PowerMax Innovations Increase Cybersecurity, Multicloud Agility, and AI-Powered Efficiency. Businesses want IT solutions that can keep up with current demands and foresee future requirements in the fast-paced digital environment of today.
Dell is releasing major updates to Dell PowerMax today that boost cyber resilience, provide seamless multicloud mobility, and improve AI-driven efficiency. PowerMax, the consistently cutting-edge, highly secure storage solution tailored for mission-critical workloads, now has additional features that make it simpler than ever for clients to adapt to changing business needs.
AI-Driven Efficiency for Mission-Critical Workloads
Businesses want storage solutions that can keep up with existing demands and foresee future requirements in the fast-paced digital environment of today. Herein lies the potential of artificial intelligence. Customers may benefit from a number of AI-powered features in this version that can assist maximize performance, lower maintenance costs, and stop problems before they start by:
Performance optimization: By using AI to reduce latency and increase speed without requiring administration overhead, its are utilizing dynamic cache optimization via pattern recognition and predictive analytics.
Management that is both proactive and predictive: Intelligent threshold settings for autonomous health checks enable self-healing and remedial measures, addressing problems before they occur (e.g. storage capacity levels, loose cabling).
Network fabric performance optimization (FPIN) that is automated: PowerMax can resolve incidents up to 8 times quicker by rapidly identifying Fibre Channel network congestion (slow drain) and identifying the underlying reason.
Infrastructure optimization is made quick and simple with Dell’s AIOps Assistant, which has Gen AI natural language questions.
Improved Efficiency
In order to enhance total storage efficiency and provide industry-leading power and environmental monitoring features, the most recent update also adds 92% RAID efficiency (RAID 6 24+2).
In order to increase power efficiency, control energy expenses, and successfully lower energy consumption, customers may now monitor power utilization at three different levels: the array, the rack, and the data center.
Increasing Cyber Resilience
Cyber resilience is essential for all clients at a time when cyberthreats are becoming more complex. PowerMax incorporates innovative cybersecurity features to improve client data safety, minimize attack surfaces, and swiftly recover from cyberattacks. These features include:
PowerMax Cyber Recovery Services: Strong defense against cyberattacks is provided by Dell’s new Professional Service. This customized solution guarantees rapid and effective recovery while assisting clients in meeting strict compliance objectives via the use of a secure PowerMax vault and granular data protection.
YubiKey multifactor authentication: Offers a robust and practical security solution that streamlines the user authentication process and improves protection against unwanted access.
Superior Performance at Scale
With the headroom required for present and future demands, PowerMax keeps raising the bar for outstanding performance at scale. The announcement for today also adds:
- PowerMax 8500 may increase IOPS performance by up to 30%.
- With new 100Gb Ethernet I/O modules, GbE connection may be up to three times quicker.
- With the new 64Gb Fibre Channel I/O modules, FC communication may be up to two times quicker.
- Along with these noteworthy improvements, Storage Direct Protection for PowerMax‘s connection with PowerProtect allows for effective, safe, and lightning-fast data protection, providing up to 500TB per day restores and 1PB per day backups.
Reach Multicloud Quickness
Multicloud agility is crucial for optimizing resource use, cutting expenses, and quickly adjusting to change in the rapidly changing digital world. This release assists users in achieving:
Seamless multicloud data mobility: Moving live PowerMax workloads to and from APEX Block Storage, the most robust and adaptable cloud storage available in the market, is now possible using Dell’s easy-to-use solutions. At the same time, multi-hop OS conversions are carried out to update those workloads in a single, seamless operation.
Scalable cloud restorations and backups: Simple, safe, and effective data protection is provided by Storage Direct Protection for PowerMax, giving users the freedom to choose the ideal backup locations. Customers may choose the cloud vendor that best suits their specific needs and prevent vendor lock-in by using APEX Protection Storage‘s seamless integration with popular cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba.
Model of simplified consumption: Customers pay only for the services they use with Dell APEX Subscriptions, which also simplify billing, invoicing, and capacity utilization tracking for improved forecasting and scalability. This paradigm simplifies lifetime management and offers a contemporary consumption experience without requiring a significant initial capital expenditure.
Innovation in Mainframes
PowerMaxOS 10.2 boosts cyber intrusion detection for mainframes (zCID) with auto-learning access pattern detection, lowers latency and improves IOPS performance for imbalanced mainframe workloads, and uses IBM’s System Recovery Boost to recover more quickly during scheduled or unforeseen outages.
