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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 Dell PowerFlex, enables customers to deploy their applications in the public cloud, gaining many of the multicloud benefits, while preserving their core mission critical applications requirements.
Dell APEX Block Storage takes multicloud resiliency forward by spanning multiple availability zones (AZs) with a single highly available cluster. This vastly improves resiliency and reliability over native hyperscaler block storage offerings.
Dell APEX Block Storage can be deployed on either managed disk, for most workloads, or on instances with native attached NVMe SSDs, for more performance optimized workloads. If you choose to deploy Dell APEX Block Storage using instances backed by general purpose disks, Dell APEX Block Storage can aggregate the shared storage resources of the lower performing and cost-effective disks to achieve much higher performance and resiliency than the general purpose disks can do on their own.
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 to get the cloud experience seamlessly delivered wherever organizations have data and applications.