• Breaking into the big league of storage infrastructure: Dell EMC PowerStore

    Authored by Amit Luthra, Director & GM – Data Center Solutions, India, Dell Technologies


    Digital and IT transformation have gained momentum, owing to the influx of new-age technologies, and resulting in the generation of a vast amount of data. Currently, uncertainties have compelled employees to work-from-home, accelerating the adoption of connected devices and solutions. Hence, data has become more divergent, as it is now created, processed, and saved on various platforms. Against this backdrop, the onus now rests on the IT team of an organization to manage this massive amount of data efficiently. 

    Ultimately, what is required is a new architecture and approach to storage infrastructure. And when it comes to the modern storage appliance designed for this data era, the Dell EMC PowerStore family leads the way. Leveraging this platform, organizations can unleash the power of data irrespective of its structure and location. This groundbreaking platform puts an end to traditional tradeoffs in performance, scalability, and storage efficiency owing to its data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure. More importantly, this infrastructure holds the potential to transform and mobilize both traditional and modern workloads of an organization. 


    Insights into the PowerStore family 

    Weaving another innovation to an existing modern data center portfolio is the uniquely adaptable infrastructure platform, PowerStore complements, which also extends the current investments of all customers. Bringing the advantages of both high-end storage hardware and the simplicity and flexibility of modern software design together, it paves the way for organizations to evolve their IT infrastructure so that they can stay relevant in today’s fast-changing world. 


    Features that make PowerStore unique 

    Data-centric design: With PowerStore, organizations now can simplify their IT infrastructure. Thanks to its scale-up, scale-out architecture for block, file, and VMware vVols, this platform can easily go with a vast range of traditional and modern workloads. 

    Intelligent automation: While end-to-end automation is able to streamline IT and DevOps, its built-in machine learning can optimize resources, and smart monitoring lessens risk and predicts requirements. 

    Adaptable architecture: Speed and workload mobility ensure choice, predictability, and investment protection 

    AppsON: AppsON is a game-changing feature in PowerStore. It is mainly an industry-first capability that enables VMware virtualized workloads to run directly on the purpose-built array, thereby providing top-notch application mobility and flexibility. 

    Performance optimizer: NVMe all-flash or Storage Class Memory (SCM) with Intel Optane optimizes performance. The end-to-end NVMe design is up to 7X faster with up to 3X better response time 

    Intelligent scale up and scale out: Enables in adding compute or capacity independently. Expanding the capabilities of the initial PowerStore configuration is simple and extremely efficient, as capacity and performance may be scaled independently 

    “Always on” data reduction with Intel Quick Assist: Lowers costs and improves efficiency without compromising performance 


    Making the most of Dell EMC PowerStore - Boston Scientific 

    Leveraging Dell EMC PowerStore’s unique architecture and intelligent automation, Boston Scientific, a manufacturer of medical devices, was able to use its resources as efficiently as possible while ensuring its readiness to scale compute and storage when required. 

    The PowerStore technology has made a huge impact on its business about clustering capabilities, empowering Boston Scientific to increase the number of compute and storage resources to the cluster. Further, the company was able to lessen its IT footprint, which helped in reducing its hardware acquisition, management, and maintenance. 

    With this game-changing platform, customers can also enjoy some exclusive benefits. PowerStore comes under the Dell EMC Future-Proof Program. This program provides more choice, predictability, and of course, investment protection through the new Anytime Upgrades, the industry’s most flexible controller upgrade program. It enables customers to increase their PowerStore capacity and performance after 180 days. So, it is now expected that the combined power of Anytime Upgrades and Dell EMC PowerStore’s adaptable architecture will soon make disruptive platform migrations a thing of the past. 

    With PowerStore, organizations can simplify and modernize their IT infrastructure without adding another management silo. They can also accelerate decision making, data access and application performance, backed by the power of emerging technologies. More importantly, their IT teams can leverage current skillsets while investing confidently in the future. 

    To know more about the product and connect with our experts, visit: https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-in/storage/powerstore-storage-appliance.htm

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