Dell is laying out its storage strategy to: exploit the value of several recent acquisitions, expand its product lines and gradually (though not completely) wind down its reseller relationship with storage hardware vendor EMC. Dell’s $ 960 million acquisition of Compellent, completed in February, gives it a multiprotocol tiered storage area network (SAN) product line that’s a direct competitor to EMC offerings. Also, the data compression and deduplication software Dell gained with the acquisition of Ocarina Networks in July 2010 will eventually be included across Dell’s entire storage product line.
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