The Unseen Force Transforming Businesses in the Tech Era

The Unseen Force Transforming Businesses in the Tech Era

Step into the dynamic world of data where technological advancements are reshaping the business landscape. Unravel the significance of data, going beyond its conventional role as mere information.

At its core, data is more than just bits and bytes; it’s the driving force behind smart decision-making that propels businesses in the right direction. In our journey, we’ll break down the misconception that tech has to be complex. Imagine seamlessly integrating cutting-edge solutions into your setup, not only for data protection but to elevate your decision-making capabilities. This synergy ensures a smooth and efficient operation, fostering an environment where technology is an enabler rather than a hindrance.

 

TRANSFORMING DATA INTO A STRATEGIC ASSET:

Our discussion doesn’t stop at data security – it extends to transforming your data into a valuable asset for your business. Envision your daily operations running like a well-oiled machine, with data working alongside you, not against you. This transformative approach isn’t merely about keeping up with the competition; it’s about outpacing them and maintaining a leading position in the market. Data becomes a strategic ally, providing insights that drive innovation, enhance customer experiences, and open doors to new opportunities.

As you navigate the vast environment of IT, the decisions you make today are crucial in defining your business’s future. Whether you’re optimizing your existing tech infrastructure, exploring innovative data solutions, or contemplating a comprehensive tech overhaul, these choices will shape the trajectory of your business. Embracing the right technologies and data strategies can lead to increased efficiency, cost savings, and a more agile response to changing market dynamics.

 

 

IN A NUTSHELL:

Data emerges as a powerful ally in this tech-driven era. Explore how data can become your strategic advantage. It’s not just about keeping pace; it’s about unlocking the next phase of your tech evolution and staying ahead of the challenges that are to come. Embrace the transformative power of data and technology, paving the way for a future where your business thrives in the face of rapid technological advancements.

Are you ready to go on a journey to unlock the true potential of your business through data? Let’s dive into the possibilities and harness the transformative power of data in shaping your tech evolution. The future is yours to explore, and with the right data-driven strategies, success is not just a destination but a continuous journey of growth and innovation.

Addressing the 5Cs of Enterprise Security in the Era of AI – Focus on Cloud and Automation Effectiveness

For the conventional enterprise, the last decade has been a continuous story in the cloud journey. This is either migrating workloads to the public cloud or adopting a cloud-operating model in their private cloud and data center environment. Multi-cloud and hybrid deployments have also evolved along the way.

This trend gave rise to numerous companies which created solutions that were either born in the cloud or were highly optimized for deployment there. Organizations, both big and small adopted the “cloud-first” and later “mobile-first” mindset. While for smaller organizations with no legacy infrastructure or applications, they were able to accept cloud tenets from the very first day, for bigger organizations, the journey has had so many pit stops and perhaps several pit falls. Much of this fell under the digital transformation umbrella, with CIOs, CISOs and even CEOs becoming executive sponsors of such initiatives.

The shift from agility to efficiency

During the last 10-15 years, the move to cloud has largely been precipitated by the need for agility. The initial developer driven move to cloud, that had precipitated “shadow-IT”, has gradually paved way for dual-mode IT and now become mainstream as enterprise IT organizations proactively took ownership leading to a more pragmatic cloud operating model.

The pandemic further fueled the agility-led buying decision and accelerated the growth of cloud and SaaS applications that allowed enterprises to be more nimbly navigate the needs for organizational flexibility, as it led to one of the greatest human migrations from the workplace to home and remote-based environments.

Investments were rapidly made to accommodate this new world order. As I speak with several enterprise CIOs and CISOs, a common pattern emerges. While these investments helped the enterprises adapt, they also induced complexity that was compounded by investments made during the shadow-IT days, adoption of product-led growth (PLG) initiatives, as well as legacy infrastructure and applications.

On the other side of the fence, known and preferred vendors catering to the needs of enterprise, also had developed different offerings for on-premises (long standing) and newer SaaS offerings. In many cases, these were two separate products and while capabilities were reasonably similar, there were inconsistencies in operating models, user experiences, configuration requirements and automation workflows.

With the demand slowing post pandemic, and the birth of a more hybrid workforce, the investment priorities in the enterprises are shifting again. However, the quest is less so for agility, and more tailored towards efficiency.

With the growth of inflation, there is an undercurrent to do more with less, as budgets haven’t necessarily kept up, human capital has become more expensive and compliance needs have continued to grow. There is greater emphasis now on leveraging investments already made and bringing more focus to not just the technology stack, but also human talent and time, without compromising the agility of the organization.

 Impact on Security and the Advent of AI workloads

All the above trends have a direct or indirect bearing on the security posture of the organization. Clearly, the more complexity an organization absorbs, the less easy it is to secure its environment.

If we see a disproportionate number of breaches happening in the largest enterprises (which arguably have the most budgets and human resources to apply towards security), it is because their environments are also the most complex. Think about the proliferation of tools, technologies, operational models, and ownership issues. Each compounds the complexity where the best of intentions is offset by the lack of visibility and knowledge.

The advent of artificial intelligence is also being viewed as a double-edged sword by many corporations, where they have to both face attacks as well as defend. More importantly, AI brings in an exponential domain of complexity into the enterprise, in part because of the nascent models, but also the domain of what’s unknown can be radically different. While some organizations are adopting a strategy of wait and watch, educating themselves, there are some early-stage pilots. Everyone knows it’s just a matter of time, before we see widespread proliferation. The consumerization of the AI model will likely give birth to a different aspect of “shadow-AI” being adopted.

Cybersecurity is clearly top-of-mind. But if AI has to be brought in intentionally into the enterprise, it has to be done so on a well-understood security posture. Layering in artificial intelligence on top of a complex IT framework is just an invitation for disaster to strike at will.

True security comes from having zero trust and removing all doors, windows and access. Clearly this is not practical. So, the next best thing is to simplify and expand the realm of the known variables and gain a handle on the known risk. This requires radical simplification.

This is causing technology and business leaders to take a harder look at their tech-stack as well as talent and training, with an overarching question – how do we simplify?

Simplicity comes from relentless prioritization and weeding out elements on the periphery. It is also about reducing the unknown unknowns in an organization and minimizing risk and unpredictability. This gives the organization greater focus and efficiency, while also making it easier to evaluate and manage risk.

 

Harnessing the 5 Cs for a Secure Enterprise

CISOs and technology leaders with an “AI on the future” (pun intended) are leaning towards these 5 Cs for a more predictable enterprise security posture.

#1. Complexity

As discussed above complexity grows in large enterprises not just while keeping up to the latest trends, but also inorganically through mergers and acquisitions (M&As), organizational mandate changes and so on.

In the context of the enterprise, distributed workloads, and long-standing, pervasive architectures that include legacy and new are one cause. In such a situation, adding new security products is sometimes counterproductive as it is built on wobbly Lego blocks.

Complexity is an anathema to progress and efficiency.  It is also hard to derive benefits from automation, if the underlying workflows are adhoc or one-offs. “Automation-sprawl” is something I often hear about, just like “policy-sprawl”, or “firewall-rule” sprawl etc. These need to be conquered.

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#2. Consolidation

To resolve this, CxOs are considering simpler platform approaches, where the provider or vendor takes a greater burden of integration, testing and delivering an as-a-service experience. Choosing such a platform can at times be perceived as getting locked-in, but it is the lesser of two evils, as long as the choice is made diligently.

A well-designed integrated offering can do a great job with this, while delivering a superior experience and potentially lowering the TCO. Think of how the iPhone took ownership of the integration with its ecosystem and applications, consolidated a number of disparate entities and delivered an amazing experience that created a new market category. In the enterprise, several vendors have an opportunity to do that with better fore thought, and CxOs are not shy about asking vendors to take more ownership.

Consolidation (and convergence) doesn’t necessarily have to be focused on the technology stack. It can also mean pruning the partners ecosystem, APIs as well as the operational value chain. Such consolidation can directly help simplify and reduce overhead for enterprise teams.

While early days yet, Broadcom is attempting to do some of this with the integration and simplification of the VCF stack. Though the prime motivation for this is a better tailored product for the private cloud and a superior experience, a graceful byproduct is that the natural hardening this stack and making it a repeatable building block for the modern enterprise, can also result in a better security posture.

This makes it easier to evaluate the security posture and wrap arms around fewer variables and moving parts.

As an example, a fully integrated stack for lateral security is depicted here. The focus here is on integration, consolidation across a broad set of point solutions all purpose-built, designed and orchestrated for operational simplicity. This is highly useful for virtualized environments and can be controlled via a common policy model while providing deep visibility end-to-end.

#3. Control

In the context of security, being able to apply the right policies governing access is very important. Again, in a heterogenous environment, applying the right control “accept” or “deny” boils down to clear identification of the resource (human or machine), and matching access to resources (human or machine) dynamically. Context becomes highly important in this case.

Platform approaches that allow the ability to apply policy in a granular manner along with deep visibility have a leg up and are preferred by CxOs. Having better integration and clearly defined workflows can be a big help in this regard building on the simplicity and consolidation trends.

The distributed firewall riding on top of the VCF bundle and with the option to tack on advanced security (via ATP) are all focused on both better integration, but also superior control, where security policies can be enforced end-to-end dynamically.

Consistency across different deployment models (for instance on-premise or SaaS) can also deliver greater control and thereby greater security.

#4. Continuity

What use is a business that isn’t available. In this digital age, access to resources can be controlled by a hacker halfway around the globe, if they have a way in, causing serious ramifications to the business uptime and reputation. But continuity and resiliency are also fallouts of inadvertent errors including misconfigurations, or automation workflows gone awry.

CISOs and other leaders have their key performance indicators (KPIs) tied to business continuity and resiliency. Leaving aside Act of God incidents, and occasional network access issues (like the undersea fiber cable being cut) security issues are the top of the list impacting continuity. CIOs and CISOs need need to have their plan ready and actionable.

#5. Cost (TCO)

While security budgets are increasing year-on-year, they are nowhere near the cost incurred by exposure to breaches and ransomware. In other words, the sum of the total security spend is a subset of the cost of the security breaches. That said, organizations have a fixed budget, and high CAPEX as well as high OPEX costs can be detrimental if improperly utilized.

CxOs are looking for greater simplicity and efficiency to drive down costs, sacrificing performance or flexibility.  That is a tall order, but again by embracing a platform approach, enforcing better control, reducing complexity and having a well thought out plan for business continuity – all inherently lead to cost reduction and a significantly lower TCO.

Closely managing the 5Cs help not just in securing the enterprise, but also ensuring compliance to regulatory requirements. To me Compliance is the obvious “sixth C” in this regard.

 

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Boost Your Year-End Financial Reporting with Inspiron 24 All-in-One

Boost Your Year-End Financial Reporting with Inspiron 24 All-in-One

As the year comes to an end, businesses around the world gear up for the annual ritual of year-end financial reporting. That’s why Inspiron 24 all-in-one seamless performance, unmatched efficiency, and user-friendly features ensure a smooth process for your business and beyond!

 

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Seamless Performance:

Inspiron 24 is engineered to deliver top-notch performance, thanks to its powerful components and cutting-edge technology. With a high performance processor, RAM, and speedy storage, this all in one ensures that your financial tasks are executed with speed and efficiency. Say goodbye to lag and hello to a seamless computing experience.

 

User Friendly Features

Whether you’re a seasoned financial professional or a first time-user, the all -in-one’s design ensures a hassle-free experience. Customize your workspace, access frequently used applications effortlessly, and streamline your workflow with the Inspiron 24 thoughtful features

 

Unmatched Efficiency

Efficiency is key when it comes to numbers and analyzing financial data. The inspiron 24 boasts a large, vibrant display that enhances visibility and clarity, making it easier to sift through complex spreadsheets and reports. Its efficient design minimizes clutter, providing a tidy workspace that fosters focus and productivity during those critical year-end tasks.

 

The holiday season can be hectic, but the Inspiron 24 is here to make it a breeze. Its versatility extends beyond financial reporting. From catching up on holiday emails to streaming your favorite festive tunes, the inspiron 24 seamlessly transitions from work to leisure, ensuring you can balance productivity and relaxation during the holiday season!

 

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Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery: Understanding the Key Differences

In today’s digital age, organizations rely heavily on data and information systems to operate efficiently. However, with the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks and the ever-present threat of natural disasters, it has become essential for businesses to have robust recovery strategies in place. Two crucial components of these strategies are Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery. While they share the common goal of ensuring business continuity, they have distinct purposes and approaches. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the differences between Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery to help you better understand their roles in safeguarding your organization’s data and operations.

Disaster Recovery DR

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery, often abbreviated as DR, is a well-established practice that focuses on the recovery of IT infrastructure and data in the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster. These disasters can include earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, power outages, hardware failures, and even human errors. The primary aim of Disaster Recovery is to minimize downtime, ensuring that an organization can resume its operations as quickly as possible.

Key Components of Disaster Recovery:

  1. Backup and Data Replication:  DR involves regular backups and data replication to off-site locations. This ensures that even if the primary data center is compromised, a copy of the data is available for recovery.

 

  1. Data Center Redundancy: Organizations often maintain redundant data centers in different geographic locations to ensure failover capability.

 

  1. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO): DR plans define RPO and RTO goals, indicating how much data loss is acceptable and how quickly systems should be restored.

 

  1. Testing and Maintenance: Regular testing and maintenance of DR plans are critical to ensure their effectiveness when needed.

Cyber Recovery (CR):

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Cyber Recovery, on the other hand, is a relatively newer concept that specifically addresses the recovery of data and systems in the event of a cyberattack. With cyber threats becoming more sophisticated and destructive, Cyber Recovery has emerged as a distinct discipline within the broader disaster recovery framework.

Key Components of Cyber Recovery:

 

  1. Air-Gapped Backups: Unlike traditional backups, Cyber Recovery emphasizes the need for air-gapped backups, which are physically isolated from the network. This prevents cyber criminals from accessing or corrupting the backup data.

 

  1. Immutable Storage: Cyber Recovery solutions often incorporate immutable storage, where data cannot be altered or deleted, providing protection against ransomware attacks.

 

  1. Incident Response Plan: CR includes a robust incident response plan that outlines actions to be taken when a cyberattack is detected. This may involve isolating affected systems and initiating the recovery process.

 

  1. Security Measures: CR places a strong emphasis on security measures such as encryption, access controls, and monitoring to safeguard the backup environment.

 

 

In today’s digital landscape, both Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery are indispensable components of an organization’s business continuity strategy. While Disaster Recovery ensures resilience in the face of natural disasters and system failures, Cyber Recovery is essential for safeguarding data against the ever-evolving threat landscape of cyberattacks. Understanding the key differences between these two disciplines is crucial for developing a comprehensive recovery plan that can effectively protect your organization’s data and operations. By integrating both approaches, you can enhance your readiness to face a wide range of potential disruptions and ensure the continuity of your business in any adverse situation.

READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR WORK LIFE? DISCOVER HOW TECH ACCESSORIES AND PERIPHERALS TURBOCHARGE PRODUCTIVITY.

In the ever-evolving landscape of work, one truth remains unshakable: productivity is the lifeblood of success. Whether you’re hustling from a bustling office or conquering tasks from the cozy confines of your home, the right tech accessories and peripherals can be your secret weapons to unleashing productivity like never before. Imagine a world where your workspace transforms into a hub of efficiency and innovation. It’s not a dream; it’s a reality waiting for you to grasp it.

UNLEASH THE ERGONOMIC EDGE

Imagine a workspace that adapts to your needs, ensuring that every task is tackled with precision and comfort. Ergonomics isn’t just about stylish chairs; it’s about crafting an environment that nurtures productivity. With adjustable monitor stands that meet your eye level and keyboard trays that dance to your typing rhythm, discomfort becomes a thing of the past. Say goodbye to distractions caused by discomfort and embrace a posture that fuels your focus.

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Break free from the shackles of tangled cables and embrace the wireless revolution. Whether it’s a wireless mouse that glides with finesse or a keyboard that connects with a single touch, you’re not just decluttering; you’re liberating your workspace. Feel the thrill of unrestricted movement and witness your creative juices flowing as you roam freely in your productivity haven.

 

SEAMLESS DOCKING, BOUNDLESS POSSIBILITIES

Transform your laptop into a productivity powerhouse with the magic of docking stations. Seamlessly switch from the sleek mobility of your laptop to a full-fledged workstation, complete with dual monitors and a myriad of ports to connect your peripherals. No more compromises on screen real estate or connectivity; just a smooth transition that mirrors the seamless execution of your tasks.

MONITORS THAT MEAN BUSINESS

Elevate your visual experience with monitors that don’t just display—they empower. A larger, high-resolution screen isn’t just a luxury; it’s your canvas for multitasking mastery. Picture editing documents side by side, monitoring emails, and watching an industry webinar, all without a single hiccup. It’s not about juggling tasks; it’s about orchestrating them flawlessly.

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THE AUDIO ADVANTAGE

Communication is your conduit to collaboration, and it deserves to be top-notch. Slip on noise-canceling headphones, and suddenly, the world falls away, leaving you in a realm of pure concentration. A premium microphone ensures that your words come through with crystal clarity, making virtual meetings a breeze. When your voice is heard without interference, your ideas shine even brighter.

It’s not a distant dream; it’s a tangible reality waiting for you to embrace it. Tech accessories and peripherals aren’t just gadgets; they’re your partners in productivity. Whether you’re the employer shaping a thriving workforce or the employee driving your career, the path to success is paved with innovation and efficiency.

Your workspace isn’t just where you work; it’s where you conquer, create, and excel. Let tech accessories and peripherals redefine your work experience.

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Are You Designing a Hybrid Workplace That’s the Best of Both Worlds?

The pace of digital transformation has never been faster, and nowhere is feeling the impact of that shift more than the workplace. For employees, work is no longer just about cubicles and commutes — now it’s Zoom calls, Dropbox folders, Google Sheets, and instant messages. The more work becomes a thing we do instead of a place we go, the more that employees, leaders and company departments alike need to reconsider the work experience they want to create.

By creating fluid, hybrid work experiences, organizations are able to empower employees to be equally productive in the office, at home, or anywhere in between.

If you want to design the best hybrid workplace possible, it’s essential to take the time to understand the changing needs of your organization and your employees so you can ensure your people remain at the center of work. Organizations that are still relatively new to offering hybrid work or are exploring the option for the first time must take the time to understand all the variables – including people, processes, and technology – in order to ensure success.

To better understand how other IT leaders are managing the transition to the hybrid workplace, Accenture and the Modern Computing Alliance surveyed more than 300 technology decision-makers to understand their goals, successes, and challenges.

 

Empowering the new pace of change

Digitization, automation, globalization, analytics, artificial intelligence, and a host of other trends from the past decade have all combined to alter the pace of change in today’s workplace so it’s not only constant, but continues to accelerate day by day.

To meet the demands of this rapidly changing landscape, IT leaders have focused on enabling a hybrid workplace that leverages cloud technologies, communication and collaboration platforms, remote monitoring tools, and productivity management applications – not to mention the devices and infrastructure required to power it all.

Thanks to these flexible technology solutions, organizations can enable a new era of work that is equally focused on the home office as it is the traditional workplace. The study revealed that 15% of companies plan to be completely remote moving forward,1 while technology decisionmakers expect an average of 30-40% of their workforce to be remote within the next few years.

As the ability to enable the hybrid workplace increases, so do expectations from employees and applicants. The more that the hybrid workplace becomes the norm instead of the exception, the more employees will demand a top hybrid workplace experience. A digital-first workplace that supports hybrid work gives you the ability to stand apart from digitally-immature competitors, not to mention drive innovation and productivity.

While the hybrid work is already a reality for some, for others it’s a work in progress. More than half of companies said that they are still looking to enable work from any device, while more than a third are still seeking to enable work from any location.

As a result, more than 70% of technology leaders are planning new investments in virtual collaboration tools and IT infrastructure.4 Meanwhile, roughly half of executives are investing in tools and apps that can enable the changing in-office work environment.

Stay Agile in a Changing World with Powerstore

Organizations are going digital. They seek to dramatically increase their innovation to unlock new business capabilities. They try to meet changing customer demands and create unique advantages.

To drive innovation, organizations not only require data, but also the ability to act on it. The good news is that data is everywhere. This reality is a double edge sword. We have so much data that there are too many diverse data sources.

We now need the right approach to innovation and the right approach to storage. This requires IT agility, software, hardware, data services, and the cloud to address.

Why Innovation and Agility are More Important than Ever

As the transition to digital-first continues to accelerate, it’s clear that we live in a dynamic and fast-changing world. Organization now have to meet the changing market but do it quick.

IT plays a critical role in innovation within an organization by delivering the tools and technologies that elevate the user experience. But if IT is not able to quickly deliver on the innovation demands of the organization, the whole department can quickly become a hindrance to rapid, cost-effective, and error-free progress. By focusing more and more on transformational activities such as modernizing infrastructure and applications, IT is now spending more of its time driving business innovation.

Move forward with Intelligent Insights

With data everywhere, continuing to grow at hyper speed and in more places than ever, keeping up requires modern storage that’s simple to manage, scale and secure, while meeting all requirements. It’s especially important for environments where infrastructure simplicity and density are crucial, like edge operations.

Intelligent storage arrays deliver highly adaptable, automated and data-centric architectures that seamlessly integrate across IT environments. Ultimately, they increase IT efficiency and control by jointly addressing the organization’s data needs and enabling the agility needed for transformation.

Prepare For What Comes Next With PowerStore

Advancing patient care with modern, scalable storage designed to support your rapidly expanding deployment.

Healthcare digital transformation continues to accelerate in response to the need to expand efficiencies and drive down costs. AI, machine learning, automation and other data-driven technologies are reshaping both patient-facing clinical processes and internal systems.

Being able to harness the potential of data from these technologies is a necessary step towards realizing the promise of better, more personalized care. To do so, however, IT must be able to effectively manage, secure, and store this data while ensuring the right patient information and insights are readily accessible in real time, especially at the point of care.

Electronic health records (EHR) can provide patient data when and where it is needed with the proper IT infrastructure. To support their EHR deployments, healthcare organizations of all sizes require an agile, secure, and efficient data storage platform—enter Dell EMC PowerStore.

Recently rated with a comfort level of “Medium” from Epic for Operational Databases (ODB) and Analytical Databases within just a year of its release, PowerStore is fast becoming an integral component in healthcare IT ecosystems. These organizations choose PowerStore because of its performance, data efficiency, automation, cost efficiency, and security to keep pace with the rate of technological change and expanding workloads.

 

Storage optimized for today’s data-driven healthcare organizations.

PowerStore addresses the performance and reliability requirements of Epic by providing a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure that transforms and mobilizes both traditional and modern EHR workloads. As it eliminates traditional tradeoffs in performance, scalability, and storage efficiency, healthcare teams benefit by always having ready access to patient data at the point of care. At the same time, healthcare IT benefits from PowerStore’s adaptable and flexible architecture, which facilitates deploying EHR applications at the edge as needed.

Powerstore The future of storage is here

PowerStore is now bringing the future of storage with its traditional and modern workloads with a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure that delivers revolutionary new capabilities.

Modern data center challenges require a new approach to storage infrastructure

Digital transformation can be complex and challenging for many businesses. The data that is process and stored everywhere are more diversified than it has even been. Most firms have realized that no one infrastructure can handle all of their data needs; therefore, they deploy different architectures, resulting in separate control and consumption of IT resources.

Simultaneously, IT is under increasing demand from business to provide greater levels of simplicity and agility. Enterprise on-premises storage must now provide the same operational flexibility as cloud storage. It can be done with existing management frameworks by becoming adaptable and automated.

The new architecture and approach to storage is required to meet these conflicting demands. Dell Technologies introduces PowerStore – a modern storage appliance designed for the data era. This game-changing platform helps you restructure your IT without impacting present operations through releasing the power of data; regardless of its structure or location.

 

Start with best-in-class

Designed storage arrays are increasingly important in the datacenter, providing ever-expanding levels of performance, capacity, and resiliency for mission-critical workloads. The PowerStore is a new kind of storage appliance with advanced services to complement and extend existing on premises environments.

Any workload

The PowerStore’s single architecture for block, file, and, vVols leverages the latest technologies to support traditional and modern workloads. These are ERP and EMR apps, to cloud native applications, and file-based workloads such as content repositories and home directories. DC, low-line power and NEBS-ready solutions are available. The ability to accommodate application, multi-protocol network and multi-format storage diversity within a single appliance provides business-enabling flexibility. This helps IT to simplify and consolidate their infrastructure.

Performance optimized

PowerStore delivers up to 7x more IOPs3 and 3x lower latency4 for real-world workloads than our previous storage generation. All thanks to next-generation innovations like end-to-end NVMe, and dual-port Intel® OptaneTM solid state drives or also known as (SSDs).Or, Storage Class Memory (SCM).

Scale up and scale out

Expanding the capabilities of your initial PowerStore configuration is simple and extremely efficient; as capacity and performance may be scaled independently. Each active-active PowerStore equipment has an effective capacity of over 2.8 PB; and numerous appliances can be aggregated for increased performance.

Efficiency without compromise

PowerStore costs remain consistently low regardless of how you grow. Thanks to Intel QuickAssist hardware acceleration, deduplication and compression are “always on,”. And, PowerStore systems provide a guaranteed average 4:1 data reduction without compromising performance.

Make it simpler, and more intelligent

But it’s not just performance and scale. PowerStore also delivers unprecedented levels of intelligence and automation, eliminating complexity, while enabling faster delivery of new applications and services with up to 99% less management interaction.

Programmable infrastructure

The PowerStore streamlines application development and automates storage workflows by integrating VMware with a broad ecosystem of leading management and orchestration tools. You can provision PowerStore services directly from the application toolsets you use most. For example, IT and DevOps users can take advantage of plug-ins for VMware (vRO Plugin), Kubernetes (CSI Driver) and Ansible (Ansible Module), reducing deployment timeframes from days to seconds.

Autonomous appliance

PowerStore includes built-in intelligence to eliminate dozens of time-consuming tasks and decision points. The labor-intensive processes like initial volume placement, migrations, load balancing and issue resolution are automated by PowerStore’s onboard machine learning (ML) engine. In which fine-tunes both individual and clustered appliances, optimizing performance and cost as the solution evolves to meet new challenges. SmartFabric Storage Software support even automates network tasks in an end-to-end NVMe environment.

Proactive health and cybersecurity analytics

CloudIQ, included with PowerStore, gives administrators faster time to insight,10 with all the intel they need to take quick action and more efficiently manage their storage environment. By combining machine learning, advanced analytics and human intelligence, the cloud-based app reduces risk, spots anomalies before trouble occurs, and helps even IT generalists plan for future storage needs with powerful forecasting. CloudIQ makes storage management tasks easier, so you can get back to focusing on your business goals.

Ready to adapt when you are

If the advantages stopped here, PowerStore would already offer incredible storage value with a powerful lineup of enterprise-class features. However, the PowerStore difference goes much deeper with revolutionary new capabilities that not only support current needs, transforming the way you run your data center today, but also empower you to evolve your infrastructure as your business evolves – as unpredictable as that may be

Flexible architecture

PowerStore’s container-based software architecture, known as PowerStoreOS, improves performance, fault tolerance and security by isolating individual OS components as microservices. It also enables feature portability and rapid delivery of new or enhanced services over time. Administrators can choose to deploy PowerStoreOS in a bare metal configuration directly on the PowerStore hardware, or within a virtual machine (VM) running on PowerStore’s optional built-in VMware hypervisor, providing yet another layer of isolation, intelligence and abstraction.

When PowerStoreOS runs on a VM, administrators can also access the hypervisor to deploy their own applications directly on the appliance, using the same VMware tools and methods they use with external hosts. This game[1]changing capability, known as AppsON, is ideal for data-intensive workloads in core or edge locations where infrastructure simplicity and density is required, as well as for “infrastructure applications” such as anti-virus or monitoring software

With AppsON, PowerStore can provide both storage capacity for applications running throughout the enterprise and a VMware-based environment for hosting applications locally

Best of all, since VMware ESXi is the underlying foundation, administrators can move seamlessly between these services. PowerStore cluster management, combined with VMware tools including vMotion and storage vMotion, enables easy application mobility in and out of PowerStore to other VMware targets. An applications can be deployed on networked servers, hyperconverged infrastructure, or directly on the PowerStore appliance, and migrated transparently among any of them with the utilization of a single storagge instance. This also allows the IT and application owners to quickly deploy and reassign workloads to the most effective environment based on current requirements and available resources.

Flexible deployment

PowerStore’s compact footprint and adaptable design is ideal for:

  • The ease of deployment and advanced replication is required in the Edge-based IoT data analytics and remote office applications
  • Core data center modernization, when flexibility, application mobility, and VMware integration is critical for consistent operations
  • Multi-cloud access, including hybrid solutions that allow customers to integrate on-premises infrastructure with public cloud while maintaining management and operational consistency.

Leveraging Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs, PowerStore can provide an ideal landing zone for data intensive workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The PowerStore is also supported by the Dell EMC Cloud Storage Services which directly connects PowerStore to the users’ cloud(s) of choice as a managed service. Cloud Storage Services can provide DRaaS to VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with full operational consistency using VMware.

The PowerStore may be deployed as a standalone appliance complementing existing infrastructure. Or as a storage option within Dell Technologies VxBlock for CI, our all-in-one autonomous infrastructure cloud platform.

Flexible consumption

PowerStore simplifies storage acquisition and ownership with a range of flexible purchase options that match the needs of your organization. From traditional CAPEX to APEX Custom Solutions pay-per-use offerings that align spending with usage, PowerStore optimizes both technological and financial outcomes. Whether you’re adding storage only, or launching an end-to-end solution involving multiple product categories, we’ll make sure you get the best possible return on your IT spend – both at the start and as you expand your environment.

Continuously modern platform

The new technologies become available within any deployment scenario. The PowerStore is designed to eliminate costly and disruptive forklift migrations by seamlessly evolving both the software and hardware capabilities of the platform.

The hardware purchase includes all array software. There are no feature licenses to buy and maintain, and future software enhancements are provided at no cost. Anytime Upgrade, the industry’s most flexible controller upgrade program, 10 gives you immediate access to the latest hardware developments, allowing you to add state-of-the-art performance while preserving your original enclosure and drive investments. Unlike other programs, Anytime Upgrade provides multiple ways to evolve your PowerStore system.

  • Data-in-place node upgrades: Replace the nodes (controllers) in your existing appliance with Next Gen + Higher Model versions.
  • Scale-out upgrade: Apply a discount credit to expand your PowerStore cluster with a second system equal to your current model.

The upgrades per category is completely non-disruptive. This can be executed any time in the maintenance contract. You do not have to renew your contract to make an upgrade.

The future of storage is here

From both a technology and an operational perspective, PowerStore complements and advances your current infrastructure. Built from the ground up to provide unprecedented capabilities leveraging next-gen technology, the adaptable new platfor m simultaneously offers a familiar context and mature, comprehensive ecosystem support.

Whether your current environment includes traditional 3-tier solutions (servers, networks, arrays), hyperconverged infrastructure, hybrid or public cloud, or a mixture of everything, PowerStore helps you simplify and modernize without adding another management silo, allowing your IT staff leverage current skillsets while investing confidently in the future.

ESSENTIALS

  • New data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure supports diverse requirements while simplifying IT operations
  • Innovative AppsON capability lets you run virtualized workloads directly on the array, making them portable, agile and fast
  • The only purpose-built array with a built-in VMware ESXi hypervisor. 1 Complements and extends your current VMware investments.

Data-centric

  • Any workload – single architecture for physical, virtual, and container-based apps and databases. Designed for “6 9s” availability2
  • Performance optimized – end-to-end NVMe design is up to 7X faster3 than previous arrays with up to 3X better response time.4
  • Scale up and scale out – independently add capacity or processing power.
  • Efficiency without compromise – always-on inline data reduction with guaranteed 4:1 average DRR5

Intelligent

  • Programmable infrastructure – end-to-end automation streamlines IT and DevOps
  • Autonomous appliance – built-in machine learning optimizes resources
  • Proactive healthy analytics – smart monitoring reduces risk and predicts needs

Adaptable

  • Flexible architecture – container-based software stack enables application mobility
  • Flexible deployment – modernize the core, edge and cloud without disruption
  • Flexible consumption – choice, predictability and investment protection with pay-per-use solutions and data-in-place upgrades

Metro Area Solutions

PowerStore metro node

Metro node is a hardware add-on feature for PowerStore that provides true active-active synchronous replication over metro distances, enabling seamless data mobility to non-disruptively relocate workloads without application downtime.

Metro node allows simultaneous writes at both sites and supports Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recover Time Objectives (RTO) equal to zero downtime

Moving to PowerStore

Native migration tools included

PowerStore offers more ways to migrate than ever, including new native tools that let you automate entire migrations directly from the PowerStore Manager wizard. An existing Dell EMC storage platform can complete a non-disruptive array-to-array transfer in as few as seven clicks. The hosts keeps the work load performance high throughout the process, remapped transparently, and completely offloaded.

Cross-platform solutions

PowerStore also gives you access to a range of other migration methods, from VPLEX and PowerPath/ME to host-based tools such as vMotion and Linux LVM, as well as comprehensive migration offerings from Dell Technologies Services. Whatever storage platform you’re running today, we’ll make sure you get to PowerStore quickly and smoothly – keeping your data fully secure along the way.

Dell technologies Services

Choice and flexibility throughout the life of your appliance

End-to-end services help you configure, support and optimize PowerStore, making your new infrastructure solution easy to adopt and manage

 

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What is an IT Service Provider?

You might be wondering what an IT service provider is and what do you really get out of it.

As a business owner/manager, this might be one of the things that you are considering. One thing is for sure, you might be needing more information on this matter.

In this article, we will be discussing on the primary roles of the IT service provider and what you will gain from it. Importantly, you get to decide if you are in need of one.

An IT service provider (Managed Service Provider) is a proactive IT firm that foresees the needs of its clients. They delivery multiple technology services and create value by optimizing the business to be digitally competitive. Additionally, IT Service Providers create smooth transitions digitally.

Here are common IT Services that are provided:

What can you gain from IT Service Providers?

Savings:

Hiring and training a personal IT employees is costly. An IT service provider can remove that bulk of cost. In addition, these firms already have trained IT employees thus removing the cost for training and hiring. What is more, getting an IT service provider will save time and effort.

Expertise:

IT Service Providers have multiple certifications with partners and vendors (Dell, Cisco, VMware, etc.). These are a requirement for IT Service Providers to keep standards in the industry. Subsequently, engineers undergo multiple trainings every month.

On-Demand:

Unlike employees, they are available 24/7. They immediately response to any concerns of clients. Companies who do not use IT Service Providers are often faced with the dilemma of finding reputable IT repair stores. Businesses will pay higher due to rush work.

Security:

The world is now full of dangers in technology. Security is a must and this is where IT Service Providers are experts in. They actually dedicate their efforts and time in creating a secure environment digitally. As a matter of fact, businesses cannot solely rely on internal teams for protection from sophisticated attacks.

Planning Strategically:

IT Service Providers, especially in the industry for a long time, have might seen it all. Portfolio of an IT Service Provider is wide ranged. Moreover, they already know possible instances that may happen within your industry. In fact, they have back up plans and have working solutions which where they are validated with similar businesses to yours.

What is a Reputable IT Service Provider?

Check their Clients:

Check the portfolio of clients that they have. As a matter a fact, this will tell if they can be trusted. You would also learn if they have experience in your industry.

Certifications and Awards:

You should check if they are recognized by award giving bodies. These can tell how valued they are in the IT community. In addition, A reputable IT Service Provider always keep their certifications up to date and are given recognition by the community.

Customer Service:

Contacting an IT Service Provider with ease is a green flag for a good IT Service Provider. The use of multiple methods of contact (phones, website, social media, etc.) is a good way of seeing if they can be reliable in emergencies.

In conclusion, an IT service provider will assist you with your infrastructure and upgrades decisions.

How do I Get a Meeting with You?

Contacting ABBE is as easy as 1, 2, 3. You can send us a message through the following channels:

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Email: info@abbe.com.ph

Mobile: 09178144701

Phone: 8892-4927/ 8463-3504

We would love to see you and be your IT Service Provider.