Dell Technologies Enhances Storage Software Innovations and Expands Multi-Cloud Experiences Across Partner Ecosystem

June 28, 2022
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Dell Technologies is enhancing software across its industry-leading1 storage portfolio, driving increased intelligence, automation, cyber resiliency and multi-cloud flexibility.

 

Dell storage software innovations

 

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.

 

Dell PowerStore, 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, native file replication and support for third-party file monitoring and ransomware protection.
  • Take advantage of deeper VMware integrations including improved vVols latency and performance plus simplified disaster recovery with VMware vSphere®  Virtual Volumes™ (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. 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 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. 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.

 

Dell demonstrates data storage services in public clouds

 

Building on January’s introduction of Project Alpine, Dell is demonstrating how its storage software could be used in public clouds such as AWS and Azure. Project Alpine will provide data mobility and consistent operations across on-premises and public cloud environments. Organizations will be able to quickly deploy or easily consume Dell storage software and services that will offer performance in the public cloud efficiency and protection based on industry-leading enterprise storage.9

 

With Dell storage software in the public cloud, customers will be able to seamlessly move data to the cloud and leverage cloud-based analytics services. Developers can write applications once and deploy them anywhere they are needed to create a consistent, cloud-native experience across multiple public clouds.

 

Dell and Snowflake collaborate to extend the multi-cloud experience

 

Dell and Snowflake will work together to connect data from Dell enterprise storage with the Snowflake Data Cloud. This collaboration will give customers greater flexibility operating in multi-cloud environments, meet data sovereignty requirements, and easily turn data into insights wherever it resides.

 

Dell and Snowflake customers will be able to use on-premises data stored on Dell object storage with the Snowflake Data Cloud while keeping their data local or seamlessly copying it to public clouds. The companies will pursue product integrations and joint go-to-market efforts in the second half of 2022.

 

Availability

  • Dell PowerStore, PowerMax, and PowerFlex advancements have planned global availability in the third quarter of 2022.

 

Additional resources

 

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  1. IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, 2021Q4, March 11, 2022 – Vendor Revenue.
  2. Based on internal tests comparing PowerStore 1200T peak IOPS with PowerStore OS 3.0 vs. PowerStore 1000T with PowerStoreOS 2.1, running 70/30 read/write mix, 8k block size. March, 2022. Actual results may vary.
  3. Maximum effective capacity for largest PowerStore cluster with PowerStoreOS 3.0 vs. PowerStoreOS 2.0. Assumes average 4:1 data reduction. Actual results vary.
  4. Based on Dell internal analysis of cybersecurity capabilities of Dell PowerMax versus cybersecurity capabilities of competitive mainstream arrays supporting open systems and mainframe storage, March 2022.
  5. Based on Dell ‘s Future-Proof program that offers 4:1 data reduction guarantee based on PowerMax data reduction tools (dedupe and data compression) for open systems storage, March 2022. Actual data reduction rates will vary.
  6. Based on Dell internal testing using the Sequential Read Hits (128K) GB per second, and IOPS per FC port benchmarks (within a single array) comparing PowerMax 8500 to PowerMax 8000, March 2022. Actual performance will vary.
  7. Based on Dell internal testing using the OLTP benchmark comparing the PowerMax 2500 against the PowerMax 2000, March 2022. Actual response times will vary.
  8. Based on Dell analysis of integrated systems for Kubernetes distributions, March 2022.
  9. IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, 2021Q4, March 11, 2022 – Vendor Revenue.