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Dell Technologies PowerStore Prime Comes with Increased Data Resiliency & AI Augmentation

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Dell Technologies is bringing a slew of advancements to its PowerStore offering. The new offering delivers key improvements that augment and empower data resiliency, data and multi-cloud data mobility. With these improvements, Dell is also expanding its APEX portfolio with better, more powerful AIOps advancements and Kubernetes storage management.

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Dell’s PowerStore offering has been augmented with new features that increase performance, efficiency and security. The new PowerStore Prime offers quad-level cell (QLC) based storage. This lowers the cost per terabyte compared to previously used triple-level cell (TLC) based storage. With QLC-based storage, organizations can start with as little as 11 QLC drives and quickly scale up to 5.9 petabytes of effective capacity per appliance. Dell further augments this with intelligent load-balancing capabilities that are built into PowerStorage itself. This will optimise workload placement across QLC and TLC clusters leading to better cost efficiency and up to 66% uplift in hardware performance through data-in-place higher model appliance upgrades.

PowerStore Prime also comes with a bevvy of software updates that also help increase efficiency, security and cloud mobility. These advancements are part and parcel of PowerStore Prime which comes at no additional cost to existing customers. Dell will be providing updates that deliver up to 30% higher mixed workload performance and 20% lower latency. It also delivers fortified data protection with a vast array of choices that allow customers to safeguard and backup workloads with native synchronous replication of block and file workloads and native metro replication for Windows, Linux and VMWare environments. All of this is done with an uplift of 28% in power efficiency and 20% better data reduction. These simplified workloads also empower data mobility in multi-cloud environments giving users increased flexibility to scale thanks to its connectivity to Dell APEX Block Storage.

Dell APEX AIOps Delivers Greater Agility and Control

Together with Dell PowerStorage Prime, Dell Technologies is also augmenting Dell APEX with AI-driven features to deliver better agility and control. Dell APEX AIOps will be offered in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. It delivers better infrastructure health and transparency with AI-driven full-stack observability and incident management.

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APEX AIOps increases observability with AI-powered solutions that allow IT administrators to better address issues that arise. Dell claims that the increased infrastructure observability allows up to 10X quicker response times than traditional approaches. AI-powered health, cybersecurity and sustainability monitoring deliver actionable insights complete with detailed problem-solving recommendations. with AIOps customers are able to reduce reduction time by up to 70% with full-stack application topologies analytics. It can also deliver better uptimes and shorter recovery times with AI-driven incident management.

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(From left) Deepak Waghmare, Chief Technology Officer at Dell Technologies (APJ), Richard Jeremiah, General Manager Data Centre & Compute Solutions – South Asia at Dell Technologies (APJ), and Mak Chin Wah, Country Manager (Malaysia) at Dell Technologies, addressing the media during the launch of the Dell PowerStore Prime offering in Malaysia

Dell’s APEX Navigator is also being expanded to include workloads on Kubernetes. This will simplify Kubernetes storage management on Dell PowerFlex and, in the near future, Dell PowerScale as well as Dell APEX Cloud Platforma for Red Hat OpensShift. This is achieved with expanded advanced services like data replication, application mobility and container observability.

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Dell PowerStore’s software enhancements are available right now. PowerStore’s QLC model and data-in-place higher model appliance will be available starting in July. PowerStore multi-cloud data mobility and APEX Naivgator for Kubernetes will be available in Q2 2024 while APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability and Incident Management will be available in October 2024.

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Dell Technologies Updated Storage Software Solutions Enable Better Data Resilience

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Dell Technologies is updating its portfolio of storage solutions to empower businesses with better data resilience and flexibility. The newly updated solutions take the lead from businesses which have inadvertently adopted a multi-cloud approach which Dell has identified as “Multi-Cloud by Default”. These updated solutions enable businesses to seamlessly access and store data across their multiple clouds while increasing efficiency.

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Dell’s PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex have been updated with over 500 software advancements across the board to deliver better multi-cloud control, insights and resilience. The updates come as part of Dell’s project Alpine which looks to bring enterprise performance, protection and capacity that is offered by Dell Technologies to public clouds.

The Dell PowerStore solution is one of the fastest ramping new architecture in Dell’s history. It is capable of delivering improvements of up to 50% in mixed workloads and up to 66% greater capacity than most of the current market offerings. With the new software updates, it now supports better, more secured file workloads with file level retention, native file replication and support for third-party solutions for file monitoring and ransomware protection. Deeper VMware integrations which empower better vVols latency and performance allow businesses to run more workloads faster. In addition, it’s been imbued with added resilience with better VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVolss) replication and VM-level snapshots and fast clones.

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PowerMax, on the other hand, empowers mission-critical operations with data security and resilience. These include cyber vaults for traditional and mainframe deployments. It comes with added data security thanks to CouldIQ ransomware capabilities which enable early detection of ransomware attacks minimizing exposure and recovery. Dell PowerMax now offers up to 65 million secure snapshots to better data recovery and resiliency with a new 4:1 data reduction guarantee. Software updates enable automated storage operations including multi-array smart provisioning, workload optimisation, health monitoring and remediation. It will also be able to quickly move and mobilise workloads between public and private clouds with snapshot shipping and recovery. This also allows for better, higher availability to minimise downtime.

Rounding up their offerings, Dell PowerFlex is available to help consolidate traditional and modern workloads. It does this through new file services that allow for a unified platform for both block and file capabilities. PowerFlex works to simplify the complexities of a multi-cloud environment as well as DevOps with support for the broadest file and block support for all Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. New software updates also allow PowerFlex to unify compute, storage and system lifecycle management helping simplify workflow.

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These innovations and cloud storage solutions from Dell Technologies is one of the first steps the company is taking to its vision of a multi-cloud by design work environment. In this new work environment, entreprises are able to work on-prem and in the cloud with the flexibility and security needed regardless of being in the public or private cloud. In fact, they will work seamlessly as data and operations stores and retrieves data from both.

The Dell PowerMax and Dell PowerStore updates and upgrades will be available globally starting in mid-July 2022 while PowerFlex will see global availability in mid-August 2022.