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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