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For decades, the enterprise infrastructure industry has been optimizing mission-critical applications performance, resiliency, security, and availability within the data centers. As a market leading supplier of software-defined storage, Dell APEX Block Storage, powered by PowerFlex, enables customers to deploy their applications in the public cloud, gaining many multicloud benefits, while preserving their core mission-critical applications requirements.
To have true multicloud capabilities it is not enough to have the same storage services deployed in your private environment and the public cloud. You also need to have the same application runtime services available everywhere – a consistent cloud ecosystem environment. An on-premises implementation of a cloud ecosystem could leverage that same set of software-defined storage services. This foundation of common software defined storage services everywhere creates a universal storage layer.
For centralized, intelligent, and automated management of the universal storage layer, there is a fundamental need for storage as a service (STaaS) based management and orchestration. Dell APEX Navigator unlocks a new standard of excellence for multicloud management and operations. This is accomplished through simple, scalable software management and operations, which works across public clouds and on-premises, all integrated into the Dell APEX Console.
Dell APEX Block Storage takes multicloud resiliency forward by spanning multiple availability zones with a single highly available cluster. This improves resiliency and reliability over native hyperscaler block storage offerings.
Dell APEX Block Storage can be deployed on either VMs with managed disks for general purpose workloads or on VMs with local NVMe SSDs disks for more performance optimized workloads. Dell APEX Block Storage maintains high resiliency, self-healing, and capacity aggregation across the storage nodes in both cases. For deployments that require frequent stopping and starting of the storage nodes (such as during weekends or holidays), using managed disks is more appropriate. For deployments that remain active 24x7 year-long and require high performance and low latencies, using local NVMe disks is more appropriate,
Dell APEX Block Storage deployment can provide these benefits:
Organizations that are looking at fresh deployments of their databases and applications in the cloud, or migrating existing workloads to cloud, can start taking advantage of Dell APEX Block Storage for Public Cloud—the cloud experience seamlessly delivered wherever organizations have data and applications.