Currently, companies are forced to operate in an environment marked by uncertainty, with constant data growth and expectations of permanent availability, while they must optimize resources and costs. The Dell PowerStore platform answers these challenges by providing a future-proof solution that turns data into a strategic advantage.
Dell Technologies has announced the latest update to its PowerStore platform, prepared for the private cloud, which incorporates new features in QLC technology, cybersecurity and unified file operations. These enhancements are designed to help organizations address exponential data growth, increased cyber threats, and the need to maintain business continuity with maximum efficiency.
Maximize savings with high-density QLC media
The first QLC solutions forced companies to make compromises between performance, cost and reliability. With PowerStore QLC models, Dell shattered that perception by delivering an advanced software architecture that transforms QLC technology into an enterprise-class solution within the PowerStore platform.
Main innovations
• 30TB QLC drives, allowing up to 2PB effective storage in just 2U of rack space
• Doubling capacity per rack unit and improving energy efficiency by up to 23%
• Same NVMe performance, sub-millisecond latency, and always-on data reduction as TLC models, with up to 15% lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
These improvements to the PowerStorage platform reduce both initial investment and long-term operating costs, without compromising performance or reliability.
Greater business protection
With cyberattacks and unforeseen disruptions on the rise, data protection has become critical. The PowerStore platform incorporates always-on cybersecurity capabilities, making it easy to create robust and flexible resilience strategies.
New features include:
• Synchronous replication over Fiber Channel (FC) for block workloads, eliminating data loss and reducing recovery times
• Asynchronous replication over FC for file systems, with RPO up to 5 minutes
• Metro Sync for files with automatic failover, ensuring zero RPO and RTO on critical operations
• Multi-party authorization, which requires validation from a second administrator to make critical changes to storage.
These capabilities, together with the integration with PowerProtect, AI-based anomaly detection and a broad ecosystem of partners, allow the design of cyber resilience strategies adapted to each operating model on the PowerStore platform.
Simplifying file operations
The unified architecture of the PowerStore platform allows you to consolidate multiple workloads with greater flexibility and efficiency. In this update, Dell introduces new improvements to make file environments easier to manage:
Support for advanced NFSv4.2, including Server-Side Copy to reduce network traffic, Sparse Files to optimize capacity, and Labeled NFS for secure file sharing.
The unified architecture of the PowerStore platform allows you to consolidate multiple workloads with greater flexibility and efficiency
New File Top Talkers functionality, which provides detailed visibility into resource consumption, allows you to identify top users, monitor metrics such as IOPS and bandwidth, and apply quality of service (QoS) policies to eliminate bottlenecks.
These improvements make it easier to optimize performance and deliver high-quality services to end users.
The data platform for the future
The PowerStore platform is not just a storage solution, but the foundation on which organizations can build their next strategic initiatives. Following the launch of Dell Private Cloud, which simplified and accelerated private cloud deployments, this update marks the beginning of a year full of new innovations.
Designed to meet the challenges of today and take advantage of the opportunities of the future, the latest version of the PowerStore platform reinforces its role as a key pillar for the modernization of IT infrastructure.
