Dell Enhances PowerStore: Boosts Performance, Resiliency, Efficiency

Dell Technologies has unveiled advancements to Dell PowerStore, enhancing storage performance, efficiency, resiliency, and multicloud data mobility.

Key updates include QLC-based storage for cost-effective enterprise performance, hardware performance improvements up to 66%, and software-driven boosts offering up to 30% higher mixed workload performance and 20% lower latency.

Read More Business News

Cyberbullying on Social Media: A Call for Stricter Regulations

The enhancements also feature improved data protection, increased data reduction by 20%, and 28% better power efficiency.

Additionally, Dell expanded its APEX portfolio with new AIOps advancements for better multicloud and Kubernetes storage management, emphasizing AI and automation for improved infrastructure and application reliability.

PowerStore

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 modernisation: 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.

Empowering partners

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,” says Mak Chin Wah, country manager, Malaysia and general manager, Telecoms Systerm Business, South Asia, 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

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 Technologies has expanded its Dell APEX AIOps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to enhance infrastructure health and service availability using AI-driven observability and incident management. The AIOps tools simplify operations, improve IT agility, and offer greater control through three integrated capabilities:

1. Infrastructure Observability: Resolves issues up to 10 times faster using AI-powered health, cybersecurity, and sustainability insights. The Generative AI-powered Dell APEX AIOps Assistant provides instant responses and detailed recommendations.
2. Application Observability: Reduces mean time to resolution of application issues by up to 70% through full stack topologies and analytics for application performance.
3. Incident Management: Optimizes infrastructure availability with AI-driven incident detection and resolution, reducing customer-reported issues by 93%.

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.