[September 07, 2010]

Dell Couples DX Object Storage Solution with Archiving Leader Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.0 to Provide a Scalable Data Archiving and Retention Solution

Building upon Dell (News - Alert) and Symantec's long-time relationship, Dell today announced that Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.0 has been certified on the Dell DX Object Storage Solution and customers can now purchase a pre-integrated and validated end-to-end storage and data archiving solution. Symantec's (News - Alert) industry-leading archiving solution running on Dell's fully scalable and easy-to-use object storage offering provides customers a comprehensive archiving solution to address their compliance, retention and data management needs. The combination addresses customers' needs in the Virtual Era for innovative solutions that drive efficiency while providing a simple, scalable, and easy-to-manage architecture.

Dell's DX Object Storage Solution is designed to meet data management and retention requirements through an automated, policy-based retention and deletion platform. As customers' archiving environments may grow, the solution can scale seamlessly to store billions of files or petabytes of informaion while avoiding the cost and complexity involved in forklift upgrades. Additionally, the solution can provide the right balance of automation and manual intervention to give customers complete control of their archiving environment and to help them reduce management costs.

Symantec's Enterprise Vault 9.0 archiving software coupled with Dell's DX Object Storage Solution is designed to allow customers to store, manage and discover digital information. Dell's Object Storage Solution drives data center efficiency through an open, capable and affordable solution that scales as business needs dictate to help customers manage unstructured data.

Quotes:

"Our long-standing relationship with Symantec has proven beneficial for our customers, and we're now expanding our strategic alliance to provide a fully scalable object storage platform that's been integrated with Symantec's Enterprise Vault 9.0 application," said Brett Roscoe, senior product manager at Dell. "As unstructured information continues to grow, we're meeting customers' needs with an automated archiving and retention solution that couples Dell's expertise in scalable storage with Symantec's archiving capabilities."

"Enterprise Vault 9.0 enables customers to store, manage and discover information across the enterprise while automating the deletion process to reduce overall storage," said Brian Dye, vice president of product management, Information Management Group, Symantec. "Symantec's market leading archiving and e-discovery software combined with Dell DX provides organizations with simplicity of deployment, efficient e-discovery and the confidence that their information is protected."

Additional Information:

Dell Unveils Open Solutions for the Virtual Era

Dell Unveils Intelligent Data Management Solutions

Dell DX Object Storage Platform

Symantec Enterprise Vault

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