News summary
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Dell
PowerStore innovations support highly demanding workloads with up to a 30%
software-driven performance boost and up to 66% better hardware performance
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Dell PowerStore customers can increase efficiency with industry’s most flexible QLC storage offering and
new 5:1 data reduction guarantee
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Dell
PowerStore cloud mobility tools simplify workload placement with data migration
between PowerStore and Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud
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Dell
PowerStore Prime offers customers greater IT investment protection and helps
partners accelerate storage opportunities with expanded programs and
incentives
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Dell
APEX AIOps increases infrastructure availability with AI-driven incident
detection and automation
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Dell APEX Navigator expands to simplify management of Kubernetes
persistent storage and support APEX File Storage
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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Increased Efficiency: Software
enhancements provide up to 20% better data reduction6 and 28% improved
power efficiency.7
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Multicloud data mobility
enhancements: Customers can advance
multicloud strategies and simplify workload mobility by connecting PowerStore
to Dell APEX Block Storage, 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:
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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
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Incident
Management: Optimizes
digital infrastructure availability through AI-driven incident detection and
resolution that reduces customer-reported multivendor and multicloud
infrastructure issues by 93 percent.12
Dell APEX Navigator SaaS expands
to include Kubernetes storage management and additional support for Dell APEX
Storage for Public Cloud offers:
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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.
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Dell
APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage adds supports 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
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Dell
PowerStore
software enhancements will be globally available in late May.
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Dell PowerStore QLC
model and data-in-place higher-model appliance upgrades for Gen 2 customers will
be globally available in July.
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Dell
PowerStore multicloud data mobility will be globally available in the second quarter of 2024.
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Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud
Storage support for Dell APEX File Storage for AWS is available now in the
United States.
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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.
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Dell APEX
AIOps Infrastructure Observability and Incident Management are available now. Application
Observability availability is planned for October 2024.
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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
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Blog: PowerStore Prime: Smart Choice for
Unstoppable Storage Advantage
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Blog:
Dell Techologies World: Unleashing
Innovation for Partners
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Blog:
Dell APEX – A Catalyst for Multicloud Innovation
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Blog: IT Operations Needs a New Wardrobe
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Blog: Traverse Kubernetes Storage Seas with
APEX Navigator and PowerFlex
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