Dell Technologies Bolsters Dell PowerStore with Storage Performance, Resiliency and Efficiency Advancements

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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) unveils Dell PowerStore advancements for better

performance, efficiency, resiliency and multicloud data mobility. Dell also expands Dell

APEX portfolio with new AIOps advancements and enhanced multicloud and

Kubernetes storage management.

“Our PowerStore advancements and new lineup of financial and operational advantages

for customers and partners pack a powerful punch and raise the bar in all-flash

storage,” said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell

Technologies.

“And we didn’t stop there. Our focus on innovation also extends to Dell

APEX, where we’re improving infrastructure and application reliability through the power

of AI and automation, making it even easier to manage multicloud and Kubernetes

storage.”

Enhancing storage performance, efficiency, resiliency and multicloud capabilities

Dell PowerStore helps manage increasing workload demands with the industry’s most

flexible quad-level cell (QLC) storage1 and significant performance enhancements.

QLC-based storage: Delivers enterprise-class performance at a lower cost

per terabyte when compared to triple-level cell (TLC) models. Customers can

start with as few as 11 QLC drives and scale up to 5.9 petabytes of effective

capacity per appliance.2 PowerStore’s intelligent load balancing capabilities

help save costs and improve workload placement across mixed TLC and QLC

clusters.

Increased performance: Improves hardware performance up to 66% through

new data-in-place higher model appliance upgrades.3

Dell PowerStore software advancements improve efficiency, security and cloud mobility:

Software-driven performance boost: Non-disruptive software updates

available at no additional cost to existing customers deliver up to a 30%

higher mixed workload performance boost4 and up to 20% lower latency.

Improved data protection: More choices for customers safeguarding critical

workloads with native synchronous replication for block and file workloads

and native metro replication for Windows, Linux and VMware environments.

Increased Efficiency: Software enhancements provide up to 20% better data

reduction and up to 28% more effective terabytes per watt.

Multicloud data mobility enhancements: Customers can advance

multicloud strategies and simplify workload mobility by connecting

PowerStore to Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud, the world’s most

scalable cloud block storage.

“Dell PowerStore is helping Fulgent Genetics transform patient care in pathology,

oncology, reproductive health, as well as infectious and rare diseases, by significantly

accelerating data processing speed so that our physicians can deliver faster genetic

insights and test results to our patients,” said Mike Lacenere, vice president,

Applications, Fulgent Genetics. “PowerStore enhances our commitment to sustainability

by minimizing energy use and reducing the size of our data centers while providing us

considerable cost savings. With PowerStore’s new advances, we expect this trifecta of

performance, efficiency, and cost savings to continue to increase which will help us

improve patient care.”

These PowerStore advancements are part of PowerStore Prime, a new integrated

offering that combines updated PowerStore systems with programs designed to offer

customers greater storage investment protection and increase Dell partner profitability.

Offering greater storage investment protection

PowerStore Prime offers customers greater flexibility to make the most of their IT

investment with:

data reduction guarantee: Customers can buy with confidence, save on

costs and reduce energy with the industry’s best data reduction guarantee.

Continuous modernization: Lifecycle Extension with Dell ProSupport or

ProSupport Plus offers customers 24/7 access to live support, flexible technology

upgrades, capacity trade-ins, and storage advisory services.

Flexible consumption: Customers can consume PowerStore through a Dell

APEX subscription, paying only for what they need monthly.

Empowering partners to meet customer demands

PowerStore Prime also makes it easier and more rewarding to sell PowerStore. Building

on the Dell partner-first strategy for storage, partners can now increase PowerStore

sales with competitively priced product bundles and deliver expanded use cases for

joint customers. Partners can also streamline sales motions when selling PowerStore

and PowerProtect offers together.

“PowerStore’s new Data Reduction Guarantee and new QLC array are a testament

of Dell’s unwavering commitment to meet customer efficiency goals while lowering the

cost of advanced storage,” said John Lochausen, technical solutions architect, World

Wide Technology. “Dell’s new partner incentives and guarantees bring it all together,

putting us and our customers in a position to succeed with the latest advances in all-

flash storage.”

Unleashing the power of AI to simplify and automate IT management

Dell Technologies continues to evolve its Dell APEX portfolio to meet customer needs

across key focus areas like AI and multicloud. Dell APEX innovations deliver leading

AIOps capabilities and improve storage and Kubernetes management.

Dell APEX AIOps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) optimizes Dell infrastructure health

and service availability with AI-driven full stack observability and incident management.

It is a significant expansion of Dell’s AIOps tools that simplifies operations, improves IT

agility and delivers greater control over applications and infrastructure through three

integrated capabilities:

Infrastructure Observability: Resolves infrastructure issues up to 10X faster10

than traditional approaches through AI-powered health, cybersecurity and

sustainability insights and recommendations. Generative AI-powered Dell APEX

AIOps Assistant delivers instant responses to infrastructure questions and

provides detailed problem-solving recommendations.

Application Observability: Yields up to 70% reduction in mean time to

resolution of application issues11 through full stack application topologies and

analytics for assuring application availability and performance.

Incident Management: Optimizes digital infrastructure availability through AI-

driven incident detection and resolution that reduces customer-reported

multivendor and multicloud infrastructure issues by up to 93 percent.

Dell APEX Navigator SaaS expands to include Kubernetes storage management and

additional support for Dell APEX Storage for Public Cloud offers:

Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes is generally available, simplifying

Kubernetes storage management on Dell PowerFlex and soon, Dell PowerScale

and Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, by bringing advanced data

services like data replication, application mobility and observability to containers.

Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage adds support for Dell APEX File

Storage for AWS with support planned for Dell APEX File Storage for Microsoft

Azure later this year. This offer simplifies storage configuration, deployment and

monitoring across a universal storage layer created by Dell on-premises and

public cloud storage.

Customers can get started with Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage and now

Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes through a 90-day, risk-free trial.

Availability

Dell PowerStore software enhancements will be globally available in late May.

Dell PowerStore QLC model and data-in-place higher-model appliance upgrades

for Gen 2 customers will be globally available in July.

Dell PowerStore multicloud data mobility will be globally available in the second

quarter of 2024.

Dell APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability and Incident Management are

available now. Application Observability availability is planned for October 2024.

Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage support for Dell APEX File Storage

for AWS is available now in the United States.

Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage support for Dell APEX File Storage

for Microsoft Azure will be available in the United States in the second half of

2024.

Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes is available now for PowerFlex in the United

States with support for Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, Dell

PowerScale and additional geographies planned for the second half of 2024.

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