Dell's sales of EMC Fibre Channel SAN products during the first three quarters of 2002 jumped 150 percent over the same period in 2001, Holt said. Year-to-year growth in the second and third quarters of last year hit 70 percent. As a result, Dell added more than 1,500 new accounts to its storage customer base during those three quarters, including a mix of new customers and previous Dell PC and server clients, he said.