Dell PowerStore Security Enhancements Bolster Cyber Resilience

For the past twelve months, Dell has been busy developing software resulting in over 2,000 storage portfolio advancements in automation to improve cyber resilience, DevOps, and system performance. Case in point, Dell PowerStore security enhancements accelerate customers’ Zero Trust adoption delivering better protection by preventing and responding to cyberattacks.

For the past twelve months, Dell has been busy developing software resulting in over 2,000 storage portfolio advancements in automation to improve cyber resilience, DevOps, and system performance. Case in point, Dell PowerStore security enhancements accelerate customers’ Zero Trust adoption delivering better protection by preventing and responding to cyberattacks.

The advancements across all categories of the external storage industry are available to current customers at no additional cost. They are consumable through on-premises software or as-a-Service through Dell Apex.

Built to Meet Stringent Security Requirements

PowerStore delivers increased security to help businesses adopt a Zero Trust model, providing continuous verification of users and resources and ensuring only known entities and actions are authorized. PowerStore’s new security software enhancements accelerate Zero Trust adoption to better protect, prevent and respond to cyberattacks. New advancements include:

• STIG-hardening: Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) meet the most stringent configuration standards as defined by the U.S. federal government and the U.S. Department of Defense. STIG hardening adds to PowerStore’s adherence with the NIST Cyber Security Framework standard, which is required for U.S. federal networks and other government entities worldwide.
• Secure and immutable snapshots: Prevents unauthorized deleting or modifying of snapshots before their expiration date.
• Streamlined file permissions: Allows storage administrators to manage access directly from PowerStore to respond quickly to security threats.
• Increased file resiliency: Up to 4x more mounted snapshots per system, giving users more protection points for granular recovery if needed.
• Multi-factor authentication: Protects administrative access to PowerStore by requiring increased verification of a user’s identity.

Increased Productivity, Decreased Costs

New PowerStore software automation and multicloud advancements help customers make the most of their existing IT investments while keeping operational and energy costs down. These new PowerStore features include:

• Dell PowerProtect native integration: PowerStore deep integration into Dell’s physical and software-defined data protection solutions give organizations a choice for multicloud data protection strategies. Backups and restores can be configured in less than two minutes directly from the PowerStore user interface, allowing customers to easily take advantage of PowerProtect appliances with up to 65:1 data reduction, DD Boost technology, and other capabilities. The solution can enable cost-effective cloud archiving, reducing on-premises capacity requirements and helping reduce power and cooling costs.
• DevOps workflow enhancements: Integration with Ansible and Terraform, along with new application mobility capabilities with Dell Container Storage Modules, provide PowerStore customers the tools to accelerate innovation with flexible storage automation. Supporting these open-source solutions gives DevOps workers easy-to-use storage automation tools and the ability to build repeatable, automated processes across diverse environments to provision storage without low-level coding or help desk support.

Energy Efficiency

Based on Dell analysis, PowerStore is up to 60% more energy efficient and carries a new ENERGY STAR certification, providing increases in density and performance per watt and making it Dell’s most sustainable data storage system to date. Dell is addressing the increased need for energy efficiency and sustainability, which a recent IDC survey revealed is essential for IT buying decisions.

Dell ramps up software-driven storage innovation

Dell wasn’t only focused on PowerStore, adding new software advancements across the Dell Storage portfolio. Highlights include:

• Dell PowerMax: Stronger cybersecurity through a native airgap enables customers to expedite recovery of compromised production data.
• Dell PowerFlex: Dell’s software-defined infrastructure speeds modernization with enhanced NVMe/TCP and security.
• Dell ObjectScale: This software-defined object-storage platform introduces faster enterprise S3 object storage performance with a more straightforward deployment and support experience.
• Dell CloudIQ: AIOps software extends AI/ML-driven performance and capacity analytics and VMware integration to simplify and accelerate IT and DevOps.
• Dell Unity XT: This flexible hybrid storage platform increases Ansible support to enhance storage automation, helping customers lower costs, reduce errors and increase productivity.

Availability

• Dell PowerStore and ObjectScale advancements will be globally available in June 2023.
• Dell PowerMax, CloudIQ, and Unity XT capabilities are globally available today.
• Dell PowerFlex advancements will be globally available in the third quarter of 2023.

Additional Resources

• PowerStore Blog: Secure and Efficient Storage is Easier Than You Think
• Learn more about Dell Technologies Software-Driven Innovation

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