Dell EMC Introduced New Entry-Level Storage Arrays

Dell EMC Introduced New Entry-Level Storage Arrays
Dell EMC

Dell EMC introduced the PowerVault ME4 Series, the next generation family of its entry-level data storage arrays designed for small- and medium-sized businesses. The new series is offering all-inclusive enterprise features into a product that is simple, fast and affordable.

Small- and medium-sized businesses have similar needs to larger enterprises but must meet those needs in the face of smaller budgets and fewer IT support staff. Balancing price and performance is a reality for these organizations, along with selecting storage solutions that are simple to use and manage. Dell EMC designed the PowerVault ME4 Series to meet these needs by offering a feature-rich, yet affordable storage array that is easy to install and use.

“Earlier this year, we made a commitment to simplify and streamline our storage portfolio to make it easier for customers to do business with us,“ said Jeff Boudreau, President and GM of Storage, Dell EMC. “The new PowerVault ME4 Series is a key part of that strategy at the entry level, designed for customers looking for an affordable, yet fully featured storage array that’s optimized for SAN and DAS virtualized workloads.“

The new PowerVault ME4 Series family delivers significant increases over previous entry systems in capacity, performance, simplicity and features. New products come with 75% more drives to increase raw storage capacity by 122%, while also boosting read IOPS performance by 4X. It is ideal for a wide range of block-based storage use cases. The array is customer-installable in 15 minutes and takes just 15 more minutes to configure and begin storing data as either hybrid or all-flash storage.

Managing the PowerVault ME4 Series is made easy with a new HTML5 user interface, enabling customers to use a web browser from anywhere to handle common management tasks such as configuring and managing storage profiles and network connections, responding to alerts and more. Every storage controller is powered by a dual-core Intel Broadwell processor. Each array supports multiple protocols including Fibre Channel, iSCSI (and SFP+) and SAS host connectivity.