Johannesburg, 04 Nov 2020
Dell EMC PowerStore, a ground-breaking storage infrastructure platform that addresses the challenges of the data era, is now available from official distributor, Drive Control Corporation (DCC).
Companies are constantly faced with obstacles when embarking on their digital transformation journey – its tug-of-war between supporting workloads from traditional IT applications to data analytics and the reality of costs, limitations and complexity of infrastructure.
To this end, Dell EMC PowerStore offers a solution that integrates automation, next- generation technology and a novel software architecture to deliver infrastructure that helps organisations address their digital transformation challenges.
PowerStore provides a modern infrastructure for the data era with the following important benefits:
- Organisations can accelerate decision-making, data access and application performance with PowerStore, which is designed for six-nines (99.9999%) availability;
- It simplifies IT infrastructure by supporting a wide range of traditional and modern workloads with its scale-up, scale-out architecture for block, file and VMware vVols (virtual volumes);
- PowerStore is seven times faster and three times more responsive than previous Dell EMC midrange storage arrays due to its end-to-end NVMe design and support for Storage Class Memory as persistent storage powered by dual port Intel Optane SSDs;
- AppsON – the only purpose-built storage array that includes a built-in VMware ESXi Hypervisor. Administrators can deploy apps directly on the array for greater flexibility. AppsON is ideal for data-intensive workloads in core or edge locations and infrastructure applications; and
- Organisations can save on IT budget and capacity with always-on deduplication, compression and a guaranteed 4.1 data reduction.
Incorporating machine learning and intelligent automation, PowerStore features the following:
- Programmable infrastructure, which streamlines application development and reduces deployment timeframes from days to seconds;
- VMware integration and support for leading management and orchestration frameworks, including Kubernetes, Ansible and VMware vRealize Orchestrator;
- Autonomous Infrastructure – built-in machine learning automates labour-intensive processes like initial volume placement, migrations, load balancing and issue resolution;
- Dell EMC CloudIQ storage monitoring and analytics software that combines machine learning and human intelligence for real-time performance and capacity analysis and historical tracking for a single view of Dell EMC infrastructure; and
- Dell Technologies integrates CloudIQ across the full Dell Technologies infrastructure portfolio for even greater insights.
“Dell EMC PowerStore has been developed with the infrastructure in mind, offering a platform that meets today’s IT modernisation challenges head on while offering the flexibility to scale to future technology needs,” comments Jaco Erasmus, Enterprise Manager: Dell EMC at DCC.
Additional PowerStore features include:
- PowerStoreOS, the system’s container-based software architecture, enables feature portability, standardisation and rapid time-to-market for new capabilities;
- New native tools within the PowerStore Manager wizard allow customers to automate entire migrations in fewer than 10 clicks. Customers can take advantage of a number of non-disruptive options to migrate from existing storage like Unity, SC, PS Series, VNX and XtremIO;
- Dell EMC Cloud Storage Services can directly connect PowerStore to all major public clouds, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud as a managed service. Cloud Storage Services provide data recovery as a service (DRaaS) to VMware Cloud on AWS; and
- Dell Technologies On Demand (DTOD) enables users to respond to workload spikes and new service requests with capacity and cloud economics.
Share