"Organizations around the world rely on Dell to help them work faster and turn their data into a competitive advantage," says Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and co-chief operating officer of Dell Technologies. "We are delivering significant software innovations across our entire portfolio to help customers get the most out of their data and resources."
Introduction of Dell storage software innovations
More than 500 software improvements in Dell PowerStore, PowerMax, and PowerFlex provide faster data insights, better multi-cloud data control, and increased cyber resiliency, without additional costs for existing customers. These improvements are the latest examples of Dell storage software innovation following the introduction of Project Alpine, which brought Dell storage software to public clouds.
"IQVIA leverages the power of data science to help clients accelerate clinical development and healthcare outcomes," says Ken Boyer, director of global storage at IQVIA. "To drive transformative results, an infrastructure partner is needed that is equally focused on innovation. Dell Technologies storage delivers the automation, security, performance, and scalability we need in reinventing life sciences."
Dell PowerStore, the fastest-growing new architecture in the company's history, delivers a 50% performance improvement for mixed workload loads and 66% larger capacity. Customers can better plan business continuity strategies with software-only metro replication with high availability configured in just five clicks. Additional software improvements enable organizations to:
- better support secure file workloads with file-level retention, native level file replication, and support for third-party file monitoring and ransomware protection;
- benefit from deeper VMware integrations, including improved vVols latency and performance plus simplified disaster recovery with vVols replication, VM-level snapshots, and rapid cloning;
- maximize the performance of new hardware with end-to-end NVMe support and higher network speeds.
Dell PowerMax introduces enhancements in cyber resiliency, including air-gapped cyber vaults for traditional and mainframe implementations. CloudIQ ransomware capabilities help detect cyberattacks early to minimize exposure and accelerate recovery. PowerMax now offers up to 65 million secure snapshots to enhance cyber recovery and improve efficiency with the new 4:1 data reduction guarantee. Additional software-driven updates help organizations to:
- increase productivity with automated storage operations, such as smart multi-array provisioning, workload optimization, and status monitoring and recovery;
- quickly move data to public clouds with faster shipping and recovery of cloud snapshots, built-in high availability to prevent downtime, and easy recovery of cloud-based object storage data;
- experience double performance with 50% better response times in demanding application and mainframe environments on two new NVMe-based PowerMax models. Anytime Upgrade customers are eligible for non-disruptive upgrades.
Dell PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure consolidates traditional and modern workloads with new file services that enable uniform block and file capabilities on a single platform. PowerFlex simplifies multi-cloud and DevOps with the broadest file and block support for all major Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, and VMware. With additional updates, customers can:
- realize greater TCO savings by consolidating traditional and containerized workloads using uniform block and file storage services for bare-metal and virtualized deployments;
- simplify the deployment of PowerFlex via NVMe-over-TCP connectivity with consistent, standards-based storage networks;
- streamline operations with new uniform compute, storage, and system lifecycle management capabilities within PowerFlex Manager software.
"Organizations are increasingly looking for IT infrastructure that offers a cloud-like experience, wherever their data resides," says Eric Burgener, research vice president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. "Dell has designed these transformative software and hardware improvements for its comprehensive multi-cloud infrastructure portfolio to deliver that experience with more automation, security, and control."
Availability
The improvements in Dell PowerStore, PowerMax, and PowerFlex are expected to be globally available in the third quarter of 2022.
