There where four different sessions of “Partner Pre-Conference Training”: one sales oriented, and the others for technical people on EqualLogic FS7500, Equallogic and Compellent. The first event day was quite strange, one reason was that I take only the second half of the day (my fly has landed around 12:00), and the second reason was that day has been focused on the partner training. The evening event was great in a nice English pub and was a nice way to close the day (unfortunally has finish too late to go also to the #storagebeers). The afternoon was more traditional with a lot of sales and pre-sales sessions. But some of my hope in the wish-list may be handled in the future… In this case NDA is really strict and I cannot say more. Similar, but more detailed and deep were the other two sessions in the morning about a Deep Dive of Equallogic (with a lot of live demo) and Complellent roadmap. More technical (and also protected by NDA) was the general session (9:00-10:00) by Brett Roscoe and Mike Devis on Dell Storage Roadmap and how different products (like PowerVault, Equallogic and Complent) will (or may will) share some technologies (like deduplication, NAS, some core features of fluid data, …).Īlso the Dell DR4000 has been announced, then is a physical appliance to handle deduplication and can fit in B2D solutions (previous there was the EMC DataDomain in Dell portfolio for this specific area). The general session “Channel Partner Session” (8:00-9:00) was a great overview handled by Greg Davis and Andy Hardy, with the announce of the “cloud certification” for partners. The second day at Dell Storage Forum 2012 London has finished with a lot of interesting information about Dell plans in storage and products roadmap.
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