10/22/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/22/2024 07:38
Today, we're announcing significant enhancements to Dell PowerMax that improve AI-driven efficiency, increase cyber resiliency, and deliver seamless multicloud mobility. These new capabilities for PowerMax, our continuously modern, highly secure storage solution optimized for mission-critical workloads, make it easier than ever for customers to keep pace with changing business demands.
In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses need storage solutions that keep pace with their demands and anticipate future needs. That's where the power of artificial intelligence comes in. This release offers customers a range of AI-powered benefits that can help optimize performance, reduce management overhead, and prevent incidents before they occur through:
The latest release also introduces 92% RAID efficiency (RAID 6 24+2) to improve overall storage efficiency and industry-leading power and environmental monitoring capabilities².
Customers can now track power usage at three levels: the array, the rack and the data center to improve power efficiency, manage energy costs, and effectively reduce energy consumption.
In an era where cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated, cyber resiliency is critical for all customers. PowerMax adds new cybersecurity features to increase the protection of customer data, reduce attack surfaces, and recover quickly from cyber-attacks with:
PowerMax continues to set the standard for high performance at scale, providing the headroom necessary for both current and future needs. Today's announcement adds:
In addition to these significant enhancements, Storage Direct Protection for PowerMax's integration with PowerProtect enables efficient, secure, and ultra-fast data protection, delivering up to 1PB per day backups6and 500TB per day restores7.
In the evolving digital landscape, multicloud agility is essential for maximizing resource utilization, reducing costs, and adapting swiftly to change. This release helps customers achieve:
PowerMaxOS 10.2 improves IOPS performance and reduces latency for unbalanced mainframe workloads, enhances cyber intrusion detection for mainframe (zCID) with auto-learning access pattern detection, and leverages IBM's System Recovery Boost for faster recovery during planned or unplanned outages.
Click hereto learn more about how PowerMax can help you stay ahead of digital transformation by providing AI-powered efficiency, new cyber recovery services, and multicloud data mobility for your enterprise.
1 Based on Dell's internal analysis comparing time to resolve SAN network congestion for PowerMaxOS 10.2 compared with PowerMaxOS 10, August 2024. Actual time savings may vary.
2 Based on Dell's internal analysis of the power monitoring capabilities of Dell PowerMax versus the power monitoring capabilities of competitive mainstream arrays supporting open systems and mainframe storage, August 2024.
3 Based on Dell's internal testing for the Random Write Miss (8K) I/Os per second benchmark comparing PowerMax 8500 running PowerMaxOS 10.2 to PowerMax 8500 with PowerMaxOS 10.1, August 2024. Actual performance may vary.
4 Based on Dell's internal testing for the Random Read Hit (128K) GB per second benchmark comparing PowerMax 2500 running 100Gb Ethernet connectivity to PowerMax 2500 with 25Gb Ethernet connectivity, August 2024. Actual performance may vary.
5 Based on Dell's internal testing for the Random Write Hit (128K) GB per second benchmark comparing PowerMax 2500 running 64Gb Fibre Channel connectivity to PowerMax 2500 with 32Gb Fibre Channel connectivity, August 2024. Actual performance may vary.
6 Based on Dell internal testing for PowerMax 2500 and PowerProtect DD9900 using the Epic GeneratorIO for a single storage group backup, March 2024. Actual performance may vary.
7 Based on Dell internal testing for PowerMax 2500 and PowerProtect DD9900 using the Epic GeneratorIO for a single storage group restore, March 2024. Actual performance may vary.
8 Based on Dell analysis of storage software deployable on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, May 2023.