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Introduced in 2018, the Dell PowerMax family was the first Dell Technologies hardware platform that used an end-to-end Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) architecture for customer data. The NVMe-based PowerMax was specifically created to fully unlock the bandwidth, IOPS, and latency performance benefits that NVM media offers to host based applications that are unattainable using the previous generation of all-flash storage arrays.
Data center requirements are not stagnant, however. Storage infrastructures are being tasked to meet the increasing demands by next-generation data center and applications that require more security, performance, automation, and far greater efficiencies.
To meet these demands facing our customers, Dell Technologies is pleased to introduce two new PowerMax family members – the PowerMax 2500 and 8500.
New in 2022, PowerMax 2500 and 8500 systems represent the next generation of the PowerMax Family. These systems are specifically designed to provide a disaggregated, share everything solution to meet the ever-increasing levels of performance, storage density, intelligent automation, and high security required by enterprise data centers and applications. The PowerMax 2500 and 8500 have been specifically architected to provide customers with:
Aside from these features, the PowerMax 2500 and 8500 have over 200 other new features and functions. With their new architecture, features, and functions, the PowerMax 2500 and 8500 have been designed from the ground up to meet the demands of next-generation data centers and applications well into the mid-2020s and beyond.