Dell Technologies Inc. unveiled Dell PowerStore advancements for better performance, efficiency, resiliency and multicloud data mobility. Dell also expands Dell APEX portfolio with new AIOps advancements and enhanced multicloud and Kubernetes storage management. Enhancing storage performance, efficiency, resiliency and multicloud capabilities Dell PowerStore helps manage increasing workload demands with the industry's most flexible quad-level cell (QLC) storage and significant performance enhancements.

QLC-based storage: Delivers enterprise-class performance at a lower cost per terabyte when compared to triple-level cell (TLC) models. Customers can start with as few as 11 QLC drives and scale up to 5.9 petabytes of effective capacity per appliance. PowerStore's intelligent load balancing capabilities help save costs and improve workload placement across mixed TLC and QLC clusters.

Increased performance: Improves hardware performance up to 66% through new data-in-place higher model appliance upgrades. Dell PowerStore software advancements improve efficiency, security and cloud mobility: Software-driven performance boost: Non-disruptive software updates available at no additional cost to existing customers deliver up to a 30% higher mixed workload performance boost and up to 20% lower latency. Improved data protection: More choices for customers safeguarding critical workloads with native synchronous replication for block and file workloads and native metro replication for Windows, Linux and VMware environments.

Increased Efficiency: Software enhancements provide up to 20% better data reduction and up to 28% more effective terabytes per watt. Multicloud data mobility enhancements: Customers can advance multicloud strategies and simplify workload mobility by connecting PowerStore to Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud, the world's most scalable cloud block storage. These PowerStore advancements are part of PowerStore Prime, a new integrated offering that combines updated PowerStore systems with programs designed to offer customers greater storage investment protection and increase Dell partner profitability.

Offering greater storage investment protection PowerStore Prime offers customers greater flexibility to make the most of their IT investment with: 5:1 data reduction guarantee: Customers can buy with confidence, save on costs and reduce energy with the industry's best data reduction guarantee. Continuous modernization: Lifecycle Extension with Dell ProSupport or ProSupport Plus offers customers 24/7 access to live support, flexible technology upgrades, capacity trade-ins, and storage advisory services. Flexible consumption: Customers can consume PowerStore through a Dell APEX subscription, paying only for what they need monthly.

Empowering partners to meet customer demands PowerStore Prime also makes it easier and more rewarding to sell PowerStore. Building on the Dellpartner-first strategy for storage, partners can now increase PowerStore sales with competitively priced product bundles and deliver expanded use cases for joint customers. Partners can also streamline sales motions when selling PowerStore and PowerProtect offers together.

Unleashing the power of AI to simplify and automate IT management Dell Technologiescontinues to evolve its Dell APEX portfolio to meet customer needs across key focus areas like AI and multicloud. Dell APEX innovations deliver leading AIOps capabilities and improve storage and Kubernetes management. Dell APEX AIOps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) optimizes Dell infrastructure health and service availability with AI-driven full stack observability and incident management.

It is a significant expansion of Dell's AIOps tools that simplifies operations, improves IT agility and delivers greater control over applications and infrastructure through three integrated capabilities: Infrastructure Observability: Resolves infrastructure issues up to 10X faster than traditional approaches through AI-powered health, cybersecurity and sustainability insights and recommendations. Generative AI-powered Dell APEX AIOps Assistant delivers instant responses to infrastructure questions and provides detailed problem-solving recommendations. Application Observability: Yields up to 70% reduction in mean time to resolution of application issues through full stack application topologies and analytics for assuring application availability and performance.

Incident Management: Optimizes digital infrastructure availability through AI-driven incident detection and resolution that reduces customer-reported multivendor and multicloud infrastructure issues by up to 93%. Dell APEX Navigator SaaS expands to include Kubernetes storage management and additional support for Dell APEX Storage for Public Cloud offers: Dell APEX Navigator for Kubernetes is generally available, simplifying Kubernetes storage management on Dell PowerFlex and soon, Dell PowerScale and Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, by bringing advanced data services like data replication, application mobility and observability to containers. Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage adds support for Dell APEX File Storage for AWS with support planned for Dell APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure later this year.

This offer simplifies storage configuration, deployment and monitoring across a universal storage layer created by Dell on-premises and public cloud storage.