TOP REASONS WHY
CUSTOMERS CHOOSE DELL POWERSTORE
1.
Software-driven design
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Adaptable architecture
3.
Built-In Intelligence
Better still, PowerStore’s built-in AI and Machine Learning makes change easy , so what starts simple, stays simple. Self-optimizing processes auto-tune efficiency, performance and availability without manual intervention – even as you make rapid course corrections. All storage services are configured and maintained automatically, and PowerStore software enhances performance and utilization across your scale-out cluster, continually monitoring the environment to recommend and automate load balancing changes for up to a 99% reduction in management effort.
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Predictive analytics
When you do need to make decisions, PowerStore helps you move forward quickly with intelligent analysis and connected insights across multiple infrastructure categories – including servers, storage, networking and cloud. PowerStore’s AIOps application, CloudIQ, helps resolve issues up to 3x faster,3 reduces risk, improves staff productivity and forecasts future needs.
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Programmable infrastructure
Deep integrations with leading DevOps, containerization and open management frameworks simplify and streamline your overall ecosystem. By automating PowerStore functions within VMware, Kubernetes, Ansible and other frameworks, administrators can deploy new services in seconds vs. days.4 Integrations include new Container Storage Modules (CSMs), Ansible playbooks, PowerStore provisioning from vSphere and end-to-end visibility from PowerStore Manager.
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AppsON
PowerStore is the industry’s only purpose-built storage appliance with a built-in ESXi hypervisor.5 This allows users to run workloads directly on the appliance while simultaneously providing scalable capacity and services for workloads on external hosts. Ideal for storage-intensive edge or remote deployments, AppsON offers consolidation, unmatched application agility and a common control plane for PowerStore and VMware hosts, including HCI devices such as Dell’s VxRail products.
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Advanced data protection and security
PowerStore safeguards your business-critical applications and data from both environmental corruption and loss and malicious threats. High availability begins with active/active design, software-based Dynamic Resiliency Engine, native async replication for block, file and vVols, and native active/active metro sync replication with HA failover. Cybersecurity is built into PowerStore’s DNA with a holistic development NIST framework approach, ranging from role-based access control to FIPS 140-2 compliant data-at-rest encryption, HWRoT (secure boot), File Level Retention (FLR) and support for third-party monitoring apps.
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Cost-effective multi-cloud
PowerStore helps transform your on-premises infrastructure into hybrid cloud solutions while maintaining operational consistency. Deployment options include AppsON-based application and data mobility to VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure and Google, Cloud Data Services combining a fully-managed PowerStore environment with flexible multi-cloud access, and Dell Cloud Tier, giving you secure encrypted cloud backup with up to 65:1 data reduction.6 Coming soon, a future release will allow PowerStore services to run directly in the cloud, enabling seamless hybrid as well as cloud-only deployments.
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Non-stop NVMe innovation
PowerStore is engineered to take full advantage of the latest developments in storage, interface and network technologies – incorporating new technology as it becomes available. PowerStore now extends the benefits of low latency performance with end-to-end NVMe throughout the appliance, as well as across FC and IP networks (including vVols-over-NVMe). Dell SmartFabric, the industry’s first software tool for automating end-to-end NVMe/TCP deployment,7 makes it easy to take advantage of cost-effective new 100Gb NVMe/TCP PowerStore solutions.
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Anytime Upgrade Advantage
Anytime Upgrade, a component of Dell’s overall FutureProof program, makes even PowerStore hardware refreshes feel like software. By far the smartest way to take advantage of PowerStore’s adaptable architecture, Anytime Upgrade combines the platform’s standard all-inclusive software subscription with a non-disruptive, data-in-place controller swap to next-gen or higher model nodes. This upgrade is provided at zero additional cost for enrolled customers, with full deployment services included. Anytime Upgrade gives you complete confidence your workloads will always be running on the newest and best technology, as PowerStore delivers the most cloud-like experience you can achieve with on-prem storage.
