PowerStore Prime combines system advancements,
Dell APEX AI innovations and programmatic benefits for customers
and partners
LAS
VEGAS, May 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DELL
TECHNOLOGIES WORLD --
News summary
- Dell PowerStore innovations support highly demanding workloads
with up to a 30% software-driven performance boost and up to 66%
better hardware performance
- Dell PowerStore customers can increase efficiency with
industry's most flexible QLC storage offering and new 5:1 data
reduction guarantee
- Dell PowerStore cloud mobility tools simplify workload
placement with data migration between PowerStore and Dell APEX
Block Storage for Public Cloud
- Dell PowerStore Prime offers customers greater IT investment
protection and helps partners accelerate storage opportunities with
expanded programs and incentives
- Dell APEX AIOps increases infrastructure availability with
AI-driven incident detection and automation
- Dell APEX Navigator expands to simplify management of
Kubernetes persistent storage and support APEX File Storage
Full story
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) unveils Dell
PowerStore advancements for better performance, efficiency,
resiliency and multicloud data mobility. Dell also expands Dell
APEX portfolio with new AIOps advancements and enhanced multicloud
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 Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure
Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. "And 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
multicloud and Kubernetes storage."
Enhancing storage performance, efficiency, resiliency and
multicloud capabilities
Dell PowerStore helps manage
increasing workload demands with the industry's most flexible
quad-level cell (QLC) storage1 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.2 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.3
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
boost4 and up to 20% lower latency.5
- 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 reduction6 and up to 28% more
effective terabytes per watt.7
- Multicloud data mobility enhancements: Customers can
advance multicloud strategies and simplify workload mobility by
connecting PowerStore to Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud,
the world's most scalable cloud block storage.8
"Dell PowerStore is helping Fulgent Genetics transform patient
care in pathology, oncology, reproductive health, as well as
infectious and rare diseases, by significantly accelerating data
processing speed so that our physicians can deliver faster genetic
insights and test results to our patients," said Mike Lacenere, vice president, Applications,
Fulgent Genetics. "PowerStore enhances our commitment to
sustainability by minimizing energy use and reducing the size of
our data centers while providing us considerable cost savings. With
PowerStore's new advances, we expect this trifecta of performance,
efficiency, and cost savings to continue to increase which will
help us improve patient care."
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.
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.9
- 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.
- Flexible consumption: Customers can consume PowerStore
through a Dell APEX subscription, paying only for what they need
monthly.
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.
"PowerStore's new 5:1 Data Reduction Guarantee and new QLC array
are a testament of Dell's unwavering commitment to meet customer
efficiency goals while lowering the cost of advanced storage," said
John Lochausen, technical solutions
architect, World Wide Technology. "Dell's new partner
incentives and guarantees bring it all together, putting us and our
customers in a position to succeed with the latest advances in
all-flash storage."
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 multicloud. Dell APEX innovations deliver leading AIOps
capabilities and improve storage and Kubernetes management.
Dell APEX AIOps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
optimizes Dell 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 faster10 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 issues11 through
full stack application topologies and analytics for assuring
application availability and performance.
- Incident Management: Optimizes digital infrastructure
availability through AI-driven incident detection and resolution
that reduces customer-reported multivendor and multicloud
infrastructure issues by up to 93 percent.12
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 is generally
available, simplifying 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.
- Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage
adds support for Dell APEX File Storage for AWS with
support planned for Dell APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure
later this year. This offer simplifies storage configuration,
deployment and monitoring across a universal storage layer created
by Dell on-premises and public cloud storage.
Customers can get started with Dell APEX Navigator for
Multicloud Storage and now Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes
through a 90-day, risk-free trial.
Availability
- Dell PowerStore software enhancements will be globally
available in late May.
- 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 Multicloud Storage support for Dell
APEX File Storage for AWS is available now in the United States.
- Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage support for Dell
APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure will be available in
the United States in the second
half of 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.
Additional resources
- Blog: PowerStore Prime: Smart Choice for Unstoppable
Storage Advantage
- Blog: Dell Technologies World: Unleashing Innovation for
Partners
- Blog: Dell APEX – A Catalyst for Multicloud
Innovation
- Blog: IT Operations Needs a New Wardrobe
- Blog: Traverse Kubernetes Storage Seas with APEX
Navigator and PowerFlex
- Connect with Dell on X and LinkedIn
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1 Based on Dell analysis of Primary Storage QLC arrays –
May
2024.
2 Effective capacity
assumes average 5:1 data reduction. Actual results vary, refer to
Power Sizer for capacity data in your
environment.
3 Based on internal analysis
comparing PowerStore 3200 vs. PowerStore 5200 resource
maximums running PowerStore OS 4.0. Performance comparison using
peak IOPs running 70/30 read/write mix, 8k block size over FC. Actual results will
vary.
4 Based on internal
analysis comparing PowerStore 5200 peak IOPS with PowerStore OS 3.6
vs. PowerStoreOS 4.0, running 70/30 read/write mix,
128k block size over FC. Actual
results will vary.
5 Based on internal testing of 64k reads on PowerStore 1200 with 32GB
FC running PowerStoreOS 3.6 vs 4.0
6 Based on internal analysis comparing data
reduction with PowerStoreOS 3.5 vs. PowerStoreOS 4.0
with variable block compression, Actual results will
vary.
7 Based on comparing maximum effective PowerStore capacities
of 4:1 versus average 5:1 data reduction. Actual results vary,
refer to Power Sizer for capacity data in your
environment.
8 Based on Dell analysis of
storage software deployable on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud,
May 2023
9
Based on Dell analysis comparing primary storage data
reduction guarantees vs Dell's Storage Data Reduction program –
May 2024. For PowerStore, applies to new arrays
initially installed with PowerStoreOS 4.0. For details see:
All-Flash Data Reduction Guarantee Terms and
Conditions. Actual data reduction rates will
vary.
10 CloudIQ User Survey, Dell Technologies,
2021. Actual results may vary.
11 Based on
an IBM-sponsored research: ""The Total Economic Impact™
Of IBM Instana Observability Cost Savings And Business
Benefits Enabled By Instana Observability," Forrester, January 2024. Actual results may
vary.
12 Based on Dell Analysis, 2023.
Results may vary.
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