Dell Technologies introduces today key advancements across its industry-leading server, storage and data protection portfolios designed to help organizations achieve data center modernization.
The advancements come as organizations are rethinking their IT strategies to respond to the rise of AI, the need to support both traditional and modern workloads, and increased cyber threats. IT teams are moving toward disaggregated infrastructure that abstracts compute, storage and networking into shared resource pools to deliver improved scalability, efficiency and adaptability.
The advancements are designed to help customers rethink their IT infrastructure approach to better meet the needs of traditional and modern workloads.
“Organizations are refocusing their IT strategies to take a disaggregated approach to infrastructure that improves resource management and simplifies management complexity. Dell Technologies is delivering updates across its infrastructure portfolio designed to help customers easily overcome these challenges so that they’re ready to manage any workload,” stated Simon Robinson, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia.
Dell PowerEdge servers’ advanced performance
Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 servers with Intel Xeon 6 Processors with P-cores are single and double-socket servers in 1U and 2U form factors that easily handle demanding traditional and emerging workloads like HPC, virtualization, analytics and AI inferencing. The powerful and efficient Dell PowerEdge R570 achieves record-breaking Intel performance per watt, helping enterprises save on energy costs while maintaining high-performance workloads.
The PowerEdge servers also deliver streamlined management and robust protection through Dell OpenManage enhancements and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (IDRAC 10) updates, including real-time monitoring. When paired with PERC13 PCIe Gen 5 HW Raid controller, customers can see up to a 33X reduction in write latency.
“Modern applications require a new breed of infrastructure that will help customers keep pace with everchanging data center demands. From storage to servers to data protection, only Dell Technologies provides an end-to-end disaggregated infrastructure portfolio that helps customers reduce complexity, increase IT agility and accelerate data center modernization,” added Arthur Lewis, president, infrastructure solutions group, Dell Technologies.
Dell PowerStore to boost performance, security
Meanwhile, Dell PowerStore’s intelligent software design delivers an automated, highly programmable platform with advanced data reduction and independently scalable storage services suited to the needs of modern disaggregated architectures. PowerStore’s latest software release reduces cost and eliminates manual effort with Smart Support alerts and remediation, performance headroom analytics and carbon footprint forecasting using Dell AIOps software.
The latest release also controls access and boosts availability with DoD smart card authentication support, automated certificate renewal and enhanced Storage Direct Protection integrations that deliver up to 4X faster backup restores in addition to support for the latest Dell PowerProtect systems. Moreover, it enhances system performance with advanced file management capabilities, robust data protection with secure file snapshots, capacity insights for smarter storage planning and streamlined migration from Dell Unity systems.
Dell also introduced the next generation of Dell ObjectScale, the industry’s highest-performing object platform. Dell ObjectScale delivers massive scalability, performance and efficiency for AI workloads. Meanwhile, Dell PowerScale’s scale-out architecture makes it ideal to use as the backbone for modern AI-driven operations. These advancements improve performance-per-terabyte, enhance data center floor space utilization, and balance affordability with performance to optimize TCO.
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Data protection updates to bolster cyber resilience
In addition, Dell introduced data protection updates designed to help customers strengthen their cyber resilience while controlling costs with enhanced performance, security and efficiency. For instance, Dell PowerProtect DD6410, with a capacity of 12 TB to 256 TB, is ideal for commercial, small business and remote site environments. It delivers up to 91 percent faster restores and scalability for traditional and modern workloads plus efficient operations with industry-leading up to 65X deduplication.
Meanwhile, Dell PowerProtect All-Flash Ready Node, the first step in Dell’s all-flash data protection journey, delivers more secure and efficient data protection with a 220 TB capacity system that offers over 61 percent faster restore speeds, uses up to 36 percent less power, and features a 5X smaller footprint.
Finally, the PowerProtect Data Manager updates will help customers quickly identify security risks with Anomaly Detection, manage Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization virtual machine backups and easily archive data to Dell ObjectScale for long-term retention.
