I had planned on posting something on this before, but have only just gotten around to it. Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) has announced they will be acquiring storage vendor EqualLogic for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. The full press release can be found here, but the gist of it is this:
"The acquisition will strengthen Dell’s product and channel leadership in simplifying and virtualizing IT for customers globally. iSCSI SAN technology represents the fastest growing part of the storage business.
"Our customers will be dealing with the largest increase in data we have seen in our history over the next few years," said Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell. "Leading the iSCSI revolution will help Dell accelerate IT simplification and virtualization and will drive the Dell value proposition into more areas of the enterprise storage business," Mr. Dell said."
EqualLogic is one of the leading iSCSI storage vendors and we actually use them in our shop to provide networked storage for some high performance, Solaris-based financial systems. We had considered supplanting our traditional fibrechannel storage arrays for our Windows-based systems with EqualLogic kit, but at the time iSCSI had not fully matured and been accepted as an option for enterprise storage. Now that their storage arrays have been qualified with VMware's ESX virtualization platform, they may deserve a second look and hey, if I can save some money too, that would be great.
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