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Since their introduction in 2018, PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000 systems have become prolific in the enterprise data center and provide the storage bedrock on which much of the global digital economy is based. However, by 2022, customer demands for increased efficiency, performance, security, and automation have only increased and accelerated. In today’s digital economy, unparalleled software innovation, multi-cloud agility, and advancements in workflow automation have given organizations the opportunity to become disruptive and innovate with data. To keep pace with business demands and capitalize on this opportunity, organizations need to accelerate the time between data creation and innovation but face numerous headwinds. Data is growing exponentially and is more diverse and distributed than ever before. In addition, organizations are struggling to break down internal operational silos, protect their IT infrastructure from sophisticated cybersecurity threats, increase developer productivity, and overcome cloud complexity.
To address these challenges, organizations need trusted and innovative enterprise storage that provides unparalleled performance, scalability, and security at scale without compromise. To meet these additional demands, Dell Technologies has added two new PowerMax systems into the PowerMax family – the PowerMax 2500 and PowerMax 8500. Based on NVMe dynamic fabric technology, the new PowerMax systems eliminate traditional storage boundaries in every dimension — performance, scalability, capacity, security — to meet the increasing demands of traditional workloads and next-generation cloud-based applications. At a high level: