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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Dell and EqualLogic of the IP SAN vendor purchase - - acquiring iSCSI and storage hypothetical conversion technology for 14 hundred million dollars

The United States Dell November 5th, IP SAN (Storage Area Network) purchased the United States EqualLogic of the vendor for 14 hundred million dollars, announced the plan which strengthens storage business.

It had suggested 1 week ago when purchasing plan becomes clear that Michael it is CEO of Dell, is a possibility of purchasing the SAN-RELATED vendor.

EqualLogic which is established to 2001 sells the storage appliance "PS" series of iSCSI correspondence. The same company IPO (new stock release) just applied in the August this year.

As for Dell, technology of the iSCSI appliance of EqualLogic, it is the storage product, 2007 May -7 it is the intention which is installed in the portion of the business which sells 6 hundred million dollars in month period in addition to "PowerVault" and the Dell|EMC storage array-related portfolio, (as for the server business entire earnings in the same quarter 16 hundred million dollars). Concerning the trade mark modification of the EqualLogic product it is not still clear, but through the large-scale channel which Dell builds so far you say that it is the thought of keeping selling. Dell sells the storage product in large quantities by way of EMC, has reached to 10% of the account receivable of EMC in 2006.

As for microphone of the storage business charge director, "the latest purchase is important meaning for the strategy, IT simplification and the promotion of imagination conversion in the enterprise portfolio of Dell,", you say.

Many of the enterprise which adopts the EqualLogic product have introduced also imagination conversion. By the fact that EqualLogic is added to the product portfolio of Dell, Dell is the posture which keeps promoting the simplification of the IT system of the customer/imagination conversion to a greater extent.

As for the upper-class analyst and Steve of the enterprise strategy group, "as for EqualLogic many achievements are left at the time of integrating the storage and the hypothetical conversion technology. Basic decision of the same company that you sell storage to VMware low at price, that it is worthy of to appraisal ", has appraised EqualLogic high.

There is a light/write and the British Legion and university etc. of the legal office in the customer of EqualLogic.

As for Dell, although recently for the consumer the game vendor was purchased, as for most of the enterprise which past is purchased it was service enterprise. By the way, as for the same company purchasing the storage vendor before EqualLogic,which in 1999 is purchased for 3 hundred million 4,800 ten thousand dollars is last. Though, integration of does not go well, the new product has not appeared.

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