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For decades, the enterprise infrastructure industry has been optimizing ways for architectural ingredients to interoperate. Storage that meets the needs of discriminating enterprise requirements is a core competency of the Dell Technologies portfolio. Taking advantage of these capabilities, while embracing the agility afforded by cloud infrastructure, brings together the best of both worlds.
As a market leading supplier of software-defined storage, we enable outcomes on the public cloud that take scale, performance, and durability to an outstanding level. This document describes how to bring your enterprise storage experience to the cloud to meet the most demanding needs of your mission-critical applications.
To truly embrace multicloud, there is also a fundamental need for storage as a service (STaaS) based management and orchestration. The Dell APEX Navigator experience solves for and manage day zero deployments and day two management of all Dell software-defined cloud storage and data protection endpoints. Optionally, support for Kubernetes storage management can also be delivered as part of this solution.
Native hyperscaler solution offerings can achieve three to four nines of availability. These solutions rely on zone-redundant replication to replicate services around to protect solutions from single points of failure. With Dell APEX Block Storage, we use the native offering instance but take the resiliency many steps forward. The offering can span multiple availability zones with a single cluster. The offering also deploys its own highly available metadata management, as part of the mesh-mirror architecture. This vastly improves resiliency and reliability over and above native hyperscaler offerings.
To make a solid business case for Dell APEX Block storage, we must provide proven on-premises performance, scale, and resiliency, coupled with seamless data mobility and monitoring. These enterprise features can be deployed easily, and with little friction, to multiple hyperscalers. As a result, you can now place the right data, in the right location, at the right time, for the right consumption service.
The scale out software-defined architecture enables extreme performance by aggregating storage resources and distributing the data access across the cluster to deliver large IOPS with low latency. Aggregating the resources with the solution’s SDS results in performance that is the sum of the component pieces' performance.
One can rapidly expand the cluster to increase both performance and capacity while maintaining low latency. Each additional instance adds additional I/O and capacity to the cluster, with up to 512 nodes in a single deployment. This enables extreme performance and capacity.
If you choose to deploy Dell APEX Block Storage directly to instances backed with general purpose disks, Dell APEX Block Storage can aggregate the shared storage resources of the lower performing and cost-effective disks to achieve higher performance and resilience than native cloud offerings.