Dell Technologies and Nutanix are deepening their collaboration with the announcement that Dell’s flagship all-flash storage platform, Dell PowerStore, will soon support the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP). This integration is not merely a technical partnership; it is a direct strategic move to meet intense customer demand for greater choice and flexibility in virtualization, simultaneously promising to reduce infrastructure complexity and lower operating costs.
This integration is a logical merging of two distinct data centre strengths. Dell PowerStore serves as the enterprise all-flash backbone, known for its end-to-end NVMe design that delivers extremely low latency for mission-critical workloads like large-scale databases and AI applications. Its advanced features include built-in AI-powered self-healing, which autonomously takes corrective action to cut issue resolution time by up to 90%. Meanwhile, NCP provides one of the industry’s leading hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software stacks, unifying compute and storage under a modern cloud operating model managed via the simplified Nutanix Prism console.
The synergy between the two platforms is designed to deliver superior operational flow with VM-centric operations and automation. IT teams gain intelligent automation and streamlined operations with Nutanix’s Prism console to manage PowerStore’s capabilities, reducing manual intervention and allowing staff to focus on strategic projects. Furthermore, the flexibility of the solution is enhanced by the disaggregated model, which allows the scale-up and scale-out design of PowerStore to enable independent growth of performance and storage capacity. This modularity extends lifecycle value and alleviates vendor lock-in concerns, a key demand from large enterprises that need to modernise infrastructure without disruption.
Security and efficiency are also dramatically bolstered. The solution combines PowerStore’s built-in cyber protection and always-on advanced data reduction. This efficiency is backed by Dell’s 5:1 data reduction guarantee on reducible data, directly helping organisations lower storage costs and power consumption. Furthermore, security is amplified through integration with Nutanix’s VM-centric disaster recovery and Flow network security features, ensuring mission-critical workloads are protected and highly available.
Early access is expected to begin in Spring 2026, with general availability scheduled for Summer 2026.
