Dell’s suggested entry-level price for the AX4 is close to $16,000, about $7,000 more than what EMC announced, a difference that in large part reflects a bigger starting configuration from Dell.

I'm going to be decommissioning our AX4 over the next week or so, just migrating the last of our VM's off it as I type. It turns out that having Dell/EMC come out to factory it is $$$, so my plan ...

The Clariion AX4 is intended to replace EMC's entry-level AX150 and Clariion CX300 arrays with a single entry model, said Barry Ader, senior director of storage marketing for EMC, Hopkinton, Mass.