The Art of Storage

"The PowerVault MD3000i outperformed the competing system on all the metrics we tested. In one test, the Dell system delivered nearly two times the transactions per second of the other system. That’s a 200 percent improvement.”

- Marco Nicolayevsky, chief technology officer, MisterArt.com.

The MisterArt.com IT group needed to increase storage capacity to accommodate its 80 percent year-over-year business growth. The team wanted to simplify storage management with a reliable system that could deliver outstanding performance.

After testing the performance of several storage systems, the MisterArt.com IT team selected a Dell^TM  PowerVault^TM  MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI)–based storage area network (SAN) array with a PowerVault MD1000 disk expansion enclosure.

Nearly two times better performance than a competing system; Improved database performance, contributing to better system response and increased productivity for employees; Increased Web site responsiveness and enhanced customer satisfaction; Simplified storage administration with standard Ethernet connectivity and the intuitive Dell Modular Disk Storage Manager interface; Improved reliability with a high-availability configuration.