Dell Kicks Off Inaugural Dell Storage Forum, Welcoming Hundreds of Customers and Partners to Learn about Company’s World-Class Storage Technology

Hundreds of current Dell storage customers and channel partners are convening in Orlando, FL, this week for the inaugural Dell Storage Forum, the company’s first annual storage conference. Dell Storage Forum is a combination of the successful Dell Compellent C-Drive event and the Dell EqualLogic User Conference.

"We’re excited to welcome our customers and channel and technology partners to the inaugural Dell Storage Forum to learn about the exciting development and efforts underway in our rapidly growing storage division,” said Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager, Dell Enterprise Storage. "We have been working to transform Dell Storage, including many strategic investments in Dell IP over the past 12 months, through product development and multiple acquisitions. We now have the broadest and most complete product offering in our history. As we transform Dell storage and expand our Fluid Data Architecture, this week we will to share with customers our vision and goals and listen to understand how we can help them solve their IT problems.”

Keynotes from Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage, Phil Soran, vice president Dell Compellent, Greg Davis, vice president, Channel, and Brian Bell, Dell Compellent Channel, will detail the strategy driving the Dell Storage business, the company’s vision for the future of storage, and it’s rapidly growing partner sales channel. In addition, the week-long event offers hundreds of breakout sessions, technical deep dives, and storage best practices from engineers, storage architects, solutions integration specialists, product managers and other Dell experts. Dell will offer instructor-led training, hands-on labs and networking opportunities as well as partner certification courses.

Dell Storage Forum is designed to showcase the company’s growing Dell Storage portfolio—Dell EqualLogic, Dell Compellent and Dell PowerVault products. This new event will bring together influencers, visionaries and technology partners in the storage community to discuss how data will drive success in the Virtual Era. Dell believes data is the new growth driver for businesses and organizations, and its Fluid Data architecture can help deliver the efficiency, agility and resiliency to support that growth. From the desktop to the data center to the cloud, Dell Storage provides the foundation for today’s virtualized environments.

Dell Storage Forum is sponsored at the Petabyte level by the following companies: Brocade, CommVault, Emulex, Intel, Spectra Logic, STEC, Symantec and VMware. Other leading technology organizations are supporting the event at Terabyte and Gigabyte levels.

For those unable to attend the event this year, they can follow along on Twitter (hashtag: #dellsf11), Facebook or Dell Tech Center.

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Additional Information:
Dell Storage Forum
Dell EqualLogic
Dell Compellent
Dell PowerVault
Webcast of Tuesday’s Keynote (8:00-9:30 a.m. EDT)

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