Created and Updated: August 16, 2024

PowerMaxOS 10 is designed to support various demanding environments, including open systems, mainframes, files, and virtualized setups. The new release enhances performance for modern applications using containers, offering up to 2.8 times more efficiency per watt, 14 times greater storage density, and up to an 82% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Dell Powermax provides multiple benefits for data security, technological advancement, and energy efficiency:

• Resilient and Secure: Protect your data with top-notch cybersecurity measures to prevent, detect, and recover from cyber threats. PowerMax aids in transitioning to a Zero Trust environment with features like hardware root-of-trust, ransomware anomaly detection, and robust cyber recovery capabilities.

• Automated Operations: Speed up outcomes through advanced automation that handles routine management tasks efficiently. Each system is equipped with built-in machine learning for predictive analytics and pattern recognition, ensuring optimal performance and seamless workload movement.

• Modern Scale-Out Architecture: Enhance workload consolidation by independently adding compute and media components using the latest NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU) technology. This architecture ensures consistent performance and allows access to any flash drive in the system from any node on the fabric.

• Breakthrough Energy Efficiency: PowerMax offers real-time monitoring and alerts for power and environmental factors, coupled with advancements in performance, energy efficiency, storage density, and data reduction. Benefit from substantial power savings per terabyte and Dell’s data reduction guarantees for both open systems and mainframe data.