The Dell™ Unified Storage portfolio with Dell Fluid File System now provides the ideal foundation for a long-term unified storage strategy, with flexible, scale-out NAS solutions that are easy to use and that reduce total cost of ownership. It includes the platforms you and your customers already trust: Dell Compellent™, Dell EqualLogic™ and Dell PowerVault™.

Dell NAS solutions portfolio

Whether your focus is commercial or technical, a growing number of sales and marketing resources will be at your disposal over the next few months, to help you identify opportunities and sell these solutions effectively.

Commercial sales
Dell's flexible, scale-out NAS products, built around our new Fluid File System software, can help your customers manage both block and file storage on a shared hardware platform with shared management features.

To learn more about Dell NAS solutions for your commercial customers, click on the following links:

Dell Unified Storage overview presentation
Dell NAS Solutions portfolio product comparison
Dell Second Generation of Scale-out NAS video

Technical sales
Dell Fluid File System removes the scalability limitations associated with traditional file systems, allowing up to 1PB of file data in a single namespace. It supports both scale-out performance and scale-up capacity expansion, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of deployments.

To learn more about Dell NAS solutions for your technical customers, click on the following links:

Dell Fluid File System white paper
Dell NAS Solutions portfolio product comparison
Dell Second Generation of Scale-out NAS video

Manage growth non-disruptively with highly scalable capacity and performance

Dell Compellent™, Dell EqualLogic™ and Dell PowerVault™ with Dell Fluid File System software easily scale to meet the most dynamic block and file storage needs.

Commercial Sales
The Dell NAS portfolio allows your customers to add performance and capacity as needed without having to remove existing hardware or change software tools.

To learn more about how Dell NAS solutions can help your commercial customers manage growth, click on the following links:

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Technical Sales
Dell NAS solutions improve IT agility with a shared, expandable platform for both block and file storage, and load balancing that optimizes performance as the system scales.

To learn more about how Dell NAS solutions can help your commercial customers manage growth, click on the following links:

Dell Fluid Files System Migration Guide

Control costs with integrated management and shared infrastructure for block and file data

Dell™ Unified Storage solutions allow your customers to deploy and manage block and file storage using standardized tools, which make management and expansion more efficient and less costly.

Commercial Sales
Dell Unified Storage helps control costs with shared infrastructure for block and file data. The portfolio includes solutions that are appropriate for a range of customer sizes and needs.

To learn more about how Dell NAS solutions can help your commercial customers control costs, click on the following links:

Dell Unified Storage Overview presentation

To launch your own Dell Unified Storage campaign, click on the following links to download from Campaign Builder:

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Technical Sales
The Dell NAS portfolio delivers efficient shared block and file storage solutions for a variety of requirements across iSCSI and Fibre Channel environments.

To learn more about how Dell NAS solutions can help your technical customers increase efficiency, click on the following link:

Dell Fluid Files System v. EMC Competitive document

Protect against data loss and storage downtime with dependable, highly available file system

With reliable file system technology and hardware, Dell™ Unified Storage solutions help your customers safeguard their data, increase availability and performance and maintain business continuity.

Commercial Sales
Dell NAS solutions are inherently dependable and reliable at the hardware and software level, which provides increased availability, data protection and fast recovery—without degrading overall performance.

To learn more about how Dell NAS solutions can help your commercial customers reduce risk, click on the following links:

Dell Unified Storage Overview presentation
Fluid File Systems Solutions Brief
Dell Storage Competitive KnowledgeBase Tool

Technical Sales
With Dell NAS solutions, your customers can count on high availability, built-in protection for business critical data and consistency across Dell storage platforms.

To learn more about how Dell NAS solutions can help your technical customers reduce risk, click on the following link:

Dell Compellent FS8600 Best Practice Guide
Dell Storage Competitive KnowledgeBase Tool

Position yourself for continued success with Dell Unified Storage

Dell™ is committed to the future of Dell Unified Storage and the Dell Fluid File System, backed by Dell's Fluid Data architecture plan. Our long-term strategy means that you can be a committed partner for your customers' future storage needs and that the solutions you install today can continue to deliver value.

Win sales today with Dell NAS solutions and lay the foundation for future revenue as Dell continues to develop solutions backed by our Fluid Data architecture plan. By combining Dell Unified Storage products with the rest of Dell's broad storage portfolio, you can position yourself for storage success with any of your clients.

To learn more about how Dell Unified Storage solutions can help you achieve storage success today and in the future, click on the following links:

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Forrester White Paper: Reduce Storage Complexity to Improve IT Agility
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¹ Forrester Consulting. "Reduce Storage Complexity To Improve IT Agility". A Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper Commissioned by Dell Data. 2012 September. 

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