager, ENGlobal
"The Dell team worked with the suppliers to ensure we had everything we needed before the move. Dell understood how important this move was to us, and it gave us a great feeling to know they had us covered.” - Dan Petlon, vice president, IT and quality assurance, Enterasys
“Our Dell EqualLogic SAN came pre-assembled on a palette and all we had to do was plug it in and power it up. It took no more than half an hour.”
- Martin Hofer, IT manager, Eternit (Schweiz) AG
“Based on the promise of enterprise-quality storage for lower cost, we had decided to investigate an iSCSI storage system. Consolidate IT presented an EqualLogic PS Series storage array for us to test for one week, and the results were amazing. Not only was it a stable system, but it eliminated the complexity of managing a SAN, which had been both expensive and difficult to scale..."
- Edwin Idema, IT Director at Ahold, Etos
"Dell’s HPC solution was 16 per cent less expensive than the next-best offer we received, while delivering industry-leading performance. We used the savings to add more blades, storage and networking to our order, which meant that we got a lot more infrastructure for our money than we expected."
- Giuseppe Marrucci, President of the Information Services Centre, University of Naples
"Being able to trust the automatic management and performance optimisation of our PS Series SAN allows my IT team to focus on other priorities, including the continual enhancement of content and applications. This is critical for our success as a business in the digital world."
- Ken Davis, CIO, Five
"I needed to design and implement an entire IT infrastructure for Flagler. Having been in management for the past four years, I had very little hands on experience, but I was able to install and configure the EqualLogic SAN in less than 45 minutes. That’s a credit to the product being easy to use as well as to EqualLogic's excellent technical support."
- Fred Infurchia, Director of IT, Flagler Construction Equipment, LLC
"One of our easiest jobs is allocating more storage to a volume – we do it on the fly, and don’t worry about it."
- Chuck Thompson, IT Manager, Fortis Fund Services
"By linking server and storage virtualisation together, we can protect our infrastructure against the risk of failure while also cutting our management overheads. Overall, I estimate that this project has saved up to £100,000 in staff costs, hardware savings and power bills."
- Ken Kaban, Technology Services Manager, Foster’s EMEA
"The PS Series array has had a very positive impact on our faculty’s ability to innovate and to meet student needs. We are a forward-thinking institution, and we need technology solutions that are equally progressive. EqualLogic’s technology fits our way of thinking."
- Joanne Kossuth, CIO, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
"Our main selection criteria were that the system had to be IP-based, provide ease of management and maintenance and involve purchasing costs that fit our budget."
- Marcel Ningen, Information Provision and Automation Team Coordinator, Gemeente Leek
“Much to our surprise, the EqualLogic unit outperformed both the NetApp 3020s and EMC Clariion by leaps and bounds – so much so that we ran the test again. One of the other vendors actually sent in a specialist to make sure that things were configured right. After the second test, the other vendor’s gear was still not faster.”
- Jason Skeffington, Senior Systems Analyst, GHS Data Management
“We no longer require an external vendor to manage our SAN arrays, and Dell tools have simplified management of our solution . As a result, our IT maintenance costs have been greatly reduced.” - Chutikorn Pruksapong, IT Operations manager, Green Spot Co. Ltd.
“In case of a data centre failure at one of our local offices, the combined PS Series/DPM 2007 solution will allow us to recover the IT infrastructure and make it available to our employees again in a matter of hours.”
- Erik ten Winkel, Chief Technology Officer, Grontmij
It took just 30 minutes to get the Dell Equal Logic PS5000e SANs install ed in the datacentre. Since then we’ve found them extremely intuitive and packedwith the functionality we need." - Ian Phillips , assistant head and director of ICT , Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School
"Being in the thick of tornado country, we wanted a product that could meet our growing need for protected data storage, with a reliable backup process and excellent performance. Previously, we had about 30 servers located at 16 different locations throughout the district. With EqualLogic storage, now we are able to provide consolidated storage with improved reliability..."
- Keith Price, Chief Technology Officer, Hoover City Schools
“We deployed each Dell EqualLogic SAN in just 30 minutes. In the past, it’s taken us three days to install an equivalent device,” - Patrick Pulvermueller, managing director, Host Europe
“We chose a Dell EqualLogic PS6000E solution because it gave us 20 per cent greater throughput than competing devices, and it was simple to manage.”
- Jörg Ehrhart, Chief Executive Officer, IPX Server
“Virtualization is no longer an experiment for us, it’s a mainstream technology. In addition to big savings, virtualization gives us the ability to rapidly deploy more processing power anywhere in the world to support the growing business needs of the company.” - Matt Brooks, IT strategist, Dell IT Group
"The EqualLogic SAN has exceeded our performance requirements, and being able to manage storage while applications remain online means much less disruption. Our business is about speeding up cycles–and the PS Series fits in perfectly with that concept."
- Tom Kirby, IT Manager, Hypnion
"We’re no longer buying physical servers for each customer. Our shared, virtual infrastructure from Citrix and Dell lets us instantaneously ramp up when we need to, which drives our costs down and makes us more competitive." - Jaime Schmidtke, IT Systems Manager, I-Business Network LLC
“Cloud infrastructure accounts for 95 percent of our growth over the past two years. The high availability and simplified, fast scalability of the Dell PowerEdge and Dell EqualLogic platform has played a vital role in achieving our customers’ goals.”
Brad Blake,
Chief Technology Officer,
Boston Medical Center
“We heard great things about the latest Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers, the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure and new Dell EqualLogic
iSCSI arrays. A combination of the three seemed ideal for supporting our developers.” - Willem Jan Vastenholt, head of IT, Info Support
"Since we installed the EqualLogic SAN, we have not had a single issue to report. The array makes us much more flexible in responding to business needs, and the management software included covers all of our requirements. EqualLogic’s array is so simple to work with, and it saves a lot of grief when it comes to managing our storage.”
- Colin Dash, IT Manager, Ink Publishing
"The biggest impact to our business is streamlining our operations, and that meanscost savings. We can provide our customers with flexibility and services they have never had before."
- Jeff Stein, Service Delivery Manager, InteleNet
"With fibre channel, it’s difficult to expand, so you try to figure out what you’ll need in the future – and often end up with too little or too much. It’s not efficient. But the PS Series architecture scales so easily, I can buy when I need capacity – and that helps me better manage my budget as well as my storage."
- Mark Rivard, Network Systems Specialist, Johnson Health Network
"iSCSI really is the sweet spot. VMware and EqualLogic make it possible for any organization – not just large corporations with deep pockets – to implement a high-availability, disaster-proof infrastructure."
- David Siles, CTO, Kane County
"We are generally vendor neutral and would typically purchase the hardware that would best meet our needs. After a positive evaluation of Dell solutions, we have not looked back." - Shinji Higashi, supervisor, KCCS Platform Group
"Traditional disaster recovery would have added much more complexity to our environment – the EqualLogic/VMware solution gave us DR along with simplicity. We had to develop a solution that would stand up to the rigors of our work and enable us to operate and have data available all the time. With EqualLogic, we get all of that, plus it was a straight forward, cost-effective implementation."
- John Rhon, Vice President of Information Systems, LifeLink
"Dell EqualLogic SANs make it incredibly easy to provision and manage storage for a VMware cluster. As a result, almost all our new servers get deployed onto the VMware platform.”
- Bill Montgomery, Manager of Information Systems, Lulu.com
“A key virtue of the Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN is the utter simplicity of the set-up.” - Jacob Williams, Director of IT, Mahoning County
"I have tremendous confidence in our disaster recovery processes because I’ve watc hed them run on the Dell EqualLogic storage arrays over and over again. I am absolutely confident that my recovery plan is going to work."
- University LAN Manager
“The Dell EqualLogic SAN came in at a price point that made our Exchange migration possible. We’re scaling our storage the right way.” - Pat Karr, Coordinator for Network Services and Support, McAllen ISD
"It gives us ‘big company’ functionality in our data center while we are still a small business. Our business has many services and numerous components – but the storage is critical, and that’s why we depend on the EqualLogic PS100E. Ultimately, it’s the foundation of our business."
- Roger Cass, CTO, MediSync
"Our search turned out to be a simple one because we felt EqualLogic’s virtualization technology and snapshot capabilities were superior to anything else we’ve seen. The snapshot features provide the backup and recovery capabilities we need to run our business, and the bottom line is that we’ve gotten better performance from our PS Series array than we got from our NAS solution, at a fraction of the cost."
- Jay Walusek, VP of Server Administration, Mesirow Financial
"EqualLogic’s storage infrastructure really provided a drastic improvement from our past storage environment. The way EqualLogic deals with adding storage provides a much better way then other competitors. EqualLogic has simplified our lives by allowing us to use more sophisticated storage capabilities, without any headaches."
- Tony Wyland, Assistant Director of Network Services, Messiah College
“Most vendors presented us with traditional storage options, but Dell’s approach, with Dell EqualLogic storage, stood out as innovative and progressive in its simplicity.” - Frank Sievering, head of IT and processes, Metabo
“We had our new Dell EqualLogic SAN up and running in minutes and connected to our virtualized servers.” - Niklas Tegström, IT director, Micronic Laser Systems
"From the ease of installation to the increased performance, the EqualLogic SAN has exceeded our expectations. We no longer have to manage JBOD, and the performance has been so impressive that we are reconsidering other aspects of our infrastructure in order to take more advantage of the EqualLogic SAN."
- Bill Copeland, MIS Director, Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance
"The bottom line is that without the performance of the PS Series array, I would not be in business. Everything I do boils down to money transacting between a business and a buyer – in this two- or three-second process, if I’m a second off, my customers lose a sale and I lose money."
- Marc O’Leary, CEO, MyCart
“EqualLogic storage was ideal for a virtualized cloud computing environment, delivering plenty of capacity and seamless expansion.”
- Jörg Wiesemann, Project Manager and Infrastructure-Specialist at NAB Solutions
"If ten major projects suddenly need to use the system, now they can without breaking the bank. Now we have a simple yet scalable and economical way to meet increasing demand. Most exciting of all, researchers will now be able to find information they didn’t even know existed. We are facilitating scientific exploration by making previously unknown information accessible to those that need it..."
- Jeff Seaton, Langley Research Center Chief Technology Officer, NASA
“We were able to easily configure the EqualLogic SAN ourselves, and that’s a savings of at least $50,000 for us.”
- Brady Decker, Chief Technology Officer, National Aquarium Baltimore
"We needed 100 percent uptime and we couldn’t piece it together using our existing NAS solution, so we selected EqualLogic to create our next-generation storage infrastructure. Now with the EqualLogic SAN in place, we are closer to our goal of 100 percent uptime with little interference from the IT staff. The EqualLogic solution essentially manages itself."
- Leland Johnson, Vice President of Information Technology, National Flood Services
“If EqualLogic is good enough for SDC, which supports critical banking services, then it is good enough for us. We were encouraged that EqualLogic could support a company the size of SDC and believed therefore that it would meet our needs as a geographically dispersed organization. We felt EqualLogic was the superior choice because implementing the PS200Es did not require special IT knowledge.”
- Lars Andersen, Network Infrastructure Manager, NCC Denmark
“In the past, technicians spent up to six hours a week managing the directly attached storage system. Today with a simplified IT SAN infrastructure based on Dell EqualLogic storage, they never take more than three – saving us around €200,000 a year.” - Johan Vansimpsen, managing director, Network Group Europe BVBA
“The intelligent automation and intuitive operation of the PS Series can literally prevent our team from being here until midnight maintaining servers.” - K. Y. Iyer, head of IT, NDTV
"EqualLogic makes it possible for a one-person IT department to manage a SAN and easily install new servers, while allowing me more time to do other tasks. Because we are a 24/7 news media operation, the intelligent automation and intuitive operation of the PS Series SAN literally prevents me from being here until midnight maintaining servers."
- John Mehrtens, IT Director, NECN
“EqualLogic’s approach completely matched our requirements: all the management functionality that we needed was included within the cost of the array, and there was no additional expenditure to bear in the future.”
- Steve Clark, Senior Server Support Assistant
"What caught my attention first was that all the features we needed – snapshots, back-up/recovery, remote replication – were built into the product. We got the functionality we wanted and still kept within our budget."
- Greg Marrow, CIO, North Carolina Central University
“The benefits of Dell EqualLogic truly outweighed all the features of the other products we looked at. It’s just a phenomenal product, and we use every single feature that comes with it.” - Drew McKinley, Network Engineer, Northeast Bank
“Having a failover solution will give us a lot of assurance as we grow and add customers. It’s an important step for the future, and we trust the Dell EqualLogic iSCSI solution and our production Dell blades to do the job.” - Ivan Darius, founder and co-CEO, Optimal Blue
"For us, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series
offers the best features, reliability, and
ease of use, and it provides compatibility
with our Apple Macintosh environment,
which was a requirement for us.”
- Ira Ham, Director of Network and Information Security, Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc.
“First and foremost, we needed a solution that could deliver sufficient I/O performance to support the virtual servers. We tested multiple solutions, and the Dell EqualLogic SAN clearly came out ahead.” - David Furey, IT manager, PacLib Group
"The PS Series array is so easy to use. We have plenty of file storage, our key applications are fully protected, and our data is available whenever it is needed – even in Europe and Japan. And, we didn't need any special expertise to make this work."
- Tammy Barrett, Network Engineer, Patagonia Inc.
“With the previous process, it could take minutes to several hours to recover our virtual machines. With Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition, it takes just seconds to protect and recover from hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshots.” - Cody Page, IT manager, Peterson Sullivan PLLC
"The EqualLogic PS arrays work beautifully with our virtualization software, allowing us to respond to a server failure in minutes with the click of a mouse. We wanted to build a dynamic data center infrastructure, and that required an unusually flexible and resilient storage system."
- Phillip Skeete, IT Director, Plains Exploration & Production Company
“With the Dell EqualLogic SAN, we can easily scale from smaller clients all the way through the 3,000-plus physician groups and multi-hospital organizations.” - Greg Kay, vice president of marketing, Preferred Medical Marketing Corporation
“We believe Dell EqualLogic is the best option for storing and recovering business data. With the EqualLogic system’s more advanced backup techniques we don’t have any downtime anymore.” - Zeki Kubilay Akyol, chief executive officer, Radore Hosting
"Thanks, in part, to the EqualLogic arrays, we are now able to achieve an uptime percentage of 99.999 or higher. Added to which, these arrays provide us with the flexibility to cater for developments in the rapidly changing building renovation and redevelopment market quickly."
- Louis Reusken, Information Manager, Rentree
“We found that with Dell solutions and technical support we could successfully virtualize our servers and storage. We also gained the stability, performance, and technical support to maximize the value of our investment.”
- Arthur Wang, IT specialist, ReSource Pro
“We have updated that sales model for the digital age by providing agents with powerful online tools. The Dell EqualLogic SAN gives us the performance and flexibility to keep up with the demands of our online tools and ultimately help agents to increase their sales.”
- Michael Leather, network services manager, Safeway Insurance
"If my Exchange server hardware fails, I can re-task another server and have email back up in a matter of minutes – not hours. Now the SAN is the heart of the data center, and servers are just front-end processors to data applications and data on the SAN."
- Jim Tarala, CIO, Schenck Business Solutions
"We pushed the EqualLogic array as hard as possible, but we simply couldn’t max it out. Although our server CPU was red-lining, the EqualLogic array simply kept on going with extremely high levels of performance."
- Marcel Dumont, Director of Operations, Schoolbank.nl
"EqualLogic’s reliability has been excellent; since deployment of the PS arrays, we have experienced zero downtime for the SAN. The EqualLogic PS Series SAN scales very easily and is extremely simple and inexpensive to manage. We have already reaped significant cost-of-ownership benefits from the implementation..."
- Bo Christiansen, IT Consultant, SDC Udvikling A/S
"Dell EqualLogic helps lower our total cost of ownership, because it means we avoid buying more storage than we need at any one time.”
- Peter Gosteli, Head of IT, WIA Wohnen im Alter AG
"We are extremely pleased with the Dell EqualLogic hardware—it just works. That reliability is particularly important in meeting our clients’ regulatory compliance needs." - Lara Baker, chief technology officer, Sequestered Solutions Alaska, LLC
"The central piece of our infrastructure is the EqualLogic SAN with its advanced storage management and data protection features. Everything revolves around it."
- Steve Meckling, Network Services Administrator, Shiloh
“We selected the Dell EqualLogic solution as it is straightforward compared to other options on the market, and the management tools are very user-friendly.” - Rizal Siam, IT manager, SMOE Pte Ltd
Dell EqualLogic storage is the key component in our DR strategy. We didn’t have replication capabilities before, and would have had to restore from tape. We now have the ability to recover single documents within an hour.
- Eran Gourarie, Director of Technology, Snohomish School District 201
“The Dell EqualLogic solution has made a huge difference in enabling our cloud business model with a scalable storage platform that benefits our bottom line and improves the services we’re able to offer our customers.”
Samuel Fleitman, Chief Operating Officer, SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
"We preferred EqualLogic above all the other solutions because of the ease of management it offers. EqualLogic gives Talant the freedom to customise things as our organisation evolves, without having to call in the assistance of third parties. So nobody is invoicing us for the hours they put in."
- Geert Huiting, Automation Manager, Talant
“The Auto-Snapshot Manager ensures fast online backups and quick restores for our Hyper-V virtual servers.” - Paula Martínez, IT Systems Director, Tecnigral
"The bottom line is that EqualLogic’s technology has helped me to manage disk space more effectively, build instant recoverability, and prevent downtime – all of which deliver better patient care for the people of central West Virginia."
- Mark Boggs, IT Director, Thomas Memorial Hospital
“EqualLogic offers a great affordable SAN as an alternative to server and disk management – without requiring you to invest a lot of time, training, and money getting your technical team up to speed for the installation and use of the SAN.”
- Don Combs, Manager, Unitary and Applied Systems
“EqualLogic’s native replication capabilities let me keep a 15-minute replica of our data sitting 100 miles awaya from my office — I think that’s pretty impressive.” - Mark Brophy, Network Administrator, Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A.
"We wanted a professional storage system that can offer us many possibilities for expansion and scaling in the future. We have had consistently positive experiences with the EqualLogic iSCSI storage systems, and we are already planning the next expansion steps."
- Björn Metzdorf, Director of Information Technology, Turtle Entertainment
"The EqualLogic product feature set and performance is unmatched in my opinion. EqualLogic’s snapshot, replication and extended feature set solved other problems we had not even begun to look at. EqualLogic and Mercury Solutions definitely helped us identify and implement best practices for IT management for our disaster recovery policies."
- Jeff McDole, IT Manager, University of Michigan Department of Public Safety
"We’ve been looking for a solution that offered all the features of a tier-one data center but without the administrative overhead – and we found it with EqualLogic’s PS Series arrays."
- Dr. Dilling, Head of the ZDV server and storage division
"It was clear from the outset that we would be opting for an iSCSI SAN by EqualLogic. A Fibre Channel SAN was out of the question because, from an investment and implementation point of view, that method was much more expensive than an iSCSI SAN. We chose the EqualLogic solution, which is up to 20 percent less expensive and includes more functionality than solutions from competitors such as NetApp and Compellent."
- Eddy Schulpé, Adjunct Informatics Manager, VMW
"The built-in, easy-to-use, browser-based management was a big selling feature, and the scalability. The others [test solutions] scale, too, but EqualLogic’s array adds new GigE interfaces along with each storage shell, so you add bandwidth when you grow. None of the others do that, nor do they provide the fail-proof redundancy of the PS Series."
- Jim Bollinger, System & Network Engineer, Washington and Lee University
"The EqualLogic arrays have been very reliable, and have demonstrated the ability to move data at a much higher rate than any other solution we tried. In addition, the Customers Service and support have been first rate."
- Barry Weinman, Owner, Weinman Geoscience
“For projects like virtual desktops and the SAP test drives which copy a single golden image, the EqualLogic thin clone technology is powerful. It provides 30 times faster cloning capability without requiring extra disk space for anything but incremental changes to the clones. The Xcopy API functionality is a huge benefit when we need to clone one-off virtual machines to bring up additional environments for customers. "
"For less than half the price of our Fibre Channel SAN, the PS Series array provided the capacity and ease-of-management we need to support our growth. We expect it to reduce our total cost-of-ownership by more than $100,000 over the next three years."
- Shawn Eveleigh, Senior Systems Administrator, Zenon Environmental
“Dell EqualLogic virtualized storage is the ideal complement to our virtualized environment. We now have a storage system that is completely integrated with our virtual servers, and is much simpler to manage.” - Jörg Riether, IT manager, Haina Centre for Social Psychiatry (ZSP-Haina)
"EqualLogic's cost-effective, plug-and-play storage solution met our scalability and cost requirements, and continues to protect our mission critical operations as we multiply in size."
- Dean Patterson, Vice President of IT, ZOOTS