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“Organizations all over the world look to Dell to help them move faster while turning their data into a competitive advantage,” said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman and co-chief operating officer, Dell Technologies.
To this end, Dell Technologies announced it is delivering major software innovation across their portfolio to help customers make the most of their data and resources.
More than 500 software advancements across Dell PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex deliver faster data insights, better multi-cloud data control and increased cyber resiliency at no cost to existing customers.
With this flexibility, multi cloud can provide highly scalable data and system backup to make cloud services both on-premises and in the cloud more dynamic.
Dell PowerStore, a next generation data storage solution primarily focusing on customers who look for flexibility and value for money and the fastest ramping new architecture in company history, will deliver up to a 50%2 mixed workload performance boost and up to 66%3 greater capacity. Customers can better plan business continuity strategies with software-only high availability metro replication configured in as few as five clicks. Additional software advancements make it possible for organizations to:
- Better support and secure file workloads with file level retention providing a much data centric infrastructure that supports heavy workload, native file replication and support for third-party file monitoring and ransomware protection.
- Take advantage of deeper VMware integrations including improved VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ (vVols) latency and performance plus simplified disaster recovery with vVols replication, VM-level snapshots and fast clones.
- Maximize performance of new hardware with end-to-end NVMe support and increased networking speeds.
Dell PowerMax, the world’s most secure, mission-critical storage,4 will introduce cyber resiliency advancements including cyber vaults for traditional and mainframe deployments. PowerMax provides unprecedented levels of performance and scaling for data storage memory that is built on simple yet powerful Non-Volatile memory (NVMe)storage architecture It is simple yet powerful and trusted storage infrastructure.
CloudIQ ransomware capabilities help detect cyberattacks early to minimize exposure and speed recovery. PowerMax now offers up to 65 million secure snapshots to improve cyber recovery and increases efficiency with new 4:1 data reduction guarantee.5 Additional software-driven updates help organizations:
- Increase productivity with automated storage operations such as multi-array smart provisioning, workload optimization, and health monitoring and remediation.
- Quickly move data to public clouds with faster cloud snapshot shipping and recovery, built-in high availability to minimize downtime and easy restore of cloud-based object storage data.
- Experience double the performance6 with up to 50% better response times7 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 will consolidate traditional and modern workloads with new file services that allow for unified block and file capabilities on a single platform. PowerFlex uses the NVMe architecture for memory and provides a dedicated software to manage storage. It simplifies multi-cloud and DevOps with the broadest file and block8 support for all major Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware turning the existing local storage to shared storage. Additional updates allow customers to:
- Realize greater TCO savings by consolidating traditional and containerized workloads using unified block and file storage services across bare metal and virtualized deployments.
- Simplify PowerFlex deployment through NVMe-over-TCP connectivity with consistent standards-based storage networking.
- Streamline operations with new unified compute, storage and system lifecycle management capabilities within PowerFlex Manager software.
These advancements are the latest examples of Dell storage software innovation following the introduction of Project Alpine, which will bring the enterprise capacity, performance and protection of Dell storage software to public clouds.
Project Alpine is a solution that is meant for customers who find it difficult to manage and move data from one cloud environment to another since these environments vary widely in terms of cost, security, and management. It offers consistency across all platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
“Organizations are increasingly seeking IT infrastructure that delivers a cloud-like experience wherever their data lives,” said Eric Burgener, research vice president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. “Dell has designed these sweeping software and hardware enhancements across its comprehensive, multi-cloud infrastructure portfolio to deliver that experience with greater automation, security and control.”
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