Our next interview at Dell Storage Forum 2012 was with Bob Fine, Director at Product Marketing at Dell. We discussed the Dell Fluid File System that they acquired from their acquisition of ExaNet. The Fluid File System option for the Compellent product line allows it to provide a complete Unified File System.

Implementing the Fluid File System on the Compellent Storage hardware gives Dell a very high scalable NAS device that can support four file system nodes, each with two active-active controllers. The file system scales across these controllers with a global file system and name space. All the load is then automatically balanced across those nodes.

Storage Swiss Take

Dell is delivering a no compromise NAS device that can scale from the mid-market data center right into the enterprise. The combined system will still provide native block performance while at the same time provide a NAS File System that should go toe-to-toe with any other NAS system on the market.

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