Created and Updated: August 6, 2024

The platform’s flexible, intelligent, and continually modern architecture has demonstrated its worth, ensuring sustained business success for clients and partners worldwide – paving the way for what lies ahead.
Welcome to the Fast Lane of Innovation

The journey commences with the latest iteration of our flagship enterprise all-flash array (AFA), Prime. PowerStore 4.0 elevates the acclaimed PowerStore platform by enhancing performance, efficiency, resilience, and multicloud capabilities. Through PowerStore 4.0, you can:

• Drive innovation with up to 30% more IOPS, 20% reduced latency, and 2x higher volumes, all through a complimentary software upgrade. Enhance performance by up to 66% with a data-in-place controller upgrade, seamlessly transitioning your second-generation PowerStore unit to a higher model or upgrading from first to second generation while retaining your existing chassis and drives.

• Extend your IT budget with up to 20% improved data reduction and a new QLC model without compromises. The PowerStore 3200Q, the industry’s most adaptable QLC array, is an excellent choice for workload consolidation, reducing capacity costs while providing the same performance and enterprise features as PowerStore TLC models. It allows the mixing and matching of models in intelligent scale-out clusters.

• Safeguard any workload with five types of local and remote data protection, including new synchronous replication for block and file – easily combined and organized in a single workflow. PowerStore’s renowned native Metro Volume now supports Windows, Linux, and VMware, offering an active/active solution with genuine Zero RTO/RPO protection and automated fail-over/failback due to the no-cost third-site Witness feature.

• Embrace your multicloud future with data mobility enhancements that simplify backing up, restoring, and migrating PowerStore data to the cloud. Dell now offers straightforward options for moving live PowerStore workloads to and from APEX Block Storage, the industry’s most durable and adaptable cloud storage, while simultaneously executing multi-hop OS conversions to modernize those workloads seamlessly. This capability complements PowerStore’s existing native Storage Direct integration with APEX Protection Storage.

Additionally, Dell is introducing:
• New QoS and support for 8x more VLANs – perfect for service providers!
• The AIOps Assistant, enabling PowerStore users to interact with their APEX AIOps tools, saving time and expediting outcomes.
• A Capacity Accounting feature for unrivaled visibility into data reduction outcomes.
• Universal Import, streamlining the transition to PowerStore with point-and-click migration from any legacy Dell or third-party array.