Storage Networking

Modernize and transform your storage network

Solutions for traditional Storage Area Networks (SANs) and emerging Software Defined Storage (SDS) Environments

Today’s IT plays a vital role in generating new business value, delivering new services and capturing new markets. Information and technology teams are radically rethinking how they can take advantage of cloud, data management and security strategies to create value for the enterprise. The core of all successful IT initiatives is the efficient, cost-effective and secure access to enterprise data. Traditionally, this data has been stored in arrays accessible through Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, or FCoE Storage Area Networks (SANs).

More recently, the well-established SAN methodologies are being challenged by virtualization and Software Defined Storage (SDS). While virtualization brings numerous advantages to the data center, such as more efficient resource utilization, decreased level of management complexity, lower power and cooling demands, etc., it also introduces new challenges, including specific performance requirements, application isolation, security aspects and business continuance and disaster recovery considerations.

Dell embraces both methodologies, offering robust, comprehensive storage networking solutions that enable organizations to access their vital data where and when it’s needed within an efficient, secure, and cost-effective environment.

Start small and scale as you grow with the Dell storage networking portfolio. Whether you need an entry-level switch for a departmental SAN or a large fabric for an enterprise level application, Dell can help with traditional or SDS-based configurations, providing the best cost for performance solutions.

Some businesses are expanding their existing SAN and NAS infrastructure while others are deploying software-defined storage (SDS) solutions with hypervisor-integrated systems and open-source solutions. Dell and Dell partners enable you to choose the best approach for your data center and evolve at a pace that meets your business needs.

Why Dell for your Storage Networking?

Dell has decades of experience working with organizations around the globe in every industry vertical, public, private, healthcare, and government, from the very small to the multi-national corporations. As one of the only IT vendors worldwide with expertise in server, storage, networking and software, Dell understands the storage hurdles facing our customers.

Comprehensive storage networking portfolio

Dell understands that every organization’s needs are unique. Dell offers a comprehensive storage networking portfolio that includes fabrics for Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), NAS, infiniBand, Omni-Path and Software Defined Storage (SDS) environments.

Best of breed portfolio

Dell strives to provide the best technology to meet the specific needs of storage networking fabrics. Consequently, Dell’s industry-leading, best of breed solutions include products that are built by Dell and/or by partners that are leaders in their respective technologies.

Dell-validated solutions

Virtually every storage networking environment includes products from multiple vendors. Dell engineering puts every storage networking product through a very strict test and qualification process to ensure it meets the highest quality standards that customers need and expect from Dell.

Years of storage networking experience

As a leading solution provider for enterprise customers, Dell has years of experience in architecting, designing, deploying and supporting data center environments. Dell leverages the experience gained in working with customers of all sizes, small to large to very large, to build future-ready solutions for every application.

End-to-end solutions

Today, Dell is one of very few IT solutions providers to offer an end-to-end solution which includes servers, storage, networking, software and services. This end-to-end view of the environment enables Dell to greatly minimize or completely eliminate risk while providing customers faster deployment times.

Industry leading services and support

Dell delivers on customer expectations with great products, solutions, and overall experience. Dell’s wide range of professional services simplifies the assessment, design, implementation, management and maintenance of your IT environment, and helps you accomplish your business and technical goals.

Choice of open networking

As a leader and a visionary in open networking, Dell offers organizations disaggregated hardware and software. Such an approach provides customers faster pace of innovation, tried and tested solutions, investment protection, cost-effective flexibility, scalability and a greater choice of networking operating systems that are fine tuned for specific applications.

Leader in IP-based storage

Dell has been the #1 IP storage (iSCSI) vendor worldwide by revenue and market share for many years. This leadership enables Dell to extend a high quality storage networking solution built on years of experience in customer environments of all sizes and scale.

Worldwide deployment and delivery services

Dell’s end-to-end deployment services ensure customers’ storage installation, configuration and implementation are completed accurately and quickly – anytime, anywhere – with proven processes based on best practices acquired from thousands of deployments by our highly skilled experts.

Dell ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist

Dell ProSupport offers a suite of support services that enable you to choose support models based on how you use technology and where you want to allocate resources. We recommend Dell ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist for mission-critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support for your Dell Storage Networking solution.

Dell Financial Services™

When you’re looking to preserve cash as you increase operational efficiency, Dell Financial Services has a wide range of options to make technology acquisition easy and affordable. Contact your Dell Sales representative for more information.

Dell Multi-protocol Switches

Dell offers a comprehensive portfolio of multi-protocol switches that are ready to meet your storage connectivity needs.