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The PowerMax family represents the flagship products of the Dell Technologies enterprise storage business. It is designed with a multi-node, active/active scale-out architecture using industry standard, end-to-end NVMe components. The platform features inline, global deduplication and compression, providing customers with high storage efficiency even as the system scales. The PowerMax family also provides what many consider to be the gold standard in data services, proven high availability and resiliency, and advanced security that adheres to stringent government regulations and corporate compliance requirements, such as FIPS 140-2. A core strength of the PowerMax family is its ability to consolidate workloads. One can use a single PowerMax system for Mainframe and Open Systems block storage, and for file storage services as well.