From PC World: Making storage systems work together can be a headache even if they’re both from the same vendor. Dell is taking some steps to ease that pain.
New operating systems will help to bridge the gap between Dell’s Storage Center and EqualLogic PS arrays, giving administrators a single management interface and a way to replicate data between the two systems. Storage Center OS 7, announced Thursday, and PS 9.0 will roll out as free upgrades over the next few months.
SCOS 7 also comes with other improvements, including better data reduction and tools to ensure applications get the right quality of service from SC arrays. But the PS integration caps years of development that Dell would have liked to finish sooner, said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager of Dell Storage.
The SC line of virtualized storage systems came from Compellent, which Dell acquired in 2010. EqualLogic was an even earlier acquisition, in 2007. Only now can they be managed with one tool and carry out bi-directional replication.
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