Dell Technologies has addressed a series of modern business challenges by introducing several updates today including PowerFlex 4.5, APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, and an AWS Outposts ready designation for PowerFlex.
Dell Technologies has addressed a series of modern business challenges by introducing several updates today including PowerFlex 4.5, APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure, and an AWS Outposts ready designation for PowerFlex.
Dell PowerFlex 4.5 Delivers Performance, Agility, Flexibility
PowerFlex, as a software-defined infrastructure, stands poised to meet the dynamic requirements of modern workloads. It offers exceptional performance and scalability, seamlessly consolidating diverse workloads to empower organizations to operate confidently under the most demanding conditions. With features that provide unmatched agility, such as independent compute and storage scaling in on-premises environments, automation tools for streamlined DevOps, and a self-healing architecture that minimizes downtime, PowerFlex is designed to meet rigorous performance metrics and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Building upon its core strengths, the PowerFlex 4.5 release introduces significant advancements rooted in a commitment to software-driven innovation. This iteration promises to continue a modernized storage experience while leading with efficiency and enabling multicloud capabilities.
The integration of CloudIQ with PowerFlex is further enriched in this release. The CloudIQ suite now offers an array of capabilities that significantly enhance system visibility, monitoring, and real-time license management for both PowerFlex and APEX Block Storage in public clouds. These features enable proactive issue resolution, infrastructure optimization, and data-driven decision-making, providing unparalleled control, efficiency, and peace of mind.
Furthermore, enhancements in management and operations, including enriched alert reporting and expanded support for operating systems, ensure a seamless and efficient customer experience.
PowerFlex advances its consolidation capabilities in this release. While PowerFlex primarily serves as a block-based storage solution, its ability to address file use cases has been expanded. These upgrades offer users a single global namespace for enhanced capacity, unified storage pool management, and file scalability improvements, including a 400 percent increase in NAS Servers and 22x more file snapshots. These improvements provide customers with essential tools for effective data management, sustained peak performance, and scalability aligned with future growth.
Dell Technologies announces the achievement of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outposts Ready designation for Dell PowerFlex, highlighting its versatility. PowerFlex, a software-defined infrastructure solution, expedites modernization and consolidation initiatives for customers by optimizing workload execution and offering extensive automation capabilities to enhance business agility. AWS Outposts users can now deploy PowerFlex storage in two flexible on-premises configurations: software-only (virtual) inside AWS Outposts or as a physical (storage adjacent) deployment.
Dell PowerFlex is AWS Outposts Ready
The integration of Dell PowerFlex with AWS Outposts amplifies performance, capacity, and flexibility for on-premises AWS deployments. Dell PowerFlex brings multiple advantages to AWS Outposts users, including enterprise-class block storage, superior storage performance, seamless scalability, ease of management, consolidation capabilities, and heightened resilience. The integration significantly enhances storage resiliency compared to AWS Outposts-only deployments.
Dell Adds APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure
In tandem with the multicloud landscape’s intricacies and challenges, Dell unveiled APEX Block Storage for AWS at Dell Technologies World 2023, enhancing public cloud storage and ensuring operational consistency. The introduction of APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure marks a significant step forward in the multicloud journey, highlighting a commitment to innovation and seamless integration.
This offering empowers customers to run diverse workloads in the public cloud without limitations in performance, scale, or resiliency. APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure offers seamless data mobility and interoperability across multicloud environments and multiple availability zones. With features like extreme performance, unmatched scalability, flexible deployment options, and enterprise-grade resiliency, organizations can optimize various block-based workloads, from databases and analytics to Dev/Test, virtualization, and containers.
By merging cloud agility with proven enterprise capabilities, APEX Block Storage for Microsoft Azure enables customers to scale capacity and performance to meet even the most demanding workloads and SLAs in multicloud settings.
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