Dell Launches PowerMax Storage Array With End-to-End NVMe and Built-in Machine Learning Engine

Dell Technologies, Inc. is launching at Dell Technologies World, Las Vegas, NV, several Dell EMC storage and server products backed by a services portfolio.

PowerMax system

Raising the bar to power up the ‘Modern Data Center’, these new products are designed to address a range of traditional and emerging data center workloads to help customers drive better business outcomes.

As organizations race to capitalize on the benefits of emerging technologies ahead of their competitors, they are faced with new demands that require IT modernization to achieve higher levels of performance and automation in the data center. According to a recent ESG global survey commissioned by the company and Intel Corp. of 4,000 IT decision-makers, 81% agree if they do not embrace IT transformation, their organizations no longer will be competitive in their markets.

“The Modern Data Center is the proving ground for our customers to gain a digital advantage over their competition and achieve better business outcomes,” said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman, products and operations, Dell. “Dell EMC is delivering the Modern Data Center innovations that our customers require, with new solutions that are engineered using future-proof technology to take on the data center challenges of today and to support the next big thing that our customers are imagining for tomorrow.“

From consulting to deployment and support, from managed services to education, Dell EMC Services are available to help drive the rapid adoption and optimization of the Modern Data Center, making it easy for customers to integrate new technology and make it a productive component of their business.

PowerMax
PowerMax is architected with end-to-end NVMe and a built-in, real-time machine learning engine. Building on the architecture and capabilities of the firm’s storage system, it is a fast storage array, delivering up to 10million IO/s and 50% better response times – 2x faster than the nearest competitor.

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Architected with end-to-end NVMe to support NVMe-over-Fabrics and high-speed, low-latency Storage Class Memory (SCM), PowerMax is fast, smart and efficient, and also engineered to handle the most demanding application workloads.

In addition, the PowerMax OS includes a built-in machine learning engine, which makes autonomous storage a reality, leveraging predictive analytics and pattern recognition to maximize performance with no management overhead. Built-in machine learning is the only cost-effective way to leverage SCM. The firm is also a company that can provide this level of storage software intelligence – currently analyzing 425 billion data sets in real time across its high-end all-flash customer base.

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PowerMax also includes inline deduplication and compression providing up to 5:1 data reduction, while delivering industry security, protection and resiliency. It achieves greater than ‘six nines’ availability to help ensure zero downtime of business-critical applications.

VxBlock 1000

Storage solutions are increasingly being consumed within converged infrastructure, namely the VxBlock System 1000. As the provider of converged infrastructure systems, the company offers expanded options for VxBlock 1000 customers who can benefit from fast, smart and efficient storage with support for PowerMax with end-to-end NVMe and XtremIO X2 all-flash arrays. This means that the VxBlock system breaks the physical boundaries of traditional CI and offers enterprises greater simplicity and flexibility to help accelerate their IT and digital transformation efforts.

To speed implementation of PowerMax or VxBlock in their environment, customers can take advantage of the company’s ProDeploy Plus services for up to 66% faster deployment and up to 49% fewer technical support calls. Customers can also choose ProSupport Plus for consistent support delivered across their environment and up to 75% faster service request response time.

XtremIO X2 All-Flash array

XtremIO replication and entry price point
XtremIO X2 All-Flash arrays gain major updates with the XIOS 6.1 OS, including delivering an replication across a wide area network (WAN). X2 metadata-aware native replication is efficient and provides an added level of data protection for application workloads. XtremIO replication sends only unique data to the remote site to minimize bandwidth requirements by 75% or more, enabling potential network cost savings. It requires up to 38% less storage space at DR sites and operates with predictable performance to achieve RPOs of 30s.

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The company also introduced a X2 entry model for customers, at up to 55% lower cost than the previous generation. Designed with XtremIO’s metadata-centric architecture with full data services including inline data reduction (in-memory space-efficient copies, deduplication and compression), XtremIO can also achieve over ‘five nines’ availability, offering customers enterprise-grade capabilities that start at mid-range prices.

PowerEdge MX
The company previews PowerEdge MX, a modular infrastructure solution for the modern data center. Designed with the firm’s kinetic infrastructure, it will enable customers to flexibly configure and optimize their IT infrastructure for new and emerging workloads.

Available in the second half of 2018, PowerEdge MX will bring new levels of flexibility to IT, for dense virtualization, software-defined storage and networking, network functions virtualization (NFV) and big data analytic environments.

Availability:

PowerMax and XtremIO X2 with native replication, as well as VxBlock System 1000 with XtremIO X2, are available.
VxBlock System 1000 with PowerMax support will launch this summer. PowerEdge MX has planned global availability for the second half of 2018.