Dell Technologies Bolsters Dell PowerStore with New Features, Advancements in Storage Performance, Resiliency, and Efficiency

Dell Technologies has unveiled Dell PowerStore advancements for better performance, efficiency, resiliency, and multi-cloud data mobility. Dell has also expanded its APEX portfolio with new AIOps advancements and enhanced multi-cloud 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 Richard Jeremiah, General Manager, Data Centre and Compute Solutions, South Asia, at Dell Technologies. “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 multi-cloud and Kubernetes storage.”

Enhancing Storage Performance, Efficiency, Resiliency, and Multi-Cloud Capabilities

Dell Technologies’ Dell PowerStore helps manage increasing workload demands with the industry’s most flexible quad-level cell (QLC) storage 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. 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.

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 boost 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 28% improved power efficiency.
• Multi-cloud data mobility enhancements. Customers can advance multi-cloud strategies and simplify workload mobility by connecting PowerStore to Dell APEX Block Storage, the world’s most scalable cloud block storage.

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.

Dell Technologies Offering Greater Storage Investment Protection

PowerStore Prime offers customers greater flexibility to make the most of their IT investment with:

• 5:1 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.

Dell Technologies 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.

“At Dell Technologies, our Partner First Strategy for Storage has been a game-changer, driving strong momentum and positive engagement from our partners. By involving our channel partners early and incentivising collaboration, we are seeing significant growth and trust in our partnerships,” said Mak Chin Wah, Country Manager, Malaysia and General Manager, Telecoms Systerm Business, South Asia, at Dell Technologies Malaysia. “This approach not only enhances our sales efficiency but also reinforces our leadership in the data storage market. We are committed to fostering these relationships to deliver exceptional value and innovation to our customers.”

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 multi-cloud. Dell APEX innovations deliver leading AIOps capabilities and improve storage and Kubernetes management.

Dell APEX AIOps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) optimises Dell Technologies 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 faster 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 issues through full stack application topologies and analytics for assuring application availability and performance.
• Incident Management. Optimises digital infrastructure availability through AI-driven incident detection and resolution that reduces customer-reported multivendor and multi-cloud infrastructure issues by 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, which is now generally available. It simplifies 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.

Customers can get started with Dell APEX Navigator for Multi-Cloud Storage and now Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes through a 90-day, risk-free trial.

Availability of Dell Technologies’ Upgrades

• Dell PowerStore software enhancements is available today.
• 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 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.